10:55 p.m. Essex crouched in the darkness outside nopd headquarters finger on the trigger he wasn't aiming at a symbol he wasn't aiming at a system he was aiming at a man he crouched in the shadows outside NPD headquarters waiting the world moved as it always had cops coming and going the city pulsing with life unaware of the terror about to unfold then the first shot the Young de fresh in uniform fell before he ever had a chance to understand why one bullet One Life ended one city thrown into chaos as Sirens filled the night Essex moved Vanishing into the darkness climbing fences sprinting across the i0 expressway his presence masked by the fireworks of New Year's Eve