you don't meet the inspector, because you have to keep talking to the man and you have to do a job for him.
The women outside the museum is the chief inspector.
You use it.
it's on the countryside
The "assistant curator" will offer you a job if you correct the hanging artwork (move them clockwise to the correct galleries). After you get the key from the curator on Early Poptropica, return to Counterfeit Island and use it to open the Inspector's House.
When you are arrested, the inspector gives you a lie detector test to show that you are innocent. Unfortunately someone elso stole the Scream. Get the time card from the museum guard at the Clown Store and meet the inspector at the museum Security Room, where you can look at the video surveillance tapes.
After you chase the thief on the scooters, you can go to Early Poptropica, where the Curator will meet you in the Pop Art museum to give you the key. (You get a package at the museum with this message.)
There is no key to the chest.
The key fits the Inspector's cottage in the Countryside.
he is under the docks if you are trying to catch him he is at the jazz cafe.
Get the timecard from the security guard, who is at the Clown Store. Take it and meet the Chief Inspector at the Security Room of the museum. You should be able to discover the theft on the surveillance videos from the night before.
Until she kidnaps you in the Inspector's house, the Black Widow is posing as the lady Police Inspector.
Once you get the key from the curator, go back to Counterfeit island and use it at the Inspector's house.