About two years ago, such a news was reported in a federal newspaper.
A businesswoman was arrested by North Korea as a spy.
Langley didn't react.
After a few days of excitement, the media from all walks of life died down. After all, they are chasing hot news, and without hot news, there is naturally no value in chasing.
But one person cares about this.
A biologist, and a relatively famous German biologist at that. Under his active efforts, when the heat was about to be reignited, Langley finally stepped in and finally got the businesswoman back.
This businesswoman is Short.
In fact, Short was indeed an agent. Another fact was that Langley had given up on Short at that time because an arrested agent had lost his value regardless of whether he admitted it or not.
Just as Lake said.
Langley has a principle for worthless objects or people: discard them.
Fortunately, a German biologist who loved Salt deeply and never wanted to believe that she was a Langley agent worked hard to help the hard-hearted Langley bloom and rescue Salt.
From then on, Short was assigned to an office, transitioning from a field agent to an interrogation expert and Russian intelligence analyst.
conference room.
There were fewer bigwigs this time than yesterday, but Sunil, the head of Langley's Overseas Operations Division II, and the Deputy Director of the FBI were present this time.
Alexander Pierce and the Attorney General did not come this time.
"minister!"
Lake first shook hands with Minister Kelly, who invited him to join the company, then pulled out a chair and sat down, watching the surveillance footage of the interrogation room appearing on the big screen in the conference room.
"Mic on!"
"Check the readings."
"Benchmark confirmed."
"Activate neural scan."
"…"
After all, it is a newly established law enforcement agency that is larger than the CIA and FBI in principle. The preparations before the interrogation alone are enough to make Lake curious.
Various devices are used in turn, some monitoring heartbeat, some monitoring brain activity, and even some monitoring vital signs and temperature.
These are expensive and professional equipment.
The NYPD couldn't afford any of it.
George and Beckett are fine, and sometimes they even go to see a professional psychologist.
Lake is simple.
After all, Lake's motto is that time is money, the faster the better, and simplicity and brutality are the best way.
so...
Lake's interrogation methods only have three tricks.
Explain with reason and move with emotion.
Say, everyone is happy.
Don't tell me, haha. I'll shoot you seventeen times in a row. If you can hold on and not tell me, it means Lake admits defeat.
Then comes the final step.
Just commit suicide, and then ask Olivia to come out, so that we can get the most accurate information early tomorrow morning.
The three tricks have always been effective.
This also resulted in Lake's crime-solving rate ranking first in the New York Police Department, and the number of complaint letters and various bizarre anonymous reports received also ranked first.
But it's all for justice.
This was like a breeze to Lake, who always said "I will never reconcile with evil". Those complaint letters and anonymous reports would at most cause him some trouble, so it would be better for him to take them to heart.
soon.
Enter Evelyn Short, an intelligence analyst and interrogation expert from Langley.
"Good morning!"
Short, with blond hair and wearing a women's suit, walked into the interrogation room and sat down in the chair opposite the silent Bucky Barnes. Short's expression suddenly changed when he saw the Winter Soldier, and then returned to normal: "Mr. Barnes."
Bucky Barnes looked up at Short, his expression unchanged, just like yesterday, or even the day before yesterday, his expression was like that of a dead person.
Sitting in the conference room, Lake touched his ears and plugged the headset tighter to prevent it from falling out.
Sitting opposite, propping his chin with one hand, Sunil Bakshi, who looked rather handsome from the side and was only four years older than Lake, glanced at Lake and said, "Director Edwin, were you also so silent when you caught him?"
Lake looked at Sunil and smiled: "Of course not."
Sunil raised an eyebrow. "Oh, but that's not reflected in Director Edwin's report."
Lake nodded. "I had a narrow escape, and the report was urgent, so I just wrote one. However, when Bucky Barnes and I fell into the water due to the explosion, he did say something to me, but I can't remember it clearly."
"What?"
"He seemed to say..."
Lake frowned and pondered for a while. Then, as if he had thought of something, he looked at Sunil Bakshi with a faint smile on his face. "His actions were directed by Director Bakshi of Langley."
Sunil was stunned: "...What?"
Lake spread his hands. "I don't remember it clearly. As I said before, the underwater tunnel exploded, and I was also forced to drink a bellyful of water. Director Bakshi, do you want me to rewrite the report?"
Finished.
Lake's expression was sincere, with a faint smile on his handsome face.
Sunil looked at Lake, and after a moment, he burst into laughter. "Director Edwin, you're joking. This case is from the Department of Homeland Security, not Langley. I don't have the right to ask Director Edwin to rewrite a report. That would be an overstepping of authority."
Lake nodded. "So Director Bakshi knew he was from Langley. I thought I was mistaken."
Sunil: "…"
mock up.
Who do you think you are to try to talk to me?
This time I'm just going to quietly watch what tricks you want to play.
Lake narrowed his eyes. The moment he saw Short, he seemed to understand what tricks Hydra was planning to play.
If Lake remembered correctly.
Lake should be correct. This Langley female agent Evelyn Short, who is participating in the interrogation and trying to impress Bucky Barnes in various languages, seems to be a deep-sea spy.
And he was a spy from the Red Room era.
so.
Lake seemed to vaguely know what tricks Hydra was trying to play. If Lake guessed correctly, Lake felt as if he had become a prop in Hydra's plan.
This made Lake feel a little uncomfortable.
If it is really what Lake thinks, then there is no doubt that this time Hydra will not just suffer the death of one celebrity. It will take at least two to appease Lake's anger.
You can use me as a gun, but only if you can withstand Lake's counterattack.
Sunil frowned inwardly as he saw Lake staring at him, and simply readjusted his position so as not to meet Lake's eye contact.
He felt a little weak.
Just then.
In the interrogation room.
As Short switched languages to question Bucky Barnes, Bucky's eyes changed when he used Russian. This made Short feel that he had finally found a breakthrough, so he directly asked Bucky Barnes in Russian: "Is Russia behind you?"
Bucky Barnes's eyes began to wander.
seem...
It's like some kind of program has been activated.
…
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