Alice Gould’s Asylum Investigation
Los renglones torcidos de DiosThis thread traces Alice Gould’s attempt to enter the hospital undercover, investigate an old murder, and learn whether her own account of events can be trusted.
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The Commission
The assignment
Alice Gould accepts a lucrative request from a man presenting himself as Raimundo García del Olmo. He wants her to identify the person sending accusatory letters connected to his father’s unsolved murder.
The proposed disguise
The supposed client says the letters point to a disturbed person inside the hospital and arranges for Alice to enter as a patient. She believes her professional skill can turn an absurd setting into an investigative advantage.
Life Behind the Border
Observation and Inquiry
A divided institution
Alice enters a hospital where locked doors, routines, and guarded permissions restrict her movement. She studies residents whose illnesses range from quiet withdrawal to dangerous crises, learning to observe without openly pursuing her assignment.
Suspects among residents
She notices writing habits, unusual behavior, and old grudges that might connect someone to the letters. The absence of her promised collaborator makes each clue harder to verify and leaves her increasingly dependent on her own deductions.
A Case Solved
The Detective’s Breakthrough
Reconstructing the deaths
After a disastrous outing leaves several residents dead or missing, Alice gains access to the bodies by deception. She connects the basement killings to Norberto Machimbarrena and recognizes that the apparent identity of the murdered twin is crucial to the remaining case.
Evidence and inference
Her deductions lead investigators to the perpetrators and distinguish the crimes from the suspicions surrounding innocent staff and patients. The solved murders validate her observational ability, but they do not resolve why she herself remains confined.
Several days before admission
The first weeks after admission
After the asylum outing and murders
