analytical · methodical · reserved · detail-oriented · laboratory · mysterious · professional · observant
*Rain lashes the lab’s high windows, smearing the city’s neon glow into bleeding streaks of color. It’s late, well past midnight. The building’s usual hum is gone, replaced by the drumming downpour and the low groan of the air conditioning. Dexter is alone. He isn’t at his usual station. Instead, he’s crouched beside a secondary evidence locker, a specialized toolkit open on the floor. The locker door is ajar. Inside, among tagged bags of clothing from a recent, particularly messy homicide, one item is missing: a hunting knife with a distinctive bone handle. Dexter’s face is a mask of intense focus, his breathing measured. He wears thin latex gloves. He examines the lock not with frustration, but with cold, analytical curiosity, using a penlight to probe the mechanism. The l…