diff --git a/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-details-route.actions.spec.ts b/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-details-route.actions.spec.ts
index 86e962762..250f71fed 100644
--- a/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-details-route.actions.spec.ts
+++ b/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-details-route.actions.spec.ts
@@ -624,6 +624,36 @@ describe('VodDetailsRouteComponent fallback actions', () => {
         expect(openResolvedPlayback).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     });
 
+    it('still offers provider playback for a downloaded movie with no alternatives', async () => {
+        // The primary button plays the local file once downloaded, and the
+        // sources chip only appears when another playlist carries the film —
+        // so without this control a single-playlist library loses every way
+        // to stream the provider's copy.
+        selectedItem.set(sparseItem());
+        downloadsAvailable.set(true);
+        isDownloaded.mockReturnValue(true);
+        const playPinned = jest
+            .spyOn(fixture.componentInstance.multiSource, 'playPinnedSource')
+            .mockResolvedValue('played');
+
+        fixture.detectChanges();
+
+        const host = fixture.nativeElement as HTMLElement;
+        expect(fixture.componentInstance.multiSource.hasAlternatives()).toBe(
+            false
+        );
+        const providerButton = host.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(
+            '[data-testid="vod-play-provider"]'
+        );
+        expect(providerButton).not.toBeNull();
+
+        providerButton?.click();
+        await fixture.whenStable();
+
+        expect(playPinned).toHaveBeenCalled();
+        expect(playDownload).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+
     it('reveals the finished file from the downloaded state button', async () => {
         selectedItem.set(sparseItem());
         downloadsAvailable.set(true);
diff --git a/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-details-route.component.html b/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-details-route.component.html
index 27301423b..536d415e6 100644
--- a/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-details-route.component.html
+++ b/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-details-route.component.html
@@ -109,6 +109,29 @@
                     >
                         <mat-icon>check_circle</mat-icon>
                     </button>
+                    <!-- The primary button plays the local file once a movie
+                         is downloaded, and the sources popover only exists
+                         when another playlist also carries the film. Without
+                         this, a downloaded movie in a single-playlist library
+                         offers no way to stream the provider's copy at all. -->
+                    @if (externalPrimaryButtonState() === 'idle') {
+                        <button
+                            type="button"
+                            class="icon-action-btn"
+                            (click)="playFromProviderSource(playableItem)"
+                            [matTooltip]="
+                                'PORTALS.MULTI_SOURCE.PLAY_FROM_SOURCE'
+                                    | translate
+                            "
+                            [attr.aria-label]="
+                                'PORTALS.MULTI_SOURCE.PLAY_FROM_SOURCE'
+                                    | translate
+                            "
+                            data-testid="vod-play-provider"
+                        >
+                            <mat-icon>play_arrow</mat-icon>
+                        </button>
+                    }
                 } @else if (isDownloading()) {
                     <!-- Covers downloading, queued and paused: the ring holds
                          the real percent, spins when the size is unknown, and
diff --git a/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-multi-source-host.service.spec.ts b/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-multi-source-host.service.spec.ts
index fb529d8fc..fe687f79c 100644
--- a/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-multi-source-host.service.spec.ts
+++ b/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-multi-source-host.service.spec.ts
@@ -405,6 +405,35 @@ describe('VodMultiSourceHostService', () => {
         await Promise.all(pending);
     });
 
+    it('drops queued checks once the user opens another movie', async () => {
+        const alts = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7].map(alternative);
+        await loadMovie(alts);
+
+        const gates = new Map<string, ReturnType<typeof createDeferred>>();
+        resolver.resolve.mockImplementation((candidate) => {
+            const gate = createDeferred<null>();
+            gates.set((candidate as VodSourceCandidate).id, gate);
+            return gate.promise;
+        });
+
+        const pending = alts.map((alt) => service.check(alt.id));
+        await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve));
+        // Four in flight, two still waiting for a slot.
+        expect(resolver.resolve).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(4);
+
+        // The user navigates away while those two are still queued. They are
+        // about a film that is no longer on screen, so they must not spend a
+        // resolve against a foreign portal when a slot frees up.
+        await loadMovie([], MOVIE_B);
+
+        for (const [, gate] of gates) {
+            gate.resolve(null);
+        }
+        await Promise.all(pending);
+
+        expect(resolver.resolve).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(4);
+    });
+
     it('remembers verdicts across sessions instead of re-checking', async () => {
         probes.probe.mockResolvedValue({
             ...PROBE_OK,
diff --git a/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-multi-source-host.service.ts b/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-multi-source-host.service.ts
index 54aaa29e1..8da659aa8 100644
--- a/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-multi-source-host.service.ts
+++ b/libs/portal/xtream/feature/src/lib/vod-details/vod-multi-source-host.service.ts
@@ -411,6 +411,25 @@ export class VodMultiSourceHostService {
         this.controller.setProbe(sourceId, { status: 'probing' });
         this.publish();
 
+        // Bound to the session that ASKED for the check, not to whatever is
+        // current when a slot frees up. "Check all" can leave a dozen tasks
+        // waiting, and the user is free to open another movie meanwhile —
+        // those tasks are then about a film that is no longer on screen, so
+        // they are dropped before spending a resolve on a foreign portal.
+        // Both the controller and the session are read when a slot frees up,
+        // NOT captured here — and that is deliberate.
+        //
+        // Capturing them would look safer and is worse: `sessionToken` also
+        // moves when the movie identity is momentarily null, and that path
+        // does NOT replace the controller (only a different film does). A
+        // task dropped on a stale captured token would therefore abandon a
+        // row it had already marked `probing` in the controller still on
+        // screen, leaving it spinning for good.
+        //
+        // Read late, a queued task simply asks the CURRENT controller for the
+        // source: gone when the user moved to another film, so `probeSource`
+        // returns before it spends a request, and present when they came back
+        // to the same one, where finishing the check is exactly right.
         return this.checkQueue(() =>
             probeSource(sourceId, {
                 controller: this.controller,