Chapter 317 - Tailing the Beauty
Chapter 317 Tailing the Beauty
Luke could only change the topic. “I’ve read Palmer’s case file. Did you find anything in your investigation?”
Roger said, “A little bit. It’s possible that Palmer found a thing or two about a guy nicknamed ‘The Maker,’ which is why the guy’s trying to kill her.” Luke asked, “Exactly what did she find?” “I don’t know,” Roger said decisively. “Palmer’s been looking into him, but she can’t share all her information with us. You know, she’s investigating too many targets. If she gives us all the information, we would have thirty suspects at least.”
Luke sighed and didn’t ask who the suspects were.
The guys that the DEA investigated were mostly tricky vermin who baited and corrupted people.
It wasn’t unusual to investigate one suspect and then unearth a whole bunch of them.
Luke looked inside and asked in an even lower voice, “What’s with Martin?”
Roger said bitterly, “I hope that he can more or less recover after a month of rest.” Luke hesitated. “What about you?” Roger didn’t have to rest when Martin did.
As an experienced detective, he could totally get a new detective to help him with the cases.
Roger scratched his bald head. “I’m old. With Martin’s issue and my family situation…”
After a brief silence, Luke patted his shoulder and said, “Get some good rest, but you better come back soon, or I’m afraid Dustin will go crazy.”
Roger simply nodded and didn’t say anything.
After about twenty minutes, Palmer and Martin were finally done with their conversation, and they walked out of the lounge.
Roger had a few words with them and then took Martin home to rest.
Palmer managed a smile for Luke and Selina. “Luke, Selina, how can I help you?” Luke pointed at the lounge. “Let’s talk inside.”
They talked for half an hour in the lounge, before they came out again. Palmer said, “Luke, you don’t need to pay too much attention to this case. Our people are already working on it; oh, I don’t mean anything else by this.”
Luke knew that she was saying that she wasn’t trying to drive them off the case.
He nodded with a smile. “Palmer, I understand, but we have to do what we can, for Martin’s sake. At least, we can’t allow those guys to wander around with automatic weapons and find an opportunity to shoot you, right?”
What could Palmer say? Naturally, she didn’t want to live in fear every day and with the suspicion that anyone around her who didn’t look right might be a shooter out to get her.
Luke said, “We’ll follow up on the case for a couple of days and let you know if there are any updates; we won’t meddle with any of the cases on your end.”
Palmer nodded. “Thank you. Then, I’ll take my leave.” She knew that Luke was doing this for Martin’s sake.
Luke was only going to work on the assault case, and wouldn’t steal the drug cases that the DEA was working on.
Watching Palmer leave, Luke said, “Let’s follow her.”
Selina was surprised. “What?” It was a serious violation to follow a DEA agent without official notification.
If the situation was reversed, the Major Crimes Division would also be unhappy if someone from the DEA was tailing a detective from their department.
Both organizations were engaged in dangerous work, and were quite sensitive about this sort of thing.
Luke said, “We don’t need to follow her too closely. I just want to see if the shooters are still around her.”
Palmer was the perfect bait. He wouldn’t be able to track the shooters without her.
When he drove the car out, Selina was still at a loss. “Are you really going to follow her?” Luke chuckled. “Only you know that we’re following her. To everyone else, we’re just on our way to investigate a case.”
Selina was befuddled.
She couldn’t see Palmer’s car at all. How could they track her?
Luke smiled as he drove the car at an unhurried speed. He caught a whiff of the unique perfume that Palmer was wearing.
It was Givenchy Jardin d’Interdit, which matched her personality perfectly.
Any woman, even a DEA agent, loved being beautiful!
They followed her all the way to the DEA’s office building, and nothing happened.
Luke wasn’t disappointed, since it was only natural.
When detectives followed or monitored suspects, they spent most of the time in their cars instead of chasing the criminals. They were often bored, but had to stay focused.
It was easier for Luke. He drove the car around the area surrounding the DEA building as he looked for unusual guys.
Other people could only observe with their eyes, but Luke had Sharp Nose, which let him know if anybody was carrying a gun.
After all, it would be quite suspicious for anyone to be loitering outside the DEA building with a gun.
He looked around and detected a few armed people, who were all DEA guards.
If a shooter was waiting for their target to show, they would exhibit more unusual behaviour.
For example, they would be anxious, or keep looking at the exits, or pay attention to people with similar features — like those who were female, beautiful, had long hair, and were dressed professionally.
All these described Agent Palmer to a tee.
After taking stock, Luke and Selina simply went home for lunch.
Palmer bought lunch from a hot dog stand at the entrance of the office building, and went back inside. Clearly, she wouldn’t be out any time soon.
Luke and Selina didn’t know what Palmer’s schedule was like, and the shooters probably didn’t either.
After the second attack, Palmer’s movements were kept strictly confidential, and it wouldn’t be easy to ambush her.
So, the only time the shooters could probably attack was when she was on her way to and from work.
Anybody who had a fixed job usually had a fixed schedule for when they started or got off work.
Luke had asked Roger earlier about Palmer’s office hours.
Luke and Selina returned to the DEA building before half-past four, and did another round of the area one block away.
Very soon, Luke chuckled and said, “Selina, keep an eye on the silver Toyota on the right with the 5AJ**** plate.”
Selina didn’t even raise her head. She simply operated her tablet and adjusted the angles of the cameras on the car to focus on a Toyota that was half-exposed at a street corner.
The Toyota’s car windows were tinted black, but it was clear that the people inside didn’t know the first thing about tailing someone, as they took turns smoking outside the car every now and then.
Although they were smoking behind the car and out of sight as much as possible, Luke already had a clear picture of them from the specially modified cameras on his car.