Gordon knew that this was the damn robber hinting to him that the hostages he released might have bombs on them. The experienced police detective knew that this was a tactic commonly used by robbers.
Many professional robbers often do not take everyone in the bank as hostages at once, because there are too many people to manage, and more manpower is needed to watch, like the kind of chaos shown in movies and TV series.
The scenario of ten people being tied up and sitting on the ground is not realistic.
In reality, the number of hostages is generally around 5 to 12. The specific number depends on the size of the bank, the local police force, and mainly the intensity of the local news media. If the intensity is greater, there can be fewer. Anyway,
They will also publicize it as a disaster for five families to put pressure on the police.
When the police are under pressure, they will cooperate more with their actions. Anyway, as long as the hostages are rescued in the end, their work will have reached a passing standard. Regardless of whether the money is recovered or not, this increases the probability of the robbers escaping.
There is also a need to pay attention to how to release unnecessary hostages. These hostages can usually delay the police for a period of time. The robbers usually release one at a time.
Firstly, the police need to understand the situation in the police station through this person who was released. Interrogation is essential, which will divert their attention. Secondly, they do not completely trust this person who was released. They must check.
Does he have any dangerous items on him?
Because some robbers with more cruel methods will use these people as suicide bombs. As long as this person explodes in the crowd, it will inevitably cause great commotion and attract the attention of the police.
Even the mere fact that the person walking out might have a bomb on him would cause panic, and the police would have to work hard to calm him down, which would be regarded as achieving the robber's goal.
Therefore, Gordon's handling was very professional. He immediately blocked the channel to release the hostages and took the hostages who had come out for isolation and inspection. At the same time, he did not tell others that the robbers might have bombs on them to avoid causing panic.
But this does cause some trouble for the police, because usually hostages who feel that they have narrowly escaped death are not willing to let the police search them. They feel that they are also victims, so why should they be so guarded? There are even some who are in high-risk and high-pressure situations.
The environment has completely collapsed. As soon as they start making trouble, the reporters' cameras will turn around and the police will be at a loss to search.
Even in some relatively large bank robberies, the kidnappers will even come out among the hostages, and the police will not dare to search carefully, which naturally becomes a good escape route for the robbers.
Schiller didn't have time to put bombs on people's bodies. He did this just to prevent everyone on the second floor from running away. But to be honest, the second floor is so short that if you jump down without an air cushion, you won't die if you jump down. At most, you will break your foot or something.
, removing the air cushion is not enough to completely prevent the hostages from jumping down. It depends on what Gordon does next.
Gordon took the loudspeaker and went to the balcony where the employees were. He chose to use words to comfort the employees. Unexpectedly, this trick actually worked.
The main reason is that Gordon, as the Sheriff who has always persisted in Gotham, has really led the people of Gotham to a new and better life. He has worked hard in maintaining law and order and has never made a mistake. The public's trust in him is surprisingly high, and he has even
It is completely out of touch with the level of trust that the American people should have in the American police, and has reached the point where the police and the people are like one family.
Gordon told them to wait a while before jumping, and they really did. Mainly because they heard Schiller's broadcast just now. If someone really had a bomb on him, it would be a waste to jump and be taken to those people.
Not necessarily safe.
After most of the people returned to the room, Schiller began to think about countermeasures. First of all, even if the group of robbers did have a car to meet them, it should be parked far away. How to let them pass was a problem.
It's unrealistic to ask the police for a car like in the movie. Schiller bets that if he dares to ask for it, Gordon will dare to plant a row of bombs on it. Then they will have to drive wherever Gordon tells them to go.
However, this city has always treated special situations in special circumstances. Reporters are not surprised by this, and there is no pressure from public opinion at all.
So it was impossible to run away directly, or to slip away on the surface. Schiller thought about it, and there was indeed a way for them to leave the bank, but it was a little troublesome.
Schiller adjusted the surveillance footage again and found that two robbers were about to leave the underground vault. They probably noticed something moving upstairs and wanted to come up to check.
It's so stupid, Schiller thought. He didn't even know where the sniper was, so he dared to walk upstairs like that. He would have been shot in the head when he came up.
Schiller left the control room, walked quickly through the corridor, and waited at the stairs to the first floor above the first floor.
As soon as the two robbers with strange sacks on their heads turned the corner, Schiller choked one of them. Just as the other was about to take out his gun, he was knocked down by his companion who had just been thrown towards him.
Schiller knocked out the two men who were lying on the ground. After looking at their body shapes and tattoos, he found that they might have been the lowest level gangsters in the past, and it was basically impossible for them to be professional robbers.
There are several physical characteristics of professional robbers. The first is that they cannot be too strong, or that the team cannot all be particularly strong. One or two people are enough to carry heavy objects, and the rest need to sneak out and pry open the door.
Locks, or car chases, etc., all look like Schwarzenegger. If you are shot while driving to escape, you can't curl up and hide, and you won't survive for long.
Schiller took off one of the people's hoods and took a look. It was a brown bread paper bag with a cross drawn on it. It might have been picked up from some breakfast restaurant.
Schiller originally wanted to put on the robber's hood, but he found that the position of the eyes of his DIY hood was completely inappropriate. He could only take away the gun from the robber and wake up one of them.
"Now listen to me, do you see the second office in front? Go in and hang out by the window."
The man was a little confused, but looking at the black muzzle of the gun in Schiller's hand, he had to raise his hand and said: "Okay, don't shoot, I'll go right away."
The man pushed open the door of the second office. It was a large office. It looked like there should be people inside, but because there was no balcony, those who wanted to jump ran to other offices.
The robber walked to the window, and Schiller stood at the door and stared at him with a gun raised. The robber walked past several windows one by one. When he was about to reach the third window, Schiller called to stop.
Under Schiller's guidance, the robbers walked around the two windows on the far left.
"Is it okay?" the robber begged: "The sniper will blow my head off!"
"No, at least not now." Schiller said: "Don't you look out the window? How can a sniper aim at you?"
The robber turned around and saw a huge sycamore tree outside the window. Although it was already autumn, the leaves had not completely fallen off. The leaves of the sycamore tree were already very dense, and the gardeners hired by the bank took good care of them.
To be precise, it was probably Pamela who hired her, so the tree grew big and lush.
Although the robber was frightened, looking from the outside, his figure was completely looming among the leaves. More importantly, because the leaves were too dense, he could not clearly see the situation of the hostages in the house. If the attack went wrong, the robber would not be killed.
Fortunately, it would be troublesome if the hostages were hit.
The sniper orders given by Gordon were very conservative and did not mean to kill the robbers at all costs, so the snipers did not dare to act rashly and reported to Gordon as soon as they discovered the robbers.
Gordon went up to the roof to check the situation and found that, as the sniper said, it was difficult to aim with the tree there.
And those who jumped down began to describe the situation inside one after another, summarizing their information, coupled with the surveillance of the previous road, Gordon found that this group of robbers was unexpectedly large, maybe six to seven people.
Generally, the number of robbers will be limited to five people, because they can just take a car to leave. Once this number exceeds this number, they will not be able to evacuate in one car. When they come, they usually come with four people in the car and two or three people on foot.
However, according to the people who jumped down, they only saw a suspicious figure upstairs - in fact, this suspicious figure was Schiller, but the employees did not know Schiller and thought he was with the robbers.
Moreover, Schiller moved very quickly, and the employees could not see clearly. They only said that the man was quite tall and moved quickly.
The robber Schiller was pointing his gun at was about the same height as Schiller, about 1.87 meters tall. He was dangling among the leaves, and neither the sniper nor Gordon could see his specific size clearly.
Gordon knew that if the other party used the most traditional cutting method to open the door of the vault, it would require a lot of people to keep an eye on it.
Unlike directional blasting, which is like pressing a button and just rushing in to get money, directional blasting requires long preparations in the early stage and requires extremely professional technical means, while cutting does not require much preparation in the early stage. The process is relatively long and requires
There are many things to operate.
Either there were similar talents among the robbers, or they would simply kidnap a technician. Gordon speculated that this group was the latter, otherwise there would not be so many of them.
Moreover, it can be seen from the images in the surveillance camera that these people do not look like professional and technical personnel, but more like gangsters who have a hot head, which makes them more likely to be kidnapped.
In addition to helping with operations, they also have to watch over the hostages, which means that most of them will be held back. There are probably only one or two people watching the hostages on the second floor, or even just one person.
It would be much easier if you were alone. After killing the robbers on the second floor through sniping, you could forcefully rush in and rescue all the hostages. With the robbers gone, the hostages would definitely not be able to escape.
The problem now is that Gordon needs to make sure there is only one robber upstairs, because if he fires, he can only fire one shot. If all the enemies are not eliminated after one shot, the remaining one will definitely attack the hostages.
At this time, Schiller's deliberately lowered voice sounded on the radio again, to the effect that he was still asking the police to cooperate. However, Schiller was not there in person now. This was a recording he had left before.
Gordon didn't know this. He thought there was still one person in the control room, so now there were only five people left on the other side, minus the kidnapped technician, and there were four more people.
Either two are underground and two are on the second floor, or three are underground and one is on the second floor.
Gordon prefers the latter, because judging from the time, they have not yet evacuated, which proves that the cutting machine they use is not very advanced and requires more manpower.
It is only right for one to watch the technician and two to operate the machine. If one watches the technician and operates the machine at the same time, the possibility of problems is very high, and then there will only be one left upstairs.
Although he was not completely sure, Gordon did not lack the decisiveness to gamble at critical moments. He immediately ordered, "Cut down the trees blocking the view and snipe the robbers on the second floor!"