A police car and an ambulance come around the corner towards the alley way in the dark of the night. Their bright lights and loud sirens waking the entire block; nearby citizens gather around to see what the commotion is about. Officer Harley waves her hands in the air to signal the ambulance and police car; while Officer Vantas controls the growing crowd, and Officer Captor takes multiple pictures of the crime scene. Ms. Peixes is leaning on the wall making phone calls.

A young troll boy brings his camera and tries to take a picture of the crime scene, but Chief Zahhak climbs out of the cop car and pulls the camera out of the troll's hands. "No cameras," he orders.

The three officers walk up to their chief, "Good evening Chief," welcomes Jade. "What is your take on the situation so far?"

The Chief watches as two medics climb out of the ambulance and dig the body out of the dumpster. The body shifts while being held by one of the medics like it is a body filled solely with sand. One of the medics, a human male, clumsily drops the body on the ground causing the head to break open and have some unmentionable orange colored substance ooze out. The other medic, another human, yells at his co-worker to get back to stop fucking around. The Chief daps his face with a towel, "I already called the neighboring shop keepers to come here for interrogations. Did you find anything on the body? Any clues?"

"Not much sir," Karkat answers, "The body was severely beaten to a pulp, most likely whoever was beating the troll to death continued to do so after the troll was terminal." Karkat moves his hand into his coat pocket, "We did however find this." Officer Vantas pulls out the Jack of Spades Card from his coat. Chief Zahhak blinks wide eyed behind his dark broken sunglasses.

"Well this is certainly interesting," Chief Zahhak says with a strained voice. The chief grabs the card from Officer Vantas's hands. "Does this make any sense to you?" He questions holding up the playing card.

Both Officers Captor and Vantas slowly shake their heads no, but Jade questions the card, "Maybe it's a message from someone? A symbol? Maybe there is something inside the card?" The human officer sighs, "Is there anyone that could relate to this card around town?"

Karkat ignores her questions, "I think that the troll was just a gambler. A cheater. Kept cards up his sleeve." Officer Vantas breathes deeply, "He probably played with a bad crowd who got upset over losing the game."

"That seems likely," monotones Officer Captor agreeing while staring straight through his red and blue lens glasses.

Chief Zahhak swabs his forehead, "I agree that's probably what happened. A bad gambler. Case closed."

Jade gawks at the three trolls, "What are you talking about? There's no proof! How can you just say that about a case?"

Chief Zahhak frowns, "It would be wise if you would stop being disagreeable. It doesn't suit you."

"But-but" Jade stammers.

"But nothing Ms. Harley," The chief sterns, "The playing card is the proof, and it would be wise for you to agree. We can't allow you to have any more mistakes, now can we?"

Officer Harley looks around desperately trying to find some sanity with this crew, but finds none. "How can you say that?"

"Chief," intrudes Officer Vantas, "If it would help the situation, how about Officer Harley and I interview the shop keepers for any information for the case. Then, Officer Harley will happily," Karkat looks at Jade intimately, "return to her home for a good night's rest. Agreed?"

Jade stares back at Karkat seriously, "Agreed."

Karkat lights a cigarette and puts it to his lips, "Jade, you go get your supplies out of the cop car."

"Don't you need yours?"

Officer Vantas sighs, "Not if you have it. Now go!" Jade walks away slowly leaving the trolls, and heads toward the cop car to retrieve her note pad and pen for the interrogation, and just in case, her pistol. Karkat looks over to the Chief.

"You know what to do, Mr. Vantas," Equius orders under his breath.

"Understood," answers the officer.

"Good," and with that, Chief Zahhak leaves the two troll to head to his cop car to depart once Jade is done retrieving her supplies.

Karkat inhales his smoke deeply, "Jesus fuck."

"I know," Officer Captor agrees. "I knew that this was going to happen. I told everyone that it would! And now there's going to be so much paper work . . ." The officer groans "Why am I doing this again?"

Karkat was going to answer, "Because it's your duty", but doesn't get the chance when a better reason arrives.

"Oh Sollux!" Feferi cries clinging to Officer Captor's back, "I was so scared, and you are so brave. I was shore that somebody was going to krill us for finding the body."

Sollux turns around and hugs the rich sea troll, "I won't let anything hurt you, Honey Bee."

"Oh my sweet Guppy." And then both troll proceed to what Karkat can only describe as disgustingly sloppy make outs. And he is not amused.

"Get the fuck out of here!" He shouts waving his arms in the air like a manic. Both trolls break apart, but leave Officer Vantas snickering to their selves. "What the hell is wrong with those two?"

"They're in love," Jade replies coming up from behind Karkat. "Haven't you ever been in love before?"

Karkat squints, "Not one where I'd make out in public for people to watch me." Jade laughs at Karkat's love life. "Whatever, let's just get this over with Harley." Both officers walk to the store owner on the left of the alleyway.

The owner is a human male who's quite nervous over what's happening. He's constantly grabbing and releasing his shirt out of nervousness. Karkat walks up to him, "What were you doing in the last few hours?"

The human jumps, "I was at home, all my workers leave before me, and I was home for the last few hours," he answers speeding the words off the tip of his tongue.

Jade pats the man's back to calm him down and talks is a soft voice, "Hey, just calm down. Everything's going to be alright." The owner calms down and Jade withdraws her hand from his back. "There ya go. Now are there any cameras outside that could record what happened outside?"

The man shakes his head, "All the cameras are inside my shop and there's no view of the outside."

Officer Harley smiles slightly, "Well I guess that's all we can do for now. You can go home and have a safe night." The man smiles brightly and leaves quickly.

"That was stupid," complains Officer Vantas. "I'm going to interrogate the next one."

The next store owner is a light-blue blooded female troll. She's running her fingers through her short hair complaining about all the people around here; even though the crowd has been shrinking quickly since the body was taken away.

She started to speak as soon as the officers got close to her, "There you blokes are. About time, I've been waiting with this crowd of hooligans forever! I'm sure one of them is going to piss on my store."

Karkat sighs, "It just had to be you. I always get the worst ones," he mutters under his breath. Officer Vantas speaks up to the troll owner, "Miss, do you know anything about this murder? Anything at all?"

The owner blew air out of her lips, "pff, No. I wish I had some way of catching this fucker. My business is terrible as it is. I wish I knew before that selling hand-made bags was a shitty idea. And now no one is going to want to come near to this place with the threat of murder in the air. But enough about my life, that's what my moirial is fore, how close are you to solving this case?"

"Pretty much solved," Karkat answers bored finishing his cigarette.

Jade tries to speak to the troll, but Karkat throws his hand over her mouth, "That'll be all miss. Have a nice fucking night." Officer Vantas then proceeds to pull his fellow officer away from the owner who leaves grumbling.

"What the hell fuckass?" Jade growls, "Let go of me!" She jerks her arm away from Karkat.

"Look," Karkat glares at Jade, "You got your fucking interrogation. Now go home and let this case go. I've already solved it."

"Karkat," Officer Harley warns.

"Jade," Officer Vantas mocks.

"Karkat you are an officer under the Skaian law," Officer Harley argues. "What is with the others? How can you just let this go?"

Karkat pulls out a cigarette, "Jade, we did what you wanted, now give up."

Jade looks around trying to find something close to reality, but she gives up and starts to walk home. Officer Vantas calls from behind her, "Have a nice fucking night!" Officer Harley flips him off as she walks away.

Karkat sighs and tosses his cigarette down and starts a new one. He walks off to a direction that is definitely not towards his house, but it is toward the worst parts in town. Officer Vantas rolls his neck to stretch it out, "This is going to be a long night.