diff --git a/game/reconstructed/btplayer.cpp b/game/reconstructed/btplayer.cpp
index 3db4a4f..5cb9f36 100644
--- a/game/reconstructed/btplayer.cpp
+++ b/game/reconstructed/btplayer.cpp
@@ -1019,8 +1019,15 @@ void
 		// exactly as the binary does; wire deliveries land here and get the same
 		// handler.  One accumulator, on the machine that owns the score.
 		//
+		// RETURN, not break.  The post-switch tail folds the local `award` into
+		// message->scoreAward and hands it to the base handler -- and for this
+		// arm `award` is still 0, so falling through clobbered scoreAward to
+		// zero, added nothing, and emitted a second SCORE row reading
+		// "type=0 award=0.00" (the 80 real + 80 zero rows in the bench).
+		// ScoreInflictedMessageHandler is self-contained: it accumulates,
+		// ForceUpdate()s and logs its own receipt.
 		ScoreInflictedMessageHandler(message);
-		break;
+		return;
 
 	case BTPlayer::ScoreMessage::DamageReceivedScore:			// 1
 		{