4338.209 · July 28, 2018 AD
You Two Know Each Other?
Interview Room Three holds three people, but only two understand why this moment matters. Louise Jeffries came specifically for Karl Jenkins—the man who notices what others miss—hoping he'll finally see what she's suspected for a decade. Karl enters and feels years of careful self-construction begin to fracture. Sarah watches their recognition unfold, excluded from a history no one thought to mention. A missing persons case becomes something far more personal.
Interview Room Three holds three people, but only two know why this moment matters.
Louise Jeffries arrived at the station carrying more than a missing persons report. Before the interview begins, she shares something cryptic with Sergeant Claiborne—words about being watched, about years of surveillance. Then Detective Karl Jenkins enters, and the carefully maintained distance between past and present collapses.
Karl recognises her instantly. The shock is visceral, immediate—"Oh my God! It is you!" His professional composure, already fragile from his hangover, fractures completely. This isn't just any witness. This is Louise. And her missing brother isn't just any victim—it's Jamie.
Sarah Lahey watches this unfold with growing unease. She's Karl's partner, she's worked beside him for years, yet she's never heard these names. Never seen him react this way. The familiarity between Karl and Louise isn't professional—it's personal, profound, and completely undocumented.
As Louise recounts her son Kain's disappearance and her brother Jamie's silence, three narratives converge: a mother's terror that Luke Smith has harmed her family, a detective's dread at what he might uncover, and a partner's realisation that the case she thought she understood has depths she never imagined.
