SGT RAY SMITH

Full Name: Sergeant Smith
Occupation: Veteran Police Officer in Silver City
Age: Late 40s – Early 50s
Personality: Tough, no-nonsense, weary but still trying to do the right thing

Sergeant Smith is one of the few good cops left in Silver City—or at least, as good as a man can be in a city built on corruption. He’s seen too much, done things he isn’t proud of, and knows when to look the other way to keep himself alive.

But even a man like Smith has his limits.

He’s spent years dealing with the city’s filth—gang wars, organized crime, political corruption—but nothing prepared him for what’s happening now. The murders, the disappearances, the people who are found with expressions of unspeakable terror frozen on their faces—it’s not normal.

And worse? The department is covering it up.

Smith has seen officers take bribes, seen them rewrite crime scenes, seen men he worked with vanish overnight. And the few who asked too many questions? They ended up in the obituaries.

Now, Smith has one chance to do something right—and that means warning Mike Walker before it’s too late.

Sergeant Smith serves as a reluctant informant, giving Mike his first real indication that something bigger than just crime is happening in Silver City.

• When Jake Owen murders a man in cold blood at The Hollow Bottle Bar, Smith is one of the responding officers.
   
• Instead of arresting Jake, his fellow cops execute him on the spot—and divide up his money and belongings.
   
• Smith, disgusted but too tired to fight it, goes along with it—until he sees something unnatural near Jake’s body.
   
• Later, he pulls Mike aside and warns him:
  “This isn’t the kind of story you want to chase, Walker. Someone’s cleaning up loose ends. You might be next.”
   

At first, Mike brushes off the warning, thinking Smith is just talking about corrupt cops.

But when Smith later turns up dead, Mike realizes the truth—Smith wasn’t warning him about crooked cops.

He was warning him about something much worse.

• Mike Walker: Smith tries to warn Mike before it’s too late. He knows something is wrong but doesn’t fully understand how deep it goes.
   
• Fellow Officers: He’s seen too many good cops disappear, and he knows that asking questions is a death sentence.
   
• Jake Owen: He was present when Jake was executed by his own fellow officers, but he saw something unnatural happen afterward.
   

Smith doesn’t make it out alive.

Not long after warning Mike, his body is found in his squad car, parked outside the precinct. His eyes have been gouged out, his mouth stitched shut, and black veins cover his entire body.

No one investigates. No one questions it. His case file disappears.

And when Mike tries to bring up his name?

Nobody remembers Sergeant Smith ever existed.

"You don’t want to be on the wrong side of this, Walker. Trust me."