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GH 2019 presents The Drakes

"The Eyes have It"

Previously

Police Headquarters; Berkeley California

Robin sat with Captain Amanda Croft inside her office at Police Headquarters.

Gwen Shore, Robin's former babysitter, sat outside the office...keeping an eye on 11 year old Juniper.

At that moment, Gwen ran into Captain Amanda Croft's office...holding a detailed pencil sketch drawn by Juniper showing a man killing another man, with a 7-11 drawn in the window behind the two men.

"That is the 7-11 by the old Catholic Church on 3rd avenue; not far from here!" Gwen said excitedly.

Amanda's desk phone rang, and she answered it. She looked at Robin; something was wrong.

"Robin...there's been a murder at your father-in-law's (Noah Drake) house!"

Robin stood up suddenly...and then she darted out the door!

As Amanda watched Robin hurry away down the hallway, the phone from the watch commander's line rang again; a shooting had just been reported a couple blocks away...near the old Catholic Church on 3rd!

Our story continues…7pm

Captain Amanda Croft brought her unmarked black sedan to a stop just outside an apartment complex located across the street from the old Catholic Church; there were already five police cars, their red and blue emergency lights flashing, on site.

She also noticed the 7-11 across the street, which had been built on a ridge of land upon a hill; the surrounding area matching exactly what Juniper had drawn back at Police HQ.

The senior officer on the scene, Lt. Mark Shey, an African-American 20-year career officer, walked toward her as she approached the apartment complex.

Several of the tenants of the complex were seen gathered on a grass field in the center of the parking lot. Other police officers were questioning them.

"What do we have LT?" Capt. Croft, who wore a black pant suit, asked Lt. Shey.

Both she and Shey had worked many crime scenes together, and she trusted him thoroughly and respected his professional demeanor.

Lt. Shey looked at the notepad full of notes he removed from his front dark-blue shirt pocket. He turned and then he pointed at a room on the second story of the two story U-shaped complex.

"Three shots were fired inside unit 202; several people," Lt. Shey said, reading his notes as he pointed at the gathering of tenants on the grass field, "have confirmed hearing the gunshots. When the first patrol responded, they secured the area. By that time, a fire-alarm had been sounded by the main office, and all the rooms were vacated."

Captain Croft nodded her head; standard procedure.

"What did the patrol officers find inside the room?" Croft asked as they began to climb the stairs that led to the second floor.

"I think," Lt. Shey replied with a soft voice, "you need see this to believe it yourself."

Amanda arched an eyebrow; a cryptic answer if ever there was one.

Moments later, Amanda followed Lt. Shey into unit 202. It was a standard one room apartment, that had a kitchen and living room area and one bathroom.

Upon following Lt. Shey into the lone bedroom, Amanda was shocked at what she saw. It wasn't the fact that there was a dead man, wearing a hoodie, slumped over in a chair in the middle of the room. Nor was she shocked to see the 7-11 across on the hill in the window behind him.

What shocked her was how the entire setting had been drawn by a young girl (Juniper) several blocks away...and apparently around the same time it had been happening.

"Captain; take a look at the victim's face," Lt. Shey said; unaware of why Amanda already had a curious look on her face.

Captain Amanda Croft walked over and stood in front of the dead man; and then she squatted down so as to get a better look at the dead man's face; framed by the hoodie still on his head.

There was a bullet whole protruding from the mans forehead. But more interesting was that the man's eyes had been removed; blood still trickling down from the now empty eye sockets.

"What the hell what happened here?" Amanda asked with a rhetorical tone to her voice.

Continued…

This chapter featured;

Lance Reddick as Lt. Mark Shey and

Holly Hunter as Captain Amanda Croft