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03 → How Well Do You Know Your Neighbours?

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'How Well Do You Know Your Neighbours?'
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Murder accomplices

Brazzos
Aloha, Mabel and Callum!
We are headed to my apartment to
go over suspects in the death of
Tim Kono. I hope you both can
join

Best,
Charles-Haden Savage

Cool glasses girl
coming
fyi you don't need to sign
your texts
i know it's you

I beg to differ!

Love,
Callum x
(P.S. will be up in a minute)

Brazzos
Okay! See you SCONE!
I meant SCONE!
Duck, sorry SCONE

The four stared at the 'murder board' in Charles' flat, contemplating on how to begin.

"And these are..." Mabel broke the silence, turning to Charles for an explanation.

"Candid photos I took of our neighbours, matched with official complaints we got from Ursula," Charles replied, walking over to the board.

"Why selfies?" Callum asked as he judged the photos of the various neighbours.

"So I don't draw suspicion."

Mabel and Callum looked at the oldest with blank expressions as they continued to look over the board.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. So-so you think that Sting, musical icon Sting, killed Tim Kono?" Oliver interjected.

"I'm just a fan. He lives in the building and I always wanted a picture with him. I'll move it over here, I could get him to sign it later," Charles explained before pinning the photo in a different place, away from the suspects.

"How do you want to start with these?"

"Well... how do you sculpt an elephant? You start with a block of marble and you chip away everything that isn't elephant. We do the same thing. We eliminate everyone who isn't a killer, until we're left with the person who is," Charles told the group.

"Intriguing and yet totally backwards." Callum rolled his eyes at Oliver's insult. "When you cast a show, you don't say, 'I'm looking for not a Brad Pitt-type. You say who you are looking for." This explanation made more sense to Callum.

"Like they do in criminal profiling. Well, the American approach, aka Top-down, is based on typologies; organised and disorganised. The British approach, aka bottom-up, is geographical so we would be using the American one," Callum blurted out, his knowledge on the topic slightly shocked the group. "I like to research topics I'm interested in for fun," Callum shrugged his shoulders and nervously picked it his hands.

"Alright," Charles took the attention from Callum, noticing his nervousness. "I am looking for a guy I saw going up the stairs in a tie-dye hoodie the night of the fire alarm when Tim died," Charles explained, pinning a flash card reading 'TIE-DYE GUY' on the murder board. "And I'm looking for the mysterious... Tim's fiancée," he continued, pinning another flash card to the board.

"What if tie-due guy is the fiancée?" Mabel suggested as Oliver rubbed his temples, attempting to make sense of all the leads.

"Guys, guys, guys... we need one lead, one lead," Oliver stated, pacing behind the trio who were still at the murder board. "Stop! I know how to do this," the man announced suddenly, making Callum jump at his shout. Mabel smirked at his jumpiness.

Oliver paused in place for a moment, running an idea through his head. "Is he alright?" Charles asked.

"No steam coming out his ears so I think we're good for now," Callum commented, earning a grin from Charles and Mabel.