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Sonia's Answers

1) Oh, no, I wasnt leaving Jock's Warehouse, I walked past it. I would never go inside Jock's sordid place.
2)Did I enter the Pharmacy? What evidence do you have that shows I entered the Pharmacy?

Paul's Answer

I...went to Jock's Warehouse to pay him back. After Jock and I had our little chat, I thought it would be best to pay him back.

Adam's Answer

Perhaps it usually is, but that was not the case for Sonia'spills. Besides, I was still unwell after Sonia stopped taking sleeping pills.

For Sonia: When you came across the bar, with the door flung wide open, how clean was the bar? Were chairs out of place, were there signs of a struggle? How much do you think Alice cleaned up after closing the bar?

Sonia's Answer

You know, now that I think about it, the place was somewhat messy. There were chairs all over the place and a table was knocked over.

For Adam: Are you having an affair with Alice?

Adam's Answer

.....goddamn it. How did you know?

To Adam: Well, simply put, you said you were having trouble with your marriage with Sonia right now. You were avoiding her, which seemed unusual. You lied about when you left the bar, and Alice covered for you. It was a stretch, but worth asking to check.

Adam's Answer

I suppose there is no point in hiding it now. Yes, Alice and I were....together. I left later, at 5.45 P.M and got home at 5.50.

This is not a formal accusation, it is simply my working theory right now while I try to piece together more evidence and secrets. As you said in the OP, we can change our accusation any time up until the end of the game, so I'm just going to get my theory out there for now.

I think Adam killed Jock at 6:30pm, when he 'bumped' into Jock behind the bookshop. His motive is that Jock was (maybe) catching on that he and Alice were having an affair. Additionally, killing Jock gets Alice off the hook for the loan of $25,000. He got the murder weapon from the bar after he was with Alice.

To Alice: Are you married?

Dang. That's a sharp catch.
Considering that Adam and Alice are having an affair, though, I'm guessing that that's probably the secret they've each got - which means the sleeping pills and constipation are probably unrelated.
Considering that Wesley's selling weed to Walter, that's probably both of their secrets too - leaving Sonia, Shirley, and Paul.
What we might want to drill into is - are Sonia and Shirley somehow affiliated? It would make sense, since there are somehow sleeping pills in the house, despite both of their protestations they didn't sell it, and it would certainly fit the pattern of people with matching first initials being somehow linked (Adam-Alice, Walter-Wesley).

Timeline, I think

5:00:
Paul is taking stock in the bookshop.
Jock and Walter fight at the bar. Adam, Alice, and Shirley are also there.
Sonia and Wesley are in the shop.

5:05
Shirley gives Adam laxative pills in the bar

5:15
Shirley leaves the bar. Jock and Walter are thrown out for fighting.
Sonia leaves the store. Sees Jock and Walter thrown out of bar. Shirley leaves for bookstore.
Alice doesn’t clean up after the fight. Instead, she continues her affair with Adam.

5:20
Shirley met Sonia in front of bookstore, prevented her from getting a prescription. Sonia leaves for the bar.

5:25
Sonia speaks with Shirley ‘about crime.’ Sonia leaves Shirley, and walks to the bar. No one is there; the door is wide open. Walter is passed out on the street out front. (Walter says he passed out at 5:30ish).
Shirley enters bookshop. Sees Paul and Jock whispering furtively.

5:30
Jock enters the bookshop, buys three books, yells at Paul. Shirley buys two books.
Sonia goes home. She eats a sandwich. No prescription on the table.
Walter vomits and passes out outside the bar.

5:40
Both Jock and Shirley leave the bookshop.
Sonia leaves house to go for a patrol. Claims not to have seen anyone (highly suspicious)

5:45
Adam leaves the bar.

5:50
Adam gets home.

6:00
Shirley arrives at the pharmacy and takes stock for the rest of the evening. (are we really supposed to believe this?)

6:20
Adam leaves home, avoids Sonia, goes behind bookshop, bumps into Jock, where Jock drops a book

6:25
Jock leaves out the back door of the store.

6:30
Paul and Wesley both hear shouting behind their stores.
Alice discovers that the ceremonial dagger is missing; steps outside for a cigarette.

6:35
Adam enters the store through the back door and buys chips.

6:45
Sonia seen walking from the warehouse to the bookstore. (how is she involved?)

6:55
Walter is awoken by someone walking past, they’re cold?
Paul sees someone enter pharmacy (Shirley disputes this).

7:05
Adam leaves out the front of the store.
Adam gets home, eats the chips. Someone runs past towards the bar. He notices that the pills are out of the pillbox. He hears Sonia upstairs.
Sonia claims to have gotten home at 7:05 from her patrol. (contradiction with Adam’s testimony)

7:10
Paul hears banging trashcans behind his bookshop. (still unsure what this is)

7:30
Walter checks his watch, enters the store, and buys some weed from Wesley.

7:55
Paul found the body in warehouse. He was trying to pay his debts to Jock.

8:00
Police arrive on the scene.

The banging trashcans, I'm quite sure, are the sounds of people disposing of the murder weapon back there - either knocking some over in a hurry, or just having chucked it back there and it hitting some of them.

Alice's Answer

No, I am unmarried. I'm also single and have never been married.

6:25 is the last time Jock is seen. He is leaving Wesley's store. The yelling behind the buildings (at 6:30) is almost certainly his death. Adam enters the store right after this commotion (at 6:35), which suggests he was present. He also admits having bumped into Jock behind the bookstore. His excuse that he was avoiding Sonia does not make much sense, because in order to get to the bookstore, he would have to cross the main road, where she would be out on patrol. Did the murder happen behind the buildings and was Jock's body dragged to the warehouse, or did Jock enter his warehouse where he was attacked Adam? Ultimately, I'm not sure it matters. But Sonia was seen at 6:45 walking from outside the warehouse to the bookstore. Would she have noticed anything amiss, or was she an accomplice to the murder? At 6:55, Paul says he saw someone enter the pharmacy. In the initial character description, Paul is described as having a poor memory, so this could be just that. Sonia would not have been the person to wake Walter up, because she would have walked from the bookstore to the pharmacy, not past the bar. My intuition is that Sonia entered the pharmacy, and that Shirley is helping cover this up. Sonia says she gets home at 7:05, but that's when we know Adam left the store. It's possible that they didn't see each other, but unlikely. So Sonia messes with the pills and falls asleep upstairs. Except they're laxatives? Then Adam gets home, sees the pills moved, and eats chips.

Maybe.

I shall be extending the game until the 30th.