Must Read: Paradox Of Abel - Season 1 - Episode 37

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Must Read: Paradox Of Abel - Season 1 - Episode 37

Lot turned to look at Daniel whose arms were folded across his chest.
“Secrets are being exposed now.” He told the younger man.
“I’m not seeing any exposed secret yet.”
Lot tried to picture Daniel thinking and found it extremely difficult. He had always seen the young man as an incurable idiot but not the kind that attempt to get the temperature of a man’s brain by putting a clinical thermometre into his ear, or the kind that would shoot himself in the foot to observe the effect of the bullet, but nearly so.
“Didn’t you hear the doctor’s words?” The detective asked.
“I heard everything.”
“But you were briefly deaf when he said the deceased was a womanizer, right?”
“I heard it, but I don’t see what significance that carries in this case. No one deserves to die for his fondness of the fair s*x.”
“Your brain is getting blunter each passing year, Famous. The man slept with five nurses in the doctor’s clinic, including the married ones.

What kind of human being does that?”
“And so? There are more grievous crimes than that. Should I begin to list them?”
“You’ve said some pretty dumb things in the past, but this one takes the biscuit! The deceased was cheating on his blind wife; shouldn’t that tell you something?”
“What I believe would tell me something is the content of the note you found on the corpse. Someone intentionally put that note there. We need to know what it contains.”
Detective Lot looked at him for a few seconds and asked, “You really think you’ll understand the content of the note, don’t you?”
“I believe so.”
“Okay,” Lot’s hand disappeared into his bag and came out with a new sheet of paper on which he’d been previously jotting; he gave the paper to Daniel. “That’s what I’ve been able to come up with. What do you make of that?”
Daniel looked in the note. He could see that the detective had done an amazing job. He’d copied the half-revealed texts here as they’d appeared in the original note, and he’d tried to complete each line with presumed completion for each of the lines. He had done this with the first twenty lines, but had left the remaining five uncompleted. Daniel saw that the detective was holding another sheet as the one on his palm. The detective had written it in two copies. He tried to read the note.

I don’t want to ramble too unnecessarily. I feel that
it is at this moment impera tive to inform you that these
may quite be a chance that I shall probably be dead when
you read this note; because I’m beginning to suspect that
my life is somehow being th reatened.
I should have called, really , but I’m afraid the secret
isn’t as hushed as it initially was. Or rather someone, somehow
may linger behind these stult ifying walls to eavesdrop at every
words that come out of my m outh. I have therefore gotten a
new line from which we ca n have our own moments of
privacy; a safe-house well pa rticularly situated out of this
compound and we can freely discuss without fear of having
the walls grow unnecessary ea rs. The phone number, which
you will notice when you see it, will only be available each
day between midday and 2 pm. And if I’m fortunately alive
when you call, I shall be wai ting for you to cite the quote.
I expect that the other partie s concerned are still unaware
of the truth over there. But V — is beginning to suspect
the truth – we have to act fast.
I really hope the plan wor ks out well.
*In the beginning*
There is a tid—
In the affairs—
Which, taken a—
Leads on to f—
Daniel was visibly impressed at the work. He saw that it lacked polish here and there, but it wasn’t bad in the least, really. He read the texts three times. When he raised his head, he asked the particularly obvious question:
“Why the dash in line 18?”
Lot had been expecting him to ask that question, “Look back at the line, what do you see before the dash?”
“The letter V.”
“V in block—capital letter. That spells proper noun. It’s either the name of a person or a place. And honestly, I can’t guess that. But from the drift of that line and the next, I’m assuming it’s somebody’s name.”
“There are names that begin with the letter, names like Victor or Victoria.”
“Or Vivian, Valerie, Vanessa, Veronica, Violet, Virginia or even Vincent. Which one among the household names begins with V?”
“Their middle names may be, we may ask them for their middle names when we begin to question them. The name does not necessarily have to be Foreign, it could be local.”
“I disagree. How many local names that begins with V can you tell me?”
Daniel tried to think and found it extremely hard.
“But we’ll take your suggestion,” Lot added, “We ask them for their middle names.”
“There is something else,” said Daniel, “If what you decode is correct, then the phone number is in the note. But I can’t seem to find any number except 2, and you presumed it only represents a time in the afternoon.”
“Yes, the phone number is in the note.”
“But I’m not seeing it yet.”
“There is, we only need to notice it when we see it—according to line 14. Festina lente, make haste slowly.”
“I have one more question; are you certain that these words you guessed for each line are correct?”
“I’m not certain about all the lines, but most are correctly filled. Now, let’s discuss about the last four lines I’ve not been able to crack.”
“ ‘In the beginning’ “ Daniel quoted, “Whatever does that mean?”
Lot answered him, “You’re asking questions as if you’re the boss here.”
“I’m only asking questions about what I don’t understand. Everything is just so complicated.”
“I believe line 21 shows the start of something, perhaps the origin of the message hidden in the last four lines. You noticed that the particular line is asterisked front and back, right?”
“I see it.”
“We can only get the significance of line 20 after completing the lines after.”
Daniel critically looked at the last four lines, as he looked closely he felt somehow familiar with the incomplete texts. A part of him tried to tell him something of which he was not able to grab.
“There is a tide or something.” Lot said.
“Daniel looked up sharply at his superior, “What did you just say, sir?”
“It’s on the note, line 21.”
He looked at the note, it was not complete but he could now see it clearly as if the burnt part had been joined. On that line was ‘There is a tid’, but there was an absence of just a single letter—e!

Daniel Famous could see everything clearly now. He was so very excited at his discovery, he didn’t request for a pen to write down his discovery, he knew the lines perfectly. He spoke out excitedly:
“It’s a quote! It’s a quote!!”
“How sure are you about that?”
“Because I know it well, I know the quote!”
“Let me hear it,” Lot said, still not believing that Daniel of all people had actually cracked the lines that had been giving him quite a tough time.”
“There is a tide…In the affairs of men…Which, taken at the flood…Leads on to fortune.”
Lot frowned, “Who said that?” he asked.
“It’s from Shakespeare,” replied Famous, “It’s a popular quote, I’m surprised you don’t know it.”
“Which Shakespeare?”
“The quote is from Julius Caesar.”
“That is the only Shakespeare I didn’t read. Julius Caesar said those words?”
“No, Brutus did.”
“What does it mean?”
“It means that there is no time to be wasted anymore. That’s what the writer of the note was trying to tell his recipient. The quote literally means ‘now or never’.”