North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 286 Tom?

Jimmy did not intervene in the inspection of the car. Karger called someone to handle it, and Jimmy drove to the FBI office.

Jimmy found Hatten: "Hatten, tell the surveillance team not to look for that car. Superintendent Kagg has already found it."

Hatten: "Well? Already found it? Where is it?"

Jimmy sat on the chair and shook his head: "In North Little Rock, an unmonitored roadside rushed into the Arkansas River. No suspect was found in the car. Now the car has been lifted out and parked at the county police headquarters. Kagg will arrange it

People do the inspection.”

Hatten nodded: "The only clue now is yesterday's gunman."

Jimmy: "How are they doing now?"

Harten: "The operation has been completed. His life is not in danger now. He is staying in the hospital for observation. He cannot be taken to the detention center yet."

Jimmy: "Can't we interrogate directly in the hospital?"

Hatten is actually not that anxious. After all, to him, this is just a case, and he and James don't have any special feelings: "That's okay. I'll take people to the hospital later. You can rest first."

Jimmy nodded, "I'll go back first."

The matter came to an end, and the clues were temporarily interrupted. They had to wait for Hatten's follow-up. Jimmy did not intend to interfere in their actions. After thinking about it, Jimmy decided to go to the hospital.

Still buying a bunch of lilies, Jimmy came to the hospital. The county police officer at James' door had been replaced. This Jimmy had never seen him before.

"Hi, I'm Jimmy, come and see James." Jimmy greeted the county police, and the county police suddenly widened his eyes. Jimmy, an Asian, this combination is the most famous and iconic tough guy of the county police in recent years, although I haven't seen him

He had never met before, but he was very familiar with Jimmy's deeds.

"Nice to meet you, senior. I am Williams, Williams Cherry, who just joined the job this year." Williams shook hands with Jimmy. "The chief is already awake. You came just in time."

Williams turned around and knocked on the door, opened the door and said inside: "Mrs. Baldwin, Jimmy is here." Then he made way for Jimmy to go in.

Jimmy: "Mrs. Baldwin, how is James?" He handed the flowers to Mrs. Baldwin.

Mrs. Baldwin took the flowers and said to Jimmy with a smile: "It's very good. The doctor said the recovery is very good, for an elderly person."

Jimmy: "That's good." He turned to look at James on the hospital bed. James had woken up and was looking at Jimmy and Mrs. Baldwin.

Jimmy came to the hospital bed, reached out and held James's uninjured left hand, "James, I'm here."

James couldn't speak, because his face was penetrated from right to left, and now it was completely wrapped, leaving only a little bit of space for his lips. He could eat some liquid food during meals to supplement nutrition. He couldn't speak, so he blinked.

Even if you respond to Jimmy.

Jimmy: "Carger and I are already investigating. Don't worry, we will definitely catch the bastard who shot the gun. The FBI Little Rock office is also helping."

James looked at Jimmy, nodded slightly, and then shook his head slightly, but Jimmy couldn't see what he wanted to express now, and there was nothing he could do about it. Who usually communicates like this.

Jimmy: "You have a good rest, I'm going back first." Jimmy let go of James' left hand, said goodbye to Mrs. Baldwin, and left the ward. It's not that he didn't want to talk more, but Jimmy and Mrs. Baldwin were not familiar with each other and didn't know what to do.

No matter what he said, James couldn't speak at all. It was too awkward to talk alone.

Jimmy told Officer Williams at the door a few words, then left the hospital and returned to the hotel. Now Kag was investigating the car and Harten was investigating the gunman. Jimmy had nothing to do but rest.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, Jimmy was just about to go to bed when the phone rang. He glanced at the number and it was an unfamiliar number. He answered the phone and heard a somewhat familiar voice.

"Jimmy, where are you?"

Jimmy was shocked: "Tom, is that you?"

Tom: "Well, where are you?"

Jimmy: "Little Rock, a hotel not far from the county police headquarters."

Tom: "Remember that lake? Come see me."

After Tom finished speaking, he hung up the phone. Jimmy was still a little confused. He had just answered casually in shock, and his mind hadn't come around yet. Isn't Tom dead? It's been more than a year, why are you calling him now?

Jimmy packed up, refilled the bullets on the holster, checked the bullet chamber, and then drove out of the hotel and headed to the lake where he met Tom before.

Here you can drive directly to the lake, turn off the engine, and without getting out of the car, he is observing the surroundings, and a person walks out from behind a tree nearby.

Jimmy pulled out the revolver and took it in his hand, got out of the car and walked over.

Jimmy: "Tom, it's really you."

Tom: "Calling you here doesn't prove it?"

Jimmy: "Why? You faked your death for more than a year, why did you come out again? Does James know?"

Tom shook his head: "I didn't notify anyone else, I just came back after I just learned that James had been shot. Is James okay now?"

Jimmy: "He was shot three times and was rescued. He is still in the hospital. His life is not in danger."

Tom nodded: "Then I can rest assured, don't tell him, at least until the matter is resolved."

Jimmy: "What the hell happened?"

Tom: "Did you get the box?"

Jimmy nodded, Tom: "Do you have the phone number above?"

Jimmy: "No, I'm not sure if it's safe. I haven't made any calls to the phone number on the card. Also, I haven't installed a battery on the phone inside, for fear of being located. I haven't been contacted by anyone from the CIA during this period.

I, I didn’t contact anyone from the CIA.”

Tom: "Very good, you are very cautious, which is a good thing. I left that phone number for you to prove your identity. If something happens to me, it can save your life under special circumstances, but I didn't know it at the time.

Someone is targeting me, and if you really contact me, you will also be implicated."

Jimmy: "Tom, tell me, I'm still confused."

Tom shook his head again: "This is not something that you, the police, can intervene in. There are many big people involved, and I will take care of it."

Jimmy also shook his head: "I am no longer in the police department. I went to the FBI Academy at the beginning of this year. Now I am an agent in the FBI Manhattan office. I am only temporarily seconded to Dallas. Believe me, I am no longer the same as before."

Tom saw that Jimmy was not talking, maybe he was thinking about something. After thinking for a while, Tom shook his head: "It's not the time yet. You don't know Langley at all. Intervening may make them target you."

Jimmy: "I never thought about this originally, but now that you have appeared, I suspect that the matter of James being shot may really have something to do with you."

Tom: "Is there any doubt? I haven't learned the specific situation yet."

Jimmy: "James was shot by a gunman on the road when he was off work, and was sent to the hospital. During the subsequent investigation, I discovered that the gunman's target should be James, and not a random shooting.

When James left the police station, a surveillance van was following him. After the gunman followed James, the van left.

The gunman's car has been found in the Arkansas River. The gunman's behavior is completely different from that of ordinary gangster gunmen. In addition, we also tracked the surveillance van to a vehicle repair shop in the east of the city. The people inside were arrested after a shootout with us.

They were injured, and people from the FBI's Little Rock office are now interrogating them, hoping to get some clues."

Tom: "A vehicle repair shop in the east of the city? Is there a middle-aged, white man who doesn't like to grow a beard?"

Jimmy was surprised: "How do you know? The owner of the repair shop said his name is William, that's who you said he is."

Tom: "Damn, this is a domestic contact point for the CIA, I've had a lot of dealings with him before.

William used to be an intelligence officer for the CIA. He left the CIA a few years ago, but he did not completely divest himself of the relationship. He returned to his hometown and opened a repair shop. We usually call him when we need to replenish weapons and supplies.

On the surface, William is the owner of a maintenance shop, but in reality he is a contractor. Some things that are inconvenient for us to do will be left to people like him to handle."

Jimmy: "He has been shot. A total of 5 people have been arrested, and 4 people have been shot. By the way, has he received anti-interrogation training? If the FBI interrogates him like an ordinary person, they may not be able to ask anything at all.

"

Tom: "Of course there is, so it's not possible. It's definitely impossible to ask anything. Since they took action, there must be something wrong somewhere. Why are they targeting James?"

Jimmy: "Kill and silence? Implicated? What did you do? Also, it has been more than a year. If it was really murder and silence, it should have started long ago. Why are you doing it now? Is it because you were not dead?

Found it?"

Tom: "Let's not talk about it for today. I'm going to investigate and wait until I contact you." After Tom finished speaking, he turned and walked directly behind the tree. Then he pushed out a motorcycle, started it and left.

Jimmy watched Tom leave. He did not leave in a hurry, but sat on a chair by the lake. He still needed to sort out the events of the past few days.

The appearance of Tom caused a huge deviation from Jimmy's original idea. He originally thought that James's enemies were just looking for someone to take revenge. After all, James has been a policeman for many years and is now a police chief. It is normal to have an enemy who has not been dealt with.

Therefore, Jimmy's goal has always been the gunman. Find the gunman and then chase out the mastermind, and solve the trouble once and for all.

Now Tom has appeared. A person who has been dead for more than a year suddenly appears. He is still a person in a special agency. The variables are too big. The person monitoring James turned out to be the former CIA, so James is probably implicated in something by Tom.

Something terrible happened, which led to someone wanting to kill everyone and kill everyone associated with Tom.

William, the former CIA intelligence officer, should be the key, but Hatten has made it clear that Jimmy will not be allowed to participate, and William is also the one who was directly killed by Jimmy. How can we win his trust and make him tell the truth?

Tom really dug a hole for himself. If he didn't know, forget it. If he knew, he still couldn't think of a way to mess with William. He felt itchy in his heart.

By the way, there is one more thing I forgot to ask. Those signed names on my file, these may be useful in the future, I have to have a good chat with Tom later.

After looking around, there was no sign of ghosts. Jimmy got up and drove away from the lake, returned to the hotel, and continued to rest.

When Jimmy woke up in the morning, he suddenly felt as if he had had a dream. However, thinking of Tom, he immediately picked up his phone and took a look. The call from the early morning did exist in the call history. Jimmy saved the number, then got up and washed up.

After going out for breakfast, Jimmy came to the county police headquarters. Kager's inspection of the car should have been completed. After all, it had been almost a day. Jimmy found Kager in the office. Because of James' case, Kager did not go to the subdivision patrol today.

, but stay directly at the headquarters.

Jimmy: "Kag, are you done with yesterday's inspection?"

Kag raised his head and glanced at Jimmy, "There are no clues. The car has been soaked in the river for a day. There are no fingerprints or anything on it. There are no personal belongings in the car. It is very clean."

Jimmy frowned. If there are no clues here, it would be too troublesome to rely entirely on the people at the maintenance shop. "No clues at all?"

Kagg: "Well, I asked someone about it. After soaking in the Arkansas River for a day, especially if the car door is still open, even if there are some broken things in the car, they will be taken away by the river water. There is no way to look for them below.

, I have no choice but to give up.”

Kag pushed aside what he was dealing with and stood up, "Is there any news from the FBI?"

Jimmy nodded: "Yesterday we raided a repair shop. The car that was monitoring James has been repainted, but a few people have been arrested. The FBI is interrogating them. I can't get involved in this. I can only wait for their news.

Not yet."

Kag turned to look at Jimmy, "Who is in charge? Can I contact you in the name of the police station?"

Jimmy: "Agent Hatten is in charge, but I think it's useless for you to use the name of the police department. I'm still an FBI agent, so I'm excluded. After all, I'm not from the Little Rock office."

Kag sighed: "Of course it is impossible for other people to intervene in such a big case. In fact, if you think about it, the credit is secondary. If they need help from other offices to handle a case, they may not be able to save their face. There is no way.

We can only wait. Now we don’t even know how tall or thin the gunman is. There is only a screenshot of the video and it is covered by big sunglasses. How careful are these people?"

Jimmy: "Well, if you don't have any clues here, I'll go to the FBI first and check. If there's any news, I'll synchronize it with you. I'll leave first."

After Jimmy finished speaking, he turned around and left the office, drove to the FBI, and went back and forth. Jimmy had been running back and forth between the headquarters and the FBI office in the past few days, but the harvest was pitiful. If he hadn't just met Tom in the early morning, I'm afraid he could only do it now.

I've been waiting for news from Harten. Now, there may be a chance to get some information.

While driving, Jimmy thought about the conversation he had with Justin yesterday. It seemed that Justin had some inside information, but maybe even if he asked now, there would be no results.

(End of chapter)