In the same world as the Beethoven and Vermeer affairs, rogue policeman Francis Patrick
Delehanty uses his own resources to travel back to the scene of the first homicide that he
dealt with as a rookie cop.
Have you thought this through, Lieutenant? You see a murder in progress. You’re a cop.
Do you try to stop it? But you’re not a cop in that timeline, are you? Your
lieutenant’s badge is no good there. Are you acting extra-legally? The only badge
around belongs to a rookie cop name Delehanty who doesn’t have a clue about what’s
going down. And what if you don’t try to stop it? Are you culpable? In that timeline or
this one?
DEBUT
“A Snitch in Time,” in Analog,January/February 2011.
VARIANTS
Debut. “A Snitch in Time,” in Analog,January/February 2011.
Have you thought this through, Lieutenant? You see a murder in progress. You’re a cop.
Do you try to stop it? But you’re not a cop in that timeline, are you? Your
lieutenant’s badge is no good there. Are you acting extra-legally? The only badge
around belongs to a rookie cop name Delehanty who doesn’t have a clue about what’s
going down. And what if you don’t try to stop it? Are you culpable? In that timeline or
this one?
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