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FADE IN:
INT./EXT. HIGHWAY 20, WESTBOUND, OREGON CASCADES, DUSK
Rain. The kind that has been going for hours and will keep going. Wipers at full speed and still not enough. The highway cuts through stands of Douglas fir that disappear into low cloud.
CALLUM RIDGE (34) drives alone. Unremarkable in the way that people are unremarkable when they have decided not to claim space. Dry face, careful eyes, a posture that suggests he spends most of his time at a desk and is fine with that. His hands are precise on the wheel, the kind of hands trained to hold fragile things.
A talk radio program plays at low volume. He is not listening.
On the passenger seat: a manila envelope, a phone in a charging cradle, and a travel mug that stopped being warm an hour ago.
He reaches over without looking and picks up the envelope. Reads the name in the upper corner. MAREN RIDGE, ESTATE OF. He sets it back down.
He says the name aloud, quietly, to confirm he has it.
CALLUM
Maren Ridge.
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