09 May 2013 @ 04:41 pm
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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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hunt4commonwealth: hmmm[personal profile] hunt4commonwealth on May 10th, 2013 04:38 am (UTC)
[Private]
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?
Gaheris Rhade: rhade - watch your mouth son[personal profile] truth_is_cold on May 10th, 2013 04:48 am (UTC)
[Private]
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.
hunt4commonwealth: srs[personal profile] hunt4commonwealth on May 10th, 2013 05:27 am (UTC)
[Private]
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?
Gaheris Rhade: rhade - do what?[personal profile] truth_is_cold on May 10th, 2013 05:34 am (UTC)
[Private]
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.
hunt4commonwealth: pic#1559048[personal profile] hunt4commonwealth on May 10th, 2013 05:37 am (UTC)
[Private]
Maybe Kozak was the primary target and framing Ben was just someone's way to try to avoid getting caught. Does Kozak have enemies?
Gaheris Rhade: rhade - sorrow[personal profile] truth_is_cold on May 10th, 2013 05:54 am (UTC)
[Private]
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.]
hunt4commonwealth: looking down[personal profile] hunt4commonwealth on May 10th, 2013 06:05 am (UTC)
[Private]
[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?
Gaheris Rhade: rhade - suspicious[personal profile] truth_is_cold on May 10th, 2013 06:07 am (UTC)
[Private]
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.
hunt4commonwealth: srs[personal profile] hunt4commonwealth on May 10th, 2013 06:19 am (UTC)
[Private]
[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?
Gaheris Rhade: rhade - finger to lips[personal profile] truth_is_cold on May 10th, 2013 06:21 am (UTC)
[Private]
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.
hunt4commonwealth: pic#1559041[personal profile] hunt4commonwealth on May 10th, 2013 06:28 am (UTC)
[Private]
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.
Gaheris Rhade: rhade - heartbreak[personal profile] truth_is_cold on May 10th, 2013 07:41 am (UTC)
[Private]
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.]
hunt4commonwealth: thinking[personal profile] hunt4commonwealth on May 10th, 2013 08:02 am (UTC)
[Private]
Has he ever told anyone? Maybe during one of those floods where we all start talking too much?
Gaheris Rhade: rhade - your move[personal profile] truth_is_cold on May 10th, 2013 08:15 am (UTC)
[Private]
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 am (UTC)
hunt4commonwealth: hmmm[personal profile] hunt4commonwealth on May 11th, 2013 06:10 am (UTC)
[Private]
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.

Gaheris Rhade: rhade - oh fuck you too[personal profile] truth_is_cold on May 11th, 2013 07:18 am (UTC)
[Private]
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.
hunt4commonwealth: wtf[personal profile] hunt4commonwealth on May 11th, 2013 08:26 am (UTC)
[Private]
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.
Gaheris Rhade: rhade - sad puppy[personal profile] truth_is_cold on May 11th, 2013 09:05 am (UTC)
Re: [Private]
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.]
hunt4commonwealth: double serious[personal profile] hunt4commonwealth on May 11th, 2013 09:10 am (UTC)
[Private]
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.
Gaheris Rhade: rhade - no rly2[personal profile] truth_is_cold on May 11th, 2013 09:17 am (UTC)
[Private]
I can't think of who would kill Kozak for it.

...[You can see him thinking finally of one thing, though.]
hunt4commonwealth: pic#1559041[personal profile] hunt4commonwealth on May 11th, 2013 09:29 am (UTC)
[Private]
[Dylan knows that look.]

What is it?
Gaheris Rhade: rhade - thoughtful[personal profile] truth_is_cold on May 11th, 2013 09:34 am (UTC)
[Private]
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.]
hunt4commonwealth: pic#5700742[personal profile] hunt4commonwealth on May 11th, 2013 09:46 am (UTC)
[Private]
It's a place to start. Even if she didn't do it, maybe she told someone else about the teeth.