Chapter 20 - Eden Club

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NOV 6TH, 2038
PM 08:17

Hank: Aw... Feels like somebody's playing with a drill inside my skull... You sure this is the place?

Connor: It's the address in the report.

Pippa: Right... Okay... Let's get going. Jesus... Sexiest androids in town... Now I know why you insisted on coming here! Oh, boy...

Manager: You're not gonna take my license, are you? I mean, ha, I had nothing to do with this!

Ben: The investigation's ongoing, sir, I can't tell you anything for the moment. Hey, Hank and Pippa!

Hank: Hey, Ben. How's it goin'?

Ben: It's that room there. Oh, uh, by the way... Gavin's in there too.

Pippa: Oh, great! A dead body and an asshole, just what I needed...

Gavin: Lieutenant and Officer Anderson and their plastic pets... The fuck are you four doin' here?

Maddie: We've been assigned all cases involving androids.

Gavin: Oh, yeah? Well, you're wasting your time. Just some pervert who, uh, got more action than he could handle.

Hank: We'll have a look anyway, if you don't mind.

Gavin: Come on, let's go... It's, uh, starting to stink of booze in here...

Chris: Night, Lieutenant and Officer.

Pippa: Whoa! Hey! Hey! Hey! Argh, Connor, you're so disgusting... Think I'm gonna puke again...

Hank: Driver's license says: Michael Graham... A credit card, cash in the wallet... Picture of his wife and two daughters... I wouldn't want to make that call...

Connor: He didn't die of a heart attack, he was strangled.

Pippa: Yeah, I saw the bruising on the neck. Doesn't prove anything though. Could've been rough play...

Maddie: We're missing something here...

Hank: Think you can read the android's memory? Maybe you can see what happened...

Connor: I can try...

Maddie: The only way to access its memory is to reactivate it.

Pippa: Think you can do it?

Connor: It's badly damaged... If I can, it'll only be for a minute, maybe less... I just hope it's long enough to learn something.

Maddie: Calm down... everything's all right. All we want is to know what happened.

Traci: Is he... is he dead?..

Connor: Tell me what happened.

Traci: He... he started... hitting me... again... and again. I begged him to stop, but he wouldn't. It was like he was enjoying it...

Maddie: Were you alone in the room? Was there anyone else with you?

Traci: He wanted to play with two girls... That's what he said, there were two of us...

Connor: Where did the other android go? Did it say anything?

Hank: So, there was another android... This happened over an hour ago, it's probably long gone...

Maddie: No... It couldn't go outside dressed like that unnoticed... It might still be here.

Pippa: Think you could find a deviant among all the other androids in this place?

Connor: Deviants aren't easily detected.

Hank: Ah, shit... There's gotta be some other way... Maybe an eyewitness? Somebody who saw it leaving the room... I'm gonna go ask the manager a few questions about what he saw. You let me know if you think of anything.

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