but...
Lake's ability to close the case does not mean that the case is over. However, the next matter will be handed over to the district attorney and the court.
It is the court's job to pronounce the verdict.
Lake is only responsible for arresting the suspect and then handing the suspect over to the local prosecutor. After that, the local prosecutor will bring charges against the suspect in court.
This is bound to be a sensational case.
The suspect is Bucky Barnes, Captain America's best friend and former member of the Howling Commandos.
Lake could guess without a doubt that once this matter was exposed, there would be no doubt that even the most famous lawyers in New York would help Bucky Barnes with this lawsuit for free.
As for those free lawyers?
hehe.
Is this the case they should take?
They had a chance, though. After all, it was Bucky Barnes who chose the lawyer, not the other way around. But the guy was barely able to speak.
Lake glanced at Bucky Barnes who was once again in a dead state across from him, smiled, snapped the notebook in his hand, stood up and looked at the three people on the other side of the one-way glass.
George and Beckett in the observation room looked at each other, then turned their eyes to their superior Montgomery.
Montgomery was stunned: "Why are you looking at me? I'm going to find the director!"
Finished.
Montgomery left immediately. This case had a huge impact and he was afraid that he could not handle it. If this case were to explode, not only would he have to be on guard against the omnipresent reporters and media, he would even have to be on guard against Stark Industries, which would explode in anger after learning about this matter.
Go out.
Qiao frowned: "No."
Lake stopped and looked at Joe: "What's wrong?"
Joe looked at Lake and said, "Although I don't have any evidence, this Bucky Barnes is just a killer, not the real mastermind."
The man who killed her husband was certainly a killer.
But the killer is just a tool.
Ultimately, her husband's death was caused by the killer's tool, but the real culprit was someone else.
Lake nodded, agreeing with Joe's speculation, and said, "Whether we can find the mastermind now depends on whether Stark can help."
It's pretty good to be able to achieve this step so far.
More.
It's almost impossible within the rules.
The reason given by Christine's business group was a commercial crime investigation. Although Olivia confirmed that Killer No. 5 received the task from Christine, there was no evidence to prove this.
At least there is no evidence in any legal sense.
And that phone call.
They could only trace it back to Christine calling him, and according to Beckett, although their conversation indirectly involved Lake going to Jersey City, it was not direct evidence, and the court would not recognize illegal evidence collection.
but...
Let's wait and see. Maybe Stark will give us a different surprise.
pity.
There were no surprises from Stark's side.
Tony Stark and Jarvis tracked down the coordinates of the person who made the call at that time, to the Capitol in Washington, even to the exact building and room of the building.
but...
When the call was connected, the room where the signal was located was a conference room in the Capitol. Jarvis obtained the people who used this conference room at that time and tracked down thirty-two people.
And that's thirty-two members of Congress.
The phone call Christine made was certainly not a one-time call, but the buyer of the call was traced back to a potato farmer in Texas.
According to information investigation, the farmer's registration information must have been used by someone else, because he has not left Texas in the past 45 years.
and...
In order not to alert the enemy, Tony and Jarvis did not choose to dig deeper. After they dug out this information, all electronic records of the phone call disappeared from the Internet.
seem...
That phone never existed.
Lake took the list of thirty-two congressmen that Pepper printed out and took a look at it.
A familiar name came into view.
Senator Stern.
so...
Christine's superior is Stern, this chubby, harmless-looking, fat man, but actually a loyal member of Hydra, Senator Stern?
Lake touched his chin and looked up at Pepper, and also at Tony Stark, who was standing not far away with his back to them, holding a glass of whiskey, facing the large floor-to-ceiling window and gazing at the New York scenery.
never mind.
This guy is also a party involved and has the right to know the progress of the case.
Lake thought to himself and looked directly at Pepper: "Regarding the case of Howard Stark and his wife, we have already arrested a suspect in this operation."
Pepper widened her eyes and looked at Tony who was buttoning his clothes.
After hearing this, Tony turned around and looked at Lake.
Lake said: "We already have evidence to prove that the suspect this time is the culprit who killed Howard Stark and his wife."
Tony walked over and said ruthlessly, "Who?"
"Bucky Barnes."
"Bucky…"
Pepper muttered the name and frowned: "This name is so familiar to me."
Said.
Pepper looked at her boss, Tony.
Tony's expression was very puzzled, as if he had thought of something.
Lake pulled out a prepared USB flash drive and tossed it to Pepper. "This video should have been provided to me by that person after I captured Bucky Barnes. As for whether it's real or not, Mr. Stark is an expert in this field and can help verify it. However, the content may be a bit shocking to Mr. Tony Stark, so you may need to be mentally prepared."
Tony took the USB drive from Pepper's hand and quickly walked to the sci-fi computer desk. He placed the USB drive on it and said, "Jarvis, play."
soon.
The video content was played.
Bang!
Pepper and Joe looked at the direction where the sound came from. It was Tony's hand. The moment this video content appeared, the whiskey glass in Tony's hand was instantly crushed.
After all, Tony is an engineer, and he often lifts weights himself, so it is completely reasonable that he has the strength to crush a wine glass.
"Save my wife."
"Please, save my wife."
"...Sergeant Barnes?"
Tony's eyes instantly fell on Lake who was sitting on the sofa, his expression a mixture of shock and anger.
Lake made a gesture to continue reading.
Tony's face was dark as he suppressed the raging anger in his heart and continued to watch the video.
In the video.
Bucky Barnes pummeled his father, Howard Stark, with punch after punch.
In the video.
Bucky Barnes pinched his mother Maria Stark's neck until her mother couldn't make a sound and completely lost her breath.
…
Let me reiterate, what Lao Mi wrote is the invincible flow, not the lottery flow!