"Hello, I'm Jessica Cortez." On the seat next to her, a Latino woman in her forties was stunned for a moment when she saw Jack in full armor, and then took the initiative to introduce herself.

"Jessie, this is Jack Tawolle, we knew each other when he was a LAPD."

Hondo took the initiative to introduce Jack, and his rather affectionate title made Jack look at him slightly.

"Oh, it's you, Zoe used to talk to me about you, it's a shame that both of you are now out of LAPD." Jessica Cortez had a look of regret at the loss of LAPD.

Hannah pouted secretly.

Jack said a few words modestly, and introduced Jiejie and Emily behind him by the way, and explained the situation.

"Dr. Red and Director Hodchner are still missing, I need to go in and get them out, but don't worry, I won't hold your team back."

"I'm Ash Jones, the contractor of this prison." A middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes next to Jessica Cortez also stood up and took the initiative to shake hands with everyone with a smile.

"Let's start with the information you have, including the specific identities of the 18 hostages."

Obviously, Hondo doesn't have a good impression of this kind of guy, so he just gets straight to the point.

"Okay, okay." Ash Jones took out a handkerchief, wiped the dense beads of sweat on his bald head, and pressed it a few times on the monitor to enlarge the photos one by one.

"The hostages were the prison warden, six guards, eight construction workers who were carrying out repair work inside, as well as two priests and a nun."

"Wait, Mother Carmelita is up there too?" Hongdo asked in surprise, pointing to the last woman in the photo, who looked to be in her forties and fifties.

"You know her?" Jessica Cortez turned her head in surprise.

"Yes, she often travels back and forth to the prisons, praying with the inmates to help them regain their faith, she is a really good person, she does what she does, and sometimes she asks me to communicate with the inmates."

Hondo's face was a little ugly, obviously worried for the nun, a woman fell into the hands of a group of rioting prisoners, even if she was a nun, the risk of assault was still much higher than that of other hostages.

"Negotiators are communicating with the prisoners that she may have been injured, but they refuse to release her." Jessica Cortez looked gloomy.

"Negotiations with the prisoners are not going well, and I need you to come up with a plan of action."

As she spoke, she opened a 3D drawing of the building.

"This is the layout of the main building, the main area of the riot is currently limited to the top four floors, and the prisoners inside are all felons, a total of more than 300 people, roughly divided into three main gangs."

"The southern part is Area B, which is controlled by the 'Baja Horned Dragons', and their hostages are the eight construction workers who are carrying out repairs inside."

"The northern part is Area A, which fell into the hands of the '19 Gang' along with six prison guards, and the controller of Area C is the 'Spicy Eagles', a group of white supremacists, who have taken the prison director and three clergy."

After Jessica Cortez's introduction, Hannah projected the contents of the tablet onto the home screen.

"This is material from three prison gangs, from the FBI's database."

"The 'Gang of 19,' a predominantly black gang with a small number of Latino inmates, led by Kettle Porter, is said to be a very clever guy who was involved in street gangs before he was imprisoned."

"This is the 'Baja Horned Dragon Gang' that controls Area B, and the main members are mainly DU traffickers, a group of mentally ill people, full of murder, and the boss is called Moco Hernandez."

"The trickiest of all is the 'Spicy Hawk', you know what the group is by the name, the leader is Gunner Card, who is vicious and vicious, has a very high IQ, and he and his people are the only ones who refuse to communicate with the negotiators."

"Gunner Card, I've heard of this guy, and the LAPD knows his 'big name'."

"So what are the other two gangs asking for?" Jack asked.

The prison contractor, who called himself Ash Jones, took the initiative.

"It's nothing more than improving the food, increasing the time spent outdoors and spending time with your spouse visiting, nothing special."

"That's all? What about casualties? How did it get to this point? "Hondo felt something was wrong.

"There were some internecine killings among them, and the prison guards rescued all but six of the wounded people who were taken hostage."

"I know of the limited details, but it was the white supremacists who started the fight in the first place, and when the warden sent in to control them, the 'Baja Horned Dragons' and the '19 Gang' took advantage of the chaos."

"Because of the hostages, my emergency response team is unable to deal with this kind of situation."

Ash Jones said as he pulled out his handkerchief again and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"This is the main control room? What's next to it? Jack clicked on the middle two rooms that connected the three ABC districts.

"The armory, both rooms have fallen, which is why we have lost all surveillance on this level." Jessica Cortez glanced at the paper map in her hand and marked it on the screen.

"So, now the prisoners have the keys to all the cells on this floor, as well as the weapons and protective gear that were originally issued to the guards?"

Jack rolled his eyes, turned to Hondo and said, "I need a gas mask, enough tear gas, stun grenades, and more 7.62X51mm ammunition"

"There are ammunition boxes on the armored car, and you can stuff your backpack to the brim."

Hondo also seemed to have a headache, more than 300 prisoners, an open armory, and the devil knows how many traps the gang had set up in it waiting for them.

"You said we lost that layer of surveillance, what is that?" Vice Captain Deacon asked, pointing to a monitor that suddenly had a signal.

"Someone turned on the surveillance in Area C?" Ash Jones was surprised.

Jessica Cortez tapped the shoulder of one of the technicians in front of her, and the screen on the monitor was zoomed in on the main screen.

"That's Gunner Card, the leader of the 'Spicy Eagle', what does he want to do?"

Gunner Card, who was dressed in an orange prison uniform and had various eagle heads and swastikas tattooed on his neck and arms, waved off camera, and two of his men pushed an old man with gray hair to the camera.

"That's our warden, Phil Harvey." Ash Jones said, pointing to the screen.

In the video, the warden trembles and raises a piece of cardboard in his hand, on which only two words are written, "Stay outside." ”

In the next moment, Gunner Card pulled out a pistol from behind his waist and shot the warden in the head.

Write head-on

(End of chapter)