Chapter 905 Why Paris?

Chapter 905 Why Paris?

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Jack had a question mark on his forehead. There was a concise sentence on the paper wrapped around the phone. He could also understand the meaning. The person who interrogated Roger Hansen asked about the whereabouts of the three girls, and then asked him to go to Paris to help.

In fact, Jack was not surprised about the whereabouts of the three girls. He recognized Brian and his daughter Kim. He could not say that he had expected the plot to go to Paris, but he was definitely prepared.

The problem is who the guy who left the note is? At least leave a name!

Jack thought quickly in his mind. He has only known a few CIAs in the past few years. Joe Mason is now living in old Hunter's house. He is the first to be ruled out.

The second is John Reese, who has been clearly missing. Will he get involved in this matter?

Jack shook his head silently in his heart. Unless the plot of "Person of Interest" has begun, this guy should still be hiding somewhere to heal his wounds silently.

He also privately took care of Danny and his patrolman brother James, asking them to help keep an eye on the homeless in the New York subway.

Of the two CIAs he met in Mexico, Matt died in front of him. Michael came to him once after being rescued by him and assigned him a SEAL mission.

After that, there was no news about this guy. I don’t know if it started the plot of "Burn Warning". If it was him, it was indeed possible. According to the plot of that show, after Michael was inexplicably blacklisted by the CIA, he did a job similar to "scavenger".

But this guy shouldn't be so unreliable, at least he would leave a name. Jack turned the paper over and over several times, but didn't see any secret marks or extra symbols.

The only people left related to the CIA were the bald Frank and the liaison officer of the SEAL Team B, Mandy Ellis.

Sister Mandy is a pure intelligence officer, not an action agent, and obviously can't do this job. Could it be the bald Frank?

Jack didn't have Frank's contact information, nor did he know where he lived in Texas. He couldn't come to a conclusion after thinking about it.

Since he couldn't figure it out, he didn't think about it anymore. Anyway, the other party left his phone number, and everything would be clear when he went to Paris.

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"Why Paris?" After returning to the Federal Building, Cassel followed Jack and asked non-stop, "Why did the other party leave your name? There must be a reason."

"I said I don't know." Jack was almost annoyed by this guy.

He had just confirmed with Justin that the IP address of the suspicious visitor who logged into Alexis's personal page was the same as the IP address directed by the new network monitor on the old farm house, and the result was also out, also in Paris.

Justin had even found the specific location, in a hotel under renovation near the Bourbon Palace.

"Roger Hansen worked for the kidnappers, why did they torture him? Why did they want you to go to Paris alone?"

Listening to Cassel's endless questions, Jack finally lost his patience, "Cassel, if you keep asking these questions that have no answers, I won't take you to Paris."

Cassel's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said happily, "You plan to take me to Paris? Didn't the note say that you can only go alone?"

Jack stopped and glared at this annoying guy fiercely, "You have two choices now, either shut up and go to Paris with me, or I will let Beckett handcuff you in the police station until we rescue Alexis."

"OK, I'll go prepare the passport." Cassel raised his foot and turned to go home.

"No need, I have other channels." Jack pulled him back and whispered.

"The person who tortured Roger Hansen is probably on our side, but this matter must be kept strictly confidential. We should know his identity when we arrive in Paris. This matter is far from as simple as we imagined."

"Jack, the kidnapper called." Jiejie, who was waiting at the door of the operations center, made a phone call gesture towards this side.

The call was made to the girl Sarah's parents 20 minutes ago. Jack only heard the phone recording. Although he temporarily mastered two Arabic languages ​​in the system, he still didn't understand it halfway.

There are many variants of Arabic, and the system does not make specific distinctions. It is simply divided into modern standard Arabic and classical Arabic according to the written language system.

But there are six major categories of spoken Arabic based on regions alone. The accent of the person on the other end of the phone belongs to typical Egyptian Arabic and also belongs to the Cairo dialect.

The kidnapper asked for a ransom of 15 million euros on the phone, and the money would be exchanged for the person three hours later. The location was an unknown small dock downstream of the Seine.

Sarah's parents directly quarreled with Jubal in the conference room about the way to deliver the ransom.

Jubal hoped that they could help delay the time as much as possible so that the US Embassy could communicate with the French police, but was rejected by Sarah's father.

"No! They made it clear that if the police showed up, my daughter would be dead! We will pay the 15 million euro ransom as they requested."

"Yes, even if it was just a blackmail, at least they sent us photos of our daughters to let us know that they are still alive." Kim's stepfather Stuart also echoed.

"Did they..." Cassel, who had just walked into the meeting room, was shocked by the astonishing ransom figure and asked hesitantly, "Did they mention Alexis?"

Compared with these two super-rich people, his original image of a rich man is infinitely close to that of an ordinary person.

Although this guy has considerable royalties, he was very squandering when he was young, and he had two failed marriages. Before he met Beckett, his exclusive muse, he was not far from bankruptcy.

Not to mention 15 million euros, even 5 million euros would be enough to break his bones. Of course, what Cassel is really worried about is not how much the ransom is, but whether the hostages that the kidnappers agree to release include his daughter.

"Don't worry, at the insistence of my husband, they agreed to release the three girls together." Sarah's mother said to Cassel with tears in her eyes.

Cassel excitedly walked to Sarah's father, "I really don't know how to treat it as something I owe you. As long as Alexis can come back safely, I will sell all my copyrights."

"Don't say that, you don't owe me anything. It's because of my problem that our daughter has been implicated." Sarah's father whispered to comfort, and at the same time looked at the other two fathers present with apology.

On the other side, Jack stopped Jubal who was about to speak and asked a question, "If the French police are not involved, who will pay the ransom?"

"My sister-in-law lives in Paris, and her husband will bring the money to ransom her. Sorry, I need to make a lot of phone calls to prepare such a large sum of money, so I have to excuse myself for the time being."

Sarah's father turned around and left.

"Thank you."

"Thank you very much, Mr. Elmasri." Including Brian, the three fathers present thanked him.

Sarah's father turned back and sighed, "Now we can only pray that those people will keep their promises."

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"Of course, we can't believe that the kidnappers will keep their promises. This matter is not that simple. The reason why I stopped you from speaking is not to believe that the other party will release the person after paying the ransom, but to buy time."

In the meeting room, after only "his own people" were left, Jack told Jubal his thoughts.