A Gradual Decline

Rick Holten is a young reporter who just got the job that only comes along once in a lifetime. A serial killer who raped and killed women in the seventies is going to be executed. Rick is the one who is getting the exclusive story. Talking to convicted killer, Riley Jackson, Rick finds himself empathetic to what the man went through. There is something different about Rick after the interviews begin. Has Rick begun a gradual decline, or is something more happening?