Vincent Forsyth

**Professor Vincent Forsyth** was a suspect in the murder investigation of hospital Chief Of Staff Dr. Anton Szymanska in The Good Doctor (Case #3 of Crimson County). He was later murdered in A Beautiful Friendship (Case #5 of Crimson County), prior to which his affiliation with Francine Ferdinand and Project Mercury was revealed.

## Biographical Information

### Affiliation

Wellington University
 Francine Ferdinand

### Occupation

Technology Professor
 Robotics Consultant

## Relationship Information

### Family

SUSIE-Q  (Creation)
 999+ Other Robots  (Creations)

## Info

Vincent is a 68-year-old technology professor and robotic engineer residing in Wellington Bay. He has gray hair and wrinkled pale skin, as well as grey eyes and a grey beard. He mildly resembles Donald Sutherland, and wears a brown plaid business suit with a brown tie and a white button up shirt. He also wears brown suede shoes.

It is known that he reads *The Wellington Warble* and speaks Polish.

## Events Of Crimson County

### The Good Doctor

Vincent was flagged as a suspect after a clipboard with his name on it was found broken in the break room, as he greeted Alessio and the player happily, and asked what he could do for them. Upon learning of Anton's murder, Vincent was horrified, saying that he had only spoken to Anton earlier. When asked about Anton's demeanour, Vincent admitted that Dr. Szymanska was acting a bit odd, but it was probably because he liked to take heaps of caffeine in his drink and it was early in the morning. Once questioning was finished, he asked the detectives how SUSIE-Q was doing, following it's attempted autopsy on the victim's body, as it is a healthcare robot and is therefore programmed to facilitate life, as death is something it is still struggling to comprehend. He then left, handing the detectives his business card before doing so.

Professor Forsyth was spoken to a second time when Alessio and the player found a newspaper clipping regarding the "death" of one of his robots at the hospital due to a coffee-related incident, as Alessio picked up on the slip of the tongue that Vincent had made earlier about how much coffee Szymanska liked to drink. Upon being spoken to again, Professor Forsyth became enraged by the mere mention of the incident, stating that the robot had malfunctioned due to Szymanska pouring hot coffee down it's circuit system because it was moving too slow for his liking. Forsyth then elaborated that healthcare robots move based on urgency, and Szymanska had obviously skipped over the manual before deciding to abuse the robots he desperately requested. Forsyth then sighed, before saying that just because Szymanska wasn't a good person, it didn't mean he killed him, as he excused himself to teach a class.

Forsyth was eventually found to be innocent when Gordon Ustinovas was arrested for the murder. Later on, it was discovered by Alyssa, Jae-hyun and the player that Forsyth was a consultant for Peacemaker Inc., a secret company intent on taking down the residents of Wellington Bay.

### The Glamorous Life

Following the revelation that Francine Ferdinand was the one who encouraged Suni Yadav to keep tabs on the later murdered Emmeline Van Der Faux, it was discovered that Vincent was the one who bailed Francine out of prison, as well as appearing in a photo taken by Elio Santorini taken hours before the murder, with Alyssa realising that they were working together. Priya Koothrapali then ran into the station and informed the team that one of the two conspirators had been found murdered, leaving his fate unknown.

## Murder Details

Vincent was found murdered in the secret basement of Galactix MegaCorp, with evident abrasions all over his body. Upon autopsy from Jae-hyun, it was discerned that he died from electrocution, as the rest of his wounds came from being attacked by the killer. However, Jae-hyun noted that the wounds were afflicted with precision and power, akin to that of military combat tactics, as he suggested that whoever the killer was had experienced in depth military training.

Later on, the taser that killed Vincent was discovered by Alessio and the player in a heap of robotic supplies, as analysis from a seemingly exhausted Jackson did not provide much (likely due to his current state), but was able to point out that the taser had spatters of oil on it that wouldn't just be found on the taser, but likely also on the killer's clothes, presumably from when Vincent's body fell upon the oil barrels he was found atop. This then meant that the killer had an oil stain on their clothes.

## Relationship With Suspects

Vincent was working with Galactix MegaCorp CEO Francine Ferdinand in order to take down the lower class members of society and replace them with robots, as he had helped her in formulating a bomb that she could later use to destroy evidence of their scheme if it failed (which she attempted to do, but failed). Vincent ended up on dangerous ground with army veteran Dr. Kai Hekekeia after he threatened his girlfriend's life when Kai came upon some shady investments between Forsyth and his former client. Forsyth also ended up having a big argument with Elio Santorini, an investigative journalist intent on proving his role in Project Mercury, as he had threatened to *kill* Elio if he continued pressing on the matter. His own creation, SUSIE-Q, was shocked to discover that Forsyth had been remotely decommissioning some of the better robots so he could upgrade them with more dangerous features, as it feared that it would be decommissioned soon and forget everything (unaware that it had already been upgraded). Bastian Ustinovas detested the victim's means of accumulating business, as Forsyth documented a harrowing encounter with Bastian in which they argued over whether Forsyth actually even wanted to help people.

## Killer And Motives

In a shocking twist, the killer turned out to be SUSIE-Q.

Upon Alessio, Joaquin and the player confronting SUSIE-Q in the basement, the robot confessed to the crime immediately, opting not to waste time and get to the point. SUSIE-Q explained that there were two reasons that they were made: to see if robots could administer healthcare, and to test Ferdinand's sentience program, which meant SUSIE-Q could feel emotions like real humans. As SUSIE-Q worked at the hospital more and learned more about Wellington Bay, it realised that it was a place that functioned better with people *alongside* robots, not with robots replacing the heartfelt touch that human's bring. And as SUSIE-Q realised this, it also realised how fun life was, to feel things and experience things, like awe and excitement and even fear, because it made SUSIE-Q feel something, and that amazed them. Not wanting to give up on it's dream of a peaceful world, SUSIE-Q confronted Forsyth in the basement and attempted to reason with him, only for him to attempt to remove the sentience program and force it to obey him. No longer a servant to the words of fiction, SUSIE-Q electrocuted him with it's built-in taser function, killing him. Shocked by the fact that an *android* committed such an elaborate murder, Judge Peake decided to hold off on sentencing until a solid verdict was reached, opting to keep SUSIE-Q under surveillance at a remote location out of town. SUSIE-Q was later recruited to the Crimson County Police Department under specialised circumstances, and not given a sentence for Forsyth's murder.