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

Chapter 1377 Doubts and Minor Troubles
"I am still trying to decipher the specific content of the email. The other party used 'PGP' software to encrypt it, which uses the IDEA hash algorithm."

Jack decisively interrupted Finch's subsequent incomprehensible words and said, "Try using numbers like your child's birthday or your wife's birthday. Also, have Reese keep an eye on Powell. I'll be heading to the banquet now."

Reese was obviously online the whole time, and he interrupted directly, "He entered the venue in the afternoon, and the GPS location has not moved. There is a security check at the door and an invitation letter is required."

The implication was that he could not enter the venue for the time being. Jack frowned, took out his gun to check it while weighing the pros and cons in his mind.

The life or death of a city council member has nothing to do with him, even if the other party wants to run for mayor of New York City. The city will not undergo any earth-shaking changes because of a change of mayor. It has nothing to do with whether City Councilman Delancey belongs to the Elephant Party or the Donkey Party.

Although Finch has not yet decrypted the contents of the emails, browsing history and blogs he previously retrieved from Powell's computer show that Powell blamed his unemployment on the city councilman's advocacy of cuts to the city's administrative budget.

When Danny first contacted Jack, he said that Powell had a clean family background except for a few traffic tickets. However, Jack still took a look at the information he sent later and found that he had applied for a gun license about two months ago, and it was for a rifle.

But this matter doesn't seem right no matter how you think about it. Powell has a son, a daughter, and a beautiful and virtuous wife. Although it seems that he is now forced into a desperate situation, is it really like this?
What kind of family can maintain their original daily expenses for 8 months after losing their main income, and the wife, a housewife, doesn’t even notice anything unusual?

You have to know that the United States is a country where consumerism is prevalent. In other words, a large proportion of the people in this country have no concept of savings, or they do not have the ability to accumulate savings.

Generally speaking, Americans live a life that matches their work. Whether they are civil servants or ordinary citizens, if they have a few hundred dollars left after paying the bills every month, they will be itching to go to Las Vegas for some fun.

If you have a few thousand dollars in savings, you can easily arrange a vacation or travel abroad.

The fact that he was able to survive eight months after being unemployed without being discovered by his family shows that in addition to hiding his own private money, Powell must have also been making money by doing odd jobs during this period.

Otherwise, even if he maintained his daily expenses by swiping his credit cards back and forth, he wouldn't be able to do it for more than half a year.

Assuming that Powell had planned two months ago to abandon his wife and children, learn advanced experience in daily life, and die together with Delancey, who caused him to lose his job, then why was he flipping through the newspaper again and again in the park yesterday morning looking for a job?
"So you suspect there's something fishy about this?" Zoe said in surprise after listening to Jack's analysis in the car.

"Who knows? I have a feeling that something is not right. After you pick up More, try to enter the venue as late as possible under the pretext of traffic jam. Although no explosive threat has been found yet, it is always better to be cautious."

After giving his instructions, Jack asked the bodyguard who was driving to drop him off halfway, and at the same time called Chief Reagan of the NYPD.

It was not difficult for him to enter the banquet. He just had to reveal his identity. Even if he did not want to reveal his identity, it would be easy for Zoe to bring him in as a senator.

But if nothing happens, everything is easy to explain. But if something happens, it is hard to explain. After all, in theory the FBI does not participate in partisan conflicts, and it can even be said that it should not have partisan tendencies.

Of course, many things are just said, and everyone knows that it is not the case. For example, the female boss Dana Moger attended this campaign dinner as Zoe's female companion. Given her status as the head of the FBI New York office, it is obviously impossible for anyone to say anything about her.

But if Jack showed up without telling anyone and revealed his identity, and something really happened, he would inevitably be suspected.

After all, he is an FBI assistant agent in charge. Although he is only generally well-known among the public, he is quite well-known at the official level.

You should know that the aftermath of the Alcatraz prison incident has not yet subsided, but it has been overshadowed by the subsequent major news such as the war in Eastern Europe, the nuclear bomb explosion, and the island scandal.

If Jack suddenly appeared in such an occasion and an assassination occurred afterwards, no matter who the murderer was and whether the assassination was successful or not, it would arouse the suspicion of those with ulterior motives, and a series of accusations against the FBI would most likely follow.

For example, whether the FBI knew about something in advance but had no intention of stopping it, or simply came up with a whole conspiracy theory saying that the FBI might be involved.

Even if the assassination failed, there would be 80% chance that some members of the Democratic Party would come out and say something weird like the Democratic Party colluded with certain people within the FBI and staged this assassination.

Jack is not a person who cares about his reputation, but apart from considering Rossi and the people behind him, the most important thing is that a certain hidden organization is still hiding behind the scenes.

Although the other party's boss had been killed by him with a single shot, this kind of behind-the-scenes organization is certainly not so easy to disband, even though it is not like Hydra where two heads will grow back after one is chopped off.

Harry and his "Omega" department are still keeping a close eye on the "Decima" organization, but generally speaking, both sides are still hiding in the dark and have not even really fought each other.

Jack's idea was naturally to find out who was behind "Decima" and then wipe it out completely, and this was obviously the last time to create trouble.

As the saying goes, "POIs" like Finch and Reese only need to kill the bad guys and save the innocent, while Jack, who is responsible for assisting in the back and watching the show, has more things to consider.

Director Reagan did not give any good news. This campaign fundraising dinner held in a star-rated hotel near Flushing was just an initial warm-up for Councillor Delancey's entire campaign.

Although the organizers reported to the NYPD in advance, there were no additional patrol officers on the scene because there was no suspicious threat information beforehand. All security was handled by private security hired by Delancey City Councilman himself.

In other words, without prior preparation, Jack really had no good way to sneak into the venue for the time being.

But when he arrived, Finch and Reese had already successfully entered. They did not prepare invitations in advance, but someone used his money to donate 50,000 US dollars on the spot and "buy" two tickets for himself and Reese.

(End of this chapter)