Chapter 13
ROGERS
To help someone kill, can it get any lower than this?
Probably. Yet here he is. After conversing with Cunningham and agreeing on the night’s details.
He is now in K-Wing’s monitoring room, destroying files and shutting down cameras to clear a path to medical and through to the exterior doors.
The ones that will open the path to solitary confinement.
The fact that he is doing this shows how far he has fallen. But at the same time he feels bad for not feeling bad about it. Because why should he? Who in their right mind would defend a Nazi, they may call themselves Whytes but everyone knows the truth.
And yeah, maybe he’s just saying that so he doesn’t feel like shit for doing this. It’s not as though he has much of a choice. It’s his life or their lives. He’s not stupid, he knows if he wasn’t useful to Sinn'ous he would be dead.
The camera facing the officer assigned bathrooms flash when Williams steps into it, bathroom door shutting silently in the no-audio camera feed.
Damn it. Their window of time is closing in. He clicks a camera back on. The one for the exterior of the M-Wing, where you can see in through the large, half wall of reinforced glass to medical.
Shit. He should have gone with Cunningham’s job to shut off A-Wing’s cameras and the conjoining corridors, then use the individual cell buttons in the monitoring room to open Sinn'ous’s cell.
If he was then wouldn’t have to be here, staring at a tiny square screen watching a blurred figure hunched over a struggling blur on a medical bed.
Sinn'ous could be stabbing or strangling for all the good the camera shows. Either way, it’s very clear the one underneath is struggling and losing spectacularly.
And the cameras’ on K-Wing’s corridor show Williams’s slow approach.
He’s already cleared one of the three doors locking off that part of the prison from inmates.
Which is a good thing, it means it’s taking Williams longer to get back here, where he is supposed to be monitoring K-Wing.
Because Rogers was assigned to solitary tonight.
Which is part of the reason why they are doing this tonight.
Another part is Thomson being on a rare leave of absence, otherwise there would be no way Rogers could get past Thomson without his friend seeing right through the bullshit.
“Finally.” He breathes when the camera shows Sinn'ous leaving medical.
Rogers studiously does not look up to the no longer moving blur of the other inmate on screen.
Clicking the buttons needed to wipe the feed.
Then starting up the reboot, which will lock out all the cameras during its restart process, and take five minutes to switch back on and begin recording again.
They will be sneaking Sinn'ous back in through a side door, which Cunningham will be deleting the footage of. This path, through K-Wing, was not the most direct route to solitary, the only reason they came here was to get to medical. Now that that is done they don’t need to come back.
Which is a good thing, because Williams is about to reach the last set of doors.
Rogers rushes out of the room just as the cameras flicker and go out. He dashes down a conjoining corridor which will take him to the door where he’ll meet Sinn'ous.
Then he’ll take Sinn'ous past the yard cameras’ blind spots to solitary, and shut off the cameras and scrub their memories. And wait until Sinn'ous is done doing whatever it is he’s about to do to the poor trapped bastards in solitary.
After which he’ll play the game of ‘oh, no, the cameras’ accidentally shut off.’