The Blacklist

Chapter 251 Solving the Case, Arresting the Person, and Uncovering the Secret
"It's very simple!" Carrie said, "The guy named Drexel used the 'rat' Trojan program to monitor Randy. He only took action when he was sure that Randy had moved to a new home and there was no one around. He must not be too far away..."
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Just as Carrie was explaining her judgment to Gina, Elizabeth and Mira, who also arrived in New York, used the channels provided by Reddington to find the secret address of the underground magazine "Rigby", but when they got there, they found that Abby and Jeffrey had already brought SLR operatives to seal it up, on the grounds that "Rigby" had serious tax evasion and needed to pay additional taxes, fines, and confiscate property!
On the SER side, with the help of the new equipment, Alam quickly found thousands of IP addresses that downloaded "rat" from Aaron's server. After receiving Gina's instructions and limiting the scope to New York, he screened out more than ten IP addresses, and then excluded female users, public institutions, and those who downloaded after the incident, and obtained a suspicious address.
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In New York, Donald, who received a notification from Alam, rushed there with Nawabi and the action team and broke into the house. Although they did not catch anyone, they confirmed that this was the hiding place of Drexel.

After the search, they found that in addition to the computer used to monitor the victim Randy and his partner John, there was also a sketch in the room. The sketch showed a tombstone with the word "Reddington" written on it, which was really strange.

Later, based on the rental information, Nawabi found out that the person who rented the room was Reginald Turner, an art teacher who had held personal exhibitions. She and Donald agreed that this person should be Drexel.

Donald now had unconditional trust in Carrie's judgment and immediately called to explain the situation here.

Carrie smiled and said, "Abby and Elizabeth will be at your place soon. Check Drexel's computer first. After finding the evidence, they will go find Adelson. This guy is not innocent. His computer needs to be checked too..."

Soon, Elizabeth drove over with Abby, while Mira and Jeffrey stayed at the location of the underground magazine "Rigby" to deal with its assets and personnel.

Abby's computer skills were even better than Alam's. After a brief operation on the spot, he confirmed that Drexel's computer was equipped with more than one "mouse" receiver, including Randy's, Adelson's office and home, and another one from an unknown place. The picture transmitted back was a gallery-like place.

"Then let's go find Adelson again!" Donald felt that he had found the clues of the case and gave the order.
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A large group of people rushed to Adelson's company, and despite his strong opposition, Donald ordered to take control of his office.

Abby operated his computer and immediately confirmed that this guy's computer was also invaded by "rat". However, he later discovered that there were several "rat" receiving ends in his computer!
Ha! This is interesting!

Donald reacted immediately and arrested Adelson on the spot - no matter what the reason was, using Trojan programs to spy on other people's privacy was an illegal act.

After seeing this, Elizabeth immediately called and informed Carrie of the situation...

"Let Abby and Alam connect and work together to find the source of the signal received by the 'mouse' receiver in the computer..." Kerry said, "Let Nawabi interrogate Adelson on the spot. This guy is a big problem!"

With a two-pronged approach, they soon got an address! Donald led the team again and rushed into an abandoned factory in Franklin District, but they were all shocked by the scene inside! ——
More than an hour later, Kerry, NSA Deputy Director Goodson, technical director and others arrived at the scene by helicopter - the matter had become a big deal, and the place was controlled by armed personnel from several federal law enforcement agencies such as SLR, SER, FBI, DHS, etc. The thousands of "rat" terminals running on hundreds of computers and large screens in the factory were enough to make the NSA explain themselves! After the on-site interrogation, Adelson, who was frightened by the scene, confessed that after he and Randy accidentally obtained the "rat" program, they registered a company and spread it in an organized manner, providing paid surveillance videos for those who wanted to peek into the private lives of their favorite girls, celebrities and politicians, or for other purposes, and regarded the obtained private images as a business...
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Almost at the same time, Reddington found the anonymous "Ramona" and threatened her with her real identity, asking her to take him to find Drexel, and caught this guy backstage at an art exhibition.

He didn't want to seek justice for those who were killed, but wanted to know who commissioned Drexel to paint the picture. Unfortunately, the other party didn't know and only told the delivery address.

After getting the information he wanted, Reddington tied up the "murder artist" at the scene, notified Elizabeth, and asked SER to receive it.

Afterwards, Reddington found a private art agent, Paul Allrond, and asked him who asked him to collect the paintings?
Paul said that he received a call from a woman who collected a painting on his behalf, and the person who picked it up was Reddington!
After a huge wooden box was opened, Reddington and Dembe looked at the large oil painting inside in surprise - a woman who looked very much like Elizabeth was standing in front of a tombstone with the name "Reddington" engraved on it.
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Late at night, except for the hard-pressed NSA which had to send a large number of technicians to New York to deal with the "rat" programs, everyone from SLR and SER returned to Washington.

As soon as she got home, Carrie received a call from Reddington, "Lee, something is wrong! I received a painting that someone specially asked Drexel to draw. You must come and see it..."

In the early morning, in the South District warehouse where he once hid, Carrie saw the painting. Then he looked at the nervous Reddington, but he smiled!
"Old Lei, I think you are frightened?" Carrie laughed, "Didn't you find a big flaw in this painting?"

"What flaw?" Reddington asked immediately.

"The person in the painting looks very much like Liz..." Carrie asked, "Are Catalina and Liz so similar?"

Hmm? Reddington's expression froze, and he took a step forward, carefully examining the girl in the painting again...

After a long while, he stood up straight and laughed. "I understand! I understand! Lee, you are right! This guy is deliberately being mysterious... He wants me to think that the person in the painting is Catalina, so he used Lizzie's appearance and changed it to paint her. But what he doesn't know is that the mother and daughter have similar temperaments, but their looks are very different. Lizzie looks more like the father! Hahaha..."

(End of this chapter)