AfterNet 01 - Good Cop Dead Cop

with your real name. I would think a police officer especially would want their name prominently displayed.
jollycopper: You might have a point, Mr. Thomas.
AlfredBThomas23: Please call me Al.
jollycopper: So, Al, what did you do before you died.
AlfredBThomas23: I was an insurance claims investigator, for 23 years.
jollycopper: Sounds like interesting work.
AlfredBThomas23: Oh it was. And I often worked closely with the police.
janemurtagh has entered the room
fat_tony has entered the room
Paul.Rodriguez has entered the room
janemurtagh: Sorry I’m late.
Dick.Sussel.ADA has entered the room
jollycopper: OK, looks like everyone is here. If I might do the introductions. Mr. Thomas is our witness. Jane Murtagh and Anthony Cipriani are detectives. Paul Rodriguez is an attorney for the suspect. And Dick Sussell is an assistant district attorney.
AlfredBThomas23: Delighted to meet you.
jollycopper: OK. I’m sure they’re delighted to meet you too. Let’s start. Mr. Thomas, I’m going to show you six pictures. Look at them carefully and tell me if you recognize any of these people.
AlfredBThomas23: I don’t see any pictures.
Dick.Sussel.ADA: Click the viewer window.
janemurtagh: I don’t see anything either.
jollycopper: OK, everyone stop. Everyone should be using Internet Explorer, right.
AlfredBThomas23: I’m not.
jollycopper: No, you’re correct Al, you should be using an AfterNet terminal. The actual physical display.
AlfredBThomas23: That is correct.
jollycoper: OK. Then look on the left hand side of the chat screen. There’s a button that says Image Viewer. If you have any problems, say so.
AlfredBThomas23: Number three.
Paul.Rodriguez: What?
AlfredBThomas23: I recognize number three. From the bank robbery
Dick.Sussel.ADA: Uh, Alex, all I’m seeing is a broken link for the number 3 picture.
Paul.Rodriguez: If you’re seeing a broken link, how do we know what the witness is seeing? I insisted before that this witness return to Denver. This chat is a waste of time.
Dick.Sussel.ADA: This is ridiculous. Even if we brought him here, what’s the diff? We’d still be using a terminal to talk with him.
janemurtagh: Hey, Alex. Now the number three picture is the same as the number two picture.
    If he could have, Munroe would have buried his head in hands. It was going to be a very long day.

Chapter 9
LSU PRESS ANNOUNCES
NEW TOOLE NOVEL
For Immediate Release
Contact: Edna Mayfair
When he wrote his introduction to John Kennedy Toole’s “A Confederacy of Dunces,” Walker Percy lamented that the tragedy underlying this vast rollicking comedy was the author’s suicide in 1969 at the age of 32 — and the fact that the readers of the world had been denied a great body of work. It was a great pity, he wrote, but there is nothing we can do about it.
Little could Percy have dreamed that a little more than two decades later (and more than a decade after his own death) he would find himself writing the introduction to a completely new sequel, written by Toole himself!
Louisiana State University Press is proud to announce the March release of “A Parcel of Rogues.” Yes, John Kennedy Toole is back. And so is Ignatius J. Reilly, that vast (both in flesh and mind) Gargantuan Falstaff who made the Pulitzer Prize winning “Dunces” such a literary roller coaster.
“Parcel of Rogues” picks up where “Dunces” left off. Ignatius, with the assist of his girlfriend-of-sorts, Myrna Minkoff, has fled the Big Easy for the Big Apple. You might think he’d be a whale out of water, but the beatnik folk scene of the Village in the early ’60s proves a perfect place for a medieval misanthrope to thrive.
Familiar characters from “Dunces” make welcome appearances and they are joined by a fresh confederacy of more-than-colorful creations. “Parcel of Rogues” will be available in both print and as an online e-book on March 2.
    Munroe and Yamaguchi arrived at the district six substation parking lot about a quarter after 2. She’d gone to the main department building downtown where they usually worked, but he’d had a surprise for her, which had necessitated the drive to the substation. He actually had two surprises for her.
    “We’re on patrol tonight.”
    “What?”
    “Yeah, they’re short handed. Seems everyone has your cold.”
    “Funny. District 6 at least, I hope?” she asked.
    “We’re keeping the holiday shoppers safe.”
    “LoDo?” she asked, referring to that part of lower downtown with shops,