I used to believe in science

This episode stopped after their team leader Hodge walked up, and the plane took off immediately, and the destination was Gotham.

This is a kidnapping case. A couple named Kerry arrived at an orphanage on the outskirts of the city for adoption. No one left the orphanage after that. The delivery man arrived at the orphanage two hours ago and found It was wrong to call the police, so BAU received a call for help from the Gotham Police Department more than an hour ago.

"Gotham, it's rare to see a case request from there, but it's still so urgent." Emily couldn't help but sigh after seeing the address of the orphanage on the first page of the materials.

"Probably because Gotham has its own way of handling cases." Rossi replied, he didn't explain but everyone knew he was talking about the night bat vigilante of that city.

"It's a very interesting topic, you know, in recent years with the advent of superheroes, crime in cities with superheroes has shown a downward trend, the general crime rate in Central City and Metropolis is 5 times lower than it was three years ago point, of course, with the birth of superheroes, the proportion of super criminals also increased...But Gotham is a special case, its crime rate presents a kind of fluctuation, when the legend of Batman first appeared, the proportion of crime in Gotham decreased Quite obvious, but the crime rate has rebounded since then..." Reid showed his usual attitude, and quickly spit out a series of statistics.

Fortunately, among the geniuses, there are still those with normal EQ. Antoinette quickly held down Rhett's waving hand in mid-air, "What he meant was that the appearance of Batman has obvious advantages and disadvantages for Gotham, but this is just the city's special case of..."

"Actually every city that has its own superhero has its own criminal characteristics, but whether the city affects the people or the people affect the city is a topic worth exploring." Reed said and nodded "But yeah, basically so."

"Thank you, let's get back to the case." Hodge nodded, and calmly turned back to the topic of Rhett's deviation, "Gotham is a city that values ​​​​privacy, and their... guardians. "Hodge hesitated for a while on this wording and finally compromised. "There is a strong control, so although the police invited us, everyone should pay attention."

It only takes one and a half hours to fly from Washington to Gotham, and their special plane is faster. They arrived at the airport an hour later, and the people from the Gotham Police Department were already waiting to pick them up.

They moved in groups according to the previous assignment. Rhett Morgan and Antoinette went to Kerry's house to see if they could find a breakthrough, and the rest went straight to the orphanage to try to negotiate.

The Rick family is located in the circle of middle-income families in Gotham City.When Antoinette arrived there, there were already police waiting there. Kerry's family was not just the couple. Various decorations in the house showed that they had a child, or had a child.

Morgan knocks on a neighbor's door while Antoinette and Red search for Kerry's house.

"Look at this." Reid picked up a framed photo in the living room and called Antoinette over. "Their children are at least four or five years old."

"There are children of this age in the orphanage." Antoinette shook his head and said that this can't be used as a clue. "It can only tell us that they have a lot of stimuli."

While she was saying that, Morgan walked in, holding the phone, saw the two of them and said to the phone, "Baby girl, tell us what we found?"

"I got the surveillance video of that orphanage, do you have any equipment to watch it?"

"Send it to my mobile phone." Antoinette suggested that her mobile phone is the latest starkphone, even equipped with a projection function.She turned the phone sideways, and the glass plate on the back flipped up to form a screen that clearly displayed the video Garcia sent.

When Antoine pulled the scroll bar, Reid asked, "Garcia, how did the Kerrys' son die?"

"A car accident." Garcia said quickly, "Three years ago, there was a car accident. My wife drove the car. She survived but the child failed to be saved. After that, my wife suffered from depression."

"Baby, I asked the neighbors. There is a young girl who often visits their home. It is said that she is a psychiatrist. I only heard that the couple called her Halle. Do you have any clues?"

"No, the records show that Mrs. Kerry has participated in several psychological treatments, and her husband has always been with her to take care of her, but there is no designated psychiatrist for records."

"You think someone told them to do that?" Rhett frowned at Morgan.

But it was Antoinette who answered him, "This is Gotham, nothing is strange."

So Rhett turned his head and looked at her in surprise, "Do you know this place well?"

"I can't say, I used to come here when I was young, and a friend lived here." Antoinette shrugged without looking away from the video. "When I was a child, I always thought the alleys here were scary at night."

"How?" Rhett blinked, asking purely out of curiosity.

But to his surprise, the other party didn't talk about it, but kept silent. After a while, he abruptly changed the subject and stuffed the phone into his hand, "Look, I'm going to the children's room Look for it."

Rhett blinked after closing the door in front of his eyes, and looked at Morgan for help, "Did I say something wrong?"

"I don't know." Morgan shrugged his shoulders to show that he couldn't help, and after Rhett showed a puppy-like look in his eyes, Morgan turned his head away, but he could still feel that look following him.He held on for ten seconds, then turned to him and said "I don't know what you said wrong, but I know the best way to deal with this situation is to apologize to her later."

Antoinette looked around in the children's room. Even though no one lived in it for three years, the furnishings here are still the same. There are still toy trains scattered on the floor. Antoinette can feel a sad mother sitting on the floor in the middle of the room.But other than that, there's nothing else... The unpopular room for too long made it difficult for her to develop her talent of empathy.

So after turning around, she chose to sit by the bed and look for inspiration.

When she buried her face in the palm of her hand, the door quietly opened and closed again, and a light footstep came in, with a soft and cautious voice, "Hey."

"Hey." Antoinette started talking, looking at the mobile phone in her hand, her face was uneasy and she didn't even make eye contact with her. She felt that she needed to clarify, "It wasn't your fault just now, I just didn't want to talk about it."

"I can understand." Rhett nodded. "Everyone has something like this. Whenever you want to talk, you can find me."

"..." Antoinette looked at him, but he still didn't make eye contact with her, and his whole body was filled with guilt.

So she wiped her face, and suddenly felt that this didn't seem to be a big deal. It's been so long and there's no need for everyone to be entangled, so she patted the bedside, "I suddenly feel like I want to talk now."

After Rhett sat next to her, she continued, "My friend's parents were killed in an alley, and the murderer has not been found yet... At that time, the police said it was just an ordinary robbery, and my friend was there at the time. , he survived purely by luck."

This story sounded a bit familiar. Rhett opened his mouth to say something, but after thinking about it, he closed his mouth again and listened quietly.

"Then I came to see him in Gotham one time, and in an alley... I met some bad guys... I was 7 years old at the time... I don't remember exactly, but then my parents found me."

Antoinette's statement was very cryptic, but Reid could roughly guess what happened. It was probably a kidnapping and ransom... Judging from Antoinette's current state, there should be no personal injury.But it undoubtedly left a bad impression on her.

"Childhood impressions usually take a very serious psychological toll and you're willing to come here after that, you must have a good relationship with your friends."

"Isn't it? Our parents are family friends... But I also want to thank the psychologist my father found." Antoinette looked at the questioning eyes the other party showed her and replied, "Professor Xavier, you have heard of it."

"Oh!" Rhett nodded.

And Antoinette suddenly changed her expression, she raised her head and squinted her eyes and looked ahead, as if she was thinking about something.Rhett followed her eyes, and all he saw was their window, with my string of wind chimes hanging from it.

Oh, wind chimes.

Reid seemed to have grasped something, and Antoinette said it directly, "I remember correctly that the Kerry and his wife also saw a string of wind chimes in the surveillance video?"

"That's right." Reid lifted her phone up, the video stayed at the end, he rewinded, and it was accurately rewinded to about six and a half minutes, the couple walked through a corridor, and met a little girl running past Carrying a bunch of wind chimes.

"Hey, geniuses!" Morgan pushed the door open and walked in. The first thing he saw was two people sitting side by side on the edge of the bed and looking back at him. He felt a little rash and raised his hand, "I don't want to disturb you guys." , but Hodge needs help."

"You didn't disturb anything." Antoinette almost jumped up, and Rhett moved aside calmly, "What does he need?"

"He's going in to negotiate and ask if there's anything important to them." Morgan looked at the two men suspiciously and said.

"Here, take this over here." Antoinette nodded, almost without thinking, pointing to the string of wind chimes hanging on the window.

When the matter was successfully concluded, they met at the police station in Gotham and waited for Hodge to complete the case closing procedures. Someone walked up to them and asked, "Which one is Miss Stark?"

"Me." Antoinette, who was tired from the adrenaline fading after a case was over, raised his head and responded.

She saw a middle-aged man with black-rimmed eyes who came to look for her. Antoinette recognized him as Sergeant Gordon of the Gotham Police Department.

"Someone is looking for you, wait outside the police station."

"Ah?" Antoinette tilted her head and frowned with a puzzled expression.

"Do you need us to accompany you?" Morgan also looked up, showing the same suspicious expression as all the other group members.

"No, I'll go take a look." But Antoinette waved his hand after thinking for a while and tried to pull himself up from the chair and followed Sergeant Gordon out.

"There." Sergeant Gordon led her out the door and pointed to a Lamborghini parked across the road. When Antoinette showed a helpless expression, he couldn't help asking, "Miss Stark...you are the... ..."

"If you want to ask if Tony Stark is my brother, yes." Antoinette nodded, so Sheriff Gordon showed an expression of enlightenment.

Antoinette walked to the side of the car and opened the door without warning.In fact, she had already guessed who was looking for her when she saw the car.

When she sat in the co-pilot, the person in the driver's seat turned to look at her, with blue eyes, a handsome face that is always good in social situations and a little messy hair.

"Long time no see, Nettie." The other party showed her a smile that she had seen for many years.

At the same time, Robin returned to the Batcave, where the butler was already waiting, readying cookies and hot cocoa.But there is no objection when seeing only the children come back.

Even if Alfred doesn't ask, Robin will still report "Bat to meet an old friend, be back later."

At this moment, the old butler politely raised one eyebrow as a questioning expression, "Master Richard, are you talking about the kind of old friend I understand?"

"Literally." Dick swallowed a sip of cocoa and replied as if thinking of something interesting. "Didn't he tell me that the Starks have an FBI?"

So he saw the old butler's expression of surprise from raising the other eyebrow change to something of relief.