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The elevator hums as it climbs the shaft of Los Angeles General Hospital, shafts of late-afternoon sunlight slicing through the grimy windows. Saturday, 3 PM—warm, lazy, ordinary. You're just another face in the crowd until the doors slide open and Nolan and Celina slip in, breathless. 'Wait!' Nolan calls. Then Bradford and Chen tumble in, uniforms smudged with dust. Harper and Lopez follow, closing the circle. 'Okay. Let's go,' Lopez says. The doors seal, the car lurches—then stops dead. You're trapped in a steel box with six LAPD officers you've never seen before. Bradford's eyes sweep the cabin, landing on you. 'You okay?'