For years, a psychiatrist practices in plain sight, beyond suspicion. His patients are neither helpless victims nor obvious criminals. They arrive with their decisions already made, seeking something more exact than help: coherence. Violence does not erupt. It is constructed. Rationalized. Optimized. When a string of deaths begins to expose a pattern that can no longer be dismissed, the investigation does not converge on a single culprit, but on a system-one that has learned how to distribute responsibility so that no one ever truly carries it. This is not the story of a monster's fall or an investigator's redemption. It is the dismantling of a mechanism: how language, efficiency, and silence allow the intolerable to function smoothly, without resistance. There is no final confession. No clean ending. Only an unsettling truth: some things do not happen because no one stops them-but because too many understand exactly how to justify them.
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