Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160117163823/@comment-66.102.6.184-20160118210658

Cyrania de Bergerac wrote: 66.102.6.176 wrote: In all fairness, killing Ruby would have left evidence that Mercury was their. Granted I making that assuming that there is still some kind of foresic analysis that can link bullets to the weapons that fire them even for dust based ammunition. Although now that I think about it, It's very likely that foresic could pick up that what kind of Dust rounds where. Mercury seems to use wind dust, and if you remember episode 1 of Volume 2 Cinder was angry her lackies didn't keep their hands cleen in Vale. Maybe it's because she was worried about them leaving behind evidence that implicated them?

-Defcon Deceiver Would that also be true for bullet holes then? Ruby has a nice speciman then in her scroll.

Good point, I didn't think of that because the focus of the subject was on why Mercury didn't take care of Ruby and just walked away.

That said, you have to remember that different crimes, are prioritizes differently by law enforcement. Murders and any incident that ended in human death get the upmost priority and focuus and even with the incomimg grim invasion, bodies would still be found and counted and noted of any inconsistenty or suspicion during the aftermath of said grim invasion when they do a full account of their casualties. One teenage girl complaining about someone destroying their phone though? They wouldn't really care about catching the perpratror of such minor property damage when dealing with a level 9 grim invasion or it's aftermath because of much more imeadiate concerns.

That phone could be uses as evidence futher down the line if Mercury forgot to grab it and Ruby does eventually go and find it (though I think she would be more concerend with collecting Penny then her phone), but the bottom line it's going to be a while before evidence that Mercury just happened to be their that night matters, if it ever does really. No one would care unless they link that to him performing another crime, which ruby and others could only speculate on. The only charges they could link directly to Mercury at this point is property damage (aka the phone), if they could prove that he was their unijured they could bring him up on defamation charges as well (aka framing Yang, leading to an onslaught of character assasination), problem is they only would have Ruby's testimony for that. It probably wouldn't be enough though.

At the end Ruby has only enough to try and convince people to be suspicious of Mercury and investigate him ans his activities, if they ever have time or the chance to.

-Defcon Deceivee