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

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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"Great! Want to start with cause of death, body temperature, and caliber of weaponry?"

"Sure. Cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head," he said, adding in the ~~handwavey~~ weapon caliber. "And my body temperature is colder than it should be."

"Hrm, like, the window being open or body dragged here? Gotta admit, love the artsy pose with the symmetry and all. That doesn't happen."

He looks at the floor, and the gun. "Gun caliber match the wound?"

"Artsy poses might be nice, but this one's hell on my bed." Sam smirked, and nodded. "Yeah, the caliber and the bullet and the wound all match."

"Okay, so that's the gun, but... that's not the place. Anything else? I've got lotsa shiny verbal autopsy tools, but... don't want things to get messy."

Sam snickered. "I think things are messy enough already. Let's see, I died at 10:00pm, and in addition to the gunshot wound, I have a bruise on my chest that's about the size of someone's knee. Oh, and here," he said, handing John a plastic glove. "You can check my 'hand' for gunshot residue."

"Bonus. I so love this class, what with the fun smells, playing with blacklights, and talking to dead people while carrying off body parts," John smirked, putting the 'hand' in an evidence bag.

"Oh, one more thing? Where were you shot? THrough and through or skull-bouncy?"

Sam did his best to not give John a strange look. It wouldn't be befitting a corpse, after all.

"Oh, I was shot in the head," he said, pointing to the entrance and exit spots.

John examines the headshot and the angle, trying to position his own head and hand to see if it was feasible.

Sam specifically held still to show how the angle probably wouldn't work.

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