Peter didn't explain all the reasons to Jimmy, and although they were old acquaintances, they had hardly worked together in recent years. It's just that he knows Jimmy's character very well, and as long as he can give a reasonable reason, it is enough for Jimmy.

A bottle of beer was quickly drunk in their chat, and Jimmy almost understood the situation Peter was facing, since he was already here, let's help him stand up, no matter how the case is handled, in short, there is no shame, you must know that Peter was transferred from Manhattan to the headquarters, and the helper he recruited now is also from the Manhattan office, if the two of them can't handle anything, then it will be a big shame.

After drinking and talking, Jimmy got up to say goodbye, Peter sent Jimmy to the living room, the doorbell suddenly rang, Peter opened the door and looked at it and said, "Anderson." ”

Jimmy, the person outside the door, had never seen him, and when the other party saw Jimmy next to Peter, he asked in surprise, "Hey, Peter, are you going out?" ”

Peter: "No, I'm just sending him away, come in." ”

Peter lets Anderson in, and he drops Jimmy off before turning back into the house.

When Jimmy came, Peter drove over, and now he can only take a taxi back, but Peter has guests, so he didn't delay them here, and after he came out, he called the taxi company, smoked a cigarette, and a taxi arrived at the intersection and returned to the hotel.

Peter went back to the house, said hello to Elizabeth, and led Anderson to the backyard, which must have had something to say at this time, and it was certainly inconvenient to be in the living room.

Peter took a bottle of beer from the side: "Beer? ”

Anderson smiled and took it: "That guy just now is Jimmy?" ”

Peter also opened a bottle, took a sip and nodded: "Yes, I specially asked to come and assist us in investigating the case." ”

Anderson: "Why? ”

Peter: "He's the right guy." ”

Anderson: "I mean, why not use someone from the DC office?" ”

Peter: "They can't, you should have read Jimmy's profile, right?" He's the right fit, every way of looking at it. ”

Anderson: "But he might make this a war zone, and this is DC." ”

Peter: "We're missing two people, Anderson, and this is not the time to think about this. ”

Anderson nodded: "It's good that you understand it yourself, there may be some trouble in the future, so be prepared." ”

Peter: "Well, don't worry, I know. ”

The two chatted again, Peter got up to see Anderson away, the chain reaction of Jimmy's arrival had already appeared, Anderson was one of Peter's friends here, what they said between them was relatively clear, and Anderson obviously understood something, it seems that the storm behind will be a little serious.

In fact, Peter has considered these situations before, and Jimmy is also very well-known in the headquarters, especially the last time DHS lost face, the upper echelons also launched an attack on DHS because of this incident, and the reason was that Jimmy shined in their joint operation, which made DHS lose face.

Such a person is seconded to headquarters, and although no one else will say anything to his face, he will definitely pay considerable attention to this matter, which is one of the reasons why Peter asked Jimmy to come over.

Peter is not an outright interest animal, and Jimmy came to help him with this case, and in addition to the fact that he can gain a lot, Jimmy will also have a lot to gain.

Jimmy's personality determines that he is very popular with those old-fashioned people, and he used to be in the Manhattan office, although he handled a lot of cases, and it was also very exciting, the impression that people here at the headquarters can get by just looking at the information is really not deep, and now he has the opportunity to leave a special impression on these people at the headquarters, which is very beneficial to his cross-agency scheduling and promotion in the future.

The key is that the promotion of the FBI side requires multi-department and multi-position adjustments, and a variety of business experience and cross-department management capabilities.

Peter's plan, of course Jimmy doesn't know, he came to DC mainly because of the official secondment, and the headquarters contacted the Manhattan office to ask him to come to support, or Peter's acquaintance, besides, he has been fishing in a serious situation recently, so he came, so he didn't have to talk behind his back.

Back at the hotel, talk to Nia on the phone, he washed up and prepared to rest, Peter had just said the arrangements here, Peter himself would not act together, but he arranged for an agent to accompany Jimmy, so that he could understand the surrounding situation and call the resources of the headquarters.

This time it's a brand new place, and it's Washington, DC, it's still more sensitive, if no one is behind to support it, Jimmy doesn't dare to go too far, if everything goes according to the normal investigation procedures, the people in the Washington DC office will definitely not miss too many clues, not everyone can find out what they missed from the results of the agent's investigation.

So before going to bed at night, Jimmy had already locked on two special groups of people to investigate.

Early the next morning, Jimmy came to the FBI headquarters again, Peter threw him a key, said the license plate number, and an agent next to him walked up to Jimmy and stretched out his right hand: "David Hope, senior agent, it's a pleasure to meet you." ”

Jimmy also reached out to shake his hand: "Jimmy Young, from the Manhattan office. ”

Peter: "Okay, now that you have time to get to know each other, let's get to know each other first." Jimmy, you're in charge. ”

Jimmy glanced at Hope and nodded, "Then let's go." ”

Jimmy and Hope left Peter's office, went to get Hope's equipment bag and then went to the parking lot, Hope took him to the Sabo class, a car of two, it seems that this Hope has won Peter's trust.

Jimmy gave the keys to Hope, who was not familiar with DC here, and it was better for Hope to drive, and he also looked at the map by the way and wrote down the route and the surrounding neighborhoods.

Jimmy: "Hope, what case were you responsible for?" ”

Hope said as he drove, "Counter-terrorism center, temporarily seconded here to support." ”

Jimmy nodded: "Have you understood this case?" ”

It's strange that Hope wasn't among the people who had yesterday's meeting, and in fact it was generally judged that a few of the people in the room yesterday were the investigators in this case, and Peter didn't introduce Jimmy to yesterday's people.

Hope: "Yes, don't worry, I've read all the leads, and I'm also in charge of coordinating with the other agents, so you can tell me whatever you need." ”

Jimmy: "OK, I see, let's go to the site first, and then to the DC office. ”

Jimmy's idea was right, Peter asked him to come over and not follow the normal investigative path to solve the case.

Jimmy and Hope got out of the car on the outskirts, the neighborhood was indeed a little more deserted, and the nearest building was two hundred meters away, and there was no road to the area at all.

200 meters is not too far away, but for ordinary people, both vision and hearing will cause most of them to fail.

Jimmy stood at the scene of the previous investigation, looking at the digital labels on the ground and the location of various white spray paints, and began to try to restore the relationship between the various clues here, while Hope stood behind him, observing the environment left and right.

According to a previous investigation by the DC office, there was only one person's bloodstain here, Agent Benjamin Walker.

Agent Walker is a new agent who has been an intelligence officer and has little experience, so there is a possible explanation for the situation on the scene, Alex Baker and Benjamin Walker came here actively or passively according to a clue they got, and then someone held them hostage at gunpoint.

Benjamin Walker may have had too little experience, or said something that caused the other party to shoot angrily, which caused him to be injured and bleeding, but based on the amount of blood on the ground, he should not have died, which means that the other party did not shoot him in the heart or brain, nor at the level of the aorta.

And senior agent Alex Baker belongs to the kind of person who is experienced, after all, if he can be a senior agent, he must have a lot of field experience. Maybe he was more aware of current affairs and didn't do anything to stimulate the other party, so he wasn't beaten, or he wasn't injured, it's normal that there was no blood on his fists and feet, and there were no traces of footprints here, the ground wasn't that kind of soft ground, and it was difficult to extract shoe prints in this kind of place.

Based on this possibility, they should have been brought here, then......

Jimmy got up and looked at his surroundings, if he walked, he could walk in all directions, there were no walls or deep ditches or anything like that, there was no way to tell which direction they were traveling, but if they were driving, the only intersection was two hundred meters away.

No obvious rut marks were found here, which means that they must have come from that side.

Jimmy began to expand his investigation in a circular direction along the location of the bloodstains, and soon saw the clues he wanted to find, the previous investigation may have been missed, there was a piece of grass on the ground that was overwhelmed, it was difficult to see clearly from a distance, and the grass here was a little low nearby, the key was that Jimmy's sense of smell also improved a little bit with the enhancement of his body, although after three days, Jimmy still smelled a little different.

Jimmy took out his pen and brushed aside the grass, and after searching the grass, he finally found a little blood, "Hope, bring me the camera, and the evidence bag." ”

Hope hurried back to the car, Jimmy took a picture first, then put on gloves and collected a little bloodstained dirt and a few blades of grass from the ground and put them in the evidence bag, "Put this away, and send it to the lab for expedited processing when you get back." We continue to investigate. ”

Hope put away the evidence bag and watched Jimmy continue to investigate in circles, he couldn't help but nodded, he must have real skills under the fame, such a hidden little bit of blood was not found before, and now Jimmy just turned around a few times and found one, and when the results of the investigation are announced after going back, the people in the DC office are estimated to be very painful.

Jimmy found a bloodstain in the neighborhood again, this time the bloodstain was even smaller, and he didn't see any bloodstains anywhere else after that, no, no matter how urgent the bandaging of a person who was shot, it was impossible for him to have only such a small bloodstain when he was taken away, unless he was in a car or some other means of transportation.

Back in the car, Jimmy looked at a nearby house, which had been questioned and recorded by the previous detectives, Jimmy took out the notes from the car and checked them, and the nearby residents said that they had found nothing unusual and had not heard any gunshots.

Jimmy asked Hope to follow him, and after walking a little further, he finally found his target, and a gray-blue tent was set up on the side of the road, with some cardboard boxes next to it.

Homeless, there will be no shortage of beautiful scenery in every city in the United States, except for the police to evict them under certain policies of the city government or the local community to prohibit them from entering, basically you can see them anywhere, and even make people feel that there are homeless people everywhere, in fact, the main thing is that they often move, the actual number of people is not too much, and there are tens of thousands of homeless people in a big city.

Jimmy asks Hope to drive and buy two hamburger and Coke combos, and then walks over with them. Talking to the homeless man is still a test of Jimmy's endurance, this homeless man probably hasn't been to the alms station for a long time, and he hasn't bathed or cut his hair, which is far worse than Jimmy's state at the time.

Resisting the discomfort in his nose, paying for a hamburger Coke, half a pack of cigarettes, and a few dollars in cash, Jimmy finally got the clue he wanted.

Back in the car, Jimmy said, "Hope, drive back and arrange for traffic surveillance, a gray van left shortly after the gunshots rang out, and he was sure it wasn't a nearby car." ”

Ordinary citizens do not have a high degree of trust in the FBI, and they will also be afraid of retaliation, so even if they see something, they may not say it honestly, and for these homeless people, they have been living day by day, and such a generous and hospitable person as Jimmy is a temporary angel to him, not only food, but also cigarettes, which is enough for him to live well for a day or two.

He was the only homeless man nearby, and Jimmy had no way to cross-check, so he had to investigate this clue first.

His second target is gang members, but when he arrives at the scene, he knows that his idea is too simple, this is not New York City, where the gangs cover a wide area and there are many people, and there are only some simple suburban houses around the scene, and the gangs cannot survive in this environment, unless one of these residents happens to be a gang member.

Jimmy didn't have time to do a survey of everyone, so he had to give up his second goal for the time being, but there was definitely a chance later, and if what the homeless man said was true, then the car's path must have crossed paths with some people, and the direction of the investigation would be easily determined.

(End of chapter)