- Today we're gonna be playing LA Noire
but I thought it would be more fun
to bring in some professionals
I have two private investigators with me
and they're going to tell me how to beat this game
or at least how they'd beat it in real life.
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- My name is Steve Morrow from Morrow Detective Agency.
I specialize in family law, as well as criminal offense
investigative work.
- And I'm Brian Matthews and I own LA Intelligence.
We do just about anything
our client's willing to pay us to do.
To a limit.
- Do you think that the game LA Noire is going to be
at all similar to your work?
It actually is Los Angeles in the 1940s.
- I think that's going to challenge some of the
logical tactics that we're gonna have to use.
We're gonna have to discern body language
and whether or not someone is telling you a lie
or telling the truth.
So I think that
it will challenge us in that way,
to be able to discern whether somebody's
telling the truth or somebody's full of crap.
- So I'm actually going to be playing the game
and then these two will be consulting me
and making all the decisions.
- We'll do the best we can for you.
- This is just like a highlight of my life.
I'm so excited!
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We're on our way, I don't know what the premise is.
I think its jewelry?
- I got a feeling its gonna be a vehicular homicide.
- Ooh, Drama!
Ooh you got it!
Oh no!
Have you ever done a homicide?
Whoa, that's so spooky.
- Double homicide.
- Oof.
- [Video Game Policeman] There's blood
all over the interior.
Someone's cobbed a full Broderick, but no stiffers yet.
- [Host] No stiffers?
Does that mean dead people?
- [Matthews] Stiff?
Yeah.
- [Morrow] Rigor mortis, no moving.
- Makes sense.
Now I need to go--
- Look at the crime scene
- He made a big mistake right there,
he opened up that trunk with his fingers.
- With no gloves.
- He disturbed any prints that might have
been on that trunk.
- Well I'm gonna disturb a lot though.
(laughing)
I think.
- Mister F. Morgan.
- So we got a live hog that was purchased.
- Ooh.
That's a lot of blood.
- Are you coming up with any, like, thoughts yet?
- Well, something's dead.
- Fair enough.
What should we do next?
- Continue canvassing the area.
- Oh, okay.
Alright we're gonna look at that thing I guess.
- Adrian Black.
- Married.
- Got an account.
Adrian's a male.
- Well let's look and see what else is in the wallet.
- Okay, we'll look at this photo here.
Ooh, she's spooky.
That woman, she's thinkin bout something.
- Let's see, there's a pipe on the ground.
- Ooh, bloodstained pipe.
This looks like a murder weapon to me.
- It coulda been used, yeah.
- Is it?
- That could very well be a murder weapon.
- Yeah.
(intense music)
- InstaHeat.
- [Video Game] The brand name might give us
something to go on.
- But now we gotta talk to this gentleman
and see what he has going on.
- You found the vehicle?
- What questions should I ask him?
- I would probably go, why was he there in the first place?
- I agree.
- Mind if I ask what you were doing out here?
- Well I work for the railway.
I was on my out to the switch,
- His outfit gives that away!
- When I took a shortcut.
- I think he's telling the truth.
- So, yeah, do you think he's telling the truth?
- So far.
- I think you should good cop him.
- Did you see anybody else in the yard?
Maybe somebody hanging around the car?
- Nope, hadn't seen a soul all day
till you boys turned up.
- Do you know Adrian Black, Mister Wilkey?
- No sir.
That aint a name I'm familiar with.
- He's deliberately making direct eye contact.
- So should I good cop, bad cop, or accuse him of something?
- I don't think that we have enough, yet, to accuse him
of anything, cause I don't think he's,
he's not giving us enough to discern that he's
telling a lie right now.
- Couple of nights ago it was over there in
the parking lot.
- He's seen the car before
- I know most of the cars that park here regularly.
- Contents of wallet.
- The wallet by the car. Was there anything in it?
When you arrived?
- You accusing me of something mister?
- See now, he looked away, and that's
usually a tell that you're not necessarily,
you might not be telling the truth about something there.
- It would appear that he had checked that wallet
to see if there was money in it.
- We can get aggressive with him, so we can be bad cop.
- Do you want the patrolman to hold you down
while we turn out your pockets, Mister Wilkey?
- Maybe I checked inside that wallet.
Not that I was gonna steal anything.
- We did it!
- I think that if he had something to do with the murder,
I don't think he woulda stayed around
and called the cops about the murder.
- If he committed that murder, he'd be long gone.
Now often, up and to the right means
that you're pulling from memory.
And down to the left is more of a lie.
- Interesting!
- But in either case, the lack of eye contact
would be an indication that somebody would be lying.
- I was on a date once, and I didn't like the guy,
and I kept not making eye contact, and he pointed it out
to me, and now it's all making a lot of sense!
We're going to the address
that was listed on his driver's license.
- So now we're doing the victimology,
we're tryna figure out who they are,
and what coulda led him to get there in the first place.
- LAPD Misses Black.
May we come in?
Your car has been found abandoned.
And I'm afraid there are signs of foul play.
- I knew something was wrong when he didn't come home.
- We believe your husband may be injured.
We found a pipe on the scene with blood on it.
- Oh no!
My poor Adrian.
- I'd like you to try and stay calm,
and remember everything that you can about last night.
- I think she's lying.
- I think she's definitely got something that she's
not comfortable with going on.
I would go maybe to his room, to see about him.
- I'd go everywhere.
- You'd go everywhere.
- And I'm not sure what I'd be looking for.
Uh, I'd just be looking.
Now, assuming he's dead, okay,
we haven't found the body yet,
he coulda been killed anywhere.
We might be looking for bloodstains.
- [Video Game] A ticket to Seattle and a suitcase missing.
- Well we just found a ticket.
- [Video Game] Someone couldn't wait to
get out of this house.
- He was gonna leave his wife!
Oh my god drama!
- There's missing luggage
- He's got a packed up suitcase
- Let's look at this picture.
He's all smiley and everything, right?
That's not his wife's name.
- [Video Game] To my Adrian
- I don't think that's his wife's name.
- Bum, bum!
- [Video Game] Cavanagh's. So who brought this home?
- I'm guessing this is a bar where he met his girlfriend.
I feel like I'm a young padawan, and you guys are my Jedis,
and I'm like learning so much.
- Some fairly good deductions.
- You looking for work?
- Oh, there's InstaHeat.
Definitely tying in to the heating,
besides just the wife's word about it.
So they would probably be outside or in the garage.
- What beautiful potted plants.
This is a cute house.
It looks like something's missing.
- It looks like we probably have to put it together.
So start with any--
- Would you ever do this?
Would you ever like, re-piece together something
on the crime scene?
- Sure, why not.
- And this piece goes...
We're missing something.
- It looks like the pipe that is missing from here
may be the pipe that's at the crime scene.
- Agreed.
- I would also agree.
So what would we do next?
- Definitely interview the wife at this point.
- Absolutely.
- Can you account for your movements last night?
- I was here all night, of course.
Waiting for Adrian to come home.
- I don't think we have enough to accuse her
of anything, but we definitely don't wanna
go easy on her either.
- No.
- Yeah, I think we have to be aggressive.
- The evidence is stacking up Misses Black.
It all places you at the railyard last night.
- I've already told you, I was here all night alone.
- Let's ask about the photograph.
- Tell us about the photo of Adrian in the bedroom.
- What is there to tell?
It's from his most recent business trip to Seattle.
- Oh!
- She's lying.
- That looked sketchy.
- I think we could accuse her,
cause we actually have the photograph
showing the signature of Nicole
in the back,
and what wife would not notice
a picture of her husband,
and not at least wanna take a look
and see where the picture's from.
- Ask about it?
- Almost everybody always looks at the back of a
photograph, for some reason.
- You're lying about the photograph Misses Black.
- You're incredibly rude and insensitive.
But I guess you know that.
I've told you what I know about the picture.
- Here we can look at the evidence, and then
use that as a backup.
- The concealed message.
- What about Nicole, Misses Black?
Was your husband going to leave you for her?
- I don't know if he intended to leave me
or if it was just a fling.
- We found a receipt in the trunk
of your husband's car for a live pig.
This receipt was made out to an F. Morgan.
- A pig?
Adrian runs a tool business.
- Did he fake his own death?
- That would be Frank Morgan.
God knows what he's up to.
- We don't have a body.
We don't even know if the guy's dead.
- Whoa, it could be pig!
- What makes you say that about Morgan, ma'am?
- He's the foreman at my husband's plant.
Very shady character.
I told Adrian he needs to keep his distance from the staff.
They're always out drinking together.
- Okay, so next course of action, where would you go?
- Back to the--
- To the bar.
- LA PD.
I understand you're a friend of Adrian Black.
- Yeah I know him.
- Are you aware that he's missing?
- No I hadn't heard that.
- We found Black's car abandoned in a freight depot
covered in blood.
You know anything about that Morgan?
- Hell no, I'm sorry to hear that.
I like Adrian, he's a good boss.
- Please, don't tell me
you actually believe this jerk-off Phelps?
- He's lying.
- Lying?
Yeah, okay, that seems pretty clear.
- I think we could've accused him
cause we had the receipt in the back trunk
that had his name on it about the pig.
- Oh, shoot.
I goofed.
Sorry guys.
I didn't check in.
I went rogue.
I'm a rookie cop.
Would a goof like that really seriously
affect the rest of your investigation?
- In real life, you can always try to come back
and ask questions again.
- Okay we're gonna tail him.
- Stay right there in the middle of the lane,
try not to sway back and forth.
- Yup, slow down, let him. - Stop at the light.
- How do you stop the car? - Stop at the light.
- How do you stop? - Check both ways.
- Now go, Go! - Go!
- Ahh!
You gotta back off.
Back off.
- Oh my.
- Alright, speed up.
- Okay.
- Nope, no, went the wrong way.
- Uh oh.
- [Video Game] Easy, Cole, better back it off.
- Backing up.
- Just park at the curb a little bit,
cause he's backing up.
- Ah, shoot, shoot!
No!
Seriously?
He started backing up!
What kind of dude does that?
- I thought you were good at video games!
- What kinda of dude does that?
You know what, I think I'm gonna hand this over
to the professionals.
Have you ever been in a situation where you've tailed
someone and they caught you.
- Of course.
- Oh. What's it like, when you get caught?
- Depends.
- You got some people that are--
- We usually just flee the scene.
- Just get out?
- Yeah, he went in to one of these buildings.
- Do I have to be quiet?
- Ooh, directory.
His last name, F. Morgan, right?
- That's right.
- So that's how you normally find people?
- No.
- If you're lucky.
(laughing)
- Normally it's not that easy.
- Who the hell is that?
- Would you relax?
Jesus, Adrian, I told you we're in the clear.
- Adrian!
- Ah, shit.
(triumphant laugh)
- It's over, Morgan.
Mister Black?
- [Video Game] LAPD!
- Ooh, he's gonna run so I gotta get--
- [Video Game] Give yourself up now!
- You gotta get him.
- All right.
- [Video Game] I knew it!
Phelps, go after him.
- I'm going after him, are you kidding me?
I got this.
Go man!
- Alright, so, it was all three of em.
- [Video Game] It's over Adrian!
- Think it was all three?
- Yup, they were in it for the life insurance.
- Well I think that he was probably
tryna get away from his wife.
- But that's just all too obvious.
I mean, unless this is like a level one game.
- So we did it!
We solved the case guys!
- Awesome job.
- Is it like, a pretty good comparison
to actual detective work?
- No.
- Oh, well...
- It's the 1940s.
- Fair.
Do you think you would have me come on as your partner?
- Sure, I would use you.
- Maybe not for the surveillance part,
but definitely for the interviews.
You have a good personality for it.
- Thanks!
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