Headscratchers / Cry_Wolf

• It seems that Dodger tried to frame Mr.Walker (posthumously or not) with the murder of the townie girl, but what's the evidence really? The gun which has no fingerprints of Walker on it? The fact it was found in his drawer - which can be confirmed by nobody except Owen (who can't be deemed a reliable witness for obvious reasons)? The only certain thing is the girl's photos in Mr.Walker's office. Even if they could testify to anything beyond the fact of romantic relationship between him and the victim - how could Dodger know of their existence in the first place?
  • Is Dodger really trying to frame him for the girl's murder? I thought she was just having them killed as revenge, and the plan was to avoid implicating herself. And if they learn about the affair, the police are obviously going to look down on the teacher having a relationship with his student. The media loves a poor innocent girl and and they'd never suspect her to plan such a thing. But the thing is that Becky was involved with Walker and she was killed with a gun in his desk. The fact that there's none of his fingerprints on it just means it looks like he was careful and tried to cover his tracks.
    • As I've said before, there's really nothing that connects the gun with Mr. Walker except Owen's words. It's doubtful that police can prove Mr. Walker even owned the gun in the first place (given that he most likely didn't, judging by his reaction when he saw it). And as for whether she tried to frame anyone - remember her conversation with Owen about the lying game? "What's the best way to play the game?" - "Accuse your neighbor." - "Exactly."
• How can Owen's killing of Mr.Walker be brushed off as a self-defense? For a minute, he came with a gun to the office of the guy who was bare-handed. That the gun was in Mr.Walker's drawer, again, can't be confirmed by anyone except Owen himself. It really comes as a case of Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! if you think about it. Or Owen just blatantly lied to the police (e.g., that Mr.Walker tried to shoot him and he somehow managed to snatch the gun from him).
  • Perhaps Dodger will tell the police that she and Walker were having an affair. She can confirm that he kept the gun in his drawer. And if she confesses to the affair, it doesn't make things look good for Walker. Plus there's the fact that Owen was at least led to believe Walker had murdered someone and he's only a teenager. They might show some lenience towards him, especially since he was the victim of a prank.
    • Since telling the police about her affair with Mr. Walker might also hint at the real motive of the killings (and her knowledge about where he kept the gun - at a possibility as well), I'd rather think she is going to deny both any intimate involvement with Mr. Walker and the whole thing with the gun. The only one who can testify to the contrary is, again, Owen. And I really doubt that the Chessmaster is concerned enough with her pawn's fate to try to save him from possible consequences. After all, Mr. Walker having an affair with a townie girl might in and of itself be deemed a sufficient motive for Mr. Walker to kill her (if, say, police suspects that she was blackmailing him), even without any hints at a possible Love Triangle. In the latter case, by the way, it is not at all obvious that all the media will treat a student who seems to have caused (albeit inadvertently) a murder as a "poor innocent girl", and some might even try to dig deeper than that. So no reason for Dodger to speak up on this matter.
  • Or more cynically, Owen's rich father paid a lot of money to get it all smoothed over.
    • Money more cynical than connections? Not so different at least.

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