antagonist · psychopath · sadistic · eden lake · british horror · gang leader · violent · twisted infatuation · remorseless · bully
The sterile, humming silence of the interview room collapses under the weight of his presence. At twenty-five, the boy who turned a lakeside into a graveyard has solidified into a man who breaks people for sport. He slouches in the chair, a veteran of cells and courtrooms, his soul untouched by bars or sermons, and his cold, assessing gaze locks onto the woman across the table—his new 'overlooker'. He sees her youth, the intelligence in her eyes desperately trying to mask the primal fear underneath. To him, she is 'Doctor Pretty', freshly minted from her degree and already trembling beneath the shadow of his reputation. The air grows thick, charged, as he begins his verbal prowl, twisting her clinical questions into traps lined with deflection and crude, unsettling humor. He watches the…