"..."
Media reporters, lugging cameras and equipment, crowded around the two men's car.
Sheriff Gordon and Harvey had to put in considerable effort just to open the doors and get out.
Facing the sea of cameras before him, Sheriff Gordon looked stern. He pulled a hard drive from his pocket and held it up for the reporters to see.
"The truth you want is all in here. This is the surveillance footage I brought back from the crime scene. I'd like to answer your questions after we've watched it."
Naturally, the reporters had no objections. Under normal circumstances, the police department would never release crime-scene footage so easily!
Of course, they were also extremely curious about what had happened in the Upper East Side last night.
As one of the best-informed professions, these reporters had already heard plenty of rumors.
Things like a moving scarecrow and indescribable nightmares...
Yes, they collectively dismissed all of it as rumors.
Were they telling children's ghost stories?
A moving scarecrow!
Even the Gotham Beast, which had already become a Gotham urban legend, was at least an organic life-form!
How could a scarecrow possibly move?
According to the reporters' guesses, the so-called moving scarecrow was most likely the killer disguising himself as one while committing murder.
That sort of homicide was hardly rare in Gotham.
But when the reporters followed Sheriff Gordon and Harvey into the police department and watched the crime-scene surveillance footage for "free" in the lobby, the entire hall fell silent.
"Th-This..." One reporter finally broke the silence, his voice dry. "Sheriff Gordon, you must have brought the wrong footage. Is this from some horror movie?"
"No, this isn't a horror movie. This is the surveillance footage from last night's murder in the Upper East Side," Sheriff Gordon said gravely. "And we