JOKO SPECIAL AGENT

069 - SAM, CREATOR OF THE FAKE FACE SYSTEM.

In a fairly quiet mall parking lot, Joko was seen in Tini's car to talk about the incident.

“How was the result, Sir?”

“I get the guy,” replied Joko in a desperate tone.

“Really? But what about your face? Did something happen?”

“He killed himself by stabbing his own neck.”

“What?” Tini surprise.

Joko pulls out Roy's phone, gives it to Tini.

“Look! Here's the phone.”

Tini managed to open the phone and saw several incoming calls and SMS messages from the initial contact, I.

“Initial I. I think it was Imron, or maybe someone related to him. Either his confidants, or his men,” said Joko.

“What is possible too, that the person behind his shooting Head Yuli is Imron?” Tini.

“Maybe it's true,” said Joko.

Tini returns Roy's phone to Joko.

“Pak! Do you remember a project called FAKE FACE that I told you about?”

“Yes. I remembered. What's up?” ask Joko.

“The project was stopped a few months ago, so, I started to find out where they were and I found the head researcher who had handled the project.”

“The head researcher was named Sam. He's pretty suspicious in my opinion.”

“Sam? What's suspicious of him?” ask Joko.

“Lately he joined a small company and became an executive there, but the problem is, it's just a shell company,” explained Tini.

“Good. Find more information about him and send it to me.”

“Good. I'll get to that as soon as possible. I feel like he might be directly involved with Imron.”

***

The next day, at exactly 5 a.m., in a small housing complex. The morning air was cool, with dew dripping from the leaves, as well as the adults who were preparing their vehicles to go to work.

Likewise with Joko who was in one of the houses in the complex. Joko hides by renting one of the vacant houses inside the compound, so that no one is looking for her.

On that sunny morning, Joko wore sneakers, long training pants, in a black jacket and prepared for the sport.

A fairly large ball field was around the complex. Some children were seen playing ball in the middle of the field.

Joko is already on the field. He warms up by stretching all the muscles in his body.

After feeling enough with the warm-up, Joko started running around the field.

Not being at the gym, does not make Joko to reason not to exercise. He continues to exercise even if only running around the field is not good enough.

Occasionally Joko does push ups and pull ups to tighten her arm and stomach muscles.

Time shows at six in the morning. Exactly one hour Joko was exercising. Joko immediately returns to her safe house, cleans herself with a bath, and continues her busy life.

After bathing and changing her clothes, Joko gets a message from Tini through her phone.

Tini sent the name and address written from her SMS message. That address is Sam's place of residence.

Without a second thought, Joko rushes to get her jacket, helmet and motorcycle key, then goes to the address Tini has given her.

Half an hour passed, and Joko was already at the location of the address. A small apartment located on the edge of town. The apartment looks very old and old.

Looking from the walls that started to crack and some paint that started to fade.

Joko stopped and parked her motorbike next to the apartment. He shut off the engine, took off the helmet, and got off the bike.

For a moment Joko looked around the apartment that was almost invisible to any residents there.

Joko climbed through the stairs and stopped on the 2nd floor of the apartment. The room at the end, almost covered with stairs. That's where Sam's address is listed according to what Tini sent him.

*DING DONG!!!!

“Who is it?” greet someone from within.

“Package, Sir,” replied Joko.

“Put it behind the door, then go.”

*DONG!

*DONG!

*DONG!

Joko presses the doorbell of the house many times, deliberately to provoke the anger of the person inside and out to meet him.

*BRAKE!!!

“Gosh. I told you to put it behind the door and leave. Didn't you hear?”

Sam as the owner of the house, opens the door loudly and curses Joko.

When the door opened, Joko pushed Sam inside and closed the door.

“Who are you?” ask Sam.

The man in his mid-40s was frightened to see Joko suddenly pushing him.

Joko pulls out a gun and points it at Sam.

“My answer honestly, if you don't want me to blow your head up here.”

Sam gulped increasingly frightened by Joko's threat.

Joko approaches the fallen Sam, helps him stand up and tells him to sit on the chair for further questioning.

Inside Sam's fairly small apartment, Joko sees several injections and illicit drugs. Joko soon learns that Sam is an active drug user.

Joko also saw a picture of Sam's wife and son in the frame, on the wall of his room, and a computer with a large monitor in his bedroom.

Without further ado, Joko immediately asked and interrogated about the FAKE FACE project that Sam had done.

“Actually I had an offer to work on that project with ARN, but ended up failing. After that, they called me. As if he had been waiting for that a long time.”

“Dia? Who is he you mean?” ask Joko.

“Entahlah. I just called him Director, without knowing his real identity. He offered me a very high salary and allowance back then.”

“I went to their office in South Jakarta and kept working on that project.”

“Details, what are you doing in that office?” ask Joko.

“I created a tool that could manipulate a video recording with the FAKE FACE project, then, I even had to fake the video itself.”

“What kind of video is it?”

“Usually is a video taken from a phone or surveillance camera, without knowing, what the video is for. I just obey the Director's wishes and get a wage from it,” explained Sam.

Joko was very sure that Sam was telling her the truth about it. Joko further asks him about the cctv footage that made him a suspect in the Yuli shooting.

“Pak Sam's. Can you tell in person when a video has been engineered by your device? Can you figure it out, just by looking at the tape?”

“I used to be able to just by the way people blinked and the angle the light came from, but can't anymore for now.”

“The tool I have created uses a discriminator algorithm to make a copy very similar to the original, so, it is very impossible to know with that,” explained Sam.

“Lantas, is there a way to prove that the video has been engineered?” ask Joko who is still trying to prove that he did not shoot Yuli at that time.

“Can't, Sir. One way is, you have to find the original footage first.”

“Can you break into the cctv camera system or security surveillance camera, and change someone in the recording directly?”

“Ya, Sir. I can do it.”

“Good. Write your number here. I'll ask for your help someday.”

Joko gives a paper and pen, and Sam writes down the number, giving it to Joko.