Bible verse

Everyone looks at the woman who showed up on the beach. All the evidence says that she drowned. Titan and Gianna are checking out the scene while some townspeople are informing them of what usually happens. They say that this granny usually goes out to catch something at High tide and catch something. Gianna asks the woman if this granny used to be a woman diver. The son says, yes, she did that all her life.

Titan says there is a sharp scratch on her foot, perhaps this happened before she died. A woman holds up a crab and says that this may have done it. Titan scratches himself and checks the wound with the woman’s, it matches.

Gianna gets into the water where the woman was found, but Titan ignores her. He asks where low tide and high tide are. Then he thinks about the math. It was today’s high tide, so she could have mistakenly stepped into the water, but her body should disappear. But if her body was there, then maybe she died after 4am, when it was low tide.

Titan compares Gianna’s feet and the dead woman’s feet. He thinks the body was moved. He stands up and asks where everyone was around 4am. They wonder if he is accusing them, but he says it is normal questioning. All the people say they have an alibi, but Titan says he wants to do an alibi because something bothers him. The son is questioning it but the townspeople say to go ahead and do it.

They take the body on a small boat with the rain pounding on them, but then Gianna sees something in the granny’s mouth, she takes it out and then they leave. But Titan says they won’t be leaving with the body, they will be staying on the island. Gianna says she doesn’t want to be there, but Titan says this granny died when she was trying to tell us something, so if it is a murder case then the killer should still be on this island. All the town people look guilty.

Titan calls the other police doing the autopsy, he wants to check the plankton levels in the lungs. Then he shows Gianna a picture he took of someone at night. He thinks the murderer might have been in the area. Gianna shows him what she found in the bodies mouth, she thinks it is a dying message. They see that it is a bible message, but Titan thinks it isn’t anything big, that stuff only happens in movies like the Davinci Code. But Gianna says the serial killer used bible messages.

Then they notice that this woman has a lot of gum. Gianna says you are supposed to chew a lot of gum and then put it in your ears to block the water from coming in, it is common knowledge. Then Titan sees some white powder and wonders what all this powder is. Gianna says it is medicine for decompression from coming in and out of deep water. All the female divers take this, it’s common knowledge.

Then Titan sees a vase with a white heron on it. But the son comes in and says not to touch it. They wonder if it is expensive, but Gianna says it is Shamanism, it is about this god protecting the house. Gianna says she saw this in a comic. She asks if he or his mother went to church. He says there is no church on that island and his mother was very superstitious, she believed in all the shamanism gods and they performed ceremonies regularly. They have water for the kitchen god and fabric for the health god and hay for the house god. Gianna asks if there are any suspicious people around.

The son wonders if someone killed his mother. She says she isn’t sure, but she is curious about his warning. Why did he tell them that? The son looks around and sees the other people, he says it is nothing to do with his mother and she will find out in due time. But then Titan comes up and asks about the mayor. The son says he is an okay guy.

Titan looks at the bible verse and says that a person who was very away from the Bible, died while chewing on a bible verse. They think about the granny and the case. Titan thinks the girl looked just like Gianna, but Gianna just says that she will look around some more, and leaves.

...OUTSIDE...

Gianna brings Titan a map of the island. She points to a church that turned into a nursing home, they decide to go there. But when they get there, they see that it is all burned to the ground. Gianna says it is common in the country to preserve shamanistic churches. She says she learned this at school. It used to be sacred. Titan thinks that it becomes superstition if no one believes it anymore.