CLARENCE: Ah, hello again, PC. We got a problem. Helex Technologies have found a body at a facility of theirs.
CLARENCE: Take Selena with you and go solve this murder, but be careful. These tech companies can be pretty brutal if you slight them.
SELENA: Hey, PC! Ready to go whenever you are. Love the afternoon.
(Investigate the lab)
CLUES FOUND: Victim's body, Device, Sink
SELENA: Holy… someone melted the flesh off her face!
SELENA: According to the nametag on her, the person is Lori Paige, a biochemist.
SELENA: The device is weird. Maybe you can figure out what it is by unlocking it.
SELENA: Ugh, what's the substance in the sink. It looks dangerous.
SELENA: You're right, this might be acid that the killer use to melt her face off. Let's take a sample… carefully.
SELENA: Well, this is going to be ugly, but I'm sure we'll find this killer before they get away.
(Autopsy body)
CLARISSE: Thanks for the corpse. I haven't got one like this before. Quite fascinating.
SELENA: Uh… you're welcome?
CLARISSE: As you can probably guessed, she was pushed headfirst into a sink full of acid, destroying her face.
CLARISSE: It was made worse by the fact that she swallow some, allowing some to go down her digestive tract and eat through her internal organs as well.
SELENA: Ugh, how disgusting! Why would someone be that cruel?
CLARISSE: I don't know, but I did know that she struggled, due to abrasions on her back where someone held her down.
CLARISSE: I also found something on her back, so I took a sample and gave it to Rick and he determined that it was mucus.
SELENA: Snot?! Ew! How did it get on there?
CLARISSE: According to Rick, our killer has a case of the sniffles and blew onto his arms and hands, which transfer to Lori's back.
SELENA: So our killer has a cold? They won't be feeling better anytime soon when we catch them.
KILLER'S PROFILE: Has the flu.
(Examine Sink)
SAMPLE OBTAINED!
SELENA: Damn, you have some steady hands. Good work.
SELENA: Let's send this to Rick for analysis.
(Analyze sample)
RICK: Woah! That is some strong acid.
SELENA: What exactly is it?
RICK: Carborane acid. Stuff is a million times stronger than sulfuric acid.
SELENA: Yeesh. That's… troublesome.
RICK: Yeah, the person's death would've been quick, especially once she swallowed some.
RICK: However, she gave quite a struggle, considering the amount of burns around the sink.
RICK: It would've been very unlikely for the killer to escape unscathed, so you're looking for a killer with a burn mark on them.
KILLER'S PROFILE: Has the flu and a burn mark
(Unlock the Device)
DEVICE UNLOCKED!
SELENA: Great work! Now, let's see what this is.
LORI: Hey, is this working?
SELENA: It's the hologram of the victim!
LORI: Look, I've been hearing some strange stuff. I'm afraid something is going to happen.
LORI: If you're listening to this and I'm dead, head on over to my brother's law office. He should be able to help and I left some stuff there.
SELENA: Her brother? Wait, they're talking about Killian and Paige Law Office, right? The one with the lawyer who was ripped in half.
SELENA: Looks like that place is back in our sights. Let's take a look around.
(Investigate Paige's Office)
Before Investigating
SELENA: Can't find Paige around? Then we'll take a quick look around.
After Investigating
CLUES FOUND: Shredded Paper, Gift Box
SELENA: This office is very nice. I wouldn't mind having an office like this.
SELENA: So what do we got? Shredded paper is always suspicious. Let's piece it back together.
SELENA: A gift box? I wonder who it's for. See if you can get a name off the tab.
SELENA: Well, this is very good. Now if only we cold…
LOU: What are you doing in my office?!
SELENA: AH! You're Mr. Paige?
LOU: Yes, I am. What do you want?
SELENA: We have questions for you regarding the murder of your sister.
LOU: Lori's dead!?
SELENA: Yes. Hang around while we figure this out.
SELENA: Your choice. Check the evidence we got or talk to her brother. Your choice.
PROFILE GAINED: Lou Paige
Victim's Brother
Height: 6'0
Age: 49
Weight: 210
Eyes: Blue
Blood Type: AB+
Description: Caucasian man who is the co-owner of Killian and Paige Law Office. Wears a red dress shirt with a black suit and tie with combed black hair. Has a burn mark on his left cheek.
(Talk to Lou Paige about his sister's death)
LOU: How did this happen? Who did this?
SELENA: We're working on it. As for the how, she was found dead at Helex Technologies.
LOU: Will her funeral at least be an open casket?
SELENA: Uh… no. Her face was kind of… destroyed.
LOU: Dammit! The bastard who did this is going to pay!
SELENA: Listen, we found a recording of her saying to come to you if she was found dead. Can you tell us anything?
LOU: She was always on about the shady stuff going on at that place, but they were associates of ours. I got her a job there with my influence.
SELENA: Any details.
LOU: I'm trying to remember. This is a total shock for me.
SELENA: Well, how about you rest and think things through. You might be able to come up with something.
LOU: Thanks. I'll look through my notes and see if I wrote anything down about it.
(Examine shredded paper)
RESEARCHED PAPER FIXED!
SELENA: Oh, a research paper. That… looks complicated.
SELENA: Let's give it to our 'demon herder'. See if he can find anything.
(Analyze research paper)
BRAD: Hmph, this is interesting. Very interesting…
SELENA: Care to fill us in on it?
BRAD: Well, to put it simple, it was a research paper on the effects of various acids.
SELENA: Acids! Quick, who was the one heading it?
BRAD: The victim was.
SELENA: She was killed by her own research?
BRAD: Exactly, however, I got you someone to follow up on. A man named Lawrence Ray.
BRAD: This mortal is the head of Helex Technologies and all of her reports went to him.
SELENA: Great work. Let's go talk to this man.
PROFILE GAINED: Lawrence Ray
Head of Helex Technologies
Height: 6'0
Age: 61
Weight: 170
Eyes: Black
Blood Type: O-
Description: An African-American with black hair going gray at the bottom. Wears a white dress shirt with a black-and-white striped tie and a lab boat with wide-rimmed glassed. Has a burn mark on the bottom of his chin.
(Talk to Lawrence about the victim's research)
LAWRENCE: Ah, officers, a shame about what happen to Lori. She was such a good employee.
SELENA: I see word past around quickly.
LAWRENCE: The employee who found the body called me first and I called the cops over. I figured it was Lori because all of my other employees are accounted for.
SELENA: Speaking of her, we found her research paper inside Killian and Paige Law Office and we wanted to ask you about it.
LAWRENCE: Ah, you mean the acids she was working on? We were hoping to develop a new superacid to send to military contractors.
SELENA: Superacids? Aren't regular acids enough for you?
LAWRENCE: We're about pushing boundaries. Why work on regular acids when we could develop superacids!
SELENA: Is that your only reason?
LAWRENCE: Well, superacids are also a niche market. Not many people actually work on them, so we could monopolize it.
LAWRENCE: Lori's death is going to put us back quite a bit. Finding a chemist as good as her is going to be hard.
(Examine Gift)
RECOVER NAMES
SELENA: Great work. Now, what are the names?
SELENA: To Lori from Laura. Huh, wonder who this Laura person is.
SELENA: Let's see if what's inside can give us an idea.
(Examine contents of gift box)
REVEALED MOLECULE STRUCTURE STATUE
SELENA: Great work. You found a… uh… I'm not sure.
SELENA: Let's give this to Rick. It looks like something he would know.
(Analyze statue)
RICK: Cool statue! I wished this was mine.
RICK: It's a replica of a structure of a carbon molecule.
RICK: Since this was custom-made, I had him look around for a person who special ordered this.
RICK: He found someone by the name of Laura Fawcett, who happens to work at Helex tech as a microbiologist.
SELENA: That matches the name on the box! You and Brad did great work!
RICK: Thanks…
PROFILE GAINED: Laura Fawcett
Microbiologist
Height: 5'9
Age: 44
Weight: 160
Eyes: Blue
Blood Type: B+
Description: Caucasian woman with short brown hair wearing a blue top with a scientist's jacket and a name tag on the right side of her jacket and wears a pair of glasses and a burn mark on her wrist.
(Talk to Laura Fawcett about the gift she wanted to give to Lori)
LAURA: Greetings! Are you the detectives coming to investigate the murder?
SELENA: Word really gets around…
SELENA: Yes, we came to talk to you about you relation to the victim, Lori Paige.
LAURA: It's Lori? Oh no… I actually liked her.
SELENA: We're sorry to inform you… you recently gave her a gift, correct?
LAURA: It was her birthday tomorrow. I gave it to her brother to give it to her for me.
LAURA: I haven't seen her around much for a while, so I figured he could give it to her for me.
LAURA: I wonder if her being away has something to do with her murder.
SELENA: Do you know anything else?
LAURA: Nah. Things were pleasant. I have no idea why anyone would want to kill her. What was she doing behind everybody's back…?
SELENA: You assume that she was doing something illegal?
LAURA: She was murdered for something, right? Obviously she was sticking her noes where it shouldn't have been.
…
SELENA: Ugh. I swear, this case is disgusting. The way her face was melted and Clarisse describing her death…
SELENA: At least all our suspects was upset about her death to varying degrees. Her brother was enraged by her death…
SELENA: And Laura and Lawrence were upset for her as a friend and an employee.
SELENA: Still, the things we've been hearing means she was killed for something, although what, we don't know.
*Ring Ring*
SELENA: Huh? I'm getting a call. Hello?
LAWRENCE: Officers, I need you here now! Someone burgled my office!