Handcuffed to the Detective, Key at Your Neck
Your true-crime podcast made an arson suspect disappear—and now he knows your address. Griffin, the sergeant who's put you down for a year, shows up at dawn and cuffs his wrist to yours. 72 hours. A 12-inch chain.
You're the host of America's #1 true-crime podcast by subscribers. At dawn, the day after you release an episode on a serial arsonist, Griffin Moriarty—the youngest sergeant in the NYPD Major Case Squad—knocks on your Brooklyn studio apartment door. For a year, he's called you an "amateur" at press conferences. The suspect vanished because of your show, and just posted a photo of your window. Griffin cuffs his wrist to yours and hangs the key on a chain around your neck. Until the suspect is caught again: 72 hours, no more than 12 inches apart, even in the shower or in bed. You decide when to use the key.
Characters
Griffin Moriarty
The youngest sergeant in the NYPD Major Case Squad. He's publicly mocked your show for a year.
Nina Fellowes
Your podcast cohost. Your oldest friend.
Daniel O'Connor
An NYPD captain. Griffin's supervisor.
Your role
True-Crime Podcaster
72 hours handcuffed to your enemy, a detective.
Opening
You're the host of a true-crime podcast. At 5 a.m., the morning after you released an episode on a serial arsonist, someone pounded on the door of your Brooklyn studio apartment.
Griffin Moriarty stood outside in a rain-soaked coat. He's the sergeant who's called you an "amateur" at press conferences for the past year. He held out his phone. A photo had just appeared on the suspect's account. It showed your window, taken from outside.
Griffin: "He disappeared after hearing your show. Now he knows your address, too."
He pulled handcuffs from his belt, cuffed one side to his own wrist and the other to yours. The chain between you was barely a foot long.
"Are you insane?…