Chapter 367: Self-defeating
Fortunately, Joe Masson is an operative after all, and although the 80-year-old makes him unable to face those strong security guards and caretakers, many skills have not been forgotten.
After two weeks of paralyzing the caregivers, the old man finally found an opportunity, got a mobile phone, and called Frank Moses for help.
At this time, Frank had just retired for less than a year, and he was still trying to adjust to retirement, so he hurried from Texas, and after some investigation, he was shocked to find that there was nothing he could do about it.
Yes, Frank could easily sneak into Mara Grayson's house and leave without leaving a trace while wringing her neck, with a clean approach that neither CSI nor BAU could do anything about it.
But it's clear that Joe Masson didn't just ask him for help to get out of the damn nursing home, he's 80 years old, but he's not old enough to move.
Just give him a little time, and it's not particularly difficult to leave.
Joe Masson wants freedom, a return to his old life, he wants to go back to the small villa where he has lived for more than ten years, and he wants to drive his antique classic car on the road to talk to the aunts who are still charming.
What he wanted was to be able to wander the old railroad tracks in Cold Springs again, standing on the Hudson River, overlooking West Point in the distance.
But it was clear that neither Joe Masson nor Frank could do that.
Mara Grayson's methods are despicable, but procedurally, she does not overstep the law, and what she does is completely legal.
She took advantage of the loopholes of the guardianship system and turned hundreds of old people like Joe Masson into her own cash cow.
However, once awesome operatives like Joe Masson and Frank, after they came ashore with their identities, they became people without any social connections.
Frank had no choice but to find that he couldn't find any way to deal with the vicious woman except to use extraordinary means to break the net.
In the end, he could only reassure Joe Masson to stay honest for the time being, so as to avoid being sedated for a long time like several other uncooperative elderly people, or locked up in the basement and abused.
Frank then approached the old Hunters for help.
It's not that he doesn't want to find the CIA, it's that he feels too embarrassed; Second, it is already very rare to be able to break away from the CIA and successfully retire, and the old agents do not want to be remembered again unless necessary.
R· E· The Ds have participated in too many secret missions that cannot be mentioned, and they have also seen too many unlucky people who have been killed, some of them are even the ones themselves.
Fortunately, compared to others, Frank is lucky to have a few old friends who can still be contacted, such as when he was younger, when he was an ordinary New York police officer, the old Hunter he met in Los Angeles and his beautiful female partner.
Although the three old guys were a little vague when talking about how they met, Jack could roughly guess that the plot of "Die Hard" had been interpreted to some extent.
However, what Frank didn't expect was that although it was not as difficult for a strong dragon to suppress the head snake, it was obvious that the retired old cop from the West Coast didn't seem to be very effective on the East Coast.
Mara Grayson seems to have opened up the dots in Putnam County, to which Cold Spring belongs, and has been bribed from the doctor to the judge of the family court.
After another trial session that lasted less than ten minutes, the lawyer hired by Hunt Sr. lost the case cleanly.
They then went on to investigate the tax situation of Mara Grayson's guardian company through Chris's girlfriend, Dana, who has joined the IRS.
They had originally conceived a tax audit to force Mara Grayson to give in, but the unexpected happened, and Dana's findings were too ideal, which led to more questions.
After more than a month of investigation, the IRS investigation team led by Dana found that behind this small and inconspicuous company was a consortium with 80 overseas registered branches.
These companies invoice each other to hide profits, and they have their own real estate teams, legal teams, training teams, medical teams and even pharmaceutical teams.
The scale of these companies is not worth mentioning compared to the bigwigs who monopolize the market, but they form a fairly complete nursing home industry chain.
In this industrial chain, there are hundreds of professional guardians like Mara Grayson, who wantonly extend their tentacles in this seemingly unnoticed "sunset industry", stretching out their black hands to those rich and lonely old people, and using various means to encroach on their property.
The IRS has its sights on the big fish, but it is far from quenching its thirst, and the investigation is still underway, and it may take months or even more than a year to finally close the net.
But Joe Masson is 80 years old, and there seems to be some liver problems lately, and God knows how long he will last, and Frank is worried that this old guy may not live to be free.
So the three old men, who had nothing to do, could only find Jack, planning to be a dead horse and a horse doctor, to see if he had any way, after all, the young man had a more active brain, and he was an FBI, maybe he could think of a good way.
Is this a test? Jack muttered to himself that he hadn't forgotten the scene when he was still in the LAPD, at the New Year's dinner at the police station, the old Hunters and Zoe's grandfather Anderson Sr. whispered.
The Anderson family is a powerful party in Washington that wants to get Mara Grayson and force her to spit out what she eats, which is nothing more than a phone call or two to a congressman.
After all, just giving up a cash cow, not the entire forest, is not a pain in the bones at all, and a woman like Mara Grayson, who relies on official appearances to eat, will weigh the gains and losses.
His gaze swept over the faces of the three old men, and the bald Frank looked resolute and looked indifferent, as if to say, it's okay if you kid can't help, it's a big deal, I'll go in and rescue the old guy, and then find the CIA to change his identity.
Old Hunter stared at Jack tightly, his face was depressed, and he was a little bit "The children in Nancun bullied me for being old and powerless. Returning to lean on the staff and sighing to himself".
It's quite capable of acting, Jack has a slander in his heart, without him, the expression on the face of his childhood goddess, Officer Dee Dee McCall, has already betrayed old Hunter.
Dear Aunt Didi seems to be always bowing her head and wearing a sweater, but the corners of her mouth have been constantly rising, although her face has long been engraved by the years, but the pair of smart eyes have always been as shining as Jack remembers.
(End of chapter)