Sarah Jane Lahey

July 30, 2018 AD

Adrenaline Reset

Soaked and bleeding, Sarah calls in forensics whilst struggling with unwanted attraction to Karl despite justified anger. When dispatch reports speeding cars near Collinsvale, adrenaline slices through pain and complexity—a welcome escape. Karl reluctantly abandons the blood trail, instincts screaming they're walking away from answers. But as two cars race past and the pursuit ignites, they rediscover their rhythm: power slides, airborne moments, catching number plates through torrential rain. The chase has always been their common ground.

August 2, 2018 AD

Against Orders

Sergeant Claiborne orders exhausted Sarah Lahey to go home after Karl Jenkins vanishes at Jeffries Manor. Sarah gets in her car, nods agreement—and drives straight to Luke Smith's house in Berriedale. The place where Karl killed a man. Where her blood is on the floor. Where evidence of her complicity waits. She can't stop herself. She's already crossed the line.

August 1, 2018 AD

Bailing Water from a Sinking Ship

As Detective Sarah Lahey loads a catatonic Gladys Cramer into the patrol car, she makes one desperate phone call to eliminate the evidence of her illegal entry—a futile gesture when there's a corpse decomposing metres away. Now she has twenty minutes of driving time to determine whether the traumatised woman in her back seat will stay silent about what she's discovered, or whether Sarah's already destroyed herself by arresting the only witness who matters.

July 28, 2018 AD

Before the River Commits

Before dawn at a nursing home in Hobart, the Derwent holds the light. A ninety-two year old woman watches her granddaughter sleep in the old recliner by the window, inside a dream neither of them is going to discuss. Neither of them has yet said out loud what the doctors said the week before. Neither of them will say it this morning.

July 30, 2018 AD

Beyond Restraint

Karl doesn't drive towards Gladys's house. He drives towards the darkest corner of an empty car park, windows already fogging, and when his seatbelt jams mid-kiss, Sarah makes a choice. She pushes him back, takes control, and months of withheld emotions shatter in the confined space. What happens isn't negotiated or gentle. It's the complete obliteration of every boundary they'd been pretending still existed. The investigation waits outside fogged glass. The reckoning comes later. For now, there's only this.

July 31, 2018 AD

Blood and Burden

A distressing call from Vaucluse nursing home brings Detective Sarah Lahey rushing to her grandmother Jane's bedside, where what begins as comfort after a nightmare rapidly unravels into something far more complicated. As Jane's distress connects to names from Sarah's active investigation, the detective finds herself confronting family secrets that have remained buried for decades—revelations that will fundamentally alter her understanding of both her case and the people she thought she knew best.

August 1, 2018 AD

Blood on the Shed Door

Some partnerships survive on trust. Others survive on what neither person says aloud. Sarah returns from an interview she was thrown out of, lies about entering Luke's house, and watches Karl's face change when she mentions the fixed window. The ice thickens. Hours pass in hostile silence. Then Adelaide calls with news that transforms everything Sarah thought she understood about Luke, about danger, and about whose blood might matter most.

July 30, 2018 AD

Break Room Fractures

The morning after hospital discharge, Sarah arrives at the station to file an incident report with Claiborne's surprising assistance, then confronts Karl in the break room where he sits looking destroyed. Their conversation reveals the extent of Claiborne's protection—giving Karl one week to find concrete evidence despite protocol violations—while Sarah struggles between anger at yesterday's violence and concern for the partner she barely recognises anymore.

July 30, 2018 AD

Career Suicide

Mud-streaked detectives stumble into Claiborne's office requesting resources they won't receive. When denial comes—procedural, final, reasonable—Karl's control shatters completely. The door slams. The bullpen falls silent. In the car park, Sarah watches her partner walk toward career suicide with determined strides. She has three seconds to decide: let him fall alone, or jump into the passenger seat and fall with him. The engine starts. The choice is made. There's no coming back from this.

July 30, 2018 AD

Casualties of Investigation

While investigating the locked barn at the Owens' property, Sarah encounters a series of increasingly dangerous mishaps that compound her existing injuries. When Karl discovers blood inside the house but focuses on bureaucratic concerns rather than Sarah's wellbeing, their already strained partnership fractures further.

July 31, 2018 AD

Cheese and Bacon Roll

Glen's Commodore smells like stale fast food and something mechanical. Sarah sits rigid, abandoned by Karl again, clutching her bag like armour. She'd written Glen off years ago—crude, inappropriate, the departmental problem everyone tolerates. But somewhere between Battery Point and the station, between servo coffee and awkward confessions, she discovers the detective beneath the offensive exterior might understand exhaustion and isolation better than her own partner ever has.

July 30, 2018 AD

Chickens and Storm Fronts

Sarah and Karl investigate the Owens' remote property where a neighbour reported recent suspicious activity, their fragile professional détente tested by absurd chicken encounters and mounting tension as a storm rolls in. Finding fresh daisies on the verandah suggests someone was here recently, and dispatch confirms activity ceased just thirty minutes ago—forcing them to proceed with weapons drawn despite Sarah's injuries and their fractured partnership.

July 30, 2018 AD

Cold Coffee and Peppermint Tea

Hours after Claiborne's mercy, Karl must face Sarah in the station break room. Both carry fresh wounds—his cuts from breaking glass, her bandaged hand and concussion from his violence. Claiborne mandated the apology, but Sarah isn't ready to hear it. Through two perspectives on one fraught conversation, discover whether partnership can survive betrayal, whether trust destroyed can be rebuilt, and what happens when neither knows the answer to "Are we okay?"

July 31, 2018 AD

Collapse in the Dark

In the sanctuary of her parked car, the adrenaline that carried Detective Sarah Lahey through the impossible finally abandons her, and the person who climbs back into the driver's seat isn't the same detective who left it an hour ago—leaving her to reckon with exactly what she's willing to destroy to protect someone who may not deserve protecting at all.

July 30, 2018 AD

Colours Under the Door

Following impossible tyre tracks that simply terminate, Sarah and Karl discover Gladys's abandoned car behind a remote toilet block where metallic clangs draw them inside. When Karl kicks open a cubicle door, impossible rainbow colours spill out and radios screech with hostile interference—then Karl freezes completely, staring at something Sarah can't see in the now-empty cubicle.

August 1, 2018 AD

Confessions Between Criminals

What begins as Detective Sarah Lahey's attempt to extract information from Gladys Cramer during the drive to the station rapidly devolves into a desperate game of mutual accusation, where Sarah's offer of leniency collides with Gladys' certainty that Sarah was at the house. When desperation pushes Sarah to confess truths she can never take back, the balance of power shifts in ways neither woman anticipated—leaving Sarah to wonder whether she's just secured an ally through shared secrets, or handed a witness the ammunition to destroy her completely.

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.

July 30, 2018 AD

Defying Claiborne

When Claiborne denies Karl's request to stake out Gladys's house, Karl storms out and heads straight for his car to pursue the lead anyway—career suicide in uniform. Sarah watches him about to throw everything away and makes a split-second decision to jump in the passenger seat, enabling his reckless defiance despite knowing exactly how badly this will end.

July 29, 2018 AD

Discharge Instructions

After passing Dr. Montgomery's final neurological assessment, Sarah is discharged into Claiborne's care with strict instructions for recovery and someone to monitor her condition. As Claiborne drives her home through midnight Hobart, he delivers an ultimatum: submit a full official incident report by 9 AM—forcing Sarah to decide overnight which version of truth will become permanent record.

July 29, 2018 AD

Down in the Dungeon

The tech department lives in the station's basement—a bunker of humming servers, flickering lights, and digital secrets. Sarah descends with Duncan's hard drive, seeking James's expertise to extract whatever the Spirit of Tasmania footage might reveal. Between cousins who only connect at work, there's efficiency without emotional weight. But while Sarah climbs back toward light feeling relieved, James discovers his fraud case has hooks in something far larger than anyone expected.

July 29, 2018 AD

Emergency Department Discharge Summary - Sarah Lahey (30 July 2018)

Official discharge documentation completed following four-hour observation period for Detective Sarah Lahey. Final diagnoses: moderate concussion with post-concussive symptoms; right palm laceration (repaired, six sutures). Patient cleared for home discharge at 00:15 on 30 July 2018 with responsible adult supervision. Detailed restrictions documented: no work 72 hours minimum, no driving 48 hours, cognitive rest required. Follow-up scheduled with GP in three days. Warning signs requiring immediate return explicitly outlined.

July 29, 2018 AD

Emergency Department Triage Form - Sarah Lahey (29 July 2018)

Initial triage assessment completed by RN Rachel Thomson upon Detective Sarah Lahey's self-presentation to Royal Hobart Hospital Emergency Department at 19:47 on 29 July 2018. Patient reported falling during search of residential premises, sustaining right hand laceration and head injury. Vital signs showed elevated blood pressure and moderate pain. Triaged as Category 3 (Urgent) requiring wound closure and neurological assessment for suspected concussion. Supervisor DI Charlie Claiborne notified per protocol for injured police officer.

July 29, 2018 AD

Emergency Physician Neurological Assessment (29 July 2018)

Comprehensive neurological examination by Dr. Finn Montgomery, Head of Emergency, documenting moderate concussion diagnosis following reported fall during police duty. Assessment includes detailed Glasgow Coma Scale, cognitive testing, coordination evaluation, and cranial nerve examination. Critical notation: Mechanism of injury inconsistent with observed injury pattern - lateral head impact and isolated palm laceration suggest different physics than reported forward fall. Recommendations include minimum four-hour observation, strict activity restrictions, and mandatory follow-up.

July 31, 2018 AD

Empty Rooms and Locked Doors

In a moonlit room stripped bare of everything except blood-soaked carpet and a locked glass door, Detective Sarah Lahey realises that whoever she's searching for never left the house—which means they're still here, somewhere, in the suffocating silence. What she finds behind one final door will force an impossible choice: protect the man she loves, or remain the detective she swore to be, knowing she can't possibly do both.

March 22, 2026 AD

Episode 002: Welcome Distractions

She's sitting in the driver's seat of an unmarked police car. She's soaked through. Her stitches have torn — she can see the red spreading through the bandage on her hand. Her head is pounding so hard she can barely see straight. And she's trying very, very hard not to notice how her partner's wet clothes cling to his body. That's the moment. Not the blood evidence she's just called in. Not the missing couple whose property they've been searching. Not the dead goose — and yes, there's a dead goose, we'll get to that. The moment is a twenty-nine-year-old detective sitting in the rain, injured and furious, watching a man she has every right to hate walk back towards the car, and feeling something she doesn't want to feel. That's what I want to talk about today.

July 29, 2018 AD

Exhaustion and Hard Drives

One encounter. Two perspectives. Neither version flattering. Sarah's running on caffeine and grief when Duncan arrives from Devonport with crucial ferry security footage — underdressed, overthinking, and carrying more than just a hard drive. What follows is an awkward reunion filtered through exhaustion and unspoken history, where a momentary lapse costs more than either realises. She delegates the footage to family. He retreats to Ellen and whatever dignity remains.

July 30, 2018 AD

Fifteen Minutes Deep

Fifteen minutes into Myrtle Forest, Sarah marches with determination fuelled by anger—at Karl, at herself, at tolerating behaviour she'd never accept from anyone else. The trail narrows. The forest swallows Gladys's tracks. Karl catches up, calls it madness. Sarah spins on him, snaps back. Then her emotional dam breaks. Tears mixing with rain. Karl's hands cup her face—gentle this time, not commanding. He pulls her into embrace. For the first time all day, his touch offers shelter rather than control.

July 30, 2018 AD

Fifteen Minutes into Myrtle

After stubbornly pursuing Gladys's trail into Myrtle Forest, Sarah's emotional dam finally breaks when Karl catches up with gentle concern rather than aggression. In the rain-soaked embrace that follows, Sarah confronts a realisation more frightening than any case they're investigating.

August 1, 2018 AD

Fresh Blood in Adelaide

Detective Sarah Lahey's unproductive afternoon takes a sharp turn when Karl's phone rings with news from Adelaide CIB that transforms her understanding of everything—suddenly Jane's fierce insistence on Luke's innocence and Gladys' cryptic warnings about his ignorance snap into a terrifying new pattern. Now Sarah must determine whether her cousin is the monster everyone's hunting or whether they've all been chasing the wrong threat entirely, whilst the clock ticks down on a body that still hasn't been discovered and evidence she can't afford to have examined.

July 30, 2018 AD

Full Throttle

When two speeding vehicles scream past the Owens' property, Sarah seizes the pursuit as escape from her complicated emotions about Karl, pushing him to chase despite leaving the crime scene. As Karl's expert driving closes the distance through torrential rain, the patrol car goes airborne over a rise, giving Sarah just enough time to catch a number plate before they lose control.

July 31, 2018 AD

Grandmother's China

Karl's car disappears down the driveway, gravel crunching, leaving Sarah abandoned mid-investigation. Sharon puts the kettle on—what else do you do when detectives swear in your living room? They sit with bone china and bergamot steam whilst Sarah probes gently about Adrian's business. Sharon maintains composure until pointed questions about grammatical slips—were, are, had, have—reveal cracks in the perfect marriage she's been insisting they had all along.

July 29, 2018 AD

Headlights and Hindsight

Driving home after the traumatic confrontation at Berriedale, Sarah spots Karl walking alone through Hobart's darkening suburbs—his body language screaming rage and shame. Though anger still burns beneath her wine-softened edges, she chooses to drive past rather than confront him, claiming one small act of control in a day that stripped away nearly everything else.

July 28, 2018 AD

I'm Only Forty-Seven

Two women sit in a sterile meeting room with different agendas. Sarah Lahey sees an opportunity to probe Louise Jeffries about her history with Karl. Louise sees ten years of suspicion finally reduced to ink—each sentence an admission, each date a failure documented for strangers to judge. When Sarah's questions push too far, Louise's rebuke is swift. By the time she signs her name, neither woman is quite who she was when she walked in.

July 30, 2018 AD

Intact Stitches

Fifteen minutes from car park to house. Each step catalogues exactly how Sarah misread everything—the tears, the intensity, the vulnerability she'd thought was real. Her body still marked with evidence of intimacy that apparently meant nothing. At home, unwrapping the filthy bandage from her hand, she braces for torn stitches and infection. They're intact. All of them. Impossibly, inexplicably holding despite everything she put them through today. Some wounds heal. Others just teach you who leaves.

July 28, 2018 AD

Interview Room Three

Detective Sarah Lahey arrives for another day at Hobart Police Station, trying to bury personal turmoil beneath professional routine. Sergeant Claiborne summons her urgently to Interview Room Three—a room reserved for cases that leave fingerprints on souls. Inside waits Louise Jeffries, reporting her son and brother missing. When Louise accuses Luke Smith of harm and demands to speak with Karl Jenkins specifically, Sarah realises nothing about this case will be routine.

September 15, 2022 AD

Into The Dark

When a series of disappearances grips Tasmania’s remote edges, Detective Sarah Lahey is drawn into a case that threatens to unravel her—professionally and personally. As tensions flare with fellow detective Karl Jenkins, trust becomes a gamble neither can afford. In the search for truth, they’ll find the shadows run deeper than they imagined. Into the Dark is a haunting thriller about loyalty, obsession, and the cost of stepping beyond the light.

August 1, 2018 AD

Lies Across Adjacent Desks

Detective Sarah Lahey returns to her desk knowing she'll have to face Karl and pretend nothing has changed, but maintaining professional distance becomes impossible when he asks the one question she can't answer honestly—and then casually drops information about Luke that changes everything. Now Sarah must decide whether the man sitting two feet away is trying to help her or testing how much she knows, whilst her frozen mouse and white face threaten to give away secrets that could destroy them both.

August 2, 2018 AD

Mirrors That Remember

At Jeffries Manor, Sarah searches for a missing witness and finds something stranger: an old woman who sees her and says her grandmother’s name. As the past bleeds into the present, a motorbike starts below—and Sarah realises too late that the danger isn’t waiting inside. It’s already moving.

July 31, 2018 AD

Moonlight and Crimson Carpets

After witnessing Karl enter the house and hearing violent sounds from upstairs, Detective Sarah Lahey makes the catastrophic decision to climb through the broken window herself. Navigating absolute darkness, territorial wildlife, and the oppressive silence following Karl's departure, Sarah's desperate need to understand what happened draws her deeper into the house—where impossible flashes of light, holes punched through walls, and what waits at the bottom of the stairs will force her to confront exactly how far beyond the point of no return she's already gone.

August 1, 2018 AD

Mutually Assured Destruction

Some interrogations happen in interview rooms with recording equipment and lawyers present. Others happen in stopped patrol cars on suburban roadsides, where desperate detectives confess to crimes whilst their prisoners decide whether that confession makes them allies or ammunition. Twenty minutes of driving time becomes a negotiation neither woman can afford to lose—because the only thing more dangerous than what they know is whether they'll tell anyone else.

July 29, 2018 AD

Nursing Treatment Notes - Hand Laceration Repair (29 July 2018)

Detailed nursing documentation by Senior Nurse Jackson Roberts of wound cleaning, assessment, and suturing procedure for Detective Sarah Lahey's right palm laceration. Documents wound irrigation, local anaesthetic administration, and placement of six interrupted sutures with 4-0 nylon. Notes patient's stoic presentation, appropriate pain management, and satisfactory wound closure. Includes patient education regarding wound care, signs of infection, and follow-up requirements. Treatment completed 29 July 2018, approximately 20:45-21:30.

July 29, 2018 AD

One Small Mercy

Headlights sweep across a familiar silhouette walking through Hobart's darkening streets. Recognition arrives before thought can catch up—the particular set of those shoulders, the way that body moves, months of partnership suddenly foreign in twilight gloom. Sarah's injured palm throbs beneath bandages whilst wine softens sharp edges but can't extinguish the coals still smouldering beneath. She could stop. Roll down the window. Demand explanations right there in a residential street. But control is a small mercy when everything else has already slipped away.

July 28, 2018 AD

Out of Place

Detective Sarah Lahey walks out of an interview with Louise Jeffries and detours to Sergeant Charlie Claiborne's office to drop off the file. The door is ajar. The office is empty. On the otherwise perfectly ordered surface of the desk sits a single crumpled scrap of notepaper, which Sarah recognises. In the half-hour that follows, she crosses a professional line she has never crossed before, and Detective Glen Crosswell watches her do it.

July 31, 2018 AD

Rough Waters and Rougher Company

After Karl abandons her at the Pafistis residence to pursue warrants alone, Detective Sarah Lahey accepts a lift from Glen Crosswell—the crude, inappropriate colleague she's actively avoided throughout her career. But as Glen's stale fast-food-scented car winds through Battery Point's picturesque streets back to the station, Sarah discovers unexpected depths beneath his offensive exterior, finding that the detective she'd written off as a departmental liability might understand her exhaustion and isolation better than her own partner ever has.

She Chose Him

The collected chapters of Sarah Jane Lahey—from orphaned child in Tasmania's highlands to tenacious detective in Hobart's Criminal Investigation Branch. These first-person accounts trace a life shaped by loss and driven by an unrelenting need for truth, spanning her grandmother's deathbed to storm-soaked pursuits through wilderness, from partnership with Karl Jenkins to the fatal meeting in Myrtle Forest. Witness a woman whose exceptional investigative instincts were matched only by her capacity for misguided devotion, whose pursuit of justice became entangled with impossible choices, and whose story ended at twenty-nine in circumstances that remain as complex as the cases she investigated.

July 30, 2018 AD

Sirens in the Rain

Karl executes a brilliant tactical reversal—stops pursuit mid-chase, spins the car, races back to intercept at a closer junction. Should work perfectly. Then Sarah's computer pings: Gladys Cramer. The woman from Luke's house, already tangled in their investigation, driving one of the fleeing vehicles. They wait at the intersection. The suspects never arrive. Radio screeches. Dispatch reports vehicles turned into Myrtle Forest—chopper lost visual. They arrive at a flooded car park. Bitumen ends. Vehicles gone. Just rain, wilderness, and an impossible disappearance.

July 29, 2018 AD

Six Points of Closure

While nurse Jackson Roberts expertly sutures her lacerated palm with six careful stitches, Sarah maintains her fabricated story about a fall during a routine search. But Jackson's gentle probing and perceptive observations suggest he sees through her carefully constructed fiction—and with Dr. Montgomery's neurological assessment and Claiborne's arrival both imminent, Sarah's lies are becoming increasingly difficult to maintain.

August 1, 2018 AD

Solo Return in Sunlight

Detective Sarah Lahey drives alone to Luke Smith's house, where daylight transforms last night's nightmare into something almost ordinary—just another building on just another street, concealing horrors behind blank windows. As she announces her official presence for the neighbours and climbs through the broken window, Sarah must navigate the familiar rooms where every surface holds evidence of her presence, moving inexorably towards the ground floor and the cupboard that waits with its terrible secret.

July 28, 2018 AD

Some Things Refuse to Wake

In the stillness between sleep and morning, Sarah slips through a dream that feels like memory — Karl’s voice, his touch, the impossible promise of a life that might have been. But the illusion fractures into daylight and the quiet truth of her grandmother’s fading world. As she navigates the fragile hours between devotion and departure, Sarah finds that some ghosts — the living and the imagined — aren’t ready to let go.

August 2, 2018 AD

Somewhere Past the Border

As dusk settles over Jeffries Manor and the search for Karl turns up nothing — not a footprint, not a trace — Sarah sits hollowed out against the shed, lying by omission to her own colleagues and dreading the questions she knows are coming. Claiborne sends her home. But somewhere past exhaustion and reason, her hands turn the wheel the wrong way, and she finds herself drifting back towards Luke's house, towards the body she never reported and the evidence she can't outrun.

July 31, 2018 AD

Stalking Shadows in Berriedale

Reeling from Jane's revelation, Detective Sarah Lahey drives towards Luke Smith's Berriedale address seeking answers—only to spot Karl jogging up the steep hill in full black kit, heading in the same direction. What follows is an increasingly absurd surveillance operation as Sarah tracks Karl tracking Luke's house, leaving Sarah injured, concealed in bushes, and desperately trying to understand what Karl has gotten them both into.

July 28, 2018 AD

Steam and Authority

Karl Jenkins seeks redemption in scalding water, hiding from colleagues in the station's showers after his promotion celebration went catastrophically wrong. Sarah Lahey storms through protocol to drag him into the case—but Glen Crosswell's leering presence and Sergeant Claiborne's commanding intervention transform a private moment into a power struggle. In steam and fluorescent light, three detectives navigate authority, vulnerability, and the case that won't wait.

July 29, 2018 AD

Sterile Truths

Sarah drives herself to Royal Hobart Hospital's Emergency Department with a bleeding hand and probable concussion, refusing to call for backup or admit the truth about Karl's assault. When triage nurse Rachel documents the injury as an "accident during search," Sarah commits to the lie—unaware that hospital protocol has already notified her supervisor Charlie Claiborne, who's now on his way demanding answers she hasn't prepared to give.

July 28, 2018 AD

Stick Figures and Numbers

Karl sketches crude stick figures on butcher paper, building a timeline whilst ghosts from Brisbane whisper at the edges of his focus. Sarah returns from Louise's rebuke, ready to dive into bank statements and logic. Together they comb through financial records hunting for patterns—until Jamie's drained account ignites Sarah's theory about murder.

July 31, 2018 AD

Surrender to the Possum

Turns out surrendering to a possum is less humiliating than what comes after—standing in a pool of blood whilst your entire understanding of right and wrong drowns with your boot prints. After witnessing Karl enter Luke's house and hearing violent sounds from upstairs, Sarah makes the catastrophic decision to climb through the broken window herself. What she discovers in the darkness—impossible flashes of light, holes punched through walls, and crimson carpets—forces her to confront exactly how far beyond the point of no return she's already gone.

July 31, 2018 AD

Tea and Truths

Left alone with Sharon after Karl abandons her to pursue warrants, Sarah drinks expensive tea and probes gently about Adrian's business whilst fighting her own exhaustion and hurt. When Karl texts that Claiborne refused the warrants and Glen is collecting her, Sarah recognises herself in Sharon—two women dealing with absent men and unanswered questions, sharing quiet desperation in a beautiful house that suddenly feels very empty.

August 1, 2018 AD

Ten Minutes Under Scalding Water

Detective Sarah Lahey makes it three steps into the station bathroom before shattering completely, leaving her with exactly ten minutes to fall apart and pull herself back together before anyone notices she's gone. But some things can't be washed away under scalding water, and when she emerges—red-eyed and trembling, with stolen evidence still in her pocket—she discovers that breaking down hasn't changed a single thing about the impossible situation waiting for her outside that door.

July 31, 2018 AD

The Architecture of Absence

Sharon Pafistis sits in her architectural masterpiece on what should have been their anniversary, tracing wedding photographs like archaeology. Thirty-nine hours since Adrian left to meet a client. Two detectives arrive with routine questions. Then Sharon mentions a name—just an ordinary name, a forgettable client—and watches Detective Jenkins stop breathing. Watches colour drain from his face. Watches everything change. Some names don't just answer questions. They detonate them.

July 30, 2018 AD

The Armour Returns

The windows clear. Karl's defence mechanism engages—detective reasserting control over vulnerability he can't process. Behind his eyes, a name rises with inexplicable certainty: Beatrix Cramer. Sarah watches him pull away emotionally before he pulls away physically, her satisfaction transforming into confusion, then hurt. He reaches across to open her door. Not cruelty, but survival—shutting down what terrifies him. She stands in an empty carpark watching taillights disappear. The most intense intimacy of her life, and he's already gone.

July 30, 2018 AD

The Bracelet and the Boundary

Still shaken by the cubicle vision, Karl reports the abandoned car whilst Sarah discovers fresh footprints and a silver bracelet inscribed "G.C."—Gladys Cramer. She moves to call it in. Karl grabs her arm, stops her. "Not yet." The second time he's crossed into physical aggression. Sarah brushes past him, heads into Myrtle Forest alone, following the trail despite protocol. Karl watches her disappear into the green darkness, curses, then follows. The forest closes around them both, swallowing them into pursuit.

July 30, 2018 AD

The Bracelet and the Grab

When Sarah discovers a bracelet inscribed "G.C." and fresh footprints leading into Myrtle Forest, Karl physically grabs her arm to stop her from calling it in—the second time he's crossed into physical aggression. Sarah pushes past him and heads into the forest alone, following the trail while Karl follows at a distance.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Company We Keep

Home at last, Sarah finally unfolds the note she stole from Claiborne’s desk — and finds only two words. What should be meaningless won’t let her go. As she chases the name into the glow of her laptop, the edges of her world contract — a detective alone in her kitchen, staring at a website too clean to trust, a life too normal to believe. Somewhere between curiosity and dread, Sarah realises the investigation isn’t what she thought. It never was.

July 30, 2018 AD

The Cubicle

The tyre tracks end at intact concrete walls. Fresh treads terminate mid-stride with no collision, no explanation. Behind the toilet block: Gladys's abandoned car, the door hanging open, the interior collecting rain. Metallic clangs come from inside the structure. Thunder, darkness, weapons drawn. Karl kicks open the cubicle door—impossible rainbow colours spill across the grimy floor, radios shriek interference. For one second: a silver-haired woman crouched inside, luminous and impossible. Then darkness. The door slams. Sarah checks: empty. Just concrete, graffiti, and Karl frozen like he's seen a ghost.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Distance Between Warnings

Still reeling from Louise Jeffries’ accusation, Sarah works to pull a hungover Karl into the case — only to be intercepted by Claiborne, whose quiet concern keeps tipping into something closer to control. A warning, a demand to vet her notes, an admission of particular interest in the Jeffries: each lands like guidance, and each leaves her less certain it is.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Doctor's Parallel

Dr. Finn Montgomery's neurological examination of Sarah's concussion reveals his sharp awareness that her story doesn't match her injuries, and he shares a pointed parallel about another officer who concealed partner assault. As Jackson transfers Sarah to a private observation room where Claiborne will soon arrive, Dr. Montgomery documents his suspicions in her official medical record—ensuring that regardless of what Sarah claims, the doubt will permanently follow her.

July 30, 2018 AD

The Door Push

Still catching her breath and expecting some acknowledgment of what just happened, Sarah watches Karl pull on a fresh t-shirt from a prepared bag and make an announcement that changes everything. Minutes later she's standing alone in an empty car park, watching taillights disappear into traffic.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Door That Hesitated

Following Gladys home leads Sarah and Karl to a modern hillside house — and a lock that shouldn’t need convincing. Gladys’s hesitation turns the doorstep into a standoff, Karl’s charm doing quiet battle with Sarah’s suspicion. When the door finally opens, adrenaline and unease spill into the silence beyond, and Sarah realises they’ve just crossed from theory into whatever truth has been waiting on the other side.

August 2, 2018 AD

The Echo Beneath the Stone

Sarah and Karl arrive at Jeffries Manor under the looming shadow of Luke Smith’s name. Inside its elegant decay, desperation simmers—one woman missing, another unravelling, and a shed that may hold the key to everything.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Five-Minute Nap That Changed Nothing

Running on caffeine and denial, Sarah nods off mid-report — only to be jolted awake by the unexpected arrival of Duncan and a hard drive that might hold the case’s next big break. Between awkward small talk, a misplaced glance, and memories she’d rather not recall, Sarah turns fatigue into focus, delegating the footage to her cousin James in the tech unit. But beneath the banter and bureaucracy, one truth settles: she’s holding everything together with frayed string and stubbornness — and both are about to snap.

August 1, 2018 AD

The Fumbled Evidence

What should be a routine interview with Gladys Cramer becomes Detective Sarah Lahey's worst nightmare when a simple fumble threatens to expose everything, Sergeant Claiborne abruptly takes control of the interrogation, and Gladys' furious accusations of broken promises echo through the corridor. Now Sarah must convince Claiborne she's done nothing wrong whilst the one person who could destroy her sits in an interview room learning exactly how little protection Sarah can actually offer—and how much Sarah has to lose.

July 31, 2018 AD

The Garden Surveillance Disaster

After Jane's devastating revelation, Sarah drives to Luke Smith's Berriedale address seeking answers—only to spot Karl jogging up the hill in full black kit, heading in the same direction. What follows is surveillance chaos, injured dignity, and the sinking realisation that she has no idea what Karl's gotten them both into.

July 30, 2018 AD

The Goose Incident

Karl and Sarah split up to investigate the Owens' property. Inside the cottage, Karl finds systematic erasure—disinfectant, stripped beds, one forgotten pillow. Then fresh blood on his finger, a trail leading nowhere. Outside, Sarah encounters escalating disasters: splinter, rake to the head, attacking goose. When her service weapon discharges, Karl hears the shot and runs, expecting the worst. What he finds is both absurd and devastating—their partnership fracturing over a dead bird in the rain.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Hold Music Never Ends

After another dead-end call with airport staff, Sarah’s patience finally snaps. Between her banter with Ellen Lowe and Karl’s growing distance, she finds herself buried in bureaucracy and self-doubt. But beneath the humour and caffeine, a quiet defiance takes root — because the note in her pocket is still waiting, and Sarah Lahey has never been good at waiting.

July 29, 2018 AD

The House That Lost Its Silence

Inside Luke Smith’s immaculate home, Sarah and Karl find more questions than answers — until tension gives way to violence. Gladys lies, Karl breaks, and the house itself seems to breathe beneath their feet. In the aftermath of shattered glass and betrayal, Sarah is left bleeding and alone, her partner gone, the case unrecognisable, and the world suddenly colder.

August 2, 2018 AD

The House That Wouldn't Let Go

Haunted by guilt and compelled by instinct, Sarah returns to the one place she’s been ordered to avoid. As figures from the case—and her conscience—emerge from the shadows, a single gunshot cuts through the night, threatening to turn secrecy into tragedy.

July 30, 2018 AD

The Impossible Vanish

Karl executes a brilliant tactical reversal to intercept the fleeing vehicles, but when Sarah's computer reveals one car belongs to a person of interest from the Greyson-Jeffries case, the pursuit becomes impossibly complicated. The chopper loses visual as both vehicles vanish into Myrtle Forest Road, leaving Sarah and Karl standing in the rain searching for traces of cars that seem to have evaporated.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Institutional Gatekeeper

Half an hour on hold with airport admin, then dead air. Sarah's patience snaps. She needs Ellen Lowe—the station's institutional memory who knows every quirk, every shortcut, every person worth calling. Ellen sits at her desk with Facebook open and a cat meme glowing. She'll complain, but she'll do it. Because Ellen has connections everywhere. And beneath her theatrical disinterest, she's already working on something else entirely. Something for Senior Sergeant Mason Wright that Sarah doesn't know about.

August 2, 2018 AD

The Kind of Silence That Stains

In the aftermath of violence and betrayal, Sarah finds herself cornered—by forensic reality, by Gladys’ proposition, and by the shape of a device that should not exist. A line is crossed in silence, and the night swallows what remains of the detective she used to be.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Kingdom Beneath the Kingdom

Descending into the basement “dungeon” of the Hobart station, Sarah delivers the hard drive to her cousin James — the department’s quiet genius and keeper of digital ghosts. As the hum of servers fills the air, she finds brief solace in the mechanical rhythm of progress. But on the climb back to the surface, between a call to Ellen Lowe and the weight of her own fatigue, Sarah realises she’s part of a system that only works when everyone keeps pretending the walls aren’t closing in.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Ledger That Never Balanced

In a meeting room at Hobart Police Station, Louise Jeffries committed ten years of suspicion about Luke Smith to the official record. What began as a formal written statement became something closer to a reckoning — with the dates that had never quite aligned, the instincts she had spent a decade overruling, and the decision that had sent her son into whatever was waiting at Berriedale.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Manor Loads Slowly

Karl's desk empty. Claiborne's courtyard whisper still echoing. Sarah searches the database for Louise Jeffries. No results. Kain Jeffries. Nothing. Too clean. She tries the internet instead. Jeffries Manor explodes across her screen—articles, heritage listings, ghost-hunter forums. Adam Panchak's investigative piece loads with agonizing slowness. A gothic photograph renders line by line. A headline about vanishing. Sarah reads about William Jeffries disappearing in 1821. About Rita Larkin's asylum diary describing rainbow gates. About two centuries of disappeared people bearing the same surname she's investigating now.

July 31, 2018 AD

The Mathematics of Catastrophe

Love and duty make terrible mathematics. When you're standing in someone else's blood, staring at a door you haven't opened yet, you think you know what choice you'll make. You think there's still a version of yourself who does the right thing. But adrenaline doesn't ask permission before it rewrites your moral calculus. And by the time you're sitting in your car, shaking and changed, you realise the person who walked into that house no longer exists.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Morning After Knowing

A sleepless Sarah stumbles through another morning at the Hobart station, convinced she’s losing her edge — until she sees Claiborne and Louise Jeffries together in the courtyard, close enough to whisper. What begins as routine unravels into something far stranger, but before she can make sense of it, Ellen Lowe barrels in with news, noise, and nicotine. By the time Sarah looks back, they’re gone — and the silence left behind feels louder than anything Ellen could say.

July 31, 2018 AD

The Pafistis Interview

Trapped in Karl's car in suffocating silence that acknowledges nothing about last night, Sarah drives to Battery Point to interview Sharon Pafistis about her missing husband. When Sarah's phone buzzes with urgent emails during the interview, phone records and security footage suddenly connect multiple disappearances in ways not entirely unexpected.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Paper That Blinked First

Haunted by Louise’s words and Claiborne’s secrets, Sarah makes a choice that blurs the line between curiosity and betrayal. Alone in his empty office, she finds a single piece of paper that doesn’t belong — and takes it. When Glen catches her mid-act, she covers her tracks with practised calm, but the damage is done. The note burns in her pocket, and for the first time, Sarah isn’t sure which side of the truth she’s on.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Pattern Takes Shape

Back at the office after Jenny's interview, Karl and Sarah navigate professional tension and mounting evidence. Three men missing within days. No flights, no ferries, vehicles vanished. Sarah waits for surveillance footage while Karl searches for patterns in American construction companies he can't explain. Neither admits what they're both beginning to see: something deliberate is unfolding. Something that doesn't want to be found. And Tasmania is running out of places to hide secrets.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Physics of Falling

Detective Sergeant Charlie Claiborne methodically dismantles Sarah's fabricated fall story by analysing her injury patterns like evidence at a crime scene. After extracting the truth about what really happened with Karl, he offers Sarah an impossible choice: amend her false reports or permanently damage the trust between them.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Politeness of Predators

Bleeding, concussed, and unsteady, Sarah accepts Gladys’s hospitality — a glass of wine, a patch-up, a conversation that feels both too careful and too rehearsed. Every word is a performance, every silence an admission. Sarah begins to suspect that the real crime isn’t what happened in the house, but what’s being hidden within it. And when she finally walks away, she knows she’s only escaped for now.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Quiet Places We Overhear

In the soft aftermath of confession and comfort, Sarah curls up beside Jane, the detective dissolving into the granddaughter. But between talk of dreams, love, and the past, one offhand remark changes everything — Jamie Greyson, the missing man at the centre of her case, has been visiting Jane for years. As laughter gives way to unease, Sarah realises the investigation has never been as far from home as she thought.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Quiet That Bites Back

Left alone with Louise Jeffries, Sarah tests the edges of truth and pays for her curiosity with a sudden shift in power. One question too many exposes the limits of control — and as the silence thickens, Sarah realises she’s no longer the one leading the interview. In the stillness between them, doubt sharpens into something more dangerous: recognition.

August 1, 2018 AD

The Return Assignment

The morning after the worst night of her life, Detective Sarah Lahey walks into the station hoping to slip past unnoticed, only to be summoned into Sergeant Claiborne's office where she learns an anonymous caller has reported a break-in at Luke Smith's house. As her stomach churns and memories of snapped necks and stolen evidence flood her mind, Sarah faces an impossible choice: refuse the assignment and raise suspicions, or return to the scene of her crimes with Karl and pretend she's seeing it all for the first time.

August 2, 2018 AD

The Room That Rewrote the Scene

Sarah charges into the chaos of Luke’s house, fuelled by instinct, desperation, and the sound of a single gunshot. But what she finds inside fractures more than protocol—it shatters the idea that she still understands the story she’s in.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Rules Don't Apply in Steam

Hunting Karl through the Hobart station, Sarah runs into Glen Crosswell — the department’s resident irritant, and the one man who knows about her and Karl, paid once to keep it that way. He trails her into the changing rooms, needling all the while, and she gets what she came for: Karl roused, and a little control reclaimed on the way out.

August 2, 2018 AD

The Sanctity of Contamination

Haunted by the truth and hunted by consequence, Sarah brings Gladys—and the impossible device she carries—into the one place meant to be untouchable: her home. But as reality fractures around a portal that shouldn’t exist, Sarah must decide whether love is enough to justify what comes next.

July 30, 2018 AD

The Seatbelt Surrender

Karl drives them to the darkest corner of the Entertainment Centre car park instead of pursuing Gladys, and when his seatbelt jams during an attempted kiss, Sarah takes control. Months of dangerous attraction and denied feelings explode into raw, desperate intimacy that shatters every professional line they've been pretending still exists.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Shape of What's Missing

Karl arrives to lead the interview — and stops cold at the sight of Louise Jeffries. They know each other, and the case Sarah thought was routine turns out to be tangled in Karl’s own past. As Claiborne pockets a secret and Karl shuts the questioning down too soon, Sarah is left reading the silences, certain that what’s missing here is more than two men.

August 2, 2018 AD

The Soft Geometry of Collapse

Amid a poisoned intimacy behind the wheel of an unmarked car, Sarah and Karl grapple with the ghosts of their investigation—and their own complicity. When a dispatch interrupts their uneasy silence with a name they’ve been dreading, the line between pursuit and collapse becomes razor-thin.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Static Between Us

Back at the Hobart station, Sarah and Karl sift through bank statements and timelines, each chasing truth along their own invisible track. When Sarah’s intuition sparks against Karl’s logic, tempers flare — and what begins as analysis becomes a quiet fracture. As the case widens, their partnership thins, and the folded scrap in Sarah’s pocket hums like a secret too loud to ignore.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Tab Ellen Closed

Detective Sarah Lahey delegates the airport and ferry checks on missing persons Jamie Greyson and Kain Jeffries to administrative officer Ellen Lowe. Ellen receives the task with theatrical reluctance and a straight face. Sarah leaves believing she has successfully handed off a routine delegation. Ellen stays at her desk holding a quiet inquiry into Sarah's brother Oscar that Senior Sergeant Mason Wright has asked her to handle, alongside a web of family connections between the Lahey and Jeffries names that Sarah has not yet uncovered.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Things We Burn for Love

In Jane’s kitchen, Sarah trades crime scenes for saucepans, determined to cook one good meal for the woman who raised her. Between burnt pasta and small talk about her brother, the conversation drifts somewhere she’s not ready to go — toward the truth of Jane’s illness, and the quiet countdown they’ve both been pretending not to hear. When the words finally come, Sarah’s composure collapses, and the detective becomes the granddaughter again, holding on to the only evidence that matters: love, fragile and finite.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Things We Hold Close

Sarah arrives at Vaucluse with good intentions and a recipe she's already losing confidence in. Jane watches from her recliner, recognising the language of it — love expressed through effort, however misdirected. Between them, the evening holds everything that hasn't been said yet: the diagnosis, the man Sarah's been dreaming about, the case she can't leave at the door. Some of it will surface. Not all of it. Someone will decide which.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Things We Pretend Are Routine

When Karl returns from fieldwork with a new witness and no explanation, Sarah’s irritation ignites into curiosity. The arrival of Jenny Triffett — and her missing husband — threads fresh tension into the already tangled case. As Sarah juggles jealousy, procedure, and the monotony of surveillance duty, she can’t shake the feeling that this isn’t just another missing persons file. Somewhere between banter and bureaucracy, something fragile between them starts to shift — and the silence grows heavier.

August 1, 2018 AD

The Third Time Through the Window

Returning to investigate your own crime scene requires performance skills they don't teach at the academy. Sarah announces her official presence, climbs through familiar broken glass, and navigates rooms that should feel new but don't. Then she finds Gladys Cramer sitting motionless on the couch, eyes vacant with shock. Some witnesses destroy you by talking. Others destroy you by what they've already seen and will never forget.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Traffic Stop

July 29, 2018. Detectives Karl Jenkins and Sarah Lahey pull over a silver Honda Civic for reckless driving. The driver passes the breath test, but when the vehicle registration comes back, it belongs to someone who shouldn't be lending out their car. The driver has explanations—and keys to prove them. This is the official traffic incident report that documents two roadside encounters and a decision that changes the direction of an investigation.

August 2, 2018 AD

The Vanishing Point

When Sarah emerges from the manor to find Karl and Luke both gone, the mystery deepens—and her grip on the narrative begins to slip. As backup arrives and the shed yields only silence, Sarah is forced to confront a question more frightening than any bullet: what has she already enabled?

August 1, 2018 AD

The Witness on the Couch

Detective Sarah Lahey enters Luke Smith's house expecting to face only the ghosts of her own crimes—until she finds Gladys Cramer sitting motionless on the couch, eyes vacant with shock, staring at nothing. The question isn't whether Gladys discovered the body, but what she plans to do about it, and whether Sarah can arrest her way out of this nightmare or if the one person who could destroy her has already sealed both their fates.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Wrong Car, The Right Mistake

A routine traffic stop turns into chaos when Sarah and Karl pull over a woman driving the missing Jamie Greyson’s car. Between flashing lights, breathalysers, and bruised egos, Sarah finds herself sidelined just when the case ignites. But as Karl takes charge and the pieces shift into an unexpected pattern, Sarah can’t shake the feeling that the universe has just tripped over its own secret.

July 29, 2018 AD

Things That Refuse to Stay Buried

Alone in the dim hum of the station, Sarah dives into the digital abyss — only to find the Jeffries name stretching back two centuries, trailing disappearances, and a legend too strange to ignore. As the lines between history and investigation blur, she begins to suspect that what she’s uncovering isn’t new at all, just something waiting to be remembered. And when the screen’s glow feels almost alive, Sarah realises this isn’t research anymore — it’s invitation.

July 28, 2018 AD

Things You Don’t Ask the Walls

Back at the Hobart station, Sarah pulls the job on like armour, burying the dream and the morning with her grandmother under routine and order. Then Sergeant Claiborne — who watches and delegates but never joins anything — summons her to Interview Room Three, the room kept for the cases that mark you. Whatever is waiting behind that door, every instinct she has tells her it isn’t routine.

July 28, 2018 AD

Thirty Minutes

Sarah Lahey needs her partner immediately—two people are missing, a witness demands him specifically, and Sergeant Claiborne is watching every move. But Karl Jenkins is home, hungover, having passed out in the shower after his promotion celebration. Through a tense phone call and Claiborne's cryptic warnings, Sarah secures Karl's promise: thirty minutes. The clock starts ticking. This could be his big case—if he can pull himself together in time.

July 30, 2018 AD

Thirty Minutes Ago

A new lead connects to Karl's case: conservationists Karen and Chris Owen haven't been seen for days, and a mysterious delivery truck has been spotted at their remote Collinsvale property. As Karl and Sarah drive into wilderness under gathering storm clouds, their fragile partnership is tested by absurd chicken encounters and mounting tension. Then dispatch crackles with urgent news: someone was at the property thirty minutes ago. The investigation just became active—and dangerous.

July 31, 2018 AD

Three Steps

Sarah makes it exactly three steps inside the station before her phone rings with Virginia calling from Vaucluse—Jane is very distressed and asking for her. Without hesitation, Sarah executes an immediate one-eighty and leaves, abandoning Karl and the case and everything else for the ten-minute drive to Lindisfarne.

July 29, 2018 AD

Through Glass, Darkly

Through courtyard glass, Sarah watches something she wasn't meant to see. Claiborne standing too close. Louise Jeffries comfortable with proximity that doesn't fit witness-and-sergeant. His mouth near her ear, words not meant to travel. Sarah edges closer, needs to hear. Then Ellen's voice shatters everything—loud, aggressive, perfectly timed. Airport updates. Ferry footage. Duncan's arrival. By the time Sarah looks back, they're gone. And Ellen looks satisfied about something Sarah can't name.

July 29, 2018 AD

Two Sides of a Lie

Detective Sarah Lahey investigates a missing person. Gladys Cramer hides one. When their paths collide at a pristine Berriedale house, both women must navigate an afternoon spiralling toward chaos. Between flickering lights and broken windows, wine becomes both weapon and offering. Karl Jenkins loses control. Blood spills. Lies multiply. Through four chapters spanning two perspectives, discover what happens when desperation meets deception—and two women realise survival might mean becoming allies.

July 29, 2018 AD

Two Stops, One Driver

A careless turn from the bottle shop, nearly clipping a parked car. Random traffic stop on a Sunday afternoon—breathalyser reads zero, licence checks out. Then Karl runs the plates. His face changes. They follow her up Berriedale Road where she's texting, almost swerving into barriers. Second stop, same driver, same afternoon. Karl returns from talking to her with information that changes everything. The case just cracked wide open through reckless driving and a woman who won't stop touching her paper bag..

July 28, 2018 AD

Two Words

The stolen note burns in Sarah's pocket through the walk home. All that risk—sneaking around Claiborne's desk, Glen's sudden arrival, her fumbled cover—for what? She unfolds it at her dining table amongst dirty dishes and unironed clothes. Two words stare back. That's it. Two bloody words. Should be meaningless. Should be nothing. But the way Claiborne guarded it like state secrets, the way Louise looked at him—something's not right. Two words that won't let her go.

July 31, 2018 AD

Virginia's Voice

Three steps. That's all she manages before the phone vibrates. Virginia's name on the screen means something's wrong—the carer who only calls when it matters, when Jane has fallen or asked for her or something's broken beyond staff capability to fix. Sarah doesn't hesitate. One-eighty turn, boots squeaking on station floor. Karl's somewhere in the building. The case waits. Family doesn't.

July 30, 2018 AD

Walk Home Alone

Sarah walks home through dark Hobart streets, her body still carrying evidence of what just happened whilst her mind spirals through questions that have no answers. Alone in her house, she tends to injuries both visible and not, discovering some wounds heal better than others.

July 30, 2018 AD

Welcome Distractions

Sitting soaked in the car with torn stitches and mounting injuries, Sarah calls in forensics for the blood evidence whilst struggling with unwanted attraction to Karl despite her justified anger. When dispatch reports a drag racing incident nearby in Collinsvale, Sarah seizes the call as a welcome escape from the emotional complexity of their fractured partnership.

August 2, 2018 AD

What Sarah Saw

Detective Sarah Lahey knew something was wrong before they even arrived at Jeffries Manor. Her partner Karl had been obsessing over this case for weeks, and when the call came in about Luke Smith, he was wound too tight. Sarah escorted the distressed homeowner inside, checked on an elderly woman upstairs who mistook her for someone else, then heard a motorbike engine. When she reached the shed, both Karl and Luke had vanished—no bodies, no blood, just impossible absence. Her official statement captured the facts but omitted what she was really thinking, the impossibility she witnessed, and the moment she realised her partner had crossed into somewhere she couldn't follow.

July 28, 2018 AD

What the Air Remembers

Inside Interview Room Three, Sarah faces Louise Jeffries — a woman whose calm hides history, and whose accusations drag old ghosts into the light. Claiborne’s composure fractures, names become weapons, and the past slips through the cracks in procedure. When Louise demands to see Karl, Sarah’s professionalism falters, and what began as a missing persons report starts to sound like a reckoning.

July 28, 2018 AD

What the Hell Are You Doing?

Sarah delivers a file to Claiborne's empty office and notices something out of place on his otherwise pristine desk. A split-second decision crosses a line she can't uncross. Then Glen Crosswell appears in the doorway with perfect timing and a booming voice. Two detectives. One empty office. A moment of poor judgment that might cost more than Sarah realises.

August 1, 2018 AD

When Evidence Falls Out of Your Pocket

There are exactly three types of detectives: those who've never carried stolen evidence, those who carry it competently, and those who fumble it onto interview tables in front of their sergeant. Sarah discovers which category she belongs to whilst watching Claiborne's eyes narrow with recognition. Then comes the dismissal. The questions about promises. The corridor confrontation. And finally, the bathroom where ten minutes of scalding water proves utterly insufficient for washing away what she's done.

August 2, 2018 AD

Wine and Wounds

A gunshot. A bottle of wine. Two desperate women. Gladys needs to retrieve her dead partner's body. Sarah needs evidence to vanish. What begins with wine-soaked panic becomes calculated conspiracy—portals opening on command, impossible bargains struck. Some deals are signed in ink. This one was sealed in shiraz.

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.