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Pollen and Pretence at the Glasshouse Studio
≈ 6 min
Two hours before curtain-up on the drama society's opening night, stage manager Petra Okwu discovered that the counterweight sandbag on the manually operated fly-bar had been replaced with an underfilled substitute bag and that the fly-bar's safety pin had been removed. The bar, carrying a heavy overhead canopy prop, would have dropped without warning once the first scene began. Campus security suspended the performance and requested a behavioural profile of whoever tampered with the rigging. Your task is to profile the offender's behaviour — not to name any individual.
The scene
Meridian Glasshouse Studio, the botany department's converted plant-propagation house at Stoneford University, repurposed as a small experimental theatre for the department's amateur drama society
In the file
- Petra Okwu, stage manager
- Dr Callum Reyes, botany lecturer and society patron
- Yusuf Andersen, society treasurer and props coordinator
- Niamh Costello, lighting technician
- Rosa Tanaka, society director
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This case first aired on July 24, 2026. A fresh profile runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.