Elliot Clayton

Elliot Clayton is the Tech Expert of the Bureau.

Profile
Hailing from Cheltenham, England, Elliot is a 17-year-old tech expert who worked as a hacker prior to his tenure to the Bureau. He has messy black hair with strips of purple at the front. He also has silver piercings on his chin and left ear. He wears a gothic-themed t-shirt and jacket. Besides that, he is also wearing a spiked choker, a black glove on his right hand, a necklace with three beads, and earphones around his neck. He also has a dark sense of humor and is known to be analytical and immature.

Murder's Cheap
During the murder investigation of the finance minister of Greece, Demetrios Metaxas, Elliot was given a tablet to analyze. He used it to access the Greek Stock Exchange and invested Jack Archer and the player's salary in an electronic coin, which was easy to achieve in huge amounts since Demetrios's intervention in the economy made it cheap. Elliot was expecting the market to normalize when Demetrios's killer is arrested, making the electronic coin more valuable, only to almost drive Jack to the limit. After the arrest of the killer, Elliot told the two investigators that as he predicted, the market finally normalized. Thanks to the risky investor, the team would receive a now-increased salary.

Horseback Mountain
After Andrei Beloglazov's murder was solved, everything was suggesting that SOMBRA's satellite had been built, so the Bureau needed to determine where the satellite went. Therefore, Carmen Martinez and the player were prompted to head to the satellite factory to search for clues. There, they found a locked safe which contained COSMORUS swipe cards. As Natasha Romanova made it clear she would no longer help the team on the train, the team sent the cards to Elliot for more information, only to discover that the cards were fake. Elliot revealed that SOMBRA was planning on disguising themselves as COSMORUS employees and using the cards to access one of the launch sites. As Carmen had no idea which site to look for, the team decided to turn to Yelena Tereshkova for help. Yelena revealed that the victim had an argument with someone about shipment in front of Mount Khan, and that prompted the team to head there.

Carmen and the player found a delivery slip with the COSMORUS logo on it for a satellite, which confirmed that the satellite had indeed been built. However, they also found that the satellite was being shipped to Kazakhstan. Now feeling the team had no choice, Carmen attempted to call Natasha, but without success. So they turned to Elliot for help. They told him everything they had discovered, including the fact that Natasha did not answer her phone. Elliot agreed to help the Bureau gain high-level clearance into the launch site in Kazakhstan by hacking into COSMORUS’ security systems.

Analyses
As the Tech Expert of the Bureau, Elliot has the responsibility of taking care of all the necessary digital/technical analyses, and to inform the team of such results after a certain amount of time or a speed-up process using Criminal Case Cash. His task-wait rates will vary depending on the difficulty of the task, but they all cost 1 Criminal Case Cash per 30 minutes.

Below is the list of analyses Elliot performs throughout the course of the game:

Case #1: God Save the Prince
 * Number (09:00:00)
 * Cell Phone (09:00:00)

Case #2: Off With Their Heads
 * Camera (06:00:00)
 * Champagne Label (09:00:00)
 * Strange Symbol (09:00:00)

Case #3: Auf Wieder-Slain
 * Postcard Message (03:00:00)
 * Military Radio (12:00:00)
 * Dog Tags (06:00:00)
 * CCTV Recordings (15:00:00)

Case #4: Murder's Cheap
 * Magazine Cover (09:00:00)
 * Strange Graph (06:00:00)
 * Tablet (12:00:00)
 * Disarmed Bomb (09:00:00)
 * Bank Note (09:00:00)
 * Fingerprints on Map (06:00:00)

Case #5: When Shadows Fall
 * Handprints (12:00:00)
 * Buoy (09:00:00)
 * Scribbles (06:00:00)

Case #6: The Impossible Dream
 * Rubies (09:00:00)
 * Unlocked Phone (06:00:00)

Case #7: Murder by Proxy
 * Binoculars (09:00:00)
 * Open Briefcase (12:00:00)
 * Fingerprints (06:00:00)

Case #8: Death in the Desert
 * Unlocked Device (09:00:00)
 * Phone (12:00:00)
 * USB Key (09:00:00)

Case #9: Killing Spring
 * Smartphone (12:00:00)
 * Camera (09:00:00)
 * Tablet (06:00:00)

Case #10: I Spy a Mummy
 * Fingerprints (09:00:00)
 * Horus Eye Camera (12:00:00)
 * Surveillance Photo (09:00:00)
 * Night Vision Binoculars (09:00:00)
 * Open Briefcase (06:00:00)

Case #11: The Parting Shot
 * Sultan’s Phone (12:00:00)

Case #12: Die by the Sword
 * Lipstick Device (06:00:00)
 * Video Recording (09:00:00)
 * Phone (06:00:00)
 * COSMORUS Logo (06:00:00)

Case #13: Moscow Mole
 * Surveillance Camera (09:00:00)
 * Funding Request (06:00:00)
 * Keycard (09:00:00)
 * Natasha's Files (06:00:00)

Case #14: Only Truth Remains
 * Security Camera (12:00:00)
 * Victim's Laptop (09:00:00)
 * Unlocked Smartphone (09:00:00)

Case #15: O Deadly Night
 * Check (06:00:00)
 * Unlocked Phone (06:00:00)

Case #16: Fast Track to Murder
 * Laptop (09:00:00)
 * Elliot's Device (06:00:00)
 * Unlocked Tablet (06:00:00)

Case #17: Horseback Mountain
 * Microfilm (06:00:00)
 * Open Safe (09:00:00)

Case #18: Countdown to Murder
 * Strange Device (12:00:00)
 * Security Camera (09:00:00)
 * Camera (15:00:00)
 * Locked Tablet (06:00:00)

Case #19: Bad Medicine
 * Unlocked Tablet (12:00:00)
 * Magnetic Card (09:00:00)
 * Bottle Label (09:00:00)
 * Video Camera (06:00:00)

Case #20: Treacherous Waters
 * Reference Number (12:00:00)
 * Passport Details (06:00:00)]

Case #21: Plagued by Death
 * Security Camera (09:00:00)
 * Laptop (06:00:00)

Case #23: Peace and Dead Quiet
 * Smartphone (12:00:00)
 * Brochure (09:00:00)

Case #24: Insides Out Case #25: The Killer in the Rice
 * Unlocked Laptop (09:00:00)
 * Account Information (06:00:00)
 * Bracelet (9:00:00)

Gameplay
As of the release of the World Edition, the player may choose Elliot to join the investigation of each crime scene (in any World Edition case) and provide hint bonuses. He is available as a 4-hint partner. (Note that this feature is only available on the mobile version of the game.)

Trivia

 * Elliot owns a Pear laptop, the in-game Mac clone.
 * Elliot is one of the characters to appear as a quasi-suspect twice.
 * Elliot is one of the characters who animate (or move) during at least one cutscene in the game.

Case Appearances
As one of the main characters and the Tech Expert of the Bureau, Elliot appears in every single World Edition case-to-date.