When Jimmy returned to New York, he did not go to work in the bureau immediately. Hughes gave him a few days to adjust. After all, he had been teaching at the college for several months. Now that he was about to change his status, it still took some time to adjust.
Nia came directly to Jimmy's place after get off work. Compared with before, the time apart did not seem to affect the relationship between them. On the contrary, the relationship became better.
Jimmy was too lazy to cook for himself, so he took Nia out directly to eat and watch movies to kill time. In the FBI Academy, the instructor management is also very strict. It is not possible to leave the academy casually, and there are no interesting places near the academy, so except for the occasional trip back to New York, I usually spend my rest time in the academy. Now that I'm with Nia, I can't watch TV at home.
In fact, there are many ways to spend time in the evening. In addition to watching movies, going to watch basketball games, watching musicals, etc., any of them can kill a few hours. It's just that Jimmy doesn't go out much when he's alone. The main reason is that he's too boring to be alone.
Jimmy didn't choose the time to watch the movie very well. He glanced at the movie list in the cinema and frowned. He didn't like the names. It seemed that many of them were literary films.
Next to Jimmy, Nia also looked at the hanging promotional posters, "I know, the art films released in front of the Oscars are probably to compete for the Oscars."
Jimmy: "You take your pick, I'm not familiar with any of these."
Nia was not a movie buff either, so she randomly selected a movie called "Ghost Lover" that was about to open, bought a ticket, and entered the theater with Jimmy. They bought popcorn and Coke, and the two of them went directly into the theater to wait for the movie to be released.
Maybe it's because there haven't been any particularly good movies recently. The theater was half empty. Jimmy and Nia sat in the middle, eating popcorn and watching. The boring movie didn't affect the two of them chatting and discussing in low voices, although The movie was boring, but the two of them didn't do the embarrassing thing of falling asleep halfway through it.
The movie ended, Jimmy sent Nia back, and then went home to rest.
When it was time to go to work, Jimmy arrived at the FBI office early in the morning. When he went upstairs from the underground parking lot, he happened to meet Lu Yinzi, who had also arrived early.
Luyinzi: "Jimmy, why are you here? I thought you had changed departments."
Jimmy looked at Lu Yinzi in surprise: "I just temporarily went to the academy to be an instructor for a period of time. How could I change departments?"
Lu Yinzi shook his head, "It seems that some rumors have spread too widely. You disappeared without any news before. Someone in your group also took over. Many people think that you may have changed departments and gone to other places. ”
Jimmy was a little speechless. He couldn't speak out before because he was working for the Counter-Terrorism Bureau. After that, he was injured and rested for a month before going to the academy. It took 4 months. It would indeed give other people the illusion that he had left the Manhattan office.
Jimmy: "Well, I'm just going to be an instructor. The students over there have graduated and I just came back. It's okay. When they see me coming to the office, the rumors will disappear."
Lu Yinzi nodded, "Well, I'm going to the office. Goodbye."
Jimmy nodded and turned towards the office. Halfway through, Jimmy still felt something was wrong. Why didn't Hughes prove this rumor to him? Others don't know, so doesn't Hughes know? Also, Mahone also knew that Jimmy went to the academy after he recovered from his injury, and he did not testify for him.
Jimmy stood in the corridor and thought for a while, then turned and walked to Hughes' office. He was waiting for Hughes to arrive in the conference room next to him.
Hughes came to work on time. When he entered the office, Jimmy also came out of the conference room and followed him into Hughes' office.
Jimmy: "Hi, good morning, Hughes."
Hughes: "Jimmy, what's the matter?"
Jimmy: "Nothing. I came to work today and wanted to say hello to you first. I'm still in the homicide team, right?"
Hughes: "Well, go ahead, you didn't change departments."
Jimmy nodded: "Okay, then I'll go back. Goodbye, Hughes."
Jimmy turned and left Hughes' office. It seemed that there was no problem on Hughes' side. Hughes did not change departments for him, nor did he delay his return to the office. Except for not giving him any proof of the rumors about changing departments, it seemed that there was nothing like before. any difference.
Jimmy returned to the office. Mahone and Felicia were already in the office. In the months since Jimmy was gone, there seemed to be no permanent members added here. Is this an arrangement by Hughes?
Jimmy: "Hi, good morning, Mahone, Felicia."
Felicia: "Good morning, Jimmy. How was college life?"
Jimmy smiled and said, "It's not bad. I'm just a firearms instructor, so there's not a lot to do."
He turned to Mahone and said, "Ma Hong, have you had any eucalyptus lately? I haven't touched eucalyptus in several months, and my hands are really itchy."
Ma Hong nodded: "The recent eucalyptus has almost been dealt with. You can take a rest first. Felicia will handle the follow-up report."
Jimmy nodded, and when he got to his seat, he looked at the table and chairs. They had not been used for a long time and were somewhat stained with dust. Jimmy looked around, and there wasn't even a towel here. He could only take out a paper towel, dip it in some water, wipe it, and then use a dry paper towel to wipe off the water. Then he turned on the computer and started to check the records.
Case records show that in the past few months, seven or eight cases under the names of Mahone and Felicia have been resolved. It seems that they are very efficient.
The latest unfinished case is a murder case. The reason why it was assigned to the FBI is because the person who was killed was a federal employee. This is a matter within the scope of the FBI. It should be handled similarly to what Mahone said just now. This is too late. An unfinished project from before turned out to be the first serial murderer after Mahone and his friends arrived.
Jimmy turned to look at Mahone: "Ma Hong, has the serial murderer from a few months ago never been solved?"
Ma Hong nodded gloomily: "Since the third incident, there have been no new incidents. The previous investigation direction also interrupted the clues. This incident can only be shelved for now."
Jimmy also nodded. This is really troublesome. There is no follow-up clue, and the previous clue is too clean. There is no way to find the target. The previous clue was to the yacht club, but at least when Jimmy went to the Counter-Terrorism Bureau , they still found nothing.
There is no way, this bug will probably become a bug hanging in the FBI file library. You must know that when Jimmy was familiar with FBI files, there were many bugs in the system that had not been broken for 2 to 30 years. This bug is probably It's the same situation.
Jimmy was familiar with the projects that Mahone and his team had done before, and happened to be familiar with Mahone's method of doing things. He found out the file location from the file number in the system. He opened the file cabinet and took out the file information and started to check the contents. . There is a cracking process in the case report. These are the processes that Mahone and his team used to investigate. Although not all, a lot of things can be seen.
The first is clue detection. Unlike Jimmy who likes to check the surrounding surveillance videos immediately, Ma Hong and the others usually start their case reports from the clues found at the scene and the social relationship of the victim, giving priority to looking for interested parties and whether there are any Enemies and the like. And there are a lot of photos in the file, which is completely different from Jimmy's video file number.
The filing of the Mahlon case should have been made by Felicia, which is completely different from Jimmy's habit. Felicia's report is very complete, and the time, place, people, events, and reasons are very clear, while Jimmy writes more reports What is written is the analysis results, tracking process, and results. The details are completely more detailed than those written by Felicia.
I don’t know if Felicia’s personality is like this, or if Mahone’s requirements for her are so detailed. Whatever the reason, her report is really beautiful. Chris’s previous case reports were not like this. detailed.
After spending two days reviewing several cases handled by Mahone, Jimmy finally understood what the homicide team had been doing in the past few months. The reason why it took more time was because Jimmy needed to analyze Mahone's and his others' action patterns. After all, they would still have to cooperate in the future. If he is just familiar with eucalyptus, he does not need such a long time at all. It is very normal to see several eucalyptus in a day.
Soon, their break time was over, and the red police lights above the office began to flash. The three of them immediately stood up, clicked the button on the wall to turn off the alarm, and headed to Hughes' office.
Hughes: "Mahon, you rush to Sisla Prison immediately. A prison break occurred there. Two people escaped from prison last night. The prison guard found their cell empty this morning."
Ma Hong nodded, "Did the prison provide information?"
Hughes shook his head: "You go directly to investigate, there is no information yet."
Mahone: "OK, let's go now."
The three of them went downstairs, got into their respective cars and set off. The three cars left Manhattan directly and headed for Newburgh, New York State.
Scissor Prison is a federal prison near Newburgh. It is an intermediate-level prison. The inmates here are basically serious prisoners or prisoners who must be transferred to intermediate-level or high-level prisons due to public safety reasons. They have served more than 10 years or due to their nature. Even if the sentence is short, the prisoner needs strict confinement.
Newburgh is not that far from New York. Jimmy and the other three arrived in Newburgh in the afternoon, bought some food on the way, and then came directly to the prison gate.
Mahone and the others parked their car, showed their IDs at the prison gate, and entered the prison smoothly. Due to someone escaping from the prison, the prison is now in a high-alert stage. All prisoners have been put back in their cells, all original outings and work have been cancelled, and prison guard posts are dotted around the prison.
Mahone took Jimmy and Felicia to the warden's office. An old man with gray hair and a suit stood up from behind the table and received them.
Warden: "Welcome, I am Warden Varun Dutt."
Mahone: "FBI Special Agent Alexander Mahone, their names are Jimmy and Felicia. Please tell us about this prison break."
Warden Wallen nodded: "This is the information about the two people who escaped from prison. Please follow me."
Warden Warren took three files from the table and handed them to them. Mahone and the others opened the files in their hands. These are all photocopies. Each of the three people can view the information at the same time without getting together to read it. It's so troublesome.
Rob Reilly, 44, who is unemployed, has a growing criminal record since his youth, ranging from theft to possession of a controlled substance, possession of an illegal weapon, armed robbery, sexual assault and more. He is jailed A frequent visitor, he has spent at least half of his time in prison over the past 20 years.
This time he was imprisoned for second-degree murder. He beat the person who was hijacked during the robbery. Because he was discovered late, he died shortly after being sent to the hospital. Reilly was also charged with murder. With the assistance of a lawyer, He made a deal with prosecutors and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and due to his criminal history, he was placed in a medium-level prison.
Cameron Brown, 48 years old, is a gang member and a frequent visitor to prison, but in the past he was mostly involved in fights, selling drugs and other reasons. This time he was sent to an intermediate prison because he accidentally killed someone during a fight with other gang members. After being wanted by the police, he was arrested and returned to prison. He was also sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The prisons in the United States are really full of talented people. In the past, there were few people who could be released on bail and paroled frequently.
Warden Warren took the three of them to the prison's monitoring center, which had been temporarily requisitioned. In addition to two prison guards, there was also a policeman. The jailbreak incident had already been discovered in the morning, so the search has actually started now, but the FBI is far away and arrived late, so the situation needs to be reorganized.
At the request of the warden, the prison guards at the surveillance center replayed last night's surveillance.
Ma Hong looked at the surveillance screen, "This is the video of them returning to the cell last night. You can see that they were normal when they entered the cell."
The surveillance screen switched, "This is what I saw after turning on the lights this morning. Because of the surveillance angle, I can only see a little bit of the end of the bed. It looks like someone is lying on the bed covered with a quilt. But in fact Above, here are the folds that they made deliberately, and they used pillows and other things to simulate the human form on the bed.”
The prison guard turned to look at Mahone and the others: "We have checked the surveillance for several hours at night, and no prisoners appeared in the corridor. They actually escaped through a square hole in the wall at the head of the prison bed."
Ma Hong: "Take us to the prison cell."
A prison guard stood up and took Mahone and the others to the cell. Warden Warren did not leave, but followed them to the cell.
The two of them were in the same cell. The cell was located on the third floor. The current cells were tight. In principle, the prison should be a single-person prison. Due to the large number of prisoners, some cells had to be transformed into double cells.
From the door of the cell, there was nothing wrong with the cell. Under the guidance of the prison guards, they saw a square hole in the wall inside the bed. This hole is the ventilation opening of the cell. There should have been a ventilation protective net fixed on the wall. Now the protective net has been removed and put aside.
Jimmy had discovered the hole in advance. The wall behind the cell was not thick, and behind it was a passage dozens of centimeters wide. Judging from the shadow of the equipment in the passage, it should be a pipeline passage.
Prison guard: "This is the vent through which they escaped, with a width of 60 centimeters and a height of 30 centimeters. The protective net is a steel mesh fixed to the wall, but they didn't know what tool they used to reach in through the mesh opening and destroy the fixing screws at the back. The entire protective net was dismantled.”
Mahone squatted at the vent to observe, and then lay on the ground and stuck his head into the vent to look inside.
Ma Hong: "There is a pipeline maintenance channel inside. Where does this channel lead to?"
Warden Waren: "This is the pipeline maintenance channel of the entire wall. The left and right are interconnected. We have checked it in the morning. They ran from the maintenance pipeline to the underground of the prison. There is a wall there, and they punched a hole. , and penetrated a sewage pipe and entered the sewer."
Ma Hong: "Take us to see it later. Let's check this cell first."
Warden Warren nodded in agreement. Mahone took out disposable gloves from his pocket and put them on. Jimmy and Felicia also put on gloves and began to check the situation in the cell.
This is a prison, not a hotel, so there are no suitcases or anything like that. The two prisoners’ personal belongings are placed beside the bed, but they have obviously sorted out their belongings. Now there are only normal bedding on the bed. Besides, there are only some playing cards, paper and pens and the like.
The toiletries on the sink are basically all there, except that a toothbrush and a piece of soap are missing.
Felicia took a notebook to record all the findings, and took out two sealed bags to pack the papers and pens on the bedside. Then they left the cell and entered the maintenance channel from outside the cell. There is a piece of net here that has been opened. Going down from here is the maintenance pipe on the second floor. And there is a steel pipe directly connected to the ground next to the net. You can use it as a handrail to climb down little by little. It is safe and quiet. It is really speechless. .
