Lycopene
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, ruled every 0.1 nm. A nanometer is about how far a fingernail grows in a second.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Lycopene. E160d in Europe. Won’t come when called.
- Height
- 3.7 nm, standing up straight. Cooking can put a kink in it.
- Weight
- 0.89 zeptograms
- Build
- Very slim, especially side on.
- Color
- Red.
- Marks
- Eleven double bonds in a row down its backbone. They make the red.
- Habits
- Avoids water. Clings to plastic. Laughs at dish soap.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked KETCH in the fridge at HQ.
of them in one ketchup packet, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Lycopene, No. 1. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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