Murder On Worthy Hill

The Message

Abby pulled the swivel chair back, and sat in it. Aaron pushed it in for her. "Oh, thank you, Aaron."

"You're welcome." Aaron signed into his computer, and mumbled his password as he typed. Abby chuckled. After he finished signing in, he told her,

"What we are about to see is the murder of Hensworth, so be prepared to look away if necessary."

"Oh, don't worry, I am." Abby said, worried for what this video will bring.

"Here we, go. Play." He pressed play on the video, and watched with care. He saw one intruder take off a glove to open the front door. "Hensworth didn't seem surprised to see the perpetrators break into his house."

"Yeah..."

"And why was the front door open? Wouldn't you lock all of your doors if you owned a mansion?"

"It seems like this video is bringing more questions than answers, in my opinion."

"It sure seems that way, doesn't it." The Hensworth Mansion aesthetics included decorations with elegant patterns and dainty cutlery. The murderers had finally kicked Hensworth in the legs, and Abby flinched. Then, the visuals stopped, but the video was still playing.

"Huh?"

"What happened?" Abby asked, confused.

"I- I don't know. It shows that it's still playing." A single line appeared on the screen. It was a straight, horizontal line that cut the screen in half. Then, a mechanical garble began playing, and was synchronized with the line, that had begun moving with it.

"What.. is this?"

"I don't know what to tell you, Abby. It looks like it could be a robotic mouth, and this is the way 'it' speaks."

"Wait... It.. It sounds like it's saying something, but I can't tell."

"Should we use the Audio Decipher tool to understand what this garble means?"

"Yeah."

"Okay, I'll pull it up right now." Aaron pulled up a sound analyzer, which is a tool that they would use to decipher messages that didn't sound properly recorded or executed. The light coming from the computer lit up the entire office, and the mechanical garble made it seem like they were watching a horror film.

"Okay, I just uploaded the video to the Audio Decipher tool. It should.. now, be analyzing the audio."

"Great. I really want to know what this even means." After minutes of analyzing, the Audio Decipher tool finished unscrambling the garble.

"Oh look!" Abby said excited. "It's done."

"That actually took less time than I thought."

Abby looked at everything the Audio Decipher tool typed, and read,

"Hadrian Clark, It has come to my attention that a recruit from [Inaudible], Texas, and their companion, is trying to solve who murdered [Inaudible] Hensworth. I want to make it clear, you *must* reveal to them false evidence to make them [Inaudible] what's true, is false. Then, you may consider yourself a deal. -Boss"

"What the heck is this!"

"I have no... What!?" Aaron was so discombobulated, he didn't know what to say.

"This, doesn't make any sense. These people know who we are. They were probably watching us, this, entire time!" We need to talk to Jerry about this, now!"