So you liked Part the First? Well! Here's Part the Second!
Part the Second: All the Usual Suspects
(Marshmallow Guy makes the "clong-clong" noise.)
Crown Attorney's Office, Arendelle Castle, 11:15 A.M.
"It's just like the others, Elsa! Look. Goat herder taking the long way home." Anna threw a woodcut down on the desk. "Silversmith who heard a weird noise outside his shop after hours!"
"Thought it was a werewolf and he thought he was safe with all that silver," Kristoff said.
"And old Mr. Jorgenson, the herring seller." Another woodcut, with Jorgenson's surprised face in the block of ice etched in sharp relief, fluttered down onto the desk. Anna put her hands on her hips. "Three cases all in the last two weeks. Same thing. Big blocks of ice, all with J.F. carved on them. Who else could it be?"
"Who else could it be, indeed!" Elsa pushed back from the desk and stood up. She began pacing furiously around the room. "Jack's taunting us. He knows that it's glaringly obvious that he did all these freezings. And he slipped right through our fingers the last time!"
"Yeah, what happened with that again?" Kristoff asked.
"Ergh. Some argument that any one of the spirits of winter could be feeling vengeful, and that the J.F. was simply the work of a copycat." Elsa rolled her eyes.
"Special delivery!" Olaf came scooting through the door, a huge stack of files teetering in his arms. "Here ya go, Elsa, latest batch of briefs and appeals. Why do they call them appeals? Are they anything like apple peels or banana peels?"
"Yeah, thanks, Olaf, just park them on the desk," Elsa said.
"Whoa!" The files slid out of Olaf's arms and landed with a clatter, sending a snowstorm of paperwork fluttering into the air. "Sorry 'bout that." He ran around, scooping up papers and tossing them willy-nilly on the desk before scuttling out. "Oh, by the way, Elsa, Kai said to tell you that we've got a problem with the Skoleboller case!"
"We've always got a problem with the Skoleboller case! I'll talk to Kai later, okay?" Elsa called. She turned back to Anna and Kristoff and planted her palms on the desk. "Jack's been a menace to Arendelle. I'm not going to let this one go."
"Let it go…let it go…" someone in the hallway sang.
"Hey! No one's allowed to sing that song except me! And I'm getting sick of it!" Elsa shouted.
The singing in the hallway quickly stopped.
"So what do we do, sis?" Anna asked.
"The evidence is pretty solid, but the only way we're going to nail Jack is if we actually catch him in the act," Elsa said.
"Catch him in the act?" Kristoff frowned. "But how?"
"Start talking to all the informants, see where Jack's hanging out these days. And set up a stakeout," Elsa said.
Kristoff groaned, but Anna was cheerful. "You got it, Elsa," she said brightly. "We'll stay hot on the trail. We won't let it go cold."
"Let it go…let it go…"
"Shut up!" Elsa shouted.
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