It was just a shot in the dark -- a dark that was thick and evil as pea soup. Bad pea soup. Suddenly, the lights came on and illuminated the scene like something bright casting a light on something that was once dark but now isn't.

There, crumpled in the once dark corner lay the unwitting target of the shot that was taken in the darkness that is now light. The victim, as unlikely as it might seem, was both shot through the heart, and shot in the brain. He was dead.