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How can I "borrow" the key to the trellised gate?
1 of 14: Have you noticed anything interesting and potentially useful in Officer Smith's inspection visits to your cell?
2 of 14: He kneels down on the floor and looks under the plank bed, which makes him very vulnerable.
3 of 14: However, there's no way you could attack him and render him unconscious without him knowing what happened and reporting you when he woke up.
4 of 14: So concentrate on the other two interesting details of his visits.
5 of 14: One: he always sets his hat down on the bed before looking under it.
6 of 14: Two: he always yells in surprise when he hears a door slamming nearby as he leaves your cell.
7 of 14: Have you talked to Brett about Officer Smith?
8 of 14: Brett says that Smith has two possible reactions when scared: violent insanity and brief fainting spells.
9 of 14: You need to exploit the hat and door-slam gimmicks for a scare effect and hope for the fainting spell.
10 of 14: What can you put in Smith's hat while he's looking under the bed that might scare him when he gets up and puts it back on?
11 of 14: He keeps thinking that the sudden door-slamming noise is something scary (like maybe a gunshot) -- what if he were to see actual blood?
12 of 14: Or something that can look a lot like blood if you're too panicky to look closely at it?
13 of 14: You need to put some ketchup in Smith's hat while he's on the floor. That'll give him a big scare!
