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COLOSSAL SQUID

AT THE AGENCY:

COMPO: (Shouts furiously) HEY!!! LOI JA!!! I promise you, I will hunt you down!

Loi ja seems interested in the criminal's threats

LOI JA: (Unbothered) C'mom Compo, I don't know Compo to lack actions. I know Compo to be a man with and of actions. (Fiercely) I am likened to a Colossal Squid

Compo is a recent criminal Loi ja cracked his crime mystery. She solved the crimes he had done and is about putting him to jail. Compo is currently held by 3 agents, Compo strives and struggles with the other male agents holding him down from escaping. They are forcefully dragging him away

COMPO: (Furiously) What do you mean?

LOI JA: (Smiles) You are just asking the right question. Colossal squids are rare creatures in the ocean that never get eaten talk-less of getting caught, although we might be plentiful but we rarely get caught. (Her voice thickens) I am like a colossal squid Compo, I can't die easily, I can't be caught by criminals easily. At every single point of being caught, I will keep slipping away!

COMPO: (Furious) I PROMISE YOU WON'T ESCAPE MY TRAP THIS TIME!

LOI JA: (Shouts at the agents) NOW TAKE HIM AWAY!

The junior agents drag Compo away and she looks at how he struggles to free himself. The agents have taken him away from how far Loi Ja can see and one of her bosses in the agency, Laura Phiston shows up.

Laura is an average height fair lady in her early 30s and mother of one. She is also a fierce officer but not as quick witted and sharp as Loi ja.

Apparently she is just meeting Loi ja for the first time after her transfer which was just yesterday. Laura is accompanied by a new hired junior spy, Juliet

LAURA: (Fiercely looking) Loi Ja?

Loi Ja looks back at the sound of her name, she sees Laura and recognizes she's her new boss due to her aura. Loi Ja pays Laura her respect by giving her a greeting salutation which is pushing her chest out and having her hand on her forehead in salutation

LOI JA: (Salutating) Ma'am

Laura releases Loi Ja from her salutation with signals

LAURA: (Smiles) Laura Phiston

LOI JA: (Smiles) I recognize you ma'am, how wouldn't I recognize you madam?

LAURA: (Smiles) The great Loi Ja has been transferred to our city and I am delighted to be her senior.

LOI JA: (Salutes) I would do my best not to disappoint the trust you have in me madam

LAURA: (fierce) Have you found a side job?

LOI JA: (Salutes) Yes Ma'am

LAURA: (Fierce) Status?

LOI JA: (Salutes) Personal Assistant to Drinaye Cristov of Cristov Group of Companies

Laura subtly responds to Loi ja with a faint smile. Loi Ja signals to Laura who she has behind her and Laura then remembers Juliet behind her

LAURA: (Calls for Juliet) Juliet

JULIET: (Salutes) Yes madam

LAURA: (Subtly) Loi ja, this would be your new junior officer, Juliet, she would be working directly under you. I want you two to get along

LOI JA AND JULIET: (Salutes) Yes ma'am

Loi ja suspiciously looks at Juliet and senses she isn't an ordinary person. She senses Juliet is there with a motive and plan

JULIET: (Salutes Loi Ja) What May I do for you ma'am?

LOI JA: (Smiles) You May Go Get Familiar with your colleagues

JULIET: (Salutes) Right Away, ma'am

Juliet leaves and Loi Ja makes her suspicions known to Laura

LOI JA: (Suspicious) Laura ma'am?

LAURA: (Interested) Tell me

LOI JA: (Fiercely) I don't trust that lady ma'am

LAURA: (Shocked) What do you mean to say?

LOI JA: My instincts about her are not good. It's like she's here with an objective

LAURA: (Smiles) Your brain works than that of a robot, in few seconds, you have figured her out. This is the first time communicating with you when I will tell you your instincts about her is wrong

LOI JA: (Furious) But madam

LAURA: Every Agent or officer hired here are thoroughly screened, trained fighters. It's probably because you are meeting her for the time and you both have not warmed up yet. I am pretty sure she will be a great junior officer to you.

LOI JA: (Unconvincingly Soliloquies) I will bring out her true color before you madam. I am very sure she is up to no good

LAURA: (Hands a file to Loi Ja) Here is a file of a mysterious murder of a father and 13 year old son

Loi Ja collects the file

LAURA: By their neighbors, the deceased were good people. The death was first found by an informant who usually delivers milk.

Loi Ja listens attentively and her mind is racing with high speed following the story

LAURA: The tea neighbor out of fear of being accused of their deaths is currently in hiding. I need reports on this case by 6 in the evening

LOI JA: (Chests out) I will get to it immediately Ma'am

Laura nods positively and leaves. Loi Ja then stares at Juliet who is attentively looking at what she's been taught by a colleague

LOI JA: (Soliloquies) Juliet. Why do I have the hunch you are up to no good? I will find out whatever it is about you.

Loi ja then looks at the case file Laura had given her and she reads it

AT CRISTOV COMPANY:

Evie comes to inquire if the boss would love coffee and he asks after Holoi and he claims it's her work to bring him coffee since she's his P.A

EVIE: (Nervous) Tea, Cappuccino or Coffee Sir?

DRINAYE: (Ignores Evie's question) Where's she?

Evie understands he's asking after Holoi

EVIE: (Nervous) She said she was going to the cafeteria

DRINAYE: (Scoffs angrily) Cafeteria? Has she found a job just to eat?! Why is she my P.A? She should be the one to inquire about my tea choice. She sure does love food

Holoi appears out of nowhere. Holoi never went to the company's cafeteria, she went to her agency

HOLOI: (Teases Drinaye) Why? Already missing me?

DRINAYE: (Scoffs) I really do not care about you (He mispronounce her name) Annoy

HOLOI: (Indifferent) Its pronounced Alloy, not annoy.... A. L. L. O. Y

DRINAYE: I care less

HOLOI: (Smirks) Great, me neither, So I care less about your tea, in short, no coffee for you. Anyway you have a board meeting with Shinelex Limited in 45 minutes. Get ready

She leaves like a model, cat walking in her low heels, unknowingly wiggling her back side.

4PM

It's 4pm and Holoi had closed for the day at Cristov Company, due to the tea crime Laura had informed her about, she and her team including Laura head to the crime scene. At the agency, Loi ja is second in command asides from her two top bosses who are also bosses to Laura. They are at a luxurious house in a sophisticated estate where the tea crime occurred with gloves in each their hands

Loi ja is squatting as she gathers clues and evidences from the scene while Laura stand for her juniors to do the work. Juliet is also right next to Loi ja learning from Loi ja.

LOI JA: The deceased wasn't living alone with his son, that I am sure

2 Juniors come in to report to Loi Ja

ALMA: (Salutes) Ma'am

Loi ja stands to listen

LOI JA: (Stands fiercely) Tell me

ALMA: We found the informant near the apartment and brought her here. Her name Amanda and she is the one who supplies the deceased and everyone in this estate bottles of milk.

Loi Ja signals Alma to go ahead and Alma calls out

ALMA: Bring her

A 19 years old girl comes in with the officers. Whenever Loi Ja is at work at the agency, she's always strict, she neither smiles nor respects any criminal irrespective of their age, she also doesn't consider the reason for their crimes. She's always straight to business at the agency

LOI JA: Miss Amanda, tell me when you found out the deceased were killed

AMANDA: I came to deliver bottles of milk like I usually do in this neighborhood when I heard a clash and shouts inside. The deceased house was always a place full of excitements and laughter. Initially I thought it was the regular laughter but as I was about leaving, I heard the deceased don shouting "Dad, Dad, Dad". For a moment I know his shouts weren't ordinary so I peeped at the window and saw a masked person in black run out of the back yard after killing the son as well. Although 2 women struggled for their lives and ran out defeating the murderer.Out of fear I phoned the police

Another junior officer comes in with news

MANNY: (Salutes) Ma'am

Loi Ja centers her focus on Manny

LOI JA: Yes?

MANNY: I have investigated the apartment and discovered there's another suspicious male tenant

LOI JA: Alma please escort Miss Amanda out.

Alma obliges and Laura, Juliet follows Loi Ja and they all follow Manny. They get to the tenant's room and Loi Ja begins to investigate alone and the rest watch her

Loi Ja looks round, she sees a chopping board, a half sliced onions on the floor, a knife next to the bed, another dead body, dusty foot prints, blood on the floor, and a lady's hairbrush

LOI JA: (Smirks) Laura Ma'am

LAURA: Yes tell me, what did you find?

Loi Ja tells Laura all she sees

LOI JA: Laura please tell Manny to take this footprints, blood, knife and hair to the forensic lab

Laura gives an affirming nod, she then signals to Becca to come to summon Manny which she does.

JULIET: That means a woman orchestrated the crime

LAURA: Why do you think so?

JULIET: It's obvious, only men lived in this house, no woman, so how can there be a female hairbrush? The murderer must have forgotten her hairbrush after brushing her hair to act all well

LOI JA: You are wrong

JULIET: (Confused) Wrong ma'am? I am certain the murderer must have injured herself while committing the crime hence the spilled blood

LOI JA: This was just a distraction and diversion that I am sure.

JULIET: (Confused) How can you be so sure ma'am?

LAURA: (Smiles) That's simple, because she is Loi Ja. Her brain isn't ordinary

Manny enters after being summoned, his appearance makes Laura walk away from Loi and Juliet

JULIET: So ma'am if a woman did not commit the murder, then a man did?

Loi Ja gives Juliet a subtly nod

20 MIUTES of being in the crime scene, Manny had sent the evidence to the Forensic Lab.

Loi Ja receives a call from the Forensic and she relates it to Laura

LOI JA: (Salutes) Ma'am

Laura looks at her

LOI JA: The laboratory used blood type comparisons to find that the blood on the floor was the deceased's

LAURA: The Knife?

LOI JA: Although the knife smelt of Onions, but there are no finger print on the knife, not even the deceased.

JULIET: (Surprised) Not even the deceased?

LOI JA: I think it was the murderer who wiped off the fingerprints on the knife with a towel after the crime.

LAURA: How about the footprints in the photo that were found at the scene of the crime, I think there may be some clues

LOI JA: According to the footprints, more than 2 people had entered the dead's room on the day of the crime. From the size and shape of the footprints, there are indeed 2 women's footprint and a man's, though partially unrecognizable, were clearly stained with water

LAURA: What about the autopsy reports?

LOI JA: The body analysis report has been communicated, there were multiple marks of nail wounds and scratches on the deceased's bodies. It seems that there was a violent struggle between the dead and the murderer!

LAURA: (Interesting) So you mean to say that according to the autopsy report of the deceased son, there was a strangling sign around his neck?

JULIET: Which means he died through suffocation

LOI JA: Right. Also, according to the deceased men, they had some wet moisture on their faces like though water had splashed on them

Loi Ja remembers she had seen a bottle of women perfume under the bed when she squat to pick the half sliced onions. She immediately goes back and picks it

LOI JA: Right! (She raises up the perfume bottle)

JULIET AND LAURA: (Confused) A WOMAN's SPRAY?!

Loi ja opens the perfume and sniffs it. The perfume has a strong and conk perfume smell mixed with some other chemicals. She then passes it to Laura and Juliet

LOI JA: Careful, don't let it spill on you

Laura sniffs it and Loi Ja receives a phone call

LOI JA: Hello

The forensic lab techs tell Loi Ja about the hair brush

LOI JA: Ok thank you. (She hangs then faces Laura) The hair on the hairbrush is a woman's

LAURA: This smells of a woman's perfume Loi Ja. Then the hair being a woman's, I am afraid to say but Juliet may be right on this. A woman might have orchestrated this murder.

Loi ja smiles

LOI JA: (Smiles) That's the point of the murderer, he wants to deviate our attention.

Juliet and Laura are confused

LOI JA: The hair found on the hairbrush is from a deceased woman. Apparently the deceased of whose hair they used had died 8 years ago

JULIET AND LAURA: (Shocked) What?!

LOI JA: Yes (She laughs) The murderer is clever. He used the preserved hair of a deceased woman

LAURA: Loi ja, I know your intuitions have never failed you, but on this, you need to get to the root of this

LOI JA: Yes. (She calls for Manny) Manny?

MANNY: You called me.

LOI JA: Yes (she collects the spray from Laura) Please get this assessed. I want to know if it's indeed perfume or poison

LAURA: Poison?!

Manny nods, collects the spray and leaves

LOI JA: Yes, according to the autopsy, the elder man and tenant faces were wet and slowly decaying due to a substance, so it's obvious the murderer intentionally left this to create distraction. He must have.

LAURA: Suffocation? Spray? Poison? Criminals really have their minds racing beyond Earth! How do they come up with dangerous things?!

LOI JA: Speaking of suffocation (She sighs) Well! Judging from the location of the finger marks, the killer should have been a left handed, right?

LAURA: You are the only one that can answer that

LOI JA: (Calls out for Alma) Alma?!

Alma comes in

LOI JA: Please bring in Miss Amanda again

Amanda enters

LOI JA: Miss Amanda, why did you happen to be at the crime scene at the time of the crime? Actually, this makes us have to have some doubts about you...

AMANDA: (Sobs) Officer, how can a conscientious person like me kill people? Besides, I saw the Tea woman and tenant's girlfriend struggle for their lives. They both ran off. They are the ones you should suspect

Amanda breaks down sobbing.

LOI JA: Please calm down miss, we are only doing our job, we seek evidences. Alma please get her a juice to calm down.

Alma gets Amanda a chilled canned juice, Amanda opens the can with her left hand which makes Laura, and Juliet suspicious of her.

JULIET: (Suspicious) Boss? Didn't you say the murderer is left handed?

LOI JA: Yes I did

JULIET: Amanda just opened the can with her left hand.

Amanda finishes her juice and throws the can on the floor

LAURA: Could this be a coincidence or she did it? Alma. Please lock her up

Alma obliges and takes Amanda away. Loi Ja looks on because she is very sure a man committed the crime. She then bends to take the can Amanda had thrown on the floor AND Juliet questions her

JULIET: (Confused) Ma'am? What are you taking a can for?

LOI JA: Didn't you remind me of saying the killer was left handed?

JULIET: (Confused) Yea

LOI JA: Didn't you point out to us that Amanda opened the can with her left hand?

JULIET: (Confused) Yes ma'am

LOI JA: Great, so this can come in handy according to your points

Juliet knows Loi ja is playing with her and her face drops in shame

LOI JA: Laura ma'am

LAURA: (Answers) Hmmm

LOI JA: We would need to find the tea woman and also the tenant's girlfriend and bring them in for interrogation

LAURA: Consider it done

LOI JA: Also, the deceased phones, all three of their phones.

LAURA: Okay

LOI JA: Which means my work at this scene is done for the day ma'am, I would take your leave.

Laura approves and Loi Ja leaves majestically