The Blacklist

Chapter 127 Joint Investigation and Meeting New People
After boarding the plane, Carrie had been trying hard to recall the case and basically didn't say a word. She was not even as active as Elizabeth, who was participating in the investigation purely as an agent. This made everyone else a little puzzled, not knowing who was the leader between the two of them.

Elizabeth was genuinely interested in solving the case and asked a lot of questions, which she received detailed answers from everyone, but it didn’t help in solving the case.

Gibbs has a rather eccentric personality. He is very unhappy about the two SER agents joining the investigation. Although he has to obey because it is an order from his superiors, he has always been in a bad mood.

Carrey didn't bother to indulge him and was too lazy to talk to him. He just strolled around inside the No. 29000 plane and admired the layout of "Air Force One". He found that it was just so-so and not as luxurious as what he had seen in movies and TV dramas. After all, no matter how much it was exaggerated or modified, it was just a Boeing 747-200B aircraft with a main cabin area of ​​only 370 square meters. It had to carry nearly a hundred people from the presidential team every time it was on a mission. It was not very spacious!
For example, the victim, Lieutenant Colonel Tep, usually sat on a soft seat outside the presidential room waiting, without his own independent space; even the president ate in his room, without a dedicated restaurant. As for most of the entourage, they could only rest and work on the airline seats in the middle of the plane, which was no different from the feeling of taking a civil airline flight.

For Carrey, participating in this case is optional, just as a favor to Cooper, but when he sees Katie Todd, he remembers that she is a very good female USSS agent. In the original plot, she would resign after the case was over, and then be recruited into NCIS by Gibbs, and then be shot at the end of the second season. It is really a pity. Should he change her fate?

In the following time, he let Elizabeth follow the extremely experienced NCIS chief forensic doctor Dark and listen to him telling those legendary stories in his classical British accent. He sat aside and watched Gibbs and Katie discuss the case and Tony draw a sketch of the scene, with no intention of intervening at all.

Soon, the people who stayed in the cabin noticed him as a bystander. The old medical examiner Dak couldn't help but whispered, "Agent Keen, is your SER's Deputy Director Kerry not interested in this case?"

"Puchi!" Elizabeth laughed and replied in a low voice: "Dak, Agent Carrey is a senior executive of the IRS. He has no interest in any case where he can't collect taxes!" The more she talked, the more she wanted to laugh!

"IRS?" Dak was very surprised. This was the first time he heard that someone from the IRS was also an FBI agent, and even the deputy director of a special task force!
Katie, who had just finished talking to Gibbs, came over and overheard the conversation. She was also very surprised. She had never encountered such a thing before, which made her interested. So she walked directly to the seat next to Carrie and sat down. She turned around and said, "Hi! Hello, I'm Katie Todd from the Secret Service."

"Hello, IRS, Richard Carey." Carey naturally responded, and the two shook hands, formally getting to know each other.

"You are really from the IRS! Then why are you participating in the investigation of this case?" Katie asked.

"It's true. I was seconded to work at SER for a while, and I still hold a part-time position now..." Kerry said, taking out two of his IRS and FBI IDs from his body and showing them to the other party.

Katie took the ID and looked at it. One of them said she was the SLR team supervisor at the level of deputy director of the IRS, and the other said she was an FBI special agent (level 4) and deputy director of the SER team. This was really amazing! After returning the ID, she said, "This is the first time I've heard of someone working part-time in both departments at the same time."

"Yeah, me too!" Carrie laughed, "But I prefer SLR work."

"Is it a tax collection job?" Katie asked.

"Yeah." Kerry nodded. "It's very fulfilling to generate income for the country." Katie also smiled, thinking that what he said was very interesting. "I hope to have the opportunity to hear your story about collecting taxes."

"There will be a chance." Carrie said, and then took out an SLR business card and handed it to her, "If you ever want to change your environment, give me a call. SLR welcomes you."

Katie was stunned and took the business card, but she didn't know why he said that... At this time, Gibbs in the distance called her and asked her something, so she smiled apologetically, got up and left, and put the business card in her pocket.
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After the investigation and evidence collection work on the plane was completed, everyone got off the plane together. NCIS field personnel came up and packed up Lieutenant Colonel Trap's body and took it back for a detailed autopsy. The USSS did not have the conditions to do so, and the SER was not responsible for such a small matter - in fact, they did not have the conditions, and they could only ask other departments for help if they wanted the body.

At the edge of the airport runway, everyone said goodbye. Since NCIS was the main investigator, Gibbs had the leadership of the investigation. He said: If others want to know the progress of the case, they can come to the NCIS office in the Navy Administration Building when they go to work tomorrow morning. After that, he left with his men.

Elizabeth, who had already had a good chat, said goodbye to Dr. Dark and said she would go to his forensic office tomorrow! Carrie was speechless about her carelessness and was really afraid that she would vomit!
At this time, Katie also came over to say goodbye to him and asked him if he would go to NCIS tomorrow morning?

Kerry thought about it, but didn't make a decision, saying that he would have to see what happened tomorrow...
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On the way home, Gina, who was driving, asked, "Lee, are you interested in that female USSS agent?"

"Are you talking about Katie?" Carrie said, "She's really good. She has experience working for the Secret Service and is good at security. I'm really interested in her and want to bring her here!"

"Is it possible?" Elizabeth expressed doubt. "He is a Secret Service agent, protecting the president. How could he be in the SER or SLR?"

"So what if she protects the president?" Carrie said nonchalantly, "It's just a job. The salary is not as high as SER, let alone SLR! Besides, she should be thinking about leaving USSS now."

"Huh? How did you know?" Elizabeth asked in surprise.

"I talked to her for a while today and heard it." Carrie said. He knew the real reason, but it was difficult to say it because it involved Katie's privacy.

However, when he thought of this, he thought of an important situation - the former nuclear weapons escort officer Major Kerry, who was temporarily replaced because of a cold, would also be poisoned...

Without losing any time, he immediately took out his phone and dialed the SLR number, asking the duty officer to find Major Kerry's address immediately.

(End of this chapter)