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Fifteen cases, all playable, all lint clean, all verified end-to-end. This one came in at 100/100 on the first verification pass, same as The Liaison. John asked for the Clouseau crossover — Drebin dragged into an Interpol team-up chasing a jewel thief to the UK. The archetype that was the wrong shape for the 1958 era is the exact right shape for Nielsen's Drebin: two detectives on one case, one oblivious-competent, one confident-catastrophic, each convinced the other is a genius. Done as always by archetype, never import: Inspecteur Gustave Fouchard of the Surete, twenty years on one thief, introduced disguised as a chalk outline he drew around himself from inside; an accent the parser's literalism keeps faithfully transcribing and correcting for units; Hugo the driver with standing instructions to attack him at irregular intervals, who crosses the Atlantic in an overhead bin (asking to join the programme is a death); and the Heron, a gentleman thief who leaves an engraved card with nothing on it, because he is not telling you who he is, he is telling you he has a stationer. The thief is R. Fanshawe-Root — cousin of the Quartet's Professor. The family that plans versus the family that does. The scheme launders the stolen Rose through the auction house's own catalogue via a paste copy consigned before the stone ever left Antwerp; Fouchard's destruction of the plinth (a structural event, per the insurance filings) is what exposes the paste, because his catastrophes are always accidentally probative. The catch is the most Drebin thing in the campaign: no signal, no weapon, mid-bidding on the next lot — routine inspection, sir, would you mind turning out your pockets. And he does, because in twenty years and forty-one operations involving a submarine and a trained cormorant, nobody has ever simply asked. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"name": "Police Squad HQ — Squad Room",
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"enter_text": "Interpol has telexed four times since breakfast. Nordberg is trying to feed the telex a second sheet while it is still eating the first.",
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"music": 3,
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"strokes": [
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 7, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 58, "color": 3, "meaning": "Wall" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 58, "w": 160, "h": 110, "color": 7, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 55, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 100, "y": 12, "w": 46, "h": 32, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 122, "y": 12, "w": 2, "h": 32, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 100, "y": 26, "w": 46, "h": 2, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 163, "w": 160, "h": 5, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } }
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],
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"spawn": [86, 148],
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"exits": [null, 1, null, null],
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"exit_flags": ["", "briefed", "", ""],
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"exit_blocked": ["", "You have an international liaison assignment and you have not been briefed on it. There is an order to these things and the order is the point of them.", "", ""],
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"objects": [
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{
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"name": "dossier",
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"sprite": "casefile",
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"x": 62,
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"y": 130,
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"look": "The Interpol dossier. THE HERON — twenty years, forty-one confirmed thefts across eleven countries, jewels only, no violence, no prints, no witnesses. Photographed eleven times. In every photograph, he is bowing.",
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"synonyms": "interpol file folder papers heron",
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"points": 10,
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"sets_flag": "read_dossier",
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"use_text": "You read all of it. Forty-one jobs and after every one of them, left at the scene, an engraved visiting card with nothing on it. No name, no message. He is not telling you who he is. He is telling you he has a stationer. The final page is a personnel note: the case officer is Inspecteur Gustave Fouchard of the Sûreté, who has pursued the Heron for twenty years, and whom the dossier describes, in a sentence that has clearly survived several rounds of legal review, as 'an investigator of extraordinary persistence whose methods continue to be discussed.' (+10)"
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},
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{
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"name": "nordberg",
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"sprite": "nordberg",
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"x": 138,
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"y": 152,
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"look": "Officer Nordberg and the telex machine have reached an understanding: it takes what it wants.",
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"synonyms": "norberg partner officer telex",
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"use_text": "You help Nordberg free his tie from the telex. The telex issues a receipt."
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},
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{
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"name": "hocken",
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"sprite": "hocken",
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"x": 106,
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"y": 126,
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"look": "Captain Ed Hocken, holding the fourth telex from Lyon and the expression of a man who has read the previous three.",
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"synonyms": "captain ed boss",
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"dialogue": [
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{
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"says": "Hocken: The Sazerac Rose, Frank. On tour from Antwerp, insured for eleven million, gone out of a sealed case in a guarded hall between midnight and ten past. Hocken: And Interpol says it's their man. The Heron. Twenty years they've chased him, and now he's done a job on our patch, and they're sending the inspector who knows him best.",
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"choices": [
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{ "text": "I've read the dossier, Captain.", "goto": 1 },
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{ "text": "What do we know about this inspector?", "goto": 2 },
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{ "text": "I'm ready to liaise, Captain.", "goto": 3, "requires_flag": "read_dossier", "sets_flag": "briefed", "points": 10 }
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]
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},
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"says": "Hocken: Then you know the man's never used a weapon, never left a print, and never once been seen arriving or leaving. Hocken: Frank, a thief like that isn't stealing jewels. He's making a point. Nobody's ever worked out what the point is, which I suppose is the point.",
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"choices": [ { "text": "What do we know about the inspector?", "goto": 2 } ]
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},
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"says": "Hocken: Twenty years on one man. Eleven countries. The file says his methods 'continue to be discussed'. Hocken: I telephoned a captain I know in Nice and asked about him. He was quiet for a while, Frank. Then he said: 'You will know him when the room changes.' Hocken: I asked, changes how. He said, 'in number of pieces', and hung up.",
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"choices": [ { "text": "I'm ready to liaise, Captain.", "goto": 3, "requires_flag": "read_dossier", "sets_flag": "briefed", "points": 10 } ]
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},
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{
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"says": "Hocken: Good. He's at the exhibition hall now — he went straight from the airport. Frank, whatever he does out there, he is a guest of this department. Hocken: And Frank. The scene has been sealed for nine hours. It is pristine. It is the cleanest crime scene this department has ever held. He says it the way a man says a thing he already knows to be over.",
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"choices": []
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}
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]
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}
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]
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}
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