Arson Desk IV
A Polite Invitation

Arson Desk IV -- A Polite Invitation

-- Special Notes for this Case --
Newspaper #11 -- On Monroe’s desk.

Another war flashback -- this time the focus is Kelso. 

You wake up in a clinic apparently none the worse for wear...  Which is a good thing, don't get me wrong!  After Elsa leaves an Assistant DA shows up -- and you decide to tell him the story.

After that you get dressed, because what is on your mind is paying your boss a visit -- clearly he was involved in the attempt on your life -- and you need answers!

Visiting with Curtis Benson

-- Curtis Benson's Apartment --

From the mailbox you learn that he lives in flat number 2, so you head upstairs and knock -- before forcing the door..  Have a chat and then look for evidence:

-- Insurance Agreement: on the desk

-- Share Certificate: the table by the desk

Check the bedroom to find a 12 year old girl... Perv!

-- Interrogate Benson --

Now that you have evidence it is time to have another chat with your boss -- the correct answers are below if you need them:

-- Motive For Fraud: Lie / Share Certificate

-- Suburban Redevelopment: Lie / Insurance Agreement

-- Buchwalter Case Settlement: Doubt

It is time to head to your old office and get those files!
-- California Life & Fire --

Take the lift up and get the files in your office --

-- Improved Land Value: read the pink slip of paper on the right

-- Buchwalter Case File: read the top right of the blue house plans

Cole arrives and you talk, then the CS ends and you relocate to the Hall of Records.

Deciphering the Lot Code

-- Hall of Records --

Go in and chat with the guard to find out where the Registry is located.  Go there and chat with the Clerk, who will direct you to the file you need.  Open the file and look at the line reading  'Courtney Sheldon' on Page 2.

The Clerk will show you the special machine that they use to decipher the coordinates into a map location -- this is basically a sort of puzzle:

-- Change the Latitude (Left Stick) to 34'04'29

-- Change the Longitude (Right Stick) to 118'17'58

This shows you Elysian Lot Number 1876988 -- then the Clerk will show you to the tabulator that you can use to convert the Lot Number:

-- Enter 1,876,988

-- Hit Divide

-- Enter 90,000

-- Pull the handle

You get your answer!  Now you just need to search the bookshelf marked "U" and you will find the listing on the second page of the book, then you just tap the lot number (1876988) and you are done -- sort of.

As you happily turn you see thugs coming with Thompson SMG's!  You know what you have to do mates, battle your way out alive!

After you battle your way out, you seek out Courtney and ask him WTF?! 

-- Kelso's Apartment --

As you arrive home the phone is ringing -- it is Monroe, and he wants to meet with you.  You politely decline -- and Monroe turns on the charm...  And you let him think that he charmed you!

After you ring off you make another call, and then you are outside, so we do not know who you called or why, but we will soon! Now grab your car and drive to the mansion...

Finding the Final Clues

-- Leland Monroe's Mansion --

When you arrive you meet up with buddies from your old unit -- that explains the phone call, eh?

The plan is to assault the mansion -- best you start by obtaining a better weapon -- and hey, the two nearest guards have a BAR and Tommy Gun!  Good place to start!

Once you have taken out the outside guards you begin working your way through the rooms inside, which also have guards.  Eventually you come to a woman who actually shoots you in the arm before you cold-cock her.

Keep working your way through -- and do not get killed -- and once you are upstairs and take out the two thugs you will find his office at the end of the hall.  You go in and shoot him in the leg as your opening offer, then search his office for evidence:

-- Safe: Green Book

-- Safe: Blank Shares

-- Safe: Fontaine File

-- Table: Photograph

-- Desk: Newspaper #11

-- Desk: List of seller hold-outs

That last item -- the list -- is all of it, and finding it triggers a CS in which you are told that you cannot succeed -- but you don't believe that eh?  You call Phelps to come over -- and learn that Courtney is dead.  Elsa has been kidnapped by the whack-job that did the fires and you have to save her!

-- End Notes --

If you have not already unlocked it, you should easily unlock the Achievement "Dead Men are Heavier" (15 GP) for killing 100 bad guys here.  This is also the last rated mission in the game, so as long as you have been 5-Starring them, you will now unlock the Achievement "Shamus to the Stars" (80 GP) here for five-starring them all!

You may have unlocked other Achievements as well, but those two are the most likely for this case..