Chapter 26: The Old Things Revisited
As soon as Helsing got off the plane, he received a call from his subordinates: "Sir, the 'Jack Koonan' you ordered us to keep an eye on was killed just last night, and we didn't stop this case according to your instructions, and now the NYPD has received a call to report the crime, and they will arrive at the scene of the crime in about 15 minutes." ”
"Well done, give you three days off, and then report to Agent Barry." Helsin said.
"Yes, sir! Thank you, sir! ”
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In a cheap apartment in Queens, Sister Kate and Uncle Ka had just arrived at the scene and were listening to Ryan tell the background information about the identity of the victim, whose name was 'Jack Koonan', who had been arrested by the NYPD more than a dozen times on multiple charges. Rumor has it that he is a thug of the "Western League".
Renee, who was doing an autopsy on the side, asked curiously, "Wait a minute, which of you will explain to me what the Western Alliance is first?" ”
"The Western Union is an Irish mafia organization in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood that is said to be an Irish mafia that is said to be an Irish mafia in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. There is no evil except poison. It's just that the Western Union has now been expelled from Hell's Kitchen by King. Helsin walked in through the door and said.
"Hey~HS~~ When are you coming back? Why didn't you notify me in advance? Uncle Ka came up and gave Helsing a big hug and said.
"I just got off the plane and came over, and I didn't even eat anything." Helsing and Uncle Ka hugged for a while, then turned to look at Sister Kate and continued, "Inspector Beckett? Don't give me a hug and welcome me back? ”
"It's probably not good for you to come back, let's say, how did this case attract you?" Sister Kate obviously doesn't eat Helsin's set.
"Keep investigating, you'll know, I'm just watching and not talking right now." Helsing finished speaking with his hand and made a movement to zip his mouth.
Sister Kate was not surprised to see that Helsing was still like this, and turned around and continued to signal Ryan to describe the clues he had obtained as if he were not there, and after conducting the on-site investigation, she decided to visit Jack Koonan's brother Dick Kunan, and of course Helsing was also with her.
At Dick Koonan, Sister Kate learns that Jake Koonan is working for von Roch, the leader of the Western League. So Sister Kate and her party rushed to a bar stronghold in the Western Union, which was said to be von Roe's property.
Outside the bar, after Sister Kate asked Helsing to take care of Uncle Ka, the three of them walked into the bar and went straight to the bartender, Sister Kate showed her ID and explained her intentions, and the bartender took out a traditional Irish beer-cured egg from the jar on the bar and put it in her mouth and chewed, while saying without peeling: "I think you can find this sissy next to you here slowly."
Uncle Ka rolled up his sleeves with a disapprehensive look and was about to take out a pickled egg from the jar, when Helsing on the side grabbed him so as not to make a fool of himself for a while, and then turned to Sister Kate and pointed to a white-haired old man next to her and said, "Inspector Beckett, this is Mr. von Rocker, the supreme leader of the Western Alliance." ”
Von Roch, who was sitting on the sidelines, turned to look at Helsing and asked in a low, hoarse voice, "Who are you?" ”
"Please don't worry about me, I'm part of my entourage, this is Inspector Beckett of the NYPD's Homicide Squad, and she has a few questions for you to answer." With that, Helsing took a few steps back behind Sister Kate and handed over the rest of the inquiries to her.
"Mr. von Roe, I'm Inspector Kate Beckett, and I'm here to investigate the case of Jack Koonan," said Kate.
Von Roe heard Sister Kate mention Jack Koonan, sighed and drew a cross on his forehead, saying, "Oh, you're here for this......"
"When was the last time you saw Jack Koonan?" Sister Kate asked.
"I don't remember, actually...... None of us here remember. Von Roe looked uncooperative, got down from the stool at the bar and walked up to Sister Kate, stared at her, and said, "Now I warn you, go cool... Detective. ”
Just as von Roch was threatening Sister Kate, Sister Kate was about to respond to Von Roch's intimidating words, but a sound of punching and kicking came from the innermost room of the bar, which attracted her attention. The three of them followed the sound to the innermost office, where they saw a tall man beating up another bald man.
Sister Kate saw that the questioning at the scene was fruitless, so she directly took the beaten man back to the police station. Ryan brings up the file of this man, who is named Mario Mendoza, who also has the nickname "Suzaku", and is a thug of another street gang, "King of Latin". This man is good at using knives, and although there is no evidence that this person has a murder in his hands, there are many people who have his fingers off.
Just when Sister Kate sorted out the materials and was about to go in to interrogate this 'Suzaku', Helsin grabbed Uncle Ka, who was about to go in with Sister Kate to participate in the interrogation, and said: "This interrogation will be carried out by Inspector Beckett himself, anyway, he won't say anything valuable, I have something to look for you." ”
So Uncle Ka came to his office in the FBI office on the second floor with Helsing under the thoughtful gaze of Sister Kate, Helsing sat in his chair and looked at Uncle Ka sitting across the table and said, "During the time I left New York, you have done a lot of things." ”
"You know everything?" Uncle Ka hurriedly asked, "What do you know?" ”
"Everything in this world that I want to know, I know." Helsing shook his head and said.
"Then you know who killed Sister Kate's mother? Can you tell me? This is very important," Uncle Ka hurriedly asked.
The answer is clearly no! Because this matter is not just a murder case, it involves a huge conspiracy behind it, and it involves people with deep backgrounds, at the level of a congressman or even a vice president. You'll need to keep investigating, looking for clues, and sorting out the whole thing bit by bit over the years, and during this time, your relationship with Beckett will be sublimated as events unfold. ”
"You mean, Kate is the real other half of my life that you said that time?" Uncle Ka wondered.
Helsin crossed his fingers on his chin, raised his eyebrows and looked at Uncle Ka and said: "Now she is not, I said it, the relationship between the two of you needs time to brew, and it can be sublimated after life and death, just like your novel, isn't it?" ”
"So what am I going to do now?" Uncle Ka apparently agreed with Helsin's explanation and continued to ask.
"Just be calm. If you like her, follow her, don't you like that kind of ambiguity that doesn't need to be spoken? If something happens in the future, just follow your heart and make a choice, and time will tell. Helsin said.
After talking to Helsin, Uncle Ka returned to Sister Kate's side, and it happened that Sister Kate had finished interrogating the 'Suzaku', and as Helsing said, Sister Kate did not get any useful information from the interrogation.
So Sister Kate decides to try her luck with Renee to see if she can find new clues to solve the case. In the morgue of the medical examiner's office, Sister Kate takes out the knife she has found from Suzaku and prepares to show it to Renee, only to be sure that the knife is not the murder weapon used to kill Jack Koonan.
Renee explained to Sister Kate the situation of the murder weapon and the murderer judged from the corpse, and when Sister Kate went out to answer the phone, Renee glanced at Uncle Ka with a strange look, Uncle Ka looked at Renee's appearance, leaned closer and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" Is there anything wrong? ”
Hersin patted Uncle Ka on the shoulder from behind and said, "Don't ask, Renee doesn't have any solid evidence yet, let's wait until she confirms with your friend." ”
“!!!” Renee and Uncle Ka looked at Helsing fiercely, Uncle Ka quickly looked back at Sister Kate, and saw that she was still answering the phone outside, so he asked Helsing in a low voice: "You mean that the murderer in this case is ......?" ”
Hersin nodded and said to Renee, "You go check with that friend in Kassel, and then find a time to talk to Beckett." Although I can give you an affirmative answer right now, it is better to explain it to Beckett with evidence. ”
Then Helsing said to Uncle Ka: "Until Renee finds Beckett to explain the situation, you better not reveal this matter to her, it will lead this case to an uncontrollable direction that will endanger her life." ”
At this moment, Sister Kate answered the phone and returned to the morgue and said to Uncle Ka, "CSU technicians have found a new clue from Jack Koonan's mobile phone. Then he went back to the police office.
Esposito told Sister Kate that CSU had recovered the last number he had called from Jack Koonan's phone, and Esposito looked at Helsing and continued, "That's the number for the FBI's New York branch. ”
When Sister Kate heard this, she immediately turned to Helsing and said, "That's why you want to join this case??? ”
"Believe it or not, I'm going to tell you that I haven't been in contact with Jack Koonan, it's probably another agent's case, and you can contact Agent Forrest in the FBI division to find out what happened," Helsing said in response to Kate's questioning.
In the process of talking with the FBI's Agent Forrestal, Sister Kate learned that Jack Kunan had taken the initiative to find the FBI and asked for inside information to trade, intending to join the witness protection program to ensure her personal safety, but Agent Forrest did not agree to Jack Kunan's request, so the inside information about Jack Kunan is completely unknown, but it can be confirmed that the Western Alliance has always preferred to kill traitors rather than let them go.
So Sister Kate decided to talk to von Roch again.