Kearnen immediately loses her cool. "Damn it, I'm getting in there!" she says, making a break for your tank. You can't really pursue the tower thing any more, but you can keep her from getting behind the wheel, so you take a shortcut to it and drive for the murder site. The number of corpses at the site doesn't match what you remember. Instead of the Furlbrows, there's now one man lying dead with a a pouch of negatives and a smashed gnomish camera. Almost all of the negatives have been ruined, but one of them is still intact. Carefully, you stash it away in your tank. You look up from that to see Kearnen sitting on a rotten log and rapidly blotting at her good eye. "Southshore..." she mutters, then pounds the log with her other hand, causing it to collapse under her. "Laine's dead, Torquewrench, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it!"
Actually, there is. You have this nice negative you could develop back at Sentinel Hill. But it couldn't hurt to ask her first why she keeps talking about Southshore.