Case 2 walkthrough: The Heist
A bank robbery, a suspect with an answer for everything, and 61.1% of Case 1 finishers getting through it. He is more careful than Marcus was. He is also the first suspect who loses the case by talking.
Case 002 walkthrough
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The Heist, start to finish — the run the timeline on this page is read from.
A full run at The Heist. The stretch worth listening to is the middle — he changes his account three times without the interrogator producing a single new piece of evidence.
The timeline he cannot keep straight
This is the case. He does not tell one lie you can catch — he tells four versions of one night, and each revision is made to rescue the version before it. Read down the rail: the left column is what he says, the right is what it costs him.
“I was driving to my friend's house just a few blocks away when I saw the robbery on the news later.”
Holds — Out of the house, near the scene, but with an innocent errand.
“And I was home by midnight, asleep by one.”
Holds — Closes the night off. Nothing can have happened after midnight.
Costs him — He is now in two places: driving to a friend, and home asleep. Neither has a time attached yet.
“I must have misspoken. I woke up in my home, not my friend's — but I did talk to my friend on the phone that night. I caught him around 10 p.m.”
Holds — Rescues the friend by demoting the visit to a phone call.
Costs him — The friend has gone from a destination to a phone call, and a specific time has appeared: 10 p.m. Specifics are what you want — they can fail to line up.
“I must have gotten my days mixed up, that's all.”
Holds — Nothing. This is the position you take when the previous three cannot all be true.
Costs him — He is no longer defending the night. He is defending his memory of it — which is the last thing left to defend.
How to spend the ten
Four phases rather than ten separate moves, because on this case the questions only work in sequence — each one needs the answer the last one produced.
Let him narrate the night
Do not lead. Ask what he did that evening and let the account run. He will place himself driving to a friend's house and then home before midnight, and he will do it without being pushed. Both of those are now on the record and neither has a time attached yet.
Watch for — The moment he volunteers an explanation for something you have not raised.
Attach times to the parts he gave you
When did he leave. When did he get in. When was the phone call. He answers around 10 p.m. for the call — a real number, in a story that until now had none. That number is the hinge for everything after it.
Watch for — A specific replacing a vague one. Specifics are the only thing that can be shown to be wrong.
Put the friend and the night side by side
He has told you he drove to his friend's, and he has told you he woke up at home. Ask which. He revises to a phone call — the visit is dropped, the friend survives, and the account has now moved without you producing any evidence at all.
Watch for — That he corrects himself rather than defending the original version.
Close on the money, not the mask
The rent is where he is weakest, because he has already defended it unprompted. Read his own words back — that the rent being paid the next day was not a motive — and ask why he was thinking about motive at all. The confession comes out of the money, not the robbery.
Watch for — The switch from defending the night to defending his memory of the night.
The sentence the case turns on
He raises the rent payment himself — "my rent getting paid the next day wasn't a motive" — before the interrogator has accused him of anything.
Every line he has been recorded giving, grouped by what he is protecting, is on Case 2 answers. If his replies stop changing no matter what you type, that is a loop, not a wall.