Linda Larkin

Linda Larkin emerges in C.J.'s blistering press briefing as one half of a shattered duo: a twelve-year-old girl cut down by gunfire the night before, her name hurled into the spotlight alongside Tina Bishop's to shatter illusions of insulated violence. No footage captures her final breath, no words echo her stolen future—yet C.J. wields her youth like a blade, slicing through statistics to expose 36 homicides, thrusting ordinary child-loss into the administration's fierce crusade against rampant firearms. She anchors the moral pivot, humanizing the toll beyond presidential headlines and etching everyday peril into policy fire.