Four hours later, Investigation Team No. 5 was in the interrogation room.
Fletcher was handcuffed to a chair, his body shaking and yawning constantly.
"Fletcher."
Luo An and Lacey walked into the interrogation room with a bunch of things. After the two sat down, Lacey stared at Fletcher, told the time of the four robberies one by one, and then asked:
"Where were you at these four points in time?"
"I……"
Fletcher rolled his eyes a few times and replied in a low voice:
"I'm on a business trip."
"Yeah?"
Hearing this, Lacey curled her lips in disdain, took out the notebook Luo An had just brought back from her side, opened it, showed the contents to Fletcher, and said coldly:
“Fletcher, we don’t have time to talk nonsense with you, you’d better tell the truth quickly.
The words written in this notebook are exactly the same as what the two robbers did in the four bank robberies!
And we also know about your expulsion from the New York dock, your so-called business trip... Haha, what on earth is going on? "
That's right, in a notebook Roan found in Fletcher's bedroom, there were several pages filled with the steps of the previous four robberies.
In the early stage of investigation, he used his female protégé to check out locations and how to avoid cameras after robbing the bank, so that the police could not find him.
How to deceive the police, stick tattoo stickers on certain parts of the body that are easily exposed, and "inadvertently" let witnesses at the scene see...
In short, the contents of the notebook include the entire plan to rob the bank, as well as most of the problems that may be encountered during the bank robbery, and the specific solutions.
From Luo An's perspective, the words in the notebook contained only a few minor flaws, including the failure to describe how to launder the money after robbing the bank.
For the rest, as long as you act according to the contents in the notebook, the chance of succeeding in robbing the bank is very high.
"What did you say?"
After listening to Lacey's words and seeing the notebook in front of him, Fletcher's eyes suddenly bulged, he became energetic and shouted loudly:
"It's not me, it's really not me! It's just a script!"
"script?"
Luo An and Lacey were both stunned when they heard this.
"Yes, it's the script!"
Seeing the expressions on the faces of the two people opposite him, Fletcher licked his chapped lips and began to speak quickly.
"Two months ago, my wife had a car accident..."
According to Fletcher, after his favorite wife died in a car accident, he should have burst into tears.
But for some reason, Fletcher just couldn't cry and kept moving forward in his daily life, as if his wife had never appeared.
After numbly disposing of his wife's body and inviting relatives and friends to attend the funeral, Fletcher felt as if he was an outsider, and all this had nothing to do with him.
Until he was slapped by his wife's sister.
“I drove home that day covering my face.”
Fletcher's body was shaking, his hands covering his cheeks and tears streaming down his face:
"The moment I was lying on the bed, my tears suddenly flowed down and I couldn't stop them..."
After hearing Fletcher's narration, Lacey frowned slightly and tilted her head to look at Luo An. Seeing this, Luo An was silent for a few seconds and explained in a low voice:
“A human emergency defense mechanism.
When faced with a catastrophic event that suddenly befalls them and that they are completely powerless to change, some people's brains will block the event and pretend it never happened, allowing them to move on.
This kind of thing is very common. In weaker cases, such as girls who were molested as children, or people like Fletcher who suddenly encountered the death of a relative, they will subconsciously ignore the catastrophic event until they suddenly think of it later.
The more serious case is schizophrenia, in which the victim imagines a person in his head to bear the suffering on his behalf, and he forgets these things and moves on. "
When Mona pointed to the computer and described the situation, Luo An had this idea, but there was no evidence at the time.
Lacey frowned, nodded, turned to look at Fletcher, her expression remained unchanged, patted the notebook on the table, and continued to ask:
"What does this have to do with the script you mentioned?"
Fletcher wiped his tears and continued his narrative.
After crying all night, Fletcher learned the news that he was fired from the New York dock the next day.
After being silent for a whole day, Fletcher chose to put the expulsion aside. He had more important things to do next.
"When my wife was still alive, she once told me that by marrying me, she lost the opportunity to realize her dream."
Fletcher rubbed the traces of the ring on his finger, a look of reminiscence on his face.
His wife has been a devout Christian since she was a child because of her family.
As a good girl who believed in God, she never had a tattoo, never stole from another woman, never smoked leaves, never ate flour, never went to a strip club, never…
There's never too much.
Not only that, his wife has always had a dream, that is, to become a screenwriter so that the stories she writes can appear on the big screen in Hollywood.
"So, for the rest of my life, I will realize the dreams that my wife once told me when she was alive."
The content in the notebook is one of the stories Fletcher wrote to realize his wife's dream of becoming a screenwriter.
Thinking of Fletcher's character and experience in the first half of his life that Mona had introduced before, Luo An and Lacey frowned and half believed it.
Because Fletcher still hasn't said where he was when the four bank robberies occurred.
Seeing Luo An and Lacey still sitting on the chairs, looking at him quietly, Fletcher was silent for a while, and finally sighed:
“When the four robberies happened, I went to New Jersey and bought some leaves and flour from the Hyena Gang.
The flour you just saw in the bedroom was what I bought from the Hyena Gang.
I just bought a small pack at that time, and I thought it would be fine if I only ate it once, but I didn’t expect that I would buy more and more..."
Hearing this, Luo An raised his eyebrows.
No wonder Fletcher collapsed on the ground just now. It turned out that the flour was bought from the Hyena Gang.
The flour in the hands of the hyena gang is all laced with fentanyl.
The toxicity and addiction of fentanyl...
After listening to Fletcher's account, the two discussed for a while, and Lacey got up and left the interrogation room.
Fletcher said that he had been living in a hotel in New Jersey during those days because he was afraid that the police would find him in possession of flour on the road.
She is now going to check the hotel's surveillance and witnesses.
"Very well, Mr. Fletcher, let's assume for the moment that what you just said is true."
Looking away from the door of the interrogation room that was closed by Lacey, Luo An returned his attention to Fletcher and said with a serious expression:
"But the text in your notebook is exactly the same as the four robberies, which means that the robbers have definitely been in contact with you! They may even be your relatives and friends.
I now want you to think carefully about who else has read the contents of the notebook besides you! "
"This is too much, Mr. Agent."
Fletcher showed a wry smile and expressed the contents of the notebook. In the past four months, he had turned to many relatives and friends for inspiration.
Although some people felt that they had misjudged Fletcher and ignored him.
But there are also some who choose to believe Fletcher. They have known and helped each other for many years, but they do not believe that Fletcher is an indifferent person.
Luo An frowned and continued to ask after a few seconds of silence:
"Which of these people have entered the military? Are there police officers? Or have they joined special departments such as SWAT?"
"this……"
Fletcher lowered his head and frowned and thought. After a long time, he shook his head:
"It seems not, Mr. Agent."
When Luo An heard this, he raised his eyebrows. Just as he was about to speak, Fletcher suddenly clapped his arm, raised his head and said:
"By the way, Mr. Agent, I remembered something."
(End of chapter)
