CCTV FOOTAGE

Judge:

"The court grants the 48-hour period. Mr. Oliver, remember, at the next hearing, your evidence must be beyond a reasonable doubt. Court is adjourned."

In reality, Oliver's DNA test did not match the murderer's accomplice. However, Oliver was absolutely certain that the DNA test would match the other person he saw in the footage.

Scene: Tomorrow.

Oliver, in a very worried state, is discussing a critical matter with his three friends: Noah, Ethan, and Aron. Oliver desperately needs a specific stolen picture, but someone has somehow managed to steal it. He asks his friends to help him find it. Noah, Aron, and Ethan reassure him, saying, "Oliver, we will try our best to find this picture."

Scene cuts to the hostel.

After classes finish, Lily is seen using her phone. She starts a long conversation via text messages with an unknown person. This person has been reacting to many of Lily's posts. Lily has been texting him for a long time, and talking to him makes her feel good.

Scene shifts back to Oliver's office.

Noah, Aron, and Ethan arrive at Oliver's office, where Oliver explains the whole situation regarding how hard he worked to retrieve the picture from the CCTV footage. He explains that he had instructed one of his trusted people to keep the envelope on his desk. At the exact time Oliver was busy securing the footage, his wife called him. Her arm was broken, which was why Oliver couldn't collect the envelope himself. Instead, he sent someone else to place the envelope on the desk so it would be safe until he returned. But now, the envelope on his desk is completely empty.

Oliver: "I have seen this footage. Everything was fine until Xavier placed the envelope down, but suddenly, the video started to glitch like this, and nothing is clearly visible anymore."

Seeing the ruined footage, Noah says: "It has been blurred terribly. But what did he do to the CCTV camera to make it blur like this?"

Oliver: "Look at the envelope in his hand. The envelope has a specific number on it: IS9A."

Ethan: "Was this your personal envelope?"

Noah: "That means it's different from a normal envelope?"

Aron: "Then it will be easy to find!"

Ethan: "I don't think so!" 😮

Noah: "We can check the surrounding CCTV footage if we want."

Oliver: "Hmm. But will you be able to get his direction?"

Ethan: "If this footage is blurred like that..."

Oliver: "Impossible! How could he blur so many footages?"

Noah: "Then we should definitely check the surrounding cameras!"

Ethan: "That's exactly what we should do."

Oliver says worriedly, "Do whatever you have to do, but do it quickly. I don't have much time, and I have to go to the hospital now." 🏥

Here... LILY is texting with her online friend ✍️

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👧 Lily: "You've reacted to all my posts, haven't you?"

👤 Michael: "This butterfly 🦋... it looks familiar to you, right?"

Lily: "Yes... it's from before. My father gave me this toy when I was little."

👤 Michael: "Hmm, but it's beautiful, even though it's old." ✨

👧 Lily: "Where do you live?"

👤 Michael: "In New York City."

👧 Lily: "Ohh... I live in New York too. Do you live alone?"

👤 Michael: "No, why alone? You also live in this city, and so do many other people.

Lily: "I mean, do you live with your family?"

👤 Michael: "No. I don't get to live with them. I don't have a family."

👧 Lily: "I also don't get to live with my family 🥹 because of my studies. But what do you mean you don't have a family??"

👤 Michael: "It just means I don't have one."

👧 Lily: "Do you live alone?"

👤 Michael: "Hmmmm."

👧 Lily: "I don't have any real friends in my college... and I still didn't understand what you meant about your family??"

👤 Michael: "They are very far away. I am here... By the way, why don't you have friends??"

👧 Lily: "How can you make friends when loneliness consumes you?? Just like your family is far away, my friends are also far away."

👤 Michael: "Those friends are nothing. 🧐"

👧 Lily: "They are a lot!!"

👤 Michael: "My father has good friends... and why don't you live with your family??"

👤 Michael: "I don't know."

👧 Lily: "What kind of talk is that?"

👤 Michael: "This kind of talk."

👧 Lily: "You're very weird."

Michael: "Hmm, I know... By the way, who is there in your family??"

👧 Lily: "Your grandfather and my grandmother."

👤 Michael: "What??"

👧 Lily: "I had a friend."

👤 Michael: "Where is she?"

👧 Lily: "Like your family, she's also very far away... she went to another institution."

👤 Michael: "You don't talk??"

👧 Lily: "Hmm... we just don't meet. You know, she used to feel jealous if I talked to other girls instead of her."

👤 Michael: "Now that you're talking to me, won't she feel jealous?? 😏"

👧 Lily: "Oh no... but there was a time she even cried for me."

👤 Michael: "Why??"

👧 Lily: "I mean, I was only her friend."

👤 Michael: "Loyal friendship."

👧 Lily: "I had another close friend—another person... so she didn't like it if I sat with my previous friend. I got separated from my previous friend in 2022. Our section changed, and after that, I met her. So when I got separated from my previous friend, I decided I wouldn't make any more friends."

👤 Michael: "Things happen to us that we don't imagine... what happened next??"

👧 Lily: "Later, I had a lot of trouble with her about this. I mean, she was someone I met who actually cried for me to be her friend."

👤 Michael: "Seriously? Then?? 😲"

Lily: "I made her understand that yes, I am your friend.. 🙇‍♀️"

Michael: "And that previous friend didn't say anything?"

👧 Lily: "No... didn't do anything. I barely talked to her; it was almost like a breakup."

👤 Michael: "Ex-friend?"

👧 Lily: "Hmm, you can say that. I was in trauma during that time."

👤 Michael: "That's why I said friends are nothing."

👧 Lily: "Actually, my friend... she didn't have any good friends at her old school. Then she came here, and we became really close."

👤 Michael: "But what about her old close friend? Did you two not talk anymore?"

👧 Lily: "No, we were put in different sections, so we barely saw each other. The funny thing is, I was the first friend for both of them... back at the school we attended."

👤 Michael: "Oh... so you were the first friend for both your old close friend and that other friend? And you drifted apart from the old one because of the section change?"

👧 Lily: "Yeah... there's another thing. When I was going through all that trouble that year, there was another girl who joined our coaching. She wasnew in 2022, and we were in the same section. I ended up sharing everything with her."

👤 Michael: "Wait, I'm confused. Didn't you say you weren't going to make any new friends after what happened with your close friend because of the section change?"

👧 Lily: "I didn't want to make new friends. It just happened. We all went to the same coaching but had different sections at school. That's how I met both of them."

👤 Michael: "See? I told you. We never end up doing what we plan. You said you wouldn't make friends, yet you made two in the same year. By the way, did your old friend go to the same private tutoring as you?"

👧 Lily: "Yeah. When I first met her, I actually took her to the private tutor I went to. After that, we studied there together."

👤 Michael: "But you said you guys didn't see each other? That you barely talked?"

👧 Lily: "I mean... she started ignoring me, so I ignored her back."

👤 Michael: "Why would she ignore you?"

👧 Lily: "I don't know, honestly. Everything just... changed. 🥺"

👤 Michael: "Was it because you were talking to that other friend?"

👧 Lily: "No, it wasn't that. Oh, and there's anotherstory. Remember I told you I shared my problems when I was going through that mess? At one point, I became really good friends with that new girl I mentioned. When she heard about my situation, she was shocked. She said, 'I wouldn't even make you the 'B' in best friend.'"

👤 Michael: "Wait, you mean you told her about the girl you had issues with?"

👧 Lily: "Yeah... but the story isn't over yet. There's more. You'll be even more surprised when you hear it! 😁"

👤 Michael: "My head is already spinning! 🤯"

👧 Lily: "Maybe I should stop here. If I tell you the rest, you might actually need that hospital trip."

👤 Michael: "Try me. What happened next?"