North America Gunman Detective

Chapter 1366 - 739: Transfer (Part 2)

Mrs. Waltz was still very happy to see Jimmy come over, at least she seemed happy. Normally, there were hardly any people around here, it was quite deserted.

They chatted a bit about daily matters, and Mrs. Waltz also asked Jimmy why he was here. Jimmy didn't hide anything, since it was official business and likely to become public, not confidential. He briefly explained his visit to the FBI headquarters to work on a case.

For someone as experienced as Mrs. Waltz, cases like human trafficking were clearly not uncommon. It was just that the victims were all underage girls, which made her feel deeply saddened. After all, what these people did was truly atrocious.

However, the reason Jimmy was tied up for so long this time was mainly because several cases were interconnected, from the agent disappearance case to the imprisonment and rape of young girls, then to human trafficking and kidnapping, and later collaborating with the DEA to investigate the drug dealers' club. It's already remarkably fast to spend two months on all these connected cases; under normal circumstances, it might take over six months. If the scope were even broader, the number of investigators would have to be increased.

Talking about cases involving young girls, Jimmy once again experienced the old people's nagging about having children. Although he was somewhat surprised, Mrs. Waltz didn't seem like the type who would nag, but it was still normal, since Mrs. Waltz was considered the closest to his mother's side besides Tom. Old people always nag about these things, urging you to marry before wedding, and urging you to have children after marriage.

After a while of chatting, Jimmy received a call and had to say goodbye and leave Mrs. Waltz's cabin to return to Washington.

The Public Affairs Office needed Jimmy to return and shoot a video with Hope. Naturally, it was their hastily prepared script, stringing some investigation scenes together through their narration. However, this wouldn't be the final version. It was merely for preliminary preparation.

Because most of the case content didn't have on-site video footage, this time the Public Affairs Office would be especially troubled. They would pre-process some content, then prepare more paper documents and videos, subsequently having a professional team select content from the materials to form a special report that could be made public. As for whether a follow-up documentary would be arranged, it's yet to be determined, awaiting decisions from higher-ups.

According to Deputy Director Roberts' arrangement, this case was classified as a major case, and successfully rescuing the imprisoned girls and capturing the human traffickers was a typical demonstration of the FBI's cross-regional pursuit capabilities. It also painted a significantly positive image, very different from the FBI often depicted as side characters in movies and TV shows. Therefore, a lot of material needed to be prepared.

The case was listed as an alternative promotion example purely because of the excessive casualties involved. If it were deliberately not mentioned, it would be questioned by media and other groups. If displayed, it wouldn't be good for individual FBI agent images, as the public level does not wish for the emergence of federational agents who kill legally numerous times. It poses a threat to many people.

Deputy Director Roberts, knowing Jimmy's file even before, realized that they definitely shouldn't overly publicize Jimmy's achievements. This kind of achievement appearing on one person is extremely rare, questioned by others is one aspect, the biggest challenge would be possibly triggering the public's distrust towards FBI agents, nobody knows how many kill records the FBI is hiding, whether facing these hidden agents one would be safe etc.

In summary, although it is still an alternative promotional case, they need to perfect the data as much as possible. Once headquarters decides, they need to have things ready.

For Jimmy, this was the first time he acted according to a script. He was somewhat uncomfortable, but fortunately, since it wasn't formal content, even if there were minor flaws it didn't matter. It was completed after only four recordings.

What surprised him was that during the final recording session, they actually used a separate backlight source. After finishing reciting his lines, Jimmy glanced at the recording effect, his silhouette was very clear, but his face was basically completely obscured in darkness, facial details could hardly be seen. This should be to avoid directly exposing his identity, right? That's what he thought, but he wasn't familiar with the people in the Public Affairs Office, and was embarrassed to directly ask them, so he ended the recording like that.

This recording wasn't the only one, but Jimmy received their notification, he could first return to New York, and come back when needed later, even needed to return to the case site to re-record some content again in the future. He didn't know how they arranged these tedious details, always feeling like they were making a movie, preparing scripts, deciding recording locations and content, then he was just like those actors performing according to set content.

Jimmy, after greeting with Peter and others, bought tickets to return to New York again. Next up was his vacation, approved by Ruiz. After being on business trips for two months, it would be too inconsiderate to return and start working immediately, even though Jimmy already had enough vacation time this year.

Because of marriage and honeymoon, he had already taken a long leave previously. Now, nearing the end of the year, being able to snag a paid vacation was great, Jimmy simply chatted with Nia, asking her to adjust her vacation as well, the two headed directly to the warm south to enjoy the sunshine and beaches.

While Jimmy was leisurely playing, Ruiz and others didn't sit idle. Jimmy had already made a strong personal impression at headquarters. The news from headquarters wasn't a secret to the New York office, accessible through many channels. To ensure the powerful figure at Manhattan office could stay there, Ruiz reached out to many people, soon coming to a conclusion.

Jimmy is very excellent, to prevent headquarters from forcibly pulling him, he must be anchored at Manhattan office. Firstly, there's the rank issue, Senior Agents are always just minor roles. Although Jimmy manages a homicide investigation team, it's actually not that officially legitimate, if someone wants to pick at it, it's quite easy.

This time Jimmy also made significant contributions, managing to bring back the body from Juarez, this alone was enough for many to feel favorable towards him, coupled with the headquarters' case, a promotion was warranted—not perfect, but reasonable.

But once promoted to Supervisory Special Agent, it brought a big trouble, some things require trade-offs. The homicide team Jimmy currently managed needs to be detached from him, and handed over to others for management, because team leader positions are too limited, and there are many who have reached the rank but lack authority, Jimmy can't have all the benefits, must distribute part out.

Giving a nominal position as a bridge for two or three years, then transferring Jimmy to other departments when his age and tenure experience suffice, it's better that way. He's only in his early thirties, within the FBI system he's a complete youngling, promoted to supervisory within six to seven years is not just flight-speed, but rocket-speed ascent.

Of course, Jimmy's rise speed isn't the fastest, many within the FBI elevates quite quickly, but for an Asian this is indeed extremely rare.

Jimmy wasn't clear about this specific trade-off here, but when it all settled, Ruiz gave Jimmy a call, letting him continue resting at home, to return to work after Christmas holiday, with a new position arranged for him.

Receiving the call, Jimmy was still a bit puzzled, he had been in the homicide team for several years, why was he suddenly reassigned to a new post?

Nia, munching on ice cream, saw Jimmy not speaking after taking the call, only staring at the street ahead blankly, gently patted him, "What's wrong?"

Jimmy turned to Nia with a somewhat grim expression, "There seems to be an incident at the office, Ruiz informed me to return to work after Christmas, with a new position arranged. There's something wrong. You wait here for a moment, I'm going to make some calls."