Chapter 5 - Uncovering The Secret Surveillance Footage Outside The ICU

Detective Miller led Caleb down to the basement security office, where a tired technician was smoking near the flickering monitor banks.
“Pull up the hallway camera feeds for ICU ward four between midnight and two in the morning,” Miller ordered firmly.
The technician typed rapidly on his mechanical keyboard, bringing up a split-screen display of the hospital’s sterile corridors.
Caleb leaned over the console, his eyes scanning every second of grainy black-and-white footage for a familiar face.
At 1:15 AM, a tall figure in a heavy trench coat and surgical mask stepped out of Sarah’s private isolation room.
“Stop right there. Enhance that badge on their lapel,” Caleb demanded, his heart hammering against his ribs.
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The technician zoomed in on the grainy collar, revealing a distinctive gold lapel pin shaped like a coiled serpent.
“That’s... that’s my mother’s private foundation pin,” Caleb whispered, the blood draining completely from his face.
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