A protected witness disappears.
The system doesn't panic.
It explains.
When Elena Cruz fails to check in, WITSEC labels her non-compliant and moves on. No alarms. No search. No urgency. Just procedure doing what it's designed to do.
Detective Mark Ross knows better.
As he digs into the case, Ross uncovers something more dangerous than a missing witness - a pattern. Files quietly altered. Risk levels downgraded. Witnesses moved without explanation. And when a body turns up to close the case for good, the truth becomes undeniable.
Someone isn't hunting witnesses.
The system is handing them over.
With time running out and no one he can fully trust, Ross goes off-protocol to protect the next name on the list - knowing that every move he makes puts him at odds with the very institution meant to keep witnesses alive.
Because in Miami, protection doesn't mean safety.
It means invisibility.
And the safest witness...
is the one no one remembers.