AWKWARD ZOMBIE

"What are you bothering to even try to prove?" Whitney was starting to look fed up--and tired. "This has nothing to do with the case. I didn't kill Cranston and I didn't break into Punchy's house last night."

"Then who did? Not one person has presented evidence this entire case!"

"Alright, alright, alright, theorizing time: if Whitney was drugged, she would surely remember ingesting something. If she doesn't remember ingesting something, that means that you weren't drugged. This line of reasoning would lead to the assumption that Whitney is lying about being drugged. Still, she needed medicine to fabricate the lie successfully. In order to acquire this medicine, she wouldn't go buy it at the store, for the shopkeepers would remember who bought medicine, so she would need to steal it from someone else. However, I do not know how she would go about stealing it from Punchy. Does anyone have any evidence that could elaborate on this or contradict it?"

"Her lockpicks....."

"Whitney managed to retrieve Diana's toolkit, which contained lockpicks. And I personally witnessed her use them on Punchy's door to get into his house, so we know that they are capable of doing that."

"<Good>! So, if she used Diana's lockpicks to get into Punchy's house, how could she get into his closet?"

"Yes, the lack of evidence seems like someone's covered their tracks fairly thoroughly, doesn't it?"

"No matter, the truth always comes out in the end."

"If Punchy drank his medicine, he would have passed out. I'd imagine that Whitney would have no problem taking the medicine from his closet directly in that case."

"Indeed, and it would have been quite possible for the culprit to wait for someone, Punchy, to leave the store with medicine in tow, then follow them to their home. The culprit could then spy on Punchy to see if he used the medicine."

YOU'VE GOT THAT WRONG!

"And this is where I have to disagree, rookie."

"Remember, Whitney was with me and Cranston all day yesterday. She wouldn't have had an opportunity to witness Punchy buy the medicine, or spy on him."

"It seems more likely that if she wanted to take the medicine, it would have had to be done once she was alone that day....or rather, night."

"I suspect that she witnessed a certain raccoon delivering medicine to Punchy, and saw her opportunity."

"If Nook indeed delivered the medicine at night, we have a case."

"Hold it. I think we're all ignoring the elephant in the room here... Why did Nook give Punchy extra medicine?"

"Ah, but no one witnessed me putting the medicine in the closet."

"Well, except maybe Porter... but I think that bastard was asleep at the time."

"As for why I put extra medicine in there? Well, why not?"

"It's more amusing when there's an enigma in the equation."

Isabelle seems deep in thought about something.

"Nook, you said something interesting just now..."

"That tends to happen. I'm an interesting raccoon after all."

"I think it's time we give another scenario, to clean up the details... Forgive me Whitney, but this needs to be done..."



Scenario 3

"Whitney set out with the intention to kill Cranston. She approached his door and he let her in willingly, since it was soon after nighttime. She took out her shovel and began to attack him, chasing him around the room and swinging wildly.

In the chase, many of Cranston's feathers fell out in the shock, as only white feathers were found at the scene of the crime.

Finally, she caught Cranston in the throat with her shovel, and he died shortly after that, but not before taking her keys and ID and hiding them under himself.

Whitney then looked around the enitre house for the map, and took it with her, along with Cranston's keys, hoping to clean up later. For added effect, she stabbed his body multiple times with the shovel and beat up the walls and furniture with the same murder weapon, hoping it wouldn't link back to her.

But, she knew she needed an alibi. She needed a way to hide her guilt. At this point, she planned to fake passing out in order to get the blame off of her, including accusing someone of drugging her.

In the end, regardless of how she accomplished that feat, she did not manage to hide the evidence against her, as the shovel was still bloodied up, and the scene of the crime was still left a mess.

How else would she have overlooked the fact that Cranston took her keys and ID?"

"This is your chance Whitney... take it. I can only get you so far on my own."

You've got that wrong!

"...But...if Whitney did k-kill him, shouldn't she have left some sort of trail, doroing? There would've been pawprints, or fur, or, something, especially if she didn't bother to clean up..."

"Whitney wouldn't be so stupid as to leave incriminating evidence like that behind...."

"But she seems to be a likely suspect for stealing Punchy's medicine."

"What if the two incidents aren't related?"