After entering the meeting room, Hotch not only locked the door of the meeting room, but also ordered everyone to close all the curtains; this cautious move made everyone a little confused.

"Hotch, what case needs to be so cautious?" Rossi looked around in the seat, and after drawing all the curtains, the entire meeting room was darkened, and the only source of light was the projection screen; it was almost like starting to do something shameful matters rather than investigating cases.

Hotch didn't answer Rossi's question, nor did he intend to use any machines, but just opened the file and put a photo in the middle of the conference table for everyone to see.

"Hotch! This is..." The person in the photo caused Yu Xi to be born involuntarily, isn't it the "Mr. Key" who caused Jefferson to be attacked?

Why does Hotch let everyone see this photo at this time?

"This is the person in the case we are going to investigate now." Hotch nodded slightly to Yu Xixi.

"It's impossible for the higher-ups to let the BAU handle this case." Yan Xi frowned, how could this kind of case have nothing to do with their BAU, right?And there are people above who want them to withdraw from this case completely, how can they let them investigate?But...Hotch will not let everyone participate in a case that is not allowed.

"Hey, can you two stop playing charades?" Emily had to remind Hotch and Yuxixi that they were not the only ones in the meeting room now, should they be told some necessary information before investigating the case?

"This case is related to the thing you were threatened with?" Reid still reacted quickly, the pen that was spinning out of boredom stopped, and pointed at Yu Xixi.

"What threat?" Hotch frowned. Could it be that Yuxixi conducted an investigation in private that touched some people's nerves?Or do you investigate with others?

"OK! I'll say it myself." Yu Xi gestured to Garcia, indicating that she would explain the problem properly, "I have a package on my desk, which contains a photo of my sister showing up at the Washington airport yesterday; and the package There is no information on it, it seems to appear on my desk out of nowhere."

"However, thanks to my sister's character of changing her mind anytime and anywhere, she is now in Spain, so there will be no problem for the time being." Yan Xi said another sentence in his heart, in fact, it is not this kind of action style that should be thanked, but someone Seeing the virtue of forgetting everything, it is estimated that only her boyfriend can "call" her to turn around and leave without staying for a few hours without even sending her a message.

Since there is no problem for the time being, Hotch does not intend to talk more about this matter now, and first explains the general outline of the case to those who still don't understand.

"Last week there was an attack on the Jefferson Laboratory, and the target of the attack was only one person - Ereklin; this man has been a security guard at Jefferson for 25 years, has no other relatives, and his wife died nine years ago." There is no projection, no more printed materials, everyone can only listen to Hotch's dictation, which is a little uncomfortable.

"Before he became a janitor in Jefferson, he worked as a construction worker, a gardener and other casual workers. He didn't really settle down until he entered Jefferson's work; he had some bad records when he was a student; other than that, we don't have any more information about this person for the time being. data of."

This background is a bit too "clean". If you just continue to work in Jefferson in an ordinary way, there is no big problem with this background, but this is a person who caused Jefferson to be attacked. This kind of "clean" makes people deeply suspicious It is true; being caught by someone so violently, what he has in his hands may not only be the key, but may even affect where and how the back of some big figures spend their lives.

Since it's not directly silenced, does it mean that those people haven't got what they want?As long as Ereklin can keep clenching his teeth, can he temporarily save his life?But... life is worse than death, how many people can bear it?

"The more ordinary people are, the less likely they will associate him with criminal groups; even though some people know that he has a lot of key evidence in his hands, there are too many ways to catch this person. Why choose such a method?" The stupidest way?" When Morgan asked this question, his eyes were on Yu Yuxi. Through the incident of her being attacked during the previous case, Morgan investigated the identity of the attacker a little bit. Now they are implicated in the case they are investigating; but... maybe the whole incident explains in more detail that they shouldn't be asking Hotch but Yuxi.

"How about this." Yu Yuxi sighed slightly, she didn't know what she said, and hoped that everyone would understand after she finished speaking, "Shall I explain what happened from the beginning?"

"OK." Reid made a "please" gesture to Yuxi, they need more information; not about a certain person, but the aspects that may be involved and the reasons for the incident.

"John Reese, the guy who saved my life in the last case." Yu Yu felt that everyone in the BAU would not delve into Reese's identity too much, so he decided not to conceal anything. Some cannot be explained.

"I happened to meet him when I was buying coffee. In order to repay his life-saving feelings, I promised him that I would help him with things that were beyond the limit. His request was very simple. He needed someone to help him identify whether a person really lost part of his memory or not. Playing crazy and acting stupid, that person may know something more important."

"Have you gone to help him identify it?" Reid's sudden words attracted everyone's attention to Yu Xixi.

"No...I'm better at identifying the dead; so I asked Lance Sweets for help; of course, I didn't tell him the details, just lied about a friend who needed some help."

"I don't think Dr. Sweets didn't discover the clues." Emily also raised doubts about this. It must be an identification under abnormal circumstances. As a professional, how could Sweets have no doubts?

"Well... I told him that John Reese is from the CIA." Yu Yan shrugged innocently. She didn't mean to deceive people, but the situation was special at the time, and she thought that they would have nothing to do after that, and some things were too troublesome to explain. So I used a little lie that can make people have very "good" associations.

……

Everyone was a little silent, as if they had already sketched out a picture in their minds - an unremarkable apartment, detainees, guards, help from FBI friends... If there is no follow-up, it is indeed quite convincing.

"Actually, it's not completely fabricated. Reese was indeed a member of the CIA before, but he was presumed dead." Yan Xi continued to put on an innocent expression. Speaking of which, he omitted a few words at the time, which can't be regarded as lie?

"Hey, Yuxi, continue with the description of the follow-up events." Hotch had to bring everyone back to "on track". Now is not the time to praise or criticize someone's ability to mislead.

"I asked Reese some things when Lance was conducting the appraisal, but at that time he only told me that his investigation was related to drug trafficking, and this matter was more dangerous, and it might be involved in the FBI internally. Did not continue to ask."

"After I came back, I was a little concerned, so I found time to go to the archives to search for some information." Rather than caring, it's better to say that her exuberant curiosity overcame her rationality; and from the results, curiosity killed people!

"The direction of finding the information is my own speculation, but I only read the information of several people in the anti-narcotics team and some information about the cases they investigated recently; after reading it, I actually feel that I found nothing; and because it is not what I need I didn’t pay much attention to the cases I dealt with; I didn’t know that I was being targeted until the vehicle was attacked when I was out with Reid, probably since the investigation of the data.”

"But the car accident at that time was a warning. If I don't continue to investigate, everyone can live in peace."

"Actually, if it wasn't for that attack, I would have almost forgotten about it." Yan Yu couldn't help but complain a little.

"When I returned to Jefferson, I also thought about pretending that I didn't know anything, but who knew that I saw Reese sneaking in to find someone in Jefferson; he came to look for Ere Colin, and I told him Erese Colin didn’t take care of the place where he always went; probably the turning point of the matter came after Jefferson was attacked.” Yu Yan felt that he was really returning favors and had a **** trouble, this matter... Sigh!I've run out of ideas.

"Reese and his companions were trapped in Jefferson due to the security alarm being activated, and I also received a call from their companion outside asking me to do something based on what he said to temporarily open a passage for Reese and him. mates can go away; and Ereklin is left with... trusted FBI agents." She would have done it without such an exchange, but it's better to treat it as a transaction for everyone to understand .

"Of course, Reese's mates erased all images of us from the surveillance footage for fear of an insider."

"us?"

……

Did she accidentally say something wrong?

"I happened to be in Jefferson at the time, and I acted with her later." Hotch generously admitted that he was also involved in some of this incident; "After John Reese and the others left, two attackers appeared in the parking lot, one He was shot dead at the scene and another died on the way to the hospital."

Everyone's understanding expressions made Yu Xi feel a little uncomfortable, she must be thinking too much!

"Because it happened in Jefferson, Hotch and I decided to hand Ereklin over to Booth, because his long-term relationship with Jefferson was more appropriate to intervene. The attack on Jefferson was given by some people without a full investigation. Obstructed, from the attitude of the detectives who came to inquire about the situation, it can be seen that there was no intention to get to the bottom of it at the beginning; and the higher-ups asked Booth to hand over Ereklin to other people for investigation; but in the end Booth did not agree, but The person was placed in the safe house, and it should be planned to investigate this person carefully after the case at hand is over."

"And the accident just happened not long after our case was closed. Ereklin's safe house was attacked, and two agents died. Ereklin's whereabouts are unknown now; at that time, few people knew the location of the safe house. At least I don’t know.” Yan Xi explained in detail what she knew, but from her expression, she knew why she was suddenly willing to hand over this case to them because of doubts and entanglements; if it really involved High-level, doesn't that mean they are digging their own graves?

"The bodies of those who attacked Jefferson last week should have been sent back to Jefferson." Hotch's words surprised Yan Xi a little bit, so should we still cooperate with Jefferson this time?

Is the current state the rhythm of Booth or Hotch?

Or is it the result of... two people working together?

Rossi and Morgan went to the safe house where Ereklin was taken away to conduct another investigation; pay attention to whether there are hidden or covered traces, and another person took over before the accident was fully investigated. "Hotch is not so relieved about the people who will take over from behind. Although the case has successfully passed into their hands, it may be because some people think they have cleared the traces and are no longer worried.

"JJ and Emily go to Jefferson to find out how much Ereklin's colleagues know about him; Reid and Garcia dig into Ereklin's background together, and there are probably several boxes of paper files that you need to go through."

A few boxes of paper files...only for Reid.

Yu Xixi's gaze drifted silently to Hotch, as if the two of them had no mission for the time being?

"Come to my office." Hotch sorted out the documents and was about to leave the meeting room, not forgetting to call some people who were at a loss.

"Oh." What can't be said in the conference room?It doesn't seem like she's hiding anything anymore.

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