diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/PortalVisibilityBuilder.cs b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/PortalVisibilityBuilder.cs
index ebf70c94..e2c78f79 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/PortalVisibilityBuilder.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/PortalVisibilityBuilder.cs
@@ -216,12 +216,15 @@ public static class PortalVisibilityBuilder
 
                 bool sideAllowed = true;
 
-                // Portal-side test: only traverse a portal the camera is on the interior side of
-                // (mirrors CellVisibility.GetVisibleCells + retail's 'seen' flag). Culls back-facing
-                // portals so we never feed a degenerate/wrong-facing projection downstream.
+                // Portal-side test (retail PView::InitCell side test, decomp:432962): only traverse a portal
+                // the camera is on the INTERIOR side of. Retail culls the back-facing portal (the doorway just
+                // flooded through) by this test ALONE — there is NO eye-in-opening bypass. R-A2b: the old
+                // `&& !eyeInsideOpening` bypass let a back portal within 1.75 m through, forming the
+                // 0171<->0173 flood cycle -> re-enqueue churn -> the doorway flap (pinned in flap-sidechk.log:
+                // back portals show camInterior=False eyeIn=True). The forward-portal clip-empty void rescue
+                // (below, the `clippedRegion.Count == 0` branch) is a SEPARATE path and stays.
                 if (i < cell.ClipPlanes.Count
-                    && !CameraOnInteriorSide(cell, i, cameraPos)
-                    && !eyeInsideOpening)
+                    && !CameraOnInteriorSide(cell, i, cameraPos))
                 {
                     sideAllowed = false;
                     trace?.Add($"portal cell=0x{cell.CellId:X8} p{i}->0x{portal.OtherCellId:X4} skip=side eyeIn={eyeInsideOpening}");
@@ -483,9 +486,9 @@ public static class PortalVisibilityBuilder
                     continue; // already outdoors; exterior terrain was drawn by the caller.
 
                 bool eyeInsideOpening = EyeInsidePortalOpening(poly, cell.WorldTransform, cameraPos);
+                // R-A2b: cull back portals by the side test alone (no eye-in-opening bypass) — see Build().
                 if (i < cell.ClipPlanes.Count
-                    && !CameraOnInteriorSide(cell, i, cameraPos)
-                    && !eyeInsideOpening)
+                    && !CameraOnInteriorSide(cell, i, cameraPos))
                     continue;
 
                 var clippedRegion = ClipPortalAgainstView(
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Rendering/PortalVisibilityBuilderTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Rendering/PortalVisibilityBuilderTests.cs
index 111b34ba..6ff081dd 100644
--- a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Rendering/PortalVisibilityBuilderTests.cs
+++ b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Rendering/PortalVisibilityBuilderTests.cs
@@ -249,6 +249,33 @@ public class PortalVisibilityBuilderTests
         Assert.True(frame.OutsideView.IsEmpty);            // its window never marked
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public void Build_BackFacingPortal_EyeStandingInOpening_StillCulled()
+    {
+        // R-A2b (Option B1, the flap fix): retail PView::InitCell (:432962) culls a back-facing portal by
+        // the side test REGARDLESS of eye proximity — there is NO eye-in-opening bypass. The live pin
+        // (flap-sidechk.log, 2026-06-09) showed the back portal 0173->0171 with camInterior=False but
+        // eyeIn=True (eye within 1.75 m of the shared doorway); the OLD `&& !eyeInsideOpening` side-cull
+        // bypass let it through -> the 0171<->0173 flood cycle -> re-enqueue churn -> the doorway flap.
+        // A back-facing portal the eye is STANDING IN must stay culled (the forward-portal clip-empty void
+        // rescue, tested by Build_EyeStandingInInteriorPortal_FloodsNeighbour, is a separate path and stays).
+        var cam = Cell(0x0001, new CellPortalInfo(0x0002, 0, 0, 0));
+        cam.PortalPolygons.Add(Quad(0f, 0f, 0.5f, 0.5f, -1f)); // 1 m in front -> eyeInsideOpening = True
+        // ClipPlane puts the eye on the EXIT side (camInterior = False), like the back portal of a doorway
+        // just crossed: Normal·origin + D = 1 > 0, InsideSide==1 wants dot<=eps -> not interior.
+        cam.ClipPlanes.Add(new PortalClipPlane { Normal = new Vector3(0, 0, 1), D = 1f, InsideSide = 1 });
+        var ground = Cell(0x0002, new CellPortalInfo(0xFFFF, 0, 0, 0));
+        ground.PortalPolygons.Add(Quad(0f, 0f, 1f, 1f, -6f));
+        var all = new Dictionary<uint, LoadedCell> { [0x0001] = cam, [0x0002] = ground };
+
+        var frame = Build(cam, all);
+
+        Assert.False(frame.CellViews.ContainsKey(0x0002),
+            "a back-facing portal (camInterior=False) must stay culled even when the eye is standing in its " +
+            "opening (eyeInsideOpening=True) — retail's side test has no bypass; the bypass WAS the flap cycle");
+        Assert.DoesNotContain(0x0002u, frame.OrderedVisibleCells);
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public void Builder_CwWoundExitPortal_OutsideRegionIsCcw()
     {