Framed Before the First Cut

Supernatural warnings save a doctor from a rigged resuscitation.

Emergency physician Dr. Doherty has just cleared the hospital doors after an overnight shift when a colleague drags her back for a critical resuscitation ordered by the chief. Before she can scrub in, floating text materializes in her vision: the patient is already dead, and the case is a trap engineered by the hospital director's daughter to make Doherty the scapegoat — a conviction that would send her to execution and drive her parents to forced suicide. Trusting the impossible messages, she halts at the threshold, spots an uncovered deep shaft in the road, and throws herself into the darkness rather than walk into the operating room.

• thriller
• supernatural
• medical