"What makes you say so?" Fritz responded.
"Well, for one my gut.. And second he's trying to tell us something" I raised a copy of my notes I made a few days back as I was studying the video Dowson gave me.Thompson drums his foot on the floor. He wraps his arms around himself and looks at me with disbelief.
"And how many have you watch?"
"Just one" I muttered.
"And you say he's trying to give us some clue?" Thompson extends his hands, pointing at my direction
"Care to explain that?"I pushed myself upward from my chair and grabbed the remote for my presentation. If only Fritz the Prick would read the investigation I had done, it would be a lot easier. Thats if, he knows how to read.
"If I may" Special Agent Anna raised her hands from the back row.
"If Brooks here is right about this, it'll be the first time w e may have any hints on this Me" She gestured.
"First, we dont have any bodies to study or even exhume, Second, though we might know the place this scumbag killed the victim, we cant get a trace of him, no fingerprints, no murder weapon, no traces of blood, nothing. Not but this black film that we got"
"And this one is special right?" I asked to everyone in the room, interrupting Ms. Anna for a second.Everyone looked at me.
"This one, is special, I could only guess. By the looks of it, this is the only evidence that suggests a murder inside a house" I turned on the projector, the screen lit up, immediately it was filled with a picture of a man, masked in black, the man they call Me."I can tell, if this guy is that careful, he would not kill any human being within their homes. What more is that he left a recording suggesting that he did so."
Dowson interrupted "Though, we got that recording not in the Middle Province as you suggested, but some guy found it at the corner of Japhet St. Bulacan"
A man raised his hands, one of the research analyst Fritz brought with him to make company "We have so far 5 tapes, all found in different locations, 4 of which are filmed in random places, a street corner, a garden, an alley and a remote rural area which is still to be identified. 1 of these 5 shows a kitchen, suggesting that the killing might had happened inside the victim's home. Though we don't have the proper evidence yet, as smart as he is, he made a mist-"
Anna butts in "He did made a mistake. He chose random places all of which are hard to identify, hard to decontaminate evidences since most are public spaces. This one is a house, if we are thorough enough, there might be a preservation of the stains this man has committed. The problem is, there are more than 8 million people living in this country, most of which has a kitchen. Now how do you narrow that down Mr. Brooks?"
"He did not made a mistake" I said, holding a firm fist.
"This guy is smart"
"He might have snapped, no matter how smart he is, killing at someone's house, if someone was missing within a household I am sure somebody filed a report about this" Dowson retaliates.
"And yet, there is none?" I rebattled.I changed the slides. This time, instead of the man's mask, it shows the kitchen where the murder is supposed to have happened. Supposed.
"This isn't a video. Its an image" I said holding on to my remote.
"He made sure it looked like a video, but trust me its an image, hes trying to tell us something"
"Like what? Catch me or something?" Thompson, again with the I know everything attitude of his.
"No, it says, THIS IS A DECOY"
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Misteri / ThrillerAlexander Brooks was a former FBI consultant and the most clever of them all. He breaks down crimes and solves riddles like it was just a walk in the park. He decided to move on, becoming an architect and a skilled interior designer after his last c...