two people's agreement

Hodge intervened in their conversation at this moment, "Jarvis, why don't you move?"

"This is my house!" Old Bill turned around and looked at him fiercely, his eyes were like eyes.

"Isn't it because of the angle?" Hodge watched as his face changed, and he stepped back to the porch. "Devon, come and take a look."

Cole came over with the boy Ryan, and looked out the window under Hodge's guidance.

It was the school playground, and a group of kids were running back and forth there.

After letting him see this, Hodge used his body to block the shooting vision of the sniper outside.

"He sat on the porch every day watching those kids and couldn't help himself." Hodge told him why Bill Sr. didn't want to move out.

Cole let go of the boy's hand angrily, and came to Old Bill again.Hodge sent Ryan out the door, and the police who had been waiting outside quickly stepped forward and took the boy away from the scene.

Hodge returned to the house and continued to persuade Cole.

“We drove around in that truck.” Cole went on to recount what happened years ago.

"In order to make other boys feel safe, you let your own son sit in front." Hodge also explained what he said.

"You...you locked them in cages, and I burned their clothes." Cole's mood was very unstable, and his speech was not very fluent.

"After you're done, you bury them and ask your son to help you."

Old Bill kept looking at Cole mockingly, and his eyes shifted to him following Hodge's words.

"stand up!"

In that split second, Hodge rushed forward and grabbed his shoulders, forcing him to stand up and face him.

"You pretend to be a man, but you like little boys, right? But they can't be too young, or they won't fit!"

"What about the boys? Do they make you feel strong, make you feel like a man?"

Hodge's aggressive words finally made the old Bill, who had been indifferent all along, lose his calm.

"To shut up!"

Hodge looked him in the eye. "Are you admitting it?"

He was silent.

Old Bill dodged Hodge's cold gaze.

After a long time, Hodge pushed back slightly, let go of this evil old man, and stopped looking at him.

His top priority is to keep Cole from doing something that hurts himself again.

"Devon, we are surrounded. The police will break into the door at any time. If you put down your weapon, they won't shoot. You have to put down the gun." He approached carefully, and Cole, who was holding a gun in both hands, stretched out He stretched out his right hand to persuade him.

"NO!!!" Cole resisted, "Don't tell me how to do it! NO!!!"

Hodge sensed his loss of control and stepped forward to try to stop him.

Gunshots exploded in his ears.

Morgan had already lost his composure outside, when the loud voice came, he felt a kick in his heart, oh shit!

They rushed in quickly with armed men.

However, the matter is over.

In the middle of the room, Hodge was putting handcuffs on Cole's back, and Old Bill was lying on the sofa next to him, his eyes glazed over.

"What's the matter?" asked the sheriff.

"I couldn't stop him." Hodge dropped this sentence, bowed his head and left in frustration, without looking any of them in the eye.

They watched his leaving back with mixed emotions in their eyes.

Another armed officer took Cole away from the scene.

As he left, Cole stared at Old Bill's body, relieved.

"It's all over," he said.

When he walked up to Morgan, Morgan also answered him, "Just now."

But now, there is still a long way to go in the future.

They had foreseen Cole's bumpy journey ahead, which none of them wanted to see.

While escorting Cole away, Emily made a request to the Sheriff.

Soon, he brought Tommy here.

Emily reached out her hand to signal him to look at Cole who was sitting quietly in the car. "I think you should talk to someone."

Subconsciously, Tommy turned his head uncertainly, only to see Emily giving her a positive look.

Although he still hesitated in his heart, he finally mustered up the courage, raised his feet, and stepped forward.

Cole sat in the car with his head down, like a child who just got into an accident and was being scolded by his parents.

A big kid who can't bear to be harsh.

"Hi!" Tommy greeted him softly.

Cole looked up, puzzled.Calling his name uncertainly, "Tommy?"

Tommy nodded slightly.

I haven't seen each other for 30 years, and I only have the nightmare memory of childhood in my mind. Perhaps the only thing left is that face that redeemed the soul and a heart full of holes.

"I'm sorry." Tommy whispered the words that had been in his heart for 30 years.He owed him an apology, an apology 30 years late.

"Why do you have to apologize?" Cole stared blankly ahead.

Two strangers who have missed each other for 30 years meet again, but Cole dare not look into his eyes.

"Because I ran away." He lowered his eyebrows, suppressing his excitement.

"We all ran away." Cole never blamed him.

"Yes, that's true. But I left you, and he might kill you." The incident was what he blamed himself for, and he might have killed him.

"He didn't." Cole looked up into Tommy's eyes, firm. "Because I am no longer afraid of him."

"Tommy, you changed everything. You are the one I've been waiting for."

"You saved me."

Tommy didn't know what to say, so he could only pat him on the shoulder, giving him wordless comfort and strength.

Cole just silently accepted.

Under the setting sun, the two smiled, and the sun once again filled their world.

【If everyone can have good intentions, there will be no more frightened witnesses and frightened accusers. ——Polybius [ancient Greek historian]]

Back where they had been fighting day and night, Morgan was once again in Rosie's office, where he was sorting out paperwork.

Rosie looked up at his knock on the door.

"I know what you're going to say. We never questioned Hodge's decision two months ago, and we never had a second opinion."

"Rosie, two months ago, he had everything he fought for. Now that his family has been taken away, how can he take care of other things?" Morgan expressed his concerns. "How long is he going to let Foye get away with it?"

"Think about it, as long as this guy is still at large, Hodge will have more scars on his heart than on his body!"

Rossi listened silently to what was going on in his mind.

This was something they all knew, and Morgan's concern was also his concern.But what can they do?

Working with Hodge for so many years, he can be said to be the person who understands him best. At this time, there is nothing they can do. Hodge will only bear all the pressure by himself, bear all the pain by himself, and struggle alone go down.

He is very stubborn, so stubborn that as long as he makes a decision, no one can change it, including Haili.

"Although Hodge took the risk, we saved the boy." Rossi could only persuade Morgan again.

"He's putting his own life on the line now! You know we can't do that! I'm not going to stand by and watch him die!"

"You won't," Rosie repeated his words with certainty.

None of us will.

"Rosie, if Hodge dies and Foye stops torturing others, Hodge wins. But if Hodge lives and cannot watch his son grow up, then Hodge loses."

This game, this deal, no matter what, Hodge has something to lose.

"You don't have to come up with me." Hodge opened the door, and first went to turn off the siren.

Emily walked in with him. "I know."

She just tried not to be alone with Hodge repeating the experience of that day, and also wanted to make sure that he was safe and sound.

"Do you think Cole will get better?" Hodge's voice sounded very clear in the quiet room.

In the dim light, his face was hidden behind light and shadow.

Emily couldn't see his expression clearly.

"I don't know," Emily answered him. "He got the answer. He killed the man who caused his nightmare."

"What else?" Hodge murmured.

Emily wasn't sure if her words would get Hodge some of the answers he wanted, but she said them anyway. "Years of torture to come."

"Do you think he's going to come out?"

Hodge didn't know whether he was asking Cole or himself.He wanted answers, answers that would keep him going.

"How could it be possible?" Emily couldn't give him an affirmative answer to this question, and no one could give him an answer. "But at least he doesn't feel alone anymore."

"He's still alone." Just like himself.

His eyes startled Emily,

"He's got Tommy, not alone."

Just like you, you have Hailey, and you have Jack.

Hodge bowed his head and fell into his own thoughts.

Emily felt that she shouldn't stay any longer, and Hodge certainly didn't want to be able to think quietly by herself.Just say goodbye and leave.

Only Hodge was left facing the silence of the room.

Looking around, he lowered his eyes in disappointment.The key in the hand is heavy in the hand, reminding it of its own sense of existence.

The two identical keys above are quietly nestled together.

He never took it off.

Just like the light and shadow from that night, it was still there, making him afraid to touch it.