Part 20: Ep. 14: Skipping The Country

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: Last time on MySims Agents: They say you can't fight City Hall but I think Evelyn was ready to try, pal!


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Back we go to the mayor's office, to confront him about our suspicions. An infuriated Evelyn remains outside.



Skip never changes, does he?



Ew. Anyway. Without further ado, we wake Skip up from his nap.

: Hello, Mayor Rogers. A moment of your time...

: Certainly. What can I do for you, citizen?

: I assume you're aware of the fact that Evelyn Gray's apartment was ransacked.

Skip puts on an appropriately mournful face.

: Yes, a sorry business. To think that could happen in my precious city...



: I wanted to say it so badly, but honestly, I didn't know he was behind it. I had a hunch. A good one, but still, just a hunch.

: I think you know more than you're letting on.

: What? Certainly not. What are you implying?

: I'm implying you met with the burglars in the forest this afternoon.



Having so elegantly called our bluff, Skip dismisses us in favor of reading a book at his desk. Time to think of something else!

: Did Skip discard anything in the forest that could prove he was the man at the meeting?



But before we go, let's beat the crap out of this statue with our crowbar. What's Skip going to do? Protest?



We head out. Back to the forest. Man, I will be glad when we get to break laws somewhere else. On the way to the forest, we run into Buddy.

: Well, Buddy, any thoughts on this case?



: Good advice, Buddy! Let's keep working!

We head into the park and BLEEP BLEEP INCOMING TEXT MESSAGE



If the cat is backing away from the ladder, Travis should use the ladder as a decoy and climb the tree instead. I'm surprised no one else thought of this. I guess that's why I'm the senior agent here. I tell them as much and move on.



Here we are in the forest again. Now, if we're looking for something Skip discarded, it's probably in a garbage can (or Skip is even more of a scofflaw than we imagined). Let's go look around.



: You know, I wonder...



Oh, right, the inhaler! But what... aha.

: I should analyze the inhaler in this trash can.

Sam whips out his cell phone and calls Roxie, back at HQ.

: Roxie, can you analyze this inhaler? See if you can tell who it belongs to, or what allergy it's for.

Sam pushes a few buttons on his phone and scans the inhaler with a weird pink light.



Which we actually can't see very well in this shot. Oh, well. Having scanned the inhaler and sent the information to Roxie, it's time for our next minigame!



In the CSI minigame, we need to build complete molecules using the atoms that we somehow scanned into our phone. Blue atoms can be connected to only one other atom, green atoms need two and only two connections, purple atoms have three, and red ones have four. We have here a starting atom with four open connections and four one-connection blue atoms.



Simple. Sam puts the phone back to his ear, magically not analyzing his own earwax, to hear what Roxie has to say about the inhaler.

: The inhaler is for a very rare allergy to dandelions. Also, based on hair analysis, the last person to use it probably had a beard.

Welp.

: I'll need to get some dandelions to test this allergy theory.

Time to find out if our hunch was right. We need flowers. Who has flowers? Oh, right.

: Do you know where I can get some dandelions?

: Of course! You can find some in my flower stands. Help yourself!

Man, Poppy's flower shop has everything. Even weeds. And while we're here:

: Help me, Dogwood. You're my only hope.

: Grrr...

: Yeah, I'm investigating that right now. Things could get ugly.

: Yip yip! Bark bark!

: No... really? Wow... I had no idea. Well hey, I gotta go. See you around.

And why not?

: Hello, Derek. Mind answering a question?

: Was that the question? Because yeah, I do mind! Bye!

: Helpful as always, Derek. Thanks.

: You're not welcome!

Off we go.





: Now to test these flowers on Skip's nose...

I give up. Sam's an asshole. To prove it, here's Sam bashing Poppy's flower cart with his crowbar.





To City Hall! Again!

: Hey Skip, I got you a flower!









We blow the dandelion seeds right in Skip's face. Skip flails around and then sneezes all over us. Sam is grossed out. We deserved that.



: That proves nothing!





Sam pretty obviously isn't buying that, but once again, we have to be thorough.

: I'll have to confirm your alibi. I'll be back, Skip.

: Skip's inhaler was found at the rendezvous point!



: The first step is to find out exactly when the break-in happened.

Sam is nothing if not methodical. And an asshole. Anyway, what time did the break-in happen? We could ask Skip, since he seems to know. Let's do that! There's nothing wrong with this idea!

: Good afternoon, Skip.

: I'm a little busy right now, Sam. I'll have to talk with you later.

Oh well. We're leaving Skip's office when BINGLEY BINGLEY BEEP



Well, it's about damn time. We've nearly uncovered an entire Morcucorp conspiracy in the time it's taken you to rescue one single cat.


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: Next time on MySims Agents: It's time for Pizza Science 101! And some other things.