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Case #29: Video

Nov 05, 2011 17:53

[It's an extreme close up of a Victorian constable! George has accidentally turned the camera on himself while picking up his communicator in an attempt to figure out what the strange device is. He looks a little older; a little stockier, because no one escapes the ravages of aging, and 1898 has been kind of a stressful year, what with all of the ( Read more... )

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[Private] expectremorse November 5 2011, 22:07:51 UTC

...It's November 5th.

[Swaying a little? Yep.]

[Private] 19centconstable November 5 2011, 22:40:48 UTC

Detective Hoffman! It's good to see you again. November 5th you say?

[Private] [Video] expectremorse November 5 2011, 22:51:50 UTC

Last I checked on the calender.

[It switches to video-he looks a little bleary eyed.]

Where'd you go?

[Private] [Video] 19centconstable November 5 2011, 23:03:52 UTC

Home. I had been speaking to the Admiral about checking in on everyone there. It seems he granted my request.

Re: [Private] [Video] expectremorse November 5 2011, 23:18:53 UTC

The question is, will he be able to let you back if you want to go. [wry chuckle]

Re: [Private] [Video] 19centconstable November 5 2011, 23:28:13 UTC

What, home? But I just got back. And between you and I, things weren't going all that well there.

Re: [Private] [Video] expectremorse November 5 2011, 23:29:39 UTC

[Cue a slightly skeptical look. Hoffman's slightly skeevy looking-with the air of a slightly unwashed bum. George looks pressed.]

...Must have been a formal occasion.

Re: [Private] [Video] 19centconstable November 5 2011, 23:31:44 UTC

[A lot of people in Victorian Canada didn't do washing very well.]

It was Dr. Ogden's wedding.

Re: [Private] [Video] expectremorse November 5 2011, 23:56:03 UTC

[that gets a smile] congratulations.

Re: [Private] [Video] 19centconstable November 5 2011, 23:57:06 UTC

Not at all, unfortunately. She's married the wrong man.

Re: [Private] [Video] expectremorse November 5 2011, 23:58:06 UTC

[Hoffman raises an eyebrow] ...It sounds like there might be a story here. What happened?

Re: [Private] [Video] 19centconstable November 6 2011, 00:19:05 UTC

[Deep breath.]

Dr. Ogden became engaged to another doctor while she was in Buffalo. But we...Miss Ogden and I...later found...by accident...that the Detective had planned to propose to Dr. Ogden. He had a ring, and a very emotional letter. But then someone framed the Detective for murder, and we all expected him to attend and object to the union, but he didn't. And Miss Ogden asked if I had intended to bring someone to Dr. Ogden's wedding, and indeed I had been considering asking Miss Moffatt, but then it seemed as though Miss Ogden might ask me to escort her, and so I told her that I had no such intentions, and she didn't ask me. And I ended up going with Higgins.

Re: [Private] [Video] expectremorse November 6 2011, 00:38:55 UTC

[That came straight from some kind of soap. Like days of our lives or one of those shows that old women and guys on break watched. It was bothering the guy however.

Hoffman's brow creased.]

You're a stand up guy George Crabtree.

Re: [Private] [Video] George has all the girlfriends 19centconstable November 6 2011, 00:45:16 UTC

I do try.

But I just don't know how things can go on.

[Private] [Video] Teach Hoffman your mojo dude. expectremorse November 6 2011, 00:51:54 UTC

...With this Doctor Ogden or with your own situation?

[Hoffman licks his lips] I wish I could offer something more then, Go find the guy and get him to talk to her.

[Private] [Video] First: be really awkward... 19centconstable November 6 2011, 01:03:34 UTC

With Dr. Ogden and Detective Murdoch.

I'm quite certain that Ruby tried, and if she was unable to persuade him...

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