MIKE: Ah, the morning. Feels good, doesn't it? I'm always a morning person.

MIKE: I'm not really a hit with clubs and all that. That's Selena's thing, as you should know just from hanging out with her for a couple of cases.

CLARENCE: Mike, PC. We got a call from a Marcus Garada that one of his clients is dead.

MIKE: Marcus Garada? Wasn't that the bodyguard who was supposed to protect the lawyer that got ripped in half?

CLARENCE: He was and now another another one of his clients is dead and he's pretty angry about that.

MIKE: Angry? Oh, boy. This is going to be fun.

CLARENCE: Mr. Garada said that he found the body over near the docks at our lake. Best head on over there and clear the scene.

MIKE: You got it. Let's go find the body and talk to Marcus.

(Investigate the Docks)

Before Investigation

MIKE: Well, here we are, but where's Marcus?

MARCUS: I'm right behind you.

MIKE: Zoinks!

MIKE: Dammit! Put a bell on, next time.

MARCUS: Maybe you can shut up and start investigating!

MIKE: Woah, calm down.

MARCUS: Calm down? I lost my second client in my entire career a month from the last one! You would be angry too.

MIKE: Okay… you stay there and calm down while we investigate, okay?

MIKE: Let's go, PC. I really want to hold him off.

SUSPECT GAINED: Marcus Garada

Bodyguard

Height – 6'5

Age – 47

Weight – 220

Eyes – Brown

Blood - AB-

Description: An African-American man who is bald and wears black body armor over a grey cloak and a piece of algae stuck on his shoulder. Works as a bodyguard for Venetian Garden Guard.

After Investigation

CLUES FOUND: Victim's body, Net

MIKE: Yeesh. The chick's body is all bloated. Guessing she drowned, but Clarisse will figure that out.

MIKE: And you found a net. Judging by some of the marks on her, she was wrapped up in the net.

MIKE: There's something weird on it. Looks like green slime. Let's take a sample of it.

MIKE: Right. We got all that and Marcus to talk to. Let's get started.

(Autopsy the body)

CLARISSE: Hey, guys. How are you doing?

MIKE: Fine. Better once we know how she drowned.

CLARISSE: Yeah, funny thing, the cause of death wasn't actually drowning.

MIKE: Seriously?

CLARISSE: Yes, I analyzed her lungs and there was only a small amount in it, indicating they got in post-mortem.

CLARISSE: I took a look inside her throat and found this instead.

MIKE: A bopper? That was in her throat?

CLARISSE: Yes, and I can confirmed that it's the murder weapon. It got lodge in her throat and she asphyxiated.

MIKE: Murder by bopper. That's a new one.

CLARISSE: That's not all. I gave this bopper to Brad and he can confirmed that this bopper is only used by serious fishermen.

MIKE: So our killer likes to fish. Why does such a calm activity happen to belong to a killer?

KILLER'S PROFILE: Likes to fish.

(Examine Net)

GREEN SUBSTANCED RECOVERED

MIKE: Ew… let's get this to Rick so he can tell us what this is.

(Analyze Green substance)

RICK: Hey. Interesting find you guys got for me.

MIKE Will it lead us closer to the killer?

RICK: I think it might. The substance you found was algae.

MIKE: Algae? That… makes sense, considering the body was found at the lake.

RICK: Yes, but I found two separate DNA's on it and found that one of them belongs to the victim.

MIKE: And the other belongs to the killer!

RICK: Less yelling.

MIKE: Sorry.

RICK: Anyway, yes, I believe so, but I can't get anything more off the DNA since it was so corrupted by the environment.

RICK: However, that algae will be really hard to remove and I bet that the killer still has some on them.

MIKE: You heard that, PC. Check our suspects for Algae.

KILLER"S PROFILE: Likes to fish and has Algae on them.

(Talk to Marcus Garada about protecting the victim and finding her body)

MARCUS: Grr…

MIKE: He's growling at us…

MIKE: So, Marcus, do you know who the victim is?

MARCUS: Tiffany Fevora. Politician.

MIKE: Politician? Great…

MARCUS: She was pretty adamant about the local lake she drowned in and wanted to make it more eco-friendly. She was working with the people of Helex Technologies to preserve it.

MIKE: Helex Technologies? Do they have their fingers in everything these days.

MARCUS: Yes, they do. They're some of the people responsible for funding Venetian Gardens Guard.

MARCUS: Anyway, the last place where I met her alive was the local diner last night. We had dinner and said she was going to her house.

MIKE: Why didn't you go with her?

MARCUS: She gave me another order that I had to do. We were supposed to meet back up at the docks this morning.

MARCUS: When I arrived, I didn't see her, but noticed a fisher's net off to the side and pulled it up.

MARCUS: The net unfurled when I pulled it up and her body rolled out of it in that bloated state.

MIKE: Huh, thanks. That was surprisingly detailed.

MARCUS: I notice details.

MIKE: Right, well, let's head on to the diner, PC.

(Investigate Diner)

CLUES FOUND: Trash Can, Notepad

MIKE: So what did you find?

MIKE Trash can? A classic. Let's take a look.

MIKE: A notepad, but it looks like a page has been ripped out.

MIKE: Let's see if you can bring the contents back out. I'm interested in what's on it.

MIKE: Great work. Let's see if we can find some more people of interest.

(Analyze Trash Can)

BROKEN PIECES FOUND

MIKE: Broken pieces. Of course…

MIKE: Well, let's fix it and see what we got.

(Fix broken pieces)

FISH STATUE FOUND

MIKE: Great, so what did you fix?

MIKE: A… fish statue. Huh, okay. Weird.

MIKE: Let's give it to Brad so that we can figure out why that's there.

(Analyze fish statue)

BRAD:…

MIKE:…

BRAD: …Why in the nine blazes of hell did you give me this statue of impotence?!

MIKE: So that you can tell us who it belongs too.

BRAD: Huh, well, I guess I can do that and tell you that it belongs to a previous suspect of yours. Laura Fawcett.

MIKE: Laura Fawcett. You and Selena met her in the previous investigation, right? And she had a common affinity for statues back then, right?

BRAD: I did some investigating and I found out that she and the victim were friendnet pals, so they at least knew each other. Laura even wished Tiffany luck for the upcoming election next year.

MIKE: Huh, that so. Let's go talk to her about Tiffany then.

SUSPECT 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. Has some algae caught in her jacket collar.

(Speak to Laura Fawcett about knowing the victim)

LAURA: Oh, hello officers. How are you doing this morning?

MIKE: Fine, Miss Fawcett. We came to talk to you bout a body we found at the docks today. A certain Tiffany Fevora.

LAURA: Tiffany! Are you serious?

MIKE: Yes, we are, unfortunately.

LAURA: Oh, this is a tragedy. I met her a few times at Helex Technologies fundraisers and she was always such a nice person.

LAURA: She loved giving speeches and was at our most recent one with the robot first's attendance. She was really interested in him.

MIKE: What were some of her policies?

LAURA: All the typical eco-friendly stuff. She liked those kind of things, although she had a tendency to go a little… far.

MIKE: Far how?

LAURA: Well, it was mostly private ambitions. She never say it in public, as it was political suicide.

MIKE: Alright, thanks. And here, take your statue back.

LAURA: Thanks. I wish you luck in finding her killer.

(Examine Notepad)

UNCOVERED CODE

MIKE: Alright, you got… uh, what is this?

MIKE: You're right, this looks like Alanis's thing. Let's give it to her.

(Analyze Notepad)

ALANIS: Hey, Mike. No, I will not go out with you. I'm eleven years your senior.

MIKE: We're not here for that… thanks for laying it gently on me, though.

ALANIS: Aw, don't be sad. I know who you want to talk to about that notepad.

ALANIS: The notepad were surveillance notes. Actions and dates. The usual. Not surprising, considering politicians love keep tabs on the competition.

MIKE: So, how does that tell us who it belongs to?

ALANIS: See this symbol at the top-right corner of the paper?

MIKE: Yeah… what is that?

ALANIS: It's a chess piece. To be specific, a rook.

MIKE: Rook… is that relevant.

ALANIS: Of course it is. PC and Selena met a suspect named Rook in the case of the businessman who was strangled by Rook's girlfriend.

ALANIS: He was even keeping surveillance of the victim in that case as well.

MIKE: So the boyfriend of a murderer was keeping tabs on out victim. Wow, he knows how to soar onto the top of suspect lists. Let's go talk to him.

PROFILE GANED: 'Rook'

Bartender

Height: 6'0

Age: 37

Weight: 170

Eyes: Blue

Blood: A+

Description: Caucasian Man with a bright red Warhawk haircut wearing a Black T-shirt and glasses with a tattoo of a skull inside a crosshair on his left wrist and a necklace with a sniper rifle emblem on it with a piece of algae stuck on it.

(Talk to Rook about keeping tabs on the victim's movements)

ROOK: You again? What did I do to deserve the attention of the cops?

MIKE: You're a suspect in the murder of Tiffany Fevora, the person who you were keeping tabs on.

ROOK: Are you serious? Now how am I going to get paid?

MIKE: Paid?

ROOK: I was paid to follow her and track her every movement. Easy money.

ROOK: But now that she's dead, I doubt my client is going to want this information now.

MIKE: Who paid you to watch her?

ROOK: I'm not telling you. They didn't want her dead and I needed her alive to get paid. We didn't kill her.

MIKE: You realize that we can't take your word for it, right?

ROOK: And you can screw off. You want information about them, get something to make me talk.

MIKE: Erg… you are annoying. We'll be back.

ROOK: Better be with something good. I would like to get paid for my troubles.

MIKE: Oh, we'll pay you back with something alright…

…

MIKE: Well, this is a weird and frustrating case. Tiffany Fevora was found in at the docks by Marcus Garada, who was paid to be her bodyguard.

MIKE: Rook was also paid, although by someone else, to survey her movements, but he's not telling us who.

MIKE: Then there's Laura, who was an acquaintance of the victim at the meetings at Helex technology, of which the victim was a backer of.

MIKE: We also found out the killer is a fisher and has algae stuck to them. Fitting considering the nature of the crime.

CLARENCE: Mike, PC. We got a situation. That robot is at the victim's house trying to get in.

MIKE: Him again?!