B2S18C18

Victim
* Janae Solis
Suspects
* Logan Duran
* Gauge Vance
* Petunia Moore
* Bobby Hart
* Tom Sutton
Quasi-Suspects
* Thiago Moore
* Bria Frost
* Olivia Holman
Killer
* Gauge Vance
Motive
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== Additional Investigation ==
After Gauge’s suicide, Lexi asks us if she can analyze the footage of Gauge before he poisons himself. We agree and she tells us a few key things. She says that based on how much he was shaking, he was scared and nervous before his death, as he knew how it was going to end the entire time. She then said that Gauge quickly moved off-topic after Claudia brought up the person framing others for murder, which suggested that he knew the person responsible. We go to Petunia’s cell where we find Thiago talking to her. We tell Thiago that if Petunia is willing to be interrogated, then she is free to go. He shakes our hands and thanks us as he exits and waits in the waiting room area. We ask Petunia if anyone strange appeared at Valentina’s party, and she said that one person stood out: Gauge. She said that Gauge was Valentina’s former teacher and her current professor, but obviously he wasn’t invited, and he was obsessed with students not partying and doing homework and becoming smarter instead. We tell her that after being confronted with a second murder, Gauge took his own life and may have been involved in a bigger scheme. She said that ever since his colleague, Janae, went to prison for murder, he’s been acting strange, and that he mentioned her a lot to the class. She said that he felt like he was spying on her, as even when her and her friends were at the docks, she noticed him. She couldn’t see him well, but she was sure it was him. After she called out for him, he ran away. She said she saw him on a lot of dark supernatural websites lately on his phone. We told her that she was free to go and we saw her and Thiago hug while they both cried. We ask the prison guards if they have his inventory, and we find his phone. However, as soon as we turn it on, everything begins to delete. We immediately send it to Bria, who manages to restore everything, as usual. She said that there were numerous texts between him and a certain “Damian.” Bria said that she noticed a lot of Satanic terms in their messages and that he talked to this “Damian” as if they were a god. Bria said that before joining the Akai Ryuu, she was in a Satanic cult and that this sounds a lot like the stuff they were saying. She said they always had a fascination with the three guardian temples, the Temple of Unus, the Temple of Duae, and the Temple of Tris. She said that the Temple of Tris was the most powerful by far and that they apparently protected the world from demons according to their leader. We asked her who this “Damian” is, and she told us that the name was passed down from leader to leader. She told us that she doesn’t know who the current Damian is, as the previous Damian while she was there was Ulleam Glas, and he died of skin cancer a few months after she left them. She had no contact with the other members back then, because she was kidnapped and tortured for months until she joined them, as they needed her tech skills to hack into buildings and blow them up. Bria said that she’s not proud of her past, but at least she can try to make it right by helping us take them down once and for all. She said that they were called the “Harbringers of Armageddon.” She then said that “Harbringers” was Gauge’s password into his accounts, so we can be certain that he was involved. We asked her what the texts were about, and she told us that Gauge told Damian he killed Rylee and Valentina and framed them so we wouldn’t suspect him. Damian then ordered him to kill Janae in jail, and the only way he could get inside was to kill someone and get into the same prison. Hence, he killed Spencer and got into the prison so he could kill Janae. He had some contact with him as one of the guards delivered him a letter we found that says, “If they find you, do what needs to be done. Do not be the traitor that Janae was.” We knew she was going to spill everything eventually, as she wasn’t supposed to get caught in the first place. We then realized that Gauge had a bunch of messages with members of the company ItzCorp that were unfortunately deleted. Bria restored the main thing that mattered: the messages with Damian. We know their headquarters is in Illeshire, so we head there next. Immediately after this, Bria barges into the recap room and tells us that Tom just escaped prison. We rush to the prison and ask Olivia if she knows what happened, but she tells us that she’s glad he got away and that he will come back for her. We put a reward up for any information for Tom’s whereabouts as we go to Illeshire to talk to the employees at ItzCorp.