[quote=Nightrunner]
"Have you heard about the art museum robbery? There was an unidentified victim who'd been shot and visibly had bleed on the carpet. But my dad says he's stumped because forensic searches haven't found any human cells in the immediate area. Then, when the thieves disappeared, so did she, but so did her blood, that had already settled on the carpet. How is that possible?"
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"I don't know... but you're in luck. The art museum is a Wayne Tech client."

Dick and I were looking at the security footage five minutes later. We both watched the robbery in silence. The purple smoke, the armed guards, and the blazing man all played out their parts in muffled silence, the cameras at the museum not having microphones. The tape ended and I backed it up without comment, watching and taking note of everything taking place.

"There," I said, freezing the picture of the shot woman. Her face was frozen in terror and pain, tears running down her eyes. "She's not real."

I zoomed in on the picture and let it play in super-slow motion. The movements of the woman which seemed fluid and natural at normal speed, became jerky and pulsating in slow motion.

"Those pulses you're seeing are coming from an unseen projector. A holographic display is somewhere in that room, broadcasting an illusion. The pulses are shifts in the light of the hologram, compensating for things like shadow, depth perception, and ambient light. Se looks natural at full speed, but under scrutiny it comes up short. The man with his head on fire is also a hologram too. The projector has to be somewhere in the room, but it's outside the range of the camera."