6 o'clock in the afternoon.
As the workday ended, the off-duty police officers, now in plain clothes, filed out of their offices, getting ready to head home.
Breathing in the fresh air still soaked with sunlight, many felt as if they were emerging from another world.
The cold murder case had been reopened.
According to tradition from past years, whenever such cases came up, everyone in the department needed to run even just to use the bathroom.
A task force that couldn't sleep in the office for two weeks, the various functional units that didn't work overtime till dawn, they wouldn't even know how to write their reports later.
In a normal situation, when a murder occurred, it would upset the entire unit for a week and the task force for a month—that was standard.