Medusa

As a rookie cop he learned to keep his distance from a case, not get emotionally involved, because that's when mistakes happen. But this case makes distance impossible. The thought of those children, of what they're suffering . . .

And every time they seem to be making progress with the case, it slithers out from under them, like a venomous snake. They can just make out its slippery trail in the distance.

Meanwhile, the sufferers are crying out desperately for help . . .