Dr. Kai Hekekeia

**Dr. Kai Hekekeia** was a suspect in the murder investigations of his boss, Dr. Anton Szymanska, in The Good Doctor (Case #3 of Crimson County) and Project Mercury co-conspirator Vincent Forsyth in A Beautiful Friendship (Case #5 of Crimson County).

## Biographical Information

### Affiliation

Gustave Mink Memorial Hospital
 United States Marine Corps  (Discharged)

### Occupation

Cardiothoracic Surgeon
 Army Marine  (Formerly)

## Info

Kai is a 29-year-old cardiothoracic surgeon residing in Wellington Bay. He has tanned skin and is of muscular build, with black hair tied into a man-bun and a rose tattoo on his neck. He has heterochromia, as his left eye is brown and his right eye is green. He wears light green scrubs and has army tags around his neck.

In his first suspect appearance, it is known that he uses hand sanitiser, reads *The Wellington Warble* and speaks Polish.

In his second suspect appearance, it is known that he has military training and has read *The Catcher In The Rye*.

## Events Of Crimson County

### The Good Doctor

Kai was flagged as a suspect after Alessio and the player discovered that Szymanska was set to meet with him at the time the body was discovered, as Kai greeted the detectives confusedly, before almost fainting at the news of Anton's death. Upon assuring the detectives he was alright, he said that he had been pulled into an emergency surgery of a patient at the time the meeting was set to be held, and was planning on going to see him after the surgery was completed, but no longer could, since he was dead. He then informed the detectives that, while Szymanska wasn't well-liked, he was a good man, and Kai respected him, as he then left to call his girlfriend, leaving the detectives concerned in his wake.

Kai was spoken to again after Joaquin found security footage of Dr. Szymanska purposefully triggering an episode of Kai's PTSD, which Joaquin recognised after seeing Kai was in the United States Marine Corps. Upon seeing the player, he was perplexed as to them being with Alyssa instead of Alessio, as Alyssa stated that the topics they would be discussing were more in her domain of expertise, as he realised what they were talking about. Upon being questioned, Kai admitted that he had been open about his experience in the Marine Corps before joining Gustave Mink Memorial Hospital, and Szymanska had promised to respect it. But Szymanska had a habit of pushing buttons that weren't his to push, and such action resulted in Kai's breakdown, which caused both him and Aniya to dislike Szymanska a lot more than they already did. Alyssa then informed him that she had got him in touch with an occupational therapist she knew, as he thanked her, as Alyssa and the player left, with the psychologist ascertaining that Kai did not commit the murder after the conversation.

Kai was, in fact, found to be innocent after Gordon Ustinovas was arrested for the murder.

### A Beautiful Friendship

Kai was flagged as a suspect for a second time when his medical ID was found in Francine's drawer, as he awkwardly thanked Alessio and the player for returning it before saying that he had conducted a cardiac checkup on Francine because she had been very distressed earlier. Upon learning of Vincent's murder, Kai seemed unable to grasp what that had to do with him as he acknowledged that it was still a great tragedy. Upon being asked whether Vincent was present at the checkup, Kai shrugged and said he might've entered without him noticing, but he wasn't there when he began, as he informed them that he did not want a rerun of last time with the psychologists flocking around him, though he did ask for the detectives to relay his thanks to Alyssa for acquainting him with an occupational therapist. He then left.

Dr. Hekekeia was intercepted at the hospital by the detectives once again after Alyssa found a thinly veiled threat to the victim and was easily able to link it to Kai, as Kai explained that he wrote the threat in retaliation to a threat that Forsyth wrote to his girlfriend, Aniya. He then stated that he had discovered a series of shady investments that Anton had made with Vincent prior to his death that he planned on bringing up at a meeting, but he was sidetracked when Aniya received the threat in the mail, enraging him as the engineer didn't have the cojones to take on Kai himself, instead opting for his girlfriend, who did nothing wrong. Upon suggestion from Alessio that he may have flown into a blind rage and killed Vincent, Kai stagnantly denied doing it, saying that he would *never* leave Aniya.

Kai was later found to be innocent when SUSIE-Q was found guilty of the murder.