Roach
yea, u wanna come ova?
Marie
I can’t sleep...started going over our last case
Roach
fine...how’s working with Brad
Marie
all right. hes good police
Marie
ur not messing with that shit again
Roach
im done with the white lady
Marie
good...ur good when ur off that shit
Roach
so...u wanna come over?
Marie
i didn’t mean it like that...
Roach
dont be a tease, we were always straight with one another, weren’t we?
Marie
we’re not doin that anymore
Roach
ur the one texting me
Marie
we talked about this...
Marie
we cant be doing that
Roach
we’re not partners anymore so what does it matter
Marie
yea n how embarrassing was that?
Marie
people r already talkin that we banged and couldn’t handle our shit
Marie
i like being a cop...this is my life...im not screwing that up
Roach
im not doing coke anymore...just come over
Marie
i need closure on this case b4 we let it go
Roach
hate to break it to ya, but its unsolvable
Marie
kinda like our relationship, rite?
Marie
i cant...i got this feeling we’re missing something
Roach
even if you solve it - its just another drug dealer dead
Marie
cant hurt to go over it one last time?
Roach
come ova and we’ll go over it together
Marie
its over between us roach, professionally and personally, but we can end it on a good note?
Roach
fine. this is it though.
Marie
Ramone Casas. a small time cocaine distributor, sex trafficker, and scum-bag found shot...
Marie
in the back of the head execution style in the basement of his duplex house on 72 Laura St in South Prov
Roach
I love when u talk dirty to me...
Marie
get serious...ur a good cop when you try
Roach
No witnesses. The duplex’s other apartment was empty. Ramone used the duplex as a front to launder the money from his drug operation
Marie
what was time of death?
Roach
the coroner put the time at around midnight
Marie
Dispatch receives a mysterious tip at 12:30 AM from a burner phone that Ramone been murdered in his bsmt
Roach
they send a team over. House is empty except the bsmt entrance is bolted from the inside.
Roach
Theres no other access into the basement except thru that door
Marie
no one getting in or out. They bust down the door and they find Ramone and what’s left of his face splattered on the floor.
Marie
No murder weapon at the crime scene. No one else is in the basement.
Roach
First problem, how does the killer get out?
Marie
The surveillance footage from the camera attached to the basement door, shows Ramone entering the basement at around 10PM and never coming out.
Marie
No one else enters.
Roach
Ready for mystery #3
Roach
Where are the drugs? The boys found fifty grand and all the usual baggies and scales, but no drugs
Roach
Why not take the money too? and again let me repeat...we have no witnesses who saw or heard anything
Marie
there has to be something we missed
Roach
now if we solve this, ur going come over right?
Marie
u solve this...ill wear those black panties u like
Roach
that’s dirty pool...ur getting me excited
Marie
what’s your theory, Sherlock? lol
Roach
i did it. Took the coke and murdered him
Marie
how’d you get out of the basement?
Roach
ill have that figure out by the time you come over in those black panties.
Marie
what do we know about the bullets
Roach
the bullets were S&W .40 and shot from a Beretta Px4 Storm pistol...
Roach
which was not a gun found in Ramone’s immense gun collection
Marie
i did some research on the gun...before we joined the department the Px4 was the standard issued weapon
Marie
but the department switched to smith and Weston pistols due to a design flaw
Roach
u think a cop did this?
Marie
fits the evidence. this obviously was a pro job or someone who knew what they were doing and he probably was dealin with Ramone on the reg
Roach
pls tell me u haven’t told anyone this pet theory
Roach
so ramone lets the dirty cop in, presumably because he and Ramone were partners, except on this night the cop caps Ramone
Roach
takes the drugs, but not the money?
Marie
also, you’re forgetting that the security cam footage shows no one entering or leaving
Roach
I may have actually solved that problem
Marie
what have you found?!
Roach
if I tell you - you need to answer a question for me
Marie
just tell me and I’ll answer anything
Roach
pull up the security cam footage and look at the bottom right hand corner at 1:05, you’ll see a shadow just barely...barely but its there
Marie
I see it - so what?
Roach
go to 6:05 and u’ll see the same shadow flicker in and out, which means the video is on a loop.
Roach
The killer put the camera on a loop.
Marie
holy shit...you’re right
Roach
do u still have feelings for me?
Marie
i don’t do feelings...u know that
Roach
that’s bullshit everyone "does feelings"...sum peeps just choose to ignore it
Roach
u kno whats messed up is that u only had a problem with us once I got off the shit
Roach
all those times i was bombed out of my mind and u aint never stopped us, but the moment I quit the shit...when it got real
Roach
u filed to get a new partner said I was unstable
Marie
u beat a suspect near death because u thought he was flirting with me
Roach
that was the coke. im off that shit now
Marie
u want keep going or no?
Roach
yeah. it’s our last case
Marie
so how does our cop get out after he murders Ramone?
Roach
if he’s a cop...he waits till the other cops show up and then he slips in saying he was on the scene.
Marie
great theory. but there was only one cop who was there before I got there besides the SWAT team
Roach
id ask you if you want to come over, but im already here
Marie
holy shit - Ramone was ur dealer
Marie
how is that for us? That’s for u
Roach
we both kno the game. Every dealer gets caught sooner or later and I was going be Ramone’s get out of jail free card
Roach
coke is better than gold, babe, theres always going be a customer
Marie
ur going to go to jail
Roach
I only go to jail, if you tell
Marie
what makes you think that I won’t?
Roach
im willing to bet my life on it that you won’t
Marie
r u high right now?
Marie
you have ten minutes at most
Marie
i don’t do feelings...I do the job.
Marie
it’s the only thing I can trust.
