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Mario: After y’all finished dinner, I got back, ate my dinner, cleaned the dishes and tidied up
my kitchen. I reported to the captain at 11:30 and got back to my room by midnight.

John: Cap, do you roger?

Captain: Yes, that is true. (Looking at the Doctor) How about you Doctor? What were you
doing during that time?

Dr. Anthony: As far as I can remember, I was with John from 6 PM, we were having a little
chat and dined together too. Then I got back to my room. (to John) But weren’t you outside?

John: Yes, I stayed out for a while, enjoyed the view and I got back. But I did see Martha
outside ‘his’ room. What were you doing there? (with a suspicious look) Isn’t your room
towards the rear end of the boat?

Martha: I was on a call with my daughter on the phone and I guess I’m free to roam around
the ship. (looking at the captain) No one should be out of suspicion, where were you?

Captain: Do you think I would really kill someone in my own ship? Do you have any clue
about what you are talking? I’ll be the first one in trouble if anything happens on my ship. I
was in this room till 1 in the night after which I went on my routine check and that’s when I
saw some blood on the carpet and I discovered the body. You can have a look at the CCTV of
my cabin.

Dr. Anthony: Things would have been a lot simpler if you had CCTV’s everywhere.

(Captain and the Doctor have a stare off)

John: (Breaking the two) Let me ask again, did any of you know the victim?

Captain: I spoke to him a couple of times since the time we left the shore. I speak to
every one of my guests. It is my religion to take care of all my guests.

Dr. Anthony: I had lunch with that bloke, nothing more than that.
Mario: He was an awful man! He criticized the breakfast and lunch that I’d made.

John: So you killed him out of spite?
Mario: Can you get more unreasonable? Don’t make me hurt you, now. (Mario giving John a
cold stare)

Martha: I never spoke to him, didn’t even see him around.

(John tries to use too much of his brain)

John: Let’s just all calm down and think logically. (Walks towards the wheel, speaks looking
at the wheel) A man was killed yesterday between 9-11 PM. The murder weapon was a knife,
(turns around flicks a look at the cook) which is not from the cook’s kitchen but his knife is
also missing. Everyone said they were in their respective rooms at that time and no one saw
anything suspicious. No one knew the man personally. We won’t reach any conclusion this
way. One of you is definitely lying. (Looking at the captain) Let’s just search everyone’s
rooms, we’ll probably find some clues that way.

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