Must Read: Paradox Of Abel - Season 1 - Episode 38

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Must Read: Paradox Of Abel - Season 1 - Episode 38

“What about the asterisked lined 21? Is it part of the quote?”
“No, it’s not. I suppose that is why that line is asterisked. Now that the final lines are broken, we’ve got to find the significance they have with line 21.”
“What we need to find out is the phone number.”
“There’s no number here, Detective Lot. Maybe the writer forgot to include the phone number when he was writing the message.”
“Contrary to your latest achievement, that is the dumbest word that has escaped from your mouth today, my dear Famous. The number is here in the note, we just need to notice it through linear reasoning. It’s a kind of code that needs to be broken. If the writer and his reader understand each other they just hide some things in their messages, knowing that it was the only other recipient who would be able to break it.”
“You mean Mr. Malik hid a phone number in the note?”
Lot stared at him, “You think the deceased wrote the note?”
“Of course, he’s the one who did it. Who else would have written it?”
“Why do you think so?”
“It’s here in plain sight, you should have seen it, sir. You cracked most of it.”

“Humour me,” said Lot.
“The first five lines show that the writer was visibly afraid for his life – ‘I shall probably be dead when you read this note’ – and he was murdered before his reader got the note.”
“Is that what you think?”
“Isn’t that what it is?”
“I’m afraid yes, it isn’t. That note was not written by Mr. Jamal Malik, it was sent to him.”
“How did you come about that, sir?”
Lot shifted his bulk in his seat, “This is what I believe: the deceased and the writer were involved in a secret plan (see line 20) but they were very much afraid of having someone among the family members find out about their plans (see lines 19 and 18), this made the writer of the note get a new line so that both could talk freely. But unfortunately for Jamal, the plan was discovered by a member of the household; and he was murdered before he could contact his partner. The other party’s life is currently in danger, we’ve got to find out the writer of the note and contact him. If we’re able to do that, we may probably know the identity of the murderer of Jamal Malik.”
“I don’t know how we’ll possibly go about doing that. There is no phone number here. I am not seeing any.”

The doctor studied the note for five minutes. There was silence in the room, Daniel was also trying to find the number but he was not succeeding.
“I believe the phone number lies in the quote.” Lot said.
“I would like to understand the reasoning behind this belief.”
Lot stared at Daniel again.
“What?” Daniel asked, evidently uncomfortable with the stare.
“You just made a grammatical blunder, Famous.”
“How?”
“The verbs ‘like’, ‘prefer’, ‘care’, ‘be glad’, ‘be inclined’, etc., are very common in first-person conditional statements. In these, ‘should’, not ‘would’, is the correct form of the English idiom. The phrase should rather be ‘I should like to know’.”
“Okay, thanks.”
Lot concentrated on the note and said, “The quote is rather a misnomer to the rest of the note; a space was particularly left between line 20 and 21, that should tell you something.”
“It’s telling me nothing, sir.”
“Why would the writer put the quote in the first place?”
“To warn his recipient, sir, about the danger inherent in the refusal to carry out the plan as speedily as possible.”
“No,” Lot disagreed, “I don’t think that’s the only reason why he’d go to such length to give such a straightforward message. There’s one thing the writer would not want a third party to know, and that is the phone number.

You should wrap your brain around that.”
“If you think so, then ‘In the beginning’ here is where we should begin looking, right?”
Lot did not answer, a torrent of thoughts poured from his brow as he kept staring at the note. Then his face beamed up suddenly and he grabbed a pen with which he began scribbling on a paper. Within a minute, he spoke out, well pleased with himself.
“I think I’ve got the number.” Lot pushed what he’d written down towards Daniel.
On the paper was a phone number:
0804152

To Be Continued….