The Science of Deduction, Friday - 9/24

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Today the danger shop was set up to look like, well, another classroom. Not terribly exciting compared to bodies and crime scenes.

"St. Luke's is well known for their academic honesty and the caliber of students attending." Meaning their parents weren't who's anymore, rather whom's now. "Unfortunately for them, a theft has occurred the day before the final examinations. Mr. Soames--"

As Sherlock pushed a button on his phone, an older man appeared in the classroom. Because he enjoyed this technology far, far too much.

"--left his office, locked, to pick up lunch. According to him, he'd only been gone an hour. But when he returned, the door was unlocked and someone had tampered with his computer, gaining access to the answers for the exam planned for the following day. The only evidence left at the scene was a smear of mud just inside the doorway and faint scratches on the floor in the same spot."

The corner of his mouth turned up in something like amusement. "Not wanting a scandal, they contacted me to solve the case."

Because he was the Goddamn Sherlock Holmes.

"They have narrowed the suspects down to three students." Another push of a button and the teacher disappeared, replaced by three young men. "These three were the only other people in this particular building during that hour. Your job is to partner off, question them and draw your conclusions as to who is guilty from that and the evidence I have given you."

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Emotional!

Re: Sign In

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Bruce Wayne

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William Murdoch

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Dana Scully

Pick a Partner

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And discuss the problem at hand!

Re: Pick a Partner

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James looked around for a partner. Send a thief to catch a thief, apparently.

Re: Pick a Partner

[momslilassassin]

Ben waited for a partner as he gave each of the suspects an appraising look. He didn't have any insights about them yet, but there was still time.

Re: Pick a Partner

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Scully was considering moving forward without a partner; then again, the point of having one was for one person to ask questions and the other observe.

"Would you like to pair up?" she asked diffidently.

Re: Pick a Partner

[momslilassassin]

"Sure," Ben said. "Do you want to ask or observe?"

Re: Pick a Partner

[heromaniac]

Momoko stared hard at the suspects as she considered who to partner up with. One of them was a cheater! It wasn't a very heroic case, but it was totally something a responsible Heroine of Justice should look into.

Plus now she was totally curious about how they did it and why there was mud on the floor. And were there really no fingerprints?

Talk to the Suspects

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When they tag in.

Talk to the Suspects - Daulat Ras

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Why he was even being questioned was completely beyond Daulat. He had no reason to steal anything, after all.

It was clearly the other two.

Re: Talk to the Suspects - Daulat Ras

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Scully sat down at the table and nodded to Daulat. "Hello, Mr. Ras. I'm Dana Scully. This is my partner, Ben Skywalker. We've been tasked with questioning you regarding the theft of test answers from Mr. Soames' office." A nice neutral opening, which would hopefully give them a place to start from.

Re: Talk to the Suspects - Daulat Ras

[momslilassassin]

Ben gave her a slightly amused look. She sounded like she'd swallowed a book on police procedure. "What were you doing in the building?" he asked Daulat as he took a seat and a closer look at their first suspect.

You know, in case this was going to be easy and he had mud on his shoes or something.

Talk to the Suspects - James Gilchrist

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James didn't think he had any reason to be a suspect. He worked hard for his grades. He didn't need to cheat on the pitch and he didn't need to cheat in the classroom.

It was obvious that it was one of the other guys.

[OOC: I'll try to pick up a couple pings in the morning if I have any, but otherwise nothing until I'm home from work! Alas!]

Re: Talk to the Suspects - James Gilchrist

[momslilassassin]

"Hi," Ben said, sliding into a chair across from Suspect #2. "I'm Ben, this is Dana--" he waved his hand toward Scully, "--and we have a few questions for you."

Talk to the Suspects - Gregory Franks

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Gregory's mannerisms fluctuated between looking vaguely bored and vaguely annoyed at the proceedings.

He so had better things to do. Like go to a kegger. He didn't have time for this shit, couldn't they see that the guilty party was one of the other two?

Talk to the TAs

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...who also need to tag in.

Re: Talk to the TAs

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Bruce was around if anyone needed assistance, or wanted to know the quickest way out of most large aquariums.

Re: Talk to the TAs

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William was here... looking up articles on wolf bites via his phone. This is your fault, Sherlock. On multiple levels.

He was, however, perfectly interruptable.

Talk to the Teacher

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Who was there, as always, and ever so approachable. Really.

OOC

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Mmmm. Using a mystery from the books.

Re: OOC

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NICK IS A LADY.

That is all.

Re: OOC

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True story.

Re: OOC

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BRIDGEY IS A DRUNK. ELAINE IS A DOUBLE DRUNK.