Case 106

Case 106: Movie Madness

Celest St. Claire's Notes

Hey,

As I mentioned in my note, I’m sure that my conclusions will match Sullivan’s. That being the case, if you’ve already asked him about these clues, you probably won’t learn anything new here.

If you do choose to use this site, you’ll still need to email Sullivan about the case’s Solution once you’ve figured out where the drug deal will take place.

If you haven’t emailed Sullivan yet, you can visit SleuthKings.com/Case-106 to send him your first email. When you want to tell him what the password is, just include the word Solution in the body of your email.

If you need help making sense out of the Mystery Monday ad once you’ve solved Clues 1-4, you can send Sullivan a message with the word Location in the body of your email.

If you want to see my thoughts on any of the clues in your case file, just click the corresponding button below.

So far, I’ve figured out the pattern to find the first and last letter of each answer word.

The first letter of the answer word is the first consonant of the first word.

The last letter of the answer word is the last letter of the second word.

If you can figure out the pattern for the second and third letters, you should be able to put together whatever word we’re looking for. When you do, the message should say: “Coat must show ????”

Good news! I just cracked the pattern!

The first consonant of the first word becomes the first letter of the answer word.

The first letter of the second word becomes the second letter of the answer word.

The last letter of the first word becomes the third letter of the answer word.

The last letter of the second word becomes the last letter of the answer word.

An example might make it clearer. Here’s the pattern in action for “AWARDS + ASLEEP =”:

The first consonant of “AWARDS” is “W.”

The first letter of “ASLEEP” is “A.”

The last letter of “AWARDS” is “S.”

The last letter of “ASLEEP” is “P.”

So, the word we’ve been looking for is “wasp?” I guess that makes sense, given the gang’s name is “Killer Wasps.” Anyway, that means the full message is “Coat must show wasp.”

I get it – the person this message was actually meant for is supposed to wear a wasp on their coat when they meet their drug supplier so that the person recognizes them. This should help the police know who they’re looking for once Sully gets in touch with them. It also answers one of the questions on the back of the ad Sullivan found, too. Take a look and make sure you write the answer down.

If you need any help making sense out of the ad once you’ve finished working through Clues 1-4, you can always send Sullivan an email. When you do, be sure to include the word Location in the body of your email so he knows what you’re talking about. If you haven’t sent him your first email yet, you can do so at SleuthKings.com/Case-106.

Maybe I’m reading too much into things, but several of the lines on the back start with words that are on the front of the ticket, like “date,” “row,” “seat,” and “price.”

I could be wrong but, somehow, I think the numbers associated with those words on the front are telling us to look at something in the associated lines on the back.

I got it! The numbers beside “date,” “row,” “seat,” and “price” are the key to cracking this. The trick is to find the line on the back that begins with one of those words and use the numbers associated with it to pick out the words that you’re supposed to read for the message in that line.

For example, on the front of the ticket, “date” has “5/2” beside it, which is telling us to look at the 5^th and 2^nd words of the line that begins with “date” on the back. When you do, you get “your contact.”

If you repeat that for each of the other words, the full message is: “Your contact will wear a butterfly.”

Nice! This must be how The Killer Wasps member is supposed to recognize their contact. I’m pretty sure this should help us answer one of the questions on the back of the ad, too. If you haven’t already, I’d recommend taking a look and filling the answer in – I’m positive it will be useful a little later.

Sullivan said he recognized the different segments of the number code on the back of the gift card, right? I’m sure he did – they’re beside random letters on all of the other messages he found throughout the theater. If you can figure out how to arrange the lines correctly, they should spell out some kind of message.

I could be wrong, but I think the message on the front of the gift card that talks about how “rewards points and gift cards now stack” is trying to giving us a hint about what we need to do here.

I finally finished finding all of the numbers. The first one, “058,” is on the ticket marked as Clue 2. “674” is on Clue 4’s employee schedule, “192” is on the movie poster (Clue 1), and “573” is on the ad Sullivan found in the concession stand.

I wasn’t sure if it would work, but I thought about how the gift card says “rewards points and gift cards now stack” and decided to arrange the lines so that they “stack” – one below another. Here’s what it looked like when I did that:

058 H X X E N V I

674 I T M Y X I N

192 D H O X A O X

573 E E N I X L X

If you read the message starting with the left column from top-to-bottom and eliminate the X’s, it says:

“Hide the money in a vioIin.”

I guess that explains how The Killer Wasps plan to exchange a whole lot of money without anyone around them realizing it. I wonder if they’re going to stuff an actual violin full of cash or if they’ll just put it in a violin case. I guess it doesn’t really matter – this should give the police an idea about what to look for either way.

Even better, I think this answers another one of the questions on the back of the ad Sullivan found. I’d recommend making a note of it before you move on to the next clue.

Maybe I’m grasping at straws here, but what really stands out to me is how the writer says that if something doesn’t fit between time and money, then it isn’t worth either. I think they’re trying to tell us what we really need to look at, but I haven’t quite put it together yet.

I just figured out what the writer means about only things between time and money being important! That’s what we’re supposed to look at – the words that come between “time” and “money.”

If you only read the words in the message that come after the word “time” and before “money,” you get:

“Confirm their identity. Say ‘bright kid’ and they will yawn.”

If I understand this correctly, it sounds like the phrase “bright kid” is some kind of code The Killer Wasps member is supposed to use in order to confirm their contact’s identity. I’m pretty sure this also answers another one of the questions on the back of the ad!

Of course, once you’ve figured out where the drug deal is going to happen, you can send Sullivan an email to let him know. When you do, be sure to include the word Solution in the body of your email.

Good Luck!