Case # 27: Video

[19centconstable]

[George is sitting at the table in his room. His helmet is in front of him, and he's scrubbing furiously at the badge mounted on it with a toothbrush. He pauses and peers at the badge through a magnifying glass

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[you_run_i_chase]

Yeah. That's not going to fucking help, Georgie.

[19centconstable]

What isn't?

[you_run_i_chase]

Scrubbing like that.

[19centconstable]

I had to do something; I couldn't just let it stay tarnished. That would be terribly disrespectful to the badge.

[uberwaldian]

[She sighs when she sees the badge-polishing. Of course he is.] What's suspicious about it, George?

[19centconstable]

[It was going all rusty! Like the deck and some of the lesser used doorknobs. And letting your badge go rusty is the sort of thing that gets you disciplined.]

How it might have got out of the tank, for one thing.

[uberwaldian]

[She'd given hers a half-hearted polish, come to the same conclusion as Parker, and decided to let it go until this "Halloween" day came.]

How what got out of the tank? ...the fish?

[19centconstable]

Well. Or the moisture. But you never know...

[thebestnose]

Don't say that. It might.

[19centconstable]

That would be impossible to wear.

[thebestnose]

A lot of things are impossible but they still happen.

[19centconstable]

But what would its roots even live on?!?

[strangehstorian]

You should probably speak to the janitorial or maintenance departments; we wouldn't want that to grow mold.

[19centconstable]

Have we got either of those things?

[strangehstorian]

Yes. I believe Trip is on the Maintenance crew, and last I had heard the Doctor - that's the one in the long scarf with the fluffy hair and the deep voice - was in charge of the janitors.

[19centconstable]

I'll see about contacting them, then. Thank you, miss!