The World of American Drama: From the Los Angeles Patrol

Chapter 1452: The first response of the "machine" baby
"Drop your weapons! Put your hands up!"

"Get down on your knees! Put your hands over your head!"

The most wanted criminals team brought a large group of NYPD officers into the fourth underground floor of the parking garage. Simmons, who was also in uniform, tried to struggle, raising his hands and trying to explain.

"We are on a mission."

"There are no one of your own here!"

As Fusco spoke, he strode forward, kicked him in the knee, and handcuffed the guy with skillful movements.

Facing Simmons's angry glare, Detective Doudou raised his head with a hint of pride and said what he had been thinking for a long time, "I have been lurking in HR on the orders of Director Reagan, so yes, I am an undercover agent."

"Send him to the federal building for solitary custody, and you keep an eye on him yourself." After Jack gave the order to Aubrey, he turned around and ran towards the abandoned maintenance passage.

Things were going a little wrong. It was indeed Jack's plan to put "Root Girl" and Finch one-on-one, so he didn't say anything when Reese offered to stay.

But what about this strange female voice? Jack had no impression of Alicia, who Finch had just mentioned. Was there such a character in the original play?
The previous communication interruption and Finch's presence outside to meet the call were all temporary situations, and no one could have guessed it in advance. In other words, this woman named Alicia had been following him.

The conversation in the headset continued. After accusing Finch of creating a "machine" that killed Nathan, Alicia choked up as she spoke.

"I can feel its presence right now, watching us all the time. There's nowhere to hide. I'm tired of living like this."

Finch was silent for a long time, then whispered, "I have made some mistakes, but creating the 'machine' is not one of them. You are not hiding from it, Alicia, and it was not the 'machine' that killed Nathan.

You're hiding from people, people you and I once thought we could trust."

"Perhaps you are right, but when you created the powerful 'machine' with that extremely arrogant mentality of a creator, did you ever think about what kind of bad consequences and disasters would happen if its authority fell into the hands of the wrong people?"

At this point in the conversation, the two of them were clearly talking at cross purposes, and Finch, feeling that he had discovered the truth, began to accuse the woman named Alicia.

"What do you mean by 'wrong person'? It means someone like you who would rather pay a corrupt policeman like 'HR' to hunt down an innocent woman just to lure me out, right?"

"What do you mean?" Alicia's voice was full of confusion.

Finch became excited. "You know how the 'machine' works, the 'irrelevant information list'. You know that if Turing's life is threatened, the 'machine' will spit out her number."

Alicia interrupted him directly, "I don't understand what you are talking about. I don't need to lure you out. I have been following you for weeks."

The abandoned maintenance passage leading to the riverside water treatment plant was very long. Jack ran at full speed at first and only slowed down when he caught up with Reese.

"Finch, keep talking to her to delay time, we'll be there soon." Reese said breathlessly.

However, in the next second, gunshots rang out, and the two men stopped in their tracks. Reese's voice trembled unconsciously, "Finch! Finch!" The two men ran towards the exit one after the other at almost the speed of a 100-meter sprint, and the conversation that followed made Jack feel a little relieved.

"It's nice to finally meet you in person, Harold Finch. You can call me Root."

"You hired HR yourself? You're willing to risk your life to find me?"

Finch said with a trembling voice. Of course he knew what the name Ruth meant. It had only been a few months since the two had first fought.

But he didn't expect that the other party would shoot and kill someone right in front of him as soon as he appeared. Although Alicia had pointed a gun at him before, it was not that serious.
Finch hides behind the screen most of the time, and the only time he truly experiences danger in his life is the car explosion that took the life of his good friend Nathan.

Seeing someone die in front of him with his own eyes, Finch felt doubt, confusion, fear and inexplicable anger, which made veins on his forehead bulge and his whole body tremble uncontrollably.

"I once blackmailed the CEO of a group under a pseudonym. That's a long story." Ru Te dragged Alicia's body out of the car with some effort, opened the back door and got in.

"But anyway, I was doing a team-building activity called the 'trust fall', where you close your eyes, fall backwards, and wait for someone to catch you.

I know you won't let me down, you have a great team, the man in the suit named Reese, and Jack who is also good at disguise. "

Ruth smiled brightly, but the gun in his hand was always pointed at Finch's head. "Drive, I know they are coming soon, and we still have a lot to discuss."
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Reese kicked open the iron gate that was in the way. His face became terribly gloomy when he saw the empty riverside path in front of him. Finch's black Lincoln had disappeared, replaced by the body of a middle-aged white woman.

Jack walked over to the body and squatted down, picking up Finch's crushed cell phone and an in-ear headphone from beside her.

"Finch has a GPS, so he should be fine."

Jack only said half of his words of comfort when he looked up and saw Reese standing in front of a surveillance camera, as if talking to himself, "He is in danger now, and it's all because of you, so you have to help me find him."

So now the pressure is finally on the side of the "machine" baby?

In Jack's previous life, when "Person of Interest" was being filmed, there were still many pay telephone booths on the streets of New York. However, due to the mixing of multiple dramas in this world, the actual time of the plot is quite confusing.

At this point in time, all of New York's landline telephone booths have been converted into free WIFI hotspots. There are no longer telephones on them, but instead an electronic screen that updates weather and traffic information at any time.

Therefore, the scene in the original drama where the "machine" calls Reese through a fixed telephone booth is destined not to happen. Jack looked at the surveillance camera installed high up with interest. The small red light on it flashed, as if there really was an electronic life inside.

A moment later, Reese's phone beeped, and the two special effect words "Unknown Number" flickered slightly on the screen.

Reese turned on the speakerphone expressionlessly. After a beep, different male and female voices taken from various recordings began to read out the words one by one.

"Family, Alpha, Mike, Uncertain, Romeo, Kilogram, Rondo, Juliet, Oscar."

(End of this chapter)