Exam 3

[lockdownmods]

Exam 3.

[ Once again, the exam begins with the desks arranged in a perfect circle; one desk for each person that's participating in the program. There are nameplates for everyone, and they have been bolted to each of the desks, facing the inside of the circle...

...including the deceased. Their chairs have been placed on top of their desks, signifying that they will not be needed. Above of their desks are holograms of their portraits from their profiles, grayed out and bloodstained.

Today Han is absent-- only Megumi is present at the front of the classroom. ]


Today you are responsible for finding the culprit responsible for the death of Maya Fey, the Apprentice Falsely Accused.

Your exam begins now.

Victim.






Suspects.



[ The physical evidence tray sits in the middle of the circle of desks; you all have the Evidence app on your tablets to access photo evidence. ]

Examination START.

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Comments

[lovedanime]

It's all well and good that you don't suspect him, sir, but in your theory where someone else is guilty, could you please explain... Well...

[he looks down at the tablet and then up at Hank]

How Miss Fey went from bleeding in the kitchen to, well, buried in the garden? Do you think it wasn't someone strong enough to carry her all that distance?

[donotlick]

What, you think 2D couldn't? He's in a band. Those guys have a lot of music equipment they gotta deal with.

[ Hank shrugs. ]

Listen, Connor is an android. If it'd been him, never mind the stabbing shit, he would've dug a perfectly rectangular grave, gone the whole six-feet-deep thing, and he wouldn't have needed to go all overkill on her body, because androids are programmed not to make mistakes. Just take a look at his handwriting -- he writes like a computer because he is one. This scene is too sloppy for it to be him.

[lovedanime]

[listen Mitarai THOUGHT in the first trial that 2D was significantly stronger than himself, and 2D was so grateful he looked like he could cry]

There's one flaw in your reasoning. Due to the scapegoating system, Connor would have a problem if the crime looked like something only an android could do. Of course, we know all too well moving a body is not something only an android can do, and there are plenty of people who aren't on the suspect list who could have...

[but maybe Alex is just way way way way way more buff than Mitarai originally calculated.]

[preconstruction]

You don't have to argue this with Hank. You can ask me directly.

[lovedanime]

I would have liked to gather up my evidence more before a formal accusation, but if you're alright with it... then please tell me. Do you think it would be physically difficult to impossible for an android to stab Miss Fey twenty-eight times and dig a grave only two feet deep?

[preconstruction]

"Formal" or not, point blank asking Waver and Hank if they believe it was me is hardly simple question and answer.

[ granted, it doesn't sound like he particularly cares, but just as a point of information. ]

But, no, it would not be difficult. An android could do either of those things. But it would be illogical, an a standard android in the normal course of its program would not act in that matter.

[lovedanime]

[god his coldness intimidates Mitarai so much]

Would it still be "illogical" if your goal was to scapegoat a human? I'm n-not saying you have animosity against humans, but there's not another android you could scapegoat... here...

[preconstruction]

Now you're changing the hypothetical. You asked me about androids in general, not about me. Generally speaking, it would be against an android's programming to scapegoat a human. But if I were trying to scapegoat one, yes, it would be the logical choice. Obviously.

[lovedanime]

I apologize... I thought you meant it would seem illogical to an android to physically perpetrate an imprecise murder. But you mean it would be illogical to an android to scapegoat a human at all, due to the harm it would cause or something like that...?

[he smiles thinly... this is so confusing]

[preconstruction]

The murder would be illogical. Scapegoating a human would be against their program, because, yes, it would place a human in harm's way.