Editing The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (section)

===Lounge Car===
The detectives find Amy confronting Shadow about locking the doors. Tails asks why Shadow was locking the doors, but he refuses to elaborate, telling them he has an "appointment" soon. Naturally, the detectives look for clues. The three clues in the Lounge Car are a key ring with two keys on it (Barry wonders why there aren't more on them, considering Shadow is a locksmith), a piece of crumpled paper in a trash can, and a hidden passageway to the Library Car hidden in a wardrobe. The duo also notice a printer and a computer in the room, which Tails notes that the former is tricky to use. With these clues, the detectives confront Shadow.

First off, Amy states her reason on why Shadow was locking all the doors through the "hot tip" she came across. Amy figures that Shadow was locking all the doors to keep Sonic from escaping the Conductors car (which is the next car over). Tails reminds Amy that Sonic was found in the Dining Car, and Barry points out the hidden passageway. However, this does not deter Amy, who simply claims that Shadow moved Sonic to the Dining Car via the passage. Tails does mention that Vector was busy playing the arcade machine with Knuckles and that Espio was distracted reading a book, so they could have not noticed Shadow. On hearing about Espio, Shadow claims that the chameleon was lying, claiming to have looked in the Library for him, but found no one. Amy thinks Shadow is lying though, and asks him why he was looking for Espio, to which Shadow says he wanted to give him a key. The detectives present the key ring to back Shadow's claim, and state that he had been giving out keys to everyone; the remaining keys were for Espio and Vector - Shadow also had his own key as well.

Amy then poses a question: if Shadow did not murder Sonic, why was he locking the doors? After some thinking, the detectives deduce that Shadow was actually trying to keep Amy away from him. Amy is shocked about this and demands evidence, which Barry gives: the crumpled piece of paper is of a ticket website for one of Amy's favorite bands, [[Hot Honey]]. Everyone but Sonic and Shadow has given Amy their birthday present. Shadow was not able to get a present in time for the train trip, so he was hurrying to buy tickets for a live concert. He had accidentally printed the bands homepage by mistake, due to how tricky the printer was to operate, and thrown it into the trash. Shadow's "appointment" was waiting for the tickets to become available again as the tickets sold out really quick, and he locked the doors to stall Amy and avoid ruining the surprise, while handing out the keys to everyone so that they could traverse the train. However, Amy's master key foiled his plan.

Amy is touched by Shadow's generosity, even inviting him to the concert, much to his chagrin, but is bummed that her hot take led her on a wild goose chase. Though she refuses to reveal who her source was, Tails has an idea who it is, but they still have to investigate the Conductors Car. Barry, Tails, Amy, and Shadow move to the conductor's car to finish the mystery.