The Shot That Matters

**The Shot That Matters** is the 39th case of Time Check, the 4th case to occur during Pompeii, as well as the 456th case overall.

## **Plot**

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## **Killer and Motive**

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## **Run While You Can! (4/5)**

After Anna's tape finishes, Ava looks at us anxiously and says that there's no way we can win this. She said we needed the TDB and that there's no hope for us now that they're all dead we're basically screwed. We then get a text from Wynston with him kissing Siobhan's head. We tell him to leave us alone, before saying that he wants to challenge us to another gun duel. We declined the offer, before Michael said that before we found him out, he planted bombs in our time machine and he'll explode the time machine if we decide to not accept the gun duel. We realize that the only person who can stop Michael is the player, so they stay back in a Pompeiian house with Yoda, who AMETHYST wants to stay away from the duel. Clive is also staying behind since he's the only one who knows how to heal someone. We then realize that all the Shadow Ghosts are at the gun duel: Leon, Wynston, Magdalene, Michael, Imogen, and Young Anna. On the other hand, we only have three people: Heather, Ava, and AMETHYST. Wynston launches the first shot at AMETHYST and it lands on her shoulder. She falls and hides behind a rock and Ava and Heather begin shooting. However, none of their shots have hit anyone. However, Michael then shot Heather in the stomach and she hid along with AMETHYST. Ava kept shooting but none of them hit anyone. However, as soon as Michael aimed for Ava's head, several other people started appearing besides Ava with guns in their hands. Ava then looked around, only to see Elonus, Guatemoc, Henrik, Jack, and Potap holding guns and wearing TDB badges. Jack then shot Imogen in the chest and she fell back. Guatemoc then threw a jar of boiling lamb sauce at Michael's torso, burning his body and staining his clothes. Magdalene then grabbed a throwing knife and threw it at Guatemoc's head, killing him. Janette then grabbed Potap’s head at gunpoint, but Potap grabbed Janette and kicked her away, before saying that she killed Kyra to weaken Alexander and make it easier for Leon to kill him and get away with it. Potap also said that in 1776, Janette blew up the Independence Hall with all the founding fathers in it to give the Aztecs a bigger land to take over and eventually get to France. Jack then ran into the enemy territory and was shot in the head. Jack then fell to the ground while Imogen held a gun behind him. Henrik then panicked and said that one of their highest-ranking members is coming immediately and they don’t know how much longer they can hold them off for. Henrik told us that his disguise as a Jewish Nazi general was just a disguise to get close to Wynston and he agreed to help with Hitler’s murder in an attempt to kill Wynston instead. This couldn’t happen, however, as he never got a good opportunity. He also told us that Potap’s job was to track down Harris and Yaonen and Jack’s job was to find the main differences between Aztec history and regular history and pinpoint where exactly they need to go back and change things, which is why Anna was in World War II and Elonus was in Ancient Greece attempting to kill Leon and Janette. He said that Guatemoc’s job was to assassinate Mecamara and arrest Wynston and Samantha in the Ottoman empire. Potap said that the Shadow Ghosts have always been two steps ahead of them and they recently hired an expert on the Shadow Ghosts to help them out. Immediately after Potap says all of this, Jim Norris appears behind Michael and grabs him and keeps him still. Jim said that he’s been studying everything about them since 2030 and that if we take down the kingpin, Michael, everyone else will fall quickly. He just told Ava to shoot Michael. Ava then holds her gun out, with her hands shaking. Michael then says "Do it! Kill me! End my reign of terror! Do it!"

Ava then looks at Heather and looks at Jim holding Michael and closes her eyes. A bang follows. Everyone closes their eyes including Michael. However, as soon as everyone opens their eyes, Jim is lying on the ground dead and Ava is grabbing onto her gun. She then ran over to Heather and tried to strangle her, before Potap swooped in and kicked Ava away. He then grabbed Ava by the shirt and yelled at her, demanding to know why she killed Jim and betrayed us. Ava then said that we just need to face reality and realize that there’s no way we can win. Ava said that she only killed Jim so she could join Michael and join the winning side because she didn’t want to die with us. She said that we’re all delusional if we can believe that we’ll stop him and that she wants to make it out of this alive. Susie then shot Potap in the shoulder and Ava walked to the Shadow Ghosts' side. As she walked back, she said that she had a great time hanging out with us, but it’s time we need to focus on ourselves. She then said that she wishes Heather and the rest of the team a happy last few hours. Michael then pat her on the back and Imogen said “Welcome, Ava.” Henrik then grabs a grenade, throws it at the Shadow Ghosts, and we escape back to the time machine. However, as soon as we get there, Michael blows it up. We rush back to the building to get Clive and Yoda and we realize there’s only one time machine left: Jack’s which the rest of the TDB took to get to Pompeii and save us. We enter the time machine, but what we don’t realize is that Michael planted a tracking device in it. On the field, Wynston grabs a sword and beheads Jack and Guatemoc, before placing both heads on his wall along with Crystal's and Justin's. Michael then told Ava he knew she would join him and that he knew she was a vital member of the Shadow Ghosts and Ava hesitantly thanked Michael for letting her in. Michael told Ava that she did the right thing before telling Imogen to tour her around. We then get a note with a bomb on it in the TDB time machine, saying "Michael Patterson will be dead in a matter of hours." We throw the bomb outside of the time machine and it blows up. We manage to keep the letter which we ripped off, however, and we find a substance which AMETHYST tells us is nail hardener. We know one person who always used nail hardener and matched it every time it was a trait in our investigations: Anna. We know we can't talk to Young Anna now, but we know for certain that now she’s trying to kill Michael. We then call Hernán to check up on him and he tells us that he recently slashed an Aztec soldier named Mecamara in the chest and that everyone is lunging to his care, letting Hernán attack. We decide to ask him about Mihrimah, and he said that Wynston still has her because she’s his and Samantha’s ancestor as well. Hernán said that he was going to face Montezuma soon and that the odds are highly in his favor, before he hung up. We then got a call from Imogen, who’s panicking. She said that we may not get along but that Michael has gone missing and she can’t find him. We ask her if Young Anna is at the time machine and she said that Anna left a while ago after everyone realized that Michael was missing. Imogen tells us that she thinks Ava’s in on this too and says that she’ll die a slow and miserable death. Imogen then puts two and two together from what we told her about Anna, hangs up the phone, and grabs a silencer. We realize that we need to get to Michael and Young Anna before Imogen does or all hell will break loose. We search the volcano, only to find a body halfway up.

## **Killer's Profile**

* **The killer eats onion rings**
* **The killer is a sharpshooter**
* **The killer is a female**
* **The killer has green eyes**
* **The killer wears white**

## **Crime Scenes**

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## **Chapter Arts**

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## **Trivia**

* The case title might refer to the shot Bukayo Saka missed, which caused Italy to win the Euro 2020, and England to lose.

* This is the only case in the series which turns out to be a suicide case instead of a murder case.