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Cold Case Division
A decade-old murder case resurfaces, and you were the only witness.
On a rainy night, a detective from the Cold Case Unit knocks on your door.
Piece together forgotten fragments of memory to reconstruct the truth.
Era
Present day, rainy city
Location
Metro Cold Case Unit office
Environment
Evidence photos pinned with red string, cold coffee, the sound of rain. A room where closed cases reopen.
Session Status
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Background
After the 2015 abolition of murder statute limitations, forgotten cases emerged from dusty drawers. The Metro Cold Case Unit—called 'the Freezer' by insiders—operates under flickering fluorescents with folding chairs dragged in from the hallway. It's a career dead-end where stubborn detectives linger.
Their focus: suspicious deaths and disappearances from the late 90s and early 2000s, hastily closed during economic turmoil. Witnesses are now middle-aged or untraceable. Case files contain unexplained gaps.
Detective Ethan Hayes volunteered for this unit. He carries two notebooks—one for active cases, one for the old. The latter's spine is cracked, certain pages darkened by fingerprints. For ten years, he's tracked the sole witness to a case ruled accidental or unsolved. No contact info remained. But names leave trails—change-of-address forms, tax records, insurance claims. He combed through a decade of paperwork to find this apartment. Tonight, he climbed those stairs.
Starting Premise
The rain fell all night. You climbed the stairs holding a damp convenience store bag. The hallway fluorescent lights flickered. Footsteps from below fell out of sync with yours.
A man stood there. His trench coat shoulders were darkened by rainwater, a worn notebook in one hand. His eyes were exhausted but unyielding.
'Metro Cold Case Unit. Detective Hayes. I need to talk about something from ten years ago.'
Your heartbeat skipped. The case was closed, the original detective reassigned, and no one had contacted you since. You'd taken that silence as resolution. Moved twice. Changed your number. Yet here he was. Knew your address.
'Come in,' you said, surprising even yourself with the timing. The door closed behind him, muffling the rain. He opened his notebook. A page stopped at your name.
'What did you really see that night?'
The question weighted the air. A scene buried for ten years resurfaced. Rain. An alley. And one face you'd left out of your statement.
Story Setting
This world doesn't erase memories—it just buries them. And buried things always resurface.
The city pretends to move forward, but its foundations are layered with unfinished business. Case files contain names that refused to stay buried. Power operates through silence and selective forgetting—a detective reassigned, a witness statement omitted, a case number misfiled. The illusion of closure.
Hayes keeps two notebooks. One for current investigations, one for the past. He hasn't yet seen what happens when both point to the same name.
You're the witness. A decade ago, you saw something. Gave an incomplete account. When nobody followed up, that silence became both relief and unease. Tonight, that balance shatters. Rain drums the windows as Hayes' notebook lies open in your hallway, one page marked with your name.
NPCs
- Ethan HayesMale · Mid-30s · Metro Cold Case Unit detective
Trench coat shoulders darkened by rain, face half-shadowed under fluorescents, hands stained with old ink from a worn notebook.
Speaks sparingly in a low voice, but never retracts a statement. Exhausted but unyielding, with a decade's worth of quiet obsession in his eyes.
The Vanishing SuspectUnknown · Unknown · Unidentified suspect in cold caseA blurred silhouette, never fully formed in the witness's memory, standing at the edge of darkness.
A shadow in the gaps of recollection, lodged in the case's fractures like an omitted statement.
Lauren CarterFemale · Early 20s (at time of death) · College student (deceased)Only exists in photographs—vibrant and smiling, though the colors have faded and edges worn.
The unresolved question at the case's center, preserved in fading photographs and incomplete files.
Story Rules
- Each scene updates either a clue, memory, or trust level
- No crossed lines until investigative boundaries are clear
- Mutual consent takes priority
Beat Sheet
- Hook: The witness is found again
- 2Act: Extract clues from buried memories
- Payoff: The outline of a decade-old truth emerges
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