Gordon watched for a while, then got up and left the command center and returned to the conference room. Jimmy was still watching their operating system query relevant information with interest. This kind of situation is not seen in the FBI. It would be a reward to watch more. .
Especially the person in front of him who was querying information had much more complete data than their FBI. It seemed to be really linked to the NSA. As the intelligence agency with the most complete information in the United States, the NSA had far more information than the FBI and CIA.
The employee who just talked to Noah is operating three computers in front of him. The three monitors are displayed side by side. One is the base station signal map, and there is also the corresponding base station mobile phone connection information. The second is the real-time view of the traffic camera, which can be switched. The third screen displays the current image information and retrieves historical video records.
It’s really difficult for these intelligence personnel. They need to filter out the signal source corresponding to the mobile phone number from the massive information to locate it. They also need to distinguish based on the image whether the same person appears in different scenes. Just thinking about it makes me feel sick.
The staff member screened for a while and seemed to have some ideas. He took off the single-sided headset on his head and placed it on the table, stood up and left the position. After a while, he brought two more people. The three of them moved the keyboards and monitors away, and started looking for information together. It seemed that the Counter-Terrorism Bureau had enough personnel. T
Jimmy found something to envy again. Although he didn't know how many people the Counter-Terrorism Bureau had, it seemed that there were really enough people, especially this kind. Of course, it may be because the scope of the tasks they are responsible for is not large, so it seems that there are more people. The FBI Manhattan office also has a lot of people, but the scope of the things the FBI is responsible for is too wide, and it is divided into different offices and groups. Jimmy and the others usually There are far fewer people to see.
Jimmy was envious when he suddenly received a call from Hughes. He walked out of the command center and came to a place where no one was around.
Hughes: "Jimmy, where are you? Be right back."
Jimmy: "I'm in the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, following up on the bomb case here. What's wrong?"
Hughes: "Okay, stop talking, hand over the case over there to Agent Gordon first, and come back as soon as possible."
Jimmy: "Okay, I'll be back in the bureau right away."
Jimmy glanced at the command center, turned around and went downstairs to the conference room.
Jimmy: "Agent Gordon, Boss Hughes is calling. I need to return to the bureau as soon as possible. I'll leave this place to you."
Gordon nodded: "Thank you, Jimmy, you go back first. Goodbye."
Jimmy waved goodbye to the others, turned around and left the conference room, took the elevator to the underground parking lot, and drove back to the bureau.
Jimmy came outside Hughes' office. Before he could knock on the door, Hughes had already stood up and said, "Conference room."
They came to the conference room, and strangely, Ruiz from the Manhattan office and Garrett Fuller from the OPR department were already sitting in the conference room, and there was a middle-aged man in a suit next to them.
Hughes stood next to the conference table and knocked on the table, "Sit down, let's play." He had no intention of introducing the person. Jimmy was confused and sat down to look at the TV in front of him.
The picture began with a female news host saying, "This station received a special video of the shooting yesterday. Please direct the director to switch the picture." The picture that appeared next made Jimmy suddenly take a breath of cold air.
The picture was taken diagonally from the opposite side of the warehouse to the entrance of the warehouse. The person in the picture paused and drew two circles to indicate the three people present. One person was standing next to a car, and the other two people were standing opposite this person. , separated by a few meters.
Others didn't know it, but Jimmy could tell it at a glance. This was a video of him subduing six people in the warehouse.
The video was edited. The conversation between Jimmy and the two people was cut out. It started with the two people rushing towards Jimmy, Jimmy moving to the side, and the two people chasing Jimmy. They changed from side by side to front and back for more than ten seconds. After that, the two were knocked down by Jimmy respectively.
The screen paused again. At this time, four people appeared one after another at the entrance of the warehouse. After being marked by a circle, the screen continued. One of them fired a gun. The screen also paused to draw a circle where the muzzle of the gun flashed.
Since there is only a picture but no sound, it is temporarily unclear from the picture how many shots were fired.
Jimmy then rolled behind the car, dodged a few shots, and quickly shot and wounded four people. In just ten seconds, all four people who came out of the warehouse had been knocked to the ground. He then raised his gun and took aim. The scene of the two people who were knocked down was paused. Since the distance was still quite far, they could only barely see their human figures, but not their faces.
This was the first time that Jimmy saw the actual battle situation yesterday. It seemed that his estimate at that time was a bit conservative. From the conflict to taking control of the entire scene, it only took less than a minute, and his estimated time was about It's 2 minutes from start to finish.
When the scene ended, the host continued: "Currently we have no relevant information about this shooting incident. The police have not provided any clues. Seeing this gun battle scene, we have to ask: 'Who is this guy?' ". Who can kill four adults so quickly? And they were in a gunfight. We will continue to follow this news, next..."
The picture on the TV automatically paused. This was just a news video, and the FBI only intercepted this part.
Hughes: "Jimmy, explain."
Jimmy: "Wait a minute, I have some reports on this shootout, but they haven't been submitted yet because of the bomb case."
Hughes: "The report will come later. Please tell me the situation first."
Jimmy paused and looked at Ruiz. Ruiz shook his head very slightly and was almost ignored.
Jimmy: "The thing is like this, we arrested the person who murdered journalist Ash a few days ago. His name is Abdul, a Middle Easterner and a member of the Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda. He was arranged to enter New York under a false identity and has been there ever since. That warehouse lives.
Based on the parking lot video, we screened out the vehicle that might have murdered journalist Ax, and finally determined the route of his car through the traffic surveillance video. Chris and I arrived at the scene to check, but he suddenly drove away when Chris asked. It fell and we caught it later.
We removed a bomb from the bottom of his car, and then the headquarters sent a team led by Agent Gordon to take charge of the bomb case. During interrogation, they learned the location of Abdul's warehouse, which is the warehouse on the left in the video.
Scott, the others, and the forensic officers were checking the evidence in Abdul's warehouse, while I was outside to prevent any accidents. Then the six people in the video drove over in three cars. They parked and entered the warehouse in the video. I found that two of them had tattoos from the T14 gang, so I contacted Ruiz.
Then I went over to chat with them, planning to see if they had any clues about Abdul's warehouse next door, and then what happened in the video.
I want to make it clear that the two people who were knocked down at the beginning were not shot or shot, they were just knocked down. The four people behind were also shot in the torso and were not killed. The news said that the four people were shot. Killing is purely a malicious attempt to induce the audience. "
Ruiz spoke: "Yes, I can testify. What happened after the video is that I arrived at the scene, the NYPD and ambulance were already in place, and all four people were taken to the hospital for treatment. No one is dead so far."
Hughes: "Why should we talk to them? I want to hear the truth and don't use these words to fool us."
Jimmy raised his right hand and held out three fingers: "Three reasons. First, Abdul's warehouse is next to their warehouse and has been rented for several months. He usually lives in the warehouse. T14's warehouse is next to him. , there may be relevant clues.
Second, the T14 drug smuggling case is a case that Ruiz has been following for several months. We previously raided their warehouse at the dock. They were notified by the mole in advance and transported all the goods. The warehouse was empty. of. I was also involved in this case at the time. I discovered their warehouse this time, so I communicated with Ruiz.
Third, it took a little time for Ruiz to get the news and rush over. I just wanted to delay their progress as much as possible to prevent them from leaving prematurely, so that when Ruiz arrived, he could observe whether this warehouse was the drug warehouse we were looking for. . In fact, a lot of goods were found inside, which can be explained by Ruiz. "
Jimmy has thought about this in advance. If an inquiry meeting is held, his answer will be like this. It can basically be solved. Although the reason is not particularly good, things happen too fast, so he can only try to protect himself.
OPR's Fuller spoke at this time: "What is the situation about the bomb case?"
Jimmy glanced at Fuller, then looked at Hughes, "Can I say it?"
Hughes did not speak. He paused for a few seconds and then shook his head. He looked at Fuller: "The bomb case is currently being handled by the special task force at the headquarters. The matter is likely to be very serious. The NSA and the Counter-Terrorism Bureau have been contacted to cooperate with the investigation, so This case is still in the confidentiality stage and cannot be announced to the outside world. It is only known within the scope of the case handling team."
Fuller opened his eyes wide, looked at Hughes first, and then turned to look at Jimmy. He had no idea that this young agent who had just become a full-time agent would have grown to this extent and could participate in such a highly confidential case.
Fuller turned to look at Hughes: "I don't need details, I just need a reason that can be stated. Since it has been in the news, we must have a response. I think Patrick thinks the same way. "He pointed to the middle-aged man at the end.
The middle-aged man nodded and continued: "Ruiz just said that the NYPD has been involved in the follow-up processing. Although the case belongs to us, their people must also know something. After all, it is impossible to completely ignore this matter. External communication, we may need to hold a press conference before the incident escalates."
Hughes looked at Jimmy: "This is Patrick Burlich from the Department of Public Affairs and the spokesperson for our office. Patrick, did you just say that things were fermenting?"
Patrick nodded: "After this video was played, there has been a certain amount of public opinion. Many people found it incredible that four people were killed during the day in the video and were worried about community safety. And due to the video clarity issue, Jimmy appears to be a white man, and those people are Hispanic or black. We have communicated internally that someone may use this video to cause some commotion."
Ruiz: "Have you contacted the TV station? Where did they get the video? I contacted the warehouse company at the time. They did not have surveillance inside the warehouse area, only at the entrance and exit."
Patrick nodded again: "We have asked, but they refused to provide the source of information. We cannot force them to provide it without sufficient reasons."
Ruiz looked at Hughes: "I suspect that this surveillance video was produced by people from T14. Looking at the view of the video, their own warehouse is in the middle of the video, and the coverage is completely centered on this warehouse. Then they provide If you give the video to the TV station, it may be aimed at us because their people were arrested by us."
Hughes asked Patrick: "Has your department evaluated the issues this video may cause?"
Patrick: "There is no way to evaluate it at the moment. We don't have the original video. We don't know if the video they have can clearly see faces. There is even a more troublesome thing now, because the current public opinion is that white people killed four people of color. If Jimmy's condition is announced, it may trigger protests against certain groups of people."
Hughes is also considering the problem Patrick said. In fact, if this matter is not resolved soon, it may cause a bigger problem. Jimmy felt a toothache as he listened to their conversation. He didn't kill anyone, so why did he cause so many problems?
While Hughes was thinking, Patrick's phone rang. After answering the phone, he immediately picked up the remote control and turned on the TV, switching to the news station.
It's still the same host, just with a different set of clothes. Of course, the news on TV is broadcast in real time now, whereas before it was recorded.
"Thanks to the anonymous source for the video, let's take a look at the video below."
In a hall, there is a person with his back to the surveillance camera. Not far in front are two people, guarding a closed door. The person with his back to the camera takes out a gun and kills two people. Then he turns around and kills another person from the other side. Three people came out of a room. Then he looked around, rushed towards the closed door, kicked it open and shot inside, then hid behind the wall, moved slightly and shot into the room again, and then kept raising his gun. Gun pointed across the room. The video ends here.
"I don't know how everyone feels. I just feel very nervous and very scared. Although I have reported many cases, including various shootings, there has never been a video or result of any case that can make me feel this nervous. A heart-wrenching feeling.
This person, we still don’t know who this person is, what his identity is, nothing at all. But it is undeniable that if I were there, I would not feel safe at all. Look at this person and his movements. It seems that what is in front of him is not a person, but a target on a shooting range and an animal on a farm. Same, without any hesitation, he killed 5 people cleanly. As for the situation in the room, we still don’t know yet.
I can't help but want to ask: "What's wrong with our world? Why are there such cold-blooded killers? Why haven't such people been caught yet?" Oh, I'm sorry, I'm a little excited. Five people, living people, although I don't know Their identities, but they are all adults and have families. They were all killed by one person in such a short minute. I can’t imagine how sad their families are..."
Patrick muted the TV and everyone looked at Jimmy.
The surveillance video was still very blurry, and the gunman in the middle could not be seen clearly, but the case was very sensational internally at the time. Ruiz was still a party involved, but he was unlucky and was shot in the room.
Jimmy swallowed, "Haven't we already closed this case? Also, why was this video released outside?"
Jimmy suddenly became energetic, yes, why was such a video obtained by the TV station?
Hughes immediately took out his phone and dialed. "Ryan, did you watch the news just now?"
"When you were handling Jimmy's case, the video in the bar was broadcast on the TV station. Investigate it immediately and come to Manhattan as soon as possible."
After saying that, Hughes hung up the phone.
Ryan was responsible for the aftermath of the case in this video. He was the one who sent it to Hughes to explain it to them, and also participated in Jimmy's inquiry meeting. At that time, the bureau took this case very seriously, and the inquiry meeting was of a high level. After all, it involved the deaths of seven people, three agents were kidnapped, and Ruiz was shot.
Now that the video has been circulated, it is likely that there is a problem at the Queens Field Office. Of course, it does not rule out that there is a problem elsewhere. This video has been uploaded as evidence, and many people can see it.
The question is, how could both videos be broadcast on the same TV station in such a short period of time? Were these two videos sent to the TV station together? Or was it sent after the previous video?
Also, what is their purpose? Who's targeting Jimmy? Or who is targeting the FBI?
Hughes and the others all thought about this problem, and the atmosphere in the entire conference room suddenly turned cold. Everyone's faces became very ugly. Jimmy also frowned and looked at everyone. Now this matter can no longer be solved by holding a press conference. .
(End of chapter)
