The Third Glance
A Captain Monroe short story from the world of Infinite Mirror

The case is closed. The scene is processed.
So why is she still watching the footage—on loop?

Captain Monroe has seen dozens of crime scenes, hundreds of hours of bodycam footage. She trusts the process. Trusts her instincts. But the Marchand case... something doesn't fit.

Lucas Hale was on-site early. Too early. He claims he touched nothing. But the blood smear says otherwise. So does the mirror.

At first glance, it was just a detail.
At second glance, a hesitation.
But at the third? There's something behind his eyes that doesn't belong.

When she isolates the timestamp and slows the video frame-by-frame, Monroe starts to see the cracks: a sentence said in a voice just slightly wrong. A glance that doesn't match a blink. A reflection that doesn't follow orders.

She doesn't want to believe it.
She doesn't even want to write it down.
But one conclusion keeps surfacing, no matter how she tries to bury it:

He wasn't alone in that room.

Series Context:

A slow-burn psychological thriller told through the eyes of the woman who's trying to trust what she sees, The Third Glance expands the Infinite Mirror universe by pulling the camera back—from Lucas Hale's fractured perception to Monroe's growing unease.

Set in the liminal space between procedural clarity and psychological horror, this short story explores the cost of watching too closely—and what might blink back when you do.

For fans of The Sinner, Mindhunter, and Gone Girl, The Third Glance adds another layer of obsession, identity, and suspicion to a series where no mirror tells the same truth twice.

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