B2S18C36

Victim
* "Gauge Vance"
Suspects
* Gauge Vance
* Jack Radcliffe
* Ciara Stafford
* Aydan Jenkins
* Peyton Shields
Quasi-Suspects
* Nassau Floyd
* Matilda Jenkins
* Alejandro Ayerbe
* Fiona Tien
Killer
* Gauge Vance
Motive
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Additional Investigation
After Gauge escapes, we take Aydan back to base and interrogate him. He tells us that Peyton was the brother of his adoptive father and nemesis Braedyn Cayne, and that after he killed Braedyn in self-defense, Peyton has been on the hunt for him in revenge, killing numerous of Aydan's friends in the process. He even kidnapped Aydan's mother a few months ago and after searching everywhere he assumed he killed her too. When Aydan finally found out he was working with the cult and realized that he was about to kill us, he shot and killed him on the spot. Aydan said he doesn't regret what he did. However, we get a call from the Wave's director, Nassau Floyd, who wants to speak with him. After a few hours of talking, Aydan left the office and told us that Nassau let him go, as a personal vendetta against a specific criminal isn't something the assistant director should do, and killing him was the final nail in the coffin. Aydan packs his things and wishes us goodbye, before leaving the station forever. We talk to Nassau about Aydan being let go, and he tells us that he's truly sad to do it since Aydan's one of their best agents, but it had to be done regardless. If the government found out that a person who launched a personal vendetta against and killed someone without any evidence was the assistant director, they would've fired both of them. Nassau told us that Aydan started acting differently after his mother was kidnapped months ago. He said that it's something Aydan needs closure on and that we should try to search for her body in order for him to have the closure he needs. We go to the docks and find an abandoned warehouse. We expect to find Aydan's mother's body, but we find her alive and well, tied up to a chair with tape over her mouth. We're shocked to see that she's actually alive and we take the tape off of her mouth. She begins to scream and tells us that the dock owner did it and that she knows exactly why. We tell her we do too and we take her to Aydan, who begins to cry and hugs his mother. He thanks us for everything and tells us to stay in touch with him, as he wants to see how far we go after he was let go. We all give Aydan and his mother hugs before returning to the base. We then find a Hispanic man with an open-buttoned jacket looking through our files. We rush to him and tell him to stop and tell us who he is, before Nassau comes and introduces us to our new chief, Alejandro Ayerbe. Alejandro said that he's been reviewing our cases for a while and is a good friend of Aydan's. Nassau tells us that Alejandro has a very keen eye for things and is very observant, before he leaves us be. Alejandro tells us that although he's not going to lead the team like Aydan, he hopes we can all work together as if he were still here. He told us that he found a connection between several of our cases that we missed. He said he did more research into the temple spirit and told us that someone can only be possessed by it willingly, so everything Valentina told us about the spirit possessing her out of nowhere is bogus. He also said that based on his own interrogations with Pen-nu Osiris after we first talked with her that the temples are hidden thousands of feet underground and the only way to summon it would be to use the map, which Maverick must've enabled somehow. He said that Rylee Hawkins must have given it to him as that's the only way he could've accessed it, although Maverick's true intentions with what he wanted to do with the temple will forever be unknown as he took them with him to the grave. Alejandro then claims that before his death, "Gauge" wrote two notes in his notebook which he found at our crime scene after we caught the real Gauge. The first note mentioned there being three temples that protect the world from Zrixera, the most powerful demon on earth who was banished billions of years ago, and that it took The Big Bang for the now-deceased Greek gods to do it. We realized that when Zrixera is summoned, she not only has the power to immortalize people, but also to bring people back from the dead. We also know that she'll likely want revenge and will end up destroying all life as we know it. "Gauge's" second set of notes mentioned interrogating Fiona Tien, the cult member we arrested for killing a partygoer a week ago. We visit Fiona in prison and she tells us she's not in the mood to hear us gloating. We then ask her what "Gauge" wanted to talk to her about, and she said he held her at gunpoint and told her to tell him everything she knew about the cult and what their plans were, since he knew that out of all of them, she was the most likely to get caught. She then tells us to go away and that she won't say anything else as "Gauge" already knows everything. We then tell her we found his journal and now know everything, and she begins to panic and tells us we won't get away with this. She said that she has her ways of telling the members what we found out and that they'll be out for blood to try and stop us before we can prevent them from fulfilling their plans. She said that nothing will stop them and that we shouldn't even try, for our own safety. She then tells us to go away for real this time, and calls the guards to escort us out. After this, we realize that a local prison in a neighboring city, Onibury, had a massive escape plan that involved hundreds of criminals. We rush there to see if we can find any, only to realize that one of the criminals was killed.