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“We have no case Chief”

“No case Detective?”

“Nothing at all sir. The CynthiaAI has been tampered with, it’s gone batshit mad; started calling itself Sin the AI like something out of a bad sci-fi novel. All of the testimonies must be considered potentially tampered with and are therefore inadmissible. Maston, Amerie and Delgardo have all perished since we spoke to them. There is no recalling the witnesses”

“We have to drop the whole case for a fucking AI hack. Not the first time that’s happened to us I suppose.”

“There was no real case sir; no leads we could follow up. We still believe that Cloneseed is backed or infiltrated by foreign agents but the suits in the boardroom almost certainly don’t know anything about it. I don’t believe we would get anything from them even if we could question them, which we certainly cannot; they are far too rich and far too well connected.

“The contaminated DNA? That Lee story sounds like utter fabrication to me.”

“Again there’s a few religious groups we like for it, a few foreign secret services too but nothing we can take to the DA; no one had that tech at that time but now everyone has it. It would be impossible to prove who had what all those years ago. The whole thing could just have been a combination of greed and bad luck. The only one who could probably tell you is Lee or Ly or maybe Lea, assuming they are the same person.”

“An assumption you make?”

“No, but I wouldn’t dismiss the possibility sir. If we’ve been played then we’ve been played impossibly well and I don’t think we’ll learn much new from here on unless someone walks through that door and gives it to us wrapped up in a pretty little ribbon.”

“Then shut it the fuck down. We’ll have to bury the expense in the Penski investigation. We can’t be found out to have gone after Cloneseed and failed; they’d have us up against the wall before lunch. Probably a good thing the AI has gone mad. Have all records of this investigation purged; push for Cynthia’s deletion if you can. Sin the AI indeed, if a writer came up with that I’d have them shot.”

“I’ll get on it immediately Chief.”