Mrs. Stevenson Finds Her Voice

Title: The Unraveled Mystery (Scene: A small, dimly lit detective office, with papers scattered on the desk, a file cabinet to the side, and an ashtray full of cigarette butts. Detective Tom Harris is at his desk, smoking a cigarette as he reads a newspaper. The door to the office opens—Detective Susan Price walks in, holding a file.) Tom: (Looks up from his newspaper) Hey, Price. What brings you here so late? Susan: (Sighs) I can't help but feel like we've missed something from the "Sorry, Wrong Number" case. I can't shake the feeling that there's more to it than meets the eye. Tom: (Puts down the newspaper) You mean Mrs. Stevenson's case? The woman who was supposedly hearing about a planned murder on the phone? Didn't that turn out to be a misunderstanding? Susan: That's what the reports say, but it bothers me that the whole thing was just brushed aside. I've been doing some digging, and I found this. (Hands Tom the file). Tom: (Opens the file and scans through its contents) Hmm, interesting. Some phone records, a letter, and a few photographs. What am I looking at here? Susan: In the weeks leading up to the incident, Mrs. Stevenson made multiple calls to different people, but the content of the calls was always…the same. Tom: So, she was paranoid? Scared for her life? Could be a side effect of her illness and staying bedridden all day. Susan: That's what I initially thought, too. But get this - I found that letter among her belongings. Look at the date—it's from two weeks before the incident. It's a letter from a local telephone company technician, who claims that her line was connected to another party's by mistake. Tom: That's odd. (Reads over the letter intently) So, it could be that she was actually hearing a conversation that wasn't meant for her. But it still doesn't explain the murder plan. Susan: The last piece of the puzzle came when I checked the phone records for the day of the incident - there's a long, unexplained call to an unknown number. The call lasted approximately the same time as the 'murder call' that Mrs. Stevenson reported to the police. Tom: Could it be possible that she made that call herself? I mean, even the death of the nurse who was meant to visit her appeared to be an accident on the stairwell. Susan: Maybe. Anyway, I did some more digging, and that unknown number belongs to a small apartment in a nearby neighborhood. Take a look at these photos from the crime scene - there's something off. Tom: (Examines the photographs) You're right. It looks like there's some blood spatter that might have been missed during the initial investigation. Are you suggesting that this whole thing could have been an elaborate ruse to cover up a murder? Susan: It's quite possible. And if that's the case, who is involved? Mrs. Stevenson, the mysterious voice on the phone, or even someone close to her? Tom: (Smokes his cigarette thoughtfully) You're onto something here, Price. I think it's time we revisit this case and dig a little deeper. Susan: (Nods) Agreed. Let's get to the bottom of this and solve the mystery once and for all. (The detectives gather their belongings and head out to unravel the secrets of the "Sorry, Wrong Number" case, the room now filled with a revived sense of purpose.) END