Horace Foster

Horace Foster (1954-2014) was one of the suspects during the murder investigation of a teen soap sensation named Jenny Galguera in Once Upon a Crime (Case #88, or Case #32 of Pacific Bay). In the following case, he was slain.

Profile
Horace was a 60-year-old producer who produced a significant amount of movies throughout his career in Ivywood. He wore an access badge on his left suspender, and was known to have read The Glass Princess in some point of his life. Furthermore, Horace showed dependency of anti-depressants, and used anti-aging cream.

Role in Case(s)
Horace found himself in trouble for the first time after Frank Knight and the player found a promotional alarm clock (pieced back together by the player) containing a final warning directed towards Jenny--if she was late again, she would be fired from the role. Frank had to go through the trouble of texting Hannah Choi from his Pearphone (the game's iPhone clone) to pinpoint Horace's whereabouts albeit Frank had no qualms in using a Pearphone as opposed to a Pearpad. Frank was diligent to label Horace a suspect given that he was the producer of The Glass Princess.

Horace told Frank and the player that he can't spend wanton amount of time cooperating with the police, but Frank wanted to know as to why Horace wrote a final warning on a promotional alarm clock. Horace confirmed that Jenny was always late to work, given that he was a movie producer about 40 years prior to this discussion but labeled Jenny as a spoiled brat due to her habitual tardiness.

Horace would be approached by the team again after the player found a promotional camera in the toy shelves of the Mr. Sparkles toy shop in which a photo of an argument between him and Jenny was extracted by Hannah. Hannah deduced that Jenny was upset about something in the picture during a discussion with the movie producer, prompting Frank and the player to talk to Horace.

Horace told Frank and the player that he gave Jenny a monetary offer to star in a live sequel to The Glass Princess but admittedly was depressed about Jenny refusing an offer in cash. Jenny hated Horace for some reason in spite of Horace thinking the victim was expendable for an unknown reason. The reasons for such mutual hatred would not be known.

Horace would be innocent due to an inferiority complex being the cause of the murder, but he needed help for some reason with Russell Crane accompanying the player, in which the profiler hoped that he would redeem himself for two mistakes. Someone stole a script Horace needed for his next project but Russell wanted to know where the robbery occurred. Horace pleaded with the player to return to the Mr. Sparkles Art Studio, but Russell told the player in order for people to leave the studio, people would have to exit from the movie set.

Russell and the player found a script for The Ornery Die Last in the movie set, but Russell found it odd that a thief would steal the script and rip it to pieces, so the player forensically dusted the script in which there were fingerprints evident on them, so it was up to Hannah to determine who the thief was. Hannah went for the kill by telling Russell and the player that Gaston Dumas was the one who stole the script and ripped it to pieces prompting Russell to talk to Gaston.

After Russell and the player chastised a brainwashed Gaston for stealing and destroying the script, the player gave the script back to Horace in which the producer was thankful of. Russell told Horace that Gaston was the thief but was brainwashed in which Horace found it strange to which the producer found it a first. Horace made it clear that his next movie would be promising and thanked the player for catching Gaston for theft and giving him his script back.

Murder Details
Horace was found dismembered to death at an undisclosed studio.

Case Appearances

 * Once Upon a Crime (Case #88, or Case #32 of Pacific Bay)
 * Case #89, or Case #33 of Pacific Bay