By the time old Billy arrived, the smoke had faded. The Beers struggled so hard that the 'castle', which had only been built until a few days ago, was charred and blackened, and the small oil refinery was reduced to rubble.

Fortunately, the fire did not spread. Old Billy and the others stared blankly at the ruins in front of them, their eyes blank.

Old Billy's youngest son screamed and was about to rush into the ruins, and as he went, he shouted Mencius, the daughter of the Bills family.

"Jessica! Jessica! The voice of the male duck, which is characteristic of the voice change period, echoes over the empty farm, like a crow making noise.

Old Bill grabbed his youngest son and shouted at the man next to him

"Look at him!" After saying that, he handed over his youngest son to the person next to him, jumped off the tractor himself, and approached the ruins.

In the distance, the smell of a scorched lake came from the direction of the small refinery, and when it was closer, Old Billy vaguely saw two large, one small and three lumps of charred black, exuding the smell of barbecue.

Old Bill retched and hurriedly ran out and shouted

"Call the police! Alarm! Dead! ”…………………… An hour and a half later, it was already afternoon.

The Great Rapids police arrived belatedly and drove away Billy Sr. and his party and set up a cordon outside the ruins.

Some of them carried the boxes and began to inspect the scene, while others familiarly found Old Billy and his party and began to chat and understand the situation.

Old Billy had come to his senses, and he stood on the tractor, looking around the Bills family's farm, silently assessing the value of the land.

Not far away, the sound of police officers giggling and laughing with nearby farmers who came to see the excitement could be heard. Great Rapids isn't a big city like New York, and Montana isn't a densely populated state like New York, it's a sparsely populated area where almost everyone knows each other.

The officers had already made an appointment with the farmers about which bar they would go to after work. At this time, it was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and it was close to the end of work.

The police officers came out of the rubble of the scene one after another, packed up their equipment, and prepared to leave. Old Billy asked

"What the hell is going on?"

"It was an accident." The officer replied casually

"It is estimated that he smoked in the refinery, which caused the fire." Old Billy was relieved, and with a sigh, began to think about his plan to buy the farm.

The officers left two hapless trainees to guard the scene, while the rest grinned and got into the police car and returned to the police station.

…………………… Little did Brooklyn know that thousands of miles away in Great Falls, Montana, there was an 'old acquaintance' of his who died today.

He's tired today. After the trial, Fang Yuan followed him to the inner court office and discussed many issues with him.

With his knowledge of the justice system across the ocean, Brooklyn coped with it quite well. This made Fang Yuan very interested in him, and the original plan to visit for one day was changed to continue visiting.

Fortunately, the trial ended late in Brooklyn, and it was time for the two sides to talk shortly before they got off work. Fang Yuan was dragged by Lyley Crowe to L&O Bar to experience the Federation's unique club culture, while Brooklyn collapsed on the passenger seat with a tired face, and Ray drove home.

…………………… Monday, June 18. After a week-long visit and exchange, Brooklyn has become familiar with Fang Yuan and Lyleigh Crewe's audit.

During this time, they had several exchanges, which benefited Brooklyn a lot, and he began to be less repulsive.

At the same time, the BAU team under the FBI also arrived in New York by plane. They are old acquaintances with the NYPD Eucalyptus team and have worked together on many cases.

This time, the people from BAU were not too polite, and directly occupied the conference room of the fierce eucalyptus group, and as soon as the door was closed, the meeting began.

Bau's Huo Qi is in charge of explaining the situation, and the actual person in charge, Jason Gideon, hides in a shadowy corner, holding his chest and looking at the whole situation, like a stranger.

Hodge uses a headset to get in touch with Garcia, a member of the team at BAU's headquarters, who is a computer whiz at BAU and is usually responsible for helping them access information and central scheduling, and usually does not run with them on the spot.

Garcia had already obtained access to the police network, and was switching the projection as Hodge explained.

"These are the three dead." Huo Qi talked about the deceased, and the projection switched to the picture of the three deceased, and below is the actual photo of the scene after the corresponding burning, which is dark.

"The Beers family, daughter Jessica Beers." The daughter in the projection is magnified and projected separately, taking up the entire screen, on which Jessica's file information begins to appear.

Montana's birth certificate, school award certificate, social participation certificate, etc. are very complete.

However, some members of the gang turned a blind eye to the information and whispered about Jessica.

"That's right." Huo Qi raised his voice slightly

"All this information is fake." As he spoke, the projection vanished, replaced by a document.

It was a letter of agreement. The agreement was soon covered by a witness protection plan.

"Jessica Beers, born Monrika Russell." Huo Qi said seriously

"A week ago, she was burned to death in Montana, and no one of her family survived." After a brief period of silence, the members of the Eucalyptus Group erupted with great enthusiasm for discussion.

Almost all of them had been to Brooklyn's house, had eaten Brooklyn cooking, and knew that Brooklyn was almost burned to death late last year.

The person who tried to burn him to death was a high school student. The high school student burns Brooklyn to avenge his best friend, who is Monrika Russell.

Ironically, when the high school student was brought to court, his best friend Monrika Russell chose to testify in court, becoming an important part of the crucification of her crime.

For this, she betrayed and was sentenced to death.

"We've been there." Hooch continued

"Due to the lack of attention of the local police, the scene was seriously damaged."

"But our technicians got the clue from there."

"It was a premeditated murder, not an accident." Hodge began to recount the eucalyptus that had caught fire a week earlier in Great Falls, Montana, thousands of miles away.

After the local police treated it as an accident, they gave the Bills family, which should be called the Russell family, and issued a death certificate to the Russell family and destroyed their files.

This action triggers an alarm set by the FBI. Immediately after learning that there was a target death in the witness protection program, it was immediately brought to the attention of the FBI.

The 'fire accident report' submitted by the Great Falls police appeared on the table of the relevant personnel, and the person in charge was so angry that he almost slapped a hole in the table.

Bau was then sent to the city of Great Rapids to investigate. The first thing they did when they arrived was to take over the 'Accidental Fire Eucalyptus' and drive the police out of Great Falls.

"During the investigation, we were hit by several hacks." Huo Qi recounted

"For the first time, because we were unprepared, all the data stored in the computer was destroyed, and the hackers left a warning asking us to stop the investigation."

"The second attack happened the day after the first attack, and our car was tampered with and controlled by hackers. Fortunately, the surrounding area was flat, and the car was eventually manipulated into a farm, and with the help of the farmer, we were able to escape. ”

"The third attack took place at the hotel, the elevator we were riding in was controlled, and with the help of Garcia, that is, our computer whiz, we were barely out of danger." As Hodge narrates, the projection switches between photographs of each attack.

"Later, the hackers launched several more attacks in a row, and we had to turn to the headquarters for help. A cyber security officer was assigned to headquarters. Below, Walter O'Brien stood up and greeted everyone shyly.

"Walter joined us with his team. This is how to defend against hacker attacks. ”

"After being tracked by the Walter team, we have locked down this hacker group codenamed 'Patriot'."

"After investigation, we intercepted a part of the list of members of the 'Patriots' organization, and one of the names caught our attention." A screenshot of a string appears in the projection, which has been deciphered and reduced to a number of names.

One of the names once again elicited exclamations from the members of the Eucalyptus group. Emma Gilson.

"The FBI has arrested the members on the list, but the situation is not optimistic, and these members have been informed and fled first."

"Only this Emma Gilson, whose death sentence review has been approved and will be executed at 3 p.m. tomorrow afternoon, we must get information about the 'patriot' from her mouth."

"At the same time, we have reason to believe that the fire accident in Montana, as well as the multiple attacks against us, is related to Emma Gilson." ………………………… The meeting at the NYPD headquarters did not take much time, and after BAU explained the situation, he immediately took the lead and began to assign tasks.

In the afternoon, David drove with Hooch and Walter to E. y。 They broke into Courtroom 9 to get the judge's authorization to talk to Emma Gilson.

At this time, a trial was going on in Brooklyn. Seeing that the group ignored the discipline of the court, they went straight to their side and glanced at Lei.

Lei Huihui took two other bailiffs to stop David and his party. For David's sake, they were not immediately expelled from the courtroom, but were taken by Lei to the corner of the last row of the auditorium to 'punish them'.

"Now we'll adjourn for half an hour, and we'll continue in half an hour." Brooklyn patiently waited for the defense counsel to finish speaking and adjourned the trial.

The reporters in the auditorium were a little surprised by this unusual decision, and they turned their cameras to David and the others in the back row.

Fang Yuan, who was sitting in the first row, looked at Lai Li Crewe and became interested in David's party who had already walked towards the inner court.

Laili Crewe shook his head and leaned in Fang Yuan's ear to explain a few words, dispelling Fang Yuan's idea of going to follow and find out.

"The joint operation of the NYPD and the FBI may involve some confidentiality, sorry, old side, it may cause unnecessary trouble to keep up." Fang Yuan nodded, indicating understanding.

…………………… Inner Courtyard, Brooklyn Office. Huo Qi had described the eucalyptus as briefly as possible and explained the appeal.

Brooklyn listened, called Bob, and issued them a warrant.

"You need to hurry." Brooklyn admonished as he filled out the form

"Emma Gilson's execution is tomorrow at three o'clock in the afternoon."

"According to the rules, she herself has the right to refuse your request to talk, so you have to find a way to get her approval as soon as possible." Brooklyn pointed

"It might be a good place to start by asking this 'Scorpion' gentleman to talk to her about hacking techniques."

"Note, however, that it is unlikely that the timing of her execution will be changed. That's the bottom line. Huo Qi took the permission order and frowned.

"I know what you think," Brooklyn said, waving his hand

"You want me to help you apply for a postponement of execution."

"But the delayed procedure for the execution of the death penalty is so complicated that it simply cannot be passed in less than a day."

"Moreover, I do not think there is a need for her to delay the death penalty. She probably doesn't know anything at all. ”

"Emma arson: I'm one of the victims, and I'm the presiding judge, and I know more about her than you might think. That's an arrogant, spoiled little girl. ”

"According to you, this 'Patriot' organization is fast-moving and well-organized, and I don't think such an organization would recruit someone like Emma Gilson, who is at best a peripheral member."

"Thank you for your cooperation. But judging if she's helpful in our work," Hodge said coldly, keenly sensing Brooklyn's displeasure with them

"I just hope you'll be able to help you when we need it." Facing Hooch's attitude, Brooklyn was not angry, he put on the cap of the pen, inserted the pen back into the ink tank, crossed his hands, and said leisurely

"Before we say that, let's prove that she's useful." Huo Qi nodded, put away the permission order, and turned to leave.

David told him to 'stay safe' and left in a hurry. …………………… As Brooklyn said, Hooch's contact with Emma Gilson did not go well.

After nearly three months, Emma Gilson continued to be shrouded in the shadow of the death penalty, and her spirit was on the verge of a breakdown.

With the judge's permission in hand, Hooch met with Emma Gilson and talked for nearly an hour, but got nothing.

They listened to gibberish for almost an hour. Emma Gilson just kept repeating 'Death penalty!'

''I don't want to die!'' 'Help me' or something like that. Hooch had no choice but to join up with Jason Gideon and report the situation to Jason Gideon.

Jason Gideon listened to Huo Qi's story, he was not in a hurry, he thought for a moment, got up and said

"Let's go talk to Judge Brooklyn."

"Toby, David, come with me." Jason Gideon greeted. Toby Curtis is part of Walter O'Brien's 'Scorpio' team, a behavioral and psychological genius.

The Scorpio team is different from BAU in that it is not an affiliation with the FBI, but an employment relationship.

The Scorpio team is led by Walter O'Brien and consists of five members, all of whom are high-IQ geniuses, who help the FBI and obtain access to some of the privileges and resources that ordinary people cannot have.