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Lauren: Listen, I do love my job, but everyone needs some time off, wouldn’t you agree? I’m spending my time off visiting some family in Los Angeles. And truly, work is the last thing I want to think about while I’m there. It was nice meeting you, though.
Lauren and Abby exit.

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(Enter stage left.)

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Derek and Jennifer exit.

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(Walk to Ticket Seller; Get cut off by Isabella and Lucy.)

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Jillian: That’s ridiculous! Just because you are a movie star doesn’t mean you can just cut in front of people in line!

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(To Ticket Sellers.) It’s fine. Take care of them. We can wait.
(To Jillian.) Don’t worry about it, we will get to the counter in a minute.

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Jillian: She can’t just get her own way because she made some foreign film that no one has ever even heard of! You deserve more respect than she does. She should wait behind you. You’re the CEO of Salt Lake Pharmaceuticals!

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Yes, Jillian. And you are my assistant. And as the CEO, I’m telling you not to worry about it.

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Ticket Seller: I apologize for the inconvenience, ladies. Thank you for your patience. Where are you heading?

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No problem. It wasn’t your fault. Two tickets for Los Angeles, please.

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Ticket Seller: Certainly. And would you like to check any of your bags?

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No, thank you. We need to go straight to our business meeting with Sunset Pharmaceuticals as soon as the train arrives, and I don’t want to have to wait for the baggage to be unloaded.

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Jillian: I still don’t understand why we can’t just fly there, Ms. Millen. We could have arrived tonight and had plenty of time to get ready for your presentation. Or should I say, get ready for your takeover? This will be the third company that Salt Lake Pharmaceuticals has acquired this year!

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(Gestures to the silver briefcase.) You know we can’t take our pharmaceutical samples on a plane. I always worry that the change in air pressure will ruin them and then the presentation will fall flat. This is a big acquisition for us, Jillian, and we can’t have anything go wrong.

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Jillian: Of course you’re right, Ms. Millen. As always.

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(Exit stage right.)

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Owen: He’s not your friend, either! None of us are friends!

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(Enter stage right.)

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Caleb: And we are in cabin one! It must be because we boarded the train first.

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(Consult the seating chart.)

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Jennifer: Yes I am, though I seem to be flying solo at the moment! Where on earth is Derek? Dinner is going to be served soon. I guess I’ll just order for him.

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(Move to Table Three.)

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Jillian: I’m sure your case of samples would’ve been just fine in your cabin, Ms. Millen. After all, your cabin door locks, and the case has a lock on it too. And you are the only one who has the key to the case.

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You’re probably right. But as I said earlier, this acquisition is just too important to leave anything to chance. No samples, no presentation, no acquisition. I’ll just slip it under the table where it wont bother anyone while we eat, and I’ll feel much better.

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Isabella: You might recall that when we purchased our tickets on this ill-conceived journey, I demanded my own dining table. I will not be forced to interact with these… commoners!

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(Look at Jillian. Stand and approach Isabella.)
With all due respect, Miss Madison, this tantrum is really not necessary. I assure you that Jillian and myself are perfectly amicable dinner companions.

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Isabella: Well, you had all better be prepared to give me everything I request for the remainder of this journey or none of you will be employed after this trip! I am Isabella Madison, and I will be treated as such!

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(React with disapproval. Start to return to table. Get pulled aside by Jillian.)

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Jillian: I cannot believe how she keeps treating you! If this was a pharmaceutical conference, you could make demands like her! She has no idea who she’s talking to!

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Jillian, please. We cannot always choose who we have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. We will be the more mature people in this situation and be better for it. Now. let’s sit down and try to enjoy our meal.
(Moves back to Table Three.)

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Lucy: I don’t think we were actually introduced. I’m Lucy Blake, Isabella’s assistant. We are pleased to meet you.

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(Shake hands with Lucy.)
A pleasure. I’m Avery Millen, CEO of Salt Lake Pharmaceuticals, and this is my assistant, Jillian Hill.

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Jillian: Ms. Millen is the youngest CEO in the company’s history and has grown the corporation more during her leadership than the last CEO combined.

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Yes, thank you, Jillian. She makes it sound more exciting than it really is, though. It’s a challenge to grow a small company, and our current growth is only happening because of the work all the others before me put in.

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Jillian: Actually, she studies chemistry. Most of our top pharmaceuticals are based on Ms. Millen’s own chemical designs.

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Again, thank you, Jillian. After the previous CEO retired, the board of directors thought it would be a positive change to have someone making the decisions who understood how the products we sell actually work. I did end up doing some business studies, but Jillian is a big help with the business side of things.

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Jillian: You studied business management? To get bossed around by a demanding movie diva?

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Jillian!

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Lucy: No, it’s okay, I get that question a lot.

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(Lean towards Lucy.)

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(Train whistles and lights flash.)

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(Lurch in seat.)

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Waiter One: We greatly apologize for the inconvenience. If you would all like to go to your rooms, freshen up, then return to the dining car, we can get this cleaned up and serve the meal again.

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(Murmur in agreement. Stand up, gather belongings, and begin to exit stage right.)

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Lucy: Isabella? Seriously, it’s not so bad! You brought lots of clothes.

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(Stop and begin to watch. Move closer.)

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(Isabella falls to the floor.)

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(React in shock.)

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Abby: You, call 9-1-1!

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(Pretend to call 9-1-1.)

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Lauren: There’s nothing you can do.

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(Put phone away.)

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Lauren: Abby, listen to me. There’s nothing you can do. There’s nothing I can do. She’s dead.

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(React in shock.)

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Lucy: What is the matter with you all?! A young woman drops dead and you make jokes about her?

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I’m sure no one meant to make a joke—right, everyone?
(Look around.)
He just meant that Isabella didn’t mention getting injured or feeling sick at all. She didn’t react like she was choking.

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Nelson: Wow, nothing like someone dying to ruin the feel-good atmosphere of a dinner, friends.

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Lucy, I’m so sorry about Isabella. I know you said the two of you were friends for a long time.

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Lauren: It appears that her heart just stopped. Unfortunately, I have no way of determining what caused that to happen.

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Lucy, did Isabella have any sort of history of heart disease? Was she taking any kind of medicine?

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Lauren: I don’t appreciate your insinuation. I am a healer. A crisis happened, and I jumped in to help. While I have no desire to participate in this absurd debate, I feel the need to point out that you and your boss represent a pharmaceutical company, which
would give you access to potentially life threatening materials. Not to mention, we all witnessed the fact that Isabella treated you both rudely the whole evening. Wouldn’t that make you both prime suspects of foul play?

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Absolutely not! Pharmacists take an oath too, you know. My goal is to never do harm with my products. I would never use my company’s resources to intentionally hurt someone!

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Lucy: Can we all just stop calling Isabella “it”?

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Lucy, maybe you should go back to your room and lie down.

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Owen: Private investigators usually work behind the scenes. Once my brain starts working on a case, tend to forget about the other things going around me. Let’s get started looking at these pictures. Sidney’s certainly captured the whole night on that camera!

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(Move to Table One.)

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Jillian: Ms. Millen, what if we miss your meeting? That’s the whole point of us being here!

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I’m sure the company will understand if we have to reschedule, given the circumstances.

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Waiter One: Everyone, please, we know you’re probably all hungry. If you could follow us, we will show you to the lounge car and serve you dinner.

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(Stand and begin to exit.)

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Waiter Two: Of course, no problem at all. Anyone wishing to dine in their quarters can collect their plates in the lounge and take them back to their rooms.

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(Murmur in agreement.)

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Waiter One: Excuse me, sir, did you not hear us? We’ll be serving dinner elsewhere.

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(Go quiet and watch.)

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(Sidney falls.)

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(React with shock.)

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Nelson: I would love to, friends! started writing some new songs during this eventful journey of ours. I think I left my notes over at my table in all the confusion. Come take a look!

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(Enter stage right.)
Hello all. Jillian, there you are. Have you seen Owen? I need to speak with him.

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Rachel: Yeah, you don’t look so good. Is everything okay?

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I’m fine, I just… lost something. I’ll look around here and see if I can find it. What are all of you up to in here?

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Rachel: Nelson was just about to play some of his music for us!

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You’re sitting around playing music at a table where someone was just murdered? Aren’t you bothered at all by what’s going on?

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Jillian: You seem pretty upset, Ms. Millen. Can I help? What’s missing?

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(Pauses.)
No, Jillian. I’m fine, thank you. If you see Owen, please send him in my direction.

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Jillian: Of course, Ms. Millen.

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(Move to Table Three and begin looking around and under it.)

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Mike: I don’t barrel anywhere!

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(Move to Table Two.)
Will you two stop it?! You have been at each other’s throats all night! We have much larger problems than whatever it is you are fighting about.

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Caleb: Really! You two should take a page out of Nelson’s book and get some positivity.

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That isn’t exactly what I meant—

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Nelson: So true, friend!

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If we could all just focus on the problem—

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Rachel: Come on, guys, let’s go be calm and positive elsewhere.

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(Move back to Table Three. Look around it more before sitting down.)

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Owen: Listen, for the last time—

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(Try to get Owen’s attention.)

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Owen: Sort of… I’m convinced that these deaths have to do with something the victims ate.

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Owen, I really need to speak with you about—

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Owen: Something is missing. What’s missing?

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Owen, I really need to speak with you.

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Mike: Owen said something is missing. I know what it is.

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You do?

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Mike: No need to sound so surprised!

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I didn’t mean it that way, I just—

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Mike: Seems to me that you all are getting too hung up on finding out the “how” and not on finding out the “why.” People died, we’ve got that. It happened in the dining car, we’ve got that, too. So now you’ve spent the whole night chasing around a food theory that hasn’t gotten you anywhere! You can only try to make a layup so many times without a score before you have to switch plays and go for an outside three-point shot! So back up, reassess, and try another approach to the problem!

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(Look at Mike in surprise.)

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Owen: I know, not everyone is here. But Mike was on to something before. All of us who are in this room right now have been trying like crazy to figure out what happened here tonight. Either all of us are the best actors ever, or we are the ones that genuinely don’t have anything to hide. Either way, let’s go back through Elliot’s notes together and maybe focus on the people who haven’t been trying to solve the crime.

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(Stop Owen from joining the group.)
Owen, I need to speak to you. Privately. Now.
(Move stage left.)

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Lauren: Avery, I don’t mean to intrude, but if you are feeling sick at all we really need to—

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No, I’m fine! Actually, Lauren, good thing you’re here too. So, both of you know that I work at a pharmaceutical company and that I’m going to Los Angeles with samples for a presentation, right?

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Owen: Right.

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Well, when the train stopped suddenly, when there was that rockslide on the tracks, I opened up my samples case to check on everything and all seemed to be fine. But when I returned to my cabin after dinner, I decided to check on the samples again. And when I opened the case, I saw one of the vials was missing!

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Lauren: Avery, this isn’t good. What does it contain?

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Well, that’s the worrisome part. It’s a new medication that my company is developing… to help patients who are at risk for heart failure. It hasn’t been widely tested yet.

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Owen: Let’s just give those two a minute. Avery, tell us more about this medication. I think it’s safe to assume that this is the best lead we’ve had so far for a cause of death.

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Well, like I said before, its primary function is to help patients at risk for heart failure by helping to regulate heart function. For someone who is sick, too little would be ineffective, but too much could be very dangerous.

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Abby: So what would happen if someone without a heart problem took it?

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It would be safe to presume that the same would hold true for a healthy person. A small amount would probably go unnoticed, but a large dose could likely cause serious heart problems.

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Lauren: What characteristics does the medication itself have? Would people realize they were taking it or could it be hidden somehow?

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Actually, that’s where my company has been focusing our research. All of the medications I’m taking to my presentation are in liquid form with no colorings or added flavors. We’re trying to develop a line of medications for people who have difficulty swallowing traditional medications.

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Mike: Okay, so if you claim it wasn’t you, who else had access to your case?

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That’s the thing. The case never left my possession. I’m the only one with a key, and I still have that right here.
(Hold up key.)
The only times all evening that the case was open were right after the rockslide and just now, in my room.

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Mike: Sounds good to me!

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(Gasp, yell line with Lauren, Holly, and Owen.)
Don’t drink that!

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Lauren: If the medicine is a liquid, it would be very easy to add to a beverage!

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And the medicines are designed to have very little color and taste. No one would even know they were drinking it!

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Holly: It’s not quite as clear. But remember, right before Sidney died, those who had helped move Isabella’s body came back in the dining room and had some water.

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(Move to Table Three, deep in thought.)

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Holly: I’m positive that this notebook will continue to be a valuable resource. If we continue to look back through it, I am confident that we will figure out who had the opportunity.

A

We might not need the notebook…

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Mike: Go team!

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(Gather around Table One.)

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Police Officer One: All right, folks, back it up! Give us some space! We’re conducting an investigation here! This platform is closed! Back it up!

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(Enter stage right, trailing behind the others.)

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Abby: He doesn’t like to be separated from his notepad. I can put my book back on the train, though. Nelson, you want me to take your guitar? Avery, I can take your case for you, too!

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That won’t be necessary, Abby. I’ll be handing my case straight to the police.

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Police Officer One: And she’s the other person who is deceased

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That’s when we realized we were wrong about Sidney being the murderer. After Sidney died, we knew we had to look at other potential suspects.

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Caleb: Avery, you weren’t even with the people who were trying to figure out who killed Isabella and Sidney. Derek, Jennifer, Lauren, and Abby all went with Owen to look for clues! How did you end up being the one who figured it out?

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I realized that I was carrying around a whole case worth of potential danger. When I opened my case to check on it right after the rockslide, everything was fine. But when I checked on it later, I noticed that a vial of medicine was missing!

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Jillian: Ms. Millen! You’re handing all your samples over to the police? Don’t you think you should keep them with you?

A

Nonsense. You heard the officers, everything on the train is evidence. I wouldn’t want to complicate the officer’s investigation by leaving them a case of dangerous samples that they couldn’t open.
(Hand case to Police Officer Two.)
Here are all my pharmaceutical samples, along with the key to my case.

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Jillian: Fine! You figured it out! It was me!

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(React in shock.)

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Jillian: Lucy, I didn’t mean to kill her! Honest, I didn’t!

A

But you did kill her! And why Sidney?! Why?

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Jillian: I was so angry at the way Isabella treated us at the train station when we were first buying our tickets. And again at dinner! She was so rude to everyone. I mean, what did she think gave her the right to talk down to us? To all of us! Fame doesn’t give people the right to act that way!

A

That’s why you killed her? You were angry about her insults?

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Jillian: When Avery opened the case after the train stopped, I slipped out the vial that was closest to me before we shut the case again. During all the commotion, I poured some in her water glass. That way she would get sick and Sidney could sell her embarrassing pictures! But I never meant for her to die. I had no idea that what I put in her water would kill her!

A

I can’t believe this! How many times have I told you that we work with dangerous items! What were you thinking?

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Jillian: When Owen and Sidney decided to go through her pictures to look for a picture of the murderer, I knew I had to get her camera. She never stopped taking pictures! I was sure that she had a picture of me poisoning Isabella’s water. And I knew I would never get it from her willingly. She hardly ever put the camera down! I still had the rest of the vial in my pocket, so as soon as I saw my opportunity, I put the rest of the vial in her water.

A

You knew it was going to kill her, and you did it anyway!

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Police Officer One: Well, folks, we will still have to ask all of you to come to the station for official statements, but now that we have the murderer and a confession, we should be able to get you on your way soon enough. If you will all follow me, we have cars waiting to take you downtown.

A

(Cross to center.)

78
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Nelson: If I may, cooking friends, I know a fabulous musician who happens to be looking for work and is very good at keeping people calm and relaxed.

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(Laugh.)

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Derek: Come on, Nelson, let’s talk terms in the car.

A

(Sees Lucy sitting alone, sits next to her.)
Hey, Lucy.

80
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Lucy: Hi, Avery.

A

You coming?

81
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Lucy: Yes… I just can’t believe this. I’m sorry I thought you were a murderer.

A

To be honest with you, I feel somewhat responsible. I should have been more careful about who I trusted to be my assistant and handle the samples.

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Lucy: You couldn’t have known what Jillian would do. I don’t think anyone would have guessed it. I know I didn’t.

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Well, this might not be the greatest time, but I find myself needing a new assistant. Someone who has a good mind for business, good organizational skills, and who’s good at following directions. Someone who might be in need of employment…

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Lucy: Me?! You want me to be your assistant?

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(Stand.)
I know you are going to have a lot on your plate in the near future handling Isabella’s affairs, but after everything settles down, give me a call. Salt Lake City’s a great place to live.

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Lucy: I will!

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(Exit stage left.)

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