Kidnapped: cold case

xiao-aine (67)Res. TheAnimatorin Tales & stories • 4 years ago

"I remember the situation clearly, but the other, what I felt, I'm not so sure about."
She didn't say more kept silent and so did the detective at the other side of the table. It was his task to find out where the woman had been in the past years but all she seemed to remember was the day a car stopped and asked her for the road to a place he even didn't know it exist. He looked puzzled and didn't make any notes. There was no point in writing down what he already knew. She had answered each one of his questions and her voice sounded like a machine, one of these bots who answer the phone at moments you need a human most. A voice without any emotion, a face without one single expression. Was he interviewing a machine?
A knock at the door before it was opened didn't make her blink or stop gazing at the wall in front of her. If her eyes are lasers she can look right through that wall or make a hole into it.
"The doctor is in," his co-worker said and left with a short nod of his head into the direction of the woman who was found after many years but seemed to be more lost than ever.

"Are you sure he's the one that guy won't even kill the bacteria in his armpits."
She nodded and kept staring at the picture in front of her. In the end the only way they could do is going over and have a look at the one she said was the course of all her trouble, the kidnapping, her disappearance for many years.
"You know this is a nursery home right," the detective said to his mate.
"It can't harm to ask around. It's not that we have anything else to do. We better check out which part of her story is true. She could have made up."
"You mean she ran out herself?"
"Not very likely considering her age but you have to admit there's something wrong with this lady."
The nurse looked as if she saw water burning as they asked her about the man she identified.
"For how long is he staying here?"
"I'm not sure but at least over ten years."
"Does he ever goes out, any visitors?"
She shook her head and thought it was wiser to show the two the way to the man's room. A man that as far as she knew had been paralysed for his entire life. A plant was more active than he. This man couldn't even drink by himself.

"What next?"
"Let's ask that doctor or..."
"Or what?"
"We can examine her ourselves," his co-worker grinned and with his glove extended he made a gesture with his fingers that made him dislike his co-worker more than ever before.
"I'll ask the doctor, a blood test and x-ray perhaps, same for the guy. Send some to the nursery home to check on fingerprints. Patient, room and staff.
Back in the office holding a cup of tea he thought about the strangest cold case that suddenly had became hot. If that girl wasn't lying the only conclusions he could came up with were she, he or both had a doppelganger or both were bots. She can be one, blood and x-ray would tell who was real and who not. The mind just like the chip of any AI were programmed and if he was right there was more behind the kidnap of a girl long ago.