Quotes
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Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : Hey, Kelly, have your team start scrubbing through videos from the area surrounding both crime scenes and flag anything that appears in both.
Kelly Moran : On it.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : Ian, you guys run financials on both victims. Look for any common patterns; expenses, accounts. Let's get creative, folks! Our shooter might have plans to strike again. Travel history, online hangouts, common acquaintances. I don't know. Surprise me.
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Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : All right, folks, here's the question: how did a progressive ally like Logan Reed end up in the crosshairs of a minority protest group?
Ian Lim : Well, the protest at Reed's house was organized by Damian Thomas, a community activist who lives in Reed's district, but he despises him. Called him "the worst kind of racist, a white liberal hypocrite who co-opted the civil rights movement for his personal gain."
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : That's pretty harsh. Next question is why did Thomas feel this way?
Ian Lim : Well, before he ran for Congress, Reed was a prosecutor known for being tough on crime.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : Right, so Thomas thought he was a hypocrite. One minute, he's putting young Black men in prison, the next, he's out on the streets protesting with Black activists.
Special Agent Tiffany Wallace : And he was preaching all his newfound wokeness from his big-ass pad in the suburbs.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : And that. Would Damian Thomas really kill over all this?
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Special Agent Stuart Scola : Thomas' alibi checks out. Security footage from the restaurant confirms that he was having dinner when Reed was shot.
Special Agent Tiffany Wallace : NYPD says Marcus Ervin was shot last night in Brooklyn around 10:00 p.m. while he was standing in the doorway of his ground-floor apartment after a rock came crashing through his window.
Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille : Same M.O. as Reed.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : They run the ballistics yet?
Special Agent Tiffany Wallace : It's the same gun.
Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille : All right, that's two murders within three hours.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : That we know of. We could be looking at a killing spree.
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Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : Game faces, people. We now have two victims of the same gunman who might not be done shooting yet. Three hours after killing Congressman Reed in the suburbs, our shooter resurfaced in Brooklyn and killed this man, Marcus Ervin. He's 20 years old. He's a retail clerk. Lived with his mother, was taking IT classes at night. The question is why; either there's a connection between these two murders or we have a madman on the loose throwing rocks through random windows and shooting whoever walks out.
Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille : If these two men were targeted, they were not killed for their differences. They were killed for their similarities. What do these two men have in common?
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Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : So, Tiffany and Scola just called. Damien Thomas, the community activist who told us about Marcus' murder, he was just killed 30 minutes ago. He was shot in the chest after somebody threw a brick through his office window.
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Are we sure this is related?
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : ERT pulled a second slug from the wall. Preliminary ballistics are a match to the other two murders, which means...
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : Cody McCowan isn't our killer because he was here in our custody when Thomas was shot.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : Right. And our spree shooter is still out there and still killing people.
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Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : Based on the Rikers telephone record, Cody McCowan learned of Jack's prison yard beating 10:04 a.m. on Tuesday morning. Then six hours later, in what seems like a direct response, beats Marcus in the street. Then, last night, both Marcus and Congressman Reed are shot and killed.
Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille : Any luck tracking Cody's phone?
Ian Lim : Yeah, I just got up on the new number. No location data, but for the past two hours, it's been pinging off the same three towers in Brooklyn, putting him somewhere within these ten square blocks.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : Okay, okay. We are looking for an address in Flatbush. Does Cody have any relatives there? Any friends from the BKB? Any references on social media posts? Let's go. I want to be kicking in a door in 20 minutes, and I need someone in here to tell me exactly which one.
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Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : Fifteen minutes ago, Congressman Logan Reed was shot and killed at his home in Scarsdale. Now, as most of you know, Logan Reed was a rising star in the Democratic Party, a former prosecutor. He rose to national prominence last summer during all of the racial unrest. Love him or hate him, he was one of the most talked-about politicians in the country.
Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille : The story just broke online, so the entire country's about to start asking if this was politically motivated. We need answers and fast.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : Let's get some, people. Go to work.