The Blacklist

Chapter 120 Overseas Blacklist Figures
Before going to bed, Carrie reviewed the mission as usual. "The host completed the triggering mission 29, killing the escaped prisoners Braxton, Xavier, and Jonah, and was rewarded with a crime-killing value of 5.5 and recovered 255 million criminal funds."

The amount of crime-killing value is good, but the criminal funds are too little. It seems that these three guys in jail are really poor. No wonder they are willing to work for their enemy Pete for 500 million!
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The next day at work, Kerry and Gina went upstairs to the SLR, while Elizabeth went back to the SER.

Around noon, Raven Wright, the DOJ deputy director in charge of SER, came to the post office, talked with Cooper for a while, and then left, taking the detained Kate away with him.

Everyone thought of what Cooper had said before and knew that they would probably never see Kate again!

After seeing Wright off, Cooper felt a little uncomfortable and went to the SLR upstairs to find Carrie.

"What's wrong, Harold?" Carrie asked, seeing that he looked unhappy.

Cooper took a can of beer from the small bar, opened it and took a big gulp, then said with resentment: "Richard, do you know that just now, Deputy Minister Wright came and took Kate away..."

Carrie nodded and said, "That's why you're angry! Think about it, this is expected, isn't it?" As he said that, he walked to the sofa with his teacup and sat next to Cooper.

"But there is obviously something wrong with this Kate. I want to dig out evidence of Pete's guilt from her!" Cooper said angrily.

"Don't worry, Pete won't get away!" Carrie said, "You know, I interrogated Braxton yesterday. The reason why this felon was able to escape from prison was also arranged by Pete..."

"Oh?" Cooper perked up. "Then can we sue Pete?"

"Impossible." Carrie shook her head. "Harold, you should understand that the government will not let someone like Braxton go to court. There is no chance to use his confession to accuse Pete!"

Cooper knew this, of course. Hearing this, he sighed again, "That means it's impossible to prosecute this Pete according to normal procedures. I can only watch him do whatever he wants!"

Kerry looked at him and smiled, "Harold, if you could be less rigid, I would love to tell you more, but it's a pity you can't do it!"

Huh? Cooper was stunned when he heard this. He opened his mouth to ask something, but he didn't say anything...
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Almost at the same time, Reddington met with Alan Fitch alone and questioned the secret society's "director" Pete about his recent series of actions: Why didn't he abide by the agreement?

Fitch said, "You know, Reddington, although you have reached an agreement with me, other people in the organization do not recognize you, especially Pete. He does not believe that you have the "fulcrum" in your hand and thinks you are bluffing, so he insists that it is necessary to get rid of you so that our organization can gain more benefits."

"What about you?" Reddington said, "Do you also believe that I don't have a 'fulcrum' in my hand?"

"I don't know." Fitch said, "Because I don't know, I chose a conservative approach and reached an agreement with you... However, my friends and I are not the majority on the board of directors. The side represented by Pete is, so I can't stop him!"

Reddington was silent for a moment before he said, "If I were to get rid of this troublesome Pete, you and your friends wouldn't be disgusted by it, right?"

Fitch did not answer the question, but stood up and said, "Red Devil, I haven't been here today!" After that, he left.
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In the afternoon, Reddington provided SER with a new blacklist person because he had great "money prospects" and also informed Carrie. Elizabeth, who got the information, gave everyone a mission briefing: Three days ago, a priest in Tashkent, Uzbekistan was kidnapped, and the kidnapper was Ruslan Denisov...

Alam retrieved Ruslan's file and introduced: "Ruslan is the leader of a separatist organization in the country. His previous behavior was relatively peaceful, but in the past two years he has begun to use violent means to kidnap senior executives of foreign companies in the country, demanding a ransom several times the 'market price'..."

Everyone was puzzled when they heard this. Donald asked on behalf of everyone: "Since Ruslan was kidnapping for ransom, why did he choose a priest this time?"

"Reddington said that the priest's true identity is actually a secret agent of the CIA..." Elizabeth explained.

Cooper frowned and said with dissatisfaction in his tone: "Using religious identity to cover up espionage is illegal. The CIA always crosses the line! Is this priest from the secret operations department?"

"It shouldn't be." Mira said at this time, "I have confirmed that the kidnapped agent's name is Bock, and he belongs to the Overseas Intelligence Department... Of course, the CIA will not admit it."

At this time, Nawabi, who was quickly searching for information on the Internet, reported: "Look, this is a short video that just appeared on the Internet..."

Everyone looked at the big screen. An American man in a priest's robe was kneeling on the ground. Behind him, a big man in combat uniform and a mask was holding a saber to his neck and seemed to be saying something...

Nawabi explained: "There is no sound in the video, but judging from the lip movements, it seems that he is asking the CIA to support the ransom."

Elizabeth asked Alam to post a photo on the big screen and took a screenshot of the video for comparison. She said, "The man with the knife should be Ruslan. This is his photo."

Cooper looked at Ruslan on the screen and asked, "Richard, what do you think about this?"

Kerry said, "According to the FBI's purview, cases of Americans being kidnapped overseas have priority, so this is definitely your case... I'm just a little curious, is this the first time Ruslan has kidnapped an American?"

"No." Alam quickly retrieved the data. "According to the information in the database, there have been at least 30 kidnappings of foreigners in this area in the past year alone. Seven of them were senior executives of American companies, but the companies involved did not report it to the police... Let me see... Well, according to the photos of the victims before and after the kidnapping, they were all tortured greatly..."

Companies would rather pay a ransom several times the "market price" than call the police for help? Everyone frowned.

Cooper asked, "Elizabeth, why does Reddington care about this case?"

"Ruslan was Reddington's former partner..." Elizabeth said, "In recent years, Ruslan changed his style of doing things, which seriously affected Reddington's business in the area, so..."

(End of this chapter)