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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": "Ardmore Street — Payroll Office, Loading Bay",
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"enter_text": "Four days of rain through a broken skylight. They have kept the scene for you, which is more than most bureaus would have done.",
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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": 66, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 54, "y": 4, "w": 44, "h": 22, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 60, "y": 8, "w": 32, "h": 14, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 74, "y": 4, "w": 3, "h": 22, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 64, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 67, "w": 160, "h": 101, "color": 8, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 8, "y": 22, "w": 30, "h": 42, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 122, "y": 22, "w": 30, "h": 42, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 62, "y": 26, "w": 30, "h": 40, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 66, "y": 30, "w": 22, "h": 32, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 104, "w": 160, "h": 1, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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],
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"spawn": [18, 146],
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"exits": [null, 2, null, 0],
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"exit_flags": ["", "prints_logged", "", ""],
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"exit_blocked": ["", "There is a latent on the inside lip of that box and it has been sitting in the rain for four days. You do not leave a scene with a latent on it.", "", ""],
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"objects": [
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{
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"name": "crates",
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"sprite": "crates",
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"x": 42,
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"y": 122,
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"look": "Packing crates, stacked to head height, forming a corridor between the loading door and the payroll cage. A man walking that corridor cannot see behind him and cannot be seen from the street.",
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"synonyms": "boxes stack packing timber",
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"use_text": "You walk the corridor at Cassidy's pace, twice, and time it. Eleven seconds from the door to the cage. Eleven seconds in which a man is blind on both sides and audible from neither."
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},
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{
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"name": "outline",
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"sprite": "body",
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"x": 96,
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"y": 148,
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"look": "The outline where Daniel Cassidy went down, face first, between the crates. Fifty-eight years old, eleven years on this lot, thirty-one years married. One blow from behind. No defensive marks. He never turned round.",
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"synonyms": "cassidy chalk watchman victim mark",
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"use_text": "You crouch by the outline for a while. He did not turn round. In eleven years on this lot, walking that corridor in the dark, Daniel Cassidy turned round for every sound there was, and on Friday night he heard something behind him and he did not turn round. You put that in the report. It is the single most important sentence in the file and it will be read by nobody."
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},
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"name": "strongbox",
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"sprite": "strongbox",
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"x": 74,
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"y": 116,
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"look": "The payroll box, on its side, lid forced. Not blown, not drilled — levered, at the hinge, by somebody who knew that this model gives at the hinge. On the inside lip, where a hand would go to steady the lid, there is a latent. The rookie found it in the rain at two in the morning and did not touch it and wrote down exactly where it was.",
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"synonyms": "box payroll safe lid hinge latent print prints",
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"points": 20,
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"sets_flag": "prints_logged",
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"use_text": "You dust the inside lip and raise a clean single, better than you had any right to expect after four days. You lift it onto card. The lift takes the latent off the metal — that is what lifting is, that is what it has always been, and there is nothing on that box now and nothing that could be on it. You label the card in your own hand: ARDMORE ST — STRONGBOX, INTERIOR LIP — LIFTED F. DREBIN 14/10/58. You enter it in the property log, in your own hand, with the time. You initial it. The evidence in this case is now a card and a log entry, and both of them are yours, and every step of that was correct. (+20)"
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},
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"name": "skylight",
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"sprite": "streetlamp",
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"x": 132,
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"y": 110,
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"look": "The lamp on the corner throws a hard bar of light through the broken skylight and across the loading bay floor. Anybody standing in that bar at midnight is lit like a stage. Cassidy walked around it. Eleven years, he walked around it.",
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"synonyms": "lamp light post corner",
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"use_text": "You stand where the light falls and look back at the corridor between the crates. From here you can see the whole loading bay. From the corridor, you cannot see here at all."
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}
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]
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}
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