Monday
In the morning, Jess was the one who called the police. No matter how incompetent they were, there were some formalities that only they could do to put an official end to the entire situation. Barthut was so flabbergasted that someone managed to actually solve the case instead of just waiting for it to solve itself that he showed up to the bakery ten minutes after the call wearing his entire uniform, including the few medals of honour that allegedly he didn’t award himself with. Lester, who arrived two minutes after Barthut, immediately got chewed out for being late and forgetting his police hat in the car and was now taking pictures of the paper bag with the expression of universal exhaustion on his face.
Barthut himself seemed to be doing the questioning but, judging by the dumb
