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Jack had a puzzled look on his face. He could understand the concise sentence on the paper wrapping the phone. The person interrogating 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 at the whereabouts of the three girls. He recognized Brian and his daughter Kim. He couldn't say that he had expected the plot to go to Paris, but he was definitely mentally prepared.

The question is who the hell is this guy who left the note? At least leave a name!

Jack thought quickly in his mind. He only knew a few CIA agents in the past few years. Joe Mason was now living in old Hunter's house, so he was the first one to be excluded.

Secondly, there is Li Si (John Rease), who is 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 and healing his wounds in silence.

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

Matt, the one who died in front of him, was one of the two CIA agents he met in Mexico. After he rescued Michael, he came to see him once and assigned him a SEAL mission.

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

But this guy shouldn't be so unreliable. At least he would leave his name. Jack read the paper over and over again, but couldn't see any hidden marks or extra symbols.

The only people left who were related to the CIA were Bald Frank and SEAL Team B liaison officer Mandy Ellis.

Sister Mandy is a pure intelligence officer, not an operational agent, so she is obviously not capable of doing 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, and he couldn't come to a conclusion after thinking about it.

Since I can't figure it out, I won't think about it anymore. The other party left his phone number anyway, and everything will be clear when I go to Paris.

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"Why Paris?" After returning to the Federal Building, Cassel followed Jack and kept asking, "Why did they keep 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' personal page was the same as the IP address directed by the newly installed network monitor on the old farm house, and the result was also out, also in Paris.

Justin has even found out the exact location, which is in a hotel under renovation near the Bourbon Palace.

"Roger Hansen was working 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 unanswered questions, I won't take you to Paris."

Cassel's eyes lit up when he heard that, 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 the annoying guy. "You have two choices now. Either shut up and come with me to Paris, or I'll have Beckett handcuff you in the police station until we get Alexis back."

"OK, I'll go get my passport." Cassel turned around and was about to go home.

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

"The person who sentenced Roger Hansen is most likely on our side, but this matter must be kept strictly confidential. We should be able to find out his identity when we arrive in Paris. This matter is far from as simple as we thought."

"Jack, the kidnapper is calling." 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. All Jack heard was the recording of the call. Although he had temporarily mastered two Arabic languages ​​in the system, he still could not understand half of it.

There are many variants of Arabic, and the system does not make a specific distinction. It is simply divided into Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic according to the written language system.

But spoken Arabic is divided into six major categories based on region alone. The accent of the person on the other end of the phone was typical Egyptian Arabic, and also the Cairo dialect.

The kidnappers demanded a ransom of 1500 million euros over the phone and exchanged the money for the hostage three hours later at an unknown small pier downstream of the Seine.

Sarah's parents argued directly with Jubal in the conference room about the method of delivering the ransom.

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

"No! They made it very clear that if the police showed up at the scene, my daughter would be dead! We will pay the 1500 million euro ransom as they demanded."

"Yes, even if this is just a blackmail, at least they sent us photos of our daughters and 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 had considerable royalties, he squandered it when he was young, having suddenly become rich from poverty. Coupled with two failed marriages, he was not far from bankruptcy before he met Beckett, his exclusive muse.

Not to mention 1500 million euros, even 500 million euros would be enough to break his bones. Of course, what Cassell was really worried about was not how much the ransom was, but whether his daughter was included in the hostages that the kidnappers agreed to release.

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

Cassel excitedly walked to Sarah's father and said, "I really don't know how to deal with it. I owe you this. 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 my problem that implicates our daughter." Sarah's father whispered to comfort her, looking apologetically at the other two fathers present.

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

"My wife's sister lives in Paris. Her husband will bring the money to redeem her. I'm sorry, but I need to make a lot of phone calls to prepare such a large sum of money. I have to excuse myself for the time being."

Sarah's father said this and was about to turn and leave.

"Thank you."

"Thank you very much, Mr. Elmasri." The three fathers present, including Brian, thanked him.

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

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"Of course you can't trust the kidnappers to keep their word. This matter is not that simple. The reason I stopped you from speaking is not because I believe the kidnappers will release you if you pay the ransom, but to buy time."

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