So the “neck guy” from the November 5 strip is now the target of the chief’s ire. Another candidate fro Eric’s list of nameless background characters! (Other possible names for the list: the Lieutenant from Homicide, introduced during the LIbris case, sand Tracy’s inspector friend from the Two Foxes construction site, who was in the November 17-19 strips.)
Okay, I’m now going with Fred Jr being the identity of Sprengstoff’s killer, who definitely had his hands around Sprengy’s neck. Now, is he also the person in the clock tower on October 27? And does Fred Sr. know anything about all this?
During the DT 2021 time drone storyline, it was revealed that one such drone appeared in 1943 and recorded Flattop at a train station. So I figure that a Nazi spy was also there and reported the otherwise-unseen drone to his superiors in Berlin. This led to a top-secret German project whose personnel all disappeared in April 1945. This organization has not been heard from again, until now…
Flashback: On 11/15 Fred Jr. goes to a TA facility with both a drunk tank and a few other jail-cells for temporarily holding sober offenders like Sprengstoff, bringing Spider-Ring Guy (SRG) with him, but out of sight. Junior signs in at 10:15 pm, he waits for paperwork while the drunk apologizes. Meanwhile, SRG sneaks in and gets his chance sooner expected: when Sprengstoff goes to use the facilities, SRG sets off a video-jamming device and easily gets by an unobservant officer in order to get in the bathroom, kill Sprengstoff, and come out again.
In the commotion after the dead body is found, Totten quickly leaves with the drunk (not signing the log for deniability of exact time he left), sends the drunk home in a cab, meets SRG in a getaway car. Another unsolved mystery! Except that the log entry sticks out to Lizz and Lt. Nameless…
The log itself is a mess. First, note the dates. Fred Jr. was apparently the only visitor to the police lock-up on November 15 (in fact the only visitor between 11/12 and 11/16), entered at 10:15 (pm?) and did not sign out. (The log book at the museum in the Libris case was also like that, but it was mentioned in that story that members did not always sign in or out. You would except a little more strictness at the police station.)
Another problem is the entry on 11/7. It looks like an old-style physician was in prescription-writing mode! LOL
Now, what in particular stood to the ladies in all this?
Different look + different lastname = alternate universe variant