The CDC and hazardous materials teams arrived quickly, collected all the gift bags, and cleared the scene.
All teenagers potentially exposed to smallpox were temporarily quarantined and vaccinated. Fortunately, no one was impatient to get the vaccine immediately, so it should be fine.
With everything settled, someone who was said to absolutely hate tropical islands was already eager to return to Hawaii.
Of course, according to Danny, he was worried about Kono being the only one left at "Five-O," but Jack still let him and Cheng Haoqiang stay overnight.
The NCIS team and everyone else enjoyed a hearty dinner at Jack's house and drank his last bottle of American ginseng wine in Los Angeles.
This bottle was one of the three that survived the explosion because it was stored in the basement. The other two bottles were given to Rossi and Hunter Sr.
After seeing off the guests, Jack and Danny sat on the porch facing the backyard, leisurely sipping cold beers. Cheng Hao excused himself to video chat with his cousin Kono and returned to the upstairs guest room, avoiding the "uncle and nephew" couple.
Even the rebuilt backyard remained empty and unsightly. The surviving fruit trees had been relocated next door to the Wolf Brothers Farm, a small farm nominally belonging to Hannah. They were said to be flourishing and bearing fruit.
Perhaps from his excitement, Danny had a few extra drinks, and now he was a bit tipsy. He lay in his rocking chair in silence for a long time before sighing and lamenting.
"I don't know what's happened these past few years, but seeing how you live now, I can't help but feel a bit jealous,"
Jack suggested, remembering the man's place in Hawaii—a typical bachelor pad without even a kitchen. Knowing that his life after the divorce wasn't going well, he thought for a moment and offered a suggestion.
"Maybe in addition to work and accompanying Grace (Danny's daughter), you can take the initiative to try to find some other fun in life.
The little daughter will grow up one day and leave her father's arms to find her own life. Since you have convinced yourself that you can live on an annoying tropical island for Grace, why not go a step further and try to enjoy this kind of life?"
Danny was a little absent-minded, as if he recalled something, and couldn't help laughing and shaking his head, "It seems that you are not the first person to persuade me like this, someone has said something similar to me."
"Your partner?" Jack still felt a little regretful that he didn't meet Steve McGarrett this time when he went to Hawaii.
"It's your father. Before Rachel and I divorced, he said something similar to me. Something like, Danny, you shouldn't just focus on work. Family is a man's focus. You have to learn how to strike a balance between the two. And so on."
Danny paused, and continued with emotion, "He's a very wise man, and he's very good at pleasing girls. He always mutters some strange words, like emotional value."
"Like, don't always ask for things, and don't always try to please others?" Jack recalled a passage written in his original diary. It was one of the few passages in the diary that mentioned his original parents.
"Did he say that to you too?" Danny's face was filled with memories. It seemed that Jack's original father had a great influence on him.
"That guy always knew what he wanted and always made the right choices, just like when he took your mother away from the family and hid in Los Angeles.
When Zoe told me those things about you, to be honest, I wasn't surprised at all. You are all people who can control your own destiny."
"Ahem." Jack coughed lightly with a guilty conscience and clinked the bottle with him, "I'm just lucky."
The two chatted until late the next morning when Jack sent him and Cheng Hao on the plane back to Hawaii. Danny was still a little hungover.
Jack was also preparing to go back to New York to spend New Year's Eve with his friends. They completed the wanted mission at about the same time, but their worldviews were quite shocked.
It is said that everyone, including the old agent Jubal, was in a bad mood, and even the New Year's party that was originally planned was cancelled.
It has been mentioned before that they were chasing an arsonist and two amateur killers in Allentown, Pennsylvania. As the investigation deepened, the case gradually deviated in a strange direction.
First of all, everyone discovered that the two amateur killers, a man and a woman, were the real arsonists. The male The suspect, Todd Carter, was once a firefighter at the Allentown Fire Department, and the female suspect, Vicki Brokaw, was a dispatcher.
The two were hired to go to a family amusement center to set fire, and accidentally ran into the amusement center manager, William Duncan, and the game console repairman he hired, Ramon Laos.
At the time, Ramon Laos was with his son, Michael Laos, who was less than ten years old. The
person who hired Todd Carter and Vicki Brokaw to set the fire was Fred Duncan Jr., the father of William Duncan, the manager of the family amusement center. This small family amusement center was one of the Duncan family's businesses, and the purpose of the arson was to defraud insurance.
However, unexpectedly, when the two hired arsonists came to the amusement center under the cover of night , The amusement park, which should have been deserted, unexpectedly ran into William Duncan and Laos.
Todd Carter, who was not very smart, chose to shoot and kill to silence them, causing William Duncan to be seriously injured and unconscious, and Laos and his son to die.
Just after Todd Carter and Vicki Brokaw committed murder and arson and fled the scene, a mysterious uninvited guest broke into the burning family amusement center and left the name "Sicarius", or "Assassin", on an old game console produced in the 1980s.
Because there was a seriously injured William Duncan as an eyewitness, the wanted criminal team first ruled out the mysterious man's suspicion of committing the crime. After some investigation, they confirmed that Todd was the one who committed the crime. The identities of De Carter and Vicki Brokaw were revealed, and a wanted notice was issued for their vehicles.
Meanwhile, the experienced Jubal noticed something unusual and confirmed the insurance fraud through investigation.
William Duncan had a serious drug addiction and owed $200,000 in gambling debts. Although the Duncan family owned a large number of entertainment facilities and properties throughout the eastern seaboard, including bowling alleys, amusement centers, theme parks, and go-kart tracks, their business was now declining.
Even $200,000 was a huge expense for William Duncan's father, Fred Duncan Jr., so he chose to hire an arsonist to defraud the insurance. As a result, he not only nearly killed his son, but also implicated two innocent lives.
(End of this chapter)