[Comprehensive] Runaway Witch

Alina, who entered the scene almost by threat, followed Rossi and Rhett around the ruins behind the fire.

"The flames and the water used to extinguish the fire have resulted in the loss of evidence at the scene. This has always been a difficult point for the scene after the fire. The place was completely burned, and I can't even see what it was like before." The police chief had a headache. He and the two BAUs explained their difficulties.

"I know the division of blocks here." Alina frowned, the smell after the fire made her feel uncomfortable.

"Then tell us." Rossi's complexion was also not very good after entering.

But the sheriff and Rhett were calmer.

"The entrance is the place where we came in, and it was the most severely burned place. The place where we stand now is the front desk, and the customer's seating area is where we go in. The innermost is a row of bar chairs, and the bar is the cooking room. The whole setting is about In this way, there should be five cameras in the room.” Alina has seen the design drawings, and all the settings of “HereCafe” are similar.

"Now that it's burned like this, what kind of monitoring can we extract?" The sheriff looked up at the unrecognizable ceiling.

"There are five monitors, one in front of the door, one at the front desk, one at the bar, and two in the seating area." Alina recalled the drawings she had seen.

"Maybe the people from the forensic department have found the remains of the camera?" Reid looked at the sheriff inquiringly.

"The fire is burning very vigorously, and the hot smoke is upward. It is difficult to identify the location of the camera with a naked eye inspection. Can you provide a blueprint so that we can find it conveniently." The sheriff looked at Alina who was still remembering.

"Of course it is possible. There may even be a camera that captures the video at that time and synchronizes it to the unified network server of all stores." Alina Shi Shiran replied to the police chief.

"Isn't everyone relieved to find the criminal early..." The sheriff began to sweat on his forehead.

"I was in a hurry..." Alina tried to reconstruct the original store in her mind, but failed, because she didn't have enough three-dimensional thinking.

"Whatever request you have, as long as it is not too much, I am willing to cooperate." The real police chief is able to bend and stretch.

"I want to participate in the investigation. You can't hide the clues you find from me." The first half of Alina's sentence was to deliberately embarrass the police chief, but the second half was the key point.

"The police can cooperate, but the FBI..." The sheriff wisely kicked the ball towards the BAU, asking them to refuse.

"BAU welcomes your participation and hopes to get more information." Rossi smiled and agreed to Alina's intervention. He knew the conversation between Hozina and Alina, so he readily agreed.

"..." Something was wrong, but Rhett couldn't speak.

"..." When did BAU become such an easy-talking sheriff.

"Thanks to BAU for your tolerance. I am more worried about other things now. Fortunately, no casualties were found when the store was burned. Instead, the disappearance of the store manager at the same time is worrying." Alina felt that the two incidents were related.

"From the perspective of time, the two are really easy to connect, that is, who is the store manager, we must first confirm that he is missing." Reid agrees with Alina's subtext.

"It seems that we need to figure out a lot. What is the personality of Rhett's arsonist?" Rossi had some thoughts in his mind.

"According to statistics, most arsonists are weak, timid, and introverted. Of course, there are exceptions. However, choosing fire instead of other weapons to attack frontally shows their timidity. The motives for arson are also quite complex, destructive, exciting Sexuality, vengeance, concealment, profit-making, extreme and systematic seven. Looking at it now, we cannot determine the motives of this or these arsonists, what we can know is..." Once Reid started his speech, he said: Some can't stop the car.

"But now the store manager disappeared at the same time." Rossi saw that the sheriff's face was already stiff, so he interrupted Rhett's narration of the speculation and let him focus on the point.

"If the arsonists or the arsonists took away the store manager, he or they might not have the guts to kill him?" Alina was amused by Rhett's eloquence before, and now she quickly followed Rossi's train of thought. .

"We haven't confirmed the disappearance of the store manager, let alone whether the disappearance of the store manager is related to the arson case. Is it too early to speculate like this?" The sheriff felt that things were going badly early this morning.

"That's right, it's just a guess..." Rossi appeased the sheriff, and glanced at Alina appreciatively by the way.

Rhett didn't care that he missed the opportunity to answer Rossi's words, and was still looking at the completely black wreckage at the entrance of the gate. If nothing else, this is where the fire started.

"We plan to meet everyone at the police station, do you want to come together?" Rossi invited Alina to the police station.

"No, I'll sort out the blueprints and other materials I can find." Alina felt timid when she thought of the last time Chief Hozina talked to her.

"I'm sorry to trouble you..." The sheriff was happy when he heard that Alina didn't follow her to the police station, but cooperated with the police.

"No trouble, I hope that there is news about the store manager and I will be notified immediately." Alina emphasized again.

"No problem..." The sheriff nodded repeatedly.

"Clark, if you have any trouble with the information about the missing store manager and other store staff, please give us." Rossi added before leaving, "By the way, we are at the police station. If you want to come, come anytime."

"Goodbye, Clark." Reed also got in the car and left after saying goodbye.

Alina watched them leave. She believed that BAU's ability could solve the arson case, but she didn't feel very good about the disappearance of the store manager.

After the sheriff's car was out of sight, Alina did not rush to leave, but asked to re-enter the scene.

"Ma'am, haven't you already seen it?" The policeman looked at Alina cautiously.

"Suddenly remembered something and wanted to reconfirm, MayI?" This was also a temporary thought.

"Please..." The police officer didn't dare to refute, especially when the previous police chiefs were all frustrated.

So Alina returned to the scene after the fire alone, the police officer brother had to guard the yellow line.

Walking alone in the house behind the fire is a completely different feeling than the people in front of it. Looking at the house carefully, it is still different.

The house that burned down ten years ago lasted a whole night. After the sun rose, the fire gradually died down. If you entered it, you could even see the blue sky above your head.

And here, although there is a combustion aid, but the fire is extinguished in time, at least the frame of the house is still there.

But why is it so sad, why is it so sad after ten years...

The surveillance video archived on the network server was burned into a disk, and with the personnel information that could be found, Alina still went to the police station.

The BAUs who split up have already gathered and are discussing their respective gains. Elina came with possible clues, and they immediately took over and began to analyze.

Alina brought a copy, and a copy has been sent to Garcia.

After connecting with Garcia, BAU began to watch the surveillance video from last night. You must know that all the information on the first two burned stores was destroyed, and only the information dictated by the person in charge left everyone at a loss.

"Garcia, play the video before the crime happened last night. The time of the crime is estimated to be 10:10, so let's play it from [-] o'clock." Hozina didn't have time to greet Elina, and gave the information he brought to Reid. He and others gathered in front of the computer.

Another video was handed over to the police.

Alina didn't watch the content of the video in advance. She was afraid of seeing the flames in the room, and now she doesn't want to join her.

Later, in order to overcome it, I forced myself to face it, but the results were not good, but I no longer fear small fires like cooking, and large fires can still be avoided.

Sitting next to Reid, I opened a book that Reid had read quickly, and found that it was the store manager’s message:

Position: store manager

Name: Charlie Waitley

Age: 22 years old

Nickname: Workaholic

Education: High School

Qualifications: Started working in a coffee shop in high school, worked in various Cafés, has rich experience, first-class coffee skills, special desserts, strong key communication skills, and a sense of leadership.

Reasons for taking up the position: Young and energetic, rich in experience, strong in leadership, observe the later actions, there may be room for reuse, and can be used as a human reserve.

The improvement part: young people are not stable enough, and the education background can also be improved. It is recommended to continue to learn the theoretical knowledge of management.

This is a human resources file, without basic information such as contact information, mainly for the evaluation of employees' abilities and future. It can be seen that HR is optimistic about Waitley, the store manager.

A large amount of information is stored in the store, and the files that Elina can find are all from the headquarters, which is not comprehensive. The other employees have just been recruited, and the probationary period has not yet expired, so personnel information cannot be provided.

Others brought in are the floor plan of the store, decoration design drawings, wiring diagrams and other various drawings.

The person who provided the information was very careful, and also provided the inventory information, not the current day, but the store's inventory type and required storage capacity, as well as the initial purchase information for the store opening.

What Rhett is looking at now is the inventory folder.

"Aren't you going to look at the surveillance video?" After flipping through the files in a few folders, the amount was not much, Reid quickly went through them, closed the folders in his hand, and asked Elina who was sitting here alone.

"I won't go. I believe that one more pair of my eyes is not much, and one less pair of me is not much." The police chief also crowded in front of the computer screen with BAU, full of people.

"So you didn't watch the video first." Reid found out those blueprints and studied them, while doing two things at once.

"No, did you find anything? I mean the people who went to other scenes." Alina put down the documents in her hand.

"There is not much evidence on the scene, but it is confirmed that these fires were caused by the same group of people." Reid pointed out the monitoring wiring diagram to Alina, "Judging from the positions of these five cameras, the surveillance video should be There will be gains."

"It's confirmed that it's a gang? The profile has already come out?" Just as she was sorting out her mood, BAU had already speculated?

"The profile hasn't been released yet. I'm waiting for your information. It should be released later." Reid looked in the direction of the crowd.

"It seems that I have the opportunity to see the heroic appearance of your profile. I'm really looking forward to it." Alina was very happy to hear that the profile could be released so soon.

"Clark, you are still so joking." Rhett scratched his head, "How is your doctoral thesis?"

"Thanks to your help in the thesis, I haven't thanked you yet, I'll treat you to dinner next time. The thesis has been handed in, and I'm waiting for time to defend. I planned to go on vacation, but now it's gone." Thinking of the vacation that ended without a problem, I feel bad.

"I just answered a few questions, you're welcome. Holidays are unthinkable for us." Rhett pointed to himself.

"It's really difficult for you to take a vacation. Look at how often I see you." Alina has seen BAU three times in half a year because of the case, and thinking about it makes BAU feel tired.