Ash's Art Appreciations, Lecture #4

[names-ash.livejournal.com]

*Ash stands in front of the classroom, scribbling notes on his clipboard until all the students settle in*

Alright, last week's lecture was a bit of traumatic experience for everyone, so today, I've prepared a special slide show.

*Dims the lights, and puts on a "Best of Cake" CD, and starts up the Slide Projector. The slide show is a series of photographs of puppies, small children, women in bikinis, rainbows, women in bikinis with guns, kittens, and flowers*

*After the presentation, he turns the lights back up, and shuts off the music*

Alright, the discussion topic: "Is Photography Art?"

Go ahead and duke it out, kids.

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[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty leans over to Cuddy during the slide show of rainbows and bikinis.

"Hey Cuddy, did you hear about that whole hallucinatory freak out scene last Wednesday at Spike's Pub?"

[lisacuddy.livejournal.com]

"Rumors, like everything else at this school. But I wasn't there. Why, Detective Blank, are you hot on the case?" she smirks.

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"That's right Mugsy. I'm covering all the angles." Marty says in a bad Bogart impersonation.

"I was wondering if you knew anyone who might be able to make a hallucineogenic drug that could be carried in a vial, dissapate into gas upon being released and cause people to experience some of their greatest fear for approximately 12-24 hours."

He shrugs. "I thought since you and Crane were so involved in the Science club you might know who could make such a thing."

((OOC: More info on toxin here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/master_of_fear/1383.html?thread=61287#t61287)))

[lisacuddy.livejournal.com]

She laughts out loud at his antics. "With all the people in and out of that lab, I wouldn't know..." Light dawns on Marblehead. "You have a suspect, don't you? Spill. Not for my own curiosity of course, I would never ask you to endanger your office for that." She snickers, "But if you want me to keep an eye out, I need to know what I'm looking for."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"I'm not really sure. That Jay guy has admitted to me that he dropped the vial at Spike's, but he barely has enough brains to blow his nose. There was one guy who was not identified at the bar that I'm trying to find out who it was that wasn't affected by the gas."

Marty pulls out notebook. "Tall. Dark hair and thin. Not much to go on... but I've got a hunch that if he wasn't the one affected by the gas... then maybe he had something to do with it."

[lisacuddy.livejournal.com]

"Well, if you think the person needed to have access to the labs off-hours, that would only be the members of Science Club. We only have three guys (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/249681.html). Broots - that stoner would have remembered his sideburns. It can't be Broots. Roy hasn't been in the labs unsupervised for a few weeks at least..."

Her eyes widen. "You don't think..."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Who? Crane? I don't know. Does he have the grey matter to put this kind of thing together? I don't want to make any baseless accusations."

[lisacuddy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, he does," she practically whispers. "And he works in the clinic, supposedly as a psychiatrist-type. You have to ask yourself who would want to make people hallucinate their greatest fears? Someone who wants to punish someone else, perhaps, but the group was too random for that. Why risk detection by introducing so many people to the gas? Or someone who has another interest in seeing the results...

He's a nice guy, though. I mean, he has been to me. I don't know that much about him...

He is certainly more than capable if he put his mind to it. And he has access to the labs like I do. Ask Ms. Sidle if she has an inventory, so that you can determine if the gas came from the lab, first. I have no real evidence that he did anything. But... it fits. It fits. Jesus."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty nods. "Yeah well... I know next to nothing about the guy. These guys? They covered their tracks pretty well. Any evidence was thrown out the next day in the garbage trucks. The guy who dropped the vial? Total numbnut. You basic patsy. Honestly? I'm wondering if that was just a test drive."

"Look... don't tell anybody else about this. I doubt he left a trail behind him, but I've got some other people I need to talk to before I can confirm anything. I already have some other people asking questions about this so don't be surprised if you're approached. Tell them that I already talked to you about it. Okay? I already have someone following up with Sidle and I'm talking with Grissom later."

((*snerk*))

[lisacuddy.livejournal.com]

"I like all my limbs where they are, believe me, my mouth stays shut. Look, we are having a Science Club meeting tomorrow, if you want to stop by feel free. Just try not to sing the theme song to Dragnet."

She smirks.

"And be careful, okay? Wouldn't want someone to mess up your hair," she laughs, but shows her honest concern in her eyes.