Pamela Balluck, "Cop Show"

The vics, Jane and John Doe, cash business with low security, motion sensors, points of entry, signs of struggle, times of death, T.O.D. around midnight, slaughter house, blood spatter, yellow tape, rural nightmare, two murders, Murder 1, Murder 2, Second-degree Murder, second-unit photography, second assistant director, consulting producer, head writer, mobile forensics capabilities, crime-scene unit, crime-scene investigators, C.S.I., single stab wound to the chest, three stab wounds, blood trail, blood drops, gravitational drops, directional drops leading away from the body, latent shoe prints, sexual assault, hard crime, juicy porterhouse steak medium rare, pork chop, lamb chop, salt shaker, dismembered arm, firearm, extensive notes at the scene and photos of each item, medical examiner, M.E., body temp., paramedics, casualties, survivor, showrunner, on call, by the book, beet-red, beat bloody, stay behind the crime tape, zoom in, victim’s in the wine cellar, swab particulate, process the house, based on his novel, adapted  by himself for television.

Not a slow day at the morgue, Caucasian males, Caucasian females, C.O.D., causes of death, fatal gunshot to the heart, blunt-force trauma, single bullet wound to the head, smooth entrance wound, no exit, trace off her earring, extensive bruising, white flaky substance, rape kit, degraded and intact sperm, multiple deposits, cadaver, necropsy, autopsy, pocket content, alcohol content, stomach content, food groups, whole grains, strangulation, asphyxiation, dead on arrival, D.O.A., rigor, it impacted here, sent the swab to D.N.A., check his dental work, tested negative on the sexual-assault-evidence kit, bled to death, slug is still inside her.

Ritualistic killers, deviant behaviors, negative influences, series of murders, random victims, these killers, criminal records, parole violations, rifle scopes, automatic weapons, unknown subjects, unsubs, attackers, assailants, suspects, felonies, ideology, white-on-white, on the run, switched plates, on the loose, breaking and entering, white-bread, lactose-intolerant, blamed his mother, Do exactly as I say or you die.

Crime board, murder board, bulletin board, story board, crime lab, case file, transfer on his pants, plastic frag., grip from a handgun, epithelials from the broken grip, results of the workup, the last person to see her alive, ongoing criminal investigation, photo array, photo series, photo I.D.,  possible I.D., positive I.D., mistaken identity, bullet trajectory, sex-assault kit, laser ablation on the duct-tape samples, glassy particles, nationwide search, hit off a partial plate, fatal mistake, anonymous caller, disgruntled worker, surveillance unit, G.P.S. unit, canine unit, analysis unit, forensic scientists, crime-scene cleanup, missing evidence, security cameras, rifles, shotguns, revolver, casings, cleaver, still in shock, without a trace, the first two shots were non-lethal, third-shot-kill-shot, waiting for ballistics, casing got an IBIS hit, striata, bullet was grooved independent of striation, tested positive for gunshot residue, put him at the murder scene, can’t squeeze money from a dead man, lifted two identifiable prints, run a name, she might have known her assailant, try to give this crime a face, scan the tape, get this under the scope, widen our scope, narrow our focus, narrow the evidence, get a printout to brass, June Cleaver has a dark side, searching for clues as to her whereabouts, they call you brass because you’ve got a set, contact your local F.B.I., alert the entire country, release to all the major networks—What’s the last thing you remember?