Chapter 1271 3 Months Later (2 in 1 Chapter)

Chapter 1271 Three Months Later (Two Chapters in One)

Debts must always be repaid. After a week of fooling around with Jie Jie and returning to New York, Jack became busy.

Although the "Dark Jihad" has been destroyed and almost all of its leaders and core members have been captured, the influence of this terrorist organization is expanding.

A nuclear bomb that explodes within the country, even if it is on an uninhabited island and causes almost no casualties, is still a nuclear bomb.

If it weren't for the efforts of the FBI and the "Omega" team, which successfully prevented the second nuclear bomb from exploding in downtown Miami, the country would have almost lost its proud title of being the world's only country to be the victim of a nuclear explosion.

The DHS and NSA escaped this time. Although they were not very friendly to "Omega" during the previous investigation stage, they still responded to Jack's requests for assistance in the investigation and intelligence sharing in the name of the FBI.

The CIA suffered some setbacks. Although it was quite active in the early stages of investigating the whereabouts of the nuclear bomb, it failed to stop the nuclear bomb from entering the country.

However, even if they have no credit, they have worked hard. After all, they are cleaning up the mess for the military. They lost a total of 10 nuclear bombs before, but at least 7 of them were recovered. So someone said a few words in the White House and then nothing else happened. At least there was no layoffs.

No matter how turbulent the internal undercurrents are in the Americans of this world, at least on the surface they look more normal than the magical doomsday empire in Jack's previous life.

The president in the White House who was successfully re-elected for two terms did have some effects. At least some policies were continued, rather than becoming extremely radical after he came to power again after a four-year hiatus.

Afterwards, when it came to rewarding people for their contributions, the "Omega" department suddenly went from being an unpopular stepmother's child to being the favorite son of the CIA and the FBI.

Harry's immediate superior was originally sent by the CIA to do an idle job to avoid work. Unable to bear the harassment, he simply retired due to illness and let Harry, his long-cherished successor, take over as the head of the entire "Omega" department.

Jack had been busy writing a report for a week. When he looked up, he found that Harry had become a big boss who could stand on equal footing with his female boss.

Jessie has also confirmed that she will go to Quantico in August next year to become a formal student at the FBI Academy.

After Jack handed the report to Dana Moger, he learned a good news from his female boss that it was time for him to report back to Quantico.

In the previous VX attack on Alcatraz, Jack successfully cooperated with the SEALs to eliminate the crisis, which can be said to be a great contribution. Although he was awarded an outstanding Presidential Medal of Freedom, recognition and promotion within the FBI have yet to come.

It wasn't the ideological conflict between the Director and Rossi that affected Jack's promotion, but it was because someone was too young.

When Jack goes out on a mission now, he usually introduces himself as Special Agent Tawalla, omitting the word "Supervisory" in front unless necessary.

This is not the inherent modesty of Orientals, but the fact that this person is too young. Regardless of his inner age, his actual age is about 27 or 28 years old and he is very pretentious. People who see him for the first time will feel that this guy has clear eyes like a college student.

As the name suggests, the rank of supervisory agent is a very senior rank among action agents. Many people only reach this rank after working in the FBI for their entire lives.

When working with an unfamiliar local police station, if Jack directly introduces himself as a supervisory agent, it will only arouse the other party's suspicion. A more reckless veteran detective might even pull out handcuffs and prepare to arrest the bastard who dared to impersonate a federal agent.

Above the Supervisory Agent is the Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge, which is considered to be officially entering the management level. Above that is the Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC), who is at the same level as Jubal and Hotchner.

Generally speaking, an ordinary FBI agent could theoretically be promoted once every 3-5 years, but that was only in theory. People like Jubal who became a chief agent in just a dozen years were rare in the bureau.

Hotchner is a few years older than Jubal, but he had the disadvantage of joining the FBI much later. Although his background as an assistant prosecutor adds a lot to his resume, he is now only at the same level as Jubal.

However, after the nuclear crisis, someone's contribution could no longer be suppressed. Seeing that other federal departments were working hard, the higher-ups had no choice but to send Jack back to Quantico with a promotion order.

To be promoted from an action agent to a management agent, one naturally needs to undergo a series of relevant training. To use an inappropriate analogy, it is like the cadre training class that Jack had heard of in his previous life.

The training period is 12 weeks, which is rounded up to 3 months, and after it is completed someone will become Assistant Agent Tawaler's supervisor.

Before returning to Quantico, Jack still had a lot of things to arrange in advance, mainly the appearance of a CIA ex-girlfriend, which made him feel more crisis.

It’s not that he was worried about the artificial intelligence crisis. In his previous life, he had seen a lot of artificial intelligence software such as ChatGPT, AWS, GCP and DeepSeek.

Jack is not sure whether a large amount of computing power has promoted any scientific development, but it is a fact that most of it is used for pornographic purposes on the Internet.

It sounds terrifying that artificial intelligence has self-awareness, but in Jack's opinion, it may not be "Skynet" that destroys humanity, but rather an electronic succubus that has been trained by deep artificial intelligence.

By then, every otaku will have an android girlfriend, and all the money they earn from working will be used to buy all kinds of silicone accessories. Wouldn't the fertility rate drop directly to zero?

Therefore, there is no need for an army of robots at all. Silicone simulated humans are the biggest enemy of mankind. Moreover, with the current industrial level of the United States, even if Skynet appears, it is estimated that it will not be a match for the country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, let alone destroying the world.

No matter how awesome the T-800 is, can it withstand the overwhelming swarms of drones and robot dogs?

However, Jack is now deeply bound to this country. He is afraid that when the two artificial intelligences fight each other, the fight between the gods will affect innocent people, and he will be forced to hide in the doomsday shelter in Los Angeles.

No matter whether it is the cowardly "robot baby" in the original drama or the awesome "Samaritan", if they cannot be recruited, they will be completely destroyed. This is the best way Jack can think of at the moment.

In order to achieve this, advance planning is necessary, but he is facing many problems at the moment.

First of all, in his previous life, Jack only watched the first three seasons of "Person of Interest" one after another, and stopped for two years. When he was about to catch up on the fourth season, he heard that the fifth season was forced to end abruptly, and he lost interest inexplicably, so he decided to catch up on the show when he had time.

The result was that I kept putting it off and didn't find the time to watch it again from the beginning until before the time travel.

The problem is that the original drama is strictly speaking still considered a unit drama, with basically one story per episode, interspersed with long plots and a lot of overt and covert plots.

Therefore, it is not like a classic movie like "True Lies", even after more than 20 years, we can still roughly recall the main plot through some classic shots.

In fact, even if Jack still remembered the original plot line, he didn't dare to rely too much on his memories of his past life. He had experienced too much in this regard and was very experienced.

For example, with his current authority, he can easily access the NYPD's internal system to check police officer information, but he has never been able to find the female detective named Josie Carter in the original drama.

He even looked through all the photos of female African-American detectives, but still couldn't find one that matched his impression.

In addition, according to the setting of the original drama, the artificial intelligence code-named "Machine" has been running at least ten years ago, and was then fed a large amount of data for training. It is now in a basically mature form and has a certain degree of self-awareness.

However, a few years ago, Jack asked Justin to help keep an eye on local network servers in New York and monitor the databases of various government departments including the NYPD, looking for possible clues, but he never found anything, which puzzled him.

Justine may not be the strongest computer expert in the world, but she is definitely one of the top few in the first echelon. The only difference between her and Harold Finch is that she is not as proficient in the field of artificial intelligence as the latter.

John Rease's whereabouts are still unknown, and Harold Finch disappeared from the public eye after a bombing more than half a year ago, which made Jack not know where to start.

Fortunately, the unexpected rescue of Jessica gave Jack some initiative. At least he determined some time points and could make some arrangements in advance.

In addition, after directly using official power to fake Jessica's death and conceal it, Jack himself also had to give a reasonable explanation to his female boss Dana Moger.

So before he went to Quantico, he invited Rossi, Zoe and Maureen to New York.

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Together with the female boss and Jack himself, the five people held a secret meeting in the "SCIF" (Sensitive Information Isolation Facility) located in the basement of the Federal Building. Jack revealed to everyone the existence of the artificial intelligence "Machine".

The source of the intelligence is unknown, and the specific information is unknown, but no matter Jack's serious attitude or the content he revealed, everyone could not help but take it seriously.

Of course, whether it is Senator Zoe or FBI executives like Rossi, they are not surprised that a federal department illegally steals citizens' privacy and entrusts it to artificial intelligence for data analysis. They don't even need to guess to know that this project must belong to the NSA.

In fact, the FBI itself has been doing similar work for a long time, and it has even become known to everyone, but no one at the official level will admit it.

However, compared to the FBI, the NSA, which is responsible for collecting and analyzing foreign and domestic communications intelligence, is more notorious.

As early as the 90s, before the 911 attacks, the chief scientist of a Canadian security data company announced that they had discovered a second key of unknown purpose in the Windows operating system and named it "NSAkey."

To put it bluntly, Microsoft has implanted a program "backdoor" in every Windows operating system to allow the NSA to enter the user's computer when necessary. This is almost an open secret.

What attracted the attention of several people was not that Harold Finch had opened a backdoor in the program of the "machine", nor that the NSA had mastered the super artificial intelligence such as the "machine", but the key intelligence provided by Jack.

It is very likely that a private company has obtained the source code of the "machine" and is trying to use it to conduct some kind of "social experiment."

Even an "old antique" like Rossi is familiar with the setting of "giant companies" in cyberpunk, and the totalitarian society described in the novel "1984" is even more terrifying.

Everyone knew that Jack knew some powerful people who operated in the gray area, so they did not doubt his "fabricated" information.

After all, based on their understanding of Jack, they knew that he would never joke about such things.

Zoe has now successfully entered the Senate Judiciary Committee and has gradually begun to exert her influence. As her "wife", Maureen also plans to seek a ministerial position in the next government.

Together with Rossi and Dana Murger, two high-ranking FBI officials, they are temporarily Jack's trump cards for dealing with the future plot of "Person of Interest".

Time flies. When the summer is over and New York has not yet completely recovered from the scorching heat, Jack, who has completed his training at Quantico Academy, returns to this familiar city again.

Although he was promoted to assistant detective supervisor, he was still a member of the wanted criminal team, and even his original identity as NYPD coordinator had not changed.

In fact, being a team leader or department coordinator is an important part of junior management positions. This also shows how much Dana Moger valued Jack when she transferred him from BAU to New York.

Jessica has been released from the hospital and is recovering well.

During the time when Jack was away, Jiejie and Hannah helped Jessica find a place to live near the base of the Most Wanted Criminals Team. After learning that she was originally a nurse, they asked Danny Reagan to help arrange for her to work in the hospital where Linda worked.

The previous brain injury caused Jessica a certain degree of mild amnesia, but now she has almost recovered, and there is no bloody plot that we all like to see.

Although she was somewhat confused about being inexplicably included in the witness protection program, she gladly accepted the reality that she could leave her husband who almost beat her to death.

Jack assured her that this was only a temporary solution and revealed his identity as an FBI agent and friend of John Reaser.

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Three months was neither a long nor a short time. Most of the people around Jack had not changed much, except for a certain pair of enemies who were now discussing marriage.

After the case of her mother's murder was over, Beckett resolved her worries and recognized her inner feelings. So, the always dashing female detective soon ended up in bed with a writer.

After that, the two of them naturally entered the stage of discussing marriage, and even started to show their love in front of someone.

Jack didn't have much of a feeling about showing off affection, but it was too much to discuss something like the choice of wedding venue in front of him.