Chapter 995 Still in Hawaii (Five)
From last night to noon the next day, everyone returned to the "Five-O" base to meet and summarize the clues they had so far.
Kono has been busy in front of the computer, with Cheng Hao standing next to him. The two of them didn't realize that they were hungry until they saw the takeaway brought back by Jack and Danny.
"The potions you found in Palmer's room are indeed not smallpox. The CDC has confirmed it. The label on the potion bottle is consistent with the contents. It is called 'Cyclotriptine', a drug that is still being tested. New drug."
"So the needle holes in Palmer's body were actually caused by the injection of this new drug?" Jack asked.
Cheng Hao's expression was a little confused, "But I just contacted Max before you came back, and he said that no trace of this drug was found in the tissue samples. If this is the case, his theory that smallpox came from injection is still valid. "
"We at least know why a person who has no normal income and can only rely on a meager military pension and disability allowance can live in a place like the 'Splash Hotel' for a long time."
< br>Jack handed a piece of fried rice noodles to Kono. As expected, good food still has to be found in inconspicuous places. When he bought chicken yesterday, the food stall recommended to him by the enthusiastic boss was quite good.
He even found a pretty authentic pancake shop nearby. To be honest, when he saw a white girl skillfully spreading pancakes there, he felt like a major national secret had been stolen.
Kono took the takeout box and used chopsticks skillfully, "You said you are a clinical trial person, right? We thought of it together, so I just contacted Statim Biopharmaceuticals Company.
They admitted that there was indeed an ongoing clinical trial on Oahu, but because it was a double-blind trial, they did not know the exact identities of the participants until it was completed. "
"They should have a branch or something on the island, right? The list must be in the hands of those in charge. "Jack opened the plastic bag and took a bite of the delicious pancake fruit.
On the way back, he and Danny had already killed one each. Both of them spoke highly of the beautiful white girl spreading the pancakes. Is it craftsmanship or appearance?
“Yes, I contacted their local office and the person in charge of recruiting volunteers was a project manager named Ken Tanner, but we couldn’t contact him. Someone in his office said he didn't go to work today. "
"So? "Danny drawled and waited for the next step.
"Before you came back, I was planning to notify HPD to check out his house, but now that you are back." Kono opened his phone and pressed twice, "The address has been sent to you."
Danny Hearing the sound of a text message on his cell phone, he was about to pick up his car keys and go out again, when he saw Kono finishing the remaining fried rice noodles in two or three mouthfuls, picking up his car keys and also planning to go out. posture.
"Jack and I are enough, right?" He was a little strange.
Kono shook the key in his hand, "The crime laboratory has just found the positioning signal through the mobile phone number of the deceased Palmer. It is located in the direction of the pier. I plan to go there and have a look."
"Remember to take personal protection." Jack handed her a pack of masks and rubber gloves.
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Twenty minutes later, at the door of a house, Danny knocked on the door for a long time but could not hear any movement from the room. He turned to Jack with a helpless expression.
"To be honest, I have a bad feeling."
Jack pulled out his pistol, listened carefully and found something, but the movement did not come from the room. , but the garage next to it.
“Did you hear the car’s engine?”
Danny suddenly became nervous and quickly pulled out his pistol, "You mean he wants to escape?"
Jack shook his head, "Probably not, this sound must have been ringing for a while, and it has been Idling." Danny carefully went to the small window next to the garage and looked in. He saw that it was full of smoke, but he could still vaguely see what seemed to be someone.
"He's inside! Open the door quickly!"
The two of them quickly walked around to the front door of the garage. Jack found a crowbar from the garden and opened the garage door. The unspeakable smell of car exhaust filled the entire garage.
Danny rushed into the garage regardless of his own safety and dragged Ken Tanner out of the car with Jack's help. Unfortunately, the fat middle-aged man was already cold at the moment.
"It has been dead for at least four or five hours." Jack briefly inspected the body and estimated the approximate time of death, which was around seven or eight o'clock this morning.
"Suicide? Out of conscience?" Danny said a speculation that he didn't even believe.
Jack lifted the corpse's head and showed him a large piece of bloody flesh on the back of the head, "Obviously not. The cause of death was skull injury. This was an extremely poorly arranged fake suicide scene."< br>
Danny sighed and took off his gloves, took out his cell phone and called HPD, "I'll notify someone to cordon off the scene."
Before he ended the call, Kono's call came in. She found Brian Palmer's mobile phone and a large bag of clothes on a seaside viewing platform not far from a yacht pier.
The girl was very frightened because the plastic bag containing the mobile phone and the clothes had a scary biochemical pollution symbol printed on it.
Fortunately, she listened to Jack's reminder and put on a mask and gloves, otherwise she would have been pulled into quarantine by the CDC at this moment.
Now the clothes and mobile phones were sent to the only crime laboratory on the island for examination. Jack and Danny briefly searched Ken Tanner's house, but unfortunately nothing was found. Computers and There was no trace of the cell phones.
“I have a hunch that this case won’t be very complicated, but it will definitely be quite a headache.” Watching the forensic officers remove a piece of wood from the door handle of Ken Tanner’s house and even the car key Every fingerprint, Jack sighed.
"How do you say that?" Danny was a little confused.
"What do all this and the rough suicide scene layout in the garage mean?" Jack asked rhetorically without answering.
As an experienced veteran police detective, Danny pondered for a moment and understood what he meant, "The murderer is not trying to hide the truth, but delaying time."
"Yes. Yes, all they are doing is delaying the progress of our investigation as much as possible, which means that no matter what they want to do, they are almost done.”
Jack likes the interlocking links in American TV series. The clever plot design can naturally make the audience fall into a sense of nervous expectation.
But when he was in the situation himself, the experience was not wonderful.
Once the hemorrhagic smallpox virus with a fatality rate of 97% spreads on the island, there is really nothing he can do except protect a few people around him.
CDC and the military do have enough vaccine reserves, but if officials want to make up their mind to vaccinate all residents on the island immediately, they must at least present enough convincing evidence to the governor. OK.
(End of this chapter)