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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": "Central Division — Detective Bureau",
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"enter_text": "Rain on the window. Nineteen years of this room.",
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"music": 2,
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"strokes": [
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 58, "w": 160, "h": 110, "color": 8, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 96, "y": 10, "w": 50, "h": 36, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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"exits": [null, 1, null, null],
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"exit_flags": ["", "briefed", "", ""],
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"exit_blocked": ["", "The Captain is talking. You do not walk out on the Captain.", "", ""],
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"objects": [
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{
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"name": "desk",
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"sprite": "desk",
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"x": 52,
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"y": 140,
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"look": "Your desk. Nineteen years at this desk. The drawer sticks.",
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"synonyms": "table drawer",
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"use_text": "You square the blotter and set the lamp straight. Everything on this desk has a place and everything on this desk is in it, which is a thing three separate commanding officers have written down about you."
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},
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"name": "casefile",
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"sprite": "casefile",
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"x": 66,
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"y": 130,
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"look": "ARDMORE ST. PAYROLL — ROBBERY / HOMICIDE. Forty-one thousand dollars taken from the Friday payroll between 11:40 PM and midnight. Night watchman Daniel Cassidy, fifty-eight, struck once from behind with a blunt instrument and died where he fell. The first responder's notes are attached. They are three pages, handwritten, in a young officer's hand, and they are very thorough.",
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"synonyms": "file folder case papers report notes",
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"takeable": true,
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"points": 5
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},
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"name": "phone",
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"sprite": "phone",
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"x": 34,
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"y": 132,
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"look": "The bureau telephone. It rings for everybody and it is answered by whoever is nearest, which for nineteen years has been you, because you are always here first.",
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"synonyms": "telephone",
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"use_text": "You answer it and take a message for a detective who is not in yet, in block capitals, with the time, and you leave it where he will see it. You do this eleven or twelve times a day and you have never once mentioned doing it."
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},
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"name": "partner",
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"sprite": "partner",
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"x": 40,
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"y": 118,
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"look": "Officer Kowalczyk. Twenty-four. First responder on Ardmore Street. He has been a police officer for nine months and he wrote three pages of notes at a murder scene at two in the morning in the rain, and they are good notes.",
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"synonyms": "kowalczyk officer kid rookie young",
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"use_text": "You tell him the notes were good. He goes red to the ears. Nobody has told him anything he did was good since he came out of the academy.",
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"dialogue": [
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"says": "Kowalczyk: Sergeant Drebin. Sir. I was first on scene Friday — I wrote it all up, everything I could see, I didn't want to miss anything.",
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"choices": [
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{ "text": "You didn't. They're good notes.", "goto": 1 },
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{ "text": "Tell me what you saw.", "goto": 2 },
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{ "text": "What time did you get there?", "goto": 3 }
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]
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},
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{
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"says": "Kowalczyk: ...Thank you, sir. He will remember this conversation for the rest of his career.",
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"choices": [{ "text": "Tell me what you saw.", "goto": 2 }]
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},
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"says": "Kowalczyk: Strongbox forced, not blown. Whoever did it knew the box. Cassidy face down between the crates, one blow, no defensive marks. Kowalczyk: And sir — there were prints on the inside lip of the box. Clean ones. I didn't touch anything, I just wrote down where they were.",
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"choices": [
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{ "text": "That's exactly right, son.", "goto": 4 },
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{ "text": "No defensive marks.", "goto": 5 }
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]
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},
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{
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"says": "Kowalczyk: Call came in 12:04, I was there 12:09. Sergeant — there was a car pulling out of the lot as I came in. Dark sedan. I didn't get the plate. I've been sick about it since Friday.",
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"choices": [{ "text": "You couldn't have got the plate.", "goto": 6 }]
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},
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{
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"says": "Kowalczyk: Sir. He straightens up about an inch.",
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"choices": [{ "text": "Get me the scene.", "goto": -1 }]
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},
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{
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"says": "Kowalczyk: No, sir. Cassidy never turned round. Whoever it was, he let them walk right up behind him. Kowalczyk: Sergeant — Cassidy worked that lot eleven years. He knew everybody who had any business being there.",
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"choices": [{ "text": "He knew everybody.", "goto": -1 }]
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},
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"says": "Kowalczyk: No, sir? You explain that at that distance, in that rain, at that hour, nobody gets the plate, and that a man who invents one to look useful is worth less than a man who says he didn't get it. He writes that down. He writes down everything you say.",
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"choices": [{ "text": "Get me the scene.", "goto": -1 }]
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}
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]
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},
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"name": "captain",
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"x": 108,
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"y": 128,
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"look": "Captain Sturges. He has run this bureau for eleven years and he has one detective he never has to think about.",
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"synonyms": "sturges boss skipper",
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"dialogue": [
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{
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"says": "Sturges: Frank. Ardmore Street. Payroll office, forty-one thousand, and a watchman in the morgue. Sturges: It's yours. It was always going to be yours.",
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"choices": [
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{ "text": "Why me, Captain?", "goto": 1 },
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{ "text": "What do we have?", "goto": 2 },
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{ "text": "I'll take it, Captain.", "goto": 3, "sets_flag": "briefed", "points": 10 }
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]
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},
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{
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"says": "Sturges: Nineteen years and I have never once had to check your work. Not once, Frank. You know what that's worth to a man in my chair? Sturges: Every file you've closed has closed clean. Every report you've filed, I've signed without reading, because in eleven years there has never been a reason to read one.",
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"choices": [{ "text": "That's the job, Captain.", "goto": 2 }]
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},
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{
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"says": "Sturges: Forced strongbox, one dead watchman, no witnesses, and a set of prints the rookie says are on the inside lip of the box. Sturges: Prints, Frank. On the inside. Whoever went in that box went in it with his hands.",
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"choices": [{ "text": "I'll take it, Captain.", "goto": 3, "sets_flag": "briefed", "points": 10 }]
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},
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{
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"says": "Sturges: I know you will. Sturges: Frank — the man had a wife. Thirty-one years. She's coming in this afternoon and she is going to ask me who did it and I would like very much to be able to tell her. You tell him you will work it the way you work everything. You will.",
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"choices": []
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}
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