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Post by frankthetriviaman on May 2, 2016 21:10:42 GMT -5
*Pause
As much as I love that twist, I don't think it's possible. There was a paragraph on the last page that indicated the two were separate characters:
(Gunnarson and Kenneth on the train)
"I still just don't get that last case; so you're telling me that it was an elaborate cover up by two people to murder three people, and have a fourth man arrested, just so this man and woman could fall in love?" Sergeant Kenneth asked as they sat in the train car.
"Very much so- I'm still not so sure why Walter Farley got murdered, but the press has been eating up this case like there's no tomorrow" Gunnarson explained.
Gunnarson still had the "accidental suicide" on his mind during the ride... there had to be something.
(Back in London)
Back in London, the victim had finally been identified as Malcolm West, but there was little else available.
The wine bottle had broken into several large pieces, rather than a few smaller ones, so Gent decided to figure out if this was an accident or not once and for all.
"Check the pieces for fingerprints; if any are found on there that do not belong to West, only then will we pursue this case any further" Gent explained.
So the bottle was sent over to the lab, but a couple blocks down the street, a man watched with interest.
"Good luck finding prints... but I think you will find that rather... difficult" the man smirked as he held his gloved hands.
...I honestly have nothing; any ideas?
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Post by Toz76 on May 2, 2016 22:35:19 GMT -5
It could have been another one of his associates?
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on May 3, 2016 9:43:01 GMT -5
You jumped the shark too early, Toz, that was something I was leading up to actually.
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Post by frankthetriviaman on May 3, 2016 11:06:43 GMT -5
*again, we've already indicated they are two separate characters. We can always go back and resolve it; so for now let's just go along with this I guess.
*unpause
The attacking gunmen had backed off. As the farmhands regrouped at the house, Kenneth had called out to Gunnarson.
"Gadfrey's been shot! One of the gunmen must have got past me when I wasn't looking!" He informed.
"No!! What's her state?" Gunnarson said.
"She's entered some sort of shock; we must get her to the hospital" a farmhand said.
"Ok, this is going to get out of hand too fast. We need to split up and figure out what the hell is going on". Gunnarson said.
So, in the two trucks parked outside, two groups of three farmhands each went to a truck. "No bombs or traps; we're good!" One farmhand informed as they split up. One group went to the outpost to get the Home Guard, and the other went to bring Ms Gadfrey to the hospital. This left Gunnarson, Kenneth and two farmhands to inspect the premises for other damage.
"Well?" Gunnarson asked as the two farmhands came back. "Fortunately we only lost two sheep; the rest of the animals are fine. We found six bodies along the treelike, but the number of blood trails and places where we found bullet casings suggests there were 15 attackers at least; no more than 20 though" the farm hand explained.
"Well Gunnarson; what can you make of this?" Kenneth asked about the attack.
"Well, it is unrelated to the first shooter, I can tell you that" Gunnarson concluded.
"Why that conclusion?" Kenneth asked.
"Think about it; the first guy was only killing livestock, he didn't want to kill people. But this attack... They wanted to kill someone." Gunnarson concluded.
......
The first group of farmhands made it to the farm outpost. They quickly ran to the entrance.
"Colonel Richards! We need your help! It's an emergency!" The eldest of the trio said. The colonel came up to them.
"Blake? Conner? George? What are you doing here?" He asked.
"It's the Gadfrey farm; there's been an attack! We held it off but they could be back at any moment!" Connor exclaimed.
"Good lord!" The colonel exclaimed before blowing his whistle to mobilize the Home Guard in his barracks. "Come on lads! We've got scoundrels to flush out! The Gadfrey farm, quickly!" And the soldiers began mobilizing.
......
In a field far from any town or home, a group of twelve men had regrouped from the last attack. Nine of them had some kind of wound. One of them, holding his shoulder on his bloody shirt, came up to one of the men who was not injured.
"We lost O'Reily, MacDunner, Olsen, Connelly, Warner and Williamson. Only you and a couple others didn't get shot sir, and it doesn't look like Brent or Darren are going to make it; what do we do?" He asked the guy, who seemed to be in charge of the group.
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Post by Tug on May 3, 2016 18:37:45 GMT -5
"I can't believe that old witch still hasn't paid up, we the members of the Irish Mob always get what's ours, right boys?" said Finnegan, the leader of the group...
"Aye!" replied his men as they all immediately grasped their bullet wounds in pain...
"Come on, we'll go to the pub and get a pint to numb the pain, then we'll go back and take what's rightfully ours!" shouted Finnegan as his boys agreed and they trudged along to get some good Ol' Irish Whiskey and Gin...
Meanwhile, in a wooden box buried in a field somewhere, a body was finally stirring awake...
"What the... Gunnarson, are you there!" shouted the body in panic
When no response came, he simply said to himself, "It seems I let myself be drugged, got to be more careful, but why am I in a box and why can't I open it... Wait s minute... Oh no! Someone, anyone! Come dog me out, please!" shouted the body who in reality was Sargeant Kenneth
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Post by frankthetriviaman on May 3, 2016 18:58:20 GMT -5
*Oh, I just wanted to clarify my post: Ms. Gadfrey will probably die from the two shots to the chest; but to increase the drama of the story, for now she is just barely alive; in Shock as three of her farmhands try to get her to the hospital.
Kenneth screamed and screamed; desperate for help.
......
It had taken a good while, but at last Colonel Richards had organized 40 members of the Home Guard to go and reinforce the Gadfrey farm.
"I've got to stay here in case of trouble on this end. Lieutenant O'Brian, you're in charge; follow the farmhands to the Gadfrey farm, it is only a few miles down the road."
"Yes sir! Come on lads, let's show them what the Home Guard can do!" Lieutenant O'Brian ordered as the troops boarded 1/2 dozen trucks or so, and followed the truck the farmhands were in.
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Post by Toz76 on May 3, 2016 23:32:18 GMT -5
Gunnarson ran over to Gadfrey, but she was out cold and close to death. The phone line was still cut, so he couldn't call for help. Fortunately, Gunnarson had some medical experience, and knew what to do.
Meanwhile, Blade had dug up Kenneth.
"Why? Why are you digging me up?"
"Because, Gadfrey may survive. So I need to get the Gadfrey Emeralds buried on the grounds and skip town before Gunnarson catches me. And since everyone thinks we're the same person, killing you and leaving the body here will stop the manhunt for me."
"Lionel... my brother... you don't have to do this!"
"I'm sorry, but when you mess with Blade, you pay the price." He shot his twin brother in the chest. "Wow, this has gone way far south... I only wanted to kill Gadfrey, but then the Irish Mob showed up... I'd better find the Emeralds and get out of here with Fowler before this gets worse. I hope our other ally gets here soon..."
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Post by frankthetriviaman on May 7, 2016 0:22:58 GMT -5
Gunnarson was tending to Gadfrey's wounds; he called outside to the three farmhands working on the second truck; though one group had gone out to get the Home Guard, this second group was supposed to take this truck and bring Gadfrey to the hospital.
"Darn that engine; get me a wrench will you?" One of the hands asked another.
The two that were in the house with Gunnarson; one was trying to find where the phone line had been cut, and the other had a question.
"Have you seen Kenneth? He seems to have just disappeared" he asked Gunnarson.
"Kenneth? Kenneth!" Gunnarson called out. Nothing.
"That's odd... where could he have gone too?" Gunnarson asked himself before going back to tending Gadfrey's wounds.
......
As "Kenneth" was making his way back to the farmhouse, the third associate he was expecting had finally arrived; he was waiting along a fence smoking a cigar.
"About time; what took you so long?" "Kenneth" asked.
"Sorry; had to make sure there was nothing connecting us to Malcolm's accident" the man said.
"And..."
"Well, see for yourself" and he handed "Kenneth" the London paper. An article talked about "Malcolm West's fall- accident caused by alcohol"
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on May 9, 2016 18:52:22 GMT -5
"Excellent... my plan is worki-" BANG! And "Kenneth" dropped dead.
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Post by frankthetriviaman on May 9, 2016 19:00:30 GMT -5
Or rather, to the ground in great pain... he felt like death was going to come to him at any moment.
"You traitor! We were working together on this! How could you betray me and Fowler?" He said as he clutched his stomach. "You have nothing to gain from this!" Blade said, still clutching the wound.
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on May 9, 2016 19:09:15 GMT -5
"But... but I didn't shoot you!" "You did too-" and then he realized that that he was telling the truth. BANG! Another bullet shot out, this time hitting his head... and causing death.
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Post by frankthetriviaman on May 9, 2016 19:17:27 GMT -5
Blade's associate, angered, pulled out his pistol and fired two shots in the direction the prior shots came from as a warning, then he saved his remaining bullets and aimed.
"Who's out there? Show yourself now!" He warned
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on May 9, 2016 19:25:01 GMT -5
But there was no reply. "Who the devil are y-" SMACK! He was suddenly hit across the head with a metal beam, and fell to the ground. The assailant hit the body until he was dead...
Meanwhile, Gunnarson...
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Post by frankthetriviaman on May 9, 2016 19:38:48 GMT -5
Was outside, patrolling the perimeter of the farmhouse.
"Kenneth? Kenneth!" He said, still not having found the officer.
(BTW, is there a plan in mind? Because I was expecting Gunnarson to figure out that Blade killed Malcolm)
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on May 9, 2016 19:40:57 GMT -5
(I thought I'd toss things up a bit and make them more interesting... specifically, what if Blade DIDN'T kill Malcolm??)
Just then, he stumbled upon something...
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Post by frankthetriviaman on May 9, 2016 19:44:28 GMT -5
(Except we established that he did in the opening scene and the pub scene... but I'm curious, so we'll see where it goes for now)
"What the heck?" He picked up the object; sure enough, the inscription on the side told him it was Kenneth's.
"I can't believe it! Why would he drop his..."
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on May 9, 2016 19:54:27 GMT -5
Super Collector's Edition 999 8-B double-G gold-plated diamond-studded platinum-laced customized J&F $19,812,340,214 watch?"
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Post by frankthetriviaman on May 9, 2016 19:58:41 GMT -5
"Huh?" A farmhand asked. Gunnarson looked it over. "oops; must be the light playing tricks on me; it's just a Timex" Gunnarson corrected himself.
But the farmhand was concerned. "Look, you need to get some sleep; you've literally been walking around the perimeter of this house for the last 3 hours" he told Gunnarson.
"But Kenneth is still out there... and I have a feeling there's something big going on we don't know about" Gunnarson said, looking at the sky.
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on May 9, 2016 20:09:29 GMT -5
And out of the sky dropped a bomb. "IT'S A RAID!!"
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Post by frankthetriviaman on May 9, 2016 20:17:28 GMT -5
*Pause
Highly unlikely; the Germans focused their bombing on the cities, not the countryside. That's why during the Blitz families sent trainloads of Children out of the cities to the countryside.
*unpause
The farmhand slapped Gunnarson across the face. "that's it, now you're going crazy, seeing things that aren't even there. Go get some sleep before you start seeing the boogeyman or something" the farmhand grumbled.
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