B2S16C78

Victim
* Cecil Houston
Suspects
* Deacon Ratliff
* Zavier XVIII
* Elvis Kirkland
* Betina Ibsen
* Jarrod Duran
* Chloe Mullins
Killer
* Jarrod Duran
Motive
Jarrod said that he never had that close of a relationship with his brother and didn't care to spare him after the king came up to him and offered him more money than he could've ever imagined to take him out. Jarrod told us that normally he'd never do anything so diabolical, but after he was arrested and released from prison several times after being a member of the Peacemakers, the king offered to give him a clean slate if he took Cecil out. Jarrod said that if we ever need his help, to just give him a call.
Additional Investigation
After Jarrod quickly escapes, we confront Zavier and he tells us that he's grown to like and trust us and told us everything. He said that Cecil was part of a group of conspirators who were planning to assassinate him and that they planned to poison him tonight during a dinner at a nearby hotel. He knew that Cecil wanted all of his power and would do anything for it, even if it meant throwing Uzibibi into a vat of fire if it meant getting what he wanted. He said he would never do anything like that again, but now Uzibibi is hopefully safe. We then decide to grill Deacon about this group, and he says that he has no idea about their existence and that they must've been in the shadows for quite some time. We share our information with Chloe who tells us that the DPM has had problems with a rebel group called "The Uprising" who poisoned the king's newborn baby. The king wasted no time with executing every member he could find, and now that they have enough people again, they're back. We decide to do some more research on "The Uprising," before the king orders us to go to his palace, where we find him throwing a fit. He is panicking and he said he just heard that someone at the hotel drank out of his chalice and died as a result. He demanded us to investigate, and that is exactly what we did.