A Voss and Pike Casefile: The First Case
Section 49: Arrest, Quietly
Rook took Pryor's confession the way, you'd later come to realise, every good detective takes a confession: efficiently, without ceremony, the caution half-spoken before the words finished landing. Manslaughter, eventually, not murder - a dose altered to buy time rather than to end a life, with a death that followed anyway.
Candour was quietly wound down, its contract not renewed, no public statement beyond a line in the university's annual report about "concluding a research partnership." Hume's manuscript was filed, eventually, in the university archive, available to anyone who thought to request it, which almost nobody ever did.
You resigned your position within the month. Jonah's temporary contract had already lapsed by the time you thought to ask whether he'd like to help you work out what to do next; by the time you tracked down his number, he'd already accepted a warehouse job two towns over. You never did find a reason to call him back.
Sociological note: the true culprit caught, the research ethics violated plainly established - but a correction that stays inside a filing cabinet, read by almost nobody, is a considerably smaller kind of justice than the one Hume had actually planned to deliver out loud.