CSI: The Living Dossier
Ren Caldwell was an office administrator who died in a truck accident, only to wake up as a junior criminalist in the Las Vegas Crime Lab. He carries The Unsolved Archive, a system that compensates for his lack of scientific expertise by providing a 72-hour Scene of the Crime overlay—allowing him to see events that transpired at a location three days prior. As Ren navigates high-profile cases like the Millander murders, he must balance the system's Archive Load against the physical toll of Residue Stacking. With Gil Grissom watching his every move, Ren uses the Regression Ledger to identify patterns that should be invisible, all while fighting the mental compulsion of Cold Case Flares that demand he solve the city's forgotten sins.