Detective Bounty, ASC

    Some people have it. Many people step into this profession, more a lifestyle, excited because it's novel. Their first days are bright eyed and busy, but soon it's evident who has the gall, the 'it' that shucks all obstacles to achieve the end. You're informed on the first day that there is no end, that you're going to be seeking every day and that you won't be able to leave your work at work. That the things you see here won't leave your eyes and will affect your homelife. Your fellow detectives will become your family and you'll feel more at home chewing on the newest break in the case over midnight take-out in the office. Your wife will resent you unless she's the understanding type, and even then you'll have cold nights. But one of the ways this is a different sort of work is that we need your women, too. They see things men don't. If you hang in there through the horrors, breakthroughs and chases, you'll be changed for life. So will your children, and ninety percent of the time they'll join the walk.
    Here's what's odd and the real kicker: we've caught the killer, we know the end from the beginning. What we're doing is working backward, tracing in intimate detail to the beginning of things where it all started. This so we can know how to go forward, prevent any of these crimes from happening again.
    There's an impossibly high turnover rate here. I've only been in it for a few years, and I'm a veteran. I'm subject to that which I pursue, the Higher and Noble Truth that is objective because it's already happened. I find clues and  follow the trail, always in the midst of this search that consumes me. Few people are willing to commit, to sacrifice the lives they had for something with an intangible reward.  All you novice detectives, interns (temps even), come to me to learn how to do this, how to think anew, how to receive a different pattern of understanding so you can thrive.  And when the going's easy enough, you're fine. It's when you can't find the next step that you get upset and take it out on me. I inform you of how to move forward: cut up the walls on your boxed-in thinking and look with new eyes. This offends you because it's what I say every time, and you take your heat out on me because you've gotten too big for your britches. Again you fail to understand this frustration is what will elevate you to the next step, that the process looks different every time but always functions the same at it's heart: there is always a clue. Perseverance is the most important factor in the beginning: the case will break and you'll find exactly what you're looking for. Your gut is usually right.