Cutting The Clerk

Silence in the court! Or I'll....

C**utting The Clerk** is the 31st case in The Origins as well as the 1st case to occur in the East Central Region.

## ***Plot***

After two of our team members were murdered by a British Duchess craving for war, an ally of ours, CDRA agent Ronda Warner told the team that Duchess Sophia Bartlett could possible be in Charleston, West Virginia and that there's recently been a murder there in a Courtroom. We immediately only to find a courtroom clerk slashed multiple times. We immediately find a gavel at the scene of the crime. We dust fingerprints and identify them to belong to Judge Dunn. We immediately realize that the name sounds familiar, as the former president of the U.S.A. who we arrested for murder, Remington Dunn, is his brother. We ask Judge Dunn what he was doing near the crime scene. He tells the team he was just finishing up an interview with Fabian Marc-Holmann before entering the courtroom and finding the body. He immediately recognized the victim to be Lucille Becker, a courthouse clerk. We realize that he mentioned Fabian, who we last met back in Nevada where we first met Lily Hall, the team's new profiler after Aaron Hall, her father, was murdered. We speak to Fabian about Lucille, and he says he never noticed her. We tell him that she was a courthouse clerk and he said he saw a woman snooping around Judge Dunn's desk, whose description perfectly matched Lucille's. We take a look at the judge's desk and find a report about a man being charged with sexual harassment, with his defender being one Jack Sawyer. We find Jack and interrogate him about the case, and if he saw Lucille lurking around. Sawyer tells Max Snowcone and the player that he did not see anything, as he was too focused on proving his client innocent. We later find a gavel at Judge Dunn's desk, which belongs to Alexander Virgo, the team's judge. We ask him what his gavel was doing on the jury stand, and he said that he was planning on judging Duchess Sophia Bartlett at this court if she wouldn't have escaped when the team's plane blew up. We later find a watch in the court's restricted area. We find a DNA sample, test it, and we figured out that it belongs to Jack. We ask Jack what he was doing in the restricted section, to which he says that he tried to get Lucille out of there, as she randomly ran out of the courtroom suspiciously. We later find a computer in the courtroom, belonging to Hazell Harmon, the self-centered research analyst we met back in New York. We ask Hazell what he's doing in Kentucky, and he says that he wanted to witness the case of this sexual assaulter, as he's been all over the news lately. Unfortunately, he got a lot of notifications during the court case so he had to do work on his computer while watching the case. He said that the assaulter's name was John Foster. We then realize he has the same name as Lucille. We immediately ask Judge Dunn if he knew about this, to which Judge Dunn said he did. He said that Lucille has been running around the court like a crazy person often and that he just didn't understand it. We later find a security camera, which we send to the team's tech expert, Imogen Caulfield. Imogen tells the duo that the camera showed Fabian and Lucille in an argument in the courtroom before the case. We ask Fabian what this was about and Fabian told the team that he saw Lucille trying to tamper with the evidence written on Judge Dunn's paper to make it look like her brother was framed. Fabian, wanting an interview with Judge Dunn, entered the courtroom, only to find out that he went home as well as Lucille tampering with the court evidence. Fabian caught her and the two got into an argument. We later found a note saying "It's done, Lucille! We're over!" We immediately send the note over to Lily, the new profiler, who tells the team that the handwriting belonged to Virgo. We ask Virgo about the note, who says that before he became a judge, he was dating Lucille. When he became a judge for the Travelling Squad, he had to break up with Lucille and they went their different ways. When Lucille saw Virgo again, she wanted to restart their relationship. Virgo almost said yes, but he saw how crazily she came in and said no. We also find the murder weapon, which we send to Ronda Warner, the team's new weapons expert after Matt Azarova was murdered by Duchess Sophia Bartlett back in Pennsylvania. Ronda tells the team that the murder weapon has Hazell's fingerprints and DNA on it and that she got help from Sandra Davis, the team's lab chief. We immediately detain Hazell, who says he saw the murder weapon on display and touched it to see how it felt like. After doing one last sweep through Judge Dunn's desk, we found all the evidence needed to arrest the killer.

## Killer And Motives

The killer turned out to be Fabian.

Fabian attended John's trial, and he stayed after to catch Judge Dunn for an interview. After everyone was gone, he saw Lucille putting in red contact lenses and revealed herself to be a member of The Summoners. When Fabian confronted her, she said the judge's days are over, and he'll regret putting his nose into her business. When Lucille turned around, Fabian picked up the bailiff's quarterstaff and stabbed her with it, but she kept fighting, so he sliced her multiple times to end it.

## A Guide On Causing Chaos (1/5)

After arresting Fabian, he tells us it wasn't the first time he saw people with red eyes, and he looked them up. He always wanted to know what their goals were, and he wanted to write an article about them, but he got black-mailed to stay out of their way. He said he felt uncomfortable killing Lucille but that Fabian knew she wanted to kill the judge, so he didn't hesitate for long. We arrange a trial for Fabian and go back to the station. We ask Judge Dunn about his relationship with Remington. He said they always had different opinions, but their relationship was never unhealthy. They haven't spoken since his trial. We then go back to the station, and after some discussions, Jade Thunderwall, the team's beat cop, runs up to us in tears, saying that there was an explosion in Frankfort, Kentucky, near her family home in the suburban area. We bag our things and head straight there.

## The Suspects

Judge Dunn (Traits: 2, 3)Fabian Marc-Holmann (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)Jack Sawyer (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4)Alexander Virgo (Traits: 1, 5)Hazell Harmon (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 5)