diff --git a/audit/cmd/bee/main.go b/audit/cmd/bee/main.go
index 8915c3e..cfdff8f 100644
--- a/audit/cmd/bee/main.go
+++ b/audit/cmd/bee/main.go
@@ -540,13 +540,18 @@ func runScenario(args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) int {
 		return 1
 	}
 
-	// Wires the same blackbox kick/sync-bracket hooks the SAT job runner
-	// uses (see app.New()), so a scenario command job's evidence reaches
-	// removable media the same way a SAT job's does.
-	_ = app.New(sys)
+	// Run through the App (not sys.RunScenario directly) for two reasons:
+	// it wires the same blackbox kick/sync-bracket hooks the SAT job runner
+	// uses (see app.New()), AND App.RunScenario defaults the base dir to
+	// DefaultSATBaseDir (under DefaultExportDir) — the tree the blackbox
+	// worker actually mirrors to removable media. Calling sys.RunScenario
+	// with an empty base dir would write to /var/log/bee-sat instead, which
+	// blackbox does not mirror, so a `bee run` scenario would never reach the
+	// USB stick even with the hooks firing.
+	a := app.New(sys)
 
 	logLine := func(s string) { fmt.Fprintln(stderr, s) }
-	runDir, err := sys.RunScenario(context.Background(), "", spec, logLine)
+	runDir, err := a.RunScenario(context.Background(), "", spec, logLine)
 	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "bee run: %v\n", err)
 		return 1