Tie him, go find Squires.

BOOM HEADSHOT

ok... Now we restrain him and put him in a place he won't be looked for...

The papers! Frisk him, and check out the other room, too.

Don't forget that there was a third guy.

Brom 2010/03/19(Fri)20:30 No. 149796 ID: f98e0b
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>>149793
Oren finds them in his back pocket. Unopened.

Should he?

Yes. You need to read them over ASAP.

I don't see why not.

Might want to be careful could be some magic crap on there.

Head into the other room first. Back to the wall, man, stops people from sneaking up on you.

Don't. Keep them as evidence, and read them with Grease in your presence so he can explain himself.

Brom 2010/03/19(Fri)20:34 No. 149803 ID: f98e0b
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>>149797
>>149798
Oren opens up the page, determined to see just what Theo

what theo

what

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAH XD

>>149803
>muschioFFUUUUUUUU.gif

Goes to show you for how little men will kill themselves over, whether directly or indirectly.

What kind of idiot includes a "Maybe" box? That doesn't tell you anything!

The kind of idiot who is afraid of rejection.

>>149806
No. The hitmen were hired by CLARA, remember?

>>149809
Hence 'indirectly'.

>>149803
SO.
HOW ABOUT CALLING THEO UP RIGHT NOW THEN?

How do we know this is the document they were after? It could have been a fake they made to keep the real one hidden so they can escape with it.

>>149803

..Ahahahahaha.

Anyway first off, TIME FOR JAILSIES. Also call up Clara. And Theo. To a table. With hot white lamps.

Put the letter in the middle.

Think about it. Why would an information broker give a letter like this such a high price? It's far too simplistic.

>>149803
did you consider this letter might have hidden wording on it in some sort of invisable ink...
Possibly even blood. That means you need a UV light to check it...

Or the boxes could mean something else. As in the checkmark signifies sometihng other than a relationship...

Before we do anything, let's check on Squires and the third criminal.

Brom 2010/03/20(Sat)12:47 No. 150051 ID: f98e0b
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"I got the guy, his name's Aldo," says Nessie, walking in and sheathing her blade. "Gave up without a fight when he found out Sofia was okay. They're trussed up outside."

Brom 2010/03/20(Sat)12:47 No. 150052 ID: f98e0b
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"Sheriff? Honey? What's up?" she asks, grabbing his arm. "Hey, is that the--"

Okay use your phone and call Theo RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

Brom 2010/03/20(Sat)13:19 No. 150060 ID: f98e0b
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>>150055
bzzzt bzzzt
flick

"Grease Galvin. Can I help you?"

>>150060
"Theo, what did I just fight no less than three professional hitmen to get? A love note? Seriously?"

>>150060
so Theo... what is this shit I'm looking at right here? you know people almost died over this right?

Go down there and punch him in the dick.

>>150060
Your cart better gleam like a gemstone and run like Apollo's chariot of the fucking sun for this.

Brom 2010/03/20(Sat)15:52 No. 150096 ID: f98e0b
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"Grease I will punch you in the dick" says Oren, and hears a clang on the other side of the line, as well as Grease swearing, loudly. "What the hell am I looking at here?"
"What are you looking at?" asks Grease.
"Theo, what did I just fight no less than three professional hitmen to get? A love note? Seriously?"
"Oren, what're y- three proffesional hit- You opened the letter? Why would you... waitasecond, did you say hitmen?"
"Three of them, Grease."
"Shit, Oren. Really? I mean, I- It was just a love letter. Why'd there be hitmen after it?"

There wouldn't be. Maybe there's been a mix up?

>>150096
"I don't know, how about you tell me why you felt it was valuable enough to cash in all your favors for it? Why was it priced at 750 gilt? Why was Clara not supposed to get her hands on it, when she already had it once already, apparently?"

I guess we may have to ask our prisoners who hired them.

I think this is a simple case of "You are all goddamn morons."

Just go home and take a nap.

Brom 2010/03/20(Sat)16:27 No. 150119 ID: f98e0b
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>>150101
"I don't know, how about you tell me why was it priced at 750 gilt? Why was Clara not supposed to get her hands on it, when she already had it once already, apparently?"

"Look, it was third grade, alright?" says Grease. "I don't know how the information guy got his hands on it, I mean I never got it back from her, maybe she like lost it. And the information guy wouldn't sell it to me unless I paid him 750 gilt, which I guess is his idea of a joke, and he wanted to sell it to Clara, 'cause he was telling her it was super secret documents that could drive me out of business and she believed him, so I called you to get it for free for me. I thought you'd just walk in and take it and be done with it, Oren. Honest. If I'd known it would get you in trouble with a hitman I'd never have asked you to do it."

"But why would you want to cash in all your damn favors to get this one note?"
"She woulda wasted a lot of money on it if she'd bought it and that wouldn't have been fair. Plus I wanted to lord it over Clara that she could be so easily fooled, and maybe lord it over her if she'd said yes, is all," says Grease. "Um, did she... say yes?"
"Not the time, Theo."
"Right. Sorry, Sheriff."

Time to interrogate the fuck out of your prisoners.

>>150119
Maybe Clara didn't know these guys were hitmen? She might've just been cashing in a favor. I mean, they weren't sent to kill anyone. This was covert ops, and thus not their usual method, so it would make sense that she didn't know their usual method.

Ask him if he was in the same school with any of those three. Maybe Clara knew them.

Pick up Theo, Pick up Clara, bring your prisoners to the table, and bring the information guy to the table too.

Then lay an educational beat-down on everyone.

Spare nobody.

>>150136
This.

You just had to put up with way more shit than one guy should have to put up with in one day, and for an absolutely retarded reason. Someone is getting a tirade over this. Probably multiple people.

At some point, we're going to get that information broker charged with fraud. And possibly extortion, if he threatened to have Theo driven out of business.

A good way to do that is to go to Clara and question her about this mess before she finds out what really happened.

>>150134
Naw, you don't pay hitman prices for a pickup job.

>>150136
>>150147
>>150152
I agree with these people. Let's have Squires take the perps in, we tell Theo to get his sorry ass to the station, and we drive on over to Clara's place, and see what happens. Then, we bring her in to the station, and bang people against each other until we know what's what.

Brom 2010/03/20(Sat)18:53 No. 150188 ID: f98e0b
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"Are you kidding me?" says Clara. "You're assassins? You said you were consultants! That's what it said in the fucking yellow pages!"
"Technically it'h code," says Sofia.
"Euphemism, I think's the word," says Aldo. "Joseph thought it was more appropriate."
"Appropriate, hell!" says Clara. "That's just false fucking advertising. If I go to a restaurant and ask for apple pie and the chef shits on a plate it's called deceptive advertisement. I'd call for your arrest if you weren't already under arrest."
"Deceptive? You want deceptive?" says Grease. "You checked 'Maybe'! She checked 'maybe', everyone! Who does that? Why did I even have that as an option?"
"Could the cell be co-ed?" asks Aldo. "I think the cells should be co-ed."
"That was in the third grade!"
"Well sorry if I think you're being just a little hypocritical, Clara!"
"My nothe itcheth and I've got thethe handcuffthe. Could thomeone itch my nothe?"
"Hypocritical? You're calling me hypocritical? I'd like to know just who sat behind who in Science pulling whose ears before you call me hypocritical..."

"This is going to be a long interrogation," says Nessie.

I think maybe people need to be interrogated seperately. Especially if you suspect funny business. I mean, she had to have told them to do something. Also, itch nose.

End Brom 2010/03/20(Sat)19:03 No. 150190 ID: f98e0b
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"They were taunting me! Taunting me, waving over my desk! That's your fault!"
"Oh, here we go. Here we go, guys. Listen to this."
"Hold on, babe, lemme just use my elbow..."
"Thankth."
"This is your pride again. This is you thinkin' you're better than me just because you work on all the good vehicles in town..."
"That's because I am better than you, Galvin!"
"Are you kidding? Have you seen the mayor's skiff? That thing's a shiny chrome eyesore. Now if I was in charge of..."
"You'd just put on hot rod flames or some shit, Grease!"
"You're damn right I would! And furthermore..."
"So about those co-ed arrangements..."

This is the part where a headcrab and scientist in an orange powersuit suddenly appear and the headcrab eats a crow and the man poofs away, leaving it behind.

>>150196
Yes.