Offering My Services

[on_your_nerves]

My name is Sherlock Holmes. I'm a consulting detective, the only one that was in existence in my world at the time of its (alleged) destruction, working most often with the Scotland Yard on the cases the police were too incompetent to solve on their own.

This post has a three-fold purpose.

1. I would like to be put in contact with whoever is responsible for criminal investigations on the ship, to possibly make arrangements for future consultations.

2. I would like to be put in contact with whoever is responsible for criminal investigations on-planet, during missions, to make similar arrangements.

3. I would like to make it known to the ship proper that I'm available for private cases. Interesting ones only please. If you're in need of assistance, contact me and we'll discuss whether or not your case has potential.

SH

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[night_shift]

I'm Elisa Maza. Before I woke up here, I was a detective in the NYPD.

[And she wasn't overly impressed by the idea of a consulting detective who only took on 'interesting' cases, but they were going to have to work together. Talking to him wouldn't hurt.]

I'm part of the security department. Why don't you tell me what sort of assistance you had in mind?

[on_your_nerves]

I'm to understand the detectives here are possibly more competent than the ones back home, so a great deal depends on how true that is.

To provide an example of the services I rendered to the Yard back on my own world, there was a case where a series of victims had killed themselves by self-administering poison. The victims had no relationships to each other or any connections whatsoever, and were originally thought to be uncannily similar suicides until it became obvious that they were serial murders. Examining a single crime scene of one of the victims allowed me to solve the case for the police when they were unable to solve it on their own.

I would like to provide similar assistance here on the ship. When there are cases that members of the Security Department are unable to solve without aid, or that you need assistance with to solve more quickly, if you'll allow me onto your crime scenes, I can solve them for you.

[night_shift]

If we end up working together, you'll find out just how competent we are. [She hadn't met the detectives that he'd worked with back in his own world, but she felt a certain degree of solidarity towards her fellow officers of the law. Wherever they came from. His attitude wasn't impressing her.]

Impressive. [The 'if it's true' was implied, but left unspoken for now.] So what do you get out of this deal? Would you help with any of our cases or just the 'interesting' ones?

[on_your_nerves]

Just the interesting ones, though if you are as competent as you seem to think, there shouldn't be many cases you need help with that aren't interesting.

[night_shift]

Then maybe you should think about joining the department.

[on_your_nerves]

Boring. There's so much paperwork and policies and procedures. Back home, I was able to leave all that to Lestrade.

I prefer having the freedom to choose my own cases--it means I can turn down the boring ones.

[night_shift]

Even if the people with the 'boring' cases need your help?

[on_your_nerves]

If they need my help and indeed have boring cases, then when I turn them down, they'll have you as a recourse, won't they, detective? If you're remotely proficient at your job, it's hardly as if they'll be out of options entirely.