Bob Levene

Bob Levene was one of the suspects in the murder investigation of CEO Ernest Turing in Smart Money (Case #102, or Case #46 of Pacific Bay).

Profile
Bob is a 55-year old programmer who works at Meteor System. He wears a white collared shirt with several pins on it and has a tie and cords around his neck. Besides that, Bob has knowledge about binary and reads comic books.

Role in Case(s)
Bob was first brought into the investigation after he was identified on a computer screen no one will catch him. The message was not intended for the police, but was intended for the victim, Ernest Turing. He was surprised to hear he was dead, saying he went through the trouble of making that virus for nothing. He released the virus, intending on attacking Meteor Systems, however he also attacked the police station by mistake. Bob did it because Turing believed programmers like him were just a commodity, and when it was released Turing would have to depend on his programmers to fix it.

Amy and the player ended up finding a statue awarded to the victim and Bob Levene for best company, which warranted another talk with the programmer. As it turns out, Bob and Ernest built Meteor Systems together, however Ernest took all the credit. He then demoted Bob and threatened to fire him, despite Bob being the one who made all of Meteor Systems' technology. He said that he couldn't leave the company since many programmers and entrepreneurs such as David Rosenburg already had knowledge in binary code.

Bob was found innocent for Ernest's murder after Per-Sephone was proven guilty, but was confronted afterwards about her actions. He said that a robot can't kill a human since it is against their programming, but was just as curious as the team about her reasons. He suggested that the player finds Per-Sephone's data log in hopes of finding why she killed Ernest. After Hannah analyzed the data log, she found highly complex info processing, like Per-Sephone was thinking on her own. When Amy and the player informed Bob about this, he was surprised that Turing was able to pull this off. When asked if what Per-Sephone did could happen to other robots, Bob said this was more likely a freak accident but he would have to look into it a bit more.

Case Appearances

 * Smart Money (Case #102, or Case #46 of Pacific Bay)