Chapter 1203 Conversation in the Backyard (Part 2)

Seeing the four people all looking at him in shock, Jack shrugged and said that even a fool could guess what was going on.

After putting the cigar box on the table and motioning them to take it, he looked at Cassel, who was in charge of telling the story.

The next development was even more bizarre. In the court of additional prosecution, Hal Lockwood was directly kidnapped.

Several stun grenades knocked everyone present, including Beckett and Cassel, to the ground. Three armed men posing as bailiffs escorted them to the rooftop, boarded a helicopter and fled.

Not long after, the helicopter used for escape was found at an airport in New Jersey, but all the DNA on it was eliminated by cleaning agents.

And when things developed to this extent, the black history of Superintendent Roy Montgomery could no longer be hidden.

The escaped Hal Lockwood sneaked into his home late at night and threatened him to hand over Beckett, otherwise he would kill his entire family.

At the same time, Kevin and Esposito also dug out all the people who might have had contact with John LaGrande and Gary McAllister from a pile of old papers.

An old policeman named Mike Ivankovich came into their sight. He graduated from the police academy with John LaGrande.

The two went to the police bar opened by the retired old policeman, where they saw an old photo of John LaGrande, Gary McAllister and Roy Montgomery.

Kevin and Esposito thought that the respected Commissioner Montgomery was the one who manipulated everything behind the scenes. The two who could not accept the reality had a fight in the back alley of the bar.

When the two remembered to notify Beckett, she had been asked by Commissioner Montgomery to meet alone in the hangar where the helicopter was found before.

In the hangar, the black police inspector told the female detective everything. He was the rookie police officer who accidentally killed FBI undercover agent Bob Amen in the gang-on-gang kidnapping case in 19 years.

John LaGrande and Gary McAllister were Montgomery's trainee instructors at the time, and they were also heroes in his mind.

He was naive and regarded the two people's kidnapping of gang members for ransom as a just act and participated in it. It was not until the gunshots rang out during the robbery and Bob Amen fell in a pool of blood that the black police inspector, who was still a trainee police officer at the time, realized what he had done.

But Montgomery was not the mastermind behind the scenes. There was a person who knew what the three had done and had the ability to send all three of them to jail, but the other party chose to ask for the ransom.

Montgomery's original words were, "He used the money to climb to his current position."

"So where exactly has the other party climbed to now?" Jack was a little curious.

"He didn't say it." Beckett shook her head and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. It was the first time that Jack saw this always cool female detective cry.

Montgomery also expressed his guilt for the death of Beckett's mother. Although the murder was done by the mastermind, it was indeed related to him.

And he always knew the truth, but he remained silent because he was afraid of being ruined and the power of the mastermind.

Seeing Jack holding his head with a headache, Cassel helped explain, "Montgomery said he knew Beckett's character. If you tell her the other person's name, she will come directly to the door, but that is tantamount to suicide."

Jack already knew what happened afterwards. Before the killer arrived, Superintendent Roy Montgomery asked Cassel to take Beckett away by force, and chose to stay alone, and died with Hal Lockwood and his men in a state of atonement.

It was such a bloody plot that I just felt powerless to complain. Although the whole thing seemed nonsense at first glance, it was logically coherent.

Roy Montgomery felt guilty after Beckett's mother died, so he took good care of Beckett after she graduated from the police academy and joined the 12th Precinct.

The two established a relationship of both teacher and friend, which made Montgomery want to protect her after she found out that Beckett had been privately investigating the truth of her mother's murder.

Jack concluded, "So Superintendent Montgomery should have some important evidence in his hands, which can not only reveal the identity of the mastermind, but also make the other party afraid to act rashly.

The two parties may even have reached some kind of agreement, with the former monitoring Beckett to prevent her from finding out the truth, and the latter promising not to attack her."

"We think so too." Seeing that the other three were silent, Cassel could only continue to take over the conversation.

The four had always decided to conceal the matter and to bite Roy Montgomery to death, so that everything would return to dust and earth.

That is to say, until this moment, Beckett had given up seeking justice for her mother through legal means.

"Okay." Jack looked at the time. It was not too late at this time, just after 9 o'clock, so he looked at the female detective who was in a daze again.

"So no matter what, you are unwilling to give up the pursuit of the truth, right? Even if the other party may send a new killer at any time, even if this will put everyone around you in danger."

These somewhat heartbreaking words made Beckett, who had come to her senses, fidget immediately. She subconsciously looked at the duo opposite her, and then fell on Cassel, with an extremely struggling expression.

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"I don't know, I. No, you are right, but I can resign, I can continue on my own"

Jack just found it funny, "Resign? Losing your police identity means you lose all the resources you can use, and it also means that the other party can attack you more unscrupulously.

Do you really hope that I will take over your case and find out the real murderer by leaving your body on the street?"

Cassell on the side seemed to have thought of some scenes and shuddered subconsciously, but before he could speak, Jack stood up.

"Leave this case to me. In exchange, please sign the film and television adaptation agreement of the "Nikki Hitt" series as soon as possible. Chris has complained to me several times that your publisher ex-wife is really difficult to deal with."

Cassell was refreshed when he heard this. Just as he was about to agree, he heard Beckett's protest, "This is my business, and it has nothing to do with Cassel."

Jack ignored her protest, winked at the great writer, and said to himself, "You all stay here tonight. Kevin and Esposito should not participate in the future. It might make you lose your jobs."

Seeing that he was about to go out, Cassel asked in confusion, "Where are you going at this time?"

Jack turned around and smiled mysteriously at the four people, "Of course, I'm going to find Director Frank Reagan and talk to him about how long to suspend you three."

Hearing this, the three NYPDs present all showed stunned expressions.