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LBMR week: day 4 - Incognito incognito: (of a person) having one’s true identity concealed.
stretched the prompt a bit today - but i was chewing Justin’s involvement in the jigsaw puzzle killers and concealing identities - manipulating evidence… the act of placing the puzzle pieces making him the vessel of the mythos around the jigsaw puzzle killer… plus I just really wanted to draw that goofy humpty dumpty puzzle they were building with the murders
Anyone else think it’s weird that Alfendi admitted to shooting someone and suffered virtually no consequences? No? Just me? Well I need to get this off my chest so I’m going to make a post about it.
Why is Granny Riddleton at Scotland Yard…? Is she checking in on Alfendi and Kat? Is she ensuring that the police can be trusted to help Layton’s kids?
”Hm… This Inspector Hastings Is always rushing around (like Grosky)… He’s very passionate about his job (like Chelmey!)… He can be overbearing but he can‘t abide lawbreaking of any sort (So hopefully we won’t have another Justin Lawson on our hands!)… He can be a little slow (like Barton!)… and he respects his wife, like all the best inspectors. Yes, he can be trusted to work with Katrielle!”
LBMR week: day 6 - wrong choice / shadow and light
with friends like these…
It’s so frustrating and implausible how it’s implied that, before Kat, NO ONE had a clue about how the professor and Lukes’ disappearance.
I have no problem believing that the police failed to investigate the disappearance. From the prequel games to the LMJ time, we see that Scotland Yard is incompetent at best and corrupt at worst. You have some good officers like Inspector Grosky, Inspector Chelmey and Barton (who has become Commissioner by the time of Mystery Room), but even they depended on the professor for help with their cases.
Then you have the bad ones... Detective Bloom (Targent mole), Justin Lawson (helped a serial killer, brainwashed Alfendi) and that Inspector Britannias (I’ve probably spelt his name wrong) who tried to frame Kat.
Scotland Yard was still corrupt during the LMJ time period, and it’s very likely that they sabotaged/forged any evidence linked to Layton and Luke’s disappearance. My main bet is that Justin Lawson was concerned that if Professor Layton returned he would uncover his crimes. Or maybe Justin just wanted to distract Alfendi with the hopeless search for his father.
It’s never confirmed in LMJ, but we can assume that Emmy, Flora, Randall and ESPECIALLY Desmond were investigating behind the scenes. Maybe they would have found Layton and Luke sooner … if only the police had been more helpful.
