Recap / Criminal Case: Mysteries of the Past - Wolf Street District

Too bad money has become worthless now.

Wolf Street is the seventh district investigated in Criminal Case: Mysteries of the Past.

Serving as the financial center of the city, Wolf Street is a district primarily inhabited by the rich elite of Concordia who make most of their money out of stock exchanges, trade deals, and business that abound everywhere, with many important families holding strongholds over the district, specially the very influential yet unsurprisingly shady Rochester family.

While the Flying Squad initially arrives to Wolf Street to investigate the Rochesters and discover which member of the family had been doing business with Vittorio Capecchi and his stolen lands back in Coyote Gorge, the storyline quickly switches its focus when a financial crisis suddenly strikes the district and spirals everyone into chaos after the death of a renowned bank head, opening path for mass panic and shady ordeals such as money counterfeiting and scams promising people to get them out of debt.

Cases Set in Wolf Street

1. Death Comes to Lunch: A bank head is poisoned during a luncheon at her own residency.
2. Stockbroken: A stockbroker is stabbed in the chest inside of a stock exchange hall during a financial crisis.
3. Apprehend Me If You're Able: A counterfeiter is shot in the neck inside of her own headquarters.
4. Get Off Your High Horse: A jockey is bludgeoned to death inside of a stable.
5. Talk of the Town: A journalist has his throat dissolved with acid inside of a prestigious hotel.
6. The Heart of the Matter: An important politician is strangled and has her heart cut out at her own home.

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Tropes:

• Arc Villain: A Big Bad Duumvirate between Larry Rochester and Deputy Mayor Sandra Hwang; the former is the true mastermind behind a big con created to scam people out of their money by investing on a fake telephone company with promises of saving them from bankruptcy, and the latter is the Corrupt Politician who has been aiding him by diverting attention away from his family and their illicit activities.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Rochester family, whose members have been scarcely appearing throughout the previous six districts in minor roles (apart from Archie, who served as the Arc Villain of Elysium Fields, take most of the spotlight in Wolf Street by introducing even more members and giving bigger roles to previously seen ones, which is fitting, as the Flying Squad originally arrives to the district to investigate them in the first place.
• Breather Episode: Coming directly after the three-part Mob War Story Arc which ended on a mostly bitter Bittersweet Ending, Wolf Street arguably manages to tone down the stakes of its arc by making its plots tamer and giving them quick resolutions without much collateral damage, as the Flying Squad leaves the district having resolved the financial crisis, counterfeit cash problem, and fake company scam afflicting Wolf Street without any big losses or heartbreaking resolutions. And even if the Rochesters aren't defeated yet, you still manage to deal a considerable blow by arresting Larry (who also gives you useful information regarding his family's illegal activities) while also taking Sandra Hwang, a powerful ally, out of the picture.
• The Con: One of the district's central plots is dealing with one of these established by a member of the Rochester family, who is trying to scam people by tricking them into investing their money on a fake telephone company.
• A Day in the Limelight: Viola gets to be in the spotlight during this district, as the hunt for her real father and problems with her mother are given a lot of focus after having discovered that the man who raised her is actually her stepfather.
• Halfway Plot Switch: Wolf Street loves doing these. While the Flying Squad initially arrives to the district to investigate the Rochester family, plans rapidly change when a financial crisis starts wrecking havoc in the district, which then turns into a hunt for a counterfeiting that has been distributing fake money to citizens, which then turns into trying to stop a scam from a fake company promising people to get them out of bankruptcy, which finally ends with solving the murder of a high-ranking politician who turns out to be Connected All Along with the Rochesters and The Con.
• Recurring Character: The main recurring characters for Wolf Street are Larry Rochester, Deputy Mayor Sandra Hwang, Horatio Rochester, Lady Highmore, Leopold Rochester, Archie Rochester, and Hector Harvey.
• Shout-Out: The district is both a parody of Wall Street and a reference to The Wolf of Wall Street.