The Blacklist

Chapter 20 The Messenger of the Million Transaction
Elizabeth was in a bad mood these two days. Her husband Tom had recovered from his injuries and returned home. He behaved very normally, as if he had completely recovered from the injury. But the more this happened, the more suspicious she became, as she had already discovered his secret.

Before coming to Washington, she had worked as a profiler at the FBI New York Branch for three years. Although she was reluctant to doubt her husband and analyze him like a criminal, the facts were there and she couldn't help but think about it. But when she really analyzed Tom, she found more suspicious points, the biggest of which was his behavior after the attack...

How can I put it? He was so calm! He didn't look like an ordinary person after encountering such a thing. You know, Tom is just an elementary school teacher!
Moreover, after analyzing Tom in other aspects, she was even more confused - he was too perfect in every aspect! It was not that he was extremely outstanding or better than ordinary people, but that he completely met her imagination of marriage and her expectations of a husband in every aspect. She used to feel lucky, but now she felt...

To verify her guess, she took the bullet fired from the pistol in the box under the floor for ballistic analysis, and then found a clue in the FBI database - this gun was the murder weapon in a shooting case on June 6 last year! The murder took place at the Angel Station Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, and the victim of the shooting was Russian tourist Victor Fokin.

However, she could not find any further information because the case was classified as a "confidential homicide case" and she could not access it due to her level of competence.

The confidential case, the murder gun, and the passports in the box with Tom's photo, name and nationality all fit the profile of a professional killer or secret intelligence agent.

Elizabeth didn't want to think so, but the facts were there, so she was very conflicted and distressed.

All the colleagues had things to do, only Kerry, who was very free, noticed her abnormality and knew why. He didn't know how to deal with Tom now. This man was too contradictory, and he hadn't figured out how to treat him. He couldn't just get rid of him before the truth was revealed!
If that were the case, Reddington would be very happy, but Elizabeth would hate him to death; and it would affect the subsequent plot. Therefore, he can only watch from the side and play the role of a guardian.

Huh? Speaking of "guardians", he suddenly remembered that someone should be monitoring Elizabeth's house now! Who is it? He needed to think...
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On Thursday, May 5, Reddington suddenly called Elizabeth to an old house in Baltimore full of books and manuscripts, and provided her with a new person on the "blacklist" - the "messenger".

After returning to the post office, Elizabeth gathered everyone and explained the intelligence she had just obtained...

The Iranians are now trying to obtain an important piece of intelligence, but what it is is not yet known.

What is known is that a seller has obtained the intelligence and reached a deal with the Iranians, hiring a "courier" to deliver the intelligence and collect payment.

The "courier" is responsible for delivering goods and collecting payments in underground transactions. It is said that this person is very principled and will not be bribed or betray his employer during the transaction. He has a very good reputation. However, if the buyer or seller breaches the contract, no matter who betrays whom, he will kill both parties to protect himself from being exposed.

Cooper asked, "What is the cargo of this transaction? When will the transaction take place?" Elizabeth replied, "We don't know what the cargo is yet, but according to Reddington, the cargo is worth 2 million U.S. dollars; the transaction time is 45 hours and minutes later, the location is the Winston Farmers Market in Alexandria, Virginia, and the consignee is the Iranian spy Hamid Suroush. This is the information given by Reddington."

Cooper took it and took a quick look at it, then waved his hand and said, "Very good, let's go!"

In fact, Carrie was not very interested in this operation, because he judged that the criminals involved in this case would not be of very high value, and due to the conditions, he could not kill them directly, and then he would not get the crime-slaying points and criminal funds, so he lacked motivation.

He wanted to be lazy, but Cooper, impressed by his ability to act before, insisted on letting him go. However, he warned him to capture the criminal alive, or his funds would be confiscated if he killed the criminal again. This made everyone laugh, and he could only agree "reluctantly".
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At one o'clock in the afternoon, the Winston Farmers Market was crowded with people. The action team hid in a truck beside the market. Donald was in charge of dispatching and directing in the command vehicle. Carrie, Elizabeth, Mira and several plainclothes agents pretended to be customers and entered the market to look for people.

Soon, Alam, who was in charge of technical support, found the Iranian buyer in the surveillance footage and notified the agents entering the market through headphones. They began to disperse and approach the target...

Kerry watched from afar as the Iranian Surush walked forward. Elizabeth, Mira and others had already caught up with him, so he did not go over to him. Instead, he looked around and judged the possible escape route of the "courier"... Then he walked to a pickup truck that had just been unloaded, looked at the goods in the stall next to it, and started chatting with the vendor.

Donald saw his behavior in the command vehicle and didn't know what to say. If the operation wasn't in progress, he would definitely question him...

At this moment, two gunshots were suddenly heard in the market. The surveillance footage showed that Iranian agent Surush, who had just walked to a stall, was shot in the head and fell to the ground dead. The surrounding area was suddenly in chaos!
Donald shouted hurriedly: "Quick, rewind the surveillance and see what happened?"

Elizabeth and others in the market immediately drew their guns and started searching around, but unfortunately, no one saw what had just happened!
A black SUV at the back of the market suddenly started up and rushed out quickly, knocking over many stalls along the way, further exacerbating the chaos!

The FBI agents all realized that the car must be the "courier", but their cars were parked on the other side of the market and it would take time to get there...

Just when everyone was getting anxious, they saw a blue pickup truck suddenly rushing out from the diagonal, hitting the SUV from the side, pushing it around twice on the spot, and smashing it into a concrete partition wall behind it, instantly making it unable to move!
The agents cheered and rushed over there, just in time to see their colleague Carrie jump out of the pickup truck. Without even touching the ground, he fired two shots at the driver's seat of the SUV. It was a completely familiar rhythm!

(End of this chapter)