O Deadly Night

O Deadly Night is a case featured in Criminal Case as the one-hundred thirtieth case of the game. It is the fifteenth case of the game's World Edition (Season 3) and also the third case to take place in Eurasia.

Plot
In Siberia, Lars Douglas was preparing for Christmas when Jack Archer reminded him that The Bureau needed to take care of SOMBRA before getting festive. Chief Ripley recalled that, with Natasha Romanova’s help, Darya Chernova had supplied SOMBRA with launch codes from COSMORUS, but the Bureau had no idea of what the global organization was planning to launch. However, the chief also recalled there being an outpost in Siberia, hence why the team was there. Lars recommended that Jack and the player would go to Lake Baikal to see the lights, so the team went there to start the search.

The team arrived at the lake only to find a body frozen in ice. Jack thought that the body belonged to the legendary Santa Claus; however, Forrest Sugarcrystal, who portrayed a Christmas elf, revealed that the body belonged to Nick Kringle. Forrest also revealed that he and Nick worked in maintenance at COSMORUS. After the team clinched a few leads, Lars called to reveal that he was stuck in Nick’s chimney and the fire was lit. The player, Jack, and Angela Douglas rushed over to the victim’s house and rescue Lars, who was covered in soot. With the forensics expert now safe, he went back to headquarters with Angela while Jack and the player continued their investigation. In the last hours of Christmas Eve, the killer was revealed to be Mossad Agent Asal Hawaa.

Jack was shocked when the player brought Asal in for an arrest due to them being in a relationship. Nevertheless, Jack kept his head in the game when he revealed the evidence he had found against Asal. Jack had had it when Asal called him a jealous boyfriend, and Asal confessed, angrily, that she had killed Nick. However, Asal explained that she was just following Mossad orders, saying that Nick was up to something with dangerous, global repercussions. When Jack pointed out that she got caught by him, Asal explained that her dating him threw her off her game, and she would never have been caught.

In court, Asal explained to Judge Adaku that he had a word with her superiors, which the latter agreed to. Judge Adaku then explained that the court had a “special” relationship with certain agencies, and that he understood that operatives sometimes go beyond the boundaries of the law for the welfare of international security. With that said, the judge granted Asal immunity from the crime. As a result, Jack told Asal that he needed some space away from her.

Marina Romanova offered to help the player figure out why Asal actually killed Nick. As Asal did not reveal the details of the murder, she did tell the player that Nick was suspected of foul play as well as being a CIA, or Central Intelligence Agency, agent, revealing him to be a double agent. Asal explained that she was ordered to neutralize Nick before he could sell CIA intelligence to a third party. She then told Marina and the player to look at Nick’s house for more clues.

Marina and the player found a check that was made to the order of Santa Inc. As they had no clue why Nick would make a company for himself, they sent the check to Elliot Clayton. Elliot revealed that Santa Inc. had nothing to with Christmas; Nick had received payments from Global Flux Ltd. – one of SOMBRA’s aliases - into his account, revealing that Nick was working for SOMBRA. Marina and the player spoke to Forrest, who revealed that he was also an agent for the CIA, but he never knew Nick had betrayed them. Forrest revealed that Nick spent a lot of time at the lake, prompting Marina to head there.

The team found a phone in the snow that revealed a folder called “Darkness Descends”. Elliot revealed that the phone held a satellite hologram. Nick had sent it to someone, but his tracks were covered. Elliot then revealed that the satellite hologram corresponded with the launch codes Darya had stolen from COSMORUS, thus revealing that it was the satellite SOMBRA was planning on launching into space.

Meanwhile, Jack and the player helped Lars prepare for the Bureau’s Christmas party. He asked them to go to bartender Dominika Snegurochka for her famous eggnog. Unfortunately, Dominika was unwilling to give the recipe to them since it was her grandmother’s recipe. She told the team that they would have to find it themselves. Jack found a bowl of creamy liquid, and the player took a sample of the liquid to Lars, who, with the player’s help, confirmed that it was the recipe he was looking for.

Immediately after Lars got the eggnog recipe, Jack requested the player’s help in looking for his Secret Santa present, which he left at Dominika’s bar. The player eventually found the gift from Jack, which was actually revealed to be for them; they received a mug with Jack’s face on it – similar to the mug Jack got Asal.

The Christmas party then went underway at the Bureau’s headquarters. Lars was revealed to be Jack’s Secret Santa, and Jack received a sweater. Angela got her husband a matryoshka doll that resembled the latter. Before Elliot and Jack could get some eggnog, Chief Ripley called everyone over.

The Bureau now knew what SOMBRA was up to, but they had yet to determine where SOMBRA was getting the money for the satellite. Elliot revealed that Global Flux Ltd’s financial transactions had gone back several years; for example, Global Flux pocketed 3 billion rubles from the former Russian president – the same scandal Marina had uncovered as a psychology student. Elliot also managed to trace some of the payments to Mongolia, where a warehouse was being built at, prompting the player to head there.

Victim

 * Nick Kringle (found frozen in a lake)

Murder Weapon

 * Ice Bullet

Killer

 * Asal Hawaa

Killer's Profile

 * The killer drinks mulled wine.
 * The killer ice skates.
 * The killer eats candy canes.
 * The killer wears red glitter.
 * The killer wears a holly pin.

Trivia

 * This case is one of the cases in which the killer has to be interrogated once again during the Additional Investigation.
 * While one task in Darkness Descends required one star to talk to Lars Douglas, he was not accused of any wrongdoing during the murder investigation, and him showing up on the suspect list during Darkness Descends should be considered incidental.