The Headless King

An unexpected turn of events...

**The Headless King** is the 29th case in Island Investigations, the 4th case to occur at the City Centre, as well as the 412th case overall.

## **Plot**

The team was about to escape but unfortunately they found the beheaded body of their enemy, Brett Longhorn in the throne room, Fabian came in and saw Brett's body and started accusing the team in killing Brett. Karen explained to Fabian that they just came in and Brett was already dead when they got in the throne room. Fabian said that he will give the team the benefit of the doubt but they need to solve Brett's murder before the sunset or else... The player and Cody Horn started investigating, While Julia takes Brett's body with her for autopsy. Julia said that Brett obviously died because of being beheaded, she also said that either a sword or katana is used to chop Brett's head off, she found nothing except for orange juices on Brett's outfit. She said that it wasn't Brett who ate orange before getting murdered because she checked Brett's system and found no orange juices on it meaning the killer is the one who enjoyed eating oranges after chopping Brett's head. The duo then decided to return back to the throne room to search for more clues. After searching the throne room, they found Brett's phone and a camouflage bandana. We unlocked Brett's phone and discovered 30 missed calls from Dario Rebelo, we found Dario wandering outside the palace garden and decided to interrogate him. We asked Dario about his 30 missed calls on Brett, he said that he is calling Brett to inform him that we escaped but Brett didn't answered his calls. We told him about Brett's murder and he said that whoever have the guts to kill Brett will definitely pay. We also examined the camouflage bandana and the owner turned out to be none other than Tycen Joyner. We found Tycen hiding in one of the bushes and asked him why he's hiding, he said that he was hiding so Fabian won't catch him since Fabian is looking for him, we asked him why Fabian was looking for him that's when he revealed himself to be an MI9 Agent and Fiona called him to help us escape the palace so he must have dropped his bandana while sneaking inside the palace for backup.

After talking to all suspects, the duo then decided to search the palace garden for any possible clues, when they walk out the palace garden they found Brett's chopped head lying outside, they send the head to Julia for autopsy. Julia can't believe that we already found Brett's head and didn't take long enough, she said that she conducted an autopsy on Brett's head but unfortunately she didn't anything from the head except a premium subscription ticket of soccer on TV on Brett's mouth, she called in Nicholas to check if Brett have a premium subscription of soccer on TV, Nicholas said that Brett didn't bought any premium subscription as he hacked through the people who bought the premium subscription and didn't found Brett's name on it, Nicholas concluded that the killer might be the one who owned the ticket and stuffed it inside Brett's mouth meaning that the killer watches soccer on TV. The duo also decided to search the trash can they found in the palace garden where they found Fiona's gun inside. We found Fiona in the throne room who signaled us to come inside. We headed inside the throne room and asked Fiona where did she go, she said that she separated with the team to help Tycen in finding a way in escaping the palace so she separated with us earlier, we informed her about Brett's death and she said that she will inform us if she find something regarding the late governor's murder.

Later on, while the duo is briefing, they saw Clone Aurelio Matnette conscious and started attacking them but luckily Fiona smacked Clone Aurelio in the head that leaves him unconscious again. After 10 minutes, Clone Aurelio woke up tied in the throne room and the duo started asking him if he knows anything about Brett's murder, he said that he doesn't know anything since he just gained conscious after Fiona pushed him off the stairs. After interrogating Clone Aurelio, Nicholas came in saying that he might have found the Cloning Lab, we asked Nicholas to lead us the way to this possible Cloning Lab. Nicholas leads us to a secret room, the team entered the room where they saw machines which turned out to be the machines Eagle News used to clone people, the duo then started investigating because the lab might also give new leads to Brett's murder since Brett have access to the room. After searching the lab, the duo found a headless figure of Brett and a faded letter. We examined Brett's headless figure and collected some sweat from it, we put the sweat under the microscope and discovered that the sweat belongs to Dario. We confronted Dario about the headless figure of Brett he made, he said that Brett thinks he is superior to them especially on Dario and he is sick of it, so he made a headless figure of the governor and he gave the figure to Brett as a threat for being a superior to them even he's not their boss. We also examined the letter which turned out to be a love letter Brett made for Fiona, we asked Fiona about her relationship with Brett, she said that she doesn't any have romantic relationship with Brett, Brett is the only one who have interest on her but Fiona doesn't have any interest on Brett since Brett is one of Fabian's lackey. After interrogating Dario and Fiona again, the duo decided to have another sweep of the palace garden.

After having a second sweep in the crime scene, the duo found pile of swords lying outside, we examined the pile of swords and found a bloody katana on it, the duo assumed that the katana they found is the one the killer used to chop off Brett's head off but they still decided to send it to Julia for confirmation. Julia said that the katana they found is indeed the murder weapon since not only the blood matched Brett's but it also matches the slice on his head. We asked him if he found anything apart from the katana being the murder weapon, she said that she found a weird symbol on the katana's handle that's when Noel came in. Noel said that he recognizes the symbol because he own one himself, he explained that the VIP members of the fencing club he's in received the same katana the killer used to chop Brett's head off, so he concluded that the only way the killer can have a katana like this is if they enjoys fencing. The duo also found a picture of Brett with the message "I WILL CHOP YOUR HEAD OFF FOR WHAT YOU DID, BRETT!", we then compare the writing to our suspects and it turned out that Tycen matched the writing. We confronted Tycen about his message to Brett, he explained that when heard from Fiona that Brett killed both Emma Jansen and Carole Matnette which made Tycen angry so he send that message to Brett as a threat that he will pay for betraying the whole Santa Matnette and putting it in danger. Later on, Fabian demanded us to explain what are we doing wandering in off limits area, Noel came in and managed to calm Fabian, Fabian left and let us continue our investigation. We take one last look in the throne room and Cody and the player found enough evidence to arrest the killer.

## **Killer And Motive**

The killer turned out to be Fabian.

Fabian killed Brett because he was trying to take his place and Fabian only used him as a puppet to achieve his goals. Fabian found out that Brett was planning to kill him and take his place, so he made sure that would never happen.

## **All News Is Bad News (4/5)**

After confronting Fabian, he tells us that he’s close to finishing every plan and is going to start worldwide chaos. He says that even if we killed him now it would change nothing as he has people everywhere who would continue his work. We try to capture him but Dario comes in and starts to fire rounds at us with an AK-47. We manage to get out of the room, but by the time we get back, they both disappear. We get a call from President Herrera, and he tells us that the White House has been raided, everyone started to kill each other, but they don’t know who is who because it’s filled with clones. We lock ourselves up in a room in the palace and try to look through the files we found, starting with the sketch about the virus. We also find multiple pictures of Leo in the files. Since Noel doesn’t have his equipment on him, we ask Fiona about the pictures, and she said she didn’t want to tell us but she and Tycen found out by spying that Leo was working with Eagle News the whole time, giving them information so they could stay one step ahead of the team. Leo ratted out the team in the base and got them all kidnapped, which explains why only he was left with the player. We ask Fiona and Tycen why Leo would do such a thing, and Tycen said that he saw Fabian giving Leo tons of money for acting as a spy, money he used for his clothes and Ferrari's, and generally for flexing it on the team. Fiona said she didn’t want us to find out because she didn’t want to reveal her cover and she knew that if she said anything when Leo and the player confronted her for killing Lucas he would shoot her or the player. We then have Noel do his best to look at the other files, which say that the vaccine can deactivate a clone by simply getting on the skin. That’s when Nicholas comes up with the idea that if we could get drones everywhere they could spread the virus everywhere. We go to the cloning room and Julia says if we made clones of a few of us, they could get the drones and spread the virus at the places we saw on the map. We go on with the cloning and make 10 copies of Julia, all of them turning out to be perfect ones who are willing to help. We try to sneak out of the palace, but we come face to face with Clone Aurelio, who starts to shoot us and hits Karen in the shoulder. He keeps going but as soon as he turns the gun on Karen and tries to shoot, Tycen jumps out of nowhere and takes in the bullet, which gives Julia enough time to shoot Aurelio in the head. We take Tycen with us and try to rush out of the palace, but before reaching the exit we hear a loud ticking sound and a huge explosion that destroys the entire palace.

## **Suspects**

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## **Killer's Profile**

* **The killer eats onion rings**
* **The killer watches football**
* **The killer enjoys fencing**
* **The killer has O+ blood**
* **The killer wears a U.S.A. badge**