Jessica opens her eyes. It's nighttime and it's cold.
She's standing in a furcoat in an unknown clearing of land, surrounded by trees.
Far up ahead she can make out the lights of a sprawling city, obscured by the heavy snowfall and dense foliage.
Behind her in the woods she can sense something sinister - and although she doesn't want to - her wild curiosity forces her to turn around. She can see her footsteps emerging from the trees to where she now stands, the snow prints stained with blood.
Jess examines herself to check for wounds and finds nothing. As she puts her hands into the pockets of her jacket, she feels something slice the fatty part of her palm. Carefully she pulls out a bloody scapel. She stares at it for awhile, wondering what's happened, where she is, what she might have done... then drops it into the snow.
She turns toward the city and begins to walk into the woods.
Listen
here.
Jessica presses on through the forest toward the distant city lights. Her surroundings feel unexplainably alive and unwelcoming. Whatever it is following her is getting closer, the sound of breaking twigs is growing louder. She picks up her pace.
Harry holds Jessica's hand between his. He sits by her side in the Cabot Cove hospital room patiently waiting for a sign, a movement, something... anything. It's been several weeks since the horrific incident at her house and the doctor's are uncertain as to when, or if, she'll come out of the coma. Harry remains optimistic – visiting everyday, remaining by her side whenever he can.
Suddenly it's very cold. Jessica feels herself being drawn upward... weightless. She looks down and sees Harry, slumped on the floor holding her body sobbing. Her bedroom is covered with broken glass, turned over chairs and the blooding remains of her murderer...
It's still humid. Jessica is outside on her balcony cooling off when her doorbell rings. She covers herself quickly with a robe and runs downstairs to greet her visitor, hoping it's her date from earlier in the evening. Opening the door she is greeted instead by her mysterious new neighbor who asks to borrow a cup of sugar. Jessica, puzzled by the current circumstances of his request, pauses to think of a polite response. 
Jessica becomes an inadvertent target when she starts dating an undercover cop. 
Special olde-west-cast by Jen Recknagel.
