Low Altitude

Mayday! Mayday!

**Low Altitude** is the 30th case to occur in The Origins, as well as the 5th and final case to occur in the Northeast Region.

## ***Summary***

### **Victims**

* **Aaron Hall***(Right)*
* **Matt Azarova***(Left)*

## ***Plot***

Back in Maine, a former member of The Summoners, Adeline Mann, told the team that The Summoners are attempting to attack the Capitol Building. We head there, only to realize it's a trap set by Adeline so she could escape. An arrested killer, Brian Elliot, then tells the team that The Summoners are going to attempt to gain more members. We reach Pittsburgh when one of our plane's engines fail and we crash to the ground. The team regains consciousness, only to find the chief, Jessica Charles, with a gigantic scar on her eye. We look around and find Hunter Hondo, the team's informant, still unconscious. The only person who didn't get a single scratch from the plane crash is the coroner, Maria Caulfield. We then look behind us, only to find the team's profiler, Aaron Hall, bashed on the head and hung up on the top of the plane, lifeless. Maria finds a large slab and decides to use it as an autopsy table in order to tearfully autopsy Aaron. We then find an asylum near to us. Jessica then orders Ursula Gemini and the player to search the asylum for any more clues on Aaron's murder. As soon as we enter the asylum, however, we find the dead body of the team's weapons expert, Matt Azarova instead. We also find the player's partner, Max Snowcone, sobbing at the sight of his colleague with his head bashed in so brutally. Max said that he regained consciousness before anyone and saw everyone knocked out. He then decided to wake up Matt, as he's the best trained to be in this position. Together, they went to the asylum to see if anyone was there. After searching the whole place and shouting for help, they found nobody. As soon as they were about to leave the asylum and go back to the plane, the duo heard a voice speaking in Arabian. The next thing Max knew, Matt yelled "Wait, isn't that?" before being knocked out. The next thing he knew, he woke up to find Matt dead and Ursula and the player came a few minutes later. We bring Max back to the broken plane, where he sees Maria autopsying Aaron's body. We then decide to talk to Jessica, as she was flying the plane and this happened under her watch. Jessica said that after further analysis, Imogen Caulfield discovered that someone had sabotaged the plane engine before the team took off and followed them there to finish us off. We later find a cane in the asylum, belonging to Duchess Sophia. We asked Sophia what she's doing in Pittsburgh and she says she heard The Summoners were attempting to gain more members and attempted to stop it. She then said she saw someone with red eyes around this area and she wondered if they were a Summoner. We said that they most definitely are and we start to hunt for this Summoner, thinking it would be Adeline. Instead, we find Stephen Carr, a Summoner who killed Aaron's wife back in Nevada. We then discover that Maria has finished the autopsy. She tells Ursula and the player that both Aaron and Matt were killed with the same weapon. Hence, they were both killed by the same person. As soon as we leave the premises, we see a helicopter land next to our sabotaged plane. The helicopter door opens, only for Ronda Warner, an ally of the team, and the head of the CDRA to come out of the helicopter with Lily Hall, Aaron's daughter. Lily runs up to Ursula and starts to cry, asking her if what Ronda said about Aaron is true. Ursula, also breaking out in tears, hugs Lily and tells her everything that happened. We then ask Ronda how she found us. Ronda then told the team that just in case they were in danger, she put a tracking device on Aaron's suitcase, which he agreed to do in case they got lost. After they stopped south of the helipad, Ronda got worried and called Max, who told her that Aaron was dead. Ronda then immediately took Lily with her to visit his colleagues. We realized that Max never said anything about Aaron being dead, as he was with Matt before being knocked out by the killer. We then talk to Max again, asking him about Aaron as well. Max said that he was regaining his memory at the time and now remembers the full story. When Max and Matt woke up, they both found Aaron dead. They tried to wake up all the other team members, but none woke up. The two of them feared that everyone else had died and left to the nearby asylum to find some help. During the time they were yelling for help, Max got a call from Ronda, telling him that none of the other team members were answering their phones. Max told Ronda that they saw Aaron murdered and that everyone else was unconscious, maybe even also dead. After, they met back at the asylum room, where Max was bashed on the head and became unconscious. Ursula said that she'd buy his story for now, but that she'd believe the evidence before him. We then found a pearl on the plane, which matched Sophia's necklace. We asked Sophia what she was doing on the plane wreckage, and she said that she saw the team unconscious and tried to wake them up. She then thought they were all dead and left. 30 minutes later, she returned to check up on them again, only to find Aaron dead, and Max and Matt were nowhere to be found. This scared her and made her run away. We later find a box of red contact lenses in Aaron's pockets. We send them to the team's lab chief, Sandra Davis, who immediately tells Ursula and the player that the DNA and fingerprints on the box belong to Stephen. We ask Stephen what his contacts were doing in Aaron's pockets. Stephen then said that he saw Aaron suffocate to death, even saying the killer's name in the process. Stephen told the team that he wouldn't say the killer's name out loud and that we'd surely figure out sooner or later who killed two of our colleagues. Stephen told Aaron he'd be with his wife again and put something for Aaron to remember him by in his pockets, his contact lenses. We then find a note in the plane that says "hey sexy." As Aaron is dead, we send the note to Lily, who has experience with her father's work. She then tells the team that, based on the handwriting, the note was made by someone tough, muscular, and thought a lot of himself. We then realized that Matt perfectly fit this persona. Lily found fingerprints on the drawing but didn't know what to make of them, which is why she sent them to Sandra. Sandra said that there were two fingerprint types on the drawing, one sample belonging to Matt and the other belonging to Ronda. We ask Ronda about the note, to which she says that ever since Ronda killed a Russian agent back in Canada, Matt has always been trying to make a move on Ronda. Every single time, however, Ronda rejected his advances. Jessica then comes up to the duo and she says she's leaving the team, as she's responsible for Aaron and Matt's murders, and if she wasn't more careful, they would still be alive. Ursula says that may be true, but the plane was sabotaged and it wasn't her fault any of this happened. We make one final sweep through the asylum and find enough evidence to arrest the killer.

## ***Killer And Motives***

The killer turned out to be Sophia.

Upon admitting to the murder, Sophia said that her real name was Duchess Sophia Bartlett and that her alias was "The Gatekeeper." Sophia also said that her father, a Royal advisor for the queen of England, was brutally murdered by The Russians in front of her and her son, Kieran Bartlett, who was 7 years old at the time. Ever since then, Sophia has sworn to get revenge on The Russians, even if it's the last thing she does. Sophia also mentioned that for 30 years, Sophia has worked her way up the ranks to become a Duchess and the queen’s closest advisor. Her main goal is to create a war where the U.S. and the U.K. ally together to demolish Russia. She started with minor movements, such as kidnapping Richard, a famous British writer, and blaming it on The Russians. Sophia then came to the U.S. to convince Remington, and now Tom, to ally with the Queen and declare war on Russia. After Brian told the team what he knew, Sophia realized it was time for us to go, which is why she caused our plane to crash. Everyone else was unconscious except for Aaron and Matt, who tried to fight her when they saw her on the scene tampering with the baggage. However, since Sophia was bigger and stronger than both of them, she managed to overpower them, which resulted in Aaron and Matt's deaths. Sophia then said she tried to pin the murders on Ronda, as Matt was Russian and it would be another step towards war.

## ***Cherry Patch, Duck Pond, Cash Register (5/5)***

After confronting Sophia, we hear an explosion coming from the plane, and we look back, but while doing that, Sophia vanishes from the scene. We get help to escort everyone remaining on the team to safety and clear the crash site. After getting back to the station, we have a meeting to discuss a plan to capture both Sophia and The Summoners. After 5 days, we head to the funeral and say goodbye to our lost loved ones. After the funeral, Ronda approaches us, saying she has intel on where Sophia could go. We also meet up with Lily, who was at the funeral, who will be replacing Aaron as the new profiler. Ronda also says that she will replace Max as the new weapons expert. Our next destination is Charleston, West Virginia, where a murder has been reported in the courthouse.

## ***Suspects***

***Max Snowcone (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4)Jessica Charles (Traits: 2, 3, 5)Duchess Sophia (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)Stephen Carr (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 5)Ronda Warner (Traits: 1, 5)***