North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 767 Prisoner’s Dilemma
Arriving on the second floor, the first thing Jimmy did was to clean the soles of his shoes. This was an accident and he was not prepared much, so he had to make sure to clean it thoroughly and avoid the places where he was investigating the case.

After checking that there was no one around, he quietly left the reception room, located a place similar to a study and walked over quietly. He took out a small flashlight from his pocket and shone it around, then went out to the bedroom. However, when he opened the closet, he suddenly felt that what he saw was a bit shocking. In addition to some common personal items, there were also some things that were generally only used by certain special groups of people.

Jimmy frowned and looked at the cabinet next to him. Apart from some obviously non-men's underwear, there was no normal female clothing. Does that mean there are no women here? Those things... the old man is quite fancy, and he even collects them. I don't know how the other party agreed to keep them.

But this special hobby had nothing to do with Jimmy. He checked it carefully, then closed the door of the closet and took a look. The guy had gone upstairs, but not to the bedroom, but to the study. Jimmy checked other places in the bedroom again, took out a pistol from the drawer of the bedside table and took a look. It should be a gun for self-defense at home, and it was already loaded.

Jimmy waited in the bedroom for a while to make sure that Jimi turned on the computer and was using it in the study before leaving the bedroom. He quietly walked in front of the study and came to the bathroom next to it. He looked at the environment in the bathroom and nodded. It was a perfect place, with the toilet and bathroom on the left and right, the washbasin and changing room in the middle, and the separation of dry and wet areas was done very well. This reminded him of the same layout he encountered in Mexico.

Jimmy stood directly in the bathroom and waited for a long time. He finally came out of the study, walked into the bedroom, took something and came to the bathroom.

While his back was turned, Jimmy quietly walked out of the bathroom, suddenly reached out to cover his mouth, and at the same time applied force with both hands, "click", "ow...", and soon the struggle stopped.

Jimmy gently let him go, felt his pulse, sniffed his breath, took the pajamas he had just taken from the side and put them on top, made a trip lock behind his feet, slammed his head against the washbasin, let him fall to the ground, then set up the scene, took a towel from the bathroom to clean the place he had walked, and then left the villa along the same route.

This old guy was the one who took the underage girl back to the room in the video. You should know that the reason why Jimmy targeted Harriton was because he started investigating the kidnapping and imprisonment case in the country. First, he investigated and arrested her in the country, then went to Mexico, and then he got Harriton's location from the broker through interrogation. He really had no intention of letting go of these guys who harmed underage girls.

However, the people in the Miami office made him a little sad. They obviously did not want to escalate the situation. They did not investigate or inquire about those who attended the banquet and were entertained by Harriton. Even with the surveillance videos, they only identified the people and that was it. Everyone's target was only on the dead Harriton, expecting him to take the blame. It was really hard for him to accept that they just let these people go.

Jimmy got the list of all the identified people from Wright, and asked him the last one. From the conversation, he knew that no FBI had contacted him, and he was the first one to ask about Harriton's death, so he took this private action.

Jimmy is not a good man, nor does he intend to become a superhero, but his simple values ​​​​determine that for the scum he sees or deals with, he will catch them if he can, and try his best to prevent them from continuing to harm others if he cannot catch them. Anyway, as long as he does it cleanly, no one will think that he did it. In addition, if he can ensure that he can handle it himself, try not to let the professionals in the hotel do it. The more people know, the easier it is to make mistakes. Of course, they handled the island incident this time very cleanly, and we have to say that professionals are professionals and you can't deny it.

After quietly leaving the villa, Jimmy returned to his car and did not return directly the same way. Instead, he continued to drive north. After he was far away from the area, he turned the car around and returned to downtown Los Angeles by another route. With the help of the map he had confirmed in advance, he successfully returned to the hotel.

After packing up his clothes and shoes for the day, Jimmy went to take a shower. After coming out, he took his notebook and continued to check the records of his previous inquiries to other people. These all needed to be sorted out, and then he needed to continue stirring them up to get them all busy.

The next day, Jimmy drove away and destroyed his clothes from yesterday in different places far away from the hotel. Then he continued his investigation. Of course, he had to go to the old man's company in the afternoon to confirm the situation.

When Jimmy came to the old man's company, the people in their company were obviously abnormal. After Jimmy showed his ID, the receptionist said that the boss did not come to the company today and asked Jimi to come back later.

Jimmy did not make things difficult for the receptionist. He directly called the number in front of her. A woman answered the phone and told a sad story. He had an accident last night and hit his head against the washbasin. When the maid found him, he had already died.

Jimmy asked about the situation and then left. He had put on a complete show. Now that he had gotten the result he wanted, the next step was to intimidate.

The so-called intimidation operation is to find all the people who have recorded the information again, communicate with them again and remind them that there are new deaths among those who attended the banquet. Although the cause of death cannot be determined for the time being, it is undeniable that the news still shocked them greatly, so that when Jimmy asked again, most people cooperated and provided additional information, especially whether they had a close relationship with the deceased Harriton, whether they had attended Harriton's parties many times, etc. After all, facing the latest news provided by the FBI, no one dares to guarantee their safety.

It was actually quite interesting to appreciate the expressions and reactions of these frightened people up close, but it was obviously impossible for Jimmy to get more information. After all, Mr. Hareton was not killed by someone hired by them, so after finishing his work, Jimmy left. Of course, on the way, he did not forget to call Mrs. Hareton. She had already arranged a personal bodyguard, and it would be a waste not to add some chips. After all, the deceased was also someone who attended her husband's last banquet, which was key information.

It is a pity that Mrs. Hareton is still staying in that so-called secret hospital. If she could talk about it in person, perhaps her expression would be more interesting than others. After all, the previous car accident was obviously suspected to be man-made. She even has a personal bodyguard, so she must value her life very much.

In fact, to some extent, all of them were dragged into a trap by Jimmy, and the situation they faced was the same as that when the police interrogated prisoners and put multiple prisoners into a prisoner's dilemma, the only difference was that ordinary prisoners needed to consider whether they would be betrayed by others or whether others would confess more serious things in order to reduce their sentences or make deals, while these people needed to consider that so many people, including Harriton and the people on the yacht, had died, and now another person had died. Would other people participating in the banquet or Harriton's competitors suffer the same fate?

They were actually more miserable, because suspects in a prisoner's dilemma generally knew what they had to confess or deny, but since they couldn't figure out who killed Hareton, they must be suspecting some people they didn't get along with well in normal times.

As time goes by, these people's fear will slowly increase. Maybe they can resist the fear in their hearts for a while, but if they can't find the person they suspect for a period of time, they will naturally expand the scope of their targets. At that time, they may do something unspeakable on their own initiative.

Jimmy had no choice. He was just doing it casually, but then Dave showed up. Although some things couldn't be said openly, he knew that someone was behind Dave's back. It was unrealistic for him to completely refuse. After all, Dave was his biggest backer in the New York office.

But Jimmy was not happy to do things completely according to their plan, so he added some small tricks to all the reasonable and legal actions on paper to make everyone unhappy. This was what made Jimmy happiest now.

In fact, Jimmy's plan to disrupt things went very smoothly, and apparently too smoothly. Just two days later, another person could not be contacted. He was a shareholder of the Harriton Foundation and one of the people on the list that Mrs. Harriton had provided to Jimmy.

The cause of this person's death was actually not murder, similar to what Jimmy did to the old man, except that he was accidentally electrocuted in the bathtub. This is very interesting. You have to know that this is not decades ago, when homes all have power-off protection. The fact that he was directly judged to have died from electrocution means that the power-off protection did not work at all. Someone must have adjusted the line protection in his room, and then replaced it with a normal fuse after he was electrocuted to death.

Of course, these are just Jimmy's guesses. He did not do an on-site inspection, but only judged based on common sense. However, he seriously suspected that Mrs. Hareton played a lot of role in it. After all, the person who was clearly in danger of life recently was Mrs. Hareton.

But when Jimmy called Mrs. Hareton to make an appointment, she actually said that she was still in the hospital and could not meet for the time being. Could it be that she arranged for someone else to do it remotely? But yes, even if she was not in the hospital, this kind of thing must have been done by someone else.

Jimmy's activities were not completely black box, of course. In fact, Dave once called Jimmy to inquire about the progress of the investigation, but he temporarily evaded the question. No matter who came to investigate, it would be useless, as no one would know that Jimmy was the biggest mastermind.

But now that he knew that another person had died, Jimmy couldn't keep quiet about it, so he called Dave at night. It seemed that the mastermind behind the scenes had not stopped and was continuing to clean up certain people. Two people had died now, but they seemed to have died of normal causes.

Dave was obviously shocked. No matter which city it was, people died every day, which was not a big deal. However, it was definitely unreasonable for related people in a related case to die one after another, even if their cause of death was normal.

Dave thought about it for a long time, and Jimmy suspected that the call was disconnected. Fortunately, Dave started talking again. He told Jimmy to be careful and not to make any big moves for the time being, and then hung up the phone quickly.

Apparently Dave felt that the yacht explosion case was not over yet, and that those behind the scenes had intervened too early. Now it had clearly exceeded his expectations, which meant that the explosion case could not be investigated, and they were planning to seal the case, so he agreed with the opinions of others and made use of this case.

Now that two people have died in succession, it is obviously completely different from their expectations, because these two people were not the candidates he gave to Jimmy. From this point of view, the murderer of the yacht explosion may have completed the task, but the person behind the scenes is not satisfied with only killing Hareton and those on the yacht. Other people related to Hareton are also within his scope of handling.

The consecutive deaths of two people were normal and this was something that only professionals would do. If it was an ordinary killer, he would have used a gun or other tools to solve the problem. There was no need to arrange it like this.

Continuously hiring professional killers to deal with people related to Harriton at least means that the other party must have a considerable amount of available funds and enough connections to investigate the information of the relevant people, which is troublesome.

Jimmy hung up the phone, smiled and threw the phone on the bed, turned on the computer and slowly organized his investigation report. This investigation took a long time. The investigation of relevant information and personnel took too much time and energy. It was not easy to compile a report, and what Jimmy hated most was writing reports.

While Jimmy was gloating over his misfortune, the people he visited these days were not in such a good mood. After being harassed and questioned by Jimmy repeatedly, these people were of course collecting information. Not only Jimmy's information, but also people related to Harriton who they knew and people who attended the party. They also soon got the details of the second person's death by electrocution. After all, although both are death, being shot and being electrocuted are two different concepts. After summarizing the relevant information, they came to the same conclusion as Dave, that is, the mastermind did not suspend his actions because of Harriton's death.

These people who were trapped in the prisoner's dilemma became more suspicious of each other, much earlier than Jimmy expected, and the problems they faced became even bigger, because no one knew whether they would be the next target. As a result, the security company suddenly received more orders, and the usual drivers and security guards were no longer enough to reassure them, so they had to hire professional security to be safer.

(End of this chapter)