Roscoe Strapping is an antagonist from Layton Brothers: Mystery Room.
Biography[]
Crime[]
Roscoe Strapping was a 38-year-old pre-eminent star of stage, television and film, he enjoys overwhelming popularity. One day, he met actress Gloria Blaise and soon the two got engaged and planned to perform in a play as husband and wife. However, Strapping started to become more interested in the supporting actress, Destiny Knox, due to his debauchery and eventually had an affair with her.
On the night of the play, Strapping played the hero who had an unfaithful wife, played by Blaise, and at one scene, shot her with a replica gun. As Blaise collapsed with the fake blood squib activating, Strapping realized that the replica gun was switched to an actual gun by someone as the bullet must have hit the squib and killed her. He thought that Bray Clegg was the culprit as he manufactured all of the props and also had a crush on Blaise so Strapping quickly improvised a plan to have Clegg framed for the murder.
As he exited the stage in despair of his actions as said in the play's script, he bumped with Knox and quickly told her to scream for help once after he would turn off the lights. He proceeded to cut the lights off, fire the replica gun and crossed the dark stage and knocked Clegg unconscious to place the actual gun in his hand.
Investigation[]
Justin Lawson sent Alfendi Layton and Lucy Baker to investigate Gloria Blaise's death. Strapping tells the two that was in his dressing room when he heard the gunshot and insisted that Clegg was the culprit due to the death threat in Blaise's hand and the gun being in his hand. However, his scheme was exposed during the questioning and Alfendi was 92.9% certain he was the killer because he wanted to frame Clegg instead. After Lucy cornered him, Strapping admitted he shot her with the gun, but he was framed by the mastermind behind the case as he honestly didn't know the guns were switched and really did think Clegg was the culprit. Alfendi realized that Gloria Blaise masterminded her own death as she was heartbroken that Strapping would choose Knox over her and decided to punish him for his betrayal by ordering a gun for her to be shot with, typing a note to inform him of his betrayal and purposely threw away the remote switch for the squib. Upon hearing this, Strapping was shocked that him choosing Knox over her would lead her to orchestrate her own murder.
Roscoe Strapping was later convicted of charges of assault against Bray Clegg and became a janitor while Clegg substituted for him as the lead actor.
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The Family Targent Jean Descole and his allies Other | ||