June 29, 2013
The Manipulator's Trail

We caught a lucky break this week on the case involving the puppet master. Actually if I can I'd like to move away from that name even though it's the one that immediately springs to mind. To a certain degree this person is pulling the strings of others as if they were puppets, but that is a terrible image to present of people in general, that they are shells to be flopped about. Maybe it's just semantics. I think from here on out I'll call him or her a manipulator. I think it has all of the right connotations and conveys the abhorrence deserved. Any way, we got back on the trail of the manipulator and it was likely due to it being a trap set up for us. We weren't going to let that get us down. Or fall into it.

After conversing with the rest of the team, and pondering what Tommy Dearing said, I decided on a different approach this time. We watched the targets for a while. It was a man and a woman just like before. This time we followed the two of them. They went in a hotel room they must have been booked into. Later by surreptitious means I saw the woman give the man the gun before she left on her own. I took the opportunity to put some of my attention on the gun. I used that to keep tabs on the man when we went out again in the late afternoon.

I tracked the man to a graveyard. He spent a number of minutes at a particular grave. When I snuck closer for a look see I saw him talking to someone. He didn't appear to have a phone out, or a Bluetooth set on. I didn't dare get close enough to listen. If he was talking to himself he was rather animated. At one point he almost seemed to be at odds with what was apparently a second silent side to a conversation. None of us know what to make of it. We will continue to watch the both of them. If the man returns to the grave I'll be sure to have Sarah close by to get a read of his emotional states.

Tags: Domine, empathy (psychic), graveyard, mental domination, Sarah Jayne, split focus, surveillance, team, Tommy Dearing, OSIR, victim.