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<blockquote data-quote="DarrenGMiller" data-source="post: 4418555" data-attributes="member: 23174"><p><strong>Session 1 - Too Close To Call (7/20/08)</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><em>June 7, 2008 - Hudson City</em></p><p></p><p>It begins in a phone booth on the strip. A young girl is brutally beaten and killed. HCPD Detectives figure another hooker went too far and ticked off her pimp, or maybe she was killed by a tourist when she wouldn't go along with some bizarre fetish. Still, the business card is there, just stuck in the coin return slot. It has some of the girl's blood on it. It's also the only lead to the identity of this Jane Doe.</p><p></p><p>The detectives pay a visit to the club named on the card. A strip club. The man's name on the card is Aaron Cage. Cage claims that the girl quit working at the club, Close Encounters, about 3 months ago and that he hasn't seen her since. He said he gave her the card to call him in case she ever needed anything. Apparently, she needed something. Still, his size, and the size of his friend and part-time bouncer Robert Kreider cause some suspicion. She was killed by a big guy. These are two big guys who know the victim. Still, she's only some two-bit whore. One more death in a city that's known so much death. The cold case files are full of them.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p></p><p>It's late when Johnny gets to the phone booth. He almost leaves until he sees the legs. The homeless vagrant parked next to the dumpster is drinking expensive scotch. He's also got a bag of blow. Also, he seems to know something. He just wants a ride to Boxtown, where he can blend in and the huge guy with the short blond hair and the blue track suit won't find him. He tells Johnny everything his drug and booze addled brain can remember. Johnny finds the shoe.... one of the red heels the girl kicked off for speed as she dashed around the corner and into the phone booth. One of the shoes she ditched when she realized she was being followed and her life might depend on running. Johnny can almost smell her desperation to get in that booth and make that call. The one that was already too late to save her life.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p></p><p>When the alarm goes off downstairs in the club, Aaron isn't even in bed yet. It's been a long night, with the cops interviewing people who might've known Tina. He sees them on the closed-circuit monitors. Four young kids in hoodies. Two aiming for the office and two for the bar. He sprints down there and grabs one. The other three escape just as Johhny approaches the door. He almost grabs another one, but those kids are fast. The kids tells Aaron about the man. The big guy in the track suit who slipped them a hundred bill and a tool to break in and do an easy job for him. The cops return to the club and haul the kid to lock-up. Its only later that Hardwick finds the shoe. That bulge in the front pocket of the kid's hoodie. The kid whose body would show up on the curb a few blocks south. Tina's shoe. Planted in the club.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p></p><p>At Elmview Terrace, or "The Terrors" as the locals call it, there is nobody who has seen Mr. Track Suit. But Tina's apartment and answering machine, along with her caller ID, yield some clues.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p></p><p>The dry cleaner sees the familiar black car, the one he saw on Saturday night outside that strip club where that dead girl used to work, drop a passenger out on the curb without even stopping. He rushes up to see if the kid's okay, and finds his throat slashed. A call to the police and the body is removed.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p></p><p>Then, "they" came into the place. Fiennes Cleaners. They were VERY suspicious. The Italian's words sounded like threats. Mr. Feinnes had the boy dial 911. Then it happened. The Italian said it. Or did he? These three, the Italian, the bodybuilder, and the soldier... were they really on the side of justice? Not on the side of the law of course, but on the side of justice? And the cops were on the way. Hardwick and Kreider dashed out the way they had come in, before the cruiser made it to the cleaners. "Hit me and run out the back door." Instead, Fiennes got tased by the Italian, but he apparently escaped the police, because there was the note on the grill the next morning.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p></p><p>Many questions remain to be answered. Who killed the girl, and why? Why are they after Aaron? These are but a few.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DarrenGMiller, post: 4418555, member: 23174"] [B]Session 1 - Too Close To Call (7/20/08) [/B] [I]June 7, 2008 - Hudson City[/I] It begins in a phone booth on the strip. A young girl is brutally beaten and killed. HCPD Detectives figure another hooker went too far and ticked off her pimp, or maybe she was killed by a tourist when she wouldn't go along with some bizarre fetish. Still, the business card is there, just stuck in the coin return slot. It has some of the girl's blood on it. It's also the only lead to the identity of this Jane Doe. The detectives pay a visit to the club named on the card. A strip club. The man's name on the card is Aaron Cage. Cage claims that the girl quit working at the club, Close Encounters, about 3 months ago and that he hasn't seen her since. He said he gave her the card to call him in case she ever needed anything. Apparently, she needed something. Still, his size, and the size of his friend and part-time bouncer Robert Kreider cause some suspicion. She was killed by a big guy. These are two big guys who know the victim. Still, she's only some two-bit whore. One more death in a city that's known so much death. The cold case files are full of them. -- It's late when Johnny gets to the phone booth. He almost leaves until he sees the legs. The homeless vagrant parked next to the dumpster is drinking expensive scotch. He's also got a bag of blow. Also, he seems to know something. He just wants a ride to Boxtown, where he can blend in and the huge guy with the short blond hair and the blue track suit won't find him. He tells Johnny everything his drug and booze addled brain can remember. Johnny finds the shoe.... one of the red heels the girl kicked off for speed as she dashed around the corner and into the phone booth. One of the shoes she ditched when she realized she was being followed and her life might depend on running. Johnny can almost smell her desperation to get in that booth and make that call. The one that was already too late to save her life. -- When the alarm goes off downstairs in the club, Aaron isn't even in bed yet. It's been a long night, with the cops interviewing people who might've known Tina. He sees them on the closed-circuit monitors. Four young kids in hoodies. Two aiming for the office and two for the bar. He sprints down there and grabs one. The other three escape just as Johhny approaches the door. He almost grabs another one, but those kids are fast. The kids tells Aaron about the man. The big guy in the track suit who slipped them a hundred bill and a tool to break in and do an easy job for him. The cops return to the club and haul the kid to lock-up. Its only later that Hardwick finds the shoe. That bulge in the front pocket of the kid's hoodie. The kid whose body would show up on the curb a few blocks south. Tina's shoe. Planted in the club. -- At Elmview Terrace, or "The Terrors" as the locals call it, there is nobody who has seen Mr. Track Suit. But Tina's apartment and answering machine, along with her caller ID, yield some clues. -- The dry cleaner sees the familiar black car, the one he saw on Saturday night outside that strip club where that dead girl used to work, drop a passenger out on the curb without even stopping. He rushes up to see if the kid's okay, and finds his throat slashed. A call to the police and the body is removed. -- Then, "they" came into the place. Fiennes Cleaners. They were VERY suspicious. The Italian's words sounded like threats. Mr. Feinnes had the boy dial 911. Then it happened. The Italian said it. Or did he? These three, the Italian, the bodybuilder, and the soldier... were they really on the side of justice? Not on the side of the law of course, but on the side of justice? And the cops were on the way. Hardwick and Kreider dashed out the way they had come in, before the cruiser made it to the cleaners. "Hit me and run out the back door." Instead, Fiennes got tased by the Italian, but he apparently escaped the police, because there was the note on the grill the next morning. -- Many questions remain to be answered. Who killed the girl, and why? Why are they after Aaron? These are but a few. [/QUOTE]
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