Jason sat in his office, poring over every record MACUSA had on the wizarding population of North America. At least, every record that listed eye color. So far, he hadn't found anyone with violet eyes. He told himself this was a good thing; the less people with such a descriptor, the less possible suspects, and therefore the less time it would take to find the culprit.
The records he was currently going over listed every student that attended Ilvermorny between the years 2000 and 2010. Just as Jason finished scanning through the graduating class of 2009, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in," Jason said.
Mark Terrance, the wizard who had taken over for Jason on the Sally Tilbert case, walked in. Jason raised an eyebrow. Mark looked... intimidated. He was only a year younger than Jason, and it wasn't like Jason outranked him, really. So why was he so nervous?
"How can I help you?" Jason asked.
"Those tapes you got from the Mexican apartment complex; there was something wrong with them."
Jason had to stop himself from sighing in exasperation. He'd looked at the tapes himself, and the only strange thing about them was Sally walking into her apartment in the evening, then never coming back out. But she could have left through the window, or used Floo powder, or even apparated out. It was a No-Maj apartment, after all, so unless she put one up herself, there was little chance of an Anti-Disapparition Jinx being in place.
"What do you mean?" Jason asked, trying to be polite.
"I think they've been meddled with," Mark said.
Jason looked up in surprise. He was expecting Mark to comment on her not coming out of the apartment, but to leap from that to someone meddling with the tapes...
"Why?" Jason asked, genuinely curious this time.
"In the last one with Sally Tilbert in it, a few minutes after she goes into her apartment, there's a moment where a plastic bag flies past the camera. I noticed the logo on the bag was for an American department store, one that doesn't have any locations in Mexico. Plus, the flag in the background shows that the wind should be going in the opposite direction of the bag."
Jason couldn't help but be impressed. But then another question came to mind.
"Why are you telling me this? I'm not on that case anymore, remember?"
"Actually... I think you might be," Mark said. "I got some footage from the weeks before Sally disappeared, and there was a day when someone walked around the apartment complex without ever going through a door. He looked directly at the cameras on multiple occasions." Jason knew what Mark would say next. He cursed himself inwardly for not finding it out earlier. "He had violet eyes."
