Chapter Twenty-Three: His Past Glory
"Like Adam?"
Near the hot dog cart in front of the Los Angeles West Bureau, he stood with Miguel and Vic in black police uniforms on the weekend, talking about the embarrassment of the stupid big MacDonald when he looked at women, and when the conversation entered the second half of the heat and was about to cool down, he interjected.
This is psychology, once a few people are chatting to advance the hot topic to the second half, in fact, the hot scene just now will be exciting, and the state that is about to cool down will make people fall into a short period of embarrassment, at this time someone needs to throw out a new topic, if you want to know something from the mouth of the people around you without showing traces, the most appropriate time node is here.
"Adam? No, no, no, Adam is much better than MacDonald. ”
Lo and behold, Miguel opens the conversation and connects to the previous topic, even if the topic has nothing to do with the previous one or is completely opposite.
There is always someone who will take the bait at this point in time, and everyone has the attribute of being a good teacher and will tell all the relevant things to a friend who is slightly familiar, especially if that friend is still a guy who has just come to the Western Branch, which is a sense of superiority.
"Adam isn't just a braggart, he's a true No. 1 detective in Los Angeles. Zhou, you just came from Texas, and some things are not clear, in Los Angeles two years ago, that is, when the boss of the homicide department had not been replaced, and the head of the original homicide department had not yet entered the five-person team of the general bureau, Adam was the pillar of the entire homicide department. He has a 100% homicide solving rate in a single year, and although this record has only been maintained for one year, he has maintained a homicide solving rate of more than 90% every year, which is enough to put any so-called detective in the police department to shame. ”
Miguel said it very seriously, and the reverence from the bottom of his heart was really there.
In the sun, Miguel held a hot dog in one hand and a glass of ice Coke in the other and continued: "If it weren't for ......" He looked around, keeping his caution when talking about gossip, and made sure that no one heard before he lowered his voice and said: "If it weren't for the promotion of the boss of the homicide section, a paratrooper was parachuted above to sit in the homicide section, where the position of the superintendent should be Adam's." ”
I haven't seen Miguel in this state over the weekend, and they never avoid people when Monteke gossips, and even if they are bumped into when they say bad things, it's just a joke: "Hey, I got caught by you when I said bad things about you again, and I invited you for the first round of the bar in the evening." "That's it.
"Goddamn, damn politics ruined the future of L.A. Detective No. 1, do you know why Adam is like this?"
"It's not his fault!"
The second time he heard expletives in Miguel's mouth over the weekend, the last time Wood introduced him to the gang, it seemed that these LAPPs were not without the wildness of the men at the Montek Police Department, but were bound by superficial rules and regulations, and perhaps one day he would see these people waving batons at the thugs like Heisenberg in the dark alleys, and of course, he would need to get close enough.
"If I were the new boss of the homicide section, the first thing I would do would be to kick Adam away, this guy is too good to be an eyesore."
"Miguel was right." Vic lifted the pants that were always going to be dropped, and shrunk the size of the waistband of his pants on the street: "We all believe that Adam will never go == prostitution--prostitute, this guy would rather sleep under the same bed with a perverted killer than spend money to find a woman, not to mention that there were too many suspicions that day, but no one dared to check." ”
Office persecution?
The weekend was undecided, and it was still early at work, so he urged: "Go on, do you want to let my curiosity out now?" ”
"Hahaha, it's our usual trick." Vic said in spite of this, but did not ask for anything, the people of California are obviously much more honest than Texas, if this is in Monteck, I am afraid that a round of wine will be invited out.
"We were all involved in the case of Adam being kicked out of the homicide section, at that time, the weathering team of the police detective bureau, the trapping team, the homicide bureau were all there, and the media was hiding in the shadows, it was a luxury villa, if you stuffed the villa with prostitutes-women, it is estimated that it would not look crowded with a hundred people."
"When the order came down, all the police rushed in, and we arrested the whole villa, and some guys were even pushed down on the bed with their bare butts......"
Miguel, apparently not wanting Vic to finish the whole thing, continued: "Then, we all heard a shout, and a guy from the second floor of the villa yelled 'I'm a police officer, I'm cooperating with the trap team.'" Miguel glanced at the weekend meaningfully.
"The ...... raised by a son of a bitch" scolded on the weekend, looking into the distance with empty eyes.
"YE, YOU'RE RIGHT, THE PERSON WHO WAS ARRESTED IS ADAM, WHEN HE WAS BROUGHT OUT BY THE WEATHERING TEAM, HE SHOUTED LOUDLY THAT HE ACCEPTED THE ORDER OF HIS SUPERIORS, AND HIS SUPERIOR WAS THE BOSS WHO HAD JUST ARRIVED FROM THE HOMICIDE DEPARTMENT."
"At this time, as long as he says 'he is our undercover agent' to the media and the detective of the weathering team who arrested Adam, everything will disappear, and the normal leader will save the honor of his subordinates at this critical moment......"
Miguel gritted his teeth and said, "But he---no, and Adam took out the recorder on the spot, but the recorder was broken, and it didn't record any sound at all, and even the head of the trap team was next to me and privately asked his subordinates if their people had been in contact with Adam." ”
"When the trapping team discussed with the head of the weathering team, they originally planned to carry it down for Adam, but the new boss of the homicide department insisted on doing business, and in the end, Adam was exposed by the media and suspended for reflection."
"If it weren't for the former Inspector of the Homicide Division of the Five, and the current deputy chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, he wouldn't even be able to patrol the Western Branch."
The new boss of the homicide department kicked Adam away with a trick when his position was unstable, and Adam has been in a state of collapse ever since, his file has been spent beyond recognition, and it is impossible to get promoted or return to his own position. At this time, Adam was desperate, and after a person like him, who had no friends and was completely immersed in solving the mystery to solve the mystery, lost his sustenance, the heart that was originally bathed in the sun was equivalent to falling into the glacier.
Because of this, did Adam create the drowning of the water tower? Set up a mystery that the whole world can't solve to challenge all the police and FBI elites?
Thinking about it on the weekend, but something didn't make sense here, Selena told herself at the time that the deceased was arguing with the guy in the hotel who no one saw and said 'I didn't see anything, don't pester me', which was obviously the other party thought that she saw something, or that she saw something at all, and that her death was extinguished. Then this woman's death is the knot at the end of the thread, and what I am looking for now is where the thread is.
"It's time, let's go inside."
Miguel patted Weekend's arm and pulled him out of his musings.
"You know, there are a lot of legends about Adam in Los Angeles, he was transferred by the Department of Homeland Security, only to be thrown back in less than a month, and the FBI picked up Adam and transferred Adam away, but ......" Miguel shrugged, "Adam is too bad at handling relationships, he has deprived himself of a higher stage." ”
Weekend wanted to refute, because only he knew that Adam didn't care what stage he was on, what he cared about was whether his subordinates could command him like an arm, and whether he had a voice in the office. Everything in Los Angeles was brought back by him one case after another, and suddenly in another environment, with Adam's conceit, how could he handle the case according to someone else's thinking? Obsessive-compulsive disorder alone can kill him, and not following his boss's instructions is basically equivalent to bullying in places like the DHS and the FBI.
Now, it's only a pip away from getting all the ideas straight out over the weekend, and once the ideas are clear, it's just the evidence that supports them.
"Miguel, are you talking about this before or after the drowning in the water tower?" Asked over the weekend.
"Before, of course." Miguel stopped at the door of the police station and said: "I know what you want to say, now that you are following Adam to investigate the 'Violent Sex - Assault and Death Case', you will definitely come into contact with the 'Water Tower Drowning Case', maybe your bet date with the FBI will lift Adam's spirits and solve the mystery." Well, I'll tell you a secret, as a participant in that case. ”
"Come on Miguel, almost half of the LAPD was involved in that case, but we were all keeping order outside the yellow line downstairs. However, I believe that Adam was not able to solve the case at that time because he was not good enough. Vic scoffed and walked in first.
"Ignore him." Miguel said to the weekend: "The water tower drowning case happened half a year after Adam was suspended, and the person in charge of the investigation at that time must not have thought that it was Adam, and the public opinion caused by that case was too strong, and the Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI reached out to participate at the same time, just like the case in your hands now." The Los Angeles Police Department also wanted to solve the case as soon as possible, but after they got used to Adam, they felt that it was not easy to use anyone, so they got Adam back. ”
"But there's no way they're going to get Adam on the paper, you know what I mean?"
It's impossible for someone not to understand something so obvious!
The Los Angeles Police Department will not let the media know that the main investigator of the water tower drowning case is the prostitute detective who was exposed by the media half a year ago, so every document signed by Adam is set with confidentiality permissions, maybe the person who has the right to lock the case will not think that Adam will participate in the work of interrogating the transcript, so he did not lock this part, Adam is precisely because he is familiar with the process of handling the case, as long as there is no serial murder case, no one will delve into whether the transcript has been altered, so he unscrupulously modified Selena's interrogation transcript...... If he was the murderer, he would be 100% sure that this case was not a serial murder!
This is evidenced by the signature column of the person in charge in the file I checked over the weekend, and that column says that it is not Adam, but the current boss of the Homicide Department!
In this way, the homicide section of the Los Angeles Police Department will never solve this case in his life!
I'm afraid this is also the real reason why the new boss of the homicide department allows Adam to participate in the next new case, after all, no matter how many cases the other party solves, he is the one who receives the reward.
After figuring this out, the weekend was one last point away from putting together the entire puzzle in addition to the evidence, and it was just the last point.