No. What do you mean no?
I won't start an investigation without witnesses, a crime scene, without relevant information as to why that body is on that gurney to nowhere.
Don't detectives like mysteries?
Actually, we hate a mystery. What we like is when we're able to lock someone up right away. There are rules to this business, fundamentals. The phone rings, we pick it up, we write down the address, and we go to where the person was murdered.
The crime scene.
Exactly. That's what we call it.
The crime scene.
We go and evaluate and canvas the crime scene, hoping for witnesses.
Living, breathing witnesses.
We come here after we have processed and canvassed the scene. We do not come here to make the acquaintance of fresh murders.
Yeah, that'd be stupid.
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