Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-5726563-20131012204124/@comment-25151516-20131024142149

Holmes could not help but admire Ed's mindfulness, being as young as he is. He had to update his phone security to tell the difference between an attack on his phone and a signal piggyback.

"You said you wanted a warrant," James reminded Aconite. "Here you are."

He showed Aconite his phone with an official arrest warrant, signed and dated by a judge. "The judge owes me a few favors. I texted him before we got here. Things are done digitally nowadays."

"How convenient for you," Aconite stated with disdain.

"Anyway," James raised his voice. "'You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in court. You have the right to an attorney.' Honestly this is tedious, reading rights."

"Well I am not talking."

"I don't need you to talk. Just listen."

"Several people have died in the past few months. But the police cannot find out how because of their incompetence in standard procedure. Your latest victim, Gladys, she had two scents about her; the perfume on her neck, lavender. The other was he champagne stain on her jacket. It held a distinct flowery oil scent on it. And the Aconite poison is found in a flower."

The venom in Mister Aconite prevented any real facial response. Holmes looked to the two bottles of campagne on the side table, focused on the bottle wrapping.

"Sloppy. You clearly have another victim you were supposed to meet for business. If he or she agreed to your proposition, you would give them the good bottle, the untampered one. If they declined, you would give them a dose of Aconite with the bad bottle. Note the small burn on the foil: enough to seal a hole puncured by a syringe. A syringe of Aconite."

"Clever, but you can't prove that it was me who poisoned that bottle."

"I can. You like to handle you poisons yourself, you called yourself Mister "Aconite". And what is in the wastebasket?" He saw a syringe, empty, under another empty bottle of champagne within the wastebasket.