CASE #64Justice KillerStill Week FiveThe police chief looks over the map put together by Officer Jack Putter, leaps up and slams his fist down right in the middle of it, spilling his open bottle of Tums all over the floor!
"GOD-DAMN! THAT'S SOME POLICE-WORK IF EVER I'VE SEEN IT!!!",
he yells, more animated and healthy-looking than he has seemed for weeks.
He starts pointing every which-way and barking out orders to the point where he almost seems to have three or four hands at any one time.
Units head out, sirens flashing and lights screaming, to both the Queens Museum and the Museum Of The Moving Image.
During the Queens Museum sweep a time-bomb is discovered inside the base of a new sculpture scheduled to be unveiled in a few days by the Governor who, in their past, had fallen under accusation of receiving campaign money in return for rigging certain court trials involving organized-crime figures.
It is safely isolated and defused by the Bomb Squad. It was set to go off at the exact moment of the sculpture's unveiling.
As the other unit enters the Museum Of The Moving Image, the leader, Officer Jack Putter, notices that a showing of the movie "Twelve Angry Men" is scheduled for today in one of the museum's viewing rooms. The guest-list are all figures connected with the court system.
Jack signals to the team to approach the viewing room stealthily.
The door to the viewing room's projection booth shows signs of having been broken open with a crowbar.
Jack slowly pushes the door open an extra inch and peers through the gap.
He sees a hooded figure mounting a film-reel boldly marked "TWELVE ANGRY MEN / INGLORIOUS BASTERDS: GIANT FACE SCENE SPLICE" onto the projector.
Jack pushes the door open a little more and sneaks through into the projection booth.
It is now that he notices the large pile of old film reels piled up between himself and the hooded figure in a kind of barrier between them.
Officer Jack Putter pulls his service pistol from its holster and yells "POLICE! DOWN ON THE FLOOR! SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!".
The hooded figure complies, dropping to their knees, and then going prone, face-down on the floor.
The figure's hands come up. In one of them is a lit Zippo lighter. The hand throws the lighter onto the barrier of old film reels which instantly explodes into a fury of flames and shooting balls of white-hot fire.
Jack tells the team behind him to fall back, pull the museum's fire alarm, and start an evacuation. He tries to find some way to the prone figure but there is no path around the conflagration.
He hears only the sound of cackling laughter, and the words "GUILTY AS CHARGED", from behind the fire before the screaming begins.
Two hours later, the fire has been brought under control. Massive damage was caused to the viewing room and its projection booth but no lives were lost.
Except, that is, for the life of the hooded figure, whose body has been reduced to mere ash and bones by the intensity of the fire.
The attempts to identify the body of Justice Killer are still underway.
Officer Jack Putter is invited by the FBI to enter their Special Agent training program. It is up to him to decide if he will do so, or remain with the NYPD.
What say you, Jack Putter?
