Heavy Rain

We park in front of the Motel on Tuesday at 00:06 AM. It is raining but the water is only 0.272 inches. We are a private detective named Scott Shelby and we are looking for Lauren Winter that is lodged there in the third floor last door left at the end of the corridor. We knock at her door. She believes we are a customer, charges us 50 bucks for 10 minutes and allows us in. We need information from her! We introduce ourselves and explain that the families of the victims of the Origami Killer hired us to investigate the murders. She refuses to give us information. According to her she already told everything to the police. We try to be compassionate but that only infuriates her more. She found her son’s body in a wasteland so she does not see how we can even get close to know what she is being through. We try to convince her with good arguments, but she does not care anymore. We try to argument that we bought 10 minutes of her time so she could take that time to answer some of our questions but that only escalates her anger to the point of throwing us out of her apartment. We should have tricked her instead! We leave our card in the kitchen table and we leave.

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All this excitement caused us an asthma attack. We lean on the wall and with a lot of effort we are able to take our inhaler to breath again. The timing was perfect because we see Troy, Lauren’s ex-customer bagging at her door trying to get in. She opens the door and then we hear her screams. We knock again at her door and Troy opens. We break the door and we start a fight with Troy. We fight him until he runs away but not before threatening us. Lauren thanks us for the help and we leave.

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It is now Tuesday 8:05 AM and the rain is only 0.680 inches high. We are agent Norman Jayden from the FBI. It seems we have some issue that makes our hands tremble and we need to take some blue drug. We arrive to the crime scene and search for Lieutenant Blake. We start analysing the crime scene. We are surprised that there are already reporters on the scene, they seem to be well informed. We put on some high tech glasses and gloves. These allow us to record and analyse in the evidences found in the crime scene in the moment. We start by stating our agent number, 47023, name, Norman Jayden, date, Tuesday October 4th and time 8:14 AM. We find an empty bottle with DNA from Oscar Dalzell and we are quick to determine that it is not related to the crime. We find some footprints but they belong to Andrew Simpson, one of the policemen that is present working the crim scene. An officer points us to Lieutenant Blake but still we search for some more evidences. We head for the small tent where we believe the body of the victim is laying. Lieutenant Blake stops us when we are about to enter the tent. We introduce ourselves. Lieutenant Blake takes us through the events. The body was found by a man walking his dog about 6:00 AM. The body was not yet identified but it seems that it is another victim of the Origami killer. The coroner is still on his way. There are no witnesses yet and Lieutenant Blake does not think there will be any. The victim seems to have been drowned like the other victims around 6 hours ago but they need the coroner to confirm this. Lieutenant Blake asks us to talk about the details later in the office but he allows us to keep analysing the crime scene.

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We put our glasses on again and we head to the tent to analyse the body. On our way we find more footprints belonging to the police officers and a very interesting evidence. There is flower pollen (Phaleanopsis Partense Orchid) in the air being more concentrated near the body and it has been there less than 12 hours ago.  We reach the tent and start analysing the body. The victim is laying on his back and there is no visible signs of violence. The body contains high amounts of the flower pollen which suggests that an orchid was placed on the victim’s chest. On the right hand the victim holds an origami figure, a dog. The system identifies the victim as Jeremy Bowles declared missing 5 days ago, born in 1999 in Hagen Pennsylvania. The face is covered in blood like the other victims and there is a superficial wound that seems to have been made post-mortem probably made when removing the body. The blood report indicates an advanced and long-lasting state of exhaustion.

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We continue analysing the crime scene. If the murdered carried the body here there must be traces, also if the body was scratched while being transported we should be able to find more blood traces. We follow the pollen trace to the trails. We are interrupted by Blake that comes to tell us that he is heading to the office. We decide to stay and continuing our analysis. Reaching the trails we see that the pollen particles disappear where the grass is tall, but we find blood traces in the railroad track that are confirmed to be from the victim. Following the railroad we find footprints that seem to belong to the killer. Near them, in the fence we find more traces of blood that come from the victim. It seems that the killer came this way to dump the body but it grazed it in the fence. We start climbing the hill, which with the rain that is pouring is not an easy task. Filled with mud we finally reach the top. There are footprints that can belong to the killer and some tire tracks that may be from the killer’s car on the side of the road. We head back to our car!

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It is still Tuesday, 1:00 PM and the rain is 0.765 inches. We are Ethan Mars again and we are at the shrink. The doctor is worried about our psychological status. We blame ourselves for Jason’s death. We recognise that our son Shaun is unhappy because he cannot understand why we are unable to love him. We don’t want to live anymore, we cannot find any reason to continue and we don’t think that Shaun needs a father like us. We tell our doctor about the blackouts we are experiencing. We ask the doctor if these blackouts can be related to the accident. He does not have an answer. We have suffered massive concussion and were in a coma for 6 months, the doctor is not sure of how this could have affected our brain. The session ends!

It is 4:10 PM and the rain is of 0.986 inches. We are in the park with Shaun. Shaun tells us how the teacher was angry that he was again late and that next time she will not allow him to attend the class. We feel guilty! Shaun is sad, he looks miserably sad! We try to entertain him. We go get the boomerang and start throwing it. The first time we fail to catch it but the second and third time we do it perfectly! We teach Shaun how to do it. He throws it and he catches it. He is happy! We then decide to go to the seesaw. We play a little with Shaun there. He is laughing! He is really having fun! So we take him to the merry-go-round. We push him the faster as we can and he smiles and laughs! We are smiling too! We sense that rain is coming so we decide to leave the park, but when we are heading out Shaun asks to just go for one ride in the Carousel. We allow, he is finally having fun, we cannot deny that now. We go buy the ticket for him. The rain starts pouring, the carousel starts spinning and we have a blackout!

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We wake up again at Carnaby Street and are almost hit by a truck. We start running back to the park searching for Shaun! The park is now empty! There is no one there! We search everywhere. We find his backpack but no Shaun! We go around screaming his name! We run home to see if he is there. We search the whole house but we cannot find Shaun! When we open our hand we find another origami figure. We lost Shaun!