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Emmy studied the results on the tricorder as they came in, a look of puzzlement coming across her face and then thought as she connected the information back to what she had learned from the CMO. Noticing the CNS trying to look over her shoulder, she turned the device around as if to show them the results. “It looks like you were drugged too, Commander,” she observed, simply, indicating the result. “If you have not already done so, you should reconstruct your food consumption and your activities over the last 48 hours so that Lieutenant Rainns can see where you may have received the medication. I assume that you do not regularly take benzodiazepines?” One eyebrow arched upward to emphasize her question.

Davis, CO

(OOC: Ben, hope it is okay if I insert my character’s response to the Captain here? I’ll try to make it flow seamlessly :P )

“I don’t think I’ve every taken benzodiazepines in my life, Captain,” Eric replied, still surprised at the results. “But I did think something was wrong earlier…”

Hilo frowned. Had Holmman just lied about not finding anything in his system? Was he expecting them to not scan him themselves? He stepped forward, motioning to the tricorder Holmman had used to scan himself. “Do you mind if I look at the results of your scan, Commander?” Holmman had offered other theories as to why it might not have found anything… but he did so before he knew that their readings would be different. Hilo truly didn’t want to be suspicious… but he needed to make sure Holmman’s readings said what he claimed they did before he could write it off as external tampering.

(Lt. Cmdr. Hilo, Counselor)

Emmy’s eyes narrowed slightly at Hilo’s actions. He truly seemed to be erring on the side of suspicion when it came to Holmman. She made a mental note to follow up on it later, but she didn’t step in to change his request of the XO.

Davis, CO

“If you think you can see what I did wrong, please, Counselor,” Eric replied. “In fact, I logged the results given the nature of the investigation.”

Eric turned around to the computer terminal. “Computer, display the logged scans of Commander Eric Holmman.” Eric followed up this request by given the stardate from a few minutes before Davis and Hilo arrived at the guest quarters.

While Hilo dealt with the medical scans, Eric turned his attention back to the Captain. “Did you say I was drugged ‘too, Captain? Who else was drugged? In the last 48 hours… I had some water before my shift finished on the bridge yesterday, which is my routine. I had a quick lunch at Nine Forward, reviewing the last set of department evaluations. Breakfast in my quarters. I have to think about before then. I honestly cannot recall what I ate or drank in the 12 hours before I called Sickbay - I can’t recall anything from that time.”

-Cmdr. Eric Holmman, XO

Sure enough, Holmman’s results were different from Davis’. When the tricorder did the comparative blood test something different happened. Holmman’s test showed nothing, the fact that nothing would make him complicit was up to the jury, as it were, to make that decision. What was clear was that something was going on with the equipment that Holmman was using.

GM Wombat

Hilo frowned harder than before, his bushy eyebrows tilting dramatically downwards. “It seems our culprit keeps adding advanced espionage skills to their repertoire.” He looked back over his shoulder at Holmman and Davis. “First the cameras, then the access to sickbay, now the ability to tamper with complicated medical technology. This tricorder has in fact been altered, but for what reason I have no idea. If any other tricorder would confirm that Commander Holmman was drugged, why try to trick him specifically with his own tricorder?” Although it was possible that Holmman had tampered with it himself, of course, it would have been unwise for him to think that any other person with a tricorder wouldn’t check his results with a device of their own. Hilo was certainly entertaining a healthy and reasonable level of suspicion for Holmman, but things weren’t adding up, in a way that made it seem less and less likely that he was responsible. The problem was still that there were currently no other suspects, no other leads, and no motive at all.

(Lt. Cmdr. Hilo, Counselor)

=^= Rainns to Davis, I may have another suspect for you Captain, somebody else’s DNA has been found at the crime scene. However I still recommend Holmman is confined and closely monitored.=^=

Lt. Jg. Joseph Rainns- COS

“Well, I’m glad I’m to hear Lieutenant Rainns hasn’t totally forgotten about me,” Eric said, trying to add some humour into the situation…

“There is a pattern,” Eric said to the others. “Clearly, the changes to the secondary systems were to cover up what led to Ensign Pey’s death and to avoid anyone from paying to much attention. But… the tricorder in these quarters may be the biggest clue. I scanned myself not to long after being confined to the guest quarters. So if the tricorder was modified somehow, it was either by someone who knew I was going to be in these quarters, or who was able to interfere with the tricorder very quickly without me discovering it…”

Eric turned to Davis. “Sorry, Captain, that doesn’t necessarily eliminate me as a suspect - but I do think we need to see if Engineering can identify how the tricorder scans were modified.”

-Cmdr. Eric Holmman, XO