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That is how cases fall over.", "", ""], "objects": [ { "name": "microscope", "sprite": "microscope", "x": 46, "y": 96, "look": "The comparison scope. On the left stage, the elimination set. On the right, your lift card from the inside lip of the strongbox.", "synonyms": "scope comparison lens stage lift card", "requires_flag": "prints_logged", "points": 10, "sets_flag": "samples_processed", "use_text": "You run the lift against the elimination set: payroll clerks, the two drivers, the foreman, the watchman himself, and every man on the department's file. No match. Not one point of comparison anywhere in the set. You note the reason in the margin, because the margin is where a man notes a reason: sworn officers of this department are not printed. There is no elimination set for us. The Chief has been asked for one four times since 1954 and the answer has been that it would suggest to the public that it was necessary. You write that in the file. You write it in full, in your own hand, and you initial it. (+10)" }, { "name": "incinerator", "sprite": "incinerator", "x": 116, "y": 132, "look": "The basement furnace. Property regulations, section 9: biological material and any card stock contaminated by it are destroyed within seventy-two hours of examination, by the officer of record, witnessed.", "synonyms": "furnace fire basement stove burner", "requires_flag": "samples_processed", "points": 20, "sets_flag": "samples_burned", "use_text": "Four days of rain came through that skylight and everything off that floor came up wet. The swabs are spoiled. The lift card has taken up moisture from the property envelope and the ridge detail is going, and a card that is going is worth less than nothing in front of a jury, because a defence man will hold it up. Section 9 is not ambiguous and you have never in nineteen years been ambiguous about section 9. You destroy the swabs and the card in the furnace, at 4:15 PM, witnessed by Officer Kowalczyk, who signs the property log beneath your signature and thanks you for letting him see how it is done properly. What survives of the latent from the inside lip of the Ardmore Street strongbox is the log entry. The log entry is in your handwriting. (+20)" }, { "name": "typewriter", "sprite": "typewriter", "x": 76, "y": 128, "look": "The bureau typewriter. Every report out of this division for eleven years has gone through it, and Captain Sturges signs them without reading them.", "synonyms": "machine report paper keys", "requires_flag": "samples_burned", "points": 15, "sets_flag": "report_typed", "use_text": "You type the report. You type all of it. The corridor between the crates and the eleven seconds. The bar of light Cassidy walked around for eleven years. The man who came up behind him that he did not turn round for. The latent on the inside lip, the lift, the log, the no-match, the reason for the no-match, and the destruction at 4:15 with the witness's name. Four pages, single spaced, and every sentence in it is true. It supersedes Officer Kowalczyk's handwritten notes, which are attached behind it, as regulations require, at the back. Captain Sturges signs it on Thursday without reading it. In eleven years there has never been a reason to read one. (+15)" }, { "name": "widow", "sprite": "widow", "x": 138, "y": 108, "look": "Mrs. Cassidy has been sitting on the bench outside the bureau since two o'clock. Thirty-one years. She has brought a photograph in case anybody needs one.", "synonyms": "mrs cassidy woman wife bench", "use_text": "You sit down next to her and you tell her what you know, which is a great deal, and you tell it plainly, and you do not tell her it will be all right. She says: you'll find him. You say: I will. You are not lying to her. You have never once lied to anybody. That is not the shape of this." } ] }