EPISODE 12: THE LEGACY ## CHAPTER 1: THE ARREST The police arrived at Marcus Vane's house seventeen minutes after David's call. They found a man seated calmly in his basement, surrounded by eighteen preserved pairs of hands, making no attempt to flee or resist. Marcus answered their questions with the methodical precision of someone who had finally decided to stop hiding. Yes, he had been involved in the deaths of eighteen people. Yes, the hands displayed in the basement belonged to those individuals. Yes, he was willing to provide a full account of his activities. No, he did not believe he had committed murder. The arresting officers didn't know what to make of him. He seemed neither remorseful nor defiant, neither confused nor calculated. He simply was—a man at the end of a long road, ready to face whatever waited at its conclusion. Claire watched them lead her brother away, her face a mask of conflicting emotions. Relief that it was finally over. Grief for the boy he had been. Horror at what that boy had become. And underneath it all, the persistent whisper of guilt for her years of complicity. "You did the right thing," David said, standing beside her. "Did I? I betrayed my family." "You stopped a pattern of harm that would have continued for who...