Without Riley's car, Zach pretended to walk out of the manor, and then ran back to Grande in a hurry. Another outfit to say goodbye to our vampire.
Zach had previously told Louise that the guests who had conveyed his location were already waiting at Grande. What surprised Zach was that there was one more person - Coulson was also here. All hanging out in the showroom. Never mind.
Zack didn't show up, and went directly to the basement without being noticed by any humans. Without much effort, he hung the 'General' upside down, inserted a wooden stake in his palm, forcibly bled, and warned the 'General' that Coulson was there. Upstairs, tell him to be honest.
Then he summoned Danny the Phantom to watch, and when the blood tank was full, he sent it to Bishop Manor. In addition, Zach told Danny not to drive Grande's truck, it was too obvious, just find a car.
After dealing with these things, Zach secretly returned to the room, changed his clothes, and re-enacted the scene of returning to Grande, letting Detective Coulson wander around the new Grande exhibition hall. He happened to see Detective Coulson coming back from the front door wearing the bright morning sunshine. of Zach.
"Detective Coulson, do you want to go sit down in the reception room?" Louise suggested with an unnatural expression. She knew that James, Jason, and Wes would come, but these three people knew Zach's identity and there was no need to hide anything. But Coulson is a guy who knows nothing, and Louise doesn't want this detective who seems to be used to looking around to find something he shouldn't find.
Louise had already tried very hard to signal to James, expecting him to cooperate. But James had no consciousness at all, and instead casually commented on Grande's decoration with Coulson. Don't know what the reason behind this behavior is.
"Detective Coulson." Zach stepped into the main entrance of Grand with a smile on his face, "I'm surprised to see you in Grand." Then he looked at James, "If I remember correctly, This should be the detective’s first time in Grande, right? Louise, did you give the detective a good tour?”
Louise looked more relaxed. She had nothing to worry about when Zach came back. She smiled and said, "I'm really sorry. Even I am still getting used to the current Grande, and I still have work to deal with." Louise Si raised the document in her hand. Arrangements for a collective funeral, "There is no time to show guests around. James is helping me greet the guests."
Louise's intelligence no longer needs to be emphasized.
Zach smiled and looked naturally at James, "Then thank you for helping us entertain Grande's guests." The implication is, 'Grande's guests, excluding Coulson, How could he come? please explain. '
James didn't realize it, but Coulson did. He smiled cheerfully, "Ah haha! I'm here! Haha, I'm fine in the bureau anyway. I saw this guy this morning..." He patted James, "What are you secretly working on again? I was curious. So I followed you. Sure enough, this guy has a relationship with your Grande. Hehe."
"Then let's go to the office and talk." It was an explanation, but Zach couldn't understand it at all.
Isn't the Barton Police Department currently busy with matters in the southeast? Why would Coulson have nothing to do? Bishop's case against the security company can be considered as the police department having to spare police force to work for Bishop during such a busy time. But now that it's done, the two of them should go back to work on things in the southeast.
Zach strongly suspected that James himself had exposed something at the police station. He was caught red-handed by his partner Coulson. Discovering that James was working for Grande, Coulson saw an opportunity to once again win over Grande, an important informant resource, and followed suit.
Zach was right about the second half of his suspicion, or the first half. We know that Zach really misunderstood Coulson. Coulson really had nothing to do. Remember, as soon as James returned to the police station, the detective vented his bitterness - Coulson, he was ostracized by everyone in the police station.
"Where to go?!" James suddenly asked behind Zach who was leading the way.
Zach turned around with some confusion and replied, "Elevator, go to the office."
"I prefer stairs." James seemed to realize his gaffe and frowned.
"Okay." Zach smiled in his heart, stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation, "You go first."
"Haha." Coulson didn't know what he was happy about, so he took a step forward, "You two are so polite!" He stepped directly onto the stairs that went up against the wall on the east side of the exhibition hall, "Oh, by the way. Lance said that you had just renovated, and he said that there was no staircase before, and the showroom was not that big."
"Yes." Zach stood by the stairs, waiting for the guests to walk in front. Jason and Wes looked at each other as they passed by, giving a look that said, "It's okay, let's discuss whatever we have to discuss." It was all finished this morning, and you are the first visitors to New Grand.”
"What a coincidence at this time!" Coulson was still happy to himself, touching the armrest with his palms, "Fortunately, I followed you shamelessly! Otherwise, I wouldn't have this honor! Tsk, tsk, nice wood! You must have spent a lot of money. .”
When Coulson wanted to chat, Zach would accompany him, "Haha, it didn't cost a penny. James knows the reason (elevator insurance). Let him tell you this story."
Snapped! Coulson patted James again and said, "James, James!" He said word by word, "I have decided, from now on I will also call you James, 'Detective Lance'. What a blessing." !" Coulson smiled and raised his eyebrows, the meaning was obvious enough.
"Be professional!" James pushed Coulson back, his eyes twitching, "He likes to be called names, so he also likes to call other people's names. That's his bad habit, don't learn it!"
"Haha." Coulson smiled and waved his hand, "Whatever you say. Oh, when you get back, you have to tell me the story of how you didn't spend money on decoration." Coulson turned to Zach and winked, "I can do this Learn."
Zach looked on from behind and was in a good mood.
Entering the office, an embarrassing question arose. Grande’s office does not have the capacity for multiple visitors and does not have enough chairs.
Zach smiled and asked the guests to wait, then left the office through the other side door, and saw Alice in the corridor holding a dinner plate in a daze, "Alice, what are you doing?"
"Oh, no, it's nothing, bring breakfast to Brian."
Zach frowned. "Has he always refused to come out?"
"kindness."
Zach waved his hand, too lazy to care, "Bring in two chairs."
"oh."
After all the guests in the office sat down, Zach looked at the four people in the row opposite and suddenly felt a little funny, "Let's talk business."
"Yes!" Coulson moved his body. He was squeezed to the edge and was about to exceed the scope of the desk. At this time, he silently squeezed into the middle, making James beside him twitch his eyes. "Let's talk about business! Well, business means..." The elongated words The tail tone is waiting for someone to follow.
Obviously, James didn't reveal anything to Coulson, and the initiative was still in Zach's hands.
"Fire." Zach answered with a smile, "What? James didn't mention it to you."
"This guy is very mysterious!" Coulson turned James around. While James was pale and rubbing his ribs, Coulson was still smiling happily.
"Oh, this is probably to protect our Grande." Zack winked at Coulson, "After all, Detective Coulson knows our Grande's little side business."
"Haha, naturally, naturally."
"But of course, I'm very grateful to the detective for helping me last time." Zach smiled at Coulson, saying that Coulson had previously helped Brian's report to the police for investigation. Coupled with what Coulson said in passing about Benjamin's stay in Newton, "I personally think you, Detective Coulson, are a trustworthy person."
"Natural! Natural." Coulson was even happier.
"Let's get started." Of course, Zack didn't really explain anything to Detective Coulson in detail. After all, the other party was a police officer. A normal entrustment of his gray profession, without any shyness, is already a sign of trust. Zach smiled and looked at Jason, "Have you got the insurance company investigation documents?"
Jason was completely uncomfortable with this situation. It felt like half of his body was stiff, well, maybe it was because he was sitting next to Wes. In short, Jason handed out a document in an unnatural manner, "This is a copy. It is impossible to take out the original."
Zach didn't answer. Hey, Coulson is here after all. If you can do some things, just do it. Zach pointed at the three policemen and said, "Let them see, I'm just the owner of the funeral home, haha."
Coulson looked at Zach with a sincere expression of admiration, grabbed the file before James could reach out, and quickly opened it. As for Wes, who is also a police officer, he looked like he didn't want to touch Jason at all and did not join the fight.
"Herman?!" He immediately discovered the point, "Boone Herman? Who is Boone Herman? Trophy making..."
Before Coulson found more problems, Zach looked at James, "What about you, since your partner said you were busy this morning? Did you find anything?"
James adjusted his breathing and tried not to look at Zach. He took out a small notebook and said, "Four such fire reports were received in the North District..." Before he could say more, he was interrupted by Coulson. .
"What fire report?!"
James glanced at his partner gloomily and ignored him, "We were in the southeast, so no one paid attention to us. We were from Boone Herman's workshop, and there were two other incidents, one of which happened in the Upper North District ( The place where Anthony lives, the northeast corner of the North District, where Barton's political centerpiece lives) But because..." James frowned, "Those people are special, so there was no investigation report, and they were covered up without any casualties."
Zach waited for a while, "James, you missed one."
James twitched his lips and said, "There is another one in Back Bay. The only report is that there were no casualties confirmed by the fire department, and it's gone."
Arrange it. The police investigated the fire in Upper North District, but it was overshadowed by political sensitivity. Back Bay, where ordinary citizens live, ended after it was confirmed that there were no casualties. Pais Yingzhong Boone Herman, ignored the request and repeatedly reported the crime to no avail. Those in the southeast were ignored. This is the Barton Police Department.
Coulson glanced at James from the side, twitched his lips, said nothing, and continued to look at the insurance company investigation in his hand.
"You guys in the North District are lucky. At least there are no casualties." No longer needing Zach's signal, Wes spoke. He lifted the document in his hand, glanced at Zach, and stopped pricking at it in a considerate and timely manner. Instead of passing it to James and Coulson.
"There were three on the South Side, but one of them was casualty in Ixton [where Chapman lived, formerly Walter's house], where two homeless people were burned to death in an old house. We The investigation in the Southern District is mainly focused on this case, and the other two cases are just to cooperate with the fire department to appease the surrounding people."
However, it should be noted that the Southern District Police Department produced the real report, and seeing what James produced, it was a handwritten note.
"Ixton?" James looked at Wes while flipping through the documents, "Why didn't Chapman mention it?"
"Chapman?" Wes also recalled who Chapman was. "Oh, I don't know. He's not at home. I don't know. What these three fires have in common is that they occurred at the same time and lasted for a very short time. , if you miss it, if you don’t pay attention, no one will notice it at all.”
James still frowned, "At least someone noticed the fire, and Chapman's family didn't see it either." James knew that the police station was busy, and Chapman might have missed it, but Chapman There is no reason for my family to miss it.
"Uh! I'll just ask him about this later!" Coulson interrupted, his tone impatient, because he noticed something more worthy of attention, "Three fires in the South District-" Coulson quoted with a strange expression He received the report from the Southern District Police Department, "'Fire incidents' all occurred on Monday afternoon and near evening, uh, this insurance company." Coulson poked his head and nodded to Jason, who was stiff, " The insured business described was also at this time, which is so unusual!”
Coulson looked at James, "Where are the other police calls in our North District?"
James looked at his partner with a sullen face, "Didn't you hear me just now? I said, no report, no investigation! I paid for these things one by one with a week's free coffee! You ask Me, who am I going to ask!”
Coulson bared his teeth, looked past James, glanced at Weiss, the Southern District police officer, and said with an embarrassed look, "Well, our department has been very busy recently..."
Wes tilted his head and responded with an expression that didn't require any explanation.
Zach raised his eyebrows, and suddenly felt that it was good for Coulson to appear here, wasn't it? In order to defend the dignity of the North District Police Department, maybe Zach could let go of this commission and just sit back and wait to collect the money!
Needless to say, it’s definitely possible.
Coulson was quiet for a while, then spoke again in a serious tone, "In the insurance company's report, as well as the fire in Ixton, South District, it was mentioned that someone suddenly caught fire on his own! Were there witnesses to the fire, right? "
Jason seemed to want to reply, and Zach also knew it. According to Boone, his workers were all witnesses. But as soon as Jason opened his mouth, Wes beat him to it.
"The house in Ixton is surrounded by homeless people. We made confessions, but as you know, their confessions are generally meaningless. We also did not find the body of the so-called spontaneous combustion person. The other two cases also It can only be dismissed as someone setting the fire but the murderer cannot be found.”
"We need to investigate!" Coulson said in a positive tone, "North District, Boone Herman's workers must know something else!"
Zach smiled, why don't you wait now! Zach spoke, "Detective Coulson, then I would like to express my gratitude on behalf of my employer."
Coulson was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately reacted. As expected of an old police detective, his mind works really fast, "Don't worry! Lance and I will get to the bottom of it!"
hehe. (..)