||Bill’s death threats have been taken seriously by the Police Department and the F.B.I. Agent’s Dave Corlione and Ray Lawrence have been put in charge of the case. Dave Corlione has been in the business for well over 25 years. His expertise lies in profile analysis. Even from a simple break-in he could draw up a profile of the criminal from whether he kicked the door in or made a copy of the key, this guy was good. Ray Lawrence is his young protégé, a straight A student fresh from the academy. He is filled with boyish charm and good looks, but Corlione admires him for his confidence. ||
|| Bill’s home has been filled with Police Officers and Agents since this morning. The departments involved are taking the actions very seriously. Lawrence has been in the field all day, researching Bill’s past and interviewing neighbours. Corlione has been running the show, making sure Bill’s house is carefully surveillanced and monitored in case another incident occurs. Ray Lawrence finally returns to the office and interrupts Corlione and his donut. Lawrence throws his pad on the table and swings a seat around. ||
Corlione: What ya got, rookie?
Lawrence: I think we got our work cut out.
Corlione: Meaning?
Lawrence: Meaning I asked Dynamite for a list of people he had pissed off in the last few years… He gave me the phone book. I got like a million names.
Corlione: So I get you out in the field for a whole day and you bring me back a phone book?
Lawrence: Not exactly. I asked him to tone it down a little and give me a list of possible suspects. People who he thought might just bare a grudge enough to send death threats. I got a list right here.
Corlione: Great. Any other possibilities?
Lawrence: Sure is. He’s got a World Heavyweight Title match this weekend, he thinks his opponent, Dylan Dunn, is a possibility.
Corlione: Ah yes, he’s a wrestler. Just perfect. I get enough Ego outta you, without this sucka. So what, he believes his opponent wants to kill him before the match?
Lawrence: No. At least he doesn’t think so. Dynamite thinks he’s a prankster. He thinks that this is just the sort of tactics Dunn may resort to, to throw Dynamite off track.
Corlione: Well if that’s the case, then this Dunn guy will get into a whole lotta trouble for playing a childish prank. Personally, I think you’d have to be one sick son of a bitch to send a death threat to somebody for kicks.
Lawrence: At least we can rule out a prank from a friend.
Corlione: He don’t got no friends?
Lawrence: Surprisingly, he has enough. What I mean is, the fact that his window was smashed with a patio chair shows that this would be one expensive prank. I very much doubt a friend would cause that much damage.
Corlione: We can’t rule it out. If a friend is serious enough to send a death threat, then he’s serious enough to throw a chair through his window.
Lawrence: Good point. What about the phone records, do we know who made the bogus call?
Corlione: Not yet. Phone records could take up to 24 hours. Fuckin’ jerks ain’t got nothing Better to do. We’ll just have to wait. Fingerprints, D.N.A, what ya got?
Lawrence: Not a whole lot. We got a slight foot print in the garden, could be anybody’s. As far as the prints go, we got nothing. The guy must’ve been wearing gloves.
Corlione: You got it in your head that it’s a guy?
Lawrence: No. Just a slip of the tongue.
Corlione: Ray. I’ve been in this game for a long time. Long enough to know that not every crime is committed by a man. I can’t tell you the amount of times we’ve been knocked on our ass when we find out it was a woman.
Lawrence: I just thought that a woman might find it hard to throw the chair through the patio.
Corlione: An ordinary woman, maybe. But Dynamite’s a wrestler. I’ve seen some of those so called ladies in wrestling. They’re not your average girl next door. Some of those girls could knock you out with one blow.
Lawrence: Okay I get it.
Corlione: Right. Lets see that list ya got. Talk it through for me.
Lawrence: I got a few. The first name that came from Dynamite’s mouth was Andrew Chambers aka the British Brawler. Bill Dynamite and British Brawler had one of the most bitter feuds in history. Those guys hated each other. Bill played a part in Brawler’s brother’s death.
Corlione: Magnus Diesel, right?
Lawrence: Right. He was in the trunk of a Limo when the driver decided to drive onto some train tracks. The 12.42 to Chicago made sure they didn’t make it home that night.
Corlione: What part did Dynamite play in all this?
Lawrence: Bill put the idea of suicide in the limo drivers head. Witnesses say that the driver was wandering backstage muttering “Mr Dynamite was right. I’m worthless. I should just end it”.
Corlione: How did Diesel end up in the trunk?
Lawrence: 2 guys beat him up and put him in there, not aware of the Limo drivers plans. There was an investigation, judge ruled ‘accidental death’.
Corlione: So British Brawler blames Bill for his brother’s death?
Lawrence: Exactly. Not only that, but Dynamite was charged with criminal damage after an explosion at his funeral. It is thought that Bill set out to sabotage the funeral to get at Chambers. It worked. He vowed to make Dynamite pay.
Corlione: Right. So where is this guy?
Lawrence: That’s the strangest thing. Bill Dynamite and British Brawler fought in a Buried Alive match at x2w’s Hell & Back for the World Heavyweight Championship a year ago. Bill won, burying Brawler under 6 feet of dirt. Brawler was taken to hospital that night with severe respiratory problems. Within 2 hours, his body disappeared from the ward. Doctors say he was in no condition to walk out himself. In fact, they said that without a respirator, he wouldn’t make it through the night. There were no witnesses, surveillance footage or any evidence what-so-ever that British Brawler even left that hospital bed. Andrew Chambers has officially been a missing person since August 2003, but due to his medical condition, the smartest guess is that he’s dead. Even if he was smuggled out of the hospital, it is unlikely that whoever took him would have the medical facilities to keep him alive.
Corlione: That’s right. I remember that. Weird. It’s like the guy just vanished, like a ghost. If this guy did survive, it wouldn’t be a bad bet, that after all the shit these guys have gone through, he’d come back to hurt Dynamite. What else?
Lawrence: Eric Poyntz. Now Bill & Poyntz don’t have a story like the last one. But they really don’t like each other. They were both FWL’s top guys back in the day, with Poyntz the World Champion. But since then Poyntz’s career has gone downhill and it’s Bill who is the big draw. Dynamite believes Poyntz is enough of a “loser” to do something like this. Dynamite says Poyntz’s movie career didn’t take off as he had hoped, and now Bill is his biggest obstruction in the way of getting his wrestling career back on track.
Corlione: What do you think, this guy the type of guy to do this kind of thing?
Lawrence: From what I see from his profile, no. But he is very ambitious, and he really doesn’t like Bill. He may just have it inside him to ruin Bill’s life. Or at least try to scare him out of the business.
Corlione: Right. Our suspect doesn’t need to be a madman, ready to kill. This is about death threats. The offender might just want to scare Bill. Maybe away from the wrestling business. Maybe from the movie business. We don’t know yet. Who else?
Lawrence: Andy Harmon. Bill says this guy and himself haven’t had the most pleasant of pasts. Harmon was the guy who tried to halt Dynamite’s career back in his early days in England. Harmon was a seasoned pro back then. A veteran. He didn’t like this new kid coming through takin’ the spotlight. So when Harmon became part of the backroom staff, he made sure Dynamite wasn’t given as many opportunities. But Bill came here to America and made his name here. Harmon came over and took over a show called GWC. He and Dynamite tried to patch up their differences and team up together, costing Magnus Diesel the World Title. But it didn’t last long. When Harmon created promotion dWo, he hired Dynamite as one of his top stars. But they didn’t hit it off so good. People say Harmon was jealous of how much attention Dynamite got since the company was named after him. Harmon realised that it was too late to change the name of the company and that the success of the promotion was attributed to Dynamite and not Harmon. Since then, Harmon and Dynamite have crossed paths on many occasions. Each time, Harmon has vowed that he will ruin Dynamite’s career. He hasn’t been successful with this vow as yet.
Corlione: Do you think he could be the guy who did it? Maybe eventually try to convince or demand that Dynamite gives up his wrestling career?
Lawrence: That’s a possibility. These 3 guys are the main contenders. But we all know it could be anybody from a vandal to a crazed fan. We know that Bill is one of the biggest heels in the business. There’s not a wrestler, man, woman or child in the world that hasn’t been pissed off by Dynamite. He’s considered some what of an asshole. It could be anyone from the locker room. It could be Dylan Dunn.
Corlione: Dunn. Talk me through that guy.
Lawrence: Dunn? He’s one of EWO’s top fan favourites. He needs to win the World Title on Sunday. Even though Bill is technically one of the best around, Dunn’s fans expect him to win. There’s a lot resting on this young man’s shoulders. He could try anything to make sure Dynamite doesn’t turn up 100%. Dunn is cocky and charismatic, also considered a joker. This could be a well orchestrated plan to stop Dynamite being on top his game Sunday at Bound for Glory.
Corlione: Damn… I gotta get this pay per view.
Lawrence: You’re not kidding. If we manage to make sure Bill Dynamite survives this week, I’ll buy this pay per view… From what I hear, inside and outside the wrestling business. This is one of the most eagerly anticipated matches of recent history.
Corlione: We got a fax coming through, pick that up for me will ya.
||Lawrence walks over to the fax machine as it prints out the piece of paper. The machine bleeps and finishes the job, he rips the sheet from the feeder. As he turns towards Corlione, a look of disappointment fills his face. ||
Lawrence: We’ve got another death threat. Bill found it on his pillow when he come back from the gym this afternoon. His door was kicked in, his place was smashed up. His bedroom was left immaculate. All the rooms were trashed but the bedroom was left. Says here, Bill thinks the bedroom looks better now than when he left. It’s possible that the suspect tidied the room to make a point.
Corlione: What point?
Lawrence: I don’t know. Maybe that this person is sending a message to Bill, to say “I can get into your house, I can smash the place up, but more importantly, I can invade his personal space.
Corlione: In other words, “I could kill you right now, but I want you to think about it and let it get into your head.”
Lawrence: Whoever is doing this, is hoping to really head-fuck Dynamite. Some sick son of a bitch.
Corlione: What does the note say?
Lawrence: Here take a look.