Week 14 – UDC 7 – Prime Suspect

Castle

"Come on back, Rippencourt." As soon as Charlie walked in the door for the second time in as many days, he was reminded at once that the man he was coming here to see had eyes everywhere. It galled him that the man couldn't take the time to pronounce his name properly, but that was becoming increasingly small potatoes compared to the epiphany he'd had when he had caught Gadget with the circuit board prototype.

The possibility of someone else having kept theirs? The ramifications of such a possibility? That was why he'd come across town to talk to someone else who had also been on the project… even if their pronunciation left something to be desired.

House

Listening to Detective Madigan berate him for not being able to say where he was on the night of the murder, Robo glanced pointedly around the sanctuary they were standing in, wondering if she'd take the hint from just his body language. It wasn't that he did not want to say, it was that he couldn't say, and all matters related to Diana were confidential as a matter of public trust. Which… he had yet to figure out how to work around, and no one had yet asked the right questions or put two and two together about the week they'd had before the minister was killed by an unknown assailant.

Hut

He wasn't sure what he'd find as he looked through the OCP files on his quarry who just happened to be six feet tall, wearing metal armor from head to toe, armed with a machine pistol of all things, and usually mild-mannered, but it sure wasn't a new-found respect. Smith stared at the photo on record of the officer before he'd died and at the information, and didn't want to believe the evidence of the crime any more than Detective Madigan had when she'd badgered Internal Affairs into giving RoboCop an inquest. Then he smothered those thoughts… it wasn't his place to pass judgement on who was or wasn't guilty.

Tent

Listening as Gadget told Charlie about having seen Alex as a hologram, Diana couldn't help but smile as she heard the man brush her off and babbled an explanation of where he'd be going to the eight year old. Though she was standing in a basement, watching with guarded hope as Alex fixed the circuitry that had been damaged by that blow to the chest, it was still strange when she found she could listen in on a conversation taking place on the other side of town.

Cave

With the damage he'd taken at the church, Robo was unable to uplink to Metro South, so he had to do something he had not done in years… use a telephone booth on a street corner. It was odd and humbling all at once, and he would have smiled, or tried to, had the situation not been so dire.

Though he had called the back line for the tech room and was expecting to get Charlie, instead he ended up finding out from Gadget that Charlie was one step ahead of himself and Diana and now he had to rely on the girl to get help to Charlie before something bad happened.