Lanterns(2026)

Lanterns runs as a murder mystery first, a superhero story second. The investigation is grounded in the American heartland, and the procedural structure holds even as the case starts pulling toward something stranger and larger than a local crime. Evidence accumulates slowly, the timeline stretches from the 1990s into the 2020s, and the conspiracy deepens in layers rather than arriving all at once.

The partnership between the rookie and the veteran is built on friction rather than easy camaraderie. Experience and authority are genuinely contested between them, and that disagreement shapes how the investigation moves, which leads to follow, which threads to trust. When the case begins connecting earthbound crime to alien forces, the two partners are not always reading the situation the same way, and that gap carries real consequences for what they find and what they miss.