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"Guys, look what I found." Jessie and Elle heard Grasia's determined voice on the computer as soon as they entered the door.

"Come on, babygirl." Morgan sat on the desk obliquely, gesturing to Grasia on the screen.

"This guy, whose father is also a doctor, Nuo, also works in this hospital. Our Paul was young and hot 20 years ago, and he drove into a group of students coming home from school at the gate of an elementary school. Oh, poor boy they..."

"Are there any casualties?" Hotch asked, leaning over.

"No one died, but there was an unlucky little boy who broke his leg... It's been too long, and I'm still looking for the child's name... Well, I found it! BobLake..."

"What's the matter, Grasia?" Elle was a little puzzled when she saw that Grasia hadn't spoken for a long time.

"This child has disappeared since then, and I can't find any information about him when he grew up. But I found out that the person who operated on this child was Paul's father, tsk tsk, what fate?"

"Nice job, Grasia." Gideon left these words, got up and walked towards the interrogation room, and took the bagged bone flute that Reid brought from the archives at the door.

"Excuseme, were you praising me just now?" Grasia said flattered.

"Yes, Lady Luck." Hotch closed the computer and said to the few people standing by, "Everyone go to the hospital where Paul is to find out about the situation."

The hospital where Paul works is located in the downtown area. It is a small four-story Gothic-style building, hidden in the surrounding feasting and feasting. The wind passes through the surrounding maple forest, making a frightening sound.The mottled walls are covered with ivy, and when the twilight is approaching, it will inevitably add a bit of gloom.

"What did you tell Hotch when you were at the police station?" Elle stepped up a flight of stairs and turned to look at Jessie behind her.

"I told him that the criminal has great knowledge of music theory. Let Hotch and Gideon stay there and ask Paul about rhythm." Jessie tapped on the banister of the stairs, quietly observing the people coming and going at the hospital. "Why does Hotch think the real criminal is still somewhere in the hospital?"

"I don't know, but we always trust his and Gideon's judgment." Elle followed Jessie's gaze and saw a woman praying against the wall.

"The prayers in the hospital are always more earnest than those in the church." Before Jessie had time to be sentimental, she heard a deep and hoarse voice.

"Excuse me, please let me go."

Jessie turned around and saw a somewhat hunchbacked Caucasian man. The black hooded sweater on his body was stained with white ash. The hood of the man's sweater was on his head. Jessie apologized and paced to the other side of the stairs.

The moment she passed by, she felt a faint aura of corruption and blood mixed with the man in front of her.Just about to step forward to stop the man, Elle, who sensed something was wrong, spoke first,

"Sir, we'd like to know something about Dr. Paul, do you know him?"

The man did not change his pace and speed, and his voice was still hoarse and indifferent, "No, I don't know this person." A piece of paper fell out of his coat pocket, and the man didn't seem to notice, and left the stairs without looking back between.

"Have you noticed? Although his pace is steady, his center of gravity is always on his right leg." Jessie stepped forward and picked up the piece of paper left on the ground. It was a business card: BillLeager.

"You mean, he might be a disabled person, and his left leg is a prosthetic, which makes his walking center of gravity shift?" Elle looked at the business card in Jessie's hand, "He works in a crematorium. It's not very far. Listening to his tone, he has a lot of prejudice against Dr. Paul, as if he is deliberately alienating his relationship with him."

Jessie looked at the name on the business card, and murmured after a long time, "BobLake...BillLeager's initials are all B·L..."

"JJ and Morgan are still here to continue asking, let's go to the crematorium." Elle pulled Jessie downstairs and dialed a number, "Grasia, check this person's information, BillLeaer."

The moment their backs disappeared at the entrance of the corridor, a black shadow slowly walked from the consultation desk of the hospital to the entrance of the corridor. A nurse helped the patient forward, and the shadow gracefully let them go first.Then leaning against a blind corner at the entrance of the corridor, an imperceptible smile bloomed quietly.

"Art makes nature more perfect (art makes nature more perfect)" the deep voice dissipated in the air like smoke, and the man turned and left.

"Did you see it?" After talking with a group of old staff that Paul's father worked with, JJ and Morgan walked down from the third floor, and keenly captured the black shadow that disappeared around the corner.

"Huh? Didn't notice." Morgan hung up the phone, "Elle and the little doctor went to the crematorium two blocks away to find out what happened. Hotch asked us to go back to the police station after we finished our inquiries at the hospital."

【Neva State Police Interrogation Room】

Gideon turned down the temperature in the interrogation room and went in to sit in front of Paul. "You didn't do it, why admit it? Do you have someone you want to protect?"

The person in front of him didn't say a word, his drooping eyelids and the stubble on his chin revealed his depression, at least, he wasn't as calm as he looked.

"We know you were wronged, you didn't kill the person, right? You are right-handed, and the scars on the deceased's body show that it was done by a left-handed person."

"These are not important, I admit that I did all these things, I committed them, sins." His lips trembled, he struggled to utter a sentence, and then pressed his lips together tightly.

"You are atoning for your father's sin." Reid waved the flute in the bag in front of Paul, "Did you use a chisel to carve out five holes in the bone?"

Paul froze, with a flash of surprise in his eyes, and wanted to say something, finally nodded heavily, then closed his eyes and ignored Gideon and Reid.

"He didn't even know that the bone flute left at the scene of the crime was a seven-hole flute, and he even said that he killed someone." Reid couldn't help his own doubts as soon as he left the interrogation room, "What is he hiding..."

"Probably something to do with his father and the kid he hit." Gideon dropped the words and hurried over to Hotch. "We have to find a way to open Paul's gap, did Grasia find anything?

Hotch shook his head, "No, Elle found a man in the hospital who might be related to Dr. Paul, and I asked her and Jessie to visit."

Morgan and JJ came in from the door and knocked on the table, "Everyone, Grasia's phone number."

Everyone gathered together immediately, Morgan turned on the speakerphone, and Grasia's first sentence calmed down several people's hearts.

"Are Elle and Jessie back?"

Hotch heard a tremor in his own voice, "What's wrong? Grasia..."

"Elle called me an hour ago when she was at the crematorium and asked me to check on someone..."

"Bill Leader."

"Yeah..." Grasia tapped the keyboard in response to Hotch, "This guy is more than just the same initials as the guy Paul bumped into when he was young, I suspect he's the kid who changed his name after surgery , I checked his account, most of them were paid by Paul on his behalf..."

"Where are his parents?" Reid asked curiously.

"Passed away a year ago." Grasia's tone was a little low, but quickly returned to the original tone, "He was on duty at the crematorium, which is really strange, you know, his parents are well-known in the local town The flute player..."

"Is he left-handed?" Gideon flipped through the photos of the crime scene, "Or his right hand was injured."

"His right hand was injured in the car accident, and he can't lift heavy objects, but on the surface it seems to be normal." Grasia tapped the keyboard a few more times, "I have sent the address of the crematorium, you have to be careful , there seems to be no signal there, I have been unable to get through to Elle and Jessie's mobile phone..."

"We will." Hotch hung up the phone and took the address that JJ had just faxed. "Let's go."

Two cars were speeding down the road, and Hotch was driving with a dignified expression.

"Don't be nervous, you have to trust them." Gideon comforted from the side.

"I should have let them come back first...wait for us to go together...it's too risky." Hotch's tone was full of self-blame.

"This world is full of variables, Hotch, trust our instincts, trust Elle and Jessie."

"Elle said that the person left a business card in the hospital, and they went there according to the address on the card..." Reid gestured with a map in the back seat, "It seems that the person probably left the business card on purpose To get their attention, his purpose is to lead us all there."

Hotch took a deep breath and stepped up the gas pedal.

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