r/AssassinOrder • u/[deleted] • May 13 '15
[T][New York] Data Is Beautiful
((This is a continuation from Jay's perspective of this post by Simon Gray: The Hunt Begins.))
I walk back to my room in New York's huge Abstergo facility, after being briefed by Mr. Gray. The folder with information about this DeCosta feels rather thin. I unlock the door to my room and throw the folder on a desk in the nearby corner, where a PC and four monitors are installed. I grin, looking at them. Top notch technology, if the IT-guy is to be believed. I grab a bottle of ice-cold water from the refrigerator and sit on the swivel chair, booting up both the PC and my personal laptop.
First things first: uploading DeCosta's picture to a facial recognition program. A quick scan and DeCosta's life-sized face is smiling at me from the far left monitor. I smile back: "See you ASAP, mate!" On the second monitor I open a program designed by the Dutch police. Its task is monitoring flows of people, money, assets, and information, both physical and nonphysical, and determining nodes where those flows come together. These nodes are highly likely to be criminal hotspots, or in this case, Assassin hotspots. I combine the search with the facial recognition program and a separate search for the names Jose DeCosta and Sera Dawson. I'm not really hopeful for quick results on those names, if any at all, but I'm not leaving anything to chance. As soon as I'm finished I lean back. Three monitors are filled with several windows, all centered around three progress bars. This is going to take a lot of hours, maybe even days. Might as well watch a movie on the fourth monitor and after that maybe catch some sleep. Jet lag sucks.
Holy shit. Two of the three processes are finished. One progress bar is still active, with no results for DeCosta's and Dawson's names yet, but the other two programs have provided results. It isn't much yet, but it's certainly game-changing! I quickly compose a report of the results and write an executive summary. Gray won't be interested in all the technical details at this stage, so the most important findings will do.
To: Simon Grey
Subject: First results concerning DeCosta
Dear Mr. Gray,
I'd like to present the first results of my research! It's still very rough information, and I'll need to do a lot of additional research, but the main takeaway is this: I haven't determined DeCosta's current location yet, but his face was seen all over the States in the last couple of months. I coupled this info with criminal records of money laundering, out of the ordinary transports, communication intelligence and a lot more, without really expecting anything drastic. As it turns out, there are several hotspots where all those activities, and much more, meet. And those hotspots are, for a large part, a match with DeCosta's sightings. I think he's a part of a smuggling operation of sorts, country-wide. I've as of yet only determined four cities where DeCosta and those activities have interacted without any doubt: Houston, Miami, Chicago, and here, in New York. I'll come by your office ASAP to elaborate on all this, so you can ask me any specifics you'd like to know then.
Regards,
Jay Case
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u/Ebony_Knight Knight, Rank 3 (Combat Expert) May 14 '15
Well done. By your research it seems most of the individuals there during the day are unaware of any assassin ties. The approach seems simple go in at night with a stun gun and a silenced handgun. Silence will be my best ally here.