65 The Detectives Plan/s (1/2)

Observe.

The knife is literally inches away from Special Agent Barnes' testicles. However, before Subject 1 could even do anything relatively bloody to his victim, an external force had stopped him from moving further from his plan. In fact, the clip that you're seeing right now is not paused at all. Subject 1 is just so overcome with all sorts of negative emotions, energies, and feelings in the world that he quite literally stopped functioning as a human being. It felt as if the voice of that person who suddenly shouted literally just outside of his van had loosened a few of the already loose screws in his head further till it drops, stunning Subject 1 until he no longer knew how to function as a person.

Special Barnes used this opportunity to struggle further without moving his body, for he's afraid that wriggling so much might cause him to hurt his own testicles on the knife pointed at it. The detective knew that voice; he knew it very well. Thus, he shouted, groaned, moaned, and mumbled while a huge ball gag was still on his mouth, locking his jaw from uttering a word but not enough to hinder him from asking for help. However, at that moment, Barnes was not at all seeking help. His effort to raise his voice with a gag on his mouth was his own unique way of warning whoever was outside of the van to run. Barnes knew that woman very well, and he knew that she wouldn't be able to do anything against Subject 1 due to many, many factors rooted from her ridiculous stubbornness.

”Sir? Sir, is everything alright in there?” The woman outside the van knocked three more times as she uttered those words.

”Yes! Just wait!” Subject 1 tried to calmly articulate, but it came out like a protestation filled with annoyance instead.

Barnes then screamed once more, stronger this time, and it seemed that whoever was outside of the van realized that something odd was happening inside. It could very well be a dangerous act, so the woman once again, with a stronger and deeper voice than she would typically use, shouted once more, which made Subject 1's hair raise further with his eyes widened.

”Is everything okay in there, sir?” The woman tried to calmly ask as she heard the muffled roaring inside of the van.

”Yes, ma'am. Everything is okay! Stop banging my god damn DOOR!”

Subject 1 realized what Barnes was trying to do and instantly suppressed him by covering his head with a thick pillow. The man knew that this wouldn't be enough to knock a person down, especially an adrenaline-filled detective, so he took a syringe lying on a small table right beside the little bed and injected the drug in it through Barnes' neck.

And at the time, the only thing he could think of is that one familiar that he could still remember among his many victims.

”Justin...” The man finally mumbles.

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Now, speaking about time, maybe it's time for us to talk more about time and things that occurred in such a fast but slow day from the perspective of the detectives.

It was Wednesday, 10:56 pm when Justin left Subject 1 to torture William Barnes in his lonesome and to give his owner more space to do whatever he wishes to do without anyone's scrutinizing gaze. However, there's a more significant reason why Justin decided not to see the finale of the plan he had helped to create with Subject 1. A promise.

At 5:16 pm, two hours before the bar opens, Subject 1 and Justin went to Justin's friend, the owner of the bar, to ask for his aide in drugging William Barnes. However, we all know already that the bar owner was initially reluctant about this plan until Justin recommended that they should speak about this matter in confidentiality without Subject 1's involvement. The bar owner agreed, and when they came back, both of them explained that they ”spoke” about it ”intimately” as ”friends” and went to the conclusion that the bar owner will definitely help them however they can. Now, none of us really followed Justin when he entered inside the bar owner's room, but I mean, come on! Even Subject 1 knows what they did without needing all sorts of tech and facial recognition bullshit. What Subject 1 didn't know is that Justin promised the bar owner for a second round later that night.

They both agreed to meet in a love hotel a few meters away from Justin's friend's bar because the bar owner's family is currently sleeping in his room, while his cousin managed the bar for him. The bar owner demanded that Justin would come to that love hotel at 10:30 pm, but he ended up arriving around 11 pm instead. The fact that Justin was late is his form of silent message that he's against them meeting ever again after this.

Consequently, Justin left the love hotel an hour after the bar owner had left. By that time, it was already midnight—Thursday. Coincidentally, that was also when Subject 1 got this early, surprise visit.

Now, you see, the reason why we don't have anything to show regarding Justin's activities with the bar owner is that I didn't really send anyone to follow Justin. I just think that doing that was irrelevant to this presentation. However, I did ask one member of my team to follow Justin once he went to the love hotel but prohibited him from entering the establishment itself. He was only there to record when Justin came and when he left.

However, what I did extensively researched was Special Agents Barnes and Callahan, especially Callahan. Not because we think that she's a threat, but because we believed that her side of the story would prove to be necessary for telling the full story. Thus, I did. I sent five of my best men, along with ten new recruits to follow Callahan in the shadows or in the deep crevices around them. This was both used as a training and to keep an eye on the detectives, but our priority was still Callahan.

They reported that at 5 am, Wednesday that Callahan spoke with Barnes about her displeasure in working with the rest of the police officer in Salem because she thought that they wouldn't be able to fully aide both of them in solving this case. Such arrogance of hers was the reason why Barnes refused to work with Callahan that day and decided to work with the police force of Salem. Embarrassed but still very much determined to do her bidding, Callahan immediately scoured the entire town for the rest of the day to gather information from the public.

This proved to be a tiresome work because, apparently, both detectives have no lead that would help them solve this case quickly, but they do have a plan; both detectives just can't agree with each other and decided to split up impromptu.