Case #29: Video

[19centconstable]

[It's an extreme close up of a Victorian constable! George has accidentally turned the camera on himself while picking up his communicator in an attempt to figure out what the strange device is. He looks a little older; a little stockier, because no one escapes the ravages of aging, and 1898 has been kind of a stressful year, what with all of the meth, and Draculas, and outwitting the American government. All of the brass on his uniform is also particularly shiny, and he's wearing a pair of white dress gloves and an expression of general confusion.

And then you can see it slowly dawn on him. And then there's a dizzying shot of the floor flying past as George hurries to make sure that...

Yes. The toilette remains.]

Oh my goodness I'm back.

[There's the sound of someone flopping back onto a bed, and a close up of a quilt. The quilt has the spotlight for a good few minutes, until George remembers the communicator is still running. Normal view!]

Could anybody tell me when it is here?

Comments

Re: [Private] [Video]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

The system? I don't think being raised by them was bad at all.

Oh?

Re: [Private] [Video]

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

Raised by the foster care system.

My dad killed my mother. [Hoffman's tone is serious] And was arrested. We had no family to take us in so...I was raised by a bunch of shrinks paid by the state.

Re: [Private] [Video]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

At a boy's home?

Was...the drink to blame?

Re: [Private] [Video]

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

...No.

[pause] I...threw a fit every time they tried to split my little sister and I. They thought I had emotional problems for awhile.

[Except that he does]






Yeah. He was...yes. The drink was to blame.

Re: [Private] [Video]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Detective Murdoch's history is surprisingly similar.

Re: [Private] [Video]

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

..Your mentor?

What's his story? If you have the time.

Re: [Private] [Video]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not sure it's for me to say entirely, but his mother was also killed by his father, and he was raised in an orphanage by Jesuits.

Although, later it did turn out that his father wasn't actually responsible for her death. But he has a younger sister...or, well, had. She's passed. She was a nun. And he has a half-brother who is a sergeant in the North-West Mounted.