001 | day after zombies

[skyentific]

[A slightly pale and more-than-slightly displeased Ema greets the screen. It looks like she may have had one or two or three narrow escapes from undead.]

This is a really nice way to bring us in here... Oh, it's on already--? [she clears her throat and launches in with barely a preamable.]

I'm Detective Ema Skye... I have a question. So we've pretty much taken care of those... zombie-things now, right? [she ticks off on her fingers:] Also, we heard that animals were the disease vectors, and that something called "holy magic" [she wrinkles her nose at that] can cure them.

That's all well and good...But has anyone done a real forensic investigation? We could trace this back to the source, or at least figure out how it happened... [Her displeasure seems to melt away rather quickly.] It's all part of the power of science!

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[video]

[skyentific]

W-Whaaaat!? Science has everything to do with the law! The law is all about evidence, and forensic science is the study of evidence!

[video]

[acemedium]

Science is science! Law is law! They're too separate thing! And the law is all about finding the truth using evidence, science ain't got nothing to do with it!

What has science done?!

[video]

[skyentific]

You--! Science---!!! That's what SCIENCE is! Finding the truth using evidence, t-that's the definition of science!! There's no evidence without science! There's no law without evidence!

[video]

[acemedium]

Then let's see some evidence of that, if you're so sure!

[video]

[skyentific]

E-Evidence?! Of which part?! To solve a murder case, it comes in really handy to know when the person died, for example, and you need science for that! And for fingerprints! Fingerprints!!! Ballistics! Blood traces!!

[video]

[acemedium]

Science doesn't leave blood traces, victims do!

And anyway, Detective Gumshoe always screws it up anyway! What's so scientific about that?!

[video]

[skyentific]

Oh, really? That makes you sound like you have a lot of experience causing victims to leave blood traces!

Just because Detective Gumshoe messes it up doesn't mean it's not worth doing! Otherwise, you could say the same thing about - well - eating!

[video]

[acemedium]

Just what are you implying?!

... And just what is that supposed to mean!?

[video]

[skyentific]

I'm implying that maybe there's a reason you need a defense lawyer like Mr. Wright!

Simple. Detective Gumshoe messes up everything he touches! It's not because of him that the evidence is messed up. It's because he's not a scientist!

[video]

[acemedium]

I'm his assistant! I help him!

But if he was a scientist he wouldn't be a detective!

[video]

[skyentific]

Oh, really?! One way to help an attorney would be to commit crimes so he could get clients!

You can be both a scientist and a detective, okay?! That's what I am!