"No, Ella, it's just our house's surveillance camera that's broken."
Yolanda Bardot said innocently, "This morning Dilbert wanted to delete all the old home surveillance footage, but then he found it seemed to have broken..."
"Why delete them? And why is it now destroyed?" Ella Lacey was somewhat confused.
"The deletion was because Yolanda woke up; those recordings were no longer necessary, taking up quite a bit of memory space."
Dilbert Walker explained, "As to why it broke, I haven't found the reason yet since I haven't checked the living room surveillance for a while. Now, it's pretty much trashed..."
"Then just replace it with a new one," Tercy Mason suggested.
"...Yeah, that's the only option."
Dilbert picked up the camera, feeling a slight twitch in his left eyelid, sensing that this well-concealed, high-quality camera was unlikely to break on its own. The only possibility seemed to be deliberate sabotage...