When Shadows Fall



When Shadows Fall is a case featured in Criminal Case as the one-hundred twentieth case of the game. It is the fifth case of the game's World Edition (Season 3) and also the fifth case to take place in Europe.

Plot
Chief Ripley told the player that Brother Klaus Weissmann had arrived in Italy due to a change of Pope. She explained that the current Pope was ill and that Father Pietro Agnelli was considered as a favorite to replace the Pope. As Chief Ripley was afraid the Promethian cult had connections throughout Europe, she sent the player and Carmen Martinez to the piazza, where the future pope was last seen, with the hope that Agnelli had no connections with the cult.

Unfortunately, the team arrived only to find Father Agnelli dead with the Promethian symbol branded on his chest. After sending the body to Angela Douglas, the team was confronted with stories about the victim from various suspects, ranging from a rags-to-riches story to the future pope wanting to abandon his cause against the unification of Europe when sworn in. After tedious hours of investigating, all of the evidence pointed to none other than Brother Klaus Weissmann.

Klaus had initially rebutted against the player’s accusations, saying that Father Agnelli had changed his life. However, Carmen questioned the monk if taking off his Promethian necklace was not enough to discriminate him as the future Pope’s killer, and she listed the pieces of evidence the player had gathered throughout the investigation. As a Promethian, Klaus claimed that the cult disagreed with Agnelli become the next pope and thus became an obstacle in their path. Klaus had rather preferred Cardinal Salieri to succeed the ailing Pope as he had suited the cult’s needs much more than Agnelli would have, and he claimed that the Cardinal was a friend needed in the Vatican. Carmen had enough, and thus she sent Klaus to trial.

Judge Nigel Adaku wanted more information as to why the Promethians had preferred Salieri as the next Pope and promised Klaus that his sentence would be more lenient if the latter cooperated. Klaus refused to talk about the cult’s master plan, and thus the court sentenced him to 25 years in prison.

Just when Chief Ripley and Carmen agreed that Klaus was also the one responsible for blackmailing Johan Schnee and Enid Grimshaw to commit their respected murders, Jacqueline Proust called the detective saying she had “become a member” of the Promethian cult. With the feeling that something was going to happen in Spain, Jacqueline told Carmen to talk to Klaus about the cult’s plan. Unfortunately, the team could not get anything out of Klaus as he had set himself on fire, saying that the plan had ended where it started.

On the other hand, Marina Romanova was able to get more information out of the footage of Klaus’s prison cell based on his hand motions and his stress levels, and she offered to head to the Vatican while Carmen would head to the piazza. After Marina and the player found and uncovered sketches in a notebook, Elliot Clayton revealed that they were of famous European monuments: the Eiffel Tower, the Tower of Pisa, and the Sagrada Familia, to name a few. Elliot then recommended the team to talk to Cardinal Salieri, whose fingerprints were all over the notebook. He revealed to Marina that the notebook was indeed Klaus’s and that he wanted to visit all the monuments as he could before being sent to prison. However, Klaus mentioned nothing about the Promethians being involved.

After Marina and Carmen, who had discovered that the Promethians were planning on testing a bomb prototype in Venice in order to scare people away from the referendum rallies, united back at the Bureau’s headquarters, the two agreed that the cult wanted to scare people by placing bombs around famous monuments so that the United States of Europe would be voted into existence. After calling Jacqueline back, the author shockingly explained to the team that there was a detonator somewhere in Spain, hence why the cult went to regroup there. Chief Ripley ordered the player to travel to Spain in order to find Jacqueline and the detonator before it was too late.



Victim

 * Pietro Agnelli (found branded to death)

Murder Weapon

 * Branding Iron

Killer

 * Brother Klaus

Suspects


Killer's Profile

 * The killer drinks cappuccino
 * The killer rides a scooter
 * The killer knows Dante's Inferno.
 * The killer has gold leaf.
 * The killer has white hair.

Crime Scenes


Steps


Trivia

 * While one tasks in Europe in Crisis required a star to talk to Jacqueline Proust, she was not accused of any wrongdoing, and her showing up on the suspect list during Europe in Crisis should be considered incidental.

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