Chapter 6: Interrogation
Ezra's P.O.V
About 30 minutes have passed since Sabine and I caught Njuck, and moved him into another room for interrogation, and the rouge rebel still wasn't talking. At one point, I even went as far as to threaten him with my lightsaber since he wasn't giving me and Sabine anything. We would switch methods, and switch whoever it would be interrogating, but Njuck still didn't give us anything. After a while, Sabine and I decided to contact an old friend for help. That old friend was Alex.
Before he left the crew totally on his mission, he would sometimes serve as the prime interrogator for whenever we captured a person and questioned him or her whenever the situation was necessary, though it was rare. He was good at his job, quite good in fact. Speaking of which, we saw a ship touch down in front of the hangar just now, and I bet it was Alex. Sabine and I both left the interrogation room to greet our old friend, leaving two of the watchers in charge of keeping Njuck where we want him.
He stepped out of his new ship, and was wearing his casuals, with his stubble shaved, and his hair grown slightly longer. "Hey guys." Alex said. "Alex! It's great to see you again." I said. "It is too, Ez." Alex replied. "So where's our problem that you needed me to handle?" "Right this way." Sabine said, leading him to the room.
When we got to the room, Alex was cracking his knuckles, indicating that he was ready to go to work. "Alex, wait here. I'm just gonna go and have a word with our guy." I informed him. "I gotcha." Alex replied. I walked in the room, where Njuck had his head down on the table. "Get up." I ordered. Njuck complied. "So, what are you gonna do now, Bridger? Stick your blade in my face again?" Njuck said and smirked. "You wipe that smile off your face right now!" I ordered. "Why? I don't have anyone to be afraid of." Njuck said. "You know, Njuck, your gonna wish you never said that. We got a guy coming in right now, and he is going to kick ass at getting you to talk." I retorted. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go get some coffee." I added. "You mean you're afraid of questioning me, Bridger?" Njuck smirked. "Not exactly." I replied. I walked out of the room, turned to Alex, and said, "The show is yours. We have audio and video recording so that we could get it back to the crew in the morning, and we have evidence that involves him in there. Good luck." "I'll get it done." Alex said, cracking his knuckles yet again.
Alex walked in the room, while Sabine and I went to the holo room to see the hologram of the interrogation, overseeing what Alex could get out of this guy. Alex came in and took a seat in front of Njuck. "So, you are the rouge from what Ezra and Sabine told me, right?" Alex said. "That is all false. You, my friend, are targeting a friendly. Clearly, you and your friends are going after me over a murder that I never committed." Njuck replied. "Funny. Why do those photos of members of the cell with Mandalorian names have X's on them, including the photo of the most recent guy you've murdered?" Alex asked. "They were the ones who were about to go rouge, and I clearly stamped them out before shit could go down." Njuck said. "Your lying, rouge." Alex said. "I am not." Njuck replied.
Alex got up from his seat, and grabbed evidence that was on a board in the room. "According to what Ezra and Sabine told me when they contacted me earlier, they said that they overheard you on a call with an imperial by the looks of things. There was this one quote that I wanted to point out that was taken from the call: ' I'm telling you, once I have targeted the last few members who I need to target, I will give you the location of our base.' You clearly were targeting people, not to mention that in that note that you wrote to the one who got murdered, you said that you've gone back to your ways as an imperial citizen. So tell me, why were you targeting those Mandalorian members, as well as planned on targeting Sabine?" Alex questioned. "Ok fine, I admit it." Njuck said. "Admit what?" Alex inquired. "I admit that I did take those kills, I murdered Doc, I was in contact with the Empire, I did go rouge, and I did plan on targeting Sabine and a few others that were on my hit list." Njuck answered. Finally, Njuck broke, and he admitted to killing Doc. So far, Alex was doing a good job. "Damn he's good." Sabine said with her arms crossed. "Yeah. Too good probably." I said.
"Tell me why you killed them and Doc, and why did you go rouge especially?" Alex demanded. "Doc was clearly fighting for a lost cause, all those Mandalorian members were, caring more about blood than family,which is a major value in Mandalorian culture, and they broke that value, and something had to be done. They were going down a long path downhill, and I knew that once I officially broke my chains that this rebellion set on me, I would do something about it. In fact, I when I came into contact with the Empire once again, I revealed to them everything about these members fighting a lost cause." Njuck answered.
"When you came into contact with the Empire when you revealed your plans to go rouge, did they give the go ahead to do your plans?" Alex asked. "Yes they did." Njuck nonchalantly answered. "Did they ever try to exploit you in anyway?" Alex inquired. "Yes. They said that if I could eliminate those Mandalorian members of the cell, including Doc, they wanted me to provide the location of the base to them." Njuck answered. "And did you?" Alex demanded. "No. I told them that I would not give them the location of the base until all targets have been eliminated." Njuck answered.
"But why Mandalorians in particular?" Alex asked. "They broke the values of Mandalorian culture. I was once a proud Mandalorian back on Mandalore who followed all those values, as well as the values of the Empire before Doc and I fled Mandalore. But when Doc and I got involved in rebellion, I thought about it for a while, a long time for that matter, and decided that all this went entirely against the values of Mandalore and the Empire, and that something had to be done." Njuck answered. "Ezra also mentioned to me that when he and Sabine discovered your board with your targets earlier in your room, the cell never found out about the deaths of those who you killed. Why was that?" Alex asked. "They were aware of me getting on their nerves, and it got up to the point where I took those kills the only way I knew how." Njuck said. "And what way may have that been?" "Combat to the death." "And did you kill Doc that way?" "No. I killed him quietly and swift, no blood involved. Just a toxic dart that I bought back on Mandalore to carry out the kill."
"How many Mandalorian targets did you have on your list?" Alex asked. "Fifteen total, and only 10 were killed, including Doc." Njuck answered. "And I wanted to go for Wren last in particular because she, out of all of the people who I've killed, really broke the Mandalorian values. Her name is the bane of my existence. In fact, do you wanna know what I view her as?" "Say something, and Sabine and Ezra are aware." Alex reminded him sternly. "I view her as a traitor to our culture, and a traitor to our empire. In total, I view her like Death Watch. The fact that her clan is under House Vizsla means that she's Death Watch." Njuck said. Sabine began to walk away from the holo room, with a serious look on her face and her fists rolled in tight, ready to barge in there and teach him a lesson. "No." I said stopping her. "We need more from him." I reminded her. Sabine nodded, but was still pissed over the comment.
"She is not Death Watch, and I consider that comment you made about my friend very offensive, and I think that it's safe to say that if you say anything about her, or any of my friends, then you are fucking around with me. Is that clear?" Alex asked. Njuck nodded. "That, and hold on a minute. Sabine believed that you are a Vizsla yourself. So, if you are a Vizsla, wouldn't that mean that you are considering yourself a traitor since the Death Watch are traitors anyway in the eyes of Mandalore?" Alex asked. "I am not a Vizsla." Njuck answered. "Lies, lies, and more fucking lies. I'm betting credits that you are in fact a Vizsla, thanks to Sabine's contact giving her the initials that you signed when you bought that dart that you used to take the kill. Your initials are N.V, and tell me what the V means, Njuck." Alex demanded. "Fine. I am in fact a Vizsla myself." Njuck admitted. "And were you ever like any of the Vizslas back on Mandalore?" Alex asked. "No. In fact, I was the opposite. I didn't believe in treachery like Death Watch or anything, and instead believed in honor, respect, and loyalty. That's why I chose to become my old self again for when I took them all out, to live up to the Mandalorian and imperial name, and to get rid of those who didn't, even if it meant going rouge and doing what was necessary." Njuck said.
"In that case, Njuck Vizsla," Alex said. "You are done for. You have been caught with your commitment of a heinous crime on the grounds of the rebellion, and your game is over. You have lost, Njuck." Alex put Njuck in cuffs, cuffing one to himself, and another to the back of the chair that the rouge was sitting in, and kept him there until we figured out what to do with him. Alex walked out of there. "Keep him under watch." Alex reminded the same two night watchers who were present with us. The watchers nodded, and Alex walked towards me and Sabine.
"Case closed, guys." Alex said. "Thanks for helping us out on this one, Alex. We couldn't get to the bottom of this interrogation if it wasn't for stepping in." Sabine said. "Always glad to help out my friends." Alex replied. "So what now?" "Now, I guess we go to sleep. We are done after all." I said. "What about Njuck?" Alex inquired. "Sato and Rex will take care of him tomorrow morning. Plus, you cuffed him to his chair anyway." I answered. "In the meantime, Sabine and I are off. Thank you for helping us." "You're welcome, guys. Contact me again later if you wanna hang out or anything." Alex said. "Will do. Goodnight." Sabine said. "Goodnight." Alex replied.
Alex climbed a board his new ship, and took off into the stars. In the meantime, Sabine and I went back to the Ghost, and immediately got changed into our sleep where to sleep in the bathroom, and brush our teeth there also. When I came out of the bathroom, I saw her just outside her room. "Goodnight, Sabine." I said. "Goodnight, Ezra. Good job today on the mystery. We made a good team." Sabine replied. "We did. I'm going now, I'll see you in the morning. Goodnight." "Goodnight." I went into my room while she went to her's, and immediately passed out on the bed, glad to know that another tough mission for us came to an end. I just wondered what the cell was gonna do with Njuck, that is if they choose to something to him, but I had a good feeling that they were going to.
The next morning
Sabine and I slept late, the time being 09:30 when we woke up. We woke up, got changed, got breakfast from the kitchen, and went to see Kanan to report how the watch went. We informed Kanan of what happened last night, how Njuck was apprehended, and that we got a bit of help from an old friend. Kanan was proud of us that we caught the murderer, proud of me that I was able to handle myself when we caught him. It was a stressful feeling when Sabine and I caught him after all. But, we were all glad that it was all over, and that Sabine and the other Mandalorian members who were not taken out were relieved that we stopped Njuck. As for Njuck, with the help of a certain someone, being Fenn Rau, he was accused of treason by the Empire after Rau turned the tables on him. Njuck was now sitting in imperial prison, enraged that his plan had failed, and for the fact that the Protector of Concord Dawn was involved in getting him in there. Me? I'm just glad that it's all over finally after one grueling day. Now, I'm gonna go and graffiti stuff with Sabine. I guess we both earned it after this mystery came to a close.
