Mountain Eagle thought that after finishing the call with Li Chengji, the matter would have temporarily come to a close...
He bombarded the temporary campsite with calls ceaselessly, urging them to rush back to Brown Bear Camp, and then he organized a cleanup crew.
All the bodies were bagged and packed up, entrusted to officers Michael and Scott to deliver to Russian Mission Town to rendezvous with the arriving FBI agents.
It was a significant oversight on Mountain Eagle's part not to keep the two rescued hostages, because doing so deprived Michael and Scott of some of the benefits that could have arisen from the hostage-taking case.
Nevertheless, the persuasive power of the crime scene where the bodies and hostages were held captivated, and the clever Daria had already introduced the STER team members, who stayed to help at the camp, to the hostages, and narrated to them an abridged version of the events.
