4338.214 · August 2, 2018 AD
Convergence at the Corner Block
Four women converge on Luke Smith's house from different angles. Kate watches two strangers break in while searching for her missing son. Jenny and Sharon flee in terror, unaware they're being observed. Sarah photographs them from her surveillance position. Gladys arrives drunk with a bottle of wine. None of them see the full picture. Then a gunshot changes everything.
2 Wallcrest Road, Berriedale. A corner block visible from multiple streets.
August 2nd, 2018, late afternoon. Five women converge on this house—none aware of the others.
Kate Gibbons sits in her car on Wallcrest Road, desperately watching for her missing son Joel. When two women break through the front door, she dials 000. She doesn't know Sarah's parked across on Berriedale Road. She doesn't know what Jenny and Sharon will find inside.
Jenny Triffett and Sharon Pafistis break into the house hunting for answers about their missing husbands. They're terrified, desperate, oblivious to Kate watching from across the street. When they discover what's downstairs, they bolt—running straight past Sarah's surveillance position.
Sarah Lahey disobeyed orders to go home. She's parked in the dirt turning circle on Berriedale Road, watching Luke's house for any sign of Karl. She photographs Jenny and Sharon fleeing. Then Gladys Cramer slides into her passenger seat, drunk and devastated, holding an open bottle of wine.
Police sirens approach. Officers secure the perimeter. None of the women know what the others saw. None of them understand the full picture.
Then Kate enters the house alone, searching for Joel.
Then a gunshot.
This is what convergence looks like when nobody's comparing notes.
