On The Brink of War

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**On The Brink of War** is the 40th case in The Origins, the 5th and final case in the West Central Region, and the final case of the season.

## ***Plot***

After the team's tech expert's betrayal, we're off to St. Paul, Minnesota, to stop Duchess Sophia Bartlett, before she starts a dangerous war between the U.S. and Russia. The team's chief, Jessica Charles, and the player's goal are to rush into Sophia's base, arrest her, and return to safety. We rush into the base, only to find Ursula Gemini shocked at the sight of Adeline Mann's dead body. We take Ursula back to base and we send Adeline's body to Maria Caulfield, the team's coroner. Jessica then offers to help the player with this case, but the team's profiler, Lily Hall, demanded that her and the player handle this case, as Sophia most likely has something to do with Adeline's murder, and Lily said she will not rest until she gets justice for her late father, Aaron Hall. We head back to the base and find a priest robe we easily recognize to be Gus Washington's. We return the robes to Gus, who says he's here to stop Sophia. We immediately find a locked door, Gus kicks it open and we find Kieran Bartlett, Sophia's son, crying in a corner. We ask Kieran what's wrong, and he said that he badly wanted to divorce his extremely rude wife, Valerie Bartlett. Kieran said that he managed to get a divorce file, but it wasn't official yet, so he was dating Adeline, which is why he was so protective of her back at Mount Rushmore. He then leads us to his mom, Sophia, who tells the team to give up, as the broadcast will start in one hour. We tell Sophia that we won't give up and we'll do everything we can in our power to stop her. Gus, Lily, and the player then rush into the room Sophia just came in, only to find out that it's the broadcasting room. We search around and find Esfir Volkova tied up with tape over her mouth. Gus tries to free her, but Sophia shoots his arm, making him collapse to the ground. Lily then kicks Sophia's leg and her and the player drag Gus's unconsious body to Maria to take care of. We then come back to see Sophia gone and Esfir still tied up. We try to free her, but Sophia's accomplices, Rostya Pushkin and Imogen Caulfield, come in with guns, ready to shoot Lily and the player to death. We untie Esfir, who kicks Rostya in the face, making him fall to the ground. She then takes a punch in the face from Imogen and falls to the ground. Lily picks up the gun and then shoots Imogen in the stomach. Esfir then wakes up and Lily decides to take Imogen to the hospital. After she's cured, she's immediately sent to Alexander Virgo, the team's judge, who sentenced Imogen to 29,249 years in prison without parole in solitary confinement. We then hear the phone ring, and we send it to Sandra Davis, the team's lab chief who's been taking up technology as a hobby. Sandra told the team that the phone was Adeline's, and she was getting a call from Rostya. Before that, the last message she sent was to Kieran. We ask Rostya what the message was about, and he says that he wanted to call her to try and scare her into leaving, as she came in the base but had nothing to do with Sophia, Imogen, Muddslide, nor him. He thought it was suspicious and after our encounter with him he wanted to call her to scare her into escaping. We tell Rostya to stay in the area, and we move on to investigate the abandoned classroom. There we find a note saying "IMOGEN WAS RIGHT TO SHOOT YOU URSULA!" and a broken pearl necklace. We immediately interrogate Ursula about the note, and she says that while putting the handcuffs on Adeline after she killed Colonel Blackbourne back in Canada, that the handcuffs were too tight and almost cut off Adeline's hands. Adeline had to see the prison doctor for many weeks after that, and even when she was released her hands hadn't fully recovered. We then piece back together one of Sophia's pearl necklaces. We grill Sophia about her broken necklace, and she said that Adeline came in and tried to fight her. Sophia overpowered her just like she did

## ***Killer and Motives***

The killer turned out to be Rostya.

Upon admitting to the murder, Rostya told the team that he killed Adeline because she tried to sneak into Sophia's hideout and free Esfir. After Rostya confesses, he draws out his gun but fails to shoot anyone. Instead, Gus comes in and shoots him in the head.

## ***Preparing For War (5/5)***

After Rostya's death, Sophia prepares for the ceremony and starts the broadcast. She decided to let her son, Kieran, do the honors of shooting Esfir and starting the war, but he shoots Sophia instead. After, he kills himself. We decide to check to see if everyone else is alright, and the FBI arrives. We meet up with the main agent there, Andres Herrera, who tells Lily and the player that everything's covered. We then receive news from Hunter Hondo, the team's informant, saying that Agent Muddslide, an accomplice of Sophia's, has escaped prison. Muddslide runs towards Andres, trying to shoot him, but Lily shoots him in the head instead. After everything settles down a week after, the president of the U.S.A., Tom Fisher, tells the team that he and the Russian President have decided to stay at peace with each other. The remaining team members then sit down and watch the news. We see Jason Spokesman, the news anchor we met back at William Donkard's factory reporting on how the American and Russian presidents have negotiated peace. We then head back to the station and prepare for our dear friend's funeral.

## ***Suspects***

***Ursula Gemini (Traits: 1, 2, 4)Gus Washington (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 5)Kieran Bartlett (Traits: 1)Duchess Sophia Bartlett (Traits: 2, 3)Esfir Volkova (Traits: 0)Rostya Pushkin (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)***
## ***Quasi-Suspects***

***Andres HerreraAgent MuddslideLily HallTom FisherVasiliy VorobevJason SpokesmanMax Snowcone (Attending His Funeral)***