This might be an unpopular opinion but I was not a huge fan of the intro of Rise From the Ashes, so I decided to make something similar to what we got at the end of the game. I don't think I'm spoiling anything because I imagine a good chunk of you already played the original case anyway and know what's coming.
Standard Disclaimers Apply
The final countdown to his death started when he turned down his old partner for asking his help again. Originally he thought that there was nothing he could do with what happened two years ago. He was originally prepared to let it go and to carry his failure to his grave, he didn't know it would be happening sooner. But he had that itch come to him and was prepared to do something about it when he noticed his ID card was missing. He went through the proper channels by filing a lost item report with his killer. The final minutes of his life began ticking when both he and his killer went to his room of impending doom.
"What are you talking about-?" The killer asked
"We can't transfer the evidence out," the man replied. "There's too many questions left unanswered."
It left his killer completely startled that he would make such a request, but at his employee's insistence he took said evidence out of the locker it belonged to and that's when it happened.
The detective did not notice the knife coming for a second when it struck him in the chest, he looked up to see the eyes of his killer and saw the truth. The past two years had been full of unanswered questions and looking at his killer he knew some of the answers now and he also knew that he would not live to tell the whole world.