"What the hell?" Brick asked, looking around, alarmed by his surroundings. A moment ago, he was sitting in his former house (now belonging to some other family who had moved in since he had gone to prison), enjoying a beer, when suddenly the TV remote in his hand zapped him. He then found himself here, surrounded by cops!
"Are you okay, Chief?" asked one of the police detectives standing in the room with him. He was a young guy, neat and trim. Not at all like the guys he knew in his life before and during his time in prison. The other detective was a woman. Who wasn't bad looking, actually. But how the hell did he get here? Did the cops find him and drug him or something? That didn't sound like something they'd do. He'd be in a cell, not in this office ... wait, did that guy call him "Chief"? What did he mean by that?
"You look a little pale. You need something to drink?" the female detective asked. Why was she being so nice to him?
The two detectives exchanged puzzled looks, when Brick didn't answer, then the male detective cleared his throat, saying "Anyway, there have been rumors that Kat's crew is at it again, pulling off some kind of highly lucrative job, with her regulars - Jack, Devon, and of course, Deni."
"Kat and Deni? What a pair, huh?" the female detective said, knowing how notorious those two women could be. They'd have to be on full alert to deal with the likes of them.
"Also," the male detective said, apparently giving Brick an update, though he still wasn't sure why. "We picked up two hookers, but they made bail, again. Their pimp is here, picking them up."
"Yeah, I saw him earlier," the female detective said. "Why does he wear that getup? Doesn't he think it's weird? I mean, he's nothing but a white boy. It's like he trying to be something he's not," she said, not even realizing how true that statement was, for a lot of people lately, actually. They were, of course, referring to Jon, who had replaced Deshan "Dice" Jackson. In this new reality, he was known as Jon "Joker's Wild" Gibson, and had a reputation for being a real psycho when things didn't go his way. People generally didn't make comments about his attire, as he had once beat a man brutally just for his offhanded joke. He wasn't someone to trifle with, if you valued your life. So it was a good thing that Jon didn't know anything about his new life as a pimp, because if he had, then that officer who commented on his attire earlier would be regretting her words right now ... and Jon would probably be in a cell with his two employees.
"You better not let him hear you say that," the male detective said. "He's got a temper, you know."
"So what? We're cops. That sort of thing shouldn't matter. I'm not going to be intimidated by that lowlife," she said, crossing her arms.
"Uh, so, anyway. The last thing ... the manhunt continues for the escaped convict ..."
That got Brick's attention, but he became confused when the young detective continued.
"... David White. That's the guy that murdered his family, right?" he asked the other detective.
"Yeah, brutally. I wasn't on that case, but it was high profile. It's bad luck that that woman was married to such a monster, even having a daughter with the guy."
Wait, that was him that they were talking about, but who was this David White guy? What were the chances that some other guy went to prison for the same exact thing?
A moment later, the two detectives left the room, leaving him alone at the desk. It was only then that he grabbed the name plate on the desk, curious to see what it said, though at the back of his mind, he already knew, as impossible as it seemed. But it would explain why those two detectives were treating him like a colleague instead of a hardened criminal.
Turning the name plate around, he saw - CHIEF BRICK HARRISON. His eyes went wide. He was the chief of police! He didn't know how this was happening, or why, but he suddenly realized that he could use this to his advantage. If the cops around here thought he was their boss, then he could use police resources to find out who really killed his family.
