Hot dog stands? Better than the Industrial Area already!
The Financial Center is the second district investigated in Criminal Case: Grimsborough.
Primarily based on New York City, the Financial Center serves as the heart of Grimsborough's economy due to its corporations, stock exchange centers, and entertainment areas such as fancy casinos or shopping malls, making it the perfect place to stay as long as you have the money for it.
And yet, something evil seems to be going on behind scenes...
Cases Set in the Financial Center
- Blood on the Trading Floor: A stock trader is disemboweled in the stock change market.
- Bomb Alert on Grimsborough: A war veteran is blown up with a bomb in a park.
- Fashion Victim: A shop owner is choked to death inside her own fashion store.
- Family Blood: A woman is beaten to death with a baseball bat inside her own home.
- The Kiss of Death: A model is thrown out of a window onto a park.
- The Last Supper: A woman is found poisoned inside her own kitchen.
- In the Dead of Night: A teenager is found with an arrow sticking out of his eye in a park.
- Innocence Lost: An intern reporter is buried alive with concrete in a construction site.
- A Deadly Game: A homeless man is tortured to death inside a basement.
- The Secret Experiments: A reporter is found dissolved in acid inside a secret laboratory.
Tropes:
- Arc Villain: Alden Greene, a Corrupt Corporate Executive whose company Greene Holdings has a stranglehold on the district. In the district's finale, you also learn he's financing a Super-Soldier project that turns people into killing machines.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Alden and his executives are this in spades, and that's before you learn they've also been financing an illegal project involving human experimentation.
- Merchant City: Being the heart of Grimsborough's economy, a lot of the characters you meet here are involved in some kind of important rich business.
- Recurring Character: The main recurring characters from the Financial Center are Alden Greene, Rachel Priest, and to a lesser extent Alfred Ziegler.
- Super Serum: The main plot of the district revolves around Rachel Priest investigating this project funded by Alden Greene, though you don't learn what is about until the final case.
- Upper-Class Twit: Being a district mostly inhabited by rich and powerful people, it would be expected that a lot of its inhabitants were going to be this. Jones doesn't hesitate to call them out whenever they start to get on his nerves.
- Welcome to the Big City: In comparison to the run-down and decayed Industrial Area, the Financial Center is much more modernized and less ridden with poverty and gangs.
