The heavy iron door of the Bellevue Federal Security Psychiatric Wing slammed shut with a, echoing bang. Following Charlie’s sudden, shocking guilty plea in the federal courtroom, the high security ward was stifling, smelling faintly of harsh antiseptic and cold concrete. Armed federal guards stood at every corner, their weapons drawn, enforcing the strict court ordered isolation. Evelyn visits Charlie in the psychiatric ward and sits across from him through reinforced glass. At first, neither speaks. She sat on the bolted steel stool, her coat wrapped tightly around her trembling frame. Across the thick, bulletproof glass pane sat Charlie. He wore a heavy, gray medical smock over his diminished shoulders. His hands rested flat on the steel ledge, his wrists bound by soft safety restraints. The silence between them was suffocating. For five agonizing minutes, neither of them moved. Evelyn stared at her only son, seeing the dark purple hollows beneath his eyes, his pale, sunke
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