The case had clearly taken a turn for the worse. Every single person on it seemed rattled as I walked into the conference room that morning. Had someone else died? I knew that if the gravity of the situation had risen to these levels the penultimate problem had to be this bad. I looked for Hyun Woo and when I did find him, I went to sit on the empty seat next to him. Paying no mind to who it might have been saved for.

“It’s just going to get worse from here, A-Ri.”

“What do you mean?” I whispered.

“Apparently, the perpetrator is a cop.”

“How do we know that?” I asked him.                                                             

“Well, we found him, attempting to kill another. It was… gory to say the least. He still says that he was trying to save her. But we walked in on him sawing her leg in half after she had already died. The modus operandi is exactly the same.”

“So, this means that the public opinion on the police is going to get worse than it already is, right?”

“Yes, it’s going to get horrendously skewed.”

“How did yall manage to find out that he was behind everything?”

“We didn’t, to be very honest,” he whispered. “We were going to surprise him, for his birthday and… when we walked in.”

“His birthday?” I muttered, mostly to myself. “Was it officer Go?”

“Yes.”

“But he… he’s… incapable of such a thing?”

“We all thought so. God, A-Ri, this scene, it was out of some Hannibal Lecter movie or something. I couldn’t stop staring. All of us. He looked up at us and smiled and I swear his eyes were just empty. There was nothing in them. No regrets, no emotions… It was chilling.”

“I bet it was,” I murmured. It sounded terrifying. God Forbid, I ever have to be faced with anything like this.

When the police commissioner came onto the stage, everyone just froze up. He spoke about the importance of cops and how we must not lose our way and