Chase Your Fate

**Chase Your Fate** is the fifteenth case of Criminal Case: Mysteries of Turkey. It is the fifty-fifth case overall. The last case in Central Anatolia Region. It is situated in Ankara, Turkey.

* Previous Case: In All Secret
* Next Case: *Under The Head* (in Black Sea Region)
* Partner: Zeynep Şahın

## Plot

The team arrived in the capital, Ankara in order to eliminate all the boundaries caused by Hell's Gate. HG's terror and influence was increasing drastically in the country, and Turkey was now considered as a ”treacherous" country by the western media. Taylan appoints Zeynep for the investigation, since Arslan was resting due to his arm's injury, because work might cause harm to his arm. Taylan says that we should ensure the safety in the capital, before anything else happens. We make sure that Demeter and Hephaestus aren't setting up plans to blow up the capital, as we progress further, we receive a call from Bryan Castiglione, he tells us that he has found out a body, lying down in the middle of the capital, and now this has became a national news. We immediately rush over to the crime scene, we discover the body of Ketevan Abramashvili, we were speechless because we had Ketevan earlier today, and now she has ended up dead, we found out nothing on her body, but her chest was burning. We sent her body to autopsy. We proceed to interrogate Bryan about the murder, as he was the one who had reported the body, he tells us that since he and Ketevan both opposed the spread of HG, they gathered to plan something to defeat HG, but now with her being dead, his last hope is abandoned. Zeynep says that HG is indeed becoming more dangerous, and this reminds her off The Italian Mafia, who had became world threat. She says that during those times, the country was always on high alert. After we are done, we proceed to find other clues, we later found out a voice recorder, and a gun. We restore the voice recorder and play what was recorded, we hear the following "Ketevan, I think I can trust you, HG's influence and terror is rising and now they are onto me, I want you too take my place" We immediately Speculated that it was Matthew Erickson, because of his strong accent and voice, we apprise to debrief him, because he was in the capital lately, we then found him, and interrogate him about Ketevan, he sighs that every sane person is getting eliminated and the evil is still standing, he says that HG's terror was increasing and Demeter and Hephaestus both were trying to defeat their every enemy, and he was too, and for this purpose, he wanted Ketevan to replace him, because she had a lot of potential. We then proceed to gather the fingerprints from the gun we had found, and when we found out who it was, we couldn't believe that it was Arslan, we decide to interrogate him, Arslan says that he went to the crime scene, before the murder to ensure the safety of the city, but he was in hurry, he might have dropped it. The autopsy results revealed out that Ketevan was branded to death, and there was written "Εκδίκηση" (\*Literally Ekdikisi\*) which meant "Revenge" in Greek, which confirms that someone killed Ketevan, out of revenge. At the precinct, we were discussing details, Merve comes in, she was scared, she tells us that she may have been attacked by Hephaestus.

Mid-investigation, Merve approaches us, she looked scared, we ask her about the reason, she says that she feels that she has been attacked by Hephaestus, she narrates that there was a new game in the city, and she went to take it, however on her way back, she noticed someone dressed up as a Greek god, when she passed from there, that figurine started moving and started groping Merve, she managed to save herself from that, but now she is scared. Zeynep says that Hephaestus is getting out of control now, and we have to unmask his identity real quick. As we progress further, Onur approaches us and says that he heard about Ketevan's murder, and he could corroborate more. We debrief him, he tells us that he has planned to establish an organisation named "Turkish Resistance Organisation" (Turkish: *Türkçe Mukavemet Teşkilatı*), and Ketevan also was agreeing on joining it, Onur says that he only wants to cease the terror, and save his best friend from the control of HG, he still believes that he was being controlled by Demeter and Hephaestus, but no one believes him. Zeynep says that she feels bad about Onur, his loyalty to Mert is noticeable but Mert doesn't even care about their friendship, and wishes death on Onur. At the same, someone wearing a hoodie again approaches us, Zeynep draws her gun on us, a knife comes flying which had nearly hit Zeynep, but she defended herself, she ran beside the person, and then kicked them, after that she unmasked that person and it was none other than Mert. Zeynep was shocked and puzzled that why Mert must do this, he then stood up and said "Don't play coy with me, or you'll end up like Ketevan" Zeynep then handcuffs Mert, and takes him to station, we interrogate him about the "Confession" he had made, Mert says that he isn't obliged to answer our questions, and says it was part of his duty, we notice something on Mert's neck, after seeing it Zeynep was shocked but she didn't utter a word. After Mert'sinterrogation, Taylan says that we should keep Mert in custody before finding it if he was the real killer or not. Eylül approaches us and tells us that she was researching on HG, when she found out that HG was forcing people to join their gang by brainwashing and they were being trained by professionals to make them commit crime, and how to identify that person is that every person who was brainwashed had a weird looking tattoo which was to identify the brainwashed individual, Eylül shows us photo of that tattoo and we were shocked that it was same as it was on Mert's neck, she then speculates that Onur was right about Mert's condition, he was being controlled by someone. Eylül then breaks another bad news that Arslan has a similar tattoo on his shoulder, however it was way even before the brainwashing started. We found out that Bryan and Ketevan had a fight earlier today, we debrief Bryan about the fighting, he tells us that Ketevan was constantly begging him to break ties with the Georgian Mob, however Bryan says that Avtandil wasn't a vicious person, he would prove to be helpful for them to defeat HG, however Ketevan said that he is becoming brainwashed just like HG was doing, we were surprised that Ketevan knew about this, and now someone eliminated here to keep her mouth shut. Bryan also tells us that Matthew was constantly seen roaming around HG's hideouts and he found him getting rid of some things. Zeynep says that she is always suspicious on Matthew, due to his attitude, but we interrogate him. He professes that since his job was to inspect HG, but then he met with Demeter, Zeynep says that he should tell them about the identity, but Matthew says that he had swore to Demeter, not to say anything, or his family and Robert, Zeynep then checks Matthew's neck to see if there was anything, though he was extremely tall, she still managed to see that there was no tattoo there, so he was saying the truth. At the precinct, we were discussing details, Eylül approaches and tells us that Arslan has been disappeared.

Mid-investigation, Eylül informs us about Arslan's disappearance, Zeynep exclaims that why would he disappear at the time of the investigation, Onur comes in, he says that he Arslan and Hephaestus are having a encounter, and he came here to inform them about, we follow Onur to a place where we see Arslan shouting and someone was fleeing from there and Arslan then yelled "Ελπίζω να πεθάνεις!" (Hope you die!) in Greek, Merve then shouts that it was indeed the same person, Arslan then comes to us, he says that Hephaestus is trying to kidnap him and he knows that he will try to brainwash him, and then make him his "slave", he says that ever since Ketevan's death, Hephaestus has been trying to get into him, and he is sure that they'll end up killing him, he even overheard that how he was gonna eliminate Mert, Matthew and the team. Arslan then says that many people have been brainwashed by HG, and he feels that Mert is one of them. We then speculate that if Arslan and Onur feel like it, that might be the case. When we arrive at the station, group of people had gathered there, we ask them why they are here, one of them exclaimed that their loved ones have became criminals due to HG, and they can't resist it. Merve and Eylül then say that the team will ensure that they will arrest the real culprit behind it. As we progress further, we found out about a lot of secrets of HG, but we still couldn't figure out why Ketevan was killed. We found out her phone, and deciphered a code, Ketevan had received a message from Mert, in which he had said that he apologises for his behaviour. We debrief Mert about this message, however it shocked us that he was talking politely to us now, he says that he had fought with Ketevan, and called her abusive nicknames, and time made him realise that what he did was wrong, and apologised to her about it, however Mert then turns furious again and says that we'll all end up dead. Zeynep was shocked that how can someone have mood swings so fast, she feels that Mert has been brainwashed by HG. Taylan tells us that we have to unmask Hephaestus' identity real quick, because he is the only one could tell us about her inner ties, although we'll have face hardships for this purpose. In the end, we had enough evidence to incriminate Matthew Erickson for the murder. Upon admitting, Matthew smirks and says that he is proud that we have came this far, he confesses that he is "Hephaestus" and has been playing the team for all along. He tells us that he isn't Demeter's closest companion, but her long time partner and lover. Both of them got along well, and when they came to know about HG, they planned to take over it, and had killed it's leader and assumed the positions as the leaders and had eliminated all the past members, he just joined MI6 so no one can suspect him a bit, and dated Robert so he could use him as his cover and it worked, moreover kept brainwashing different people. He tells us that he and Demeter were the one who had brainwashed Mert, Demeter had lured him, and they brainwashed him, because he had the biggest potential, after he was brainwashed, they had ordered him to commit crimes, and he even forced Mert to kill Onur, after Matthew murdered Ketevan, both him and Demeter decided that Mert would claim that he killed Ketevan, but now they know that he killed him. We ask him why he killed Ketevan, he says she had to be eliminated for all cost, and that's why he killed her to prevent anything happening. Matthew raises a gun at us, and shoots Zeynep.

After Matthew's confession, he draws his gun on Zeynep and shoots her, however it failed because Arslan came in the clutch and saved both him and Zeynep. Matthew then dropped his gun, and moved closer to Arslan and said that he was "something pleasure material" and said the same to Zeynep. Arslan then proceeded to handcuff Matthew, but Matthew stabbed his hand and escaped, luckily the stab wasn't that extreme, Arslan runs behind Matthew, however when we reach outside the department, he got into a car. Taylan started shouting on the team, that how we left him, he says that he has appointed many police officers in the city so Matthew can't escape. Merve comes to us, she tells us that it’s Arslan’s birthday soon, and she wants to surprise him, because it is his first birthday ever since they are together. Although, she is well aware of his likings, but still doesn't know how she could emphasise it. Eylül says that she knows about Arslan’s every liking, and she'll be glad to help. Zeynep sighs and says she is tired of the investigation, Taylan advices her to lay down, while Tierre partners the player. Following that, Onur approaches us, he tells us that now since Matthew's identity has been revealed, we should try to help the people who have been brainwashed, especially Mert because ever since they were younger, Mert was protective towards him, and had almost injured himself once to protect him, and now it's his turn to save him from the HG, and they can by best friends again, like they were. Tierre says that she feels sad, but we would help him that. Minutes later, Robert comes in the station, he tells us that he couldn't believe of this betrayal, and he wouldn't forgive Matthew for this act, he says that this world has stole everything from him and now he'll never believe in love. Tierre says that he should calm down, she sighs and says that how a murder has ruined so many lives. We then follow Onur, he takes us to Mert. Mert was constantly trying to escape from there, Onur then says that he has to somehow remind Mert about their friendship, when Onur begins Mert says he doesn't wants to listen to his nonsense, Onur begins by telling him about Elif that how much he was a protective brother to her, and then tells about their friendship, Onur puts his hand on his shoulder, but Mert crushes his hand and stabs Onur with a pocket knife, and Onur whispers "Why you do that". Onur starts bleeding and Mert panics that he didn't mean to do that. We immediately rush him to the hospital. Bryan approaches us, he tells us that he is extremely suspicious of Mélodie, they have been dating for a while, but she is really concerned about the Georgian Mob, and says that she has big secret with them. We get a call from Arslan, he tells us that Aslan is fine now, however the doctors tell us that someone came to check on him, and told them he was his brother. This rose our suspicion that who possibly was that. Minutes later, Bryan gives us location of the place where Mélodie was seen, when we reach there, we saw them fighting, Bryan asked her what she was hiding, however Mélodie says that it's better he doesn't know. However, we notice a a certificate on her hand, and ask her to hand over it to us. When we arrive at the station, Taylan was holding his head, he tells us that Matthew has escaped from Ankara, and now we don't know where he is heading, he tells that he managed to break out Ayça Turan from her cell, and now both are out, causing violence and we can't do anything.

Tierre says that she'll catch every single member, however first we decipher the details from the certificate. When we deciphered it, we were shocked, it mentioned that "Mélodie Gelashvili" was born in Paris to Avtandil Gelashvili and Marielle Bousquet in 1997. This was shocking, because Mélodie was revealed to be Avtandil's daughter, and now we inform Bryan about this. Bryan was shocked and puzzled that how come it is true, because Mélodie never talked to him about him, and now he is astounded, he says that being in the mob, he was close to Avtandil, but he had no idea that his love was his daughter. Bryan then says that he'll ask Mélodie about it. After he is gone, Merve approaches us, she tells us that the preparations for Arslan's birthday has been done. Bryan approaches us again, he tells us that Mélodie told him about her relation to Avtandil, he tells us that when Mélodie was born, Avtandil refused to accept her, and then left France after her birth, and then her mother and her lived in a miserable way, and she never mentioned about Avtandil, she yearned to know about her father, and began to search about him, when she came to know that she was Avtandil's daughter she was shocked, and came to Turkey to meet him, but didn't expect to fall in love with him. Zeynep then exclaims that she feels sad about Mélodie. We hear someone fighting, when we reach there, Elif was shouting on Mert and saying that how he can try to kill someone, who have been there for him at every event of his life, when we try to stop it, Elif says that it was better if Mert would have been killed instead, and goes from there. Our main concern was Matthew and Ayça, because we feared that they will be causing violence. Taylan tells us that Ayça and Matthew are now heading towards Artvin and we have to be there, before night.

## Suspects

Bryan Castiglione

Professor

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect knows Greek.
* The Suspect uses deodorant.
* The Suspect drinks orange juice.

Matthew Erickson

Detective

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect knows Greek.
* The Suspect uses deodorant.
* The Suspect drinks orange juice.

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect has a scar.

Arslan Öztürk

Partner

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect knows Greek.
* The Suspect uses deodorant.
* The Suspect drinks orange juice.

Onur Sağlam

Actor

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect uses deodorant.
* The Suspect drinks orange juice.

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect has a scar.

Mert Yılmaz

Millionaire

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect uses deodorant.
* The Suspect drinks orange juice.

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect has a scar.

## Killer's Profile

* The Killer knows Greek.
* The Killer uses deodorant.
* The Killer drinks orange juice.
* The Killer weighs over 170 lbs.
* The Killer has a scar.