Jack doesn't expect to convince Helton to let Chloe go, and Chloe is his only lifesaver until he finds his daughter.

But Jubal, who remained at the scene, could do a lot, such as gradually building mutual trust by informing Helton of the progress of the investigation.

Another example is to make Helton as relaxed as possible through conversation, and then guide him to empathize with Chloe.

Jack's real concern wasn't that he couldn't find Stephanie, but that three weeks had passed, and if they only found a corpse in the end, it was hard to say whether the crumbling Helton would shoot himself in the head or kill Chloe before he died.

If it weren't for the fact that the program didn't allow it, he even wanted to put two cameras directly on him and Hannah to broadcast their progress to Helton, believing that he would have believed the FBI's sincerity when he saw himself racing nearly 60 miles in rush hour traffic in New York.

The analysts of the combat center made another meritorious service, they successfully found the original owner of the car by combining the dashcam video with the comprehensive image processing along the way, obtaining a part of the license plate number, and then combining the model with the model.

Jack and Hannah were on their way to Brooklyn, where the original owner was Alfonso Gomez, who was in his sixties.

Although his age clearly does not match the younger man who kidnapped Stephanie on the video, analysts have not found any record of the theft of the car, so it is likely that this person is related to the kidnapper.

Jack turned off the Dodge Hellcat's siren and hidden police lights two blocks away from his destination, and that's the benefit of plainclothes police cars that don't attract any unnecessary suspicion.

Knocking on a room on the top floor of the apartment building, an old white man appeared at the door, none other than Alfonso Gómez, the original owner of the car used by the kidnappers.

Hearing that the two FBIs explained their intentions that their car was actually related to a kidnapping case, the old man looked embarrassed, "About a month ago, I sold that car to a young man named Sergio.

He originally rented a room with me, but later I found out that he was actually an addict and was secretly in the room. Kicked him out that day."

Hannah didn't talk nonsense to him about why he didn't sell the car (most likely in order to save some fees), and directly interrupted him.

"Sir, please tell us how to find this Sergio, it's really important, does he have any acquaintances here or where he frequents?"

The old man looked a little unhappy when he was interrupted, but he said, "If you are so anxious to find him, just wait downstairs for a while, he will come at this time of the day." ”

"What are you doing here?" Jack raised an eyebrow, didn't the old man say that Sergio had been kicked out by him?

"He has a pigeon loft on the roof, and although I don't understand why an addict would keep pigeons, maybe it's some kind of psychological comfort for him, so he let him keep it, who knows, maybe it will help him get off drugs." The old man chattered again.

"Well, the FBI thanks you for your cooperation." Jack and Hannah hurriedly said goodbye, not that they were rude, but they really didn't have time.

When she went downstairs, Hannah finally couldn't help but complain to Jack, "I still can't imagine why the NYPD would ignore Helton's case like this." ”

Since arriving in New York, she has not been able to connect it to the unfair treatment that Helton has suffered, whether it is her own experience, or listening to Jack talk about the Reagan family dinner he attended, or even the story of eating melons with Beckett and Cassel.

Jack didn't have the resentment of Hannah, and he had already seen how the old salted fish Smide treated ordinary people who came to report the crime when he was at the front desk when he was in the LAPD.

Among the grassroots police officers, there are very few who can achieve the level of the old rookie John, which is determined by the special police system of the United States.

Because the system of this country determines that there cannot be a police headquarters in the federation itself, and there is no unified state police department in each state, the state police are under the jurisdiction of the governor, and at the municipal level in New York, the police are under the jurisdiction of the mayor or the legislature.

Further down, the police at the town level are under the control of the town mayor, typical of the small government model.

Therefore, the police in various parts of the United States, from the police uniform to the police badge, everyone is usually in a state of autonomy, even if it is the FBI as a federal police, when dealing with the local plan, it has to "discuss" with the local police.

Why did Hannah sympathize with Helton's plight, perhaps even she didn't realize in her own heart that what happened to her childhood was actually somewhat similar to Helton's current situation.

The police of the country on the other side of the ocean are under the control of the central government down layer by layer, and if something goes wrong, theoretically it can be reported all the way up, of course, the theory mentioned here does not rule out that some "village sages" cover the sky with one hand, but this situation is relatively rare.

But in this country, if something goes wrong with the town police, the local sheriff and the town mayor are in cahoots, and there is really no place to reason.

So when Jack was preparing to avenge Hannah, he didn't think about other legitimate means at all, precisely because he knew the joints very well.

This is also the reason why Jack has been insecure since he came to this world, an ordinary person who has lived in the big government model since he was a child, and suddenly came to such a world from a country where he was accustomed to the duty of the police to "protect the lives and property of the people".

It's like a little lamb being thrown into the dark jungle, and before getting used to the laws of this jungle, he can only curl himself up as much as possible, which is one of the reasons why many people in the previous life would ridicule that the Chinese who came to the United States would be particularly "honest".

It is conceivable that when this case is over, even if the FBI pokes the details of the case to the media, the police officer who took the case will most likely not be punished too severely.

Because in terms of process, he didn't do anything wrong, it was only Helton himself who was wrong, because he didn't "work hard" enough to be a rich and powerful man like Chloe's father, and he was able to call the deputy director of the FBI at the first time when his daughter had an accident.

That's the law of this society, so that even though everyone knows deep down that it's an injustice, they'll just say that this is the reality, rather than complaining about it.

Only someone like Hannah who has had a lot of pain in her skin would instinctively think that this is wrong, but she may not be able to say what went wrong.

Of course, it is inconvenient to go into detail at this time, and some things can only be said after going home, the two of them hid in the bed and chatted privately, Jack made a call back to the command center, and asked them to inquire about the information of that Sergio with the NYPD.

Although they only got a name, since the other party is an addict, then eighty percent is a criminal record, plus the video that has been processed with definition, it should be enough to lock the identity of this guy.

After hanging up the phone, he put his arms around Hannah, pretending to be a couple who were in love, standing at the entrance of the apartment, seemingly kissing me and me, but in fact, always paying attention to the movements around him.

Alfonso Gómez, the old man, though he had been nagging, told the truth, and after less than ten minutes of waiting, a short young man yawned and walked across the street with shaking legs.

"Is that him?" Hannah put her arms around Jack's neck, trying to restrain her knee-jerk movements to wrap her legs around his waist, and whispered in his ear.

"Looks right." Jack noticed her movements, stifled a laugh, turned his head silently, and kissed her on the cheek.

The two continued to maintain an intimate position, and as Sergio passed by them, Jack reached out and grabbed each other's necks.

"Whew. What do you want to do? Sergio was caught off guard, only to feel as if his neck was firmly clamped by an iron tong, and he screamed in pain, and involuntarily knelt down.

(End of chapter)