The new year came without incidence. 2013 felt like the kind of year that would sit very still in the corner, then lash out very suddenly and change everything.

Sebastian seemed to dig himself into a deeper and deeper hole of addiction and obsession and despair. Joseph tried in vain to pull him out. Kidman forced herself further from them because she knew she couldn't get caught up in their disaster. Eventually, she noticed Joseph starting to do the same.

She didn't know exactly when Joseph reported Sebastian to Internal Affairs, but she couldn't fail to notice when the aftermath hit in the middle of March. Sebastian disappeared from the station for a week. When he returned, any bond she or Joseph had formed with him was severed. He was unfathomably distant, but Joseph remained steadfast in his decision and only seemed frustrated that no change had really come of it. Kidman had drifted from both of them and only observed everything as an outsider. Professionally, the three were still a team, but personally, they were unified only the way a tangled mess of cords or strings was forced to stick together.

It was then, when they couldn't have been further apart, that they got the call.

"Wait, we're not going back to the station?" Joseph asked from the back of the police car.

"No can do," the officer behind the wheel, Connelly, said. "Just got an urgent scene call."

"Where are we headed?" Sebastian asked.

"Beacon Mental Hospital."