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You don't need an apostrophe for marking plural. "The king wants two pizzas". You use it to mark property: "The pizza's taste was to the king's liking." Or you use it to mark where something is cut when pronounced: "I'm fond of pizza." You also use it when talking about someone's house or shop: "Another king cameover to the king's". And you use it to mark property when the nomen ends with an s (or a similar sound): "Both kings' pizza were delicious."

If the perp wants to harm the production, likely targets could be the star(s), the producer, the director or the writer. And we don't know any of them...

This could be done like a impossible problem requiring lateral thinking. If you change the problem into

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being virtually impossible with different coloured balls, then you could make the solution manipulating the balls, e.g. painting them all the same colour.

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Could be this was your idea all along. 

[Kerry]

"In the middle of this all" could refer to the literal center of the map, i.e., Kerry.

It also seems that if we join Weepy Grove, Ender's Copse, Sarsdale, Armstrong/Aldrin Walk and back to Weepy Grove, Kerry also falls kind of in the middle of the resulting shape?

Might be worth a try, but I'm scared of calling it a potential solution. Anybody else think we should send someone to Kerry? (We've checked it before and there was nothing then, but maybe there is now.)


Edit: is there some way we could look into who else in town might have been contacted by this studio / casting agent? If more people auditioned for the movie, those are probably the other potential victims.

Edit 2: the "middle of this all" could maybe also be Cunningham Centre? And when he says "will you rise to the challenge or will you fall" -> Sallynoggin Heights? Too many possibilities make sense!

All your suggestions make sense to me. And here are some more:

I don't think there are any more kidnappings, at least. We would have been told from the suspect. But we don't really know which locations we should count, if we are looking for a shape/pattern. If we only take the three spots where we have found victims into account, "the middle" of that triangle (the Aldrin/Armstrong Walks - Ender's Copse - Weepy Grove) would be somewhere north of Torrent's Crescent. I don't know if "rising" or "falling" can be used about torrents or the moon - I'll leave that to the squad members with English as first language. But a crescendo is clearly "rising".

Then again, the "zig and zag" may point at something else than the central point.

While we wait for the tech guys to clear up the audio in the broadcast message, so that we may decipher the last lines, all while consuming all the donuts I just bought them, we have to work more on the victimology. It would seem that the upcoming remake is a likely target for our villain. We need to connect all the previous victims to this production. Perhaps Garret Hawthorne has been approached about writing a script? Or maybe Deborah Hawthorne has an opening for doing make up at the set? It is likely that Rachel has also been at an audition. We need to ask them more about the production and make them realize how important it is that they tell us what they know. They're helping noone by keeping quiet. Chief, may we approach the families again? And can you please ask the IT squad to hurry up...I have to ask for an advance soon just to pay for all the donuts.

Didn't Alex remember anything more about his audition scene?

The most prominent priest in SK's works has got to be Father Callahan from 'Salem's Lot and The Dark Tower Series. But there are priests in most small town setups.

Can we connect the other victims to this production in any way?

Great work, team! But there has to be something on tumblr, too...

There was nothing else on tumblr, just the same audio message.

Oh, i didn't realize you had found something there as well. I guess that part of the mystery is solved, then. 

Funnily enough, there's a https://www.facebook.com/reyals.gnik on Facebook, but nothing to do with our suspect.

IRL a Firestarter remake is in the works. I don't know if that's real in this continuity, but can we check out if it is? And maybe that agent is trying to land good parts for Rachel and the others? Chief, is that possible?

A remake could be something that upsets this fan. What else could it be? Someone's criticisim of SK's writing?

The hanging I remember from SK's books must be from 'Salem's Lot, where

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the house the vampire lives in is haunted because the previous owner hanged himself.

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Great work, team! But there has to be something on tumblr, too...

There are loads of hits on "Savio(u)r King", naturally, but it looks religious and I don't really want to sift through it all. I guess that is not it. The opposite of KS could be SK in some way (Saskatchewan? Stanley Kubrick?) or it could be the opposite of what KS means without starting with those letters.

I noticed that Jack/The Chief used the phrase "up, down and backwards" for the second time now. This could be a clue or a coincidence.

Chief, do we have anything on Alex's parents? I wonder why they act so hostile to the authorities.

And on another thought here, I'd like to ask sargeant Pangborn if there's any personal connection between him or his squad and any of the victims. (This is to rule out whether the police are the final target.)

Thirdly, I'd like to know from that agent what projects he has coming up...if he has something lined up for Rachel, I'd like to know if it is important or not.

"Hi hoe, my toe",

"MORE TASTE"? Spice? Savour? Saviour? King's saviour?

Sorry, Chief! I'm losing sleep over this case. I'm even eating lettuce again! I'll try to not mix up the names...we don't need any more codes coming from our own! *reaches for donut*

But to think more out loud...could these kids have some secret project? Online, perhaps? Remaking some Stephen King movie? Has the agent only actors as clients, or is he representing writers as well?

And what causes Alex' family to not trust the police? Do they have some history? Hmmmm...

King's guard? I'm not into these sites, so I'll leave the searching for you guys while I handle donuts and drink this excellent Danish coffee.

Meanwhile, we still don't know the connection between the victims. Perhaps Deborah's agent is the missing link? Could we see if Alex has gone to any auditions Deborah has gone to? Or if they're both represented by the same agent?

That was a good read. Thanks for recommending it! 

[King Substitute(s)]

That's about all I have to say at the moment... Oh, I imagine you're wondering why I signed the letter, "KS." Well those are not my initials, of course. They stand for those who would destroy a God, those who kill the reigning leader, those who use opportunity to usurp the big man's seat. I will not stand by and allow them to do it any more.

I still think this points in the direction that "KS" means "King slayer(s)". But it doesn't sound like the chief agrees. 

If it's not King Slayer(s), then it has to be something like King Supplanter(s) or, probably more likely, King Substitute(s).

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How about we let the IT-guys search for the usernames we have suggested here: King Slayer, King Supplanter(s) or King Substitute(s)?
I'll provide the donuts if they provide the processing power. *belch* Sorry, I accidentally ate a leaf of lettuce this morning. 

"The audio that causes rain"...isn't there something called Cloud Audio? Or Soundcloud?

The only other thing I can think of is thunder, but while that signals rain, it doesn't really make it.

Good eyes, Kastchey! This is a book I've read in translation, so I didn't pick up on it - in fact I thought it was "cockadoodle". There are plenty of descriptions that points in the direction of the suspect being female, or at least not rules that out. Jack uses "their" instead of his/her, and we know Leland thought the perp was below average height. If Leland assumed it was a male, this may fit.

Another silly association:
The audio that causes rain - torrent
Someone who somersaults - tumblr
A bird that chirps - twitter


I noticed that "FOR REAL" was in capital letters. Perhaps we have to look beyond the map and find a location in the real world?

While I doubt it's a good lead, I'll post it just to make good on that everyone should post their thoughts: "The audio that causes rain" made me think of The Rainmakers, a band Stephen King is a fan of and quotes in two novels, according to Wikipedia.

Has anyone ruled out any hidden messages in the letters in similar colours? I think we only need to solve the last three lines, but I don't put it beyond Jack to have hidden some more clues in there. The writing is exceptionally good!