"I thought you two guys were here to help." Beckett was a little impulsive by these guys, and he couldn't continue to write while standing in front of the half-written time coordinate diagram on the evidence board.

"OK, I'll help." Hannah was not as thick-skinned as a few of the big men, so she picked up a whiteboard marker and stood with her.

Jack stood behind the two of them, going over the parts that had already been written, one by one.

On Saturday night, at 5 p.m., the wedding rehearsal begins, the dinner takes place at 7 p.m., and at 9:40 p.m., the guests arrive at the bar with the bride and groom, groomsmen, and bridesmaids.

At 11:45, the bride first went back to her room to rest, at 1 a.m., the groom returned to the room, and after 1 o'clock, the deceased, the bridesmaid Sophie, sneaked out of the bar with Mike, the groomsman who was already a little delirious.

At 2 a.m., hotel records show that Mike entered his room for the last time.

"Uh, what seems wrong?" Hannah held Beckett's notepad and wondered, "I remember you said that the best man Mike wasn't drugged and locked in the storage room afterwards, did he mention that he was back to the room halfway?" ”

Beckett was immediately reminded, "No, he said that he was fascinated by Sophie, who suddenly took the initiative, and then was tricked into the storage room for a reason to get excited." ”

"So who used Mike's key card to open his room?" Hannah wondered.

Jack replied with a smile, "Of course it's the bridesmaid Sophie, it seems that we found the reason why she stunned Mike." ”

At this moment, there was a dinging sound from the direction of the elevator in the detective's office, the elevator door opened, and Cassel hurriedly ran into the office, and he was stunned for a moment when he saw so many people, and then shouted loudly, "Mike's room card!" ”

Beckett turned around and left without looking at him, and instructed the living treasure duo as he went, "You two contact the best man Mike and ask him about the whereabouts of the room card on him when he wakes up, and we will go to the hotel." ”

"Aha? You guys thought of it too? Cassel asked, turning and following Beckett with a shy face.

Beckett ignored him, and Hannah kindly replied, "Just a minute before you came in." ”

——

Arriving at the Beaumont Hotel again, Beckett called in hotel security, and like the room where the murder occurred, the best man's room was asked by the police to remain as it was for the time being, so they planned to search it again.

Cassel followed Beckett into the room, "Kevin and Esposito seem to have said they searched this room before?" ”

He had been at a loss on the way here, and Beckett had never paid much attention to him, seeing that Jack and Hannah were embarrassed by him and secretly amused.

But everyone is a man, and if you can help, you still have to help, not to mention that Beckett ignored him, probably because the presence of the two light bulbs was too much of an eyesore for him and Hannah, of course, the so-called background check before the living treasure duo was the main reason.

So Jack also followed Cassel and had nothing to say, lest he sing a one-man show alone.

"Yes, they also reconfirmed just now, Mike's room card was gone when he woke up, and he only lost his room card, and his belongings and things in the room were not lost, so we need to look for clues from a different angle."

Cassel walked around the small room and muttered, "So what is there in this room that is important enough for Sophie to drug Mike?" ”

It's just a junior suite, and although the Beaumont Hotel is a five-star high-end hotel, the furnishings of the junior suites are just like that, and the layout is similar to the room where the murder took place.

The only difference between the two is that this is a connecting room with two doors to the next room.

"I don't think Sophie was trying to get into Mike's room," Beckett stepped forward, easily unscrewing the doorknob and pushing open the door to the next room.

This type of connecting room, also known as a double suite, is very common in European and American hotels, and when the two doors in the middle are opened to each room, the two junior suites become one large suite.

This kind of room is very suitable for families with a large number of members, such as couples with several children, and of course, like Jack when he flew around the country with the BAU group, he also liked to live in an adjoining connecting room with Jiejie, which is very convenient to discuss the case all night at night.

"So Sophie went to great lengths to stun Mike and get his room card because she wanted to enter the room? And who does this room belong to? ”

Cassel's playful role attracted Beckett's impatient eyes, "You don't have to be like this, I'm not in a bad mood because of you." ”

"Huh? Isn't it because I was in the elevator last night and I refused to answer your later question? It's all in the past, and I just don't want to be misunderstood and still have a relationship with Kayla. Cassel hurriedly argued.

"I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in all the romances I had in the past." Beckett glared at him viciously.

"Hey, I said guys, be professional, are you really going to quarrel at the scene of a possible murder?"

Jack's words caused the two of them to turn their heads sideways at the same time and ask in unison, "What murder scene?" ”

Seeing that Jack had put on rubber gloves at some point, he picked up an earring from the carpet in the corner of the bed in the bedroom and motioned to them, "Do you remember the earring that was missing on the deceased's left ear?" ”

A dramatic scene occurred, just as the door was opened, and everyone turned back in unison, only to see the groom, Gretel Murphy, looking at everyone in shock.

"Hey, what are you doing in my room?"

"Does this count as a voluntary surrender?" Standing at the front, Kassel looked behind him, the lineup of two FBIs and a police detective made him feel very safe.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Gretel Murphy couldn't say any more because he also saw the bloodstained earrings that Jack was holding in his hand.

The NYPD officer had posted a picture of the earring all over the hotel, and it was impossible for him not to know who it belonged to.

——

Under the surprised gaze of a crowd of relatives and friends, including the bride Kayla, Gret Murphy was escorted into a police car.

Although he was not handcuffed, Beckett only invited him back to the police station under the pretext of assisting in the investigation, but even a fool knew that this scene must have something to do with the death of the bridesmaid Sophie.

Apparently, the discovery of Sophie's earrings in Gretel Murphy's room had already gone long and wide, after all, the hotel security was waiting at the door of the room.

It is estimated that there are already countless versions of the story that have begun to circulate at this time, looking at the heartbroken eyes of the bride Kayla at the door of the hotel, Jack poked Cassel, "You are not going to comfort her?" ”

Without waiting for Cassel to answer, Hannah behind the two of them gently kicked the guy who didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement.

"Of course not." Cassell, who came to his senses, looked back at Gret Murphy in the back seat of the car, "I want to hear what kind of story this guy is going to tell first." ”

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In Precinct 12, Jack and Hannah are looking through one-way glass at the trio sitting in the next interrogation room.

Another day when they could only rely on fast food to satisfy their hunger, the two of them listened to the conversation next door while eating hamburgers and fries they bought on the way.

"Your accusations are insane, I didn't kill Sophie Ronson." Gretel Murphy took a deep breath and tried to calm down before speaking.

"Then why did you find her earrings in your room?" Cassel's voice was solemn like that of a judge convicting him.

Beckett glared at him silently, she already had a premonition that it might be a mistake to let this guy sit in on the interrogation.

"Gretel, while you still have a chance to clarify everything, and be honest with us, what the hell is going on." In contrast, the female detective's attitude is much more objective, and her intuition tells her that things may not be so simple.

They still lack direct evidence, and she had just contacted the medical examiner's office before entering the interrogation room, and there has been no progress on Lannie's side.

If it was really Gretel Murphy, he would have just shut his mouth and said nothing, and with a ripped earring, he would not have been able to convict him even in court if the motive was not even clear.

However, he did not ask to see a lawyer immediately, but came to the police station quite cooperatively, which made Beckett instinctively feel that there might be something else hidden in it.

"As I told you before, I went back to my room around one o'clock, and my uncle Teddy was very fond of pulling me over for tequila at family gatherings, and he was unlikely to let me go on that occasion, so I was pretty drunk."

Gretel Murphy shifted her ass to the right of the stool so that she was facing Beckett instead of looking at the annoying ex-boyfriend of her fiancée.

"I regained consciousness a little bit around two o'clock, and I noticed someone on my bed, and I thought it was Kayla, and I thought she had changed her mind, and it was about not being able to see each other before marriage, but"

"But you found out that the person was actually Sophie, right?" Seeing that he looked like he wanted to speak, Beckett helped him to continue the following words.

(End of chapter)