Case file · 056 · aired 2026-10-03
Come Suppertime
What the station's canon holds on this case.
Nothing here spoils a case you haven't heard — banked cases aren't on these pages at all. Horizon · Case 064
Sent to verify a day-laborer's background before an honest hire, the detective arrived at a boarding-house supper table and read three years of payments to a fixer meant to bury an old manslaughter charge — and a week of quiet meals that had already decided the couple would smother the lodger whose memory could reopen it. He got the old man out the back door with minutes to spare, and the noise of the exit did what no report could undo, unsealing the past the moment the alley door swung shut. Roy's sentence stopped mid-thought as the detective left a family exactly as guilty and exactly as ruined as the city required, the file reopened and the win belonging to no one in particular.
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The Blue Room (entered Case 027): an underworld debt-holder trading in futures, not cash; took the Case 027 girl's future for her family's home. Case 032 the detective walked in, found her name in the ledger's margin, tried to buy her back — refused by her,…
Alive, off the force since Case 013, his last move left in Flynn of the Chronicle's keeping. Returned in Case 043 to call in an old dock-beat loyalty the badge can no longer back; walked away believing a debt was settled clean, not knowing what the detective…