None Shall Sleep
In 1982, the FBI's fledgling behavioral-science unit recruits two teenagers for an unusual program. Emma Lewis survived being abducted by a serial killer as a child, and Travis Bell, the son of a US Marshal murdered on the job, wants a place at the academy. Their assignment is to interview incarcerated juvenile murderers, teens the adult agents cannot reach, in the hope of learning how young killers think. The work brings Emma face to face with Simon Gutmüller, a charismatic imprisoned killer who agrees to help only if it means baiting a former partner still hunting on the outside. As the interviews turn into a manhunt, Emma and Travis are pulled deeper into a case that keeps circling back to their own scars.
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