Little is known about the secrets court reporters hold. Very few will pass the rigorous testing required to become an RPR, a Registered Professional Reporter. Yet court reporters are often overlooked, given high expectations by attorneys and judges, treated disrespectfully by witnesses and criminals and worst of all -- at least in Kelen’s opinion -- innacurately portrayed by Hollywood. "We aren’t typists! We are linguists who type in syllables in a language only we understand. We don’t type one key at a time! Yeesh!" Kelen still awaits the day Hollywood portrays her job correctly.

Court reporters silently write in verbatim what is said and done in courtrooms and depositions as well as on-site in a swamp or a bar, writing every word or action done in a proceeding. They are behind the captioning you see on programming. They must be able to type at a minimum of 225 words per minute, 240 if captioning. They swear in witnesses, interrupt proceedings to slow speakers, number and catalog exhibits, put together hundreds of pages of correctly punctuated and spelled transcripts and must do so if asked to have it ready in a few hours or by the next day. All of this must be done in an unbiased manner.

Court reporters keep society’s secrets, unable to reveal society’s predators, infidelity, the thievery, medical malpractice and more. So what happens when Kelen gets fed up with society?