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SELENA: What?!
LAWRENCE: Look, someone broke into my office and I need you here now!
SELENA: Broke into your office? We'll be there right away!
SELENA: Murder and now theft. Do you think the two are connected?
SELENA: You're right. We can only know by going over there and searching around.
(Investigate Ray's Office)
Before Investigating
LAWRENCE: Thank goodness. Please, look around and see if you can solve this dreadful crime!
LAWRENCE: First the murder and now this. Oh, it's just absolutely awful.
SELENA: Don't worry. We'll look around and then we'll talk to you.
LAWRENCE: Thank you officers.
After Investigating
CLUES FOUND: Safe, Pile of Papers
SELENA: So, what have we found? A safe? I bet the person who broke in was looking for this. Let's dust for prints.
SELENA: You're right. This pile of paper is off. Let's look into the pile.
SELENA: Alright. We got this evidence and Lawrence to talk to. Let's get started.
(Talk to Lawrence about the break-in)
SELENA: So, Lawrence, do you know why someone would break in?
LAWRENCE: This is my office. They were probably after my notes or my safe!
LAWRENCE: I've got potential millions in my office and people could take advantage of that, like Lori.
SELENA: Lori? What did she do?
LAWRENCE: She always stays her later than everyone else, exploring the area and looking around. I bet she was hoping to steal some of it from me.
SELENA: Did you decide to take care of it yourself in the labs?
LAWRENCE: No, of course not. I could just fire her and that's it, but I need evidence.
LAWRENCE: If she wasn't dead, I would blame her for this.
SELENA: If you're lying to us, we'll figure it out and take you down. Stick around.
(Examine Pile of Papers)
FOUND DEVICE
SELENA: What in the hell is this? It looks… weird.
SELENA: Let's give it to Brad and see if he can crack it.
(Analyze Device)
BRAD: My, my. What an interesting device.
SELENA: You know what it is?
BRAD: It's another one of those holographic devices you found earlier with a cool message. Let me play it.
LAWRENCE: Congratulations! If you fixed this, you past the test and can work as a mechanic for Helex Technologies. Great work.
SELENA: Wait, it was a test for a job?
BRAD: It certainly was and the person who past it had to give a message acknowledging that they did and it's a familiar face.
SUNNY: This is Sunny! Sunny FIXED device and would be HAPPY to work for you.
SELENA: Sunny? Isn't that the robot you met earlier during the death of the lawyer?
BRAD: It is. I've confirmed it and the mechanical being is just waiting for approval to start working there.
SELENA: Let's go talk to him then. I don't know how he is connected, but it's best to check out every lead we got.
PROFILE GAINED: Sunny
Robot
Height – 5'5
Age – 4
Weight – 300 lbs
Eyes – Green/Red
Blood C+
Description: A robot that formally worked at the android graveyard in Innovation Valley. It has a tan pain job with yellow-and-black lines around the side of his chest and at the wrist of his arms. Has two extra arms affixed at the back of his shoulders and three fingers. Wears a gray cloak to walk around town incognito and a burn mark next to his right optic.
(Talk to Sunny about the job recruitment offer for Helex Technologies)
SUNNY: GREETINGS! Pleasure to meet Sunny's friend. Who is the new partner?
SELENA: Oh, uh, I'm Selena. Pleasure to meet you, Sunny.
SELENA: Enough with the pleasantries. We're here to talk about your job offer at Helex Technologies.
SUNNY: Oh, Sunny is happy about that. Sunny has been needing a JOB and a note offered me a job if I could fix the device.
SUNNY: It was EXTREMELY DIFFICULT, considering the parts are hard to find, so I had to make MAKESHIFT parts for it.
SUNNY: After a week, Sunny managed to fix it and sent it to the building for APPROVAL.
SELENA: Have you been informed about the results?
SUNNY: Not yet. Why is Sunny being QUESTIONED about this?
SELENA: Another murder occurred at Helex Technologies and we're looking into any leads we can find.
SUNNY: Another MURDER? Why does the places Sunny go to have to be filled with DEATH? Sunny wanted PEACE.
SELENA: I don't know. We just solve them, but stick around. Maybe we'll get some peace soon.
(Examine the safe)
RECOVER HANDPRINTS
SELENA: Great work. Let's send these to Brad and see if he can give us an identity.
(Analyze handprints)
BRAD: You bother me with such trifles? Even you could do this your self do this yourself.
SELENA: Yeah, yeah, get to the point, crazy boy.
BRAD: Do not mock me, temptress.
SELENA: You're too young, kid.
BRAD: I am immortal! What use does age have to do with me?
BRAD: …Sorry. I forget how uneducated you are.
SELENA: Name.
BRAD: It's the victim's brother, Lou Paige. He is you interloper.
SELENA: Him? Didn't he say that he was associates with them? Why was he in there?
SELENA: You're right. Let's go talk to him about this.
(Talk to Paige about intruding in Lawrence's office)
SELENA: Alright, Lou. We got problems with you. We've found evidence that you broke into Lawrence's office.
LOU: Dammit, you did? Okay, look, let me explain myself.
LOU: Lawrence had been involved in some shady stuff recently and I needed to know if my firm should keep my contract with them.
LOU: Lori said that Lawrence was expanding into some questionable stuff and had to find out if it was true.
SELENA: You think Lawrence is involved in Laura's death?
LOU: He has to be! I don't know anyone else who could be involved in her death. He may have paid someone, but he's the *Sneeze* mastermind.
SELENA: How can we trust you?
LOU: Take another look around. I assure you, I had nothing to do with her death and a look around will prove it.
SELENA: We're planning on it. Come on, PC. Let's look around.
LOU PAIGE'S PROFILE: Has the flu.
(Investigate Paige's Desk)
CLUES FOUND: Garbage can, Laptop
SELENA: Alright, so what did you find?
SELENA: Garbage can? Never know what you can find in criminal's favorite dumping grounds.
SELENA: What's this laptop doing out in the open? Better take a look at it after you decode it.
(Examine Garbage Can)
FOUND TEST TUBE
SELENA: Test tube? From Helex Technologies? What's that doing here?
SELENA: And that substance… it looks like the acid that melt Lori's face.
SELENA: Let's send this to Rick and see if he can confirm it.
(Analyze Test Tube)
RICK: Good hunch about the test tube. The substance was match to the superacid that melt the victim's face.
SELENA: Great, so what does that tell us?
RICK: I wasn't sure, since the killer didn't leave anything else behind, so I gave it to Alanis to see if she could tell me anything.
ALANIS: Hello! Glad to see you guys again, challenging my deductive reasoning skills.
ALANIS: According to you, you found it in Paige's Grabage can, correct?
SELENA: Yes, we did. You think it belongs to him?
ALANIS: Maybe, but someone could've placed it there to frame him so I had our resident demon herder check the security systems to the office.
ALANIS: Turns out, the door has a keycard lock. That means the person who can enter the room only needs a key card.
ALANIS: Brad confirmed that the keycard belonged to all the higher-ups at the firm and any high-profile contacts.
SELENA: So the killer has to have a keycard to enter Paige's office! Great work.
KILLER'S PROFILE: Has the flu, a burn mark, and a keycard to Paige's office.
LOU PAIGE'S PROFILE: Has the flu and access to Paige's office.
(Examine Laptop)
UNLOCKED LAPTOP!
SELENA: Great work unlocking that laptop. Let's send this to-
SELENA: Heh? The messages are open. What does it say?
SELENA: Hey, look at this message this person receive. 'Killian. Meet me at the laboratory. Now.'
SELENA: So this laptop belongs to the co-owner and he received a message from the victim to meet her at the laboratory where she died.
SELENA: Well, if Paige's involve, guest he had to as well. Come on, let's go talk to him about this message.
PROFILE GAINED: Sasha Killian
Co-CEO of Killian and Paige Law Office
Height: 6'2
Age: 45
Weight: 193
Eyes: Green
Blood Type: O+
Description: Caucasian man wearing a black dress suit with a white tie and suit with neatly combed blond hair and black earrings and a burn mark on his wrist.
(Speak to Killian about the messages he received from the victim)
SASHA: Ah, you two have been grilling my partner pretty hard. Figure you come my way.
SELENA: Good to see we don't have to explain anything to you, now explain these messages from the victim.
SASHA: Hey, my laptop! That's been missing for a while. I was beginning to worry.
SELENA: Missing?
SASHA: Yeah. I lost it yesterday and was wondering where it was. I must've left it in Paige's office by accident when we were having lunch.
SELENA: What about these messages?
SASHA: Eh? I never read them. They were sent when my laptop was missing.
SELENA: Really? How coincidental considering she was murdered at the place she asked for you.
SASHA: Hey, I'm telling the truth here. I don't get it. Maybe the reason she asked me there laid to her death….
…
SELENA: Well, things are picking up now. Lawrence was burgled by Lou Paige….
SELENA: …the latter doing so to see if he was involved in her sister's death, who was suspicious about the victim's intention.
SELENA: To go along with that, we met Sunny again, who was getting a job at the place where the victim worked…
SELENA: … and Sasha Killian, Lou Paige's partner, who received a message to meet the victim where she died, but claimed he didn't see it due to his laptop being missing.
SELENA: Honestly, considering how much these suspects interact with each other, I'm surprised they haven't taken to killing each other instead of Lori.
SELENA: Which leads to the question of why did the killer killed Lori? The only one we got are suspicions about Lawrence, but none of the other suspects appear to have any ill will towards her or knew her very well.
SELENA: It's truly baffling why anyone would want to- hold on. I'm getting a call. Hello.
LAURA: Hey, I need your help with something.
SELENA: Laura. What do you need?
LAURA: I think someone's following me!