10-07-2021, 03:18:03 AM
Everyone receives proper medical attention, and is interviewed at the federal post, in a random gymnasium.
Some explanation later, the whole elaborate plot, completely unbelievable though it is, is corroborated with the other survivors.
...We need counterintelligence on this. Whatever this is, it's big.
In time, Tripford begins to recover from the events that transpired. News gets out about the "Spymaster" incident. Agencies are put on alert to look for this reoccurring somewhere, and it leaks to the press. It makes international headlines. No one has any idea what country would do this, but naturally, blame falls on whichever power of the day is causing the most problems. Despite everything, no one seems able to find the elusive "Spymaster", nor the supposed "Rest of The Associates" that Lindsey mentioned.
Without Seko to support the Clearday regime and keep the populace in check, the Feds raid the TCPD station, only to find Chief Clearday dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Most of the department is arrested, and those that aren't are discharged. "The Tripford Incident" is such a black mark on their records that not even other police departments will hire them, lest they risk a public uprising. Conspiracies swirl around Clearday's death of course, but that was inevitable. Elections resume in Tripford, and within only one cycle, people start taking the mayor not being the chief of police running a dictatorship for granted. New powers rise in Tripford, but they're another story.
Peter Romero's body is never recovered, mostly because it's in too many pieces. Not that anyone cares, no one liked him much anyway. Even the bartender admitted he rarely paid his tab. He had no family nor friends to speak of. The last memory of his existence is a spoiled egg-salad sandwich in the break room at the construction site, which never contained any bodies.
The Man In Green's name is never found out. As far as can be told, he just appeared one day and started running the Pawnshop. No identity nor documented proof of his existence other than the body can be found. The only person who supposedly knew his name was his boyfriend, who died in a civil war reenactment accident. Who he was may forever be a mystery.
Strickland Semiconductors International is investigated, briefly, for their close association with several events. Nothing comes of it, other than a minor temporary dip in the stock price. But public suspicion of the place does increase slightly.
The Survivors receive a great deal of press coverage and donations from an adoring public. Also a lot of hate mail for "killing cops", but it's largely drowned out by the public banding together to pay for the newly minted celebrities medical treatment and the constant praise. Everyone who wasn't dead makes a full recovery. After giving only a few interviews, however, there's rumors of assassination plots and such things. The survivors are brought into witness protection, and effectively disappear, out of the Spymaster's presumably still extant reach.
The Chief Medical Examiner, McCastle, has to fill out an autopsy report for every single victim of these events. It'll take weeks at least to finish all those forms, and without the CSI team able to help, due to being in prison or fired, it takes even longer to get the full reports made. Naturally, everyone in the office is annoyed at the drudgery, though mostly glad to not be intimidated by Clearday's Cops whenever they didn't comply with orders to forge reports.
Some day, a movie will be made about the events that transpired in Tripford over that one week. Possibly several. But for now, (relative) peace reigns. For a time.
Some explanation later, the whole elaborate plot, completely unbelievable though it is, is corroborated with the other survivors.
...We need counterintelligence on this. Whatever this is, it's big.
In time, Tripford begins to recover from the events that transpired. News gets out about the "Spymaster" incident. Agencies are put on alert to look for this reoccurring somewhere, and it leaks to the press. It makes international headlines. No one has any idea what country would do this, but naturally, blame falls on whichever power of the day is causing the most problems. Despite everything, no one seems able to find the elusive "Spymaster", nor the supposed "Rest of The Associates" that Lindsey mentioned.
Without Seko to support the Clearday regime and keep the populace in check, the Feds raid the TCPD station, only to find Chief Clearday dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Most of the department is arrested, and those that aren't are discharged. "The Tripford Incident" is such a black mark on their records that not even other police departments will hire them, lest they risk a public uprising. Conspiracies swirl around Clearday's death of course, but that was inevitable. Elections resume in Tripford, and within only one cycle, people start taking the mayor not being the chief of police running a dictatorship for granted. New powers rise in Tripford, but they're another story.
Peter Romero's body is never recovered, mostly because it's in too many pieces. Not that anyone cares, no one liked him much anyway. Even the bartender admitted he rarely paid his tab. He had no family nor friends to speak of. The last memory of his existence is a spoiled egg-salad sandwich in the break room at the construction site, which never contained any bodies.
The Man In Green's name is never found out. As far as can be told, he just appeared one day and started running the Pawnshop. No identity nor documented proof of his existence other than the body can be found. The only person who supposedly knew his name was his boyfriend, who died in a civil war reenactment accident. Who he was may forever be a mystery.
Strickland Semiconductors International is investigated, briefly, for their close association with several events. Nothing comes of it, other than a minor temporary dip in the stock price. But public suspicion of the place does increase slightly.
The Survivors receive a great deal of press coverage and donations from an adoring public. Also a lot of hate mail for "killing cops", but it's largely drowned out by the public banding together to pay for the newly minted celebrities medical treatment and the constant praise. Everyone who wasn't dead makes a full recovery. After giving only a few interviews, however, there's rumors of assassination plots and such things. The survivors are brought into witness protection, and effectively disappear, out of the Spymaster's presumably still extant reach.
The Chief Medical Examiner, McCastle, has to fill out an autopsy report for every single victim of these events. It'll take weeks at least to finish all those forms, and without the CSI team able to help, due to being in prison or fired, it takes even longer to get the full reports made. Naturally, everyone in the office is annoyed at the drudgery, though mostly glad to not be intimidated by Clearday's Cops whenever they didn't comply with orders to forge reports.
Some day, a movie will be made about the events that transpired in Tripford over that one week. Possibly several. But for now, (relative) peace reigns. For a time.
END OF FREE ASSOCIATION 1.
I am the They who says it!