The Blacklist

Chapter 253: Self-written and self-directed kidnapping case
In its heyday, the airflow pipe system extended to business areas such as libraries, hospitals, and department stores, eventually forming a huge and complex pipeline transmission system consisting of hundreds of pipelines and thousands of nodes. However, with the development of technology, the airflow pipe system could not keep up with the development of the dynasty and was abandoned by the government.

Reddington continued, "Although the authorities had forgotten about this airflow pipe system, it was discovered and used by criminals. It became an underground channel for transporting drugs, cash and other items under the noses of the police, and it is still in operation today..."

After listening to Reddington's introduction, all the agents were dumbfounded that such an underground channel for transmitting objects actually existed. Fortunately, this system only exists in New York. If it exists throughout the country, it would be a big problem!

Seeing that Reddington was so familiar with this airflow pipe system, Donald asked directly: "Old Ray, you should know who is controlling and operating these pipes, right?"

"Well, I happen to know that," Reddington said proudly. "There's a guy who calls himself 'Hugo' who has spent the past twenty years repairing, improving, and expanding this plumbing system, turning it into a customized private service. You know what, it's really convenient when you need to do something in New York!"

According to Donald's idea, he naturally wanted to capture "Hugo" directly and completely destroy the underground "logistics" network in New York, but Reddington suggested that it would be better to keep this network and control "Hugo" to serve CTU. This would maximize the benefits. This time, they only needed to find the "caretaker".

Everyone, including Cooper and Carey, thought it made sense, so Donald didn't insist.

Of course, Reddington still favors Elizabeth more and further suggests that he take her to see "Hugo" so that she can contact the other party directly in the future and have an additional source of intelligence.

Everyone knew his little thoughts and agreed with a smile, which made Elizabeth feel a little embarrassed.
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At seven o'clock in the evening, SER agents moved to New York and rested at the CTU State Bureau. Reddington took Elizabeth out to find "Hugo" and ask about the "caretaker".

An hour later, after receiving a call from Elizabeth, Donald led a team to the largest citizen cemetery in the suburbs.

Lights were seen far away in the desolate cemetery. The agents surrounded the area and when they got closer, they found a dug-up grave. There was a white-haired black man singing while he cut open the belly of a corpse in the coffin and took out a glass jar full of documents!
It turns out that the white-haired black man is the "caretaker" Janus, and hiding confidential information in corpses is the secret of his family's business for generations.

That night, in the interrogation room of the CTU branch, Donald and Nawabi interrogated Janus...

Janus admitted that he was responsible for leaking the recording, but he was coerced because someone kidnapped his daughter Rose and took the account book that Rose had kept for him. The first step of the kidnapper was to force him to publish the recording that Edison had entrusted him to keep online, and then to make him expose a secret agreement between the German government and the airline - the documents he had just taken out of the corpse's stomach. The agents checked the confiscated documents, which were a special secret agreement. The content was that the German government admitted that a passenger plane crashed due to a terrorist attack due to work errors, and the airline publicly admitted that the cause of the crash was a mechanical failure, in exchange for the government's subsequent payment of hundreds of millions of euros for "service fees"!
Shit! This is a huge scandal! If it gets exposed, the German government's reputation will be ruined, and the entire cabinet will have to resign, and it may even be difficult for them to hold public office in the future.

Donald reported the situation to Cooper, who asked him to keep it strictly confidential and that he would meet with National Security Advisor Raven Wright to discuss the matter immediately...
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Kerry, who did not go to New York, naturally knew about this immediately. He immediately called Cooper and told him clearly: This matter should not be exposed, at least not by the US government. It is most beneficial to the United States to keep this secret.

Wright and Cooper both agreed with his view, but when they told this to New York, Donald, who was leading the rescue of Ross, expressed a different opinion, because they had found in the surveillance video that the kidnappers had used a fake license plate and a common car model when they kidnapped Ross, which was difficult to track down. In order to buy time, they should disclose the agreement between the German government and the airline according to the kidnappers' request...

Hearing this, when Cooper began to hesitate, Carrie's phone was interrupted. In the three-way call, Carrie said, "Abby and I checked the surveillance video you sent us, and we can confirm that the truck used by the robbers has been modified and equipped with military bulletproof armor. Not many companies can do this. Well, go ask Reddington, he must know which company to look for in New York..."

Sure enough, after watching the video, Reddington also determined that the car had been modified. Then he made a few phone calls and waited for half an hour before receiving a reply, confirming the company that modified the truck and even getting the vehicle's positioning password!

Donald and others captured a kidnapper based on the location address, rescued Ross, and found the "caretaker's" account book. The operation was a great success.

This incident made the agents admire Reddington's magical powers even more and they praised him generously.

However, during the subsequent interrogation, they discovered that the arrested kidnapper was actually Justin, a decorated former Marine who claimed to be Ross’s biological brother!
It turns out that many years ago, Janus rescued a little girl who was beaten by her alcoholic father on the street and adopted her... When she grew up, Rose also joined the "family business" to help with the accounts. But when she realized that this job was to keep so many evil secrets, she found her brother and directed and acted in this kidnapping case herself, with the purpose of exposing these unspeakable secrets and ending this dirty business.
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In Washington, National Security Advisor Wright came to the post office with Cooper, this time to find Kerry.

The two brought the latest intelligence: two European terrorists sneaked into the United States and planned to launch a bomb attack on a large project. After receiving the intelligence, BND (German Federal Intelligence Service) notified the CIA, but the CIA lost them while tracking the two. Now they can only rely on CTU!
After hearing this information, Carrie thought about it and remembered this plot, so he patted his chest and said that he would take the job and would guarantee to catch the two guys and prevent the explosion from happening.

(End of this chapter)