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  The neighbourhood has been alerted to what is happening in that house, and people have begun arriving to gawp from the road, keeping behind the safety of the fence, and looking ready to flee if the murderer shows any inclination to step out of the property.

  The cops, informed by many 911 calls that have told them it is happening in their city, and that have given them the address, arrive shortly, in a number of howling and flashing squad cars, and begin entering the garden, guns drawn, in a frightened-looking group.

  They have every reason to be afraid, as the killer has no intention of going down without a fight. He runs fearlessly at them, swinging the head by the hair, spraying droplets of blood around him, making the cops flinch in disgust. He probably avoids being shot dead because the only weapon he is wielding is the head in his hands.

  Running at speed, in a strange and unbalanced manner, he catches his foot in the little hole created by the paving brick he has taken out to use as a murder weapon, and stumbles headlong without control, until he exits the property through the gate, to fall headfirst onto the solid bricks of the pavement.

  It is a heck of a hard and uncontrolled fall, and he takes major injury to the head, so serious that he cannot get up on his feet again.

  Lying prone and unmoving on the pavement, the murderer is handcuffed and arrested while still face down. Working fast, the cops pick up the head, which has flown out of the murderer’s grasp, and gingerly put it into a plastic shopping bag, handed them by an onlooker.

  The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.

  The murderer is now turned the right way around, face up, and is carried into an ambulance by four cops, each holding onto a limb.

  A television crew arrives and begins broadcasting from within the ambulance, showing the absolutely quiet man lying unmoving while being driven to a nearby hospital.

  As everything has commenced being broadcast on TV channels, the pixellation people have got onto the case, and nothing gruesome can be expected in the footage. I therefore give up watching on social media and switch the TV on again, for Martina and mommy to watch with me.

  The mostly motionless and completely silent murderer is placed on a stretcher and carried into the hospital, where he is immediately examined by a doctor, in the corridor itself. A search of his pockets reveals a little money, but his identity remains a secret, as he has no document or plastic on him. The cops check his mobile phone, which turns out to be a stolen device that also gives no information on him.

  He is entered into the hospital system as ‘murderer’, followed by date and address of the murder location. It will have to do for now, as nothing in the missing details can change his legal condition, and he will remain under arrest, to be tried for a well-documented and publicly conducted murder.

  The killer remains utterly unresponsive, not even opening his eyes to look at the doctor, and it is immediately suspected that he has acquired some form of brain trauma, as a result of the hard contact of his head on the pavement.

  Accordingly, with all four policemen and the TV camera crew following along, he is stretchered into a room with a scanner, and placed in the machine.

  It is found straightaway, showing up practically dead center on the scanner screen, and what a shock it proves to be.

  The killer has a microchip implanted in his head!