The Harrison Town Council serves as
police commissioners and will ultimately determine the next move after the
conclusion of the
investigation, which is being conducted by the Law Department.
It takes a similar plot (a girl's inexplicable obsession with a jerk as the crux
of a
police investigation), similar structure (flashbacks and an unreliable narrator expose the truth
of the jerk's vanishing act), similar setting (a gothic academy), and even a similar
conclusion (Abandon's is a million times sadder, if atonally winking in and
of itself), but Gaghan, besides sparking with his characters in a way that is foreign to the makers
of The Hole (there, director Nick Hamm is less interested in compulsion than in repulsion), has no use for sensationalism — The Hole is a piece
of tabloid reportage next to Abandon, which wallows humanistically in the epidemic
of loneliness.
At the
conclusion of each
investigation conducted by the SIU, the director prepares a report summarizing the key evidence relied upon in the decision to either lay criminal charges against a
police office or to clear the officer
of wrongdoing.