By the end of the 21st century, there was one single target that needed to go no matter what. Johnson Stratom, the only son of a Baker and an Insurance Broker. What was the cause of the flash point? No one knew exactly what was the cause of the feud. People around Johnson especially his close ones didn't know about his conflicts with others. They always described him as someone polite and kind, someone who will not get angry easily. And at least, he never got angry at someone in front of them at all.

Johnson Stratom was a university MBA graduate. He graduated as the top valedictorian of his university class studying historical literature. However it was not known if his studies were the cause of the hatred deep in him. Johnson knew of many good friends and they always had good relationships and drank together after school or work. It was so out of the blue that Johnson would plan an assassination.

It was completely out of blind side. People even wondered if he was possessed or worse, coerced. Johnson, while taking down his jail report, cried out aloud. He was unknowingly shaken by what had transpired. He did not even have a clue of what had gone wrong. So far all the evidence is stacked against him. Johnson was at a loss as he took glances at each piece of rattling evidence. It was evident he was the main suspect.

Johnson took up a photographed report and stared at it for a few moments. He brushed his hair aside as he looked at it very intensely, before shaking off his hand and denying he had any involvement with it. It was the strangest case I ever had to deal with in my whole career. Because not even a single fingerprint matched with Johnson. Yet every photograph pointed to him being the main culprit. It was weird, even more so, mind boggling. All of Johnson's friends, acquaintances and even distant relatives sided with him.

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The bail was set at $10,000. Yet no escape attempt was ever made to leave the country. He was the only clue we had to the killings. Yet it was absolutely weird as he did not even act like someone who had taken multiple lives. Just then a call came from the CIA in Japan, they noticed something was off about the IBM5100. The timeline was getting hacked.

The IBM machine was a time travelling machine. Only very close staffs of known status knew about it as a potential crime evading machine. Because it contained the powers to undo any crime. It was a time travelling device capable of altering events to make it seem like nothing happened. Yet while the past was editable, the deaths cannot be undone.

As I spoke with the head of the CIA in Japan, he noted that no one from the United Kingdom, where Johnson Stratom was from, had even a clue of what the IBM machine was capable of. He spoke at lengths about the time altering space-time reality that was being changed, yet never once mentioned a suspect from the west. It was undeniably weird.

Meanwhile back at the Rotterdam police center, I opened up a formal investigation into Johnson Stratom and his best friend Joyce Liz. Although we had already gotten most of the information we could have gotten from Johnson, Joyce was proving to become helpful.

We were hoping the long hours of questioning would break one of them. True enough Joyce spoke about her knowledge about the IBM machine. But it was from a television show and no one in the UK ever had even a single touch of the IBM5100 machine.

The knowledge of the machine was very real yet the actual possession of the future machine was never on the UK side. That threw the investigations into a loop.