Stephenson looks at her, then silently opens his wallet and passes Shiroe a old-style Polaroid of a dark-haired woman in a green dress, next to a smiling Stephenson, who is clad in a navy blue CPD dress uniform. They look incredibly young, and the youthful grin the detective sports in the picture is nothing like his pale, thin face of the present. The time stamp on the photograph reveals it was taken just three short years ago.