B2S14C27

Victim
* Tao Qing
Suspects
* Rocco Romero
* Koshikawa Hideko
* Amar Deudhar
* Kam Kash
* Ethan Downs
Killer
* Ethan Downs
Motive
After confronting him with the murder, Ethan panicked and said that Qing wasn't on their side. He said that she was secretly spying on them on behalf of the emperor and that he overheard her calling him and telling him top secret information. Ethan then decided to put an end to the traitor before she could do any more harm.
Sentence
10 Years
Additional Investigation
After arresting Ethan, Rocco comes to us and tells us that we have proved our loyalty by successfully entering the Xinyahnese castle and gaining the emperor's trust. Rocco then told us to share all the information we have with him and prove once and for all that the Xinyahnese are the enemy and that they're just looking for trouble. We then told him about Amar, the Pro-War group, and the nuke. Rocco then tells us to find proof and we show him everything we found. He then tells us that we're lucky we made allies of them. Rocco also said that they've been focusing all their forces on assassinating the emperor when in reality it was this Amar person they should've been focusing on. We then told him that Amar isn't the cause of all this: it's actually Gunnar. Rocco then told us that based on everything we told him, it seems that if we take out Amar the rest will fall easily, as Gunnar is definitely the most reliant on him for his plans to succeed. We tell him that we have to stop Gunnar too and he sends out some members to search for Gunnar, since he has to be here in Xinyahn as well if all the nukes are here. We told him that the nukes went off and he told us that they haven't hit the U.S. yet and that he doubts Gunnar could've left that quickly. We then go to the emperor and tell him what the situation is and we tell him to shut down every airport in Xinyahn to guarantee that Gunnar can't escape, and he does. Koshikawa told us that he wanted to have a good relationship with the United States unlike all his other family members since he feels that having enemies are pointless unless it's absolutely necessary. We then hear a news report, saying that while most of the nukes hit the water, one hit and completely evaporated North Carolina and South Carolina and the toxic fumes spread to southern Virginia as well. We then find a note from Danielle at the resistance base which was mailed there before her murder and in this letter she says, "Do not trust Ye Zan. More instructions will follow." When we asked Rocco about the letter, he said that he ignored them because he didn't know who they were from. We told him that we knew this "Ye Zan" and that we needed to speak with him right away, as he was just recently moved to a prison in his hometown after being a suspect in Cleandro's murder. We then rush to the prison, only for Milton to tell us that he oversees this prison too and that one of the prisoners was just murdered, so this isn't a good time to come by. We tell him that we're going to investigate this prisoner's murder and he sighs and lets us in.