“Unbelievable! All 3 of our suspects are criminals. This key led to evidence that Jimmy is a terrorist. And one of those legal documents and the photo had the messages that Emma is cheating with John and they are planning his death. So case solved! Emma and John are the murderer!” Player exclaimed.
“Not so fast. Watson I told you to call me if you ran into any trouble,” Sherlock said, from the door.
I looked at Sherlock in surprise, “Holmes what are you doing here?”
“Lestrade visited me last night. He told me that you both had decided that Emma and John are the killers but you have no evidence to arrest them. He wanted my help. Given I had solved the case of the vanishing cat, I was more than happy to make myself useful in this case, especially given that you both have arrived at the wrong conclusion,” Sherlock said, in his usual insufferable way.
“But we have the motive. Both were cheating on him! And he knew they wanted to kill him and they did!” Player objected.
“Player you have a lot to learn on observations. Answer me this – if Emil knew that Emma and John wanted to kill him, then why did he meet John the night before? If he knew they wanted to kill him, why didn’t he take measures to protect himself? No Player. Those messages were fake. In fact this entire case is fake. Well maybe not fake. But I told Watson on Day 1 that I knew the killer and I stand by my statement. I know the killer. But I will not give you this case on a platter Player. This is your first case with me. I will give you the name of the killer and motive and you will give me the proof that they are the killer. Agreed?”
“Okay,” Player agreed, hesitatingly.
“The killer is…Emil Thatcher. And he did so because of the motive you gave Player. His wife was cheating on him and he was not going to let her get away with it. He set up the entire scene to frame her and John.”
“WHAT?” Player exclaimed at the same time as I said, “Holmes that’s preposterous.”
“It’s the truth. Aren’t you both suspecting Emma and John? Anyways, go and find me the proof,” Holmes ordered.
That’s right. Emil killed himself. He committed suicide. And your job is to find 4 pieces of evidence that prove that. Read through all the evidence and the story again (the complete story is on page 1). The evidence is not obvious. It will require inferences. And you will need to think hard. But the points’ stake is high as well. For each correct piece of evidence you will get 20 points. And if you get all 4 pieces correct, you will get a bonus 20 points. I will accept any evidence that could be used in a court of law to prove that Emil killed himself, so think strong and hard. Also note that I will be asking my friend, who is a lawyer, to review the evidence you provide, so it won't just be my decision on what is acceptable or not.
However, given that this round is potentially hard, you will get one lifeline. You are welcome to use 20 points to send only 3 pieces of evidence. However, this means forfeiting the 20 bonus points as well. What this means is that instead of getting 100 points, you will only get 40 points: 60 points for 3 right answers less 20 points for sending only 3 answers.
Note that there is no right or wrong answer and as such I will not be sharing answers at the end. Instead I will share a list of the most common answers provided by all of you.
Additionally, for up to 200 bonus points, give me an alternative that is out of the box but would apply given all the case facts from Rounds 1 to Rounds 3 (as in ignore the story from that point onwards - on page 1 this is until the end of the second blue part of the story). An alternative to who the murderer could be. I will give you bonus points based on how out of the box I think your alternative is as compared to all others. That’s why you won’t know how many bonus points you get until I reveal the results. Additionally all the alternatives will be posted (without names) for people to read through them and see what ideas others came up with.
The deadline for both these parts is Mar 20th, 11:59 PM IST.
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