From Twitter 08-19-2009

• 21:23:09: CHAPTER FOUR. O'Malley looked at the report again, as he had every day for the last five years. It still confused him long after the fact.
  
• 21:26:23: Didn't make sense. He heard voices inside the morgue. One of them sounded like his ex-partner Frank Fargas. Then he heard nothing at all.
  
• 21:29:53: When he couldn't get the door open, he'd gone around back. There was a window, recently broken, and he found his way inside through that.
  
• 21:32:28: O'Malley was out of shape. Just a few years from retirement then, and the morgue case got him bumped down to a desk job. A few months now.
  
• 21:36:17: He squeezed through the window and looked around. No sound, no body. No bodies. No one was inside, but he knew he'd heard people talking.
  
• 21:39:29: He'd called the station to get someone else to come out. It was five a.m. Five a.m.? How long had he been at that door? That was insane.
  
• 21:47:48: Two bodies that had just arrived, Frank Fargas and Maggie Underhill, were gone. Also gone was Coroner Ted. All had vanished into thin air.
  
• 21:52:14: There seemed to be smoke, but just a little. Nothing major, and no unusual odors for a Coroner's office. There was just the one item left.
  
• 21:54:22: O'Malley saw it on the floor beside the slab. It had either been removed or fallen out of dead Maggie's body. It was technically evidence.
  
• 21:56:22: But evidence of what? Nothing here. It would end up lost in some evidence room, and maybe he could use it to make some sense of all this.
  
• 21:58:58: He put it in his pocket just before his boss had arrived. No one would know, and no one would believe it anyway. It was that kind of case.
  
• 22:01:51: McGuffin told to him that it was probably a matter of weirdo Coroner Ted stealing the bodies and running off. McGuffin said they'd get him.
  
• 22:09:46: But they hadn't caught him. Ted's guilt was sealed when they discovered his mother in front of the TV. But no Ted...not even now, in 1963.
  
• 22:14:37: McGuffin had a way of moving things along, but O'Malley never gave him the knife. It seemed to be a missing piece to an unsolvable mystery.
  
• 22:17:36: O'Malley reasoned: no body, no case. Coroner Ted didn't kill the stripper, and he himself had killed Fargas. And there was zero evidence.
  
• 22:24:19: He'd kept the knife all these years in a box. It had a weird design and he'd never seen one like it. It felt odd, almost magical, to hold.
  
• 22:30:09: He thought again about Fargas. What had happened? Did he kill that stripper? And didn't his twin brother also disappear around that time?
  
• 22:35:09: He went to the locked drawer where he kept the box. He took the knife out. It felt warm. It was *always* warm, but now it began to glow.
  

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