Scott

Scott is an investigator on the task force pursuing the Strangling Undertaker cases. His documented work ranges from following a lead involving embalmed or taxidermied animals to helping Zoe Bentley examine a victim’s recording, placing him in both the wider field inquiry and a small but consequential moment of evidence analysis.

Identity and Investigation

When Martinez reviews the detectives’ assignments, Scott is investigating people whose animals had been embalmed or taxidermied. The inquiry connects the killer’s apparent expertise with preserved bodies to a practical line of investigation: finding people who might have relevant experience or knowledge. The available account records the assignment, but not what Scott learned from those interviews or whether they produced a usable lead.

Work with Zoe Bentley

Scott appears while Zoe Bentley is sending an image of a victim’s throat to an investigator for assessment. She greets him with a smile, and shortly afterward calls him over to listen to a recording. The exchange shows him working alongside her as she tests what the evidence may contain, rather than simply receiving a completed conclusion.

The Ambiguous Recording

Zoe plays the recording repeatedly, asking Scott to make out the victim’s muffled word. After listening more than once, he suggests that it might be “trucker.” Zoe says she had been about to hear “Hummer,” and plays the recording again. Their differing interpretations preserve the uncertainty of the sound: Scott contributes a possible reading, not a confirmed identification. In the investigation’s broader pattern of trying to recover usable clues from incomplete evidence, his role is modest but specific—careful listening that helps expose both a possible lead and the limits of what the recording establishes.