Power, Sacrifice and Death

**Power, Sacrifice and Death** is the thirtieth and final case of Criminal Case: Mysteries of Turkey. It is the seventieth case overall. The last case in Marmara Region. It is situated in Istanbul, Turkey.

* Previous Case: King of Hearts
* Next Case: Death Lies In Cold (in Mystery of the Americas)
* Partner: Bryan Castiglione

## Summary:

### Murder Weapons

* **Guillotine**
* **Saw**

### Killers

* **Matthew Erickson**
* **Eylül Öztürk**

## Plot

In the city of Istanbul, there was chaos everywhere, everyone was panicking due to the attacks today in the city, the government had imposed nationwide curfew and investigations were taking place. Hell's Gate had caused these attacks, who had been trying to burn down the country and take over it. For over past eight months, HG's regime was spreading in the country, everyone had been falling under their trap. With Amanda Mackay leading the organisation, who was supported by Matthew Erickson and Eylül Öztürk, and they had challenged Turkish Police Force to defeat them. Back in the department, we all were worried about the kidnappings on Turkish Resistance Organisation, HG had kidnapped Onur, Sofia, Elif and Aslan. We were extremely worried about them, and HG was now getting out of control and destroying the city, on need we heard that another explosion took place near Taksim Square and the government is trying to cease the terror. Zeynep was panicking that everyone is going missing, and she doesn't know what to do. Mert was wandering here and there and was worried about Onur and Elif. Merve was crying because Arslan was also kidnapped by HG, and Cassandra was consoling her, and saying that everything will be fine. We then receive a voice message from Matthew in which he says that we all are done, and today is the day we die, and in the background, we hear Eylül beating our people. We were now more concerned, and now Bryan decided to partner up with the player. Before we went off, we heard that another attack took place at Galata Tower and now things were even more worse. So we wear bullet proof vests and arm guards for our protection, as we progressed further at the crime scene, everything was destructed and we noticed someone lying there, as we progressed further, we saw a body which made us delighted as it could, it was none other than Amanda, we were so delighted but seeing the surroundings made us sad, however it was unbelievable that Amanda was dead, someone literally had ended he regime and now HG was ruined. We send the body for autopsy, the body was already in extremely brutal shape. We find Matthew and now we smirked as we interrogate him. Matthew gets fierce that how did we even managed to kill off Amanda, it is impossible, he then yearns for revenge and says that he'll kill all of us, and now we are too weak to anything. We all were now better that Amanda was dead, and no one could do anything now, and HG will now submit it self to us but we realised that they still held our people. We proceed to find them, however according to Merve, she couldn't find them anywhere, and not even tracking device helped. With the whole city being in chaos and destruction, it was nearly impossible to find them. However we then go inside the Galata Tower and we see several footsteps there, and there a door leading towards something. We follow it and we find out Arslan tied inside, we untie him, and he was covered all in scars. We debrief him and ask him if he was doing alright, he tells us that HG had kidnapped him and put him here, and everyone else are in other places, we inform him about Amanda's murder, he was surprised that how something like this would've happened, and he cannot believe a second that Amanda is no more.

After that Arslan also gathers with us to find the others, as we move further, we see Onur's voices from inside of a bread shop, we went inside and untie him, we also ask him if he was alright, he said that he was, but he is afraid about Elif, he fears that Matthew might have done something to her, but we then tell Onur about Amanda's demise, he was perplexed that how something like this would have happened, but also glad that now Amanda is dead, and now HG is too, however Eylül was still somewhere, and Matthew was in our custody but we needed to find Eylül and figure out who even killed Amanda. After that we proceed to find others, however back at the stations, we heard that Matthew broke into there and is trying is burn it. After hearing it, we went back to the station, however due to enough luck Onur and Elif already saved the department from being set on fire. We interrogate Elif about her escape, she tells us that Matthew and Eylül had hid her, however she managed to escape thanks to Onur, and now Amanda is dead. We can definitely defeat HG. However we were concerned as Eylül and Matthew were still active and they definitely could do anything. After we talk to Elif, Taner runs to us in haste. He says that he has discovered that HG was hiding nuclear weapons inside their hideout. After hearing this, we were astonished and now concerned that we should incriminate Amanda's killer real quick. We find Eylül who was trying to set us on fire. We take her into our custody, and interrogate her about Amanda's death. She starts to cry that whoever killed Amanda deserves death and they can't do anything but stop HG forever. The autopsy results revealed out that Amanda was first beheaded then her body was cut into several pieces. At the precinct, we were discussing details, Merve tells us that Mert had helped Amanda gather the nuclear weapons when he was brainwashed.

Mid-investigation, Merve tells us that Mert had helped Amanda to gather the nuclear weapons with her, when he was brainwashed. This then rose our suspicions on Mert, and we decide to grill him for this. Mert says that we already know that he had helped Amanda, when he was brainwashed by her, why are we even being suspicious on him, however Bryan places his hand on his shoulder and says he had to speak, and he knew how it would have been done, we ask Mert if he knew where she had hidden her nukes, however Mert recalls that he doesn't remember where he has them. At the station, Matthew and Eylül were holding everyone at gunpoint, and we needed to find Aslan and Sofia, however they both arrived at the same time in the station, Matthew's blue eyes were squinted, and he couldn't believe that Sofia and Aslan were safe and sound. Aslan says that Eylül and Matthew only had kidnapped them, but never do anything, however they only had hurt Arslan and Onur, as they were their biggest enemies. Matthew who was standing in front says that it's unfortunate that they aren't dead, however Aslan then steps on Matthew's feet and Matthew gazes him with his eyes, and Aslan says "Today you are dust, and we are winners". After that, Matthew and Eylül finally accept their defeat, however they were still suspects, so we couldn't let them roam around freely. On the crime scene, we find out that Aydın wanted to kill Amanda, which was obvious because she had killed Burak, however this made him a prime suspect in the investigation, and we debrief him. Aydın says that Amanda deserved to die for the crimes she had committed, and she already had made a lot of enemies, and it was would be obvious if anyone of us would've finished her.

After his interrogation, we find out HG's hideout and there we see Amanda's pictures which were crossed out and there were taunts for her all over the wall, we were concerned that who possibly could've wrote these taunts to her. We examine the writing and it was none other than Matthew, we were puzzled that why would he taunt his own leader, even though both of them were spreading violence. Matthew reveals that he already had enough of Amanda, because she was getting on their nerves, as she wanted to control everything, but she had forgot that if it wasn't for him, she would never have got fame and prominence, but Amanda proved to be nothing, but selfish. We receive a message from Cassandra who tells us that there are no explosions now, but however the government is finding Matthew and Eylül, but since they are in our custody, we can't let them go. At the crime scene, we find out heart shaped card, and we decipher whatever was written on it. It was sent by Amanda and it was a love letter in which Amanda had expressed her love for Arslan. This was extremely surprising that why would Amanda even sent this card to Arslan, whom she always hated. So we decide to interrogate Arslan if he knew anything about this. Arslan says that yes it was true that Amanda had send her love letter however this was surprising as she always had hated his guts, but all of a sudden she fells in love with him. Arslan says that he was receiving messages from her, and she wanted to drop everything to be with him, but he disagreed and rejected her as he didn't want to date someone who was associated with the crime world. After Arslan's interrogation, we find out that Matthew was trying to cause huge problem for us, however we had already got rid of it. On the crime scene, we find out two pictures, one of them was Amanda, and the other to our surprise was Valentin and below it was said "Death is repeated again", we were trying to speculate what possibly it could mean. However after a lot of brainstorming we finally manage to speculate that Amanda was killed the same way as Valentin, and the killer was someone who knew Valentin well. On the other hand, we find out threatening message from Elif, which was send to Amanda. We debrief Elif about this, she says that she had enough of Amanda, she had been threatening her and especially Onur, as she always had grudge against him, and she had discovered that she was going to do something to him, but she doesn't have the courage to tell them, we should ask Onur about it. Onur tells us that Amanda had devised a plan to kidnap him and then hypnotise him, and then his hypnotised self would agree on making love with Matthew, but thanks to Aslan, he knew about their plan before they could pursue with it. After the interrogations, Sofia informs us that when she was kidnapped, she overheard Eylül talking about their magnificent plan, but she doesn’t know what she exactly meant. We decide to debrief Eylül but before we could do that, Cassandra tells us that the country is now on terror zone.

Mid-investigation, Cassandra tells us that the country is now on terror zone, and everyone was now panicking what to do, Bryan says that we need to incriminate the killer real soon, before finding out who has done this. However we now interrogate Eylül, about the magnificent plan she was talking about earlier, Eylül smirks and says that we should already know what she is talking about, and we'll know about it later on, when we are on the brink to die. After that, we were puzzled that what possibly could be the reason, however Zeynep comes to us, she was really pale, she tells us that someone had unleashed scorpions on the department and they are trying to bite many people, and this could result in our deaths, we advice Zeynep to close all the doors of the department, so the scorpions can't get in. After that, we find out that Mert had nearly killed Amanda once, and Amanda had yearned for revenge, now we were puzzled that what could the reason, so we decide to interrogate Mert, he tells us that when he was brainwashed by Amanda, he always used to hate her guts, even though he was coerced to serve her, but once he had injected poison inside her food, but unfortunately she didn't eat it. At the station, it was the time to arrest the killer, Zeynep said that we should protect ourselves, and Aslan then gives us bulletproof jackets and masks to ourselves from the radiation, and after waiting for a long time.

In the end we had evidence to incriminate Matthew Erickson and Eylül Öztürk for the murder, we were extremely surprised that why would Amanda's own people kill her. Upon admitting, both Matthew and Eylül starts to applaud and say that they were successful with their plan, and now they can't do anything to save the world and nor the country. They started to alight hysterically that how they have fooled us along, and they always thought Amanda was the real culprit behind all of this, and we even tried to kill her several times, when she was completely innocent all along. We ask them to elaborate. Matthew starts to tell us that we all had always thought that he and Amanda were the people who had started HG, but in reality Amanda was nothing, just a pawn, and he can't believe that they managed to fool us, without us knowing the real face of Amanda. Eylül begins to tell us that Amanda was just an cover up for them, and in reality, whatever happened in whole Europe and Turkey was planned by them, and they had been the master planners of everything that have occurred to us. Matthew reveals to us that he and Emmeline were dating each other, and both of them had took over HG, however The Italian Mafia was also another promising organisation to join with, and after that both of them had established it, then they were joined by Eylül.

However, when EPO was destroying the mafia. Emmeline had seek help from Matthew and Eylül, and she said that she needed another person to lead them, one who was extremely intelligent, and had a promising future. Eylül then adds more that the day when Liesbeth had killed Angelika, she and Matthew had kidnapped Amanda, and brought her to Emmeline, and then she was the perfect candidate for being the leader of HG, and for that reason she and Eylül had hypnotised Amanda into joining HG and becoming it's leader, and Matthew brainwashed her against peace and initiated her to commit crimes, and the night Emmeline had killed Valentin, they went off for Turkey, and Amanda was still under their control, with time they started to persuade her to commit crimes, and Eylül assumed her position as the lab chief for TPF, and even Arslan didn't know anything about it. Matthew had brainwashed her and made her assume the position as socialite, and no one would suspect a thing. When Avtandil started to intervene in their matters, they started to worry about him, because he might destroy them, and she and Matthew then convinced her to kill Mélodie, and then after she had killed Mélodie, her real identity was revealed to everybody. Then she planned to kill Tierre but Amanda disagreed on the murder, but they hypnotised her again and made her convince everyone that she was the real HG leader. However, she and Matthew benefited from it, as everyone's main attention was her. However, few weeks ago they discovered that Amanda was no longer hypnotised and was now controlling HG by herself, she wanted to kill them off, but she still pretended to make them believe that she was on their side.

However, in reality Amanda was planning to kill both of them, because she wanted to take over the whole world and now Matthew and Eylül needed to be eliminated as they were nothing, but thanks to them, she reached to this point. With time, Amanda managed to gather a lot of weapons, and for their surprise she even has had nuclear weapons to kill both of them, and then unleash it on the country. After she had killed Burak, they were convinced that Amanda was indeed on their side. However after Taylan killed Avtandil, Amanda had devised a plan to kill both of them, to get rid of them and then kill everyone in the world with the nukes. When they came to know about, they had kidnapped everyone from ARO, and pinned it on Amanda, and meanwhile both of them had planned to attack in Istanbul, and that would be the definite chance to get rid of Amanda. When Amanda was planning to kill them, Eylül had knocked her out, and then Matthew had beheaded her, after which Eylül begin to cut her remaining body into several pieces, after it was done, both of them exploded her. Matthew and Eylül smirk that ARO would never managed to kill her off, but they did it, and now nothing can prevent them to the nuke the entire world.

After Eylül and Matthew's confessions. They go off and warn us that we all die today, and we can't prevent them, and then they go off from the premises. Now were concerned that what possibly we could do to prevent this war happening, and we needed to act on this situation immediately and defeat them. Onur gathers everyone around him, however Mert was missing, and Onur then went on to find him, he asks everyone where Mert was, but none of them knew about it. Aslan says that he had seen him last at Arslan's office, and Onur goes to his office. When he was gone, Zeynep whispers to Ceren "Do you really think this prank will work". Ceren then replies "I don't even know why Mert wants to pull a prank on him, it's not even the right time", then everyone looked at each other with astonished eyes. As we reach to Arslan's office, Mert was lying on the floor, and there were blood on his shirt, Onur runs to him and starts to check him up and says "Blood why there is blood, no it can't be", his hands were shivering and was checking Mert's pulse, but he wasn't breathing, Onur's face was now worried and pale, and he then yelled and called everybody. After hearing that, Elif says "Oh gosh, you guys are gonna pay for it". When we reach there, we all pretend to be shocked, and Sofia runs to Mert, Onur says to her "Do something", Sofia then takes out her phone, and then Onur gets up, and when he was facing towards everyone, Mert gets up and pats his shoulder and says "You worry too much bro". Onur then looks at Mert and gets fierce that how he played a prank on him, when he literally knows that what would happen, and it wasn’t even the right time to play prank. Everyone that apologises and then we start to plan how to defeat Matthew and Eylül. We were holding a meeting at the office, and Onur presents a plan that we should somehow persuade Matthew and Eylül to reach to a certain place, where they could defeat them. Aydın then tells us that there is an old land, which is located near the old site of Istanbul, and if we manage to take Matthew and Eylül to that place, we could definitely defeat them. However there were many people, and Elif presents the idea of dividing up everyone into team of three, and everyone started to like it. Matthew begins to shoot from outside from the department, and we begin to shoot him too, however Matthew then runs away from the premises, and says that we should challenge him in two hours. Now we were in deep trouble, we needed to act upon it, and persuade Matthew and Eylül. So for that, Mert and Taner decide to persuade them and they went off. However back at the station, we were now gathering enough weapons for fighting against them, and Aslan says that there are some more modernised weapons that would easily defeat them, but the main problem is that they are under the government and we have to grant permission from them, to use it, however at the same time we receive a box and which there were modernised guns and grenades, and note from the government that they believe us that we will defeat HG. Mert and Taner call us and say that Matthew and Eylül finally fell into their trap, and now they are heading towards the place, and we all then wear bulletproof vests, arm guards, masks for our protections, and before we go off, Onur wishes everyone success and says that we all would be alive to see HG's defeat, but if he have to sacrifice ourselves, we should totally do.

Before heading out, Onur says good luck to everyone and went off to the place. When we reach there, Taner and Mert were already there, Taner tells us that Matthew and Eylül would be here anytime soon, however Mert says us to assume positions already, and everyone went to hide in the cave, and behind the trees, and Taner, Onur and Mert were at the front. Sofia was very excited to defeat HG, and so was Bryan. Cassandra says to Zeynep "Yo Zeynep, it would be really amazing to defeat them". Zeynep then agrees with Cassandra. Sometime later, Matthew and Eylül arrive, and Onur says "Now it's time for action". They both get out and were surprised that how Onur ended up here. Mert steps forward and says "You are no more bitches, today is the day you die". Matthew then steps forward and smirks ”You really think we will". Matthew then raised his hand, and Eylül says "Come out my people", and then Taylan, Emmeline, Casper, Fiona and Florin come out from the car, and we were surprised that how even they were ALIVE. Matthew then says "You really thought, we were that weak". Matthew then raises his hand, and everyone begins to shoot, and then Onur also raises his hand and everyone come out and starts to shoot Matthew and the others. Merve immediately realises that all were clones.

Onur fires a shot at Matthew, but in return he shoots him in the leg, but for their concern, Onur wasn't hurt. Sofia was shooting at clone Fiona and Casper, but they were throwing fire at her, which made us believe that the clones were trained perfectly. Taner steps forward and shoots Matthew in the abdomen, but Matthew reveals his bulletproof shirt, and smirks and shoots Taner's chest, and he drops dead. Everyone started to panic that Matthew had killed Taner, and no we needed to kill him too. Mert shoots clone Florin and Taylan with his guns, and they successfully were defeated and broken into pieces. Eylül begins to shoot Elif, Ceren and Zeynep, however in time Ceren says to Zeynep "Zeynep look at your left", and clone Fiona was aiming to kill her, but Zeynep in time manages to shoot into the clone's abdomen and she also breaks into pieces. Aslan then runs over to Taner's body and then aims his gun at Matthew and says "You’ll die today, Matthew", however Fırat runs into Aslan, and gets shot instead, and he also dies in front of us. Then Aslan went to Matthew and held by collar, however Onur says "Aslan save yourself and go from here", however Aslan says that he will prefer to die rather than living, but before he could complete the sentence, Eylül shot him from behind, and he also dropped dead. Onur then runs over to Aslan's body and starts to check whether he was alive or not, but there was no chance. Bryan and Sofia were shooting at Eylül but to our concern, she waves her hand, and Betül Yamantürk comes out and says "Hello friends". Aydın was surprised that what she is doing here, she laughs and says "Well you know". Aydın then runs to Matthew and begin to threat him too. With Aslan, Taner and Fırat being dead, we all now pledge to work as a team and now we only needed to defeat Matthew and Eylül, Onur then steps forward and says "It's the time, I sacrifice myself, my life is now worthless, and I would prefer to die rather than living, you can kill me Matthew". Mert then steps inside it and says "No Onur, you will do nothing, I'll present myself to them, you can escaped from here". Everyone then joins them and says that they'll prefer to die rather than survive, and the next minute Eylül shows us a bomb and says that will kill everyone now, however Arslan shoots Eylül in the chest and after so many time, she finally meets her doom. The gun dropped from Arslan's hand and he now realised that he had killed his sister, and he was so shocked that he couldn’t utter a word. Onur then advises Merve to take him out from here. Matthew was the only one remaining, he challenges to us to kill him, and then he drops the bomb the ground and says "We will all die together". Then Sofia and Bryan step forward and say "This is our time, we are nothing without Avtandil, and he always had taught us to be helpful to others, and today we both sacrifice ourselves for protecting this country, because Avtandil would be so proud of our act". Everyone joins hands and they all request Onur and the three to save their lives but they don't agree, but Matthew mentions that the bomb would go out anytime soon, and then Mert also says Onur to step
behind but Onur replies "No bro, as kids we had promised us each other, where ever you go I will go there too". Then Matthew says the bomb was about to explode and then Mert drags the three out, and the bomb explodes at the very moment, but Onur, Elif and Ceren survived, and everyone else had died. We were glad that we defeated HG, but at what cost, we had lost our friends: Zeynep, Cassandra, Sofia, Bryan, Taner, Aslan, Hilal and Fırat". However to our news, Mert was still alive and we rush him to the hospital.

The next day huge funeral event was organised by ARO, Arslan and Merve. There had been speeches to show respect for the ones who died while protecting the world. The government had decided to rename several companies, hospitals, schools after Zeynep, Sofia and Bryan, and one of infirmary was named after Aslan and Taner. Elif, Ceren, Onur and Aydın decided to open a company named after our seven lost friends, and according to Sofia and Bryan's wish, both of them were buried at Avtandil's mausoleum. At the hospital, Mert was still unconscious, and had suffered many wounds, and the doctors said that if he didn't consciousness. They won't be able to save him, Elif and Ceren were crying and weeping, however Merve was consoling them, on the other hand Aydın and Arslan were consoling Onur, and when they both were gone, he held his hand, and said "Look Mert, it's me Onur, your best friend, your soulmate, your brother and your companion, why are you laying like this, don't do me that, wake up for me, for everyone, who needs to you, who love you, everyone needs you, especially me", and the next moment Mert had opened his eyes, and everyone was now glad, and now Mert was better and out of danger.

A week later, peace was restored in the country, and everyone was really jovial. The department was now controlled by ARO, Arslan and Merve. However it was the time to leave the country, before we departure, everyone had arranged a party for us, and there was another surprise
waiting for us, when we reach there, we see old friends: Silas, Alexandra, Jázmin, Brad and Tristan, who welcome us and say that they are still proud for what we have done here, Tristan says his asshole brother died, and now his family is relief, because he was just causing shame for them. After the conclusion of the party, it was time to leave, before that we all tell what will be doing the future, Arslan says that he and Merve and gonna start another life together, and he thanks us for being here for him every time, and supporting him everytime, he then gives us a hug. After that Onur and Mert tell us that they are going to spend some days overseas to make them fresh from these events. It was the time, the plane arrived, and we once again we gave goodbye hug to everyone, before going off from the country, leaving behind memories and love, and we don't know what awaited for the future.

## Suspects

Matthew Erickson

Hell's Gate Co-Leader

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Arslan Öztürk

Partner

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Onur Sağlam

ARO's Leader

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Elif Yılmaz

ARO's Co Leader

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Eylül Öztürk

Hell's Gate Second in Command

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Mert Yılmaz

ARO's Second in Command

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Aydın Yamantürk

ARO's Member

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## Killer's Profile

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