Gavin said awkwardly, "Well... maybe I got mixed up! I have to clean so many rooms every day, it's easy to lose track of which is which!"
Ellinor laughed, "Gavin, with a memory like yours, do you often serve the wrong dishes? If you're always like this, I doubt your boss will keep you on for long!"
Waiter Gavin's eyes flickered nervously, "I... I'm not feeling well today, so my memory's a bit off... Miss, you forcibly took the soup pot from me to hurt that kid. Why are you trying to pin it on me now?"
"Did I say you had anything to do with the kid's burns? I'm just looking for the memory card!" Ellinor snickered, then turned serious, "Gavin, it's not too late to hand over the memory card. Otherwise, I'll call the cops and let them use their professional means to find out who took the memory card instead!
I'm sure you were careful to wipe off your fingerprints when you took the memory card! But what you might not know is that police technology is so advanced now that even if you wiped off your fingerprints, the air around you would have recorded your body cells for up to 24 hours. The police just need to collect these cells from the air with their special equipment, and they can immediately verify whether the suspect's DNA matches yours! That's called the 'Body Cell Evidence Law'!
If the police find out you took the memory card, combined with your illogical behavior, it would be hard for them not to suspect you of causing premeditated harm to the child."
Her words left the three highly educated gentlemen, Theo, Balfour, and Bartlett, puzzled. They looked at each other, wondering if they'd heard wrong. What was this 'Body Cell Evidence Law'?
That's right, Ellinor made it up! There was no such law; she was just trying to scare Gavin.
Gavin, not well-educated, didn't understand what body cells were. But seeing how confident she sounded, he believed her and was terrified.
He was scared that the advanced police technology would find his DNA and he freaked out, "I... I didn't! I have no grudge against you; why would I hurt a kid I don't know?"
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