Lambert was also smoking a cigar, only he had received this information quite some time ago, so he had essentially lost any sense of shock. Watching Hughes burn through brain cells on the other side, he almost wanted to laugh.

When Hughes first came to him, the two discussed what they already knew at the time, concluding that Jimmy must have another identity, possibly an agent from some organization. But this young man Jimmy had never caused them any serious trouble, nor had he taken any actions that posed a threat to them. From his style, they could at least be sure that Jimmy was certainly not a foreign spy, because he was too conspicuous.

After discussing, they decided to let Jimmy take care of the matter before considering how to deal with him. Although they had considered many possibilities, they really hadn't anticipated that Jimmy could stir up such a big mess and still keep it so well hidden; the cases of dozens of people going missing had not been linked to him at all—there was absolutely no evidence or leads.

Now it seemed certain that Jimmy was one of the CIA's, having received rigorous agent training to have such combat ability. The guess was special agent training rather than special forces, mainly because Jimmy had no military service experience, which was apparent from his everyday behavior and movements, completely lacking military characteristics.

But if he was a CIA agent, why would someone ambush him in New York? In any case, there was a dense fog of mystery here.

Lambert: "What do you think? Should we lay our cards on the table, or are you considering putting him back in a desk job?"

Hughes: "I haven't decided yet."

Lambert: "Have you thought about finding someone to confirm it? You should be able to find someone in DC, right?"

Hughes nodded, took a puff of his cigar, exhaled the smoke, then shook his head, "Directly asking someone to investigate might be a bit troublesome."

Lambert: "Can't find the right person? Need my help?"

Hughes: "No need. What I'm considering is whether to keep him here."

Lambert shrugged, "It doesn't matter to me, I don't mind having one more person around, if you don't want him."

Hughes' lips curled up, "He must have guessed, right? Our suspicions about him."

Lambert: "He's not stupid, he must have guessed something, but for now it's still unclear what he's thinking. After he came back, he met with me, and he didn't seem very happy."

Hughes was somewhat surprised, "Oh? Not happy? Wasn't everything dealt with?"

Lambert: "It's different, looks almost the same as before, but the smile on his face seemed a bit fake. It seems like something happened during this incident, or there's something else that's annoying him."

Hughes thought for a moment and then asked, "Could I use your farm?"

Lambert: "No problem, I'll notify Jimmy to go there tomorrow."

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Jimmy was completely unaware that Hughes had already arrived. These past two days he had been following Ray around on visits while also needing to sort through leads provided by citizens at the office.

Since they only had basic information like body size and skin color, the majority of the leads provided by citizens were useless, and some even deliberately provided information about their enemies to disrupt the investigation, such as about Black or Latin American people.

Several days had passed since the bank robbery, and visiting was losing much of its significance. Ordinary people, even if they had seen something, wouldn't remember it clearly now, so Ray was actually somewhat ready to give up for the time being, simply waiting for any leads from the bait money.

Jimmy, however, was still quite interested. He hadn't been involved in many bank robberies before, his main experience was arriving at the scene to support the situation when the robbery occurred, but this kind of investigation after the robbers had fled was his first time, so the main person sorting through leads at the office was him, not Ray.

Both sides of the whiteboard were plastered with a large number of sticky notes, all sorts of leads categorized and sorted by features such as skin color and motorcycle characteristics.

Jimmy just stood in front of the whiteboard, eyeing these leads, simulating in his mind the people and scenes corresponding to these leads.

Jimmy: "Ray, help me find the surveillance footage outside the bank, I want it from three nights before the robbery occurred."

Ray looked up at Jimmy: "Did you find something?"

Jimmy: "There's a report here, three days before the robbery, this house was burglarized, and the neighbor was a witness. He said the suspect was white, wearing a gray jacket and blue jeans, which matches the description of our robber. As the suspect climbed through the window into the house, the neighbor shouted loudly, scaring off the intruder who immediately jumped out and fled."

The address of the burglarized house was not far from the bank, it was possible that the bank's surveillance had also captured the suspect."

Ray nodded and contacted the tech department to find the relevant section of the video from the recordings; the bank's surveillance footage had all been transferred to the computer, they just needed to locate it and send over the section, which would be easier to play on the computer than using additional equipment.

Jimmy handed the sticky note with the lead to Ray, and the two huddled in front of the computer to review the footage. Soon, Jimmy's phone rang; Lambert didn't say much, just invited him to his farm the next day.

Jimmy had been to Lambert's farm once before, that time to assist Father Horton in investigating a box that had been dug up, and had stayed there for a few days.

Jimmy didn't think too much of it, hung up the phone, and continued to check the video with Ray, searching for the burglary suspect.

The external surveillance cameras of the bank clearly hadn't been updated with technological advances, still using ordinary cameras, so at night you could barely make out the features of passersby.

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