Wade:
If we can get Jude to a few locations to see if they have residue of a door, we can confirm a connection and put ourselves officially back on the case.
Ezra:
Or a target for the military.
“Would the military really drag you away?” Ivan asked, sounding worried.
“I won’t let that happen,” Angel promised my brother.
Tiana:
Cassidy was a regular detective. He shouldn’t have been involved with anything supernatural. How did this all start to begin with? Bowman was a patrol cop; how is that related? I’m going to dig through their socials.
Cassidy hadn’t been the best detective in our PD. I’d outperformed him a dozen times over, and he’d tried more than once to get Joe to switch teams after he lost yet another partner. But Joe and I had worked well together, and our boss had been unwilling to put me—the detective with the highest solve rate in the Twin Cities—with a detective who had a stack of complaints against him for coercion and abuse of power.
Cassidy was a terrible detective. But he was obsessed with power. If he found cold cases with unexplained elements—missing bodies, weird energy signatures—he might have seen them as a roadmap.
“Or maybe he met something that could offer him power in exchange for luring people to their deaths,” Angel offered, and added it to the chat.
Victor:
A valid theory. The Shadow God, and a lot of other darker species, will trade favors for power. Humanity offers an endless supply of sentient energy snacks for a supernatural god to suck on.
Gross.
Kerry:
Humans will always outnumber supes.
Bobby:
And humans always crave more power.
The truth of it settled in the room like a shroud. Cassidy had made a deal. He’d opened a door and invited the nightmare in. One we all had to battle.
Angel:
Tiana, Bobby, and Wade, you’re on the cold cases. Look for anything that screams “ritual” or “unexplained disappearance cluster” and map it. Victor, see if your network has heard whispers about Erlik or the changeling. We need to know what their endgame is. Total world domination, or are they seeking something we don’t see yet?
Remi:
And we get Jude into Bowman’s. If Cassidy is using these old murders as a template, the Bowman scene is the freshest, most intact example we have. Jude might see something Forensics missed. Something only a Weaver can see.
Ezra:
This is a big risk for a “might.” Holt is unpredictable at best.
Angel:
And the only option to get ahead of this. We’re running blind. We need to be proactive rather than reactive.
Remi:
I can get a handful of us in unseen, but it will have to be fast.
Angel:
