MINI EVENT TWO.
muses involved: burns, freddie, emmett.
freddie can’t help but feeling a sense of foreboding when he and emmett meet up with burns, who carries with him the proper paperwork. freddie accepts this gratefully, albeit at arm’s length. any and all proof they’re conducting this investigation legally will be with freddie for safekeeping and his own peace of mind.
they’re granted access to the security camera footage with little to no protest from the staff. all three men crowd the small screen, tension tangible in the air. even now, when there’s so much at stake, freddie can’t bear to be so close to burns after what he knows -- shifting uneasily, he brushes a hand over emmett’s shoulder, sidestepping closer to his partner and, thus, easing a small gap between himself and the lieutenant. here, he can breathe, focussing on the footage.
at 3:00am, alice dubois leaves the club through the front entrance, hunched at the shoulders, head in her hands. she has a short conversation with the bouncer (”sonny merriweather,” freddie informs, having gotten his name from the management), and turns to walk towards the alleyway leading to the cab station. she is not seen again on the tape.
the alleyway lacks cctv, which midnight tease are working to rectify after this incident, but the back exit does not. at 3:10am, caleb todd opens the back door of the club and walks into the alleyway, searching for something -- alice, presumably. after that, barely anything of interest: two people leave for a cigarette, a group of three girls enter the club from the back entrance, two in the front and one hanging back, probably looking to avoid the entry fee and id checks.
the three men come away having learned this: alice dubois left through the front door of the club, walking through the alleyway after being told to catch a cab. caleb todd leaves through the back exit around ten minutes later, entering the alleyway. he never leaves. thanks to the concealed nature of the alley, the patrons of the club fail to notice anything out of the ordinary.
there’s still no proof that alice is guilty. freddie and emmett can’t be sure that alice dubois is a murderer -- but they’re starting to suspect that lieutenant robert burns is.