15: Kick Off Meeting

15: Kick Off Meeting

Character: Norman Jayden

Breakthrough Discoveries

Back to FBI Agent Jayden, who is giving a profiling to the cops - and it includes some Q&A - so ride it out.  As you are talking you should be advancing the slides as prompted on screen using the projector, and if you are role-playing Jayden let that lead you in how you  respond to the questions..  Blake is very argumentative with you - clearly he has an attitude and an opinion about you, what you do, and your involvement in this investigation.

You have made the connection between the rain and the killings, and you have some data about the territory where the killer might live.  You have two suspects you want to question, but the cops are not really feeling cooperative.  According to the weather forecast, you have less than 72-hours to save the latest victim - Shaun.

Lieutenant Blake gives you some arguments and an aggressive attitude - this is really meant to show that he both does not respect your methods, and perhaps feels threatened by you.  Considering that the police have had three years to catch this guy and have gotten exactly nowhere, you have every reason to believe that you can help them - and Blake has every reason to feel threatened by that.

When you tell them that you have isolated the area that the killer calls home and Blake asks you how large it is, you tell them about ten square miles, and Blake derides that, saying that there must be 10,000 people living in that area.  In New York City - assuming we are not talking about Manhattan - any of the residential areas would be closer to hundreds of thousands not tens of thousands...  I am just saying.

You can either get aggressive back or try to stay calm, either way Blake loses his cool and the Captain has to step in to defuse the situation.  He asks a pointed question - with the rain falling how much time do you actually have?  The answer is a lot less time than you need.