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S1-06: Unmasked

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Patrol cars swarmed as we cornered the biker. The man tried to run away on foot, but a blue shirt slammed him to the ground (excessive force is LAPD’s comfort zone). I walked over and unmasked the man. It…was Thomas Chester... He looked dazed but very much alive. As we stared, the man who was supposed to be dead started to talk. A guilty conscious seemingly eating him up. “I…I…killed my wife. Well…I had her killed. Some hitmen should have her dead in a desert by now.” We looked at him. A dead man walking. And talking. I kneeled down by his side. “Who is that body we found? That we thought was yours?” “Amanda was helping me. It was...a random man. She was supposed to come and identify the body. We wanted you to think I was dead,” he stuttered. I gave him that look you learn on the job, the “if you talk, I’ll help you out” look. Even though it’s a lie, of course. “I was a member of a group called The Circle. We were all about the circle of life. The interconnectedness of everything and everyone...” “Sounds like a sex thing.” Thomas looked at me, “It was…” “Please continue." “And then our leader, The Prophet, became obsessed with aliens. And he became crazy. All he wanted to do was talk about them and convince others that he was right. He started killing the other members of The Circle who wouldn’t go along.” “I didn’t know what to do. So, I helped. I volunteered to be the scribe. I wrote down all these things. These horrible things.” “Eventually, I realized I would never get out of this alive.” I looked at him. In my years as a detective, I’ve heard some strange confessions, but alien sex cult was not on my bingo sheet. “And what does Amanda have to do with this?” “We were having an affair. We were both in The Circle, but she’s part of the original group that just wants to love each other. I thought I could escape it all if I faked my death. Amanda and I were going to run to Mexico. I was going to become a fisherman. Let people assume The Circle killed me. I waited until a day I knew The Circle was killing others. I wanted you to assume it was all related." I stared at this peculiar man. “But why have Abigail killed?” “Because Amanda asked me to.” I stood. Mouth agape as the LAPD hauled Thomas Chester off to county jail. The city of angels. God bless.

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