Remnants of the First · File 003
Chief Cal Eton
Chief Detective · Homicide
“I’m not telling you anything yet, Doc. I want your first read clean.”
- Age
- Early to mid 50s
- Role
- Chief detective, homicide
- Specialty
- Homicide and major crimes, crime scenes, interviews, and getting agencies that can’t stand each other to share one file
- Known for
- Asking the question everyone else stopped asking
Thirty years on the job and he still believes in it
Profile
Cal has a way of getting people talking, and most of them don’t realize how much they’ve told him until he’s already standing up to leave. He served with Marielle’s dad, he’s known her since she was a kid, and he’s the one who calls her in when a case gets strange, although he’ll tell her as little as he can when he does, on purpose, so whatever she sees is hers and not his.
He’s bent a rule or two over the years to get someone justice and he isn’t sorry about any of them. There’s also something about her family he’s never told her, but that’s his to carry for now.
Associated Personnel
Dr. Marielle Ambrosia Baptiste
His best consultant and about as close to a niece as he’s got. Uncle Cal, but only when nobody from the department can hear.
Dr. Evelyn Hart
They’ve worked side by side for years. He calls her Evie because he knows exactly how much she hates it.
Remnants of the First · Case file
Eton, Cal
Chief detective, homicide
Internal
Will tell you
absolutely nothing
and call it
a favor. M
The kindest man I know, right up until you lie to him.
Evidence log File 003
| No. | Item | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Precinct coffee mug | Contents: terrible |
| 02 | Practical watch | Still on time |
| 03 | Tie, loosened hours ago | On desk |
Logged and sealed.
Personality
- Notices everything and lets you think he didn’t
- Has a sense of humor so dry it’s practically dust
- Patient in the way only decades of this job can make you
- Cares about people, the living ones and the dead ones
- Will bend a rule if it gets someone justice
- Shows up, every single time
Physical Description
- Height
- 5′8″
- Build
- Stocky and solid, broad through the shoulders
- Eyes
- Hazel
- Hair
- Dark, going grey, and never quite combed
- Look
- Lived in. Smile lines, sharp eyes, and the same boyish grin he’s had his whole life
- Style
- Rolled sleeves, a tie he loosened hours ago, a practical watch, and coffee within reach at all times
Noted details
- 01Those eyes have heard every kind of lie there is.
He knows when to push, and when to just let you talk yourself into a corner.