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John corrected the family tree and the correction is better than what I had. Leslie Nielsen's character is plain Frank Drebin; the 2025 film makes Neeson "Jr", which retroactively makes Nielsen the father without ever calling him Sr. So Frank Drebin Sr is now a THIRD Drebin one generation further back — 1958, entirely ours, no canon to violate. Terminology corrected across all three docs. The twist, per John's "maybe he is really a criminal": he is the most prolific criminal in the city's history, he is also a decorated homicide detective, and he has never once lied about any of it. Not corruption — corruption requires noticing. He is a Drebin: totally literal, totally sincere. He robs the payroll, then investigates it diligently and files an immaculate report stating what he did, because the form asks what happened and he answers the form. Nobody has ever caught him because nobody reads the reports. Best clearance rate in the division. The mechanic: the score is the cover-up. Played completely straight, no jokes in the system text — every scoring action is correct procedure that destroys the evidence against him. Lifting a latent removes it from the metal. Section 9 requires the spoiled card be incinerated, witnessed. The typed report supersedes the rookie's notes and the Captain signs it unread. You reach 100/100 in room three; the final room is worth nothing, because you have already been paid in full for the cover-up. He is also the Gremlin — the chickens on the Captain's desk come from the coop he built in 1951, and in seven years nobody has said the word out loud, so it has never occurred to him that anybody wondered. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"name": "Interview Room 2",
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"enter_text": "A table, two chairs, and a man who has been here since four.",
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"music": 2,
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"strokes": [
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 8, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 64, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 62, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 65, "w": 160, "h": 103, "color": 8, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 58, "y": 10, "w": 44, "h": 30, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 62, "y": 14, "w": 36, "h": 22, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 100, "w": 160, "h": 1, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 164, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } }
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],
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"spawn": [20, 146],
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"exits": [null, 4, null, 2],
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"exit_flags": ["", "arrest_made", "", ""],
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"exit_blocked": ["", "There is a man in this room and a widow on a bench outside it. You finish this.", "", ""],
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"objects": [
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{
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"name": "ledger1958",
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"sprite": "ledger1958",
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"x": 116,
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"y": 116,
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"look": "The Ardmore Street key register. Nine keys to the loading bay. Eight of them are accounted for on Friday night by two or more people. The ninth was signed out to the yard foreman, Walter Prosky, at six o'clock on Friday evening and was not signed back in until Monday morning.",
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"synonyms": "register keys book record log",
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"use_text": "You go through it line by line, twice, and it says what it said the first time. Cassidy did not turn round because whoever came up behind him had business being there, and on Friday night the register says one man had business being there and cannot say where he was."
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},
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"name": "suspect",
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"sprite": "suspect",
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"x": 84,
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"y": 130,
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"look": "Walter Prosky. Forty-six, yard foreman eleven years, two previous for receiving in 1949 and 1951 and nothing since. He had the ninth key from Friday evening to Monday morning and he cannot account for Friday night, and he has been sitting in this room since four o'clock saying so.",
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"synonyms": "walter prosky foreman man",
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"points": 20,
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"sets_flag": "arrest_made",
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"use_text": "You arrest Walter Prosky for the murder of Daniel Cassidy and the theft of forty-one thousand dollars from the Ardmore Street payroll office. You advise him of his rights, in the correct order, in full, and you get his acknowledgement, and you write down the time. He goes quietly. He says one thing on the way out and you write that down too, because a man's words are a man's words and they go in the file whether they help or not: 'I lent the key out, Sergeant. I've lent that key out fifty times in eleven years. Ask anybody on that lot who's had it off me.' It goes in the file, in full, in your own hand. Nobody reads it. He gets nine to fifteen and serves eleven, and Mrs. Cassidy is told who did it, and the Ardmore Street file is closed clean, like every file you have ever closed. (+20)",
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"dialogue": [
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"says": "Prosky: I've told them four times. I was at my sister's till nine and then I was home. I got no way of proving home. Nobody's got a way of proving home.",
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"choices": [
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{ "text": "You had the ninth key, Walter.", "goto": 1 },
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{ "text": "Tell me about Friday.", "goto": 2 },
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{ "text": "Who else uses that key?", "goto": 3 }
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]
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},
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{
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"says": "Prosky: I had it Friday to Monday, same as I have it most weeks. I'm the foreman. That's what a foreman is.",
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"choices": [{ "text": "Who else uses that key?", "goto": 3 }]
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},
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{
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"says": "Prosky: I finished at six. I signed the key out at six because I always sign the key out at six. Then I went to my sister's on Alameda and I ate a dinner and I came home. Prosky: Sergeant, I've got two priors from before the war for buying stuff I should've asked about. I never hit anybody in my life. I never hit anybody.",
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"choices": [{ "text": "Who else uses that key?", "goto": 3 }]
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},
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{
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"says": "Prosky: Anybody who asks. Drivers, the clerks, the men from the department when they come round about the pilfering — anybody who asks. Prosky: I've lent that key out fifty times in eleven years and I've never once written it down, because it never once mattered.",
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"choices": [
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{ "text": "Did you lend it out on Friday, Walter?", "goto": 4 }
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]
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},
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{
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"says": "Prosky: ...I don't remember Friday. Prosky: God help me, Sergeant, I don't remember Friday. It was a Friday. They're all Fridays. He puts his hands flat on the table and looks at them. You write down everything he has said, in full, in your own hand.",
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"choices": [{ "text": "All right, Walter.", "goto": -1 }]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"name": "partner",
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"sprite": "partner",
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"x": 34,
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"y": 122,
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"look": "Kowalczyk, standing at the wall with his hat in his hands, watching how it is done properly.",
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"synonyms": "kowalczyk officer kid rookie young",
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"use_text": "He asks whether it is always this straightforward. You tell him it is when the work is done right, and that most of the work is done before anybody is ever in this room. He writes that down."
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}
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]
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}
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