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Loose Pins at the Fernery Stage
≈ 6 min
Two hours before the curtain rises on the Dunmore Botany Players' summer production, props coordinator Ines Mbeki noticed the overhead lighting bar above centre stage was hanging at an angle. On closer inspection, two of the four mounting bolts securing the bar's bracket to the iron roof truss had been removed entirely, and the remaining two had been backed off several turns. No performance has taken place yet; no one was injured. University security has asked you to profile whoever tampered with the rig.
The scene
Hargreaves Fernery, the botany department's Victorian fern-house at Dunmore University, fitted with a small raised stage used by the department's amateur theatre society
In the file
- Ines Mbeki, props coordinator
- Roshan Patel, head technician
- Callum Driscoll, set construction volunteer
- Professor Yuki Saito, botany department head
- Dara Okonkwo, society president
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This case first aired on July 25, 2026. A fresh profile runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.