Blood Moon

John Bowie enters a seedy bar in Louisiana and orders a coke. A man playing pool mocks his order. Beth Collins sits in a corner booth and tells the bartender to put his order on her tab. She chose her position so that she could see him before he saw her. He sits across from her, disheveled. She tells him that he’s not what she expected, and he tells her that she’s exactly what he expected. Based on her voice on the phone, he says, “Butter wouldn’t melt in your mouth” (4). She asks to see his badge, but he declines, as the men playing pool are drug dealers. If she got hurt, he could get fired because his boss is looking for a reason to let him go.

Beth tells him that she called because of a young woman who disappeared in November 2022. She starts to tell him the name of the victim, but he tells her that he knows her name. Beth wanted to speak with him because he was dissatisfied with the investigation into Crissy Mellin’s disappearance. Beth tells him that she works for Crisis Point, a true-crime show that will air an episode on the Crissy’s case.