diff --git a/docs/claude/invariants-trigger-and-pinning.md b/docs/claude/invariants-trigger-and-pinning.md
index 53dd376..cbca069 100644
--- a/docs/claude/invariants-trigger-and-pinning.md
+++ b/docs/claude/invariants-trigger-and-pinning.md
@@ -629,3 +629,11 @@ samples. Three rules keep that honest:
   its ink is not in the widget's paint tree, so `gtk_snapshot_free_to_node()` on a widget paintable of
   it returns NULL and the "screenshot" would be an empty file. Drawing it in the store also keeps that
   class GTK-free, which is what makes the cache testable without a window.
+
+- **A pin is mirrored as a *range*, never as a pair of numbers that might be spans.** `Range`
+  (`pinned_range()`: `{-pre, +post}`) and the pin's *spans* (`pin_event_window(pre, post)`) are two
+  different things that both look like a pair, and mixing them inverts the window: a second view
+  that handed `pinned_range().min` to `pin_event_window()` pinned to `[+pre, +post]`, and the plot
+  drew nothing — no trace, no axis labels — because the x range was degenerate. Views that mirror a
+  pin use `pin_display_range(x0, x1)`, the range's own form. `[scope-probe] pin_mirror=1` reads the
+  two windows' pins and the scope's x range, and an inverted pin reads `0`.
diff --git a/docs/claude/probe-readings.md b/docs/claude/probe-readings.md
index 43f3b76..7b22de3 100644
--- a/docs/claude/probe-readings.md
+++ b/docs/claude/probe-readings.md
@@ -1474,6 +1474,7 @@ a defect in the copy. Measured output:
 [scope-probe] gl copy=ok(67f) empty=ok(39f) empty_bound=1
 [scope-probe] gl detached ok=1 frames=42 rows=1 slot0='sine'
 [scope-probe] rclick=1
+[scope-probe] pin_mirror=1 main=[-1.000..1.000] scope=[-1.000..1.000] x=[-1.000..1.000]
 ```
 
 - `count=2` is both windows having been created and retained; `windows=1` each being a visible
@@ -1493,6 +1494,12 @@ a defect in the copy. Measured output:
   signal into it" — landing in its row set. `drop=0` names a refused drop (a full plot or an
   unacquirable signal); `page_groups` less than the window count is a page rebuilt before the
   windows were read or a group that lost its window.
+- `pin_mirror=1` is a scope window **mirroring a pin as a range**: the probe pins the main window
+  and reads the scope's pin and its plot's x range a frame later. Both must agree and the x range
+  must be ordered (`x=[min..max]`, `min < max`). A `0` with an inverted scope pin (`[+pre, +post]`)
+  is the defect this exists for: `pin_event_window()` takes **spans**, and passing it a range's
+  signed `min` turned the window inside out, so a scope in Held or Paused mode drew no trace and no
+  x labels at all.
 - `rclick=1` is the scope window's **own right-click menu** being wired (one click gesture with
   button 3 on its GL area, beside the drop target): the menu's actions act on that window's row
   set.
diff --git a/src/plot_host.cpp b/src/plot_host.cpp
index c5f7756..8071ae8 100644
--- a/src/plot_host.cpp
+++ b/src/plot_host.cpp
@@ -1509,6 +1509,19 @@ void RowSet::pin_event_window(double pre_s, double post_s) {
   figure_->set_x_link_range(x_group_, {-pre_s, post_s});
 }
 
+void RowSet::pin_display_range(double x0, double x1) {
+  if (!(x1 > x0)) return;
+  window_s_ = std::max(1.0e-3, x1 - x0);
+  pinned_ = true;
+  pinned_pre_ = -x0;
+  pinned_post_ = x1;
+  if (!figure_) return;
+  // The same two statements `pin_event_window()` makes, from the range instead of the spans: the
+  // group stops following the live edge and is placed on the event's own window.
+  figure_->set_x_link_follow(x_group_, plot::XFollow::Off);
+  figure_->set_x_link_range(x_group_, {x0, x1});
+}
+
 void RowSet::fit_all() {
   for (int i = 0; i < rows_; ++i) {
     Row& r = row(i);
diff --git a/src/plot_host.hpp b/src/plot_host.hpp
index 3fb5d08..deb69c1 100644
--- a/src/plot_host.hpp
+++ b/src/plot_host.hpp
@@ -570,6 +570,13 @@ class RowSet {
   /// 0, so nothing outside the pre+post window is visible.
   void pin_event_window(double pre_s, double post_s);
 
+  /// The same pin, stated as the **range** a second view mirrors: the caller has the display
+  /// range (`x0 < x1`) and not the spans -- a scope window takes `pinned_range()` from the main
+  /// window and hands it on. `pin_event_window()` takes *spans*, and passing it a range's signed
+  /// `min` turned the pin inside out (a scope in Held mode pinned to `[+pre, +post]`: no trace
+  /// and no x labels). A degenerate or inverted range pins nothing.
+  void pin_display_range(double x0, double x1);
+
   /// Fits every row's y axis to the data it holds, and puts x back on the whole time window --
   /// `fit_x()`'s x half exactly, so the two cannot drift apart. Like it, **this does not change
   /// the time window**: the y axes are fitted to their data, x is merely un-zoomed.
diff --git a/src/ui.cpp b/src/ui.cpp
index b2d7419..2e96169 100644
--- a/src/ui.cpp
+++ b/src/ui.cpp
@@ -4633,17 +4633,23 @@ gboolean tick(gpointer user) {
     const double window_s = app->rows->time_window();
     for (const std::unique_ptr<App::ScopeWindow>& scope : app->scopes) {
       if (pinned) {
-        scope->rows->pin_event_window(pin.min, pin.max);
+        // The pin as a *range*: `pin_event_window()` takes spans (pre, post), and handing it
+        // `pin.min` -- a signed time -- inverted the window, so a scope in Held or Paused mode
+        // drew no trace and no x labels at all.
+        scope->rows->pin_display_range(pin.min, pin.max);
       } else if (std::fabs(scope->rows->time_window() - window_s) > 1.0e-12) {
         scope->rows->set_time_window(window_s);
       }
       // An arrangement change (a drop, a *Plot on* button) rebuilt the row set: point the area at
       // the new figure here, in the tick -- the change arrives from inside this very widget (a drop
-      // signal), and a synchronous rebuild would reset the drag controller under it.
-      // REPRO-TEMP: rebuild disabled
-      // if (scope->rows->rebuild_if_dirty() && scope->area != nullptr) {
-      //   scope->area->set_figure(&scope->rows->figure());
-      // }
+      // signal), and a synchronous rebuild would reset the drag controller under it. The traces
+      // themselves are `SlotSeries` rebinds, so a slot that gains or loses a source draws either
+      // way; what *does* need this is the figure's own state: a row's legend, its cell structure,
+      // and the trace objects `install()` creates only for the slots that hold a signal at rebuild
+      // time -- a window opened empty and filled by a drop has none until this runs.
+      if (scope->rows->rebuild_if_dirty() && scope->area != nullptr) {
+        scope->area->set_figure(&scope->rows->figure());
+      }
       if (scope->detached) sync_scope_attach(*app, *scope);
       // **A window that cannot paint says so.** A blank plot is indistinguishable from a
       // context that failed or an area that never got a frame, and the report ("nothing is
diff --git a/src/ui_probe.cpp b/src/ui_probe.cpp
index 066f23b..a2710b9 100644
--- a/src/ui_probe.cpp
+++ b/src/ui_probe.cpp
@@ -1915,11 +1915,13 @@ gboolean scope_probe_step(gpointer user) {
                      det.rows != nullptr && det.rows->row_count() > 0
                          ? det.rows->row(0).signal_name[0].c_str()
                          : "");
+      }
       // The scope window carries its own right-click menu (its gesture is on the GL area, wired
       // beside the drop target): one click gesture whose button is 3, per window.
       int right_clicks = 0;
-      if (det.widget != nullptr) {
-        GListModel* controllers = gtk_widget_observe_controllers(det.widget);
+      GtkWidget* det_widget = a->scopes.empty() ? nullptr : a->scopes.back()->widget;
+      if (det_widget != nullptr) {
+        GListModel* controllers = gtk_widget_observe_controllers(det_widget);
         const guint n = g_list_model_get_n_items(G_LIST_MODEL(controllers));
         for (guint i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
           GObject* c = G_OBJECT(g_list_model_get_item(controllers, i));
@@ -1933,8 +1935,31 @@ gboolean scope_probe_step(gpointer user) {
       }
       std::fprintf(stderr, "[scope-probe] rclick=%d\n", right_clicks);
       std::fflush(stderr);
-      }
+      // **The pin mirror**: a held event pins the main window, and every scope must be pinned to
+      // the *same range*. `pin_event_window()` takes spans (pre, post) and passing it a range's
+      // signed min turned the pin inside out (a scope in Held drew no trace and no x labels).
+      a->rows->pin_event_window(1.6, 0.4);
+      a->dbg_scope_step = 4;
+      g_timeout_add(350, scope_probe_step, a);
+      return G_SOURCE_REMOVE;
+    }
+    case 4: {
+      const plot::Range main_pin = a->rows->pinned_range();
+      const plot::Range scope_pin = a->scopes[0]->rows->pinned_range();
+      const plot::Range scope_x = a->scopes[0]->rows->row(0).plot != nullptr
+                                      ? a->scopes[0]->rows->row(0).plot->x_range(0)
+                                      : plot::Range{};
+      const bool pinned = a->scopes[0]->rows->window_pinned() == a->rows->window_pinned();
+      const bool same = std::fabs(scope_pin.min - main_pin.min) < 1e-9 &&
+                        std::fabs(scope_pin.max - main_pin.max) < 1e-9 &&
+                        scope_x.max > scope_x.min;
+      std::fprintf(stderr,
+                   "[scope-probe] pin_mirror=%d main=[%.3f..%.3f] scope=[%.3f..%.3f] "
+                   "x=[%.3f..%.3f]\n",
+                   pinned && same ? 1 : 0, main_pin.min, main_pin.max, scope_pin.min,
+                   scope_pin.max, scope_x.min, scope_x.max);
       std::fflush(stderr);
+      a->rows->set_time_window(2.0);  // unpin: leave the window as the run found it
       return G_SOURCE_REMOVE;
     }
     default: