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[geniusmage]

A. Outside 1449 Mitchell Road: [An unhealthy amount of scraping and rummaging is being screeched out from the garage of 1449 Mitchell. Rita is inside furiously digging through pile of junk after pile of junk, digging through scraps and trash for... something, apparently. Whatever it is, it has her pretty fired up. She gets so frustrated with the fruitlessness of her search that she ends up kicking a metal bucket out into the street, and with a weary sigh treks out of the garage to retrieve it.

Let's face it, who doesn't enjoy bothering frustrated teenage girls.]

B. Phone: [Here's Rita on the phone, she doesn't sound any more pleased than when she may or may not have been angrily kicking buckets into the streets.]

Hey, I need a favor from one of you idiot boys.

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Sure thing!

[geniusmage]

[Rita barks back at him, obviously more frustrated than usual.]

I'm not doing your housework!

[derp_detective]

Wait, so cleaning out the garage is my chore? I thought it was groceries this week...

But if you're not cleaning, what are doing?

[geniusmage]

[Rita rolls her eyes. How the drones in this town could be convinced she's his daughter is way beyond her.]

There's something important in here, and I need to find it.

[derp_detective]

Oh! Well, what are you looking for then, I'll help you out.

[Gumshoe starts towards one of the shelves to start looking once he knows what to search for.]

[geniusmage]

It's a spool of a very specific kind of twine. I could've sworn I saw it in here a few weeks ago...[She marches back off to rummaging.]

I need it for something I'm working on.

[derp_detective]

Oh, okay. Any specific color? I don't really remember seeing twine around here lately, but I haven't been out here in a bit. Not since I remade that Blue Badger mascot.

Speak of the devil!

[Gumshoe pulls out this thing and wheels it out of the way.]

Oh wait, no, this is the original that I got back from the town a bit ago. If you see the one I tried to make, just carefully move it out of the way, alright? You can tell it's the other one because of the tape recorder taped to it.

[geniusmage]

It was light brown, bronzish, I think. [Rita continues to show complete disregard for anything in here, practically tearing it apart.

But she stops when he takes out the Blue Badger.]

...What.

The hell.

Is that thing?

[derp_detective]

It's the Blue Badger! He's the mascot that the chief of my division came up. I helped make this to put out front of our station even!

And look!

[Gumshoe reaches behind the plywood contraption and flips a switch so that it starts playing music and moving about. Gumshoe just stands there beaming with pride.]