[CSI: Nexus] The Jien Garson murder case

According to who?  Computer records?  Yea SAM doesn't control or manipulate them.  Are we CERTAIN that the Ark Hyperion wasn't there before we were told.

Look I know that is a very long stretch and would be bad story writing, but then this is Bioware and Mr. Walters we are talking about.

But ok you changed my mind, maybe he didn't have any thing to do with it.  Ok then my money is the Janitor because she wouldn't give him a raise. 

With all due respect to the writers of Nexus Uprising, which I loved, we can't rely on it at all. The events in it directly contradict how those events are recalled in the game. For instance, in the book, whereas in the game, there are emails you see where people are talking about joining the uprising Sloane is starting (which was not a thing in the book.)

I think they're pretty sure it's her. The burns are probably only used to cover up the murder until Ryder arrives.

Hope it's not the Illusive Man / Cerberus. Also kinda doesn't make a lot of sense since it's a multi species wise effort.

One of the SAM's would be interesting.

the original Shadow Broker or the Yagh One would be epic (best cinematic and boss fight, great DLC too)

Hope we learn more soon!

Poor guy.


N7's don't mess around. 

I think before we get to "who" we need to tackle "why".

"She knew too much" seems to be the popular theory, even in game, but I'm skeptical. What, exactly, did she know? That the initiative was funded by an anonymous benefactor and that the Reapers were coming imminently by the time they left.

But the first part is kind of irrelevant 600 years later and 2.5 million lightyears away. And as to the second, what, exactly, is the worst case scenario of that information getting out? Mass panic, I suppose. But one wonders if that really would have been any worse than the result of depriving the Initiative of effective leadership in a crisis situation. Not to mention that given we have no reason to believe Garson would have blabbed about it. So one has to wonder about the risk assessment abilities of the murderer if they believed that any chance of Garson going public with the Reapers made killing her worth the fallout.

And of course, as others have mentioned, Alec would need to be targeted as well given that he knew everything Jein knew and the Benefactor knew that he knew. But we don't see any evidence of a plan being in place to kill Alec when he showed up. Granted, he was 14 months late and any plan to kill him ended up being moot, regardless. But he was N7 and if you intend on murdering an N7 you damn well better have a plan in place to do it. I do think we can safely rule Alec out as the murderer as the timeline doesn't seem to allow for it and we're given absolutely no hints at Alec being a murderous individual, or of him seeing Garson as any kind of threat.

But yeah, I'm more curious about the motivation vs the specific identity of the murderer.

But in the end, she knows very little. She doesn't even know who the Benefactor was. So the Benefactor had a reason to kill Garson on arrival in Andromeda, but didn't take over power. He prefered the Initiative to fall into chaos, than to have Garson in charge.

Perhaps killing Garson quickly on arrival was step one of the plan. Step two might be on the Hyperion and arrived 14 months late.

If Tann taking over either was the plan or was deemed an acceptable if unfortunate outcome to risk then I think Cerberus being the culprit is unlikely. Not impossible, it's not disqualifying, especially given the chaotic circumstance. But killing Garson when everyone above Tann in the leadership resulted in Addison, a notable incompetent, being the only human left in Initiative Leadership. Since this happened before the uprising it's possible that they figured Sloane at least would remain in a leadership position but Sloane, for all her faults, definitely isn't a Cerberus sympathizer.

I'm becoming more convinced that whoever did the killing was either aiming for chaos as the result - and short of it being an indoctrinated sleeper agent hoping that we all die I can't actually figure out why they'd be trying for that - or nothing went according to plan.

The writers write from Tann's perspective in the novel, he is as surprised as anyone. Couldn't have been a member of a conspiracy. He thinks himself that Garson put him high on the list because he's a boring dude that just analyses the bigger picture all the time, instead of doing anything ipulsive.

Just a little thing:

I don't think she was talking about them in plural.  If I was hiding in a closet and heard a single person outside, I would be much more likely to say "They are here" instead of "He or she is here". 
I think it was a single person, but she did not know if it was a man or a woman.

Thanks for laying all this out, BTW!

That cant be true! He said no more secrets between us! And He seems like an honest chap....