[encoded][video] clues & interpretation

[whethertheyshould]

[ This video is posted at about 7:00 in the morning by a haggard-looking Malcolm. He seems to fumble with his device a bit, peering at the camera as he determines whether it's truly turned on. Then he sets the device down on a stand and begins to speak. ]

Ah, good morning. I've been looking over the available information we have on the murders and I've, ah, I've picked up a pattern that I'm not sure anyone else has mentioned. If they have, I've simply missed that post, but I what I have noticed is that most of the victims worked in Jorgmund's finance department. Uh, furthermore, the rates of pay and roles within the company continually escalated as the murders went on.

This pattern is so exact that the most recent stabbings seem like some kind of anomaly. I wonder if we should warn the CFO that he seems to be targeted, should this pattern continue.

[ Not that he has any love for Jorgmund, but he doesn't want to see someone get mercilessly stabbed, no matter how much of a capitalist they are. ]


(( ooc: this post was made with permission of the mods after asking for any available clues that Malcolm might have picked up on. ))

Comments

[71lines]

Why bother? He's better bait if he doesn't know.

Besides, it's not like he's done me any good.

[Guess who's read the bit where she got declined medical treatment for expense purposes before Dr. Grey stepped in with her high falutin' space future morals?]

[whethertheyshould]

That is a point.

[ He doesn't know about the finance director's actions in their medical case, but again, he has no love lost for that person. ]

You think perhaps we should set up a stake-out, in that case?

[71lines]

We could kill him, have one of us replace him, and then blame it on the murderer!

[Hey, now, this plan's cheering her up a little.]

[whethertheyshould]

Mm...I do think Jorgmund would take issue with the replacement part, eventually.

[71lines]

Well, yeah, but that's where disguises come into play.

[smallmediumwelldone]

Oh, joy. Who wants to place money on interdepartmental fighting? Getting promotions the old-fashioned way, it almost makes one nostalgic.

Perhaps the anomalous nature of the recent stabbings is an attempt to throw people off the scent, as it were.