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Remember, don't go into this on the assumption that Entro is the one who killed Ami and stuck her body into a empty lubricant barrel in this vacuum pod. That'll bias your investigation. It's wholly possible that someone else killed her here to frame Entro. It's also possible that Ami never got into the factory and the organics sensor on the vacuum pod picked up something other than her body. Perhaps Entro cut himself while fixing something and couldn't clean up the blood well enough to not trip the sensors. You just don't know, so don't assume anything.
Before you enter the vacuum pod, ask Xaby when was the last time the pod went through a cleaning cycle and how thorough they are. If it was cleaned before you opened it just now and the methods used would have destroyed all trace evidence, fingerprints and suchlike, then you'll skip calling a forensic officer to examine the pod interior, nor be careful where you move and touch. But if there could be trace evidence left, then make sure to examine the floor where you're about to slither for footprints, scuff marks or scrapes from barrels being moved manually.
Examine the floor under and around where the barrels are, underneath the conveyor belt with the robotic arms and in the fan vent. Ask Xaby if all the barrels currently in here were not in this pod yesterday around the time of Ami's death. If they weren't, you don't need to examine them, but if they were then you will, including opening them. If the barrel loading system could remove and place them outside, then do so so you can examine the floor under and the wall behind where they were. It'll also free up some space to move in here.
Find out how hot the interior of this vacuum pod gets during a operation cycle and how near to total the vacuum inside is. Send that info up to the coroner's office along with the length of the cycles and ask them to determine if Ami's corpse shows signs of being exposed such conditions for those lengths of time. Exposure to total or near total vacuum would result in telltale signs such as many broken blood vessels in the eye, even if Ami was already dead. High temperatures would also leave signs on her body. If signs of vacuum and high temperature exposure aren't there, then her body likely wasn't in this pod.
The log says that the empty barrels were removed for the night, so find out if the system that does that checks if a barrel is empty directly with a sensor and only removes the ones that are empty. If so, then Ami's body couldn't have been in one of the barrels that was removed because the system would have detected the barrel she was in wasn't empty and not taken it. Then it would have been left in here and not sent to the recyclers. ...Unless there was a override to force the system to remove the barrel. Better check for that.
If there's a map of this facility with all the camera coverage areas marked, you want a copy for yourself and one for whoever is going over the surveillance video. You can use it to figure out what routes could be taken and areas accessed without being recorded by a surveillance camera. Then you can backtrack from the door to this vacuum pod to determine locations where Ami could possibly have died or been killed, then brought here without being video recorded. ...Ah, but there's still the risk of other employees seeing her being carried. That is, unless she was already in the barrel and being wheeled through the halls on a dolly.
Ask Xaby if the factory has a automated internal inventory tracking system for the lubricant barrels. If they do, check the records for where the barrel Ami's body was found in was as it went through this factory and when. If there's entries for the barrel exiting this pod and not entering it, then someone had to have manually placed that barrel in here, presumably with Ami's corpse inside, swapping it with a empty barrel already in here.
Get the time that Ami showed up and tried to enter this facility from Xaby. Tell whoever is looking over the surveillance video to start off by looking between that time and 24:00 before looking at the rest of the video. Also check all the entry cameras first to see if Ami got in through any of them. It's possible someone inside opened a door for her when they shouldn't have and if so it'd show up on the video. But if she doesn't show up entering the factory at all, then that raises a question of if she ever did get inside.
Find out what method is used to identify who accesses the vacuum pod door, pod overrides, and any other pod systems. What combination of what someone knows (I.E. a password,) has (I.E. a keycard,) or is (I.E. biometrics such as fingerprint, iris/retina scan, DNA, etc.,) is used and where are they inputted? Because if it's just one or both of the first two and it can be input at the pod itself, then Entro's credentials could have theoretically been used by someone else to open and/or override the pod.
Also find out who has the permission level to delete, add or modify entries to the vacuum pod's log file to determine the odds that it was tampered with. Find out as well if the log file is stored away from the pod, which mean it couldn't be tampered with on a hardware level (such as pulling the pod's data storage, modifying the files on another computer, then putting it back.)
Check if the pod door only records the IDs of those who open it from the outside. (You assume that it doesn't require any more than a button press or lever pull to manually open the door from inside since otherwise would be a major safety design violation.) If it does, then that second entry where Entro accessed the pod door had to have been him opening it when he was outside.
Ask Xaby if it'd be possible to get the contact information for every employee that was working here between when Ami showed up and 24:00 that same day. You'd like to sent them all a message asking if they saw Entro or Ami during that time period, attaching a photo of each, and if so then when and where and doing what. Hopefully you'll get some eyewitness accounts to fill in where the surveillance cameras aren't looking (and potentially catch if the video record has been tampered with.)
Check if any Peacekeeper data forensics officers were sent to investigate Herod's work computer because it sent a message to Ami after he was already dead. If so then you'll want to keep in the loop on what they find.
Let Leon know your worries about An and ask him if he thinks you're being excessively paranoid about her and keeping her away from this investigation. You don't like shutting her out, but she's a enigma you have no idea what's really going on inside of, hardware or mind-wise. A enigma that could be harming our investigation knowingly or unknowingly, or could totally not be. You're just not sure.
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