And Every Man Has to Die

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“Adam-122, on scene,” chirped Officer Katie MacLeod’s radio.

Adam-122 was the call sign for Officers Battaglia and O’Sullivan. Despite their joking demeanor, Katie was glad they were responding with her. The call came in as a violent domestic dispute in apartment seven of the Delilah Commons. The neighbor who called it in had reported crashing noises and screaming from inside. If there was a scrap going on, it’d be nice to have Sully and Batts at her side.

Katie guided the patrol cruiser along the curb, gliding to a stop. She took a quick look at the four-by-four-inch computer display in the console area. The devices were fairly new to the River City Police Department, though she knew they’d been in cars down in LA for almost a decade. The amber screen was so small that she had to page down twice to read the entire description of the call, including which apartment the witness lived in. Then she reached for her own microphone.

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