Chapter 900: Identity of the Kidnapper

An hour later, inside the Federal Building.

Not long ago, Cassel was talking to the two heartbroken parents in this conference room. Now their positions were reversed and he and Beckett sat on the other side.

Jack's eyes swept across the faces of the four people in front of him, Castle and Beckett, Brian and his ex-wife. Although he tried very hard to maintain his expression, to be honest, he was no less panicked than them.

It is his little naughty hobby to make friends with the protagonists in different American TV series and gather them together for meals, drinks and socializing, just like every boy likes to collect those beautiful Ultraman cards in his childhood.

But he didn't want to see this unexpected development.

Although Jack didn't remember whether Alexis was kidnapped in "Castle", he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling when he thought about what Brian and his daughter saw and heard and experienced in the "Taken" series.

Human trafficking, drug injection, forced selling of silver. Although Kim was blessed with the luck of the protagonist and was not harmed, this place is neither Paris, France nor Istanbul, Turkey. God knows how the plot will turn out.

"Since everyone here is Jack's friend, I won't use some official terms." Jubal glanced at Jack, put a document on the table, and got straight to the point.

“This is the latest development. We retrieved all the surveillance videos of the Beaumont Hotel and found a suspicious person. His identity was found out by the facial recognition system.

Roger Hansen, a mid-level drug dealer in Queens who we believe was hired to carry out the kidnapping, and his accomplices drugged the three girls' drinks and took them out the back door of the hotel.

Currently, NYPD Chief Reagan has instructed the NYPD to fully cooperate with our wanted criminal team in the search for Hansen and his accomplices."

Jack picked up the photo on the table and handed it to a few people to circulate. He recognized this Roger Hansen at a glance. It was the blurry face that appeared in the road surveillance before.

Meanwhile, Jubal continued, "Capturing Hansen might be enough to solve this kidnapping case, but as an experienced drug dealer, he has many hiding places, so this will take some time. However, we need some additional arrangements just in case."

"What additional arrangements?" Cassel asked quickly.

"Wiretap the phone, all your known contact information, mobile phones, online chat software, emails, etc. must be placed under FBI monitoring."

While Jubal was speaking, Jack was looking at Brian. Although Brian was officially retired, as a former CIA agent, he was worried that he would have some resistance.

"No problem, I only have this one cell phone and I don't have any public email." Brian also knew what Jack was worried about, and handed over his cell phone without hesitation. It was an old Nokia with an old-fashioned LCD screen that glowed green.

In fact, if the kidnappers really came for money, this person would be the last one to contact. Jack then looked at his ex-wife Lenore, a middle-aged white woman in her 40s who still had charm and was already crying.

"Sorry." She frantically dug out her phone from her bag. "My husband is already on a flight from Los Angeles to New York."

"Does your husband have any enemies overseas?" The kidnappers kidnapped three girls in one go, and Jack was already unable to guess their motives.

New York is not Paris. It does not have the tradition of wantonly kidnapping beautiful female tourists and selling them. Although the United States does have the problem of human trafficking, people are generally transported here and it has not yet developed to the level of self-production and self-sale.

"Probably not, I don't know." Lenore looked a little confused.

"Stuart used a number of shell companies to do business overseas. His oil business had connections with the Russians, and his financial situation has begun to decline in recent years. It is no longer as prosperous as it seems on the surface."

Brian had obviously done some careful research on his ex-wife's current husband.

"How could you?" Lionel stared blankly at her ex-husband who seemed like a different person. She obviously didn't know Brian's past identity.

"Since my daughter has to live with him, I must find out."

Brian came close to Jack and stared into his eyes, as if to confirm whether he would lie. "Are you sure that the other party is here for the money?"

"Your question is exactly what I want to confirm." Jack tilted his head slightly, motioning him to follow him. After thinking for a moment, he turned to look at Cassel, "You come too."

After a series of identity verification procedures, Jack took the two of them down to the SCIF (Sensitive Information Isolation Facility) in an elevator.

Although Cassel had lost his usual lively demeanor due to his daughter's kidnapping, he still looked around curiously along the way. It was not until he entered this secret room that was obviously underground that he finally realized something was wrong.

Before he could speak, Jack spoke first, "It has nothing to do with you. I brought you along simply because you are Alexis's father and my friend. If you don't want me to keep using the FBI's official statement to perfunctorily answer you before I find Alexis, then shut up."

After Cassel found a seat and sat down listlessly, Jack looked at Brian seriously and said, "Let's skip the stage of testing each other. I also have friends working in the CIA, so I know your rules very well.

Therefore, I don’t want to ask about your previous position or work. I will leave it to you to judge for yourself.

All you need to tell me is, in your past career, have there been any enemies or opponents who might have done something like this, and is there any possibility that your identity could have been leaked?

Remember, this could be the key to your daughter and Alexis's rescue, so answer carefully."

Brian thought about it seriously for a long time, and finally shook his head. "In theory, I shouldn't have such an opponent. My previous work was more prevention-oriented. Although I was also a covert action agent, I focused on solving problems in advance.

We do a very clean job, you know, in the physical sense. Even if there are opponents, it is a matter of the country and will not involve individuals. "

Jack said he understood, "We have just checked the relationship between the three girls. The reason why they are together is very simple. Alexis and Sarah are online friends, and they are both very interested in scientific research such as climate change.

The reason Kim and Alexis met was because Kim's stepfather Stuart knew Cassel, so Alexis became Kim's playmate after she came to New York, and they made a whole week's worth of sightseeing plans.

The lecture at the Beaumont Hotel was just the first stop in their planned tour, and they were going to visit a series of places including the Museum of Natural History and Art in the next few days.