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DATE SCENE RECONSTRUCTION
One-year anniversary: Out in the cold, Inn with a View
Locale: The Farmhouse Bed
and Breakfast, Stowe, Vermont
Synopsis: While on a weekend
ski trip coinciding with the couple’s one year anniversary
of meeting, Mr. Brown seemed aloof and difficult at times despite
the idyllic setting and the fact that Ms. Jacobs had planned and
paid for the weekend as a special treat for the overworked Mr. Brown
and had made a special trip to La Perla to “sweeten the pot.”
Upon seeing Ms. Jacobs splayed across the bed in a rather comely
ensemble, Mr. Brown complained “the bed is way too small for
two people born in this century.” When Ms. Jacobs pouted and
said, “Are you sure you don’t like the four poster bed?
If you’d like we can get another room?” removing a set
of pink feather handcuffs from her bag, he merely commented, “Oh
whatever, it’s fine. All we’re going to do is sleep
here.”
The next day, after an afternoon of skiing, they had a couple’s
massage and a dinner for two, during which time Mr. Brown told Ms.
Jacobs that he feared he had certain shortcomings with regard to
his ability to “make her happy” and to “give her
what she wanted.” When she pressed him for details, he grew
silent, vaguely referring to his “problems.”
Witness Testimony: The
hotel chambermaid noticed that only one side of the bed had been
slept in, and the pullout couch had been in use. A ski patrolman
who saw the couple on the slopes noted that Mr. Brown was making
no effort to teach his partner, despite her clear status as a beginner.
FORENSIC ASSESSMENT AND EVIDENTIARY ANALYSIS
Physical Evidence
A DSI investigation of Mr. Brown’s residence and office reveal
findings consistent with a FOCCed UP condition, including:
- While Ms. Jacobs gave Mr. Brown keys to her apartment, he did
not reciprocate, his excuse being that he “rarely slept
at his apartment.”
- Mr. Brown still maintains his ‘black book’ and
other mementos of his bachelor past
- Photographic evidence and ocular retinal-mapping suggests that
Mr. Brown has a “wandering eye,” indicative of a belief
that there is someone out there better for him
Psychological Evidence
DSI has developed a forensic index that examines parallel behaviors
consistent with one who is FOCCed up, as a person’s relationship
persona is often consistent with personality traits in other areas
of their life.
Work/Career:
Mr. Brown’s career as a senior (rather than managing) editor
has been stalled by his inability to remain at one company for more
than a year. While he defends his checkerboard resume as evident of
a gung-ho, in-and-up-or-out attitude, consistent with the fast-track
magazine trade, his employers suggest he “grows bored easily”
and is addicted to the “honeymoon period” a new job engenders,
easily growing restless once he masters the challenges, remarking
that something better is probably around the next corner.
Friendships: While Mr. Brown
has many old and deep friendships, many of these suffer from a lack
of actual physical interaction. With email and instant messaging,
Mr. Brown is able to maintain these relationships in a way that makes
them real, without requiring actual contact. Mr. Brown has been described
by such friends as rootless, with a tendency to go long periods of
time incommunicado interspersed by random intervals of intense contact.
Housing/Life Plans:
Despite a sizable trust fund inherited from an unremembered paternal
aunt, Mr. Brown has not purchased an apartment in Manhattan, preferring
to remain in a run-down illegal airshaft sublet in an overpriced fifth
floor walk-up in Murray Hill until he decides where he wants to “settle
down.”
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