The Case of 'Swiss' Tony's Thumb and the Lady Mayoress - Turn 4

The three assault teams who discovered the locked doors in the last turn, now take one turn to break the doors down. Luckily, DCI Hawley had remembered to issue sledge hammers to each of the assault teams. During the game, I e-mailed photos to each player, but only photos which showed what their characters could see, if that makes sense? Some of the photos sent were not particularly good photos but were used to show the player what an individual could see.

The assault teams were sent a view of what they could see after they had broken down the doors.

DC 'Babs' Windsor's view.

DCI Frank Hawley's view.

DI Derek Grim's view.

'Swiss' Tony and Mimsie take cover by the western side of the hallway. The Snapcase Hall model was built without any doors, so I had to keep remembering to put bits of black card in for the photos. All internal doors were unlocked but were all closed.

'Swiss' Tony's view down the corridor.

Otis enters the Hall via the unlocked main door.

Inspector Fowler and PC Goody find the main gates unlocked, open them up and move towards the Hall. They observe Otis entering the Hall and conclude that the main door must be unlocked.

In the back garden, Frank 'Snorter' Bough and Jason King confront each other.

Frank ‘Snorter’ Bough moves forward with his ‘nostrils’ at the ready. He can hear the ruck on the east side of the Hall and decides to check out the back garden. At the same time, Jason King emerges from behind the pig-sty cursing the muck that’s getting on his Carnaby Street trousers. They see each other at the same time, both raise their weapons (King with a pistol, Bough with a sawn-off shotgun) and fire. In somewhat of an anti-climax both miss each other!

As ‘Camp’ Freddie bravely battles it out on the east side, PC John Luther and Sergeant ‘Fancy’ Smith rush to join the fight. Well,  Luther does, ‘Fancy’ has had too many doughnuts and arrives short of the fight, gasping for air! Freddie has George Dixon to his front battering him with his truncheon, Sergeant Dawkins has got her ammonia spray out of her handbag and sprayed poor Freddie in the face and to cap it all, Luther has come up behind him and clubbed Freddie on the back of his head with his rifle butt. Freddie has no option but to expire gracefully in front of the door he has so valiantly defended.

To be continued...