Hamlin 2022 - TD Lines

Question 1

What happened to no news was good news?

Answer 1

No crime, I picked up a purple down the river just last night

Question 2

As I was saying, the big dogs over at capital HQ say that in order to keep us all in the job we’ve got to go over our unsolved case list

Answer 2

What unsolved case? We’ve got a perfect record

Question 3

Well you better put it in the microwave and heat it up. Now get your act together. Ace this is deputy Tannis Deacon, highest arrest count from here to Hungary. Goes by TD

Answer 3

Damn straight

Question 4

You heard the chief, I wanna see everything you’ve got from back then

Answer 4

Do you think we don’t know protocol? You think just cause some big shot in Berlin gave you a badge it means you can come digging up old bones. You wanna know what happened - Leslie get the box - we’ll tell you what happened

Question 5

Do you think we don’t know protocol? You think just cause some big shot in Berlin gave you a badge it means you can come digging up old bones. You wanna know what happened - Leslie get the box - we’ll tell you what happened

Answer 5

Okay, let’s go back. Its hamlin, it’s June and the town is thriving

Question 6

All through the night the town cats hissed

Answer 6

And on the morning of the festival, the decorations were found to be tattered and squirming

Question 7

Piper line…. and I played a different tune

Answer 7

But the fateful day, the stranger returned, playing and unfathomable rhythm. They summond the children as payment… never to ne seen again

Question 8

Woah, woah, not so fast. That’s it? That’s all you’ve got? Wheres the rest? You’re telling me none of you looked into this before? No ones even questioned it. It is your whole towns history, this case reads like a fairy tale

Answer 8

You told us to read the case report didn’t you. Well this is what it says, as Jam said, it was years ago

Question 9

The town was trying hard as it could to get itself back on its feet after all those rats. It must’ve been a nightmare, no wonder no one was paying much attention

Answer 9

Well, children under the trance of magical flute don’t tend to cry out

Question 10

Mines a badger

Answer 10

Hamlin and its traditions

Question 11

Right… so the motive for the piper is revenge? But why wasn’t he payed? What do we have on the mayor of hamlin?

Answer 11

Leslie!

Question 12

Leslie!

Answer 12

Well, there are two trains of thought. Either the mayor

Question 13

I’ll start rummaging through the Airways. Give me a minute

Beets leaves

Answer 13

Just a word of warning friend, I think we’re digging into a dead end.

Question 14

Why’d you say that? I think it’s just good to get your team moving

Answer 14

Listen, I just think you should be careful. Hamlin’s doing well, really well. Resurfacing that trauma for these people might not go the way you think

Question 15

Hey ace, come get a load of this

Answer 15

The truth won’t bring those kids back

Question 16

What are you talking about?

Answer 16

It was clearly the piper

Question 17

But what’s the truth?

Answer 17

Does it matter? Every witness described the same stranger that took the children and the rats up the kopparberg. They never found them. Do you have to keep rubbing it in?

Question 18

Hear me out. Everyone heard different tunes because there were loads of different instruments. The kids probably thought it was a part of the festival, went up for a dance and the stranger trapped them or whatever they did! Imagine it, that whole cave filled with music

Answer 18

This sounds more like a fantasy then a theory Beets. Why would the stranger put on a show before doing whatever they did

Question 19

Possibly. But thats not important right now. There’s more. We all know before the rats the crops had been good, not just here but all over Germany. But in that year that perfect mix of warm and most had formed a parasite! A fungus in the grain

Answer 19

I think I’ve heard enough

Question 20

The fungus made the adults sick but it affected the young differently. Effected the nervous system first. What if it was the dancing plague.

Answer 20

Are you done yet?

Question 21

It was all over Germany, why not hamlin? It explains why they were all drawn to the music. Maybe the piper even planted the fungus. Or there was no piper at all and the town just used a scapegoat to explain the tragedy

Answer 21

Oh give me a break

Question 22

After rave scene - box closed

Answer 22

That’s what you want to tell the town. That they danced themselves to death?

Question 23

Please can I explain its important

Answer 23

I thought this was about making ourselves look busy for the HQ. Not spreading some crazy rumour that the kids ate some mushrooms and raved so hard they died

Question 24

If you don’t care about the truth then what type of cop are you?

Answer 24

I’m the best cop this town has left

Question 25

ENOUGH! you know we said that those witness reports were full of inconsistencies. Well there’s a reason

Answer 25

Leslie, can I have a word outside

Question 26

There never was one

Answer 26

Guess that’s your theory debunked then beets

Question 27

Coming with?

Answer 27

I’ll catch you up

Question 28

It’s almost time Leslie, let’s go find out what they know. Jam go help sam and Beets and report back soon as

Answer 28

Hey Leslie, you know how the car seizes up, go get it started or you’ll never make it in time

Question 29

Hey Leslie, you know how the car seizes up, go get it started or you’ll never make it in time

Leslie leaves

Answer 29

Meet me up the Kopparberg as soon as you can. Whatever this lowlife has to tell you it ain’t worth believing. Make up an excuse and ill see you there

Question 30

Hey Where’s ace?

Answer 30

Couldn’t tell you

Question 31

Feeding the ducks again

Answer 31

Beets listen to me. I’ve known you for a long time. If I could just speak to you alone

Question 32

TD, you okay?

Answer 32

Good, you’re here. We’re you followed?

Question 33

What’s this about. Why’d you bring me all the way up here?

Answer 33

I need to show you something. Somewhere where we wouldn’t be listened in on.

Question 34

What the hell is this, why do you have this, why have you been keeping this from us!? You were involved somehow, hey stay away from me

Answer 34

Listen to me, there is a lot you do not understand. You’ve come here and jeopardised everything I’ve worked for.

Question 35

Everything you’ve worked for, you’re sick

Answer 35

You’re being led astray, all of this flimsy evidence - its to keep you from finding out the truth

Question 36

Led astray, by who?

Answer 36

Things were never good in hamlin, no food, no jobs, no future. Not till that summer festival, and the lie they concocted meant we became world famous. We’ve never had a bad year since. Business is booming. While apples rot on the vine

Question 37

You’re saying, the town. Their own children

Answer 37

Hamlin and its traditions

Question 38

I don’t believe you

Answer 38

Look down there ace. Think how easy it would be to slip. To make someone else slip. One moment and it’d be over. No more mouths to feed