American Detective: Starting as a Rookie Cop in an American TV Show

Chapter 1363 Potential Victim or Potential Murderer

"That's not surprising, he's a repeat offender so he's very cautious."

After a good sleep, Reese had recovered and returned to the library. After learning the information they currently had, he shrugged indifferently.

"It's not like he's always been so cautious." Finch glanced at Jack and displayed a blacked-out file page on the screen. "Agent Tawole said that any criminal's behavior is gradually becoming more sophisticated, so I looked up Benton's early experiences.

There was an old case from when he was in college that was dismissed, and I thought that might help us understand this guy a little better.”

"Then what are you waiting for?" Reese also looked at Jack who was calm and composed. "These old cases that have been withdrawn should all have original archives. This is very important for the FBI..."

"In fact, the NYPD detectives have enough authority to access these files, so Detective Fusco will meet with me later." Jack stood up and stretched, "I should go back and rest. Notify me if there is any new information."

Back in the base building, Jack slept comfortably for 4 hours and regained his energy. After washing up, he went downstairs and found that all his friends were there.

At this time, the sky outside the window was almost dark. It was dinner time. Jubal was frying meat patties in the kitchen, Aubrey was cutting bread, Alice was helping to wash lettuce, and Jiejie and Hannah were setting the plates in the dining room.

Clay was holding his son and trying to feed pickles to the fat little boy whose teeth had not yet grown in, but this caused his wife to laugh and scold him.

"You guys are the least FBI-like I've ever seen." Jessica, who was struggling with a bottle of red wine with a corkscrew, couldn't help but smile when she saw Jack coming downstairs.

Of course, Reese's ex-girlfriend has now become the elder sister of his current girlfriend. She is the most American housewife-like woman Jack knows.

Even though she has a new job now and works as a part-time nurse in the same hospital as Danny's wife Linda, she still makes time to help everyone clean up the base building every week.

Although the work was not much, because Jack basically cleaned the kitchen and dining room, which were most likely to get dirty, by himself, it did save a lot of trouble.

Because the wanted criminal team has to travel frequently, they usually have a trustworthy person to help look after the small building at the base. This way, they don't have to come back exhausted and do a thorough cleaning every time.

Jack also likes this big family-like atmosphere. In his previous life, he had almost no friends and could only barely maintain his own life.

The first few years after the time travel were also full of fear. Although I quickly got to know Zoe and Hannah, I still felt out of tune with this world.

Today, Jack has completely integrated into this somewhat strange world. Apart from his bad love affairs, he also has a large group of friends with different personalities.

"Try my cooking skills. After eating too much of Jack's delicious food, it's rare for everyone to change their taste." Jubal quite complacently put the fried beef patties into the bread cut by Aubrey.

"Strictly speaking, this is still Jack's doing, right? He prepared the meat filling in advance and put it in the refrigerator. You just took it out, pressed it into a pancake shape and fried it."

As a result, Aubrey was "bullied in the workplace" by his direct superior because of his behavior of telling the truth.

After dinner, everyone went home, and Jack went out with the three girls who had dressed up carefully.

Bars in America are just like milk tea shops in Serbia, and they are places for strangers to socialize.

Especially in big cities, many people would choose to go to the bar for a drink after get off work, maybe they can find love or a romantic encounter. But it is rare to see someone like Dr. Tillman, who dresses up and sits at the bar to slowly enjoy a cocktail after working 13 or 14 hours in the hospital.

It would be one thing to be addicted to one-night stands, but there are many people in this country who live a double life all day long.

They may be strict and rigid doctors, teachers, lawyers, police officers or even prosecutors during the day, but at night they transform into a beautiful rose, constantly attracting bees and butterflies and acting as brides every night.

But Reese followed Dr. Tillman for two days. Jack had asked the bartender before, but he didn't find that she had ever been approached by any man. She always left alone at midnight.

"Hello handsome, are you alone?"

Hearing a familiar voice behind him, Reese, who was sitting on the sofa, turned around in surprise and just happened to meet Jessica's red lips with his cheek.

Jessica sat down next to Reese and naturally threw herself into her lover's arms, "Don't blame Jack, I asked him to bring me here."

Jack, holding Hannah and Jiejie on his left and right, sat down on the sofa next to Reese and joked with a smile, "Jessica wants to see how you work and whether you are worthy of the penthouse apartment Mr. Finch gave you."

"I'm just a little curious." Jessica quickly emphasized that she still protected her man.

Jack threw a file bag to Reese. "It seems that we made a mistake again. This time the number is still not the victim, at least not in the traditional sense."

Reese glanced at Dr. Tillman, who was holding a cocktail at the bar not far away, and opened the file bag in confusion.

The lighting in the bar was a little dim, not very suitable for reading. Reese read the information inside at a glance, while Jack explained to Finch using the Bluetooth headset connected to his mobile phone.

"It's a cliché story, it happened ten years ago when Benton was a senior at New York University and he assaulted a female freshman at a fraternity party.

The other party said in her statement that she did want to please Benton because he was a star on the school football team at the time, so the two drank some beer together, and when she woke up, she found that her whole body was covered with bruises.

"Why wasn't Benton arrested?" Finch asked on the other end of the phone.

"Because she hesitated for two days before reporting the case, probably out of shyness, the toxicology test later showed that everything was normal, so the rape charge was not established and the charges were subsequently dropped."

Finch was silent for two seconds before asking, "The victim is Dr. Tillman?"

"No, it was the doctor's sister, Gabrielle Tillman. A year after the incident, she was taken to the emergency room due to an overdose of anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills, but it was too late. She was confirmed dead when she arrived.

Judging from the dosage, it should be suicide.”

Jack paused, looking at the situation around him before continuing, "So the 'machine' gave Tillman's number not because she was a possible victim, but because she wanted to kill Benton, the bastard who killed her sister."

(End of this chapter)