Dead in the Water

"*A SoftCircle top scientist is found drowning in Livingstone Falls. It’ll take your top detective skills to figure out what Silence Slayer is doing outside of the fortress!*"
– Case Teaser

**Dead in the Water** is a case featured in Criminal Case Third Line: World Dominant, appearing as the 40th case of the game. It is the fourth case set in Africa.

## Plot

After Glenda came to the Bureau and told them that one of security Guard, Seth Livingstone, found a body at Livingstone Falls near Congo River, Anabel and the player went to meet Glenda's lead, only to find Anabel's mother and fortress' scientist Taylor Thompson's dead body in the water with the head cutted to wide open, much to Carl's grief.

The five people were labelled as suspects: Seth Livingstone (Lion Heart security guard), Tutonda Bolasie (hunter), Beth Thompson (Anabel's cousin), Lorette Mulamba (food cart owner), and Roy Moulinex (reporter).

While searching for investigations, Anabel and the player were looking for Silence Slayer's motives of murdering people and The Glutton's conspiracy that were related to her mother's death. Suddenly, they're attacked by the jaguars and the player managed to use the jeep to escape from the security checkpoint.

Mid-investigation, Viola Roberts discovered a village in Kinshasa near the crime scene that leads to the fortress. Later, Beth Thompson fainted while walking in the jungle with Roy Moulinex. The team then found enough evidence to arrest Beth for the murder.

Much to Anabel and Carl's disbelief, Beth confessed straight away, saying that she encountered their mother Taylor while she was looking near the fortress to try to jog her memories. Upon seeing her aunt, she remembered being strapped down in the lab while Taylor was injecting her with various substances, using her as a test subject. Upon confronting her aunt however, Taylor only laughed at Beth, saying nobody would believe a crazy, amnesiac woman. Welling up with anger, Beth took a nearby zappozap axe and cutted Taylor's head wide open until she died and throw her on the Livingstone Falls. Judge Palamo then remanded Beth in custody, pending a psychiatric evaluation.

During Reap What One Sows (4/6), Anabel stormed out of the Bureau, angry over The Glutton's treatment of Beth. Kevin and the player went to the Congo River to look for her, but only found Anabel's gun there. Per Darko's analysis, the gun was not fired but had Pierre Eyenga's fingerprints on it. They talked to Pierre, who said that Anabel asked him to orchestrate Beth's jailbreak. After she refused, Anabel drew her gun and Pierre tackled her in retaliation. After their scuffle, Anabel went to the checkpoint, crying in revenge. They went there and found a security logbook stating that Lion Heart Security took Anabel into custody. Kevin and the player talked to Pierre to have his employees release Anabel, who apologized for her actions, explaining that the incident had left her in a blind rage.

Meanwhile, Beth divulged her regained memories to Chief Fowler and the player. She was grabbed outside the library, shoved inside a black car, and sedated with chloroform before waking up under the fortress with the African people she was searching for when she was a social worker. All of them were subject to anti-viral experimentation, with everyone but her eventually dying. One day when she noticed her straps were loose, she pretended to be sedated then ran when Taylor left her. She then found the village and broke the steel bars with a steel barrel, taking papers about the viral experiments that she lost during her escape.

Chief Fowler and the player then went to the village and found the SoftCircle documents, which (per Hao) confirmed their findings regarding Solaravir and confirmed that SoftCircle was synthesizing a drug called Remedio out of the material, but mentioned nothing of viral experimentation. Afterwards, the Bureau petitioned Judge Palamo to shut SoftCircle down, but he said he needed more evidence than Beth's testimony to prove the existence of viral experimentation and shut SoftCircle down.

After all the events, Anabel and Carl finally faced Beth, assuring her that they did not think of her as a monster for killing their mother Taylor. She then told the Bureau that they were experimented on in Glutton Lab at Lagos. Chief Fowler then acquired a warrant to search Glutton Lab for proof of viral creation while Maggie takes Anabel and Carl to National Stadium to watch the racing match.

## Suspects

**Seth Livingstone**
Lion Heart Security Guard
 **Blood** | B+

**Suspect's Profile**

* The suspect wears safari boots.
* The suspect has a mud stain.

**Tutonda Bolasie**
Hunter
 **Blood** | O+

**Suspect's Profile**

* The suspect eats fried grasshoppers.
* The suspect wears safari boots.
* The suspect uses insect repellent.
* The suspect has a mud stain.

**Beth Thompson**
Anabel's Cousin
 **Blood** | AB-

**Suspect's Profile**

* The suspect eats fried grasshoppers.
* The suspect wears safari boots.
* The suspect uses insect repellent.
* The suspect has a mud stain.
* The suspect is 30s of age.

**Lorette Mulamba**
Food Cart Owner
 **Blood** | O+

**Suspect's Profile**

* The suspect eats fried grasshoppers.
* The suspect uses insect repellent.
* The suspect is 30s of age.

**Roy Moulinex**
Wolf Channel Reporter
 **Blood** | A+

**Suspect's Profile**

* The suspect eats fried grasshoppers.
* The suspect wears safari boots.
* The suspect uses insect repellent.
* The suspect is 30s of age.

## Quasi-suspect(s)

**Pierre Eyenga**
Congo Ambassador
 **Blood** | B-

**Dave Palamo**
Judge
 **Blood** | AB+

**Anabel Thompson**
Officer Trainee
 **Blood** | A+

## Killer's Profile

* The killer eats fried grasshoppers.
* The killer wears safari boots.
* The killer uses insect repellent.
* The killer has a mud stain.
* The killer is 30s of age.