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My guilt was proven by scientific process. You can't argue with scientific process. A proton is a proton and there's no getting around one unless you're an electron. That I was guilty, I didn't realise myself until after the experiement had been conducted, and since the methodology had been clearly documented and subject to close scrutiny by some of the keenest scientific minds on campus once again I could not argue.
Myself and a control subject were put into seperate rooms and I was made to watch the closed-circuit television footage on the screen provided. True enough the blurry figure shrouded in static did indeed look just like me. I could not find fault with their identification.
I was then led into an ajoining room where I was asked to recreate the scene I had seen on the screen. I raised the gun they handed me and fired it at the student provided, killing him outright. Behind bulletproof glass several of the professors noted down a variety of observations on clipboards. I was then led out of the room and into an interview room furnished with a table and two chairs.
A psychologist asked me how I felt about what I had just done and referenced back to the original crime. Did I now feel remorse after reliving the event? Was there anything I would have done differently? Was their experiment accurate or had they left out any details only the perpetrator could have known of? I did not know how to answer most of the questions, but as it had now been demonstrated both that I looked like the man responsible and that I was indeed capable of doing such a thing I answered them as best I could.
They were unable to establish motive and at this a number of the professors came into the room and debated it on moral, philosophical and quantum levels. During the debate Professor Haldane and Professor McCrae came to blows and were removed from the room. Eventually Professor Wallace pointed out that they had all just watched me kill a student so they no longer needed to establish motive, I was obviously guilty.
As I was led from the laboratory in handcuffs I couldn't help noticing that the control subject looked just like me, but much, much happier about himself.
Oct.12.2005