The Rush to Prepare
While Alvin and the others were laughing and enjoying their weekend...
The Dock District in Hell's Kitchen suddenly sprang to life. Every police officer in Hell's Kitchen had been dispatched to seal off the entire district.
There was a police car parked on every street and at every intersection.
It was the biggest operation the Hell's Kitchen Police Station had mounted in nearly forty years...
Even though their targets were just three teenage boys and girls, that didn't matter to Beckett.
This was a rare chance to show the residents of Hell's Kitchen that the police were there...
Just as Alvin had said, not everyone who ended up here was a bad person. But only the police could give them a chance to keep living as "good people" or "Ordinary People."
Only when the police were still useful would those "Ordinary People," when they got their first hundred dollars, choose to buy food instead of taking advantage of Alexei's sale to buy a Pistol for self-defense...
Sitting in the car and listening to the shrill sirens at the intersection, Beckett nodded in satisfaction...
Though the nearby residents looked at her as if she were a piece of shit, Beckett didn't care. She'd achieved her goal: for the first time, the Hell's Kitchen police were working a case without the Gang getting in the way...
Once there was a first time, there would be a second...
The three teenage boys and girls hiding in the Dock District no longer mattered to Beckett...
Their room to maneuver had been reduced to a minimum. Without outside help, they had no chance of escape.
That was why Beckett had even deliberately told Duke and the others to come later. Every extra minute the sirens blared here was a huge victory