James explained to Jimmy the reason why he arranged the baptism. Jimmy was a little confused after receiving so much information.
The nickname "The Butcher" has spread widely, and Jimmy has indeed never received treatment from a psychiatrist. He has his own scruples in this regard. After all, he has a lot of secrets, not only his current identity, but the most important thing is his The secret of time travel and rebirth.
If a psychiatrist says something that shouldn't be said, things will be in trouble later.
Although Jimmy has a certain degree of confidence in himself and can keep secrets, the psychiatrists in movies and TV series used to be too powerful. Whether it is observing people's behavior or digging into privacy, Jimmy cannot control it.
Director James is indeed doing it for Jimmy's own good. In American society, if you are a believer, someone will come up with reasons to excuse yourself from many things. If you are an atheist, then it will be a little more troublesome.
Jimmy is not white, he is Chinese. If he is a believer, many people will regard him as one of their own. If he claims to be an atheist, he is likely to be considered eccentric and unsociable, discriminated against, or treated as an enemy.
Jimmy looked at James and asked a question he had long wanted to know the answer to: "James, why me?"
James was a little surprised. He raised his head slightly and looked at the sky. After a while, James said: "I think this may be God's will."
James: "My father participated in a war in Asia after World War II. In that war, he and many of his comrades were captured. However, it was this capture that allowed him to see a complete Different world.
After the war, he and other captured soldiers came back, but the damage caused by that war was too heavy, and the entire society was unfair to them. Regarding the experience of being captured, he didn't care about other people's opinions at all, and he never forgot the experience.
For so many years, I never understood my father until you came last year.
I never thought that I would have a Chinese subordinate. After more than two months of observation, I admit that the experience that my father has always been obsessed with may be true. You are really completely different from what we knew before.
Maybe it's God's arrangement. Tom wants to find a reliable Asian, Chinese, Japanese or Korean. As his friend, my police station happens to have a Chinese auxiliary police officer, and you also happen to be I did the right thing and the wrong thing.
So I told Tom about you, and you knew all about it. "
Jimmy thought about what happened after he arrived at the police station. The right and wrong things he did before becoming a police officer should have been the arrest in the hospital that he thought was his credit.
Jimmy: "Are you talking about that time when you arrested the prisoners in the hospital? Why did you say it was the right thing or the wrong thing?"
James: "Jimmy, you were not a police officer at that time, and you injured the other person. Do you understand?"
Jimmy was stunned. In his mind, during the training, it was indeed said that the auxiliary police were only responsible for maintaining order and other things. But when this kind of prisoner appeared in front of him, and then he arrested him, it was against the rules? Even if a passerby catches a suspect, it can be regarded as acting bravely. Why couldn't I take action even though I was an auxiliary police officer at the time?
James: "It seems that you have thought of the key issue. Yes, I just didn't want you to get into trouble at that time. I never thought that you would be able to do so well after becoming a police officer. Your achievements this year have already been Far beyond anyone’s imagination.”
James: "Jimmy, you are a good boy, and the experience of more than a year has proved this. You are upright, kind, smart, brave, but not pedantic, and you have not turned into a black policeman.
What we all think of you proves it, and I'm so glad that I did what I did for you to become the brightest superstar in the police department now. "
James: "You have done a good job, but there will always be some people who will target you for various reasons. Now I am just helping you make up for your final shortcomings. After becoming a believer, to many people, you will no longer be You are an outsider, but a member of your own family. As for your ethnicity, for some specific political groups, not only will it not be a minus, but it will become your advantage."
Jimmy: "Thank you, James, thank you from the bottom of my heart."
James: "Go to the confessional and complete this link. From now on, just pray once every Sunday and let others know you. It doesn't need to last long, one or two months is enough. If it appears again, shoot and kill You can also come here directly to confess something about someone.”
Jimmy walked into the church and entered the church through the small door that Father Royant passed through just now. There was a confession room here. Jimmy entered the room on the right, and Father Royant was already waiting for him on the left.
The confessional is a small wooden house, divided into two small rooms on the left and right, separated by a hollow wooden board in the middle, with the priest and confessor separated on both sides.
Jimmy recounted the first few times he shot a prisoner and asked the Lord for forgiveness. In order to have another reason to come here in the future, let’s wait until later to talk about the subsequent kill records. It’s too scary to tell them all at once.
After Father Luo Yint replied to Jimmy that the Lord will forgive you, he handed over a small badge through the small hole in the middle of the confessional, and then left the confessional.
Jimmy walked out of the church with his badge, and James was still standing outside.
James: "Did you get it?"
Jimmy: "Well, he gave me this."
Jimmy showed James the badge. The badge had a copper base with a cross in the middle. It was bare and unadorned. James took one look at it and said, "This is the monk's badge. Keep it well. It will be useful." (There is no such thing in reality. (Purely a fabrication of identity for convenience)
After saying that, James turned and walked to his car. Jimmy put the badge away, walked to his car, and drove back to the apartment.
Jimmy finally solved a mystery that had troubled him for a long time, but he had no idea that James was so special to him because someone in his family participated in the war, which changed his impression of the Chinese.
Although they are two worlds, this world still exists. Obviously the history is still similar. Although James did not say it, the Olympic Games may also exist.
This also clarifies the reason why Tom said Jimmy should thank James. There is really no special conspiracy here. It was just a coincidence that he encountered James's little compassion. Under the influence of multiple factors, Jimmy came to where he is now. .
Jimmy turned on the computer and began to search for Catholic-related information from the Internet. The most important thing was to get familiar with the Bible and the church. Although this time it was a simplified version of Holy Baptism, it was also Holy Baptism. From then on, he was a nominal Catholic believer.
If you don’t know a bit of church knowledge or the content of the Bible, then you will probably be deprived of even the name.
After searching for some content, Jimmy decided to go out and go to the bookstore to buy a Bible and read it at home. The main reason is that there are too many things related to religion. If you just read information on the Internet, you will most likely jump into the trap. It is better to read books.
When Jimmy arrived at the bookstore, his eyes were opened. This bookstore is not very big, and the bookshelves inside are full of books of all kinds arranged in an orderly manner.
Although he had not been to a bookstore a few times in his previous life, he probably knew that the books sold in the bookstore were of all kinds. However, the bookstore he came to only had a variety of Bibles and religious books (this is what the Life label covers) Category 1) accounts for nearly half of the shelves.
Jimmy had a headache just looking at these various versions of the Bible. In the end, he could only buy an English version of the Catholic Bible and a palm-sized portable version on the recommendation of the store clerk.
Jimmy now has an additional task in his life. He needs to become familiar with the contents of the Bible as soon as possible. He does not need to memorize it, but he must at least know what is in it.
After a dull period of time, the police department provided Jimmy with a right that Jimmy did not want. His police car and vehicle equipment could be driven home after get off work. The reason was that it was convenient for Jimmy to support others in emergencies. Rather than needing to return to the police station and start again.
Jimmy really hoped to have enough personal time after get off work, but now he suddenly broke down. He wore a police uniform and drove a police car when going to and from get off work, carrying all the equipment with him. The only advantage may be a salary increase, because of the nearly round-the-clock support, Jimmy's Salaries increased significantly.
Jimmy only has a parking space, and now his Mercury Tracker is still parked there. What will he do with his car when the police car comes? Jimmy went directly to Amy and asked the police station to reimburse the cost of renting another parking space, and was kicked out unsurprisingly.
Jimmy gritted his teeth and parked his car in the parking lot of the police station. He would use the police car as a private car from now on, just to save gas money.
When he got off work, Jimmy drove the police car directly back to the apartment and talked with the parking attendant before changing the license plate registration.
Wearing a police uniform, he entered the apartment and caused a bit of a commotion. In this kind of apartment building, people inside actually do all kinds of things. A policeman lives next to it. Forget it he didn't notice it before. Now he just came back in a police uniform and still... With a full set of equipment and two guns, Jimmy could already guess that some residents might consider changing places in the near future.
It's not that Jimmy doesn't know that there are violations nearby, but there are too many such things in the United States, and he can't handle them. He goes home during off-duty hours, so he doesn't have the mood to take care of them, so he can do whatever he likes.
Now it's a problem. If he wears a police uniform on his way to and from get off work and happens to encounter a violation, it would be unfair to ignore him.
Jimmy wants to change places more and more. When he has enough funds, he will buy a house as soon as possible.
At 10:30 in the evening, Jimmy's phone rang. He was about to work overtime after driving a police car on his first day back.
The dispatch center directly dialed Jimmy's mobile phone. A random shooting occurred in the South District of Little Rock. Police officers from the LRPD Southern District were currently blocking the 3-kilometer block around the incident. LRPD requested police officers from nearby Southern District to go to the scene for support. By the way, the apartment Jimmy is renting is located in the south of the city, and the county police headquarters is in the middle of the city.
Jimmy really doesn't like this kind of thing, because the county police and LRPD use the same dispatch center, so the number of cross-department support is really high. If it is a designated location support, it is simpler, most of them need to be mobilized. Use force, and a small amount of it is for backup support. If there is no accident, it is equivalent to driving over and taking a rest.
Today's random shootings on the streets basically involve searching for suspects in the area, which is time-consuming and prone to accidents.
Now that the dispatch center had notified him, there was nothing Jimmy could do. He changed from his home clothes into police uniforms, took his equipment to the parking lot, and drove to the South District.
There are a lot of random shootings on the streets of the United States. Some are people who are drunk or taking drugs, some are showing off their guns and then go off, some are retaliating against society, and some are really bad-minded and just looking for excitement.
Usually the cases reported by the public have serious consequences such as death or disability of the victim, but in fact, more random shooting cases are just suspects driving on the road and shooting at random people on the roadside, and then running away, and the victims The victims all suffered from ordinary gunshot wounds, which were not life-threatening. Even in many shooting cases, there were no victims. They were just frightened. Because the prisoners were not good at shooting, they hit the ground or the wall, so they only called the police, but did not Spread the word.
This time, the shooting in the South District was this kind of random shooting on the street. According to the description of the caller, it was definitely a black or gray Ford Mustang muscle car. Because of the lack of light, it was impossible to determine the color of the car, but the model could be determined. of. This was also the only clue. There were no victims this time. The co-pilot of the Mustang shot at the interface. No one was injured and they were all shot away.
LRPD police officers have started to block the streets 3 kilometers outside, hoping to find the car in the blockade area. However, due to the insufficient number of traffic cameras in the suburbs of the Southern District, the vehicle cannot be confirmed in large areas in the middle. direction of travel.
Jimmy drove the police car into the blocked area and started circling along the neighborhood road to search. After searching for several blocks without finding the target Ford Mustang, Jimmy contacted the dispatch center over the radio and requested that the traffic surveillance continue to expand out of the area. From the time the caller called the police to the time the police began to cordon off the area, it was indeed possible for someone to escape if they drove faster. Three kilometers is not a particularly long distance.
Other police cars also searched the area. Only Jimmy's search took more than 20 minutes. Other police officers who arrived earlier had searched the neighborhoods within 3 kilometers several times, but nothing was found.
In the end, LRPD had no choice but to give up, and all officers returned to their positions to continue on duty.
This is really helpless. Road traffic monitoring has been around for many years, but the United States has never covered every intersection. Some reasons are cost issues, but the biggest problem is the so-called political correctness. In order to protect the so-called privacy , every time there is an application for installation, there will always be various people using various reasons to block it.
Due to the problem of technological development, there are not enough private cameras and mobile phone cameras. Such incidents that occur on the highway are fleeting. In many cases, even if there are witnesses, the characteristics of the prisoner may not be clearly described. It is partly because of these reasons that random shootings are difficult to detect.
Jimmy also stopped searching and drove the police car back to the apartment. Jimmy was still observing other cars on the way. If he could find the target, it would be an unexpected gain. Although Jimmy had no law enforcement power, it would be good to break the case and catch the suspect.
However, Jimmy's luck is no longer as good as before. There was no black or gray Mustang all the way home.
