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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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[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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