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While Captain Vimes is enjoying his post-employment bath in the Ramkin mansion (or attempting to enjoy it, but all the while thinking about the loss of his job), the Night Watch have left to investigate the body that Detritus and Cuddy had found in the Old City. They wander and wonder at the old ruins of the city, and why the city of Ankh-Morpork does not now need Kings when they come to the dumped body. It appears to be the body of Beano the Clown, even though he was apparently already dead. When the Watch recruits get back to the Watch House they are talking about the case when suddenly Carrot realizes what has been going on. He has realised that only a Clown could have broken into the Assassin's Guild.

At that moment a member of the Day Watch...