Hughes: "The second video on the TV station was submitted by the deputy editor-in-chief, Alan Tudek, and I asked someone to ask him, but his source was never revealed, and the two videos this time gave them very high ratings, so they strongly refused our request and couldn't drag it out any longer.

I'll rush Dave's side, ask him to contact as soon as possible, and ban these two videos first.

Ruiz, you go investigate that Alan. I don't care what means you use, you must find out his whereabouts in the past few days, who he has met, who gave him information, phone records, and check them all. ”

Ruiz received Hughes's instructions, didn't say anything, just nodded, got up and buttoned up and left the conference room.

Jimmy looked at Hughes, who was silent for a while, and then spoke: "Jimmy, you don't have to meddle in the investigation here, you go and cooperate with Gordon and them to deal with the bomb case as soon as possible." It's been more than a week, and this case can't drag on any longer, and the bomb they prepared must not be blown off at all costs. Do you hear me clearly? ”

Jimmy's eyes widened, Hughes, are you crazy? You know what you're talking about?

Jimmy took a deep breath: "At all costs? ”

Hughes waved his hand directly, "Go ahead." Then he left the conference room and went back to his office next to him.

I haven't seen him for a day, there is definitely something that stimulates Hughes, he is absolutely abnormal, Hughes was not like this before. At today's meeting, he has already said twice that he will do whatever it takes, whether it is for the deputy editor-in-chief or the bomb case, was he reprimanded by the top management? Or was it stimulated by the rejection of the deputy editor-in-chief Allen? For the sake of face? Not really.

Jimmy sat for a while, got up and went to the conference room where Gordon was before, Scott had already left, he was the only one left here, it seemed that Scott had come back for this inquiry, otherwise he would have been following the monitoring team all the time.

Jimmy: "Gordon, how's it going?" ”

Gordon looked up at Jimmy: "The Counter-Terrorism Bureau has found several suspected suspects, Scott and they have already gone to investigate with the monitoring team, and now we are waiting for their news." ”

Jimmy: "Have you found a suspect?" Who is the reporter Ash meeting with? ”

Gordon shook his head: "It hasn't been finalized yet, but at present, we have only found the person who has appeared in several scenes after the location of the anonymous phone, and one of these people should be our target, but who needs to continue to investigate." ”

Jimmy: "So what do I need to do?" I can't interfere in the affairs of the bureau for the time being, and I don't need it for the time being. ”

Gordon: "Then go to the CTA, you can be the liaison, and let me know as soon as there is an update." ”

, Jimmy had a headache when he heard the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, but he couldn't help it, he nodded: "Okay, I'll go over now, and I'll let you know if they have new clues." ”

Jimmy turned around and went back to his office, though nothing happened, but it was always right to check it out, and then left the bureau and headed for the Counter-Terrorism Bureau.

If Tom were in New York, he would probably be looking for Jimmy. He said that he would not let him get close to the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, and he continued to run over, just for fear that he would not be discovered.

Jimmy is very honest this time driving, yesterday I found that my spirit and body are not very good, now when driving, see the situation to the hands and feet on the movement will be a little uncoordinated, honest slow and stable driving on the road is the best, although it will be a little slower, but much safer.

Coming to the CTC, Jimmy showed his ID and successfully entered the previous conference room, where some of the things Gordon and his stuff were still there, and the CTB seemed to have allocated this conference room to their use, and no one else came here.

Jimmy looked around, then went upstairs to the command center.

Noah Watson is in the command center, Jimmy looks at their investigation from behind, it doesn't seem to deal with Jimmy their bomb case, but another case, looking at the photo above, their target also seems to be someone from the Middle East, the little white hat is too conspicuous.

A small window that seems to be a real-time surveillance video has been marked, it looks like it should be a mosque, the round spire on it looks a little familiar, and the surveillance camera is at a high altitude opposite the mosque, this angle, is it specially installed by the CTA? The mosque seems to have a lot of people, but most of the people seem to be tourists, and New York is really an international city, is this kind of mosque actually a tourist spot?

Jimmy didn't speak, just watched from the side, Noah seemed to notice someone next to him, and turned his head to look: "Oh, Jimmy, it seems that your matter is settled." ”

Jimmy wasn't surprised, it was all on the news, and it was normal for the CTC to get the news. "Well, it's probably a part of the solution, and the leaders above will come forward to deal with it, but you can come out for activities for the time being."

Noah: "Well, you've already given Gordon the clues to your case, you can go to him for advice." ”

Jimmy looked at Noah unexpectedly, this is to let himself go, it seems that the case on the monitor now really has nothing to do with the FBI. "Well, I've already contacted Gordon, I'm coming over now to be the liaison, and if there's any new clues, I'll be in the conference room below. Goodbye, Mr. Watson. ”

Jimmy turned to leave the command center and went back to the conference room to wait. This is not an FBI office, and Jimmy has nothing with him, so he can only pass the time with a newspaper in hand. But he wasn't completely idle, after looking at it for a while, he suddenly thought of a question, the anonymous phone before was turned off, but turning it off doesn't mean it won't turn on. The CTA is dealing with their own case, and naturally they will not pay attention to the bombing case anymore, which is really something that may have been forgotten before.

Jimmy put down the newspaper and returned to the outside of the command center, knocked on the door, waved at Noah, who turned his head to look, and entered the command center.

Jimmy: "Mr. Watson, can you help the technician pay attention to the phone number?" Of course, it won't affect your work, as long as he turns the phone back on and connects to the base station to notify me. ”

Noah looked at Jimmy for a few seconds and nodded, "I know, I'll arrange it." ”

Jimmy: "Thanks, I'm down." ”

It's not my own person, it's really troublesome to communicate, but Jimmy is already smooth, after all, it's a bomb case, and Noah Watson didn't directly refuse, that's good news.

After that, Jimmy stayed in the conference room until he drove home from work to rest.

The next day, not long after being in the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, a man arrives in the conference room and informs Jimmy to go to the command center.

Noah wasn't in the command center, and now Kerry, who followed Noah, was in command in the command center.

Kerry: "Jimmy, just in time, the anonymous phone you want to monitor is on again, 5 minutes ago, in Carnath, Brooklyn, but there is no call log yet. ”

Jimmy: "OK, I'll inform Gordon about them. ”

Asked for the exact location, Jimmy walked out of the command center and dialed Gordon's phone in the hallway outside: "Gordon, Scott, are they in Carnath, Brooklyn?" The anonymous phone is on again, and there is no call made or received yet. ”

Gordon's voice raised a line: "You wait a minute, I'll ask them." ”

Jimmy looked at the phone that was hung up, a little speechless, Gordon was so anxious that he hadn't said the location just now.

Fortunately, after a few minutes, Gordon called back, "The person Joey is following is in Carnashe, and now that the person who met with Axie has been identified, we will continue to monitor it." You wait in the CTC. ”

Jimmy: "Are you sure it's him?" ”

Gordon: "Of course, of the few suspects we monitored, there is only one person in Kanahi right now, Joey has brought a surveillance team to keep an eye on it, and I will arrange for others to come and support." ”

Jimmy: "Well, remember to let me know if you're going to do it." ”

Gordon: "Don't worry. That's it, I'll go to the scene too. ”

Jimmy: "OK, there's news for me. ”

Jimmy hung up the phone and returned to the command center, where the monitor on the wall was still the mosque they had been watching, and they didn't know what they were monitoring, completely ignoring a potential bombing.

Jimmy: "Kerry, we've identified the suspect, and now Gordon they're on camera. ”

Kerry: "OK, I've got some news. After saying that, he continued to look at the screen.

Speaking of which, Kerry probably also learned from Noah, they all stood in the command center, even if there were empty chairs next to them, I haven't seen them sitting, I don't know what kind of habit this is.

Jimmy stood for a moment, another phone in his pocket vibrated for a moment, and he took it out and looked at the text message from an unfamiliar number.

"See you in the evening." Well, although it is an unfamiliar number, but it is already known who it is.

Jimmy didn't reply to the text message, just deleted the text message, put it back in his pocket, and continued to watch the anti-terrorism bureau investigate the case, it seems that the people they pay attention to should be very uncertain, and the men in the freeze-frame surveillance screen will be marked by them and identify themselves, which is a very time-consuming job, and because of the incomplete face recognition function now, the recognition rate is not as high as in later generations.

Jimmy had used face recognition many times in the FBI system before, and to be honest, the current surveillance itself is not very clear, and the screenshot images are very blurry, and the matching effect is even worse. If it is a photo taken by a camera, the effect will be much better, so if you directly use the ID photo to identify, the success rate is still very high.

Jimmy watched that the people in the command center were operating queries on the computer, very busy, and suddenly felt that his idle eggs hurt, this kind of liaison work is the most boring, anyway, now that the suspect has been identified, is it to go to Gordon and them to monitor together? If something happens, it can be dealt with in a timely manner.

But now it's not like he just goes to Gordon directly, since he has arranged his own tasks, he must always carry them out according to the arrangement, and he can't do it according to his own ideas at will, and cooperation with others is always like this, and his autonomy is suppressed.

Looking at the time, Jimmy thought about it, forget it, I have to meet Tom in the evening, so I won't make trouble for the time being.

Jimmy had planned to kill time like this, but not long after, Gordon's phone call came, and the suspect had just answered the phone, but due to the on-site surveillance methods, they couldn't hear the call. Jimmy immediately entered the command center, "Kerry, we need to look into the case urgently. The suspect just received a phone call and needs to bring the content out as soon as possible. ”

Kerry looked at Jimmy with a frown, nodded, walked up behind one of the operators, said a few words to him, and then nodded to Jimmy again and left the command center.

It seems that they still disturbed their own mission, Kerry is not in a good mood, should he go to Noah to make a small report, right?

After waiting for a few minutes, before the results could be found, Noah and Kerry had already come in together.

Noah: "Jimmy, what's new?" ”

Jimmy: "Yes, Mr. Watson. Gordon just contacted me, and the suspect answered the phone, so I need to investigate from the system here, who is calling and what the content of the call is. ”

Noah: "Okay, everyone, now suspend the case in hand and fully cooperate with the investigation of the clues of the bombing." ”

Noah is really the boss here, and at the sound of an order, the content of the monitor on the wall was immediately replaced, becoming a clue related to the previous bombing. There is only one suspect left from the previous investigation, and that is the person who is currently being monitored by Gordon himself. The photo is an ID photo, Joseph Yang (Joseph Jr.). Young), 31 years old, Massachusetts driver's license, very clean profile, no professional information, no criminal record.

Jimmy looked at the person's profile, it was the first time he had seen a picture of the suspect, and such a clean profile was not right in itself.

Jimmy turned to look at Noah, "He doesn't have a Social Security Number (SSN)?" ”

Noah looked at the suspect on the monitor with a blank face, "Kerry, check the original information." ”

Kerry immediately walked over to an operator, took a card out of his pocket, and re-looked up the basic information with high authorization. After a while, Kerry returned to Noah's side: "I found out, the driver's license information was added to the system half a year ago, and it was fake." The system is very clean, and the people who do the work are well cleaned. ”

Noah looked at Kerry and said in a not very good tone: "Why didn't such an important clue be discovered in advance?" The driver also came to New York half a year ago. He turned his head to look at the monitor, "Listen, everyone, re-do a background check on Joseph, go through all his information, the phone number registered in his name, the house, the car, the bank account, the rental information, the travel history, I want to know everything about him." Kerry, ready to carry out anti-terrorist operations, contact FBI agents on the spot, and if necessary, directly arrest. ”

Noah looked around at these people and saw that everyone was starting to act, so he relaxed a little, although his face was still expressionless, at least it didn't feel as cold as just now.

Jimmy was very surprised, when they got the case before, they quickly found out the suspect, originally thought that the anti-terrorism bureau was very responsible, and the suspect's information had been investigated, it seems that they were not completely involved in this bomb case before, but only investigated according to the standard procedure, and did not follow up in detail at all.

"The call log is coming up." A staff member shouted as he looked at the computer.

Noah and Jimmy walked over and said, "Play." ”

"The driver can't be contacted, there may be something wrong, you go to his residence to see."

"Now? I'm still waiting for the equipment to be delivered, and I can't leave for the time being, in 1 hour. ”

"OK, go check it out as soon as possible."

In three short sentences, the call ended, Noah: "Investigate the number that called him, I want to know who is on the other side, and his real-time location." ”

"Curbside public telephone, location in Springfield, New Jersey. We don't have New Jersey surveillance. ”

Noah turned to look at Kerry: "Kerry, contact the Newark FBI office and ask them to go to the scene to investigate." ”

Jimmy saw Noah's arrangement, and he didn't have any objections, although he was an FBI liaison, he was just an ordinary agent, and it was no problem to contact New York, but it was still very troublesome to cross the state. Of course, it is not excluded that Noah did not think of him at all, and only contacted him in accordance with the emergency case handling norms.

Jimmy took out his mobile phone, walked out of the command center, and dialed Gordon's number: "Gordon, are you still spying on the suspect Joseph?" Where is he now? ”

Gordon: "He's just out the door and we're following him. ”

Jimmy: "The call log just now, the person inside informed Joseph that the driver could not be contacted, so let him go and have a look." Joseph said he was waiting for the equipment to come and would go to see the driver in an hour. This driver should be Abdul who we caught, and now Joseph should go to Abdul's warehouse when he goes out.

Did you see what equipment Joseph received? ”

Gordon: "Yes, there was a courier package just now, Joseph took it to the room, according to the time, he didn't check the package, put it in the room and went out. ”

Jimmy: "Arrest him if necessary, and send someone to investigate Joseph's room." Noah, for his part, contacted the FBI office in Newark and asked them to investigate the person who called Joseph, who was using a roadside public phone. ”

Gordon thought about it for a moment, "I see. Inform me as soon as there is any news, and if Joseph did go to Abdul's warehouse, we would arrest him directly. ”

Jimmy: "OK. That's it. ”

Jimmy can say that he will be arrested directly, or Hughes's sentence that makes him make up his mind at all costs, under normal circumstances, he should try to track it down as much as possible to see who Joseph will contact next, and what actions he will take to do so. But in the phone recording just now, it was mentioned that he received the equipment, once he started late, something really went wrong, and it was even more troublesome, so it was safer to directly arrest and interrogate him.

Although Jimmy was surprised by the direct arrest, Gordon thought about it and agreed, just a few simple words on the phone, Gordon's mind has been spinning for I don't know how many times, and the person who becomes a leader is not simple.

Hanging up, Jimmy returned to the command center again, and another monitor on the wall had marked the location of the public phone, which seemed to be very close to Newark. It's just that this map is not a composite map with satellite photos that was commonly used later, but an ordinary transportation network map, and the environment of the scene cannot be seen.

Kerry hung up the phone and said to Noah, "The people of Newark have departed. It is expected to be on site in 20 minutes. ”

Noah: "It's too slow, contact the agents who departed, and hurry up." ”

Jimmy saw that they were no longer talking, so he walked up to Noah: "Watson, I have contacted Gordon, Joseph has now driven out of his residence, probably to Abdul's warehouse, Gordon will arrest him when he is sure." ”

Noah didn't look at Jimmy, but stared at the monitor on the wall and nodded, signaling that he understood, and didn't reply at all.

(Background: The CTA is a department established by the CIA, and after 911, it was managed by the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and cooperated with the National Security Agency (NSA), which usually operates under the name NSA and DHS because the CIA does not have law enforcement authority in the United States.)

When arranging surveillance reporters, Noah Watson suggested that this was an NSA Level 4 emergency, indicating that they cooperated very closely with the NSA, but the NSA did not have law enforcement powers, so DHS was needed to act as an agency on the surface. ）

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