Chapter 353 Conspiracy Theorists
When Jack and Red rushed to the hospital, the place was already surrounded by reporters and excited family members on three floors.
Some of them cried silently, some vented hysterically, and some collapsed on the ground in complete despair.
There has been no official announcement yet, but private gossip is impossible to suppress.
The rescuers who went to the scene, the medical staff at the hospital, and even the drivers who transported the corpses, even if these people were given a silence order, there would still be undistinguishable rumors.
The airport where the crashed flight originally landed was Phoenix. The straight-line distance from here is only more than 500 kilometers. As time goes by, more and more family members of passengers will rush here.
Several local police officers assisted the hospital staff and were struggling to maintain order. Jack and Red were afraid of being surrounded and did not dare to show their IDs to identify themselves in public. Instead, they sent a message and waited for Jiejie and Emily to arrive. Answer.
Just as the two of them were looking around and watching this scene of various forms of life, a beautiful young woman pushed open the glass door and rushed into the hospital. She grabbed a staff member and loudly identified herself.
"My name is Sherry Hicks and my husband is on the plane and I want to know how he is doing."
However, the hospital staff did not hear her words clearly at all, they just kept repeating them loudly.
"Madam, and all of you, please, please go to the family area, someone will be there to help you, please listen to me, I promise, please believe me, we will notify everyone as soon as we get the news. people."
The young woman's voice became somewhat high-pitched and shrill, and for a moment it overpowered the noisy voices in the room and reached Jack's ears clearly.
"Please, please, his name is Frank Canforth, someone must know him, please, someone must know him, he is. He is"
Jack subconsciously poked Red next to him and whispered in his ear, "Do you remember the name of the surviving co-pilot?"
"Frank Canforth, what's wrong?" Rhett didn't have Jack's superhuman perception brought about by the system attribute bonus. For him, the voices of so many people were buzzing together and he couldn't hear them at all. Find out what someone is saying.
"Follow me." Jack didn't waste any more words. He grabbed Red's shoulders and squeezed into the crowd. He was tall and had already seen Jie Jie walking towards this side on high heels in the corridor.
When he came to the woman's side, Jack grabbed her arm with his other hand and pulled her to him before she could react. "Ma'am, did you say your husband is the co-pilot?"
Seeing the woman looking at him with a horrified look, he moved a little closer and revealed his identity in a low voice, "FBI, stop talking and come in with us."
Although Jack's operation was a bit abrupt, his handsome and upright face directly increased his trust level to full score. The woman hesitated and followed him without saying a word.
With Jiejie's help, the three of them successfully entered the corridor leading to the surgical ward.
"Who is she?" Jiejie looked at the woman behind them in surprise.
"It should be the wife of the first officer." Jack said before he finished speaking.
The woman who called herself Sherry Hicks said with red eyes and looked like she was about to cry.
"Yes, yes, my name is Sherry Hicks. Frank Canforth is my husband. He is the co-pilot of the plane. I did not change my name after marriage. I just learned about the plane accident. It took me more than 6 hours of driving to get here.”
Jiejie quickly comforted the woman who was already incoherent.
"Calm down, Ms. Hicks, the doctor is operating on your husband. He is seriously injured, but it should not be life-threatening."
Jiejie's words haven't finished yet.
"Thank God."
Shelly Hicks's legs gave out and she was about to collapse to the ground.
Jack and Rhett reached out their hands at the same time, supporting her on the left and right. Jiejie took her and took her to sit on the bench next to the corridor.
Sherry Hicks burst into tears, "Thank you, thank you."
Jack didn't bring her in out of pity.
The first officer is still in surgery and has not come out. Even if he comes out, the foreseeable concussion and the anesthesia used during the operation will turn his brain into a ball of mush.
If the worst-case scenario occurs, such as internal bleeding that the doctor failed to detect in advance and he does not survive the operation, then the immediate confession of Sherry Hicks, the wife of the client, will be of great reference value. .
Sure enough, perhaps because of the great favor brought about by Jack's previous behavior, Sherry Hicks was full of trust in him for a while and provided a lot of valuable information.
For example, Frank Kanforth took a period of leave two years ago due to mild depression, and then took fluoxetine for a period of time until he stopped taking it four months ago.
Another example is that Captain Jerry Wehrmeyer rented out a room in his home to an international student from Indonesia who had a weird personality and often asked the two about questions about the aircraft.
And so on, and so on.
"You know she might wake up later and retract these testimonies, right?" Jiejie asked privately as she sent the two off.
Because they were not sure when the first officer's surgery would be completed, Jack and Red prepared to go to the emergency command center to join Hotchner and Rosie, leaving Jie Jie to accompany Shelly Hicks.
Emily was always waiting at the door of the operating room. In order to prevent accidents and to be able to question the first officer immediately, no one in the BAU dared to relax at all.
"That's not important. Our primary issue now is to rule out the possibility of a terrorist attack, which determines how the higher authorities will respond in the future.
If similar attacks are expected to occur again, timely and appropriate response may save many lives. "
Red answered for Jack.
The two sides said goodbye, and the three of them drove to the command center without stopping.
It was already past ten o'clock in the evening. When we walked into the brightly lit hall, nearly a hundred technicians and liaison officers from various departments were busy in front of dozens of computers.
When the three found Hotchner, he was talking to a black female major wearing a military uniform.
"He knew who did it, but he didn't tell us. There must be something wrong with this guy's mind." The female major was a little annoyed.
"Obviously, I think he has deep hostility towards you." Hotchner still maintained his matter-of-fact tone.
The female major suppressed her anger, "Because I'm a woman or because I'm black?"
"Maybe both." Hotchner shrugged.
"Great, I'll leave this guy to you. Pry open his mouth as soon as possible. We don't have much time to waste on him."
After saying that, she turned and left.