The Blacklist

Chapter 203 Solving European Problems is Not Easy
While SER was busy dealing with the numerous cases involving the crowdfunding murder website, Tom led his team to Germany in advance to prepare for the subsequent attack on the Walkens Group.

On October 10, Donald took Mira and Nawabi to Germany in the name of DOJ's special operations agency SER to contact the fourth branch of BfV (German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution) responsible for combating domestic organized crime to discuss cooperation in combating the Walkens criminal group. Because Elizabeth was the other party's target, she was not allowed to come this time. She stayed at home with Alam to handle the case report, which made her very unhappy.

As early as the day before, Carrie took Gina and Iris' team to Europe on Reddington's private plane, but they went to Austria, and then entered Germany by land under an alias; when they arrived in Europe, it was Gina's territory, and with the help of Reddington's "business" network, they prepared to directly attack the Walkens Group from the underground world.

At this time, Tom's team, which arrived earlier, has made some progress. Team member Matt Buckley has found a breakthrough into the criminal group - Arthur Sutton, the only son of a billionaire and a rich second-generation, likes to hang out in underground casinos and other bad places, is interested in unconventional skills such as gambling and cheating, and likes adventure.

Tom personally fabricated a life story of a casino prodigal for this subordinate, and added his extraordinary appearance, custom-made suits, famous watches and sports cars, and let him demonstrate his gambling skills in the underground casino of Walkens. This soon attracted Arthur's attention, and he took the initiative to come up and make friends with him.

Matt from Tom's team successfully gained Arthur's trust and was invited to attend his engagement party with his fiancée Gwen. He also helped him drive away the debt collectors who came to collect debts - Arthur was previously caught fake fighting in an underground boxing match and had to pay $20,000 a month to compensate the Walkens Group for its losses.

Tom led his men to secretly arrest the debt collector, and after interrogation, they found the location of Charlie Walkens' headquarters.

On the evening of the 22nd, because the debt collector was missing, Charlie Walkens sent people to capture Arthur and Matt and took them back to his headquarters, preparing to punish them...

At 11 o'clock that night, Carrie led Gina and commanded Tom and Elise to raid the headquarters of the Vulkens criminal group - an abandoned factory. After more than ten minutes of fighting, they killed 12 main leaders including Charlie, and left after looting. In less than five minutes, Donald and others and BfV operatives arrived and captured the remaining members of the criminal group...
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From an official standpoint, it was just Germany's BfV that took action to destroy a criminal organization that ran underground casinos and organized black boxing matches, but it caused quite a stir in the European underworld!

Previously, Charlie Walkens arrogantly stated that he would avenge his brother-in-law and target a law enforcement department of the FBI. It is said that he actually did it. The yacht attack on the east coast of the United States not long ago should have been instigated by him; and only a few days later, the Walkens criminal group was completely destroyed. No one would believe that it was not done by Americans!

On the plane back to the United States, Carrie smiled and said to Tom: "Yes, this operation is good! It is to let these people know that if they dare to show their teeth to us, they must be prepared to be completely wiped out!"

Tom nodded in agreement, and then took credit for his subordinate Matt Buckley.

"Well, Matt is good." Kerry nodded and said, "After you go back, you will be promoted to a second-level auditor, and Matt will be transferred to a regular position as a first-level auditor."

For Kerry, this trip to Europe was like a vacation. He solved a hidden danger within a few days and then returned. But for everyone in Tom's team, this battle proved that Supervisor Kerry really did not discriminate against these "pretenders" and would reward them if they made contributions!

Matt, who successfully obtained intelligence on the Walkens Group with his handsome appearance and gambling skills, was rewarded with a promotion and became the second official auditor after Tom. This made the other brothers and sisters in Tom's team see hope for the future. After returning to Washington, everyone took a break this weekend and did not go out to play. Speaking of which, the experience at sea last weekend was still very exciting, and everyone needed to take a break.
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When I went back to work on Monday, apart from sorting out some files from previous operations, the atmosphere in both the SER and SLR departments was very relaxed. We chatted and laughed while happily doing our work, and spent a rare relaxing Monday workday.

After the near-death experience before, Donald has obviously changed. It's not that he is afraid of death, but that he is no longer so obsessed with the idea that things are either black or white. He admits that there are gray areas in the world, and that people who make a living in this gray area are also good and bad... After his change of opinion, on the one hand, he completely became a fan of Carrie, and on the other hand, his attitude towards Reddington improved.

Another thing is that it may be a habit formed during his previous recuperation period. Donald also learned to be lazy. He assigned all the paperwork to his agents, but he himself went to Carrie's office upstairs to drink tea, showing the awareness of being an official.

After two days of relaxing and peaceful days, everyone felt a little lazy.

In the office on the eighth floor of the post office, Carrie drank fresh tea but tried hard not to think about a question that he shouldn't think about - is this peaceful life real?

He had a deep understanding of Murphy's Law. He didn't dare to think or say this because he was afraid something might happen. But he couldn't help but think about it...

Man proposes, but God disposes. Something bad happened after all!
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A little after ten in the morning, Reddington's personal scavenger and emergency contact, K. Kaplan (Mr. Kaplan), made an emergency call: Reddington and Dembe were kidnapped when they went to pick up Marvin Gerard who had just been released from prison, and the whereabouts of the three are currently unknown!

"Who is Marvin Gerard?" asked Donald next to him.

"Lao Lei's personal lawyer, a legal genius." Kerry replied with a frown, but he was worried that the matter was getting more and more out of control! Then he ordered, "Gina, ask Jeffrey's team to bring Kaplan here... Well, ask Liz to come up and don't run around."

Donald was no novice, so he realized the seriousness of the problem and asked, "Richard, do you think this is still aimed at Liz?"

"It's highly likely." Carrie said, "Reddington is not a fool. He dared to pick up Marvin. He should have expected that no one would stop him. But someone took action and kidnapped them all..."

(End of this chapter)