Valentine's Gifts/Transcript

Previously, on Criminal Case...

Chief Anna Wilson: , our success in fighting corruption in Bayou City has been noticed up high. As a reward, we've been invited to a most chinese new year!

 Chief Wilson: The valentine's in question is among the greatest society events of the year. , we'd better look the part!

Chinese City lighthouse, 8 o'clock in the evening...

Laura: ! What do you think of my new attire? Isn't it simply fabulous? It's the latest trend from Paris!

Anna: I daresay you would find it rather difficult to drive your MadMobile in such a dress, Laura. It seems highly impractical!

Laura: Nonsense, Wilson! If anything, it's all those layers I usually wear which get in the way!

Laura: Anyhow, I never thought I'd be attending a party in Chinese, ... And much less in a lighthouse!

Chief Wilson: Yes Maybe Countdown of Mr Alastor, an influential gentleman of the highest standing!

Chief Wilson: I am, of course, invited to at least one of these soirées every year.

Chief Wright: There are not one, but six soirées each year! A different crowd is invited to each party, so one never knows quite what to expect!

Chief Wright: But as this is your first time, please ensure that both of you remain on your best behavior. I shouldn't like the Squad's good name to be sullied!

Maddie: Chief Wright, have you ever known me to get up to mischief?

Leaving the party at 6 o'clock in the morning...

(Laura begins to sing while she is drunk.)

Laura: Hey! I’m not giving up today There's nothing getting in my way And if you knock knock me over I will get back up again Oh! If something goes a little wrong Well you can go ahead and bring it on 'Cause if you knock knock me over, I will get back up again

Whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh, get back up again Whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh...ahhhh!

Anna: Laura, you have had rather too much to drink!

Laura: At least... I can... st-still walk! Not like that girl over there...

Laura: Look... She drank so much that she's fallen over! Ha!

Anna: Dear me, ! That girl is not inebriated! Why, I do believe she is dead!

(Laura looks like she is about to puke.)

Laura: Dead?! Bbburrpp... Oh... Oh, dear...

Laura: We need to invist... invegstit... Do the thing!

Anna: You shall do nothing of the sort in your condition, Laura. Now, please, get yourself home safely.

(Anna leaves.)

Laura: , we must recover the body and take a look around the coastline!

Chapter 1
Investigate Valentines Party.

Laura: , this poor girl almost looks like a broken doll!

Laura: She clearly fell from a great height! She must have plunged from the top of the lighthouse, before well

Laura: And how very astute of you, . Her wrists show signs of bruising - this girl did not simply fall from the lighthouse...

Laura: She appears to have been pushed to her death! We have another murder on our hands, !