That night, Jason rewrote the entire third act. He gave Lorraine Hightower the last line.

She didn't sit down.

And she was about to lose it.

But tonight was different. Tonight she was not a mother, a grandmother, or a cautionary tale. She was Detective Lorraine Hightower, a woman who had seen too much, drunk too much, and was one bad confession away from putting her own gun in her mouth. It was the best role she’d been offered in a decade.