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Software engineer. He had a sister, a lease, and a gym membership he used twice.", "synonyms": "body simon davenport table corpse sheet", "points": 10, "sets_flag": "knows_murder", "use_text": "You examine him, because somebody should, and because four hours is not long enough to know a thing about a man. The steering column injuries are wrong. A man who drives off Mulholland at sixty grips the wheel — it is the last thing he does, it is involuntary, every one of them does it. Simon Davenport's hands are unmarked. His hands were not on the wheel. Somebody else's weren't either." }, { "name": "beth", "sprite": "beth", "x": 34, "y": 128, "look": "Beth Davenport. She writes crime novels — eleven of them, and you have read all eleven, and you are not going to mention that.", "synonyms": "davenport sister woman writer author", "use_text": "You offer her your handkerchief. It is a real handkerchief, cotton, ironed, because your father carried one and so do you. She looks at it for a long moment as though she has not seen one in twenty years, which she has not.", "dialogue": [ { "says": "Beth: You're the detective. They said a detective was coming four hours ago and then they said the case was closed.", "choices": [ { "text": "I'm sorry for your loss, Miss Davenport.", "goto": 1 }, { "text": "Did your brother own a safe deposit box?", "goto": 2 }, { "text": "I've read all eleven of your novels.", "goto": 3 } ] }, { "says": "Beth: Everyone has said that today. You're the first one who meant it. She is right. You did mean it. You mean everything, all the time, and it has cost you three marriages and it is about to be the only useful thing in this room.", "choices": [{ "text": "Tell me about your brother.", "goto": 2 }] }, { "says": "Beth: Box 1147, First Federal. He put something in it in March and he stopped sleeping in April. He called me at one in the morning nine days ago and said — and I wrote it down, Detective, because I write everything down — he said 'if they finish it, nobody will be able to tell anybody anything ever again.'", "choices": [ { "text": "That box was emptied yesterday at eleven o'clock.", "goto": 4 }, { "text": "Who is 'they'?", "goto": 5 } ] }, { "says": "Beth: ...All eleven.", "choices": [{ "text": "The fourth one is the best one.", "goto": 6 }] }, { "says": "Beth: While you were in the building.", "choices": [{ "text": "While I was in the building.", "goto": 5 }] }, { "says": "Beth: He wouldn't say. He said the safest thing I could do was not know. Which is exactly what a man says to his sister nine days before he drives off Mulholland with his hands in his lap. She picks up her bag. Beth: I'm coming with you.", "choices": [ { "text": "That would be against regulations, Miss Davenport.", "goto": 7 }, { "text": "Yes. 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