They showed their IDs and left their luggage in the care of the janitor. After asking for directions, they headed for the Organized Crime Control Bureau office.
After wandering around the largest local police department in the country for almost an hour, Elsa and Luke finally found Berit Joel, the Organized Crime Control Bureau officer whom they were supposed to work with.
This Berit was only a sheriff, and just a tad higher in rank than Luke.
LAPD was paying attention to this case because the death of a famous star in their jurisdiction was too significant.
But for NYPD, Sergei Mazanov was just one of countless gangsters in New York, and wasn't really a big deal.
Berit had been told to work with Luke and Elsa mostly because he had been investigating Sergei's gang.
He wasn't exactly friendly toward his colleagues from Los Angeles.
