The Blacklist

Chapter 223 Let's see whose gun is faster
While Donald asked Elizabeth and others to investigate the two New York mafia families, he asked Alam to contact the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) to seek cooperation and request its investigation materials on the two families.

Unexpectedly, Tucker, the DEA's East Coast drug enforcement chief, had a very bad attitude. He was impatient with SER's intervention in their case and refused to provide any information.

Donald did not tolerate his bad habits and immediately reported to Cooper, putting pressure on the DEA from the DOJ. Tucker could not stand it and had to hand over the information, but claimed that SER was sheltering the FBI's most wanted criminal Reddington, and he would report to his superiors and investigate!
After getting the information, Alam reported the matter to Donald and expressed his concern: It seems that Reddington's affairs are no longer a secret in law enforcement agencies, and we must be on guard against someone taking this article.

After arranging everyone's work, Donald called Carrie and told him about this; Carrie said that he would be responsible for this matter and SER would be responsible for investigating the case.

After hanging up the phone, Carrie thought about it, then picked up the phone and called Tom, asking him to use the channels of Halcyon Shield Company to find the secret society director Mitchum Lell and prepare to get rid of this guy.

As for other law enforcement departments, Wright and Cooper still have to do the work; at the same time, he also decided that after CTU is officially established, Reddington will be transferred to be an informant of this special department as an additional insurance.
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On Saturday, Donald and SER rushed to New York and began to monitor the two major mafia families.

At noon that day, the heads of the two families, Daniel Vaccaro and Mats Ericsson, met in a cafe, and the middleman was the "icebreaker" Pete.

SER borrowed the local FBI branch's electronic detection vehicle and used monitoring radar to eavesdrop on the conversation of the three people in the cafe. The agents heard: Pete proposed to use marriage to re-establish the relationship between the two families, that is, the youngest son of the Ericsson family would marry the youngest daughter of the Vaccaro family, so that the two families would become one, ending the hostility between the two families and jointly controlling the drug trafficking market on the East Coast.

During this period, Pete took out his client list to prove that he had the ability to bring the two parties together and to destroy any party that dared to breach the contract.

The heads of the two mafia families seemed to be tempted. After all, they also knew how huge the profits would be from monopolizing the drug market on the East Coast. But there was an obstacle to the marriage now - Christopher, the youngest son of the Ericsson family, had a fiancée.

Icebreaker Pete said confidently that he could solve this problem.

Soon, Pete got up and left. Because there was no direct evidence to arrest these three people, SER could only follow them separately, but they were soon thrown off by Pete's car. This guy has not been caught by law enforcement agencies for many years, so he must have some skills.

Next, Aram used technical means to search for Pete based on the secretly taken photos of him, but it would take time to find his whereabouts, so he could only let him go offline for a while. However, this was nothing for SER, because as long as they kept an eye on the two mafia families, Pete, the middleman, would show up sooner or later.
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Carrie and Gina also came to New York secretly. He didn't need to track the people of the two families. He found the head of the "Hotel Employees Underground Guild" funded by Reddington and asked him to help find Pete. This underground guild can contact all the hotels in New York. The doormen, front desk clerks, waiters and other grassroots workers in the hotel are much more efficient in finding people than law enforcement agencies, and soon got results.

Not long after, Gina drove a Land Rover to catch up with Pete who was leaving the hotel, and came to the door of a hospital. She saw him walk onto the sidewalk and stop, as if he was waiting for something?
Gina got out of the car and walked to the side of the road. She was wearing a brown wool coat, a red silk scarf around her neck, lambskin gloves, and carrying a small handbag. She walked as if she was shopping and did not attract anyone's attention.

Kerry, who was sitting in the passenger seat, waited for a while before getting out of the car in his leather windbreaker. He wore cyan sunglasses on his nose and stood at the side of the hospital gate, looking at the pedestrians on the road. He didn't even look at Pete - this guy was a dead man to him, and it would only take a moment. A few minutes later, a close couple walked out of the hospital gate. At this moment, a black SUV sped over from the other side of the street and stopped in front of the young couple. Before the people in the car could move, Kerry, who was at the side of the gate, opened his leather windbreaker, raised his HK-G3A4 rifle and fired. All 30 rounds of copper-coated steel core bullets in a magazine hit the SUV - he was sure that none of the four gunmen inside survived!

The sudden gunshots caused chaos on the street. Passers-by and vehicles fled one after another. The young couple who came out of the hospital were also frightened. The man behaved well and protected his girlfriend behind him. He watched vigilantly as Carrie replaced the magazine of his assault rifle by the gate and reached into his coat with his right hand...

Kerry looked back at him and chuckled, "I advise you not to take out the gun, it will make me misunderstand!"

The couple was the youngest son of the Ericsson family, Christopher, and his fiancée, Anna. Hearing this, Christopher did not dare to move and asked nervously, "Who are you? What do you want to do?"

"Save your life...oh, save your fiancée's life!" Carrie said, "See this car? There are four gunmen in it. Their mission is to kill Anna so that you can become a bachelor again!"

Christopher and Anna were very surprised and didn't know whether they should believe him!
At this time, a series of sirens sounded, and several police cars drove over. A dozen police officers got out of the car and shouted through the car speakers: "Listen, people in front, we are NYPD, put down your weapons immediately..."

Carrie had already raised a certificate in his left hand and shouted, "FBI, investigate! NYPD, stand back!" His voice was loud and confident. Then, without turning back, he said, "Christopher, take Anna and stand behind me. Follow me later! Only I can guarantee your safety now. Don't trust your family anymore, otherwise you may be fine, but Anna will die."

The young couple, both only about 23 or 24 years old, were completely confused and didn't know whether to listen to him or not.

Hearing that it was the FBI, the police didn't dare to shoot, but they were still cautious. They sent a policeman to cautiously walk over with a pistol on his waist, saying, "Sir, I need to see your ID!"

Kerry nodded and handed the ID in his left hand forward for him to check.

The police officer took the ID and pressed the radio on his shoulder to report to NYPD headquarters and check the ID code...

(End of this chapter)