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Based on all that, the trapping by the true shooter was kind of mission complete. He could trap Barr with every detail things of the evidence fit to James
Barr. The fingerprint, the ammunition, weapon, clothes, vehicle, it was a very well-planned trap mission.
The conclusion of the above statement is about the trapping and the shooting incident that running well as the shooter already planned. He was very
well-trained shooter that made it not impossible to do. James Barr came speechless to get arrested for something he did not do. He realized for being
criminalized by person. But to deny everything the police had been alleged him for is something useless. He did not even trust his own lawyer has the capability
to help him out from the county jail. Only one name that he believesbecome the only one that could. He is Jack Reacher.
3.2 Tracking Down the True Shooter
Due to the dialogue with James Barr that wanted Jack Reacher to come help him out of this case. Because he knew him as an investigator, someone who
broke a tough case that he thought couldn’t be broken. He thought Jack Reacher was an investigative genius. There is more to this case than Emerson saw, the
police leader who lead the operation. Barr wanted someone else to understand that. But his first lawyer was lazy. He wasn’t very interested. He also could not
just lay out the facts because nobody would have believed him. That is why Barr got so frustrated.
“He knew me as an investigator; someone who broke a tough case. A case he thought could not be broken. He watched me do it every step of
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the way. He had a front row seat. He thought I was an investigative genius.” Child, 2005:150
James Barr was a sniper. He was not the best nor the worst but he trained for more than five years. And training has a purpose. Looking at the shooting base
location, a sniper would have fired from up the highway. Because he has got his targets walking directly towards him in a straight line: single file, into a bottle-
neck. Setting up with one aiming point and never has to vary it. His targets just walk into it, one after another. Shooting from the side is much harder. The targets
are passing right to left in front of him, relatively quickly. But he fired from there. It had to be a real good one, because he trapped himself inside a building, down at
street level, in a congested area, with a much harder shot, in a place whose very nature made it the best crime scene a twenty-year veteran like Emerson has ever
seen. “This is fourteen years later. He is not as good as he was. It had to be a
real good one, didn’t it? Because he trapped himself inside a building, down at street level, in a congested area, with a much harder shot, in a place whose very
nature made it the best crime scene a twenty year veteran like Emerson has ever seen.” Child, 2005:157
Jack Reacher found everything was wrong in this case. Like, why would he wear a raincoat? It was warm and it was not raining and he was in a car even
never outside. He wore it so he could scrape unique fibers off it onto the pillar. Also, a pair of shoes he wore to make him traceable every last piece of crap
around. He shoot out of the dark to make people would see his muzzle flash and
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pinpoint the location so they could go up there afterwards and find all the other clues. The one missing shot that fired into a pool was not a really missing shot. He
insisted to do it before so it could be found later, undamaged and could tie the barrel to the crime.
“Because he didn’t miss. He fired into the pool deliberately. He wanted to put a bullet in the water, down the long diagonal axis, from a
low angle, just like a ballistics tank, just so it could be found later, undamaged. Just so it could tie his barrel to the crime.” Child, 2005:159
Jack Reacher realized that James Barr tried to give a message from the tape recorder that recorded the conversation with him and the first lawyer. He
meant they should be looking for the other guy that made him do it. Reacher believed there was a puppet master.
Unfortunately James Barr involved in a serious fight within the county jail with a mexican. The mexican had a knife in his hand and twelve friends behind
him. The knife was a plastic tooth brush handle wrapped with tape and sharpened to a point, like a siletto. The friends were all stocky little guys, all with the same
tattoos. They all had cropped hair with intricate patterns shaved across their skull. Barr was trying to talk to them peacefully but the mexican ignored him, and eight
minutes later Barr was in a coma. He was found some time after that, on the floor, beaten pulpy, with multiple stab wounds and a cracked skull and severe subdural
bleeding. He was medevacked to the city hospital and sewn up and operated on to relieve pressure from a swollen brain. Then he was dumped in a secure intensive
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care unit, comatose. The doctors were not sure when he would wake up again. Maybe in a day, a week, a month, or maybe never.
“Wait, Barr said. He wastrying to talk to them peacefully but the mexican ignored him, and eight minutes later Barr was in a coma”. Child,
2005:58 But after some days got intensive treatment from the hospital, James Barr
got awake and reasonably lucid. The doctors were listening him as stable, but that does not mean he’s a well man. So, they were restricting his visitors to a
maximum of two at any one time, and keep things as brief as possible. The doctor said she started out assuming, it is more likely to be real than
fake. A brain injury bad enough for a two-day coma almost always produces amnesia. Those data were settled long ago. Then she just watch the patient. True
amnesiacs are very unsettled by their condition. They’re disoriented and frightened. It can be seen how they really trying hard to remember. They want to
remember. Fakers show up different. They will avoid the days in question. They look away from them, mentally. Sometimes even physically and there is often
some distinctive body language. With the doctor’s explanation, Jack Reacher start to giving many specific
question due to the day when the shooting incident happened. James Barr was very cooperative and he was not seem to be bulshitting. He was trying really hard
to remember that day. After interviewing him, Jack Reacher got a new evidence that directed to
the truth. The police have been gilding the lily over at the police station. They
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have got the fibres, ballistics, dog DNA, a receipt for the ammunition all the way from some place. They traced the traffic cone to the city. They have got all kinds
of stuff. But they have not got James Barr on tape driving in to place the cone in the garage before hand. They must have looked at the tapes a dozen times by now.
If they had found him, they would have printed the stills and pinned them up for the world to see. But they were not there, which means they did not find
them.Which means James Barr did not drive in and leave the cone beforehand. And it means someone else did it. It must be the puppet master or another
puppets. “They have got all kinds of stuff. But they have not got James Barr on
tape driving in to place the cone in the garage before hand. Which means James Barr did not drive in and leave the cone beforehand. And it means
someone else did it. It must be the puppet master or another puppets.” Child, 2005:214
Reacher was sure that James Barr always practiced his shooting skill somewhere after got out from military. However, weapon, bullet, and firing range
had already been a part of his life. So, Reacher tried to get another clue from a firing range. Three miles out
Reacher saw a wire fence on the left shoulder of the road that started directly after he crossed the Blackford on a bridge. Reacher followed it and where it met the
Blackford again he found a gate and a gravel clearing and a complex of low huts. “The fence ran all the way to the next intersection and had Keep
Out Live Gunfire signs on every fourth post. Then it turned a sixty degree
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angle and ran three more miles north and east. The gate was chained. It was hung with a hand-painted sign that read: Open 8 a.m. until dark.”
Child, 2005:338 By eight twenty he started to hear rifles firing. Then he heard a string of
lighter pops, from a handgun. He found the Humvee guy behind a waist-high counter in the main hut. Up close he was older than the had looked from a
distance. More than fifty, less than sixty, sparse grey hair, lined skin, but ramrod straight. He had a weathered neck wider than his head and the sort of eyes that
pegged him as an ex-marine noncom even without the tattoos on his firearms and the souvenirs on the wall behind him. He is the owner of the firing range named
Gunny Cash. Reacher asked about the James Barr to him, but he did not want to answer
Reacher’s question unless one condition. Reacher should hit the X of the paper target. Cash pulled the Humvee off the main track and drove three hundred yards
down the length of an empty range. He got out and clipped the paper target to a frame and got back in and K-turned the truck and headed back. He parked it
neatly and shut it down. Reacher sat still for a moment. He was more nervous than he should have
been. He breathed in and held it and felt the thrill of caffeine in his veins. Just a tiny microscopic tremble. Four fast cups of strong coffee were not an ideal
preparation for accurate long-distance shooting. But it was only three hundred years. Three hundred yards, with a good
rifle, no heat, no cold, still air. More or less the same thing as pressing the muzzle
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into the centre of the target and pulling the trigger. He could do it with his eyes closed. There was no fundamental problem with marksmanship. The problem was
with the stakes. He wanted the puppet master more than he had wanted the Marine’s cup all those years before. A lot more. He slid out of the Humvee and
took the rifle off the back seat. Carried it across rough earth to the coconut mat. Placed it gently with its bipod feet a yard back from the edge. Bent down and
loaded it. Stepped back behind it and lined himself up and crouched, knelt, lay full length. He snuggled the stock into his soulder. Eased his neck left and right and
looked around. It felt like he was alone in the middle of nowhere. He ducked his head. Closed his left eye and moved his right eye to the scope. Draped his left
hand over the barrel and pressed down and back. Now, he had a tripod mount. The bipod, and his shoulder. Solid. He spread his legs and turned his feet out so they
were flat on the mat. Drew his left leg up a little and dug the sole of his shoe into the mat’s fibres so the dead weight of the limb anchored his position. He relaxed
and let himself sprawl. He knew he must look like a guy who had been shot, instead of a guy preparing to shoot.
He gazed through the scope. Saw the hypervivid image of great optics. He acquired the target. It looked close enough to touch. He laid the reticle where the
two strokes of the X met. He opened his eyes again and saw that the reticle was still. He stared at the target. Feeling and wanting. He pulled the trigger. The gun
kicked and roared and the muzzle blast blew a cloud of dust out of the coconut mat and obscured his view. He lifted his head and coughed once and ducked back
to the scope. The X was gone. There was a neat hole drilled through the centre of it, leaving only four tiny ballpoint ticks visible, one at the top and one at the
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bottom of each stroke. Cash dropped down in his place and used the scope to check the result.
“He stared at the target. Feeling it. Wanting it. He pulled the trigger. The gun kicked and roared and the muzzle blast blew a cloud of dust out
of the coconut mat and obscured his view. Bull’s eye. The X was gone.” Child, 2005:348
Jack Reacher qualified the requirement he offered. Then, Gunny Cash told the information about James Barr that Reacher had been asking for. Apparently,
Gunny Cash kept all the records for everyone who ever shot in his firing range. Reacher discovered that James Barr’s shots was terrible. Even way worse than he
shoul be from fourteen years ago. The paper target of Barr were the product of a very poor shooter. It showed how bad Barr is to shoot in the very difficult
situation as what happened in the case. It should not be him. Gunny Cash told him that Barr always came there with a very close friend
named Charlie. Reacher looked at Charlie’s records. He was a tremendous shot, training hard, but trying to look like he was missing all the time.
Reacher was looking over his data. Apparently, his real name is Chenko and he hangs with a bunch of Russians. He’s probably a Red Army veteran, one
of the snipers. His boss called himself the Zec, and old time Soviet slang. A zec was a labour camp inmate. In the Gulag in Siberia.
“His real name is Chenko and he hangs with a buch of Russians. He’s probably a Red Army veteran. Probably one of their snipers. And
they are real good. They always have been.” Child, 2005:383
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Apparently, Charlie had been Barr’s closest friend two years ago. He knew Barr’s house, and he knew where everything was. Even James Barr’s dog knew
him. Reacher concluded that Chenko and his boss had arranged something to
get Barr out of the way. Because on his interview with James Barr, he remembered going out somewhere, previously. Then being optimistic, like
something good was about to happen. Reacher thought they set him up with someone. He thought they engineered a chance meeting that led somewhere such
a date on Friday. “I think they arranged something to get him out of the way. He remembers
going out somewhere, previously. Then being optimistic, like something good was about to happen. I think they set him up with someone. I think they
engineered a chance meeting that led somewhere. I think he had a date on Friday.” Child, 2005:381
Reacher collected all about the information of Chenko and the Zec including their resident. Reacher cooperated with Cash and police to track down
the conspiracy between Chenko and the Zec. After dealing with all the plan, they went to place of the Zec. They caught them there and found the evidences about
their conspiracy tracks that prove James Barr was no guilty in this case.
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4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 4.1 Conclusions
