The Blacklist

Chapter 188 Elizabeth is arrested again
After receiving the clues from Carrie, SER began to investigate the secret society's director, Moriguchi Makuyuki, and soon found out that this person was currently in New York and his private plane had just arrived from Asia to pick him up.

Donald immediately issued an order: in the name of SER, he requested the New York branch of DHS (Department of Homeland Security) to detain the private plane and asked the New York branch of FBI to arrest Makiyuki Moriguchi.

Afterwards, he asked Elizabeth and Nawabi to fly to New York with a field operations team to pick them up. Originally, he wanted to go by himself, but after being officially promoted to SER director, he and Cooper had some face-to-face work handovers, so he couldn't leave for the time being.

Everyone thought that even if Elizabeth and Nawabi and his team failed to bring back Moriguchi Makuyuki, it would only be because this person had not been caught by the FBI-NY and would not be in danger, but something unexpected happened.

That night, bad news came from New York: After Elizabeth and Nawabi and his party arrived in New York, they checked the private plane, but found no trace of Moriguchi Makuyuki... When they were discussing search measures with FBI-NY agents, a team of DHS agents showed up and wanted to arrest Elizabeth for espionage!

Nawabi and the SER operatives certainly couldn't let the DHS take Elizabeth away. An armed conflict almost broke out at the scene, but the FBI-NY agents separated the two sides, which prevented a real fight between the two sides.

After receiving Nawabi's call, Donald became anxious and ordered Nawabi and others to escort Elizabeth back, but the DHS agent refused to let him do so. Soon someone brought an arrest warrant issued by a federal judge, and the people from the FBI-NY branch could not help.

Although Nawabi and others could no longer stop the other party from arresting Elizabeth, they insisted on escorting her back to Washington together, because they were worried that someone would frame and harm the SER agents.

When a team of DHS agents and SER boarded a government charter plane back to Washington, Donald urgently informed Carrie and Reddington of the situation, but none of the three parties knew what had gone wrong.

After Cooper learned about this, he immediately found Wright to report it. Now with her identity, she is likely to be the first to get the news.
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Late at night, Elizabeth was escorted to Washington, and then sent back to the federal court's serious criminal detention room, where she was jointly supervised by the USMS (Federal Marshals Service), DHS agents, and SER action team members. This was because the latter two parties insisted on not withdrawing, and the captain of the marshals on duty called Judge Troy, who had issued the arrest warrant, and agreed to let three people from each party stay.

The next morning, Wright sent a message: Kara Kurt, the "Wolf Spider" who had been arrested and transferred to a prison for serious criminals awaiting trial, changed her confession and asked for a reduced sentence in exchange for exposing Elizabeth as a Russian spy... The key point is that he provided a recording of his conversation with Alexander Roskovich, deputy military attaché of the Russian Embassy in the United States, in which he mentioned that FBI agent Elizabeth Keene was a secret agent of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

This matter was learned by the Director of National Intelligence and DHS Secretary Justo Baldini, who ordered an investigation. Wright negotiated with him but failed to change his mind.

Everyone was stunned when they learned about this. When Elizabeth was framed, one of the charges was that she was a Russian spy, but because there was no evidence, it was only said that her biological mother was a former KGB spy. It was ridiculous, and Judge Denner did not allow this to be brought up in court. Who would have thought that it would be brought up again at this time, and there was evidence? -
Carrie was pacing in the office while Cooper, Donald, Gina and others were sitting on the sofa, all with frowns on their faces. Being in law enforcement, they knew that if an agent was suspected of loyalty, the consequences would certainly not be good!
Now Elizabeth is bitten back by the "Wolf Spider", and there is also the recording of the conversation of the Russian military attaché as evidence. Although they know that it is a frame-up, it is extremely difficult to solve it, especially since the Director of National Intelligence Baldini is a key figure trusted by the President. His main focus is on investigating this case. Is there a reason behind it? For example, is he also a member of the secret society? The reason for such suspicion is that this time Elizabeth and Nawabi went to New York to arrest the director of the secret society, Moriguchi Makuyuki, but the DHS agent went there to arrest her. This timing is too coincidental!

Reddington has already sent a message: Alan Fitch, the current chief director of the secret society, firmly denied that he had anything to do with the matter, but suspected that this was a private action by Moriguchi Makuyuki; but there was one thing that was very strange. Fitch believed that Moriguchi himself did not have the ability to influence officials of Baldini's level, so there should be other forces involved, the most likely one being Russia!

However, Kerry felt that it should not be the work of national forces, but rather the work of a secret organization or an alliance of interests. The reason was simple. If the Director of National Intelligence in the White House was from an enemy country, then it would be an underestimation of the president and the top political power in the United States!

It is more likely that Baldini did this because of his personal feelings or interests. The best case scenario is that he does not trust Elizabeth's loyalty because of her background. The worst case scenario is that he attacked Elizabeth for other purposes of some interest alliance. There are two possibilities for this purpose: one is Reddington, and the other is Katarina.

Before they could come up with a countermeasure, worse news came at noon: because the matter involved state secrets, Baldini had proposed to the National Security Council in the morning that Elizabeth's case should not be tried in public, and that it should be handed over to the CIA's counterintelligence department for secret handling!

This reminded them of the CIA's secret black prison "factory" last year, and they immediately understood the sinister purpose behind it. Once Elizabeth was transferred, no one would be able to see her again!
The situation is urgent. Reddington, who got the news, comes to find Carrie, ready to rescue people first, and then think about restoring Elizabeth's reputation!

In order to avoid implicating others, Carrie did not tell anyone else about it.
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At 8 p.m. on August 4, a CIA special operations team picked up Elizabeth from the detention room of the federal court. They forcibly refused to be accompanied by the SER operation team members and put her on an armored prisoner transport vehicle, which left the court, drove onto Constitution Avenue in the south, and headed east out of the city.

According to the plan, the CIA convoy was to drive to a small airport in the eastern suburbs and transfer Elizabeth to a special base by a chartered plane.

The CIA agent leading the team believed that the most likely danger in this process was on the way to the airport, so they specially dispatched an armored prison van for transporting serious criminals, and the four SUVs that followed the escort were also modified to be bulletproof. Those participating in the operation were all elite armed personnel who had been tested in actual combat. There were as many as twenty people, enough to handle a small or medium-sized street battle!

(End of this chapter)