4338.211 · July 30, 2018 AD
Nine Sharp
30 July 2018, 9:00 AM. Detective Karl Jenkins arrives at the station after striking his partner, an all-night obsessive vigil, and forty-three minutes to prepare for judgement. The bullpen falls quiet as he passes through. Sarah's desk sits empty, her coffee mug inverted on stacked reports. Sergeant Charlie Claiborne's door is closed. Two sharp knocks. 'Enter.' What follows isn't the conversation Karl expected.
The station knows.
Karl feels it the moment he walks through the doors—conversations faltering, eyes finding elsewhere to look. They all know what happened yesterday. Sarah's desk sits empty, her coffee mug inverted like a monument to partnership destroyed. Karl has spent the drive rehearsing opening statements, but nothing can explain striking his partner without sounding either delusional or dangerous.
He walks to Sergeant Charlie Claiborne's office carrying the certainty of how this will end. His badge feels heavy in his pocket. By every protocol, it should be surrendered within the hour.
Two sharp knocks. "Enter."
This quest unlocks the reckoning Karl has been dreading since he drove away from that vigil. You'll witness a detective at his breaking point facing judgement from the one superior who's always believed in him. You'll see what happens when protocol collides with mercy, when a mentor must decide whether a brilliant detective has become a liability. The conversation that follows will determine everything—Karl's career, his investigation, and whether his obsession with Luke Smith ends here or gets one last chance.
