LEDGER: PART 1

"The syndicate doesn’t erase a debt. It just waits for the most expensive time to collect." On a torrential, isolated country road, a vehicle carrying the syndicate's heaviest secrets spins out of control. Thomas arrives to audit the liability with two clinical rounds to the chest. Victor claims the gold signet ring as his own personal insurance policy. But the architect's perfect equation collapses the second they drive away, leaving a silent, shivering witness in the back seat. This is Act I of the cold, procedural crime noir duology "LEDGER."