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## Summary

Mallory tells Quinn about her past as they reach the second crime scene.

## Transcript

### Panel 1

* thank quinn for standing by you. its probably been a long time since you could put faith in someone... or have someone trust you like this.

* ask if quinn is okay

Quinn: I'm all right. More importantly, it doesn't really matter what Karis says. We're partners; I chose **you**, not her. We're sticking together, Mallory. If anything, this meeting only helped me understand our situation.

### Panel 2

Quinn: Karis is not interested in listening to us. Either she won't face the true reality of this, or someone is twisting her arm. The way she **lashed out** to silence us was... unsettling. People don't bring up things like that if they want a proper discussion.

### Panel 3

Quinn: ...they just want to **win.**

Mallory: ...You've got it now...

* if Quinn is going to stick with us, they deserve to know what happened 10 years ago.

Mallory: I'll keep the details sparse, but... You deserve to know why I'm so hung up on... Odette Rowel.

### Panel 4

Mallory: Odette Rowel was one of my classmates and part of the original... Streetcrows group - her code name was "Bluejay". The group's goal was to figure out the Aberration Spree Killings. We were all close, but no one was closer to me than Odette. I think falling in love with her was my biggest mistake.

### Panel 5

Mallory: None of us were personally affected by the case, and that made it easy for us - like it was a game. That all changed when Odette's twin brother disappeared.

### Panel 6

Mallory: She changed. Odette started pushing me to focus more and more on the investigation, digging further and further into restricted databases - and I did everything she asked, like a fool - blinded by love... I should've seen the warning signs.

### Panel 7

Mallory: We got caught - ***I*** got caught. Odette just stood there and let me take the fall. ...No, it's more accurate to say that she pushed me.

### Panel 8

Mallory: ...My Gift is useless as evidence in a court of law unless backed by other proof; I had to sit there and listen to her lies, and there was nothing I could do. She told the jury a story - a complete fabrication - about me as some kind of mastermind who had manipulated her and the others into my schemes. And they took it hook, line, and sinker.

### Panel 9

Mallory: It was unanimous. There was **nothing** I could do. And she walked away without **any** punishment, just as she planned.

### Panel 10

Mallory: She did everything but pull the trigger herself. She left me to **die.**

### Panel 11

Mallory: So!! You know!!! I haven't been on the dating scene in a while, forgive me if I'm a bit rusty. Hahaha....

Quinn: ...That's...awful...

Mallory: It was terrible!!!!!!

### Panel 12

Mallory: ...It's okay if you don't believe me... No one did.

Quinn: Nah... I believe you. After all, if you were lying, that would be a terrible lie! You still confessed to doing some crimes there, pal.

* COP BUDDIES ARE STILL ALIVE! Screw the chief and her wrong as hell lies.

### Panel 13

Mallory: God, you're right. I'm terrible at not going to prison!! What an idiot!! WAIT

* Point out to Quinn that if the body was found in a hate-crime-victim-like state,

### Panel 14

Mallory: I just... ...realized...

* Point out to Quinn that if the body was found in a hate-crime-victim-like state, that contradicts with Dodger's report that it was a "normal stabbing" with nothing extraordinary - ergo, someone tampered with the body post-death

Mallory: Dodger and Karis were both telling the truth about the state of the body. That means...

### Panel 15

Quinn: Someone tampered with the body after death, after Dodger's informant obesrved it - someone is deliberately trying to mislead us. This just gets shadier by the minute, Todd.

### Panel 16

* Investigate the new crime scene. On the way over, tell Quinn about the lie detector results.

Mallory: The chief believed almost everything she said!!

Quinn: "Almost"? I can find the new crime scene easily using my Gift.

Mallory: **WAIT, WHY ARE WE RUNNING?!**

### Panel 17

Mallory: Quinn, I don't thing you understand how out of shape I am. 10 years in the dungeon don't make you very fit. hoo boy

Quinn: Hold this, please

### Panel 18

Mallory: **HECK YEA!!!** This is way better! Why do I **ever** walk?

Quinn: WALKING IS GOOD FOR YOU.

Mallory: **Anyway,** about Karis' lies...

### Panel 19

Mallory: She doesn't actually believe that I was manipulating Odette. It seems like we can change her mind, too. She's doubting...

Quinn: SO WE COULD HAVE A POTENTIAL ALLY IN HER. WE JUST NEED TO FIND THE PROOF TO CONVINCE HER.

### Panel 21

Mallory: ...This isn't just *similar* to 10 years ago.

### Panel 22

Mallory: This is **exactly** the same as the scenes back then.