TAKE X (6-5-17: The End)

> Recall Gio's alibi.



You take a seat on the side of the (non-functional) fountain and pull out your notebook, as well as an apple. It's been a busy morning and you're kind of hungry, after all. Starving yourself won't help anyone. Anyway, when you visited Gio earlier, you made a point of writing down what he told you. Seems like a good time to review his alibi.


He walked down through the cells wearing his confidence like a fitted suit. He looked like he owned the place, and the smile on his face would almost convince you that was true.

...Gio continued like that for a while, before you told him to knock it off and get on with telling you what happened.


Oh... right. Sorry. Apparently an elderly woman on the north side of town got stabbed to death. The police said that they've got solid evidence I did it. Something about how she was stabbed 37 times.


Hold on, how did they make the jump from there to assuming you did it?


I asked them the same thing, and then they laughed at me. Then the lawyers showed up and told me to submit to them any evidence that proved my alibi so that it could be presented in court.


You're about to tell me that you gave them all the evidence proving your innocence, aren't you.


So I gave them all the evidence proving my innocence. But it's okay! The lawyers said they'd make copies for whoever my defense turned out to be. I bet if you drop by, they'll give it to you! All it is is some receipts from the place I was eating at the time the murder happened.



So there's that. You finish your apple and put your notebook away. It was a good apple. Not great, but then as far as exports are concerned, Vezretti's more well-known for grapes and existential terror, anyway.