Why are these two police officers so fucking obsessed with having sex in the victim's home/crime scene? Is this a new fetish? Are you two really fucking risking this when you know you're being monitored by your plant and that this would be yet another unlawful act on the pile that a government conspiracy could use to get you in trouble and out of their way?
which is convenient as ever because we have no other prominent leads in the murder itself.
They have no leads in the murder. At best they have a vague direction.
More for the self-insert fantasy: The bombshell love interest patting the self-insert on the head for having the basic decency to not cheat on his girlfriend while basically implying he might have wiggle room to cheat on her.
And why is the apartment now suspicious? Before, it wasn't treated as really out of his paygrade, his boss supported that he was one of many vital workers who probably got paid a lot (it's the whole reason why his disappearance was notable and got priority in the first place), as well as being a neat freak who is exactly the type to keep his apartment spotless; the only thing Bensen saw as too expensive or suspicious was the painting.
Also, you gotta love how Bensen has accused Feng of thievery, murder and conspiracy against the government; but argues that marriage would stop the guy from having mistresses. Hell, I'm not going back to check, but I swear Benson in one of the last two chapters made a jab about Feng cheating on his wife already.
Am I just misremembering the opening chapters? Benson made it a point that going off the grid, blocking your plant and otherwise being able to basically tun off the plant was a thing; if not a common thing since people are gonna notice your plant suddenly being blocked. That people usually did so to cover up a suicide attempt. And again, this is supposedly apart of a government conspiracy. Why is his attacker being able to go off the grid such a deciding factor that it can lead us down this rabbit hole?
Also, tip to writers who really want to make their self-insert as giga chad whose pulling all the ladies; having it so basically all the notable female characters can't go one conversation without making a pass at the main character just comes off as insecure as all hell. I've written about a guy who's entire deal is that he's enchanted everyone around him to be obsessively attracted to him and the story still didn't need to bring it up as much as Patrick does.
Benson asks Sal to set up a meeting but that's not gonna happen, so we get a little background to the Ark's Sublevels and the infrastructure contained therein. Long story short: it's a vast network of plumbing, electrical conduits, atmospherics, insulation and radiation shielding; nobody goes down there, and it's all running on duct tape and wishes after 200 years of interstellar transit. The cherry on top is that if anything down there fails, there's no fixing it.
So, there's an entire sublevel that no one ever goes down, is attached to major systems and blocks plant signals; and this never came up as a potential hiding spot for a missing person? Hell, this sounds like a much better place to hide a body than chucking it out into space where the ships' sensors would easily detect it and tell everyone that a body was discovered.
I say he handled this badly, but not in the absolute worst possible way.
I dunno, I'd say literally telling the audience that your character is legitimately tempted to get a blowjob from a child and only seems to reject said act in a 'Damn, if it were legal...' way is pretty up there in terrible ways to handle it.
Anyone ever play Mass Effect? Remember Noveria and the faux-Japanese shit the head of Security and her guards were doing, adding -sama and -san to people's names?
Liar. No one remembers anything that happens on Noveria prior to the mako segment.
Jeanine then raises her death flag. That is to say, she tells us she ran a DNA match and knows who Laraby nicked in his final moments, but Benson urges her not to say it over open, monitored *Plant* comms. So, I'm guessing she's going to fucking die or something insanely contrived will happen to keep Laraby's attacker concealed. Benson orders her to go through a number of steps and that he'll meet her in person to get that name for himself.
What's the point of not saying who the suspect is over the comms when you've already explained all the important information that's led you to the suspect? What, do you think the conspirators listening in will just assume she didn't get the right person and leave her alone? Or does Benson think they wouldn't know which one of them was in charge of killing the victim?
Dude, you're in unknown territory, surrounded by people who hate you, being led by a child prostitute you're still sporting an erection over; the last thing you should want to eb doing is touching their stuff or putting random shit in your mouth.
"Don't worry, Mr. Kimura; I won't tell anyone about your child prostitution ring."
"Child prost- Mai is 27, I assure you."
"But-"
"She's just short. And has those asian youth genes."
"Oh."
"...Were you really just going to tolerate what you thought was me pimping out a little girl?"
"Well, if she's old enough to bleed."
"Oh my god."
Benson tries to bring up Laraby's profile from the ship records, but it doesn't work. Wireless doesn't work in the sublevels as *the Geisha* have constructed themselves what amounts to a Faraday cage, preventing signals from getting in or out of their home. This incldues the signals sent by the *Plants*, and that also explains how Kimura's fake death became the defining story about him.
Uh, didn't Benson JUST have a plant conversation with the good Doctor?
Also, Kimura faked his death? We were told that he worked hard to champion the rights of the people and get elected, only to 'die' very shortly after getting elected. Seems like a lot of work and effort for him to decide to fake his death in so little time.
Just ask if he's ever seen any of these people, why do you feel the need to frame it as a question of if the dudes came down to fuck the children? Do they offer no other services? Information? Actual organic food? Secret pathways? A place to hide shit?
The detective's implication is obvious: whoever murdered Laraby and tried for his own life must be one of *the Unbound*
Except that Benson has already seen that all the unbound are malnourished and aren't exactly built for some real brawls, details I'm pretty sure Benson would have seen as distinguishing and something to mention when describing his attacker.