Stargirl

S3 EP2 - The Suspects

The JSA stood in the Pit Stop and were explaining what had happened to Pat and Sylvester.

Courtney: Someone murdered The Gambler.

Pat: Okay. Well, who'd have the motive to do that?

Sylvester: Well, who'd ever met him.

Rick: Yeah, so who cares?

Courtney: A man is dead, and there's a killer out there.

Yolanda: Excuse me. Have you all lost your minds? Cindy Burman did it.

Rick: She was standing over his body.

Nate: With a literal smoking gun.

Courtney: Okay. Yeah, sure she was, but Cindy told us that she went to see if the Gambler had any connection to the robbery we came across.

Yolanda: Oh! Case dismissed, I guess.

Courtney: Cindy went to investigate when she heard the Gambler's old gang were back together. When she showed up, she found the trailer destroyed and The Gambler dead.

Sylvester: But you said she was holding a gun.

Courtney: Cindy said she saw the gun, and picked it up-

Nate: Contaminating evidence.

Courtney: But it had accidentally gone off.

Beth: The Gambler wasn't shot. The goggles couldn't find a bullet wound anywhere.

Rick: That doesn't mean that Cindy didn't kill him, Beth.

Sylvester: And whoever twisted that trailer into a pretzel had to be as strong as Solomon Grundy.

Rick: Grundy's dead.

Sylvester: You sure, kid?

Yolanda: I hate to be a broken record here, but Cindy's strong.

Courtney: Not that strong.

Yolanda: She is a walking science experiment. Who knows what else she's done to change herself, Court?

Courtney: Dragon King changed her, and he's dead.

Rick: Yeah, because she killed him.

Nate: Not only that but who knows what she learnt from her dad. We know for a fact that she follows his expertise in Chemistry and who knows what else.

Yolanda: If you really thought she was innocent, she would be here at this meeting right now.

Courtney: The Gambler's laptop was missing, and he always has it with him.

Beth: I've been trying to track it. It still hasn't come back online yet.

Courtney: Cindy didn't have it. We find the laptop...

Pat: We find the killer.

Sylvester: Who I'm guessing was one of The Gambler's former colleagues from the Injustice Society who you're hoping to reform.

Courtney: We can't assume anything at this point.

Sylvester: Courtney, the fact is, it wasn't until The Gambler came back to Blue Valley that he was murdered making the former villains all suspects, including Cindy Burman.

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The JSA were sat in the school cafeteria the next day.

Courtney: The official cause of death was blunt force trauma.

Yolanda: From a tornado?

Rick: Grundy did not kill The Gambler. Guys, I checked. He's still buried.

Beth: According to the autopsy report, aside from all the bruises and broken bones, The Gambler also had a stab wound right to the heart. The coroner theorized it was debris thrown by a tornado.