Chapter 909 Clues and more doubts
"It must be here, they must have been here before." Cassel muttered to himself, staring at the ceiling of the corridor.
Although the church does not ring bells at night, through the sound-absorbing panels on the ceiling, the sound of the fans of the large commercial exhaust system installed on the roof of the building and connected to the restaurant downstairs can still be vaguely heard.
“Here.” Brian opened a door and noticed something strange, and snapped his fingers at the two of them.
Different from the slightly outdated guest room layouts on both sides of the corridor, this room is completely open, without any partitions or windows. It looks like a large container.
The walls were covered with corrugated soundproofing panels. Jack walked into the room and found that the floor had sunk slightly, and it should have been filled with soundproofing cotton or something like that.
He raised his hand and patted the wall. He could guarantee that even if a shock bomb was thrown inside, as long as the door with a mezzanine was closed, there would not be much noise outside.
There were two single beds in the room. Cassel quickly stepped forward and twisted a piece of reddish blond hair from the pillow, and murmured, "They were imprisoned before. Here."
Jack sniffed. He didn't know if Kim used perfume, but he was so familiar with the smell of toilet water. Alexis had pestered Hannah to buy several bottles. .
Brian looked at the two single beds in the room with an inexplicable look in his eyes.
There were really more and more doubts, and Jack's eyes stayed on a wired telephone placed on the floor in the middle of the room. There was something wrong with this thing placed here.
"The phone is open?" Cassell picked up the receiver and clearly heard the beeping sound coming from inside, feeling unbelievable.
"They knew we would find this place." Brian said solemnly, looking at Jack at the same time.
The latter let out a soft "shh", turned the flashlight and looked around the room carefully, and finally stopped at a slightly raised place on the wall. Compared with the surrounding soundproof panels, it looked a bit awkward.
Brian walked to the position where Jack's light was shining, and used a dagger to cut a layer of wallpaper on the soundproof board, revealing the bug below.
"Why?" Cassel asked silently with slightly exaggerated lip language.
Jack did not answer his question. He walked up to the bug and deliberately imitated Brian's hoarse voice and said, "Hello? Stupid Pig? Mahaba?"
Used three types in succession. After saying hello, he switched back to English, "No matter who is listening on the other side, we just want to declare one thing, you have got the money you want, and those two girls have lost their value to you.
Since you left a phone here, indicating that you are waiting for someone to find this place, please contact us and state your conditions. We are the fathers of the two girls who were kidnapped by you.
We came to Paris privately, there were no police here and we didn’t care about other legal issues, we just wanted our daughter back. ”
Before Jack finished speaking, the bell rang in the room. Cassel couldn't wait to answer the phone, "Hello?"
"Tomorrow at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the woods outside the Fontainebleau Palace, the specific coordinates The following is 5 million euros. Only two of you are allowed to come. As long as we find a third person, the two girls will be dead."
After the other party finished speaking in English with a strong Arabic accent. Hang up the phone directly.
Before Cassel was about to say anything, Jack covered his mouth and dragged him out of the room.
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"This place has long been set up as a detention center, but only two beds were placed, indicating that they probably only planned to kidnap two people at the beginning. Only one of the three girls appeared in the wrong place at the wrong time. "The three returned to the hotel and entered the room, and Brian finally spoke to break the silence.
“Instead of installing network surveillance probes that could easily reveal their location as before, they used bugs connected to phone lines. The phone was also a wired phone and could not be tracked without advance preparation. ”
Jack’s implication was that they were deliberately lured to Paris.
“What on earth is going on?” Cassell sat on the edge of the bed and pulled his hair in pain, “It’s a bug and it’s anti-tracking, so we are actually working with a group of intelligence agents. Dealing? ”
"Are you sure you are not involved in any espionage incident?" Brian squatted in front of him and asked seriously.
Casel's eyes widened and he didn't understand how the guy in front of him dared to knock him down. "Of course not. Shouldn't the only person here who can have anything to do with spies be you?"
Brian shook his head and said nothing. Instead, Jack answered for him, "If the other party is going for Brian, there is no need to go to such trouble. His confidentiality level is not that high. He has been staying with his family since he retired." "
"Think about it with your clever detective writer mind. If you want to deal with Brian, do you need to go to such trouble?"
"Of course not, even if you want to pass. Kidnapping Kim takes him away from the United States and into an unfamiliar area, and there's no need to kidnap anyone else.
The 15 million euros that those guys extorted from Sarah's parents was just a cover, and the same was true for the 5 million euros just now. They just wanted to lure people to Paris to achieve other goals."
Casel said suddenly He was stuck, his eyes widening, “So, their real target is neither Sara nor Kim, but actually Alexis? ”
“Removing all the impossibilities, this seems to be the only answer. "Jack had a headache. He swore that there was absolutely no plot about Alexis being kidnapped in the first three seasons of "The Detective" that he watched.
In the fourth season, he went to follow "Person of Interest" I basically skipped the next few seasons. There was a plot about time travel that left a deep impression on me, but I really don’t have any memory of the part where Alexis was kidnapped.
“But I don’t know anything about it. no! Alexis has nothing to do with spies, and "the more Cassel spoke, the less confident he became, and fell into self-doubt for a while.
A burst of cell phone ringing broke the somewhat stagnant air in the room. Cassel and Brian looked at Jack at the same time. In order to prevent being followed and revealing their identities, they did not bring cell phones with them on this trip. Only Jack brought two, one for him. My own FBI phone, the other one was left by a mysterious person.
The ringing phone was Jack's FBI phone. He picked it up and saw that it was Beckett, and turned on the speakerphone directly.
The female police detective discovered two things. She found Roger Hansen’s girlfriend and learned the guy’s address from her. The FBI searched a computer there and found the hard drive. Lots of photos taken following Alexis.
She also contacted Sierra’s mother privately. Sierra is now being escorted back to New York, but the mother and daughter talked a lot in private.
According to Sarah's cry, during the kidnapping, two Arab women inspected the bodies of the three girls at the request of the kidnappers, in an extremely private way.
After hanging up the phone, Jack and the two fathers looked at each other.
(End of this chapter)