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Case: Fight for your life!

Jul 01, 2011 08:24

The little, balding make in his green scrubs is bending over the body on the autopsy table. A gloved hand reaches up to switch on the recorder. "John Doe. 5'11" and 170lbs. A pair of street kids found him naked while dumper diving in the upper west side. This guy is a mess ( Read more... )

commissioner jim gordon, cass cain/kestrel, npc

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gctopcop July 1 2011, 16:17:33 UTC

Jim's been working late. He usually does, these days. It's not like there's anybody waiting at home for him. And tonight, it doesn't appear that there's anyone waiting roofside either. He's restless. Probably too much of that brown sludge that bears some faint resemblance to coffee. His doctor has told him to switch to decaf, but he's resisting. He gave up smoking. Caffeine? Is a hell of a lot more to ask.

He decided to head down to the morgue. Maybe Clarence has found something that would warrant putting up the signal.

He pushed open the heavy double doors. "Turn up anyth--?"

The question dies on his lips. An instant later, he's reaching for his gun. "Who the hell are you?"

cass_batgirl July 1 2011, 16:22:23 UTC

Cass looks up over her mask. "Kestrel." She indicates the body on the table. "Third one. Pattern." She motions the commissioner over. "Behind ear," she instructs, still careful not to touch the body, lest she compromise evidence.

gctopcop July 1 2011, 16:26:38 UTC

Jim's eyes narrow. The costume isn't familiar, but there's something about the woman... He shrugs off the thought. The answer may come to him or it may not, but if they're on the same side, he'll let the matter slip for now.

"A... pattern," he repeats. He looks at the coroner. "Clarence? Have you--?"

Clarence shakes his head. "First one I've seen, sir."

Jim nods and turns to... Kestrel, was it? "Explain yourself."

cass_batgirl July 1 2011, 22:27:33 UTC

"Third body. No name. Cut here." She again indicates behind the ear. If the man looks he'll see the three little marks. Two were healed into thin scars, but one had only just scabbed over.

She looks at the commissioner. "Died." Her hand hovers of the area of his spleen. "Will be more." If she doesn't figure out what's going on and how to stop it. Who to stop.

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cass_batgirl September 23 2011, 04:47:16 UTC

Kestrel raises an eyebrow at him, but shrugs. She waits for him to put it on then....

"Computer, recognize James Gordon. Commissioner." These words she can say because she memorized the sequence. Just in case. All she needed to add was a name and what the computer was to access. In this case, "Read File 6671-10."

"Order understood," a digitized voice says from earpiece. "Case file 6671-10 status: open. Three known homicides following the same MO. death due to blunt force trauma. Each body has a small scar consisting of three lines behind the ear. It is theorized that this a group insignia. Or the there murder's signature. Insufficient evidence to support either supposition at this point."

Kestrel nods as she listens in with her own comm, waiting to see if the man understood what she was trying to explain to him.

gctopcop September 23 2011, 04:57:36 UTC

Jim frowns. Then he removes the headset and gestures to Clarence to let him out.

Once back in the morgue's main area, he nods to Kestrel. "I understand the information. Unfortunately, I haven't seen anything li--" He frowns. "Anything quite like it. There is a serial killer who carves a single slash in his own flesh for every new victim. But I've never heard of him slashing anyone else's. Do you have any theories? Even longshots?"