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[Private to Ben | Audio]

Ben, I need to know what happened today.

[Private to Zack | Audio]*

I need to know if you two have spoken. He's going to be held accountable for someone's murder [and Rhade is very perplexed by this, because Ben doesn't lie], and he's been concerned with how you were going to react when you spoke to him. Did he seem in control of himself?

[Private to Charles | Audio]

Would it be possible for you to examine and speak with Ben? Review him for outside influences? Fugue states? I don't believe he is lying to me when he says he was in his room, but considering this ship...

[Private to Dylan | Audio]

[All that awkward from before? Have to forget it.] I need your help.

[Warden Filter | Audio]

Who here is a competent detective or is experience with forensics, or alternately has an inmate you would trust to assist in an investigation? [He wants to be careful and not get Ben into more trouble.]

OOC: And I'll be adding a bunch more to this, and there will be a plotting post for detective types to investigate.
*Timed to after his conversation with Ben.

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Kozak was murdered and the evidence points to Ben. But Ben says he was otherwise occupied, and I'm inclined to believe him- at least that if it happened, he wasn't aware of it.

Ben doesn't lie to me.

But I would like your help in monitoring him. Possibly Blonsky's as well, if you feel he is now responsible enough. Both for security and for his sake.

Dammit. Doyle's vision points to Ben being on scene, too. But between shapechangers and psychics and god knows what else on this ship, it isn't conclusive.

I think Blonsky's up for it. Do you want a guard inside his cabin or outside his door? Or do you want a more casual kind of monitoring?

When he's not in his cabin I'd like him to have an escort of some sort. We can alternate, but I want to get to the bottom of this.

[He rubs his hands over his face, so he sounds muffled for a moment.] Robert is my friend. I am... furious if someone used my inmate as a scapegoat to get to him.

I'm on it. Between the three of us we can have a full rotation, so no matter when Ben leaves they'll be someone ready to go with him.

Do you think someone was trying to frame him?

I suppose in one way or the other. I've been mind-controlled into attacking people, and Ben has no interest in Dr. Kozak.

But oddly enough, I don't know of anyone that particularly dislikes him.

Maybe Kozak was the primary target and framing Ben was just someone's way to try to avoid getting caught. Does Kozak have enemies?

I don't think so. I think that Ben does. I thought about it after I asked Perry about Kozak's potential adversaries.

He's pretty widely disliked.

[And that makes him genuinely sad, enough that it seeps into his tone.]

[Dylan lets out a quiet sigh. He likes Ben, and he doesn't like the idea of either Ben killing Kozak or of someone disliking Ben enough to frame him for murder.]

Any top suspects for who might want to get Ben into trouble?

No one with the means. And he recently was reintroduced to a family member, so I'm having him talk to Charles in case it was psychological.

[Charles makes him think of telepaths, which makes him think of things he's heard bits and pieces about that happened to Rhade before Dylan was on the Barge.]

Is there a chance that one of the psychics on board have been compromised? And...something else used one of the psychics to hypnotize Ben?

I don't know. That's what happened to me.

[But things rarely repeat themselves exactly, and he has no idea what the source of this could be.]

I don't want him to think I think he's guilty. Make sure Blonsky knows that this is in case someone is mind-controlling him, or that someone comes after Ben in retaliation.

We'll keep an eye on him. And I'll keep my hopes up that this is just an old fashioned copy-cat frame job and not demonic possession or whatever other crazy thing might happen on the Barge.

I don't know who would know about him well enough to copycat him.

But it could be another way of narrowing it down. [He hates starting with virtually nothing. Maybe other people can help.]

Has he ever told anyone? Maybe during one of those floods where we all start talking too much?

I don't think he was affected for that. It's hard to tell.

I'll ask him directly.

[And he adds later...]

Alex has offered to join our rotation.

Edited 2013-05-11 05:15 (UTC)

Is it possible that someone else has seen his file? Maybe a spy or master thief snapped a copy and sold it on to someone else?

I'll let Blonsky know.

Unless someone invaded my mind they wouldn't know where I kept it, and if they invaded my mind they wouldn't need the file.

His brother says there may be details wrong.

And if someone invaded your mind, we're back to a telepath as the culprit.

His brother? I didn't know Ben had a brother on board.

Another transgenic. They saw their unitmates as family.

[Something he knows Dylan would identify with. He knows he does, but was too dumb to realize it.]

Got it. [And he does immediately understand.]

So it's looking more and more like Ben didn't do it, thank god. But someone evidently wants to get him into a heap of trouble.

I can't think of who would kill Kozak for it.

...[You can see him thinking finally of one thing, though.]

[Dylan knows that look.]

What is it?

I don't know that she did it. She may have had an alibi. She wouldn't have been discrete about it, but she was someone that could have known about the teeth.

[He digs up Genocider Syo's ramble after Ben's attack, the one that they interrupted.]

It's a place to start. Even if she didn't do it, maybe she told someone else about the teeth.

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