Tanner



Tanner Grayton is an antagonist in Scrutinized. According to his B.O.L.O (Be-On-LookOut), he's a wanted murderer.

In-game, Tanner is a doctor-looking enemy that appears on Luna Youngman's cameras and tries breaking into her house. He kills her by injecting her with a syringe in his game-over animation.

Appearance
Tanner is a young man with an eerily cheerful disposition and neatly cut brown hair, wearing a lab coat and dress shirt, both white, with black slacks and a red tie.

Gameplay
Tanner's activity is encouraged by making progress on reports and your overall activity on computer. Constantly check the three cameras with the lights, where Tanner can often be seen sneaking around. Flashing him will make him runaway and keep him away from the house. A helpful tip is to open all of the closets. If he breaks in he doesn't always immediately go for a kill, instead he'll wait for the player and ambush them from one of the three closets. These are in the filing room, the spare bedroom, and in the living room behind the sofa. On occasion Tanner will pop up in front of a camera in order to scare the player. This does nothing other than distract the player.

He has specialised jumpscares for each region of the house and a pre-death jumpscare for the closet in the living room where he peek around to view the player from the living room and waves at the player down the hall from the corridor. He will then dip back around the corner and hide in the closet. If the player opens the closet it will immediately result in a jumpscare and death. If you do not open the closet and continue with the game he will leave. There's another jumpscare, but from the spare bedroom. He will exit the room and stand at the end of the hall, and wait for the player. Entering the hall will result in an immediate jumpscare and death.

In the Normal Mode ending, Tanner drugs and kidnaps Luna before bringing her to his hideout. He commends her on her crime watch program and reveals he indebted himself to Adam in return for finding the true identity of the Blueblood Killer. However, before Luna can read the file on the Blueblood Killer, he drugs her again.

Quotes

 * "Having fun?" - When he kills you behind the computer.
 * "Peek-a-boo!" - When he kills you when you're returning from the hallway.
 * "Well, this is awkward." - When you catch him out in the hallway.
 * "Don't worry, the pain will go away soon." - When he tackles you after you catch him out in the hallway.
 * "I can't wait to taste you." - After he kills you.
 * “On second thought, let’s talk.” - “Normal Mode” ending when he drugs and kidnaps you.
 * “Until next time...Luna...” - “Normal Mode” ending after he drugs you again and releases you.
 * "You became a Statistic." - Game Over Message

Trivia

 * The syringe contains the drug, Midazolam.
 * Some of his quotes imply cannibalistic or sexual intentions.
 * Based on a twitter poll, Adam considered designing Tanner as an elderly man.
 * Tanner is voiced by Michael Malconian.
 * As of update 1.1, Tanner has been nerfed for Normal mode. He was nerfed again in the 1.1.3 update, yet he continues to be the more aggressive of the two antagonists.
 * Tanner's last name was released during the development of The Deallocation, a project that was later scrapped, and confirmed to be Grayton.