Returning to the bureau the next day, Jimmy unexpectedly got a clue.
Intelligence agents have their own circle. Nick actually contacted people privately to investigate the suspicious area and obtained a surveillance video from a store at night.
Sure enough, the old people in the circle have endless energy. When Jimmy went to the scene and saw the people walking back and forth in the store, he had no intention of asking them for surveillance videos. Even if they had estimates, they would not show them to him.
Because of the chaos in the Bronx, if a person like Jimmy goes to investigate the video in the name of the FBI openly, he probably won't be able to find two, and everyone around him will know what Jimmy is looking for.
Looking at the video transcribed on Nick's computer, Jimmy smiled. It was so dark at night, but it was still possible to shoot with such clarity. It was a bit interesting. "Nick, there's something wrong with this store."
Nick turned and glanced at Jimmy, "Why do you care so much? Look, this person's face is already very clear. I have asked the technicians to complete the image, and they will give us news after they finish the comparison. "
Jimmy quickly shook his head: "I'm not targeting this store, as long as there are results. Now, as long as a taxi driver gets into an accident, it's a big deal. Yesterday, the Taxi Drivers Association almost held a press conference to complain."
Nick: "Is there another case?"
Jimmy: "He was caught robbing and wounding someone, a little black guy. It has nothing to do with our case."
Nick nodded: "It doesn't matter, it's too troublesome to investigate them."
Jimmy: "Where's your student? The trainee."
Nick raised his eyebrows, "Of course I went out to run errands. Haven't you just passed that stage?"
Jimmy laughed loudly: "I didn't do much running errands for the boss back then. It was more interesting to work on the case." After that, he returned to his seat, turned on the computer and continued to read the information.
Jimmy is indeed qualified to say this. Ever since he came to the FBI and started working under Peter, he has been actively involved in the case. Even the most basic report writing was done by Diana, who was Peter's assistant at the time. It can be said that at that time, Jimmy is a special agent, not a trainee agent.
Later, he was also the absolute main force on Ruiz's side, and then went to Texas, where he even handled cases independently. In addition to his strong ability, the care of the bosses was also an important reason for such preferential treatment. For an agent with a strong fighting ability like Jimmy, he is definitely a very rare and important resource among the agents. As long as his ability to handle cases is stronger, he can definitely become an important supporting force in the office.
Later, in order to allow Jimmy to survive the probation period safely, Hughes forced him to move between various departments, which was completely beyond the treatment of ordinary trainee agents. It can only be said that these big bosses learned from Jimmy's information and several months of getting along with him. I have seen through him, and if nothing else, he can be used as a tool wherever he is.
When working on a bomb case, in principle, such terrorist attack cases should be handed over to the anti-terrorism team, but they were stopped abruptly by Hughes. After Chris left, Jimmy participated in the entire case where the headquarters agents were involved, and Taking the biggest credit is really a matter of honor for them.
Although Jimmy doesn't know what Hughes gained from this incident, judging from the fact that Hughes has not sent him a supervisory agent to manage the homicide team, in all likelihood, he has gained a lot, and now he has nothing. A man's own reward should be to take care of himself. At least Jimmy has never seen other teams with ordinary detectives as team leaders, not to mention that the homicide team also serves as an emergency response team.
Jimmy hadn't rested long when Hughes' call came. Okay, I just praised Hughes in my heart, but now I am going to get myself into trouble, it hurts.
Jimmy arrived at Hughes' office, where a man in a federal marshal uniform stood to one side.
Jimmy: "Hughes, I'm here. Do you have any mission?"
Hughes: "What's going on with your case?"
Jimmy: "There aren't many clues. We just got the surveillance video of the suspected suspect, and we're trying to figure out how to compare it."
Hughes: "Well, since there are not many clues, let's let others follow up for now. The bailiff has a witness protection mission that needs our support. You can go there. It should only take two or three days. The day after tomorrow. Gonna appear in court.”
Jimmy frowned: "Can't the backup personnel be drawn out? There are also many people watching our progress in the serial murder case here."
Hughes shook his head: "Let him tell you."
The bailiff next to him answered: "I am bailiff Charles Dance. We have some things happening here recently and there is a manpower problem. This time there are three people who need to be protected separately, so I need your support.
The target of this protection is Big Chin. You don’t need to know the name. I will take you to the safe house later. You only need to appear in court the day after tomorrow. We got intelligence that someone might cause trouble when they were coming out of jail to go to court, so we brought them up in advance. "
Jimmy: "Is the information accurate? Who would take action?"
Bailiff Charles: "Not sure right now."
Jimmy: "How many of us are there?"
Charles: "It's just the two of us. As I said, there was an accident this time, and the bailiff can't spare any manpower for the time being."
Jimmy took a deep breath, "What do you mean? Who is this person? Just make sure he is alive to attend the trial, right? Where is the person who is coming?"
Charles shook his head, Jimmy looked at Hughes, and Hughes nodded. I understand, I understand completely, this is a trap, and I don’t know which bastard will be unlucky enough to be arranged to assassinate this witness with a big chin.
Hughes, how many circles do you guys, who are white on the outside and black on the inside, have in your brains? Are you really not afraid that I will die on the spot? We still don’t know who will come and what weapons they will use!
Jimmy even wondered who came up with the idea for him to participate in witness protection. Did he come up with the idea of a trap first and then think of him, or did he think of him first and then set the trap?
Jimmy gritted his teeth and nodded. He was under the eaves. "Hughes, do you have any requirements?"
Hughes: "Just listen to Charles's arrangements." He picked himself clean, this old fox.
Jimmy looked at Charles: "When?"
Charles looked at his watch, "In two hours, he will be sent to the safe house, and our mission will follow."
Jimmy: "There's still plenty of time. I'll go arrange the case in hand. Let me know when you leave."
After Jimmy finished speaking, he nodded to Hughes, turned around and left Hughes' office. This old man is so bad. He has sores on his head and pus on his feet. He looks very white, but his heart is completely black, as black as oil. If he continues like this, he will kill him sooner or later.
Jimmy returned to his office, "Nick, I have a mission these two days, please help me find more clues. After confirming the surveillance suspect, go directly to Hughes and arrange for someone to be arrested and interrogated. I can't care about it for the time being."
Nick was shocked. He was an intelligence officer, not a field agent. "What happened?"
Jimmy: "Hughes has given me a new task to handle. It will take about two or three days. If everything goes well, I will be back the day after tomorrow."
Nick nodded, "Okay, it's just two days and it shouldn't be a big problem. I'll call you if anything happens."
Jimmy nodded and began to look through the drawers to prepare something for himself. Because I don’t know how many people will come this time, I’d better handle it as much as possible.
Jimmy keeps a small box of 20 rounds of .357 Magnum in his office. There are only two boxes, all of which are on his belt, and some scattered bullets are also put into a bag. The Glock uses a lot of 9mm bullets, and he only has two magazines, one main and one spare. He also carries another spare magazine in the drawer in case there is not enough. All that's left is the M16 and body armor in the trunk of the car, which is basically the same.
Nick, who was next to him, looked a little frightened at Jimmy's movements, "What are you doing? Bring so many bullets."
Jimmy sighed, "It's a mission. It's a dangerous mission where you don't know anything. The more you prepare, the safer it will be."
Putting the bullets on the table, he continued to rummage. He really couldn't think of anything else he needed to do. Forget it, we would wait until we set off. Oh, bring two mobile phone batteries and two packs of cigarettes. It’s only two or three days, and it won’t be stable at night.
After a while, Charles called, and Jimmy went downstairs to meet him with a small bag. The two drove away from Federal Plaza and headed for Brooklyn.
In a villa on the beach in Brooklyn, Jimmy parked his car in the garage, side by side with Charles' police car.
Jimmy: "Charles, you bailiffs are so rich that you use this kind of villa as a safe house."
Charles didn't look at Jimmy and walked straight to the small door in the garage. "This house doesn't belong to me. Let's go and understand the structure of the house first."
Jimmy opened the trunk and took out his travel bag. Carrying the travel bag and his own bullet bag, he followed Charles into the villa through the small door.
This is an old villa. It looks fine from the outside, but it looks like an ordinary villa, but the inside looks older. The furniture looks to be at least 20 or 30 years old, and some of the furniture has peeling paint. .
Hey guys, how long has this house been empty? How could these pieces of furniture be allowed to remain obsolete like this? Does the homeowner have no money to replace the furniture? Fortunately, someone must have cleaned it recently, and there doesn't seem to be much dust on the floor or furniture.
Jimmy and Charles walked around the first floor. The water, electricity and gas in the kitchen were all connected. The refrigerator was empty, but there was a box of bottled water next to it. They went up to the second and third floors and took a look. The rooms were all well cleaned. It seems that it was done by someone from a professional cleaning company, otherwise it would not be so thorough.
Jimmy also took a look and found that apart from the basement, there were no other obvious darkrooms in this house. The only abnormal space was confirmed just now to be a hole left by a demolished safe.
This house is okay, with three doors at the front and back, plus the small door in the garage, there are four doors connected to the outside. There are a lot of places to guard, but this is not a problem for Jimmy. He can observe all entrances from the middle of the house. . In addition, the windows of each room upstairs have been sealed from the inside, although it cannot be seen from the outside. This also eliminates the possibility of the witness slipping away from above.
There must be no problem with the housing. There are enough guest rooms on the second and third floors. The bedding is also complete. I just looked at it and it should be new. The service is not bad.
Jimmy and Charles returned to the living room, where they began to wait.
Jimmy: "Charles, what do you do with the food here? Do you order takeout?"
Charles nodded, "There is no other way. Don't worry, I will take it back and reimburse you."
Jimmy was speechless, "I'm not worried about the money for ordering takeout, but I'm worried about someone pretending to be a takeaway boy and giving us a surprise."
Charles looked at Jimmy, "Don't worry, I will choose a different store to order. You wait here for a while, I will go out for a walk, there is still one hour."
Jimmy waved his hand, sat on the sofa, took out his pistol and began to examine it.
Soon, Charles came in with a middle-aged man. Well, the title of Big Chin was really appropriate. His figure didn’t look that fat, but his face was indeed very wide at the bottom.
Charles: "Jimmy, that's Big Chin."
Jimmy: "Well, let him live on the third floor. It will be more convenient for us."
Charles nodded without saying anything with his big chin, shrugged and came to sit next to the sofa. "Is it just you two?"
Jimmy looked at him: "Any comments?"
Big Chin: "No, it feels more comfortable without so many people. Where is the bathroom?" As he said this, he stood up and left the living room.
Jimmy saw him leaving and asked Charles: "Have you searched him?"
Charles nodded, and Jimmy said, "This guy doesn't seem to be a peaceful person. It's best for us to break up. You watch him first, and I'll rest for a few hours. I'll take over for you at night. We'll be together after midnight, and we'll meet again during the day." Take turns.”
Charles frowned, obviously considering Jimmy's arrangement, but there was no other way. There were only two of us, so we had to work in shifts like this, and one shift couldn't be too long, otherwise he wouldn't be able to hold on mentally. You must know that this is not just a matter of not sleeping for half a day, but you also have to watch this person to prevent him from running away, and you also have to be wary of people coming from outside. This kind of torturous pain is really uncomfortable.
Charles nodded. Jimmy took his bag to the second floor, found a room, locked the door and lay down to rest inside. He just took off his suit. Because this mission was so urgent, he didn't even have a chance. Run home and get two sets of clothes. Jimmy was going to suffer something this time, and he was mentally prepared. For emergency purposes, he didn't even take off the holster of his gun, and just lay on the bed and slept.
At 6 o'clock in the evening, Jimmy woke up before Charles came to wake him up. After taking a look, there was a person lying in the room on the third floor and a person sitting on the sofa on the first floor. They looked okay.
Jimmy tidied up, opened the door, carried his bag and walked downstairs. Charles heard the footsteps and kept staring at the stairs. He relaxed when he saw that it was Jimmy.
Charles: "You woke up so early, I thought you wanted to sleep a little longer. The pizza has been ordered and will be delivered in about ten minutes."
Jimmy: "Thanks, I'm going to wash up."
After a while, Jimmy and Charles had 'dinner' and sent one to upstairs. Charles took his bag and walked upstairs to rest. Now everything is left to Jimmy.
Being a guard is the most boring thing. You have to pay attention to the big chin upstairs, and at the same time, you have to observe whether there are any suspicious people outside. You also have to concentrate yourself to prevent drowsiness, which is far more energy-intensive than normal. Charles was obviously also a senior staff member. He had been guarding Jimmy alone for several hours when he was resting. He was indeed tired. Jimmy looked at him on the second floor and entered another room. He didn't take off his clothes or anything and quickly lay down. .
The big chin on the third floor was very honest, and he obviously knew his situation. When he delivered the pizza just now, he told him not to leave the room if he had nothing to do. I hope he can spend these two days safely.
Jimmy was luckier than Charles. He had an eye for long-distance observation and could observe what was going on around him and upstairs in the living room. Originally, Jimmy's mind can be used for a long time. The previous black rainbow further strengthened his mental ability. Now if he is really cruel, he can bear it by keeping his mind open all day long, but it will be more tiring later.
Now was a good time for him to exercise. Jimmy opened his mind and began to observe the surroundings, including underground pipes. Although it is not sure if anyone will take this route, it is indeed possible to sneak attack them if they come from the underground pipe network.
Half of the first peaceful night had passed. It was approaching 12 o'clock. Jimmy went upstairs and woke Charles up. The most dangerous time was after midnight. Although Jimmy was not afraid of sneak attacks, more people could make him feel more secure. The key was Don't let yourself be so lonely.
All the lights in the villa have been turned off. Jimmy and Charles are separated on the first floor, in different corners, ensuring that the room will not be interrupted by people outside.
(End of chapter)
