I asked about friendship and coworkers about eight times.
I wonder if its an order thing. That some things have to be done in a specific order. I did ask them everything after going through the airvent. But maybe I didn't do something in the right order.
So I loaded that save, tried to talk to them about friendship and coworkers. And now it doesn't even let me talk to them at all. I select talk to them but the topics don't come up, it just goes back to the menu where you can select talk or show the evidence, and I can't back out of that menu so the game is effectively killed.
So I close it, try the other suspect instead. Same result.
So I close it again, talk to the secretary first. Then I go to the suspects. Now it seems to work. But talking to Joe doesn't bring up the trial either.
So then I went back and talked to the secratary about everything. No change. But I showed her the picture again, that seems to advance the story. So it seems it is a specifc order thing. Ask about everything 40 times and it doesn't necessarily get you anywhere.
So I save again. And go to talk to Joe. Game locks up (not 100 percent locked up it responds to me trying to enter commands, but it just makes clicking noises, doesn't bring up the conversation menu, but doesn't let me back out either, just like I mentioned in previous posts. Close out the game again.
Went back to the previous save (the one I uploaded). Showed the secretary the picture (and did nothing else with here). Talekd to Mark about coworkers and also did nothing else, talked to Eugen about coworkers then about friendship (and again nothing else), then showed the picture to the secretary again. Saved. Then talked to Joe. Now I can start the trial.
It seems if you ask about old questions again after you ask the appropriate new question or show the right bit of new evidenec, it partially erases your progress. Also it seems that certain actions that aren't going to work don't gracefully fail but insead lock up your game. I how the next case isn't like this.