It's the day before Thanksgiving and it is rainy, gloomy and I have zero motivation. Are you stuck in an office like me, destined to get nothing done? Are you on a bus or a train? Are you home and stir-crazy? Are you just generally bored out of your mind? Then come and play
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Frank had to fire his bookkeeper (Dewees) and he's late on the rent for his office (really late) and he's more of a "you think someone's cheating on you" kind of detective with the occasional "hire me to shake down some tough guy who owes you money" deal. He's not prepared for stolen inventions or dripping wet inventors, but a case is a case. So he tells the guy, Gerard Way of Way Industries, to have a seat. He closes the whiskey drawer with a shove (nothing works in this place) and asks why the invention was worth stealing.
Gerard goes all tight-lipped and shifty eyed and won't say anything other than it's a major discovery in the field. He won't even say what field. Frank wants to know why Gerard came here, of all places, not to the police, or a fellow inventor in the "field" or anyone other than a down-on-his-luck private dick (!) who was about to close up for the night (and maybe the rest of the week.)
Gerard says he's Frank's neighbor, his workshop is right across the street and he's seen Frank's sign offering "investigative services" and maybe sometimes he watched Frank's silhouette as he paced in front of the window and then - There's a huge explosion outside, and the windows behind Frank rattle and crack. Frank ducks and peers up over the windowsill - there's fire coming out of all the windows in the six-story brick building across the street, smoke in the air, sires in the distance, the rain still coming down in sheets.
Gerard is suddenly at Frank's side at the window, looking out. The explosion seems to have come from - Frank doesn't even need Gerard to say it - Gerard's workshop. Frank's in way over his head.
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No, seriously.
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