Obedience's Bleeding Edge

In the bleak industrial city of Ashford, a charismatic psychology professor, Dr. Julian Croft, launches a covert "social reintegration" experiment using marginalized students as subjects. What begins as a Milgram-style obedience study spirals into a series of ritualistic murders, each victim a former participant who failed to comply. As Detective Lena Marsh uncovers the pattern, she realizes the killer is not a monster but a broken product of the very system that discarded him—and the professor’s academic ambition has birthed a new kind of predator.