- "You're the one who's been sending the cosmic rays into my room!"
- ―Disturbed Suspect
"Cosmic Rays" is a Traffic street crime case in L.A. Noire.
Situation[]
LAPD Detectives Cole Phelps and Stefan Bekowsky answer an urgent radio message via KGPL concerning a possible "mental case" at Seventh and Flower St.
Dispatch Call Script[]
Dispatch: Any Central unit, a 415, possible mental case at Seventh and Flower. Unit to handle, Code Three identify.
Cole Phelps: This is car 11K, we'll handle the 415.
Dispatch: 11 King, your 415 is at the Alaco Station at Wilshire and Flower.
Stefan Bekowsky: Possible mental case, hah. Couldn't stay away from that one, could you?
Walkthrough[]
Once you're at the location, you will encounter a Disturbed Suspect with a modified metal pot on his head and wearing no pants beating the owner of a gas station to death with a baseball bat for trying to "control" him with "cosmic rays". When you approach him, he will attempt to flee; your objective is to catch the suspect without harming him.
The player will chase him as he runs around a nearby café and through a parking lot. The man will stop to do a kind of chicken-cowboy dance, letting you catch up if you fall too far behind. The player will receive one opportunity to quickly catch up to and tackle the suspect shortly after the latter disrupts traffic in the middle of a crossroads (if you were slow on chasing him, he will dance in front of the cars too). Failing to apprehend him here will lead to the suspect climbing a pipe (he will wait for you, doing his chicken dance) and then a ladder to the roof of a warehouse before jumping to his death.
Alternatively, instead of following the suspect directly, you can run north along Flower St. and then turn right to cut him off at the intersection, triggering a fistfight. The game will register this street crime as successfully resolved regardless of whether you apprehend the suspect alive or he commits suicide and is taken away by Malcolm Carruthers in his van.
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