As seen on tv: Forensic Science, 1/17 5th Period

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

Abby welcomed the students into the danger room by handing out lab coats and directing them to the lab. "Last week was excellent, I'm totally impressed by your work! Because you guys turned out to know more than I thought, I'm bumping up the lessons plans. Today we're going to be focusing on two techniques."

"We're going to be looking for leftovers today. Leftover blood and leftover residue from a gun." Abby gave a quick lecture on the history, chemical basics and uses of Luminol. She didn't really care if you were taking notes or not. "What you need to remember for today's class is 'wetter is better'. Don't skimp on spraying the solution. You don't want to let the bad guy get off because you were nervous about getting the drapes soggy. Once you've sprayed the solution, use the portable blacklights to determine whether or not there's a glow."

"Next we're going to test for gunshot residue." Abby grinned and held up a plastic arm off a mannequin. "This is Creepy Pete, the criminal. He's going to help you learn today, aren't you, Pete?" The hand didn't respond. Running through a history of the chemicals used and the methods employed to test for gunshot residue, Abby finished up by grabbing a tube and brush. "It's easy as pie. You brush on the activator and then hold the hand under a special light. Ta-da! Creepy Pete has been up to no good."

Abby rubbed her hands together excitedly and pointed towards the crime scene door. "Now for the fun part! Today's crime scene is a mystery that you need to solve. The police found young Sam, the victim of an apparent suicide. But there are some concerns." Abby led the way to the doorway so that the students could see the crime scene, a small bedroom with light blue walls, a desk and chair, carpeted floors. Then there was the bed where Sam Winchester lay, seemingly dead, one hand lying on his chest and the sheet beneath his head slick with dried blood.

"Now," Abby had allowed a few moments for the crime scene to sink before speaking. "The first officers on the scene found a gun in Sam's hand, just lying across his chest. Such a perfect placement like that after shooting yourself in the head seemed a little iffy and add the fact that there's no blood spatter on the bed and you've got a possibility that this case isn't as open and shut as it looks. Check out the room with the the luminol and then check out Sam for gunshot residue. Pick up your handouts and your tools from the lab and then get to work. Use the evidence to figure out what happened and then catch the bad guy."

[ooc: OCD coming up! Play!]

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CHUNG CHUNG

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

Present your idea of what happened to the waiting cops and then test the hands of the suspects for gunshot residue.

[Come in and give your spiel and then mod testing the hands for residue! Yay moddable criminals!]

Re: CHUNG CHUNG

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I believe that Sam did not commit suicide, that he instead was murdered by someone who staged the scene to try to make it appear that Sam killed himself. There was blood spatter in an area away from the scene and Sam's hands had no real sign of gunpowder residue." She looked at her notes.

"My guess is that one of these suspects has gunpowder residue on his hands and that man is probably Sam's killer." She motioned for the suspects to come up so she could test their hands for gunpowder residue.

Re: CHUNG CHUNG

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"I am guessing that this was not suicide, as there is no gun residue on the glove, and well there is a knee shaped bruise on the chest and it is hard to shoot yourself and clean up before dying. I bet the suspect shot him. We need to test him for residue."

Ami does so.

Re: CHUNG CHUNG

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Zero and I have found not enough gunshot residue on Sam's hand to account for him shooting the gun," Parker said, looking pale. "From my own observations, there's no suicide note, and the blood patterns are inconsistent with self-inflicted wounds. Plus, he's got a bruise as if he were held down, in the center of his chest. This is not a suicide." She took a breath. "Would the largest guy in the line-up please step forward? Zero's pointed out that it would take someone that size to hold Sam down in order to kill him. We'd like to do a GSR test on him."

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[imissmydolphin.livejournal.com]

"It wasn't suicide. The positioning of the gunshot wound and the fact that the victim didn't have any residue on his hands means it's impossible that he shot himself in the head. There's no conceivable way that he could have done it. There's also a bruise on his chest that suggests a struggle. The suspects need to have their hands tested for gunshot residue. Because there weren't more marks on the victim's body, it would have had to be someone bigger than him. And if we need more evidence than that, I think an x-ray of the chest area around the bruise might show some fracturing from that kind of pressure, and we should check under the victim's fingernails and run a DNA test on anything we find under there."

The suspects' hands were tested and, in an amazing plot twist, two suspects had residue on their hands. They quickly turned on each other, one blaming the other and then vice-versa, but it turned out they both held the gun while one pulled the trigger that killed Sam. The motive was moving and dramatic as one confessed and the other stood glaring.

Or maybe it just went according to plan and the rest was in Lucas' head.

CHUNG CHUNG.