Story/Photo Studio Mystery/E1-5 (Part1)/Script

[By the time Lee Enfield rushes to the scene, it's already in complete disarray.]

STEN MkII: Who the hell did this?!

Type 56-1: How should I know?! The comms are jammed... Say, is everyone okay?!

PK: Don't panic. Our leaders will be back soon!

PPSh-41: I'm not scared...I'm not scared at all...

Lee Enfield: Type 56-1!

Type 56-1: Leader!

Lee Enfield: Get ahold of yourselves! Such panic is unsightly!

56-1, what exactly is the problem that you mentioned in...

[Lee Enfield enters the room and falls silent.]

[Her eyes are drawn immediately to MDR in the corner.]

[MDR is sitting there quietly as if she's asleep.]

Tokarev: How did this happen...?

Lee Enfield: ...Who was the first to discover her?

Gr G36c: I was.

[Gr G36c steps forward from the group.]

Gr G36c: I left the church and checked the surrounding rooms one by one.

When I got to this one, I noticed it was locked - it's the only room with a locked door. I thought whoever's behind this whole thing was in there, so I fired at the lock and broke in, only to find MDR collapsed over there.

Type 56-1: Yeah, I was with Gr G36c. I can vouch for everything she said.

Lee Enfield: The door was locked from the inside?

Gr G36c: Ja.

[Lee Enfield walks toward the door. The lock has indeed been destroyed by a bullet. The mangled piece of metal is hanging like a broken rag doll on the wooden door.]

[She takes a look around - it's a rectangular room with no windows. All the walls are covered in wallpaper that shows no sign of damage.]

Tokarev: Is this a so-called locked-room murder...?

PPSh-41: D-Don't scare us, Leader! I think a ghost did this!

STEN MkII: Isn't that even scarier of a thought...?

Tokarev: Miss Lee, Miss MDR's body bears no physical injury at all. This should be the result of an electronic assault.

Lee Enfield: ...

PK, Sten, and Gr G36c, you three head back to the church with MDR's body.

Tokarev, Type 56-1, and Papasha, you're with me. We're searching the mansion again.

STEN MkII: Haven't you already done that before?

Lee Enfield: There's a thunderstorm out there.

Under such tumultuous weather conditions, even T-Dolls can't leave the scene.

So if the culprit arrived after us, they must still be within the mansion.

...Which means we must've missed something.

PK: Understood.

Are we staying behind as backup?

STEN MkII: Why am I even in the backup group?

Lee Enfield: I'll get in touch with you once every hou- every half an hour to prevent another ambush from happening.

PK: Ambush? You believe MDR was ambushed?

Lee Enfield: MDR is an outstanding T-Doll. If she'd caught sight of the culprit, she wouldn't have let herself be killed without putting up a fight.

If she hadn't even had the chance to fire a single shot, I'm inclined to think that the culprit dealt her a fatal blow from behind.

PK: I see. Your reasoning is sound.

PPSh-41: But...what if...it really was a ghost? Even the most outstanding T-Doll wouldn't stand a chance!

Lee Enfield: ...

Ghosts don't exist in this world, Papasha.

Tokarev: Right, enough gloomy talk. We're splitting up, but we must take care not to be alone, so pair up.

Papasha, pull yourself together. This isn't like you at all. As a T-Doll, you mustn't let such fictitious nonsense get to you.

PPSh-41: Eeep... Got it!

Lee Enfield: Tokarev, please stay with me.

56-1, go in the other direction with Sten. We're doing a thorough sweep in every room - don't let even a single bug get pass you.

Type 56-1: Roger that!