George looked at the scene displayed in the tablet monitor in his hand, and his expression became strange again.

Especially when I saw the black shadow jumping out of the car and plunging into the Hudson River without looking back, my expression was even more shocked.

WTF？

Although there is no way to be 100% sure that the black shadow that jumped out of the car in this surveillance is Hawk, the license plate in the surveillance is very clear.

George was sure that if he had gone to court and presented such surveillance, there was almost a 10 percent chance that the evidence would be accepted by the jury.

Is it really not him?

Wrong!

George thought about it in his heart, and then he saw Hawke sitting in the interrogation chair opposite, and his eyes once again showed a hint of a playful expression to him, and he instantly dispelled this thought.

Damn it.

This guy must be King.

George took a deep breath, handed the tablet in his hand to Beckett, stared at Hawk opposite, and said to Beckett: "Let the people in the forensic department retrieve all the videos from half past eight to half past nine in the evening, and verify the authenticity of the video content." ”

This surveillance video must have been faked.

George believes that as long as this video is identified, it will prove it.

Beckett was stunned.

Although Beckett didn't know what was going on and she didn't know, it seemed that George was 100% sure that Hawke was the King they were looking for.

But......

Beckett looked at Hawke, who was sitting in the interrogation chair opposite, and at all times, she trusted the instincts and judgments of her colleagues, especially the long-time detective George.

Not necessarily this time.

Beckett motioned for George to follow her out of the interrogation room.

"George, you mean, this surveillance footage has been tampered with?"

"Yes."

"But he's just a high school student."

"If he's King, then he's capable of it."

Really.

Beckett listened to this, and secretly said in his heart, looking at George, who was sure that Hawke was King, hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but say: "George, are you really sure that he is King?" ”

George said in a deep voice, "Yes." ”

"Evidence?"

"There are too many coincidences."

"No, I mean ......"

Beckett shook his head and looked at George, "If he's not Gwen's boyfriend, are you still so sure he's King?" ”

Fathers like their daughters to be by their side.

Especially a daughter slave.

In order to prevent outsiders from snatching his daughter from his side, he can do anything unthinkable.

And George is a well-known daughter slave, for his daughter, he is the ultimate daughter slave who can not even want his own life.

The most important point.

Beckett once took on a case, a daughter slave father, in order to prevent his daughter from marrying, but randomly killed a passerby, and then blamed his daughter's boyfriend.

So......

Beckett thought for a moment and said to George: "Now I feel that this is no longer reasoning from the evidence, but from the results to extrapolate the evidence. ”

In any case, in the process of solving the case, he must first find evidence and then draw conclusions.

But for now?

At least in Beckett's opinion, although there are too many coincidences in Hawke, there is no evidence that can be directly related to King, and in this case, George is still so sure that Hawke is King, how do you look at it, it is somewhat inconsistent with the regulations, and it is somewhat with a personal grudge.

George listened to this, looked at the expression on Beckett's face, and said in a deep voice, "He is King." ”

"Evidence."

“……”

George didn't speak.

He didn't.

At the very least, as Beckett put it, he didn't have any evidence that would put it on the table and make the jury believe it.

Can......

My instincts can't be wrong.

"Jingle bell!"

“…… Feed. ”

Beckett connected the phone in his hand, listened to the voice coming from the phone, and nodded: "Okay, I know, send the things to the forensic department as soon as possible for identification." ”

After speaking.

Beckett hung up the phone and looked at George: "Ryan called, in Hawke's room, in the bathroom, found a set of wet clothes, I have sent Ryan to the forensic department, from now on, what Hawke said is the same as the evidence we have." ”

George's brows furrowed.

The next second.

George turned around, pushed open the door of the interrogation room, looked at Hawke sitting in the interrogation chair inside, and said in a deep voice: "Why did you jump off the Hudson River after you jumped out of the car?" ”

Hawke, who was pondering what other moves his future father-in-law had, looked at George, who pushed the door in, and suddenly said this, the corners of his mouth rose slightly: "Because...... Between two points, the shortest straight line? ”

George: "......"

Don't ask.

The question is, between two points, the straight line is the shortest, if you take the main road, then, you need to cross a bridge, go around a big circle, to return home.

But if you take the waterway, you can save at least half an hour's journey, swim across the Hudson River, go ashore, and walk a small alley to get home.

The most important point.

Coming ashore from the Hudson River, during the arrival at home, there was no surveillance.

The giant farmer only needs to modify a surveillance footage.

Hawke smiled, gave the reason why he jumped into the river and swam home, and looked at George: "Besides, I drank last night, swam back, and I can sober up by the way, Detective Stacey, I can't swim home without that law." ”

“……”

The reason for this......

George looked deeply at Hawke, who looked up and smiled at his explanation, and he could clearly feel the undisguised defiant gaze in this smile.

That's right, I'm King, you guessed it, but, do you have proof?

"I'll find proof."

"Whatever you want."

Hawke smiled slightly, spread his hands, leaned back in his chair, looked at George, who had a 'I'll catch you' expression written on his face, and said indifferently: "I'm also looking forward to Detective Stacy, what kind of evidence can be used to prove that I am King." ”

George squeezed his hands tightly.

That's when it happened.

"Beckett!"

Esposito's voice rang out outside, and Esposito, who walked to the interrogation corridor, looked at Beckett who was standing at the door of the interrogation room, and said excitedly, "We found King." ”

Beckett, who was about to push the door into the interrogation room, was stunned.

George, who was staring at Hawke in the interrogation room, also heard this sentence and couldn't help but turn his head to look.

The next second.

George snorted and returned his gaze to Hawke.

Hawke smiled, and his smile was very bright.

Five minutes later.

George walked into the small conference room with Beckett and Esposito.

"Where did the surveillance capture King?"

"Captain America's doorstep."

"What?"

"Captain America Memorial."

Esposito corrected his language, then sat down next to the computer, and after a pause, clicked on the important monitoring data that had just been sent by the Forensic Section: "It's called up." ”

George and Beckett looked directly at the screen.

into the eyes.

The monitor installed at the door of the Captain America Steve Rogers Memorial appeared directly on the screen, in the picture, King with sunglasses, holding a gun in one hand and a phone in the other, appeared in the surveillance screen, looked up, stared at the surveillance with an expressionless face, and then, under the gaze of the surveillance screen, slowly took off the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose.

Moment.

His face is no longer covered, and he is unreservedly under the camera, revealing his original appearance very frankly.

Man.

In his thirties.

White complexion.

The appearance is mediocre!

The next second.

King, who took off his sunglasses, raised his gun directly, only to see a pinch of flames appear on the screen, and then, snowflakes covered the entire screen.

Esposito said with some excitement next to him: "Our people have already found the warhead on the surveillance side, and the forensic department has proved that the warhead is the same as the King's warhead we collected before." ”

Beckett raised his eyebrows: "Great, Esposito, put the photo into the system and see if you can identify it, by the way, send a copy of the photo to the Jersey City Police Department and ask them to help identify it in the system." ”

Esposito got up: "Roger!" ”

Soon.

Esposito left the room.

Beckett immediately looked at George, who was frowning and contemplative after watching the surveillance, and said loudly: "It seems that your guess is wrong, if this person is King, Hawke doesn't look like this person no matter how he looks at it." ”

Age.

Appearance.

King, a killer who looks ordinary and is about thirty years old, no matter how you look at it, doesn't look like Hawke, who is only seventeen years old this year, is in his prime, and looks super handsome.

George didn't speak, just asked the surveillance footage to be replayed.

While rewatching the surveillance footage, George turned to Beckett next to him, saying, "Last night, I asked Hawke a question. ”

Beckett looked at George.

"What?"

"I asked him if he was the killer King."

“…… He replied yes? ”

"Nope."

George shook his head: "I gave him a multiple-choice question, yes or no, and your reaction was also his answer either yes or no, but he gave a third option." ”

"The third?"

"He said, do you have any proof?"

"This ......"

When Beckett heard this, he frowned and looked at George: "Is there any problem, he is hostile to the police station, such an answer is normal." ”

George shook his head, "And, because he was my daughter's boyfriend, and because he knew there were killers who came to kill Jill and Gwen that night. ”

Beckett frowned: "Wait a minute, he knows, when?" ”

……

(End of chapter)