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Case №135Wednesday, August 12, 2026Complex

Pressure Points

St. Clair Medical Center, Caldmere

The Briefing

A visitor to St. Clair Medical Center received something unexpected along with a get-well card: a handwritten note threatening to expose a secret that wasn't even his to keep. Detective Delgado wants to know who left it — and why.

Persons of Interest

Everyone has something to hide.

Dr. Sanjay Mehta, Chief of Emergency Medicine, St. Clair Medical Center in Caldmere
Dr. Sanjay Mehta
Chief of Emergency Medicine, St. Clair Medical Center

The hospital's most trusted doctor and its most exhausted. Has been pulling double shifts for years, holding the ER together through budget cuts and staffing crises.

Owen Beck, Hospital Security Guard, St. Clair Medical Center in Caldmere
Owen Beck
Hospital Security Guard, St. Clair Medical Center

Former Marine and the only security guard at St. Clair who actually patrols instead of watching the monitors. Keeps a small notebook of observations that his supervisor told him to stop keeping.

Dorothy "Dot" Huang, Editor-in-Chief, The Caldmere Gazette in Caldmere
Dorothy "Dot" Huang
Editor-in-Chief, The Caldmere Gazette

The conscience of Caldmere. Has run the Gazette for twenty-two years. Fierce, principled, and terrified that the paper will die before she does.

The Accusation

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