How to Complete Bad Call in Crime Scene Cleaner

"Bad Call is for all intents and purposes a tutorial—or even Chapter 0—of Crime Scene Cleaner. The player receives his first job in this chapter: cleaning up an apartment where most of the gameplay mechanics will be trained, by scrubbing up every last bit of evidence and bodies from a gruesome crime.

This is the Bad Call mission. You have to clean Apartment 23, with three bodies and about eight pieces of key evidence off it. Further on, three Dark Secrets and three audio cassettes are well hidden in the Shady Neighborhood, but all points will be amply rewarded in bonus experience points when found.

Get on the inside of Apartment 23

Get inside the apartment building, up the stairs, to a dilapidated small living room. Right-hand side from the entrance, on the shelf, the Apartment 23 Key is hidden under the box. Look for the key, then unlock the apartment door.

Dealer's Apartment – Clean all blood, collect garbage, gather evidence, repair furniture

First load the Mop (TAB or 2), mop up the footprints on the floor. Head back to the bathroom, switch to the Bucket, and fill it at the sink. While you're in there, clean up the bloody sink with the Sponge.

Mix cleaning solution by equipping the Clean Detergent (7 or Tool Wheel) and add it to the filled bucket. This will slow water contamination. Take the bucket and head back to the living room.

Clean all blood on the floor and walls with the mop. Use Cleaner's Sense (Q) to detect any that may have been missed. Go through cabinets and drawers looking for extra cash and drugs - these will both give extra money.

After you wash, you'll discover a Dealer's Telephone — this is your 1st evidence. After the room is clean, return furniture to original locations using a Cleaner's Sense. Do not forget the water will become dirty; empty the bucket and refill, as many times as necessary, with clean water and detergent.

Oh, and the trash! Equip yourself with the Garbage Can (4 or Tool Wheel) and collect everything trash that rests in the living room. Once you clean up the mess in both the living and dining rooms, do not forget to fish the Phone (2nd evidence) out of the home theater.

Now the kitchen, which harbors even greater challenges. Clean the trash, blood, and also search the window for the Customers List (3rd evidence). The body itself contains the 4th piece of evidence - a Knife.

Check the next room for another mess and a stash of Cash (5th evidence) before dragging away what was left. Clean the room up and investigate the blood trails from the attic. Another body?.

You can take your pick of how to get the bodies out, down the main staircase, or through the elevator, accessible from the yard through the kitchen window. The downside, the window is now boarded up. Break that at the bath window, crawl over the edge and then break the planks off the kitchen window to access the elevator. Here, you are to drag the bodies in, take them down  with you in the trunk of your car.

Attic – Clean blood, destroy blood paintings, collect evidence

Now that the bodies are cleaned, head back into the apartment and make your way to the attic to clean up the remaining blood.

1st Cassette

Head up the attic stairs to discover a Classical Music Collection cassette located by the radio receiver. Equipped with the mop, clean up the blood-soaked floor. Examine the wall and take the Photos (evidence 6 and 7).

Behind the next door is a small marijuana cultivation. Gather all the drugs for some extra cash. Go deeper through the lab right to the back room where you will find another body.

Use Cleaner's Sense to find five Blood Paintings hidden all around the lab and destroy them, then put the pieces into the trash bin. Also right at the containers, you can grab Student ID (evidence 8).

Scrub clean the area with the mop and sponge. Go down the stairs and take down the body. Bring it to your truck either through the elevator or the stairs. Dispose of the body to complete the mission.

But you can't end your investigation here. There are still two more cassettes and three hidden secrets within the neighborhood. Keep roaming to find them.

Bad Call – All Secrets and Remaining Cassettes

1st Secret

Leave Apartment 23 and follow the hallway past the point where an open window appears at the far end. Carefully turn left by stepping onto the window ledge. Start moving left and, here, in the corner, between the wall and a mattress, you will find a stash of drugs very well hidden from view. Be also careful with the jump out of the window and carefully jump down onto the ledge below so you can get to the hidden area.

2nd Secret and 2nd Cassette

Take the elevator down to one of the lower floors. Smash through the barricaded window, and force your way out. In this secret room, check the picture and the poem next to it, then take the "Epitaph of a Good Friend" cassette on the right shelf. You can also grab more money in this room along with a Golden Hand for extra cash.

Now head back to the elevator, and to your left you will see the apartment entrance of another flat. Walk across the front ledge and set the ladder down, then climb up to the top of the staircase for Apartment 23 and down to the apartment inside, where you'll come across a small room containing the Lucky Key.

Exit through the same window of the flat and climb down the ladder into the alley. On top of a box, you will find the second Lucky Key. At the end of the alley, you will find a locked door; open it with one of your Lucky Keys. In this small nursery, you will find another locked door; open it with the other Lucky Key. Voilà, there you've got the last secret with the "Cieszyn's Venice" cassette on the heater.

With these guides and practicing the in-game mechanics, you should do this Bad Call mission with quite some ease.