The Castle

Prior to his pursuit of 'the Father', Sean Rooney, psychologist and erstwhile psychosleuth, spent nine formativemonths as a trainee in Hillwood Mental Hospital, aka, the Castle. In The Castle, long-term patients are mysteriously andsuspiciously killing themselves. Rooney forms a self-help patient group toinvestigate the mysterious deaths. The Castle has many secrets, some going back over one hundred years.Rooney has a particular reason for choosing the Castle as his placement, posinga question: Is he there to meet his own needs or that of the patients? The hospital management team consider suicide in large mental hospitalsas coming 'with the turf', but Rooney doesn't agree and after 'goingovercover', believes there is more to these suicides. All have one commonfeature: after many years in hospital, these patients were all considered for'care in the community'. The Castle doesn't give up its secrets easily, however, whether they behistorical, criminal, or supernatural. It takes a group of likeminded patientsto discover what is really going on in the Castle. So, what do a psychotic scientist, adepressed philosopher, a delusional vigilante, a dope-head crime writer, anautistic arsonist, a wannabe detective, and a bipolar psychologist, all have incommon? They all want to find out who, or what, is killing the patients of theCastle.