Dust motes danced in the weak light as Schotty methodically cleaned. The apartment was a grim tableau, and he was working to restore a semblance of order when a woman entered. Her eyes, wide with alarm, immediately took in the scene: the un…

Schotty finds Bernhard Benning, the novelist, remarkably unmoved by the loss of his aunt. Benning, battling a severe case of writer's block, demands an unsettling silence from Schotty as they attend to the aftermath.

Schotty’s task was to sanitize a crime scene: a burglar, clumsy in his attempt to rob an elderly woman, had fallen and died within her home. As he worked, meticulously removing evidence, Schotty began to suspect the case wasn't as straightf…

As the crime scene was being processed, the spectral form of the slain psychiatrist materialized before Schotty, and began to scrutinize him.