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Two Hours and Eleven Minutes
Alderfen City Police keeps one cold room on Marrow Lane and two people on the night rota.
- ~287 min (estimated)
- 63345 words
- 80 scenes
- 15 branch points
- 4 endings
46 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Cressida Vail, 44, is the evidential photographer. She has worked that rota for nineteen years and she is the person who goes into bay three at two in the morning with a camera on a tripod and a scale bar and does the work correctly, whatever the work is. Julian Vail, 46, is a vehicle collision investigator eleven metres down the same corridor of the same Evidence Department at Harker Lane. They have been married twenty-two years. They have never had a conversation that needed more than one question, because one was always enough. On Monday 12 October 2026, at 02:11, their daughter is on the slab in bay three. Imogen Vail, 21, a second-year nursing student, was struck from behind by a car on the northbound off-ramp of the Alderfen Orbital at Thorley Road at 23:11 on Thursday 1 October, eleven days ago, and left there. Cress and Julian both know it by 02:13. They have known since the shee
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- Death of a 21-year-old woman and the mortuary examination of her body
- Graphic but non-gratuitous injury description from a Home Office post-mortem
- A body recovered from a drainage culvert after eleven days
- A fatal collision on a slip road and a death that a coroner does not take
- A family home after a death: a chair, a jumper, a receipt for four pounds fifty
- A career ended by an honest disclosure
- Institutional pressure, a conduct referral, and a professional standards process
- A judicial review that finds nothing
- An explicit sexual scene between two adults that stops part-way through on an agreed word
- A hard moral refusal, spoken out loud, twice, in rooms with witnesses
Cast
- C Cressida Vail Band 7 evidential photographer, night rota, Evidence Department, Alderfen City Police. Viewpoint character. Quality assessor for the unit. Mother of the deceased no portrait yet
- J Julian Vail Vehicle collision investigator, same Evidence Department, same building, desk nine metres from hers. Author of vehicle examination report 21/0441. Father of the deceased no portrait yet
- I Imogen Vail Second-year nursing student at the Aldermere College School of Nursing. Cyclist. The deceased. Appears in a passport photograph, in four messages, in a Form D/12, and in Exhibit 41a on one route no portrait yet
- D DCI Yusuf Kande Detective Chief Inspector, Serious Collision Unit. Stands both parents down in a car park at 02:58. Holds the recusal form, the three-place decision, and a fact about a June 2022 file read that neithe no portrait yet
- D DS Ama Boateng Family liaison officer. Made the notification. Two hundred and six of them. Wants the family timeline in writing, and is right to no portrait yet
- D Dr Halina Weiss Home Office pathologist. Gives the window of death at 16:40 on the Monday: 22:50 to 01:01. Flat, unhurried, and unwilling to be hurried by anybody with a title no portrait yet
- C Callum Rylance Plasterer and night security guard at Aldermere Distribution Park. The driver. Charged with dangerous driving, nine years. Not a monster and not written as one no portrait yet
- S Sgt Ceri Vaughan Interviewed Rylance on 19 March 2021. Did not write down what he said about November. In 2026 she says, in one sentence, that that is the honest answer and the wrong one no portrait yet
- I Iona Pryce Crown Prosecution Service, Alderfen Area. Declined 21/0441/R in eleven days in 2021. Gives the three routes in 2026 and does not choose one. Runs the conference on the Tuesday no portrait yet
- P PC Aurelia Bengtsson On the night rota. Four weeks in the job, three deceased people, and the fourth on one route. Holds the scale bar at the end of a corridor and asks three times whether she is holding it right no portrait yet
- E Eileen Doherty Of 6 Cardigan Walk, Kirkby. Mother of Seamus Doherty, killed on 14 March 2021. Wrote four letters. Received £41,000 on 11 August 2021. Wants one thing no portrait yet