Of course, Richard wouldn't have known, and even if Mayor James was a good friend of his, he wouldn't have told him about some of the things he had done back then. And it is the relationship between the two that is destined that Richard will never have the slightest chance here in Beckett.

"Tell me, what did you find out when you called me?" Beckett and Ling Xiao stood up side by side and looked at Richard together, and the difference between inside and outside was very obvious.

Taking a deep breath, Richard suppressed the unhappiness in his heart and said in a deep voice: "Because I suddenly had a flash of inspiration, I found that we have been 'looking' the evidence for such a long time, but I think we should try to 'listen' to the evidence!" ”

Hearing Richard say this, Beckett and Ling Xiao immediately looked at each other, and they understood that Richard should have discovered new clues from this other angle.

As he walked inside, Richard said, "It started when Laura told someone that she heard something on the phone that she shouldn't have heard, and we writers call these 'triggering events.'" No matter who she was talking to, no matter what she heard, these were the real reasons that led to her killing. ”

"So what's the use of all this?" Beckett stopped, looked at Richard and said, "I mean, the hard drive of that phone company was stolen, all the data was gone, and we'll never know what he heard on the phone?" ”

"Yes, but we may know who she heard from her." Richard chuckled smugly and said, "You remember when Laura fell asleep watching those TV tapes on Gotham 11, right?" ”

"You're talking about the tape we found her in the same frame as the mayor?" Beckett seemed to sound something.

"That's right." Richard nodded, full of excitement and said, "She wasn't asleep, she just closed her eyes, she wasn't looking at the tape, she was listening to the voice......"

"So you're saying she's recognizing the caller's voice through the tape?" Beckett immediately understood what Richard meant, since the person who called her was likely to be a staff member of the city hall, then through the video of Mayor James's whereabouts, it was likely that the real identity of that person would be discovered.

At this time, when the primaries for the presidential election are in full swing, Mayor James has done a lot of publicity, and it couldn't be easier to find videos of his whereabouts on TV and online.

Richard pushed open the door to the conference room and said to Beckett and Ling Xiao, "So I asked Sarah, our lucky operator, to listen to those sub-belts, what did you find?" ”

Sara was the operator of the pornographic phone company, and although she didn't know what Laura was hearing on the phone, she could tell who Laura's regular customers were, after all, as an operator, she was the first to get a call from outside.

Putting down the headphones, Sara looked up at the three people who walked in, nodded vigorously, and said, "I'm sure it's him, he's Laura's regular customer." ”

"Show them who it is?" Richard said as he asked Sara to play back the clues she had found on the computer.

The computer screen was playing the scene when Mayor James was talking to one of his staff, and Beckett couldn't help frowning and asked, "Are you talking about Laura's regular customer being the mayor himself?" ”

"No, not the mayor." Sara pointed to the staff member on the screen who was putting on Mayor James' coat and said, "That's him." ”

Caucasiatic, six feet tall, with long dark hair, his features are similar to the man who appeared in the apartment as described by Laura's landlord earlier.

Richard sneered and said, "Jordan Norris, the deputy assistant to the mayor's chief of staff, he was able to touch and even take the mayor's coat without arousing anyone's suspicion. The flow of funds of that foundation is also in his hands, and if you want to find out the truth, you just need to find him. ”

Soon, Jordan Norris was taken to the police building by the Los Angeles police, and was first identified by Laura's landlord and received a positive answer before taking him to the interrogation room.

"Mr. Norris, you told us you didn't know Laura Cambridge, right?" Beckett stared at the man she had personally written down and asked seemingly nonchalantly.

"That's right." Jordan Norris sat confidently across from Beckett and Richard, unaware that his identity had been revealed.

"But your 89-year-old grandmother, Greta Mackensen, knew the deceased." Beckett raised his head and stared at Jordan, then looked at the information in his hand with a blank face, and said, "According to the sex call records, Laura received many calls from your grandmother. ”

"That makes poor Greta look quite naughty!" Richard sneered and said, "Until we learn that you've been helping her take care of the house, do you need me to continue?" ”

Watching Beckett and Richard sing and cooperate tacitly, breaking through Jordan Norris's mental defense step by step, Ling Xiao couldn't help but smile lightly.

Ling Xiao did not enter the interrogation room, but stood in the cubicle to watch through the glass of one-sided see-through to every detail of the interrogation, and next to him stood Beckett's boss Montgomery, as well as Kevin Ryan and Esposito.

In front of sufficient evidence, Jordan Norris could only reluctantly admit: "Okay, I may make that kind of service call from time to time, but I never know who the other party is." Right, how could I possibly know? ”

"We'll find out later." Beckett lightly removed the topic, continued to flip through the information in his hand, and said: "In the meantime, we checked your call history, and a month ago, you sent this text message to this disposable phone. ”

Beckett put the call in front of Jordan Norris's eyes, and his voice began to grow colder: "To many people, it looks like a random series of numbers, but when we investigated, we found out that it was an account information of Mayor James and his charity, and someone used this account to frame the mayor for embezzlement." ”

Once the investigation of Jordan Norris began, a lot of clues and evidence kept coming out. According to the clues provided by the prosecutor's office, the case of misappropriation of funds from the foundation under Mayor James' name began a month ago.

In Ling Xiao's opinion, this is normal, after all, if you want to run for president, it is inevitable to be attacked by someone who digs up black material, so before announcing your participation in the election, you must deal with all your own problems, and even people who take it as a career.

So embezzling millions of funds is such an obvious thing, after announcing the election, Mayor James is unlikely to do it, of course, it is not ruled out that he has to do it in a temporary emergency, but now it seems that he was really framed.

"The mayor believes in you, and you betray him." Richard's clenched fist was eager to smash Jordan Norris on the head, and when he saw him, he said with a fierce face: "Say, Jordan, what conditions did they give you, and what did they promise to give you?" ”

"I thought it was just money!" Under all the hard evidence and all the pressure exerted by Beckett and Richard, Jordan Norris's psychological defenses finally collapsed, and he said in a panic: "I, I don't know, I don't know they tried to destroy him." ”

As soon as Norris's words came out, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, the truth of the matter was finally clarified, but they didn't expect a political turmoil to evolve to this point. And only Ling Xiao noticed a flash of loss in Beckett's eyes, and she understood that this time she couldn't help Mayor James.

"Jordan, Laura's landlord has identified just now, you went to Laura's apartment on the night she was killed." Beckett said faintly.

"I didn't kill her, I just stayed for 20 minutes and left." Jordan hurriedly said, you must know that the crime of false accusation and murder is far away.

Beckett sneered and said, "You don't have to do it yourself, when you confirm that Laura has discovered the truth, all you have to do is make a phone call, so Jordan, who are you calling?" ”