Last week, we left Deputy Sam Lewis and his new Assistant Deputy Janet Bukowski  standing over a snow pit dug in a field of avalanche debris. They were staring at what appeared to be the first sign of suspected-blackmailer Elliot Steele, buried in the snow. Was the piece of fuschia-colored clothing Elliot, or yet another dead-end in their investigation of the serial murderer now known as the Sprucedale Sicko?

Written for Big Sky Community Theatre by Barbara Rowley.

Last week, FBI Agent Chantal DuBois and her local deputy, Sam Lewis, uncovered evidence that strongly suggested that 1) Ski Patroller Sandy Jones is being blackmailed and 2) Based on financial records from the bank and an eyewitness at the Post Office, Elliot Steele is likely the culprit in this crime. But many questions remain: Was the blackmail connected to the serial murders? What secrets could Sandy Jones have that she’d pay to keep secret? And how could a ski patroller have enough money to pay a blackmailer anything? When we left DuBois and Lewis they were at the Wayfair hotel, and had just determined that one primary source of answers to these and other questions--Elliot Steele--is missing. We join them now at their daily press briefing at Spruce Mountain.