The Blacklist

Chapter 278 A Genius's Stunning Operation
After getting the hint, Abby immediately found out, "Dean Bradley, a former Navy SEAL, was deployed to Iraq twice with outstanding achievements... He retired three years ago, and his subsequent life is unknown..."

Just after finding this, Alam found out from the DOJ's criminal database that just this morning, DCPD (Metropolitan Police Department) found Bradley's body in a park.

Donald took Mira and Nawabi to the scene and found that Bradley was shot in the back while jogging in the morning. He had no other items on his body. However, his car was found in the park parking lot, and a helmet camera and diving equipment were found in the trunk.

Mira, who had studied the power plant explosion, immediately said, "Tang, in the video footage of the previous power plant attack, there were four attackers wearing equipment like this... um, exactly the same equipment!"

Donald immediately became alert and asked someone to collect photos of the scene. After returning to the post office, they compared and confirmed that it was the same equipment.

When solving such cases, any experienced detective would not believe in coincidences, let alone multiple coincidences. Now the situation is certain: Bradley is one of the four attackers, and because he appeared at the surveillance site of Scotland Yard and was likely to be exposed, he was silenced!
After summarizing the situation, Donald had a headache. In the current situation, it seemed that they had no direction to investigate at all!
Kerry, who also went downstairs to listen to the situation, thought for a moment and said, "Check Bradley's former comrades and superiors to see if any of them are engaged in armed professions?"

Everyone understood what he meant. He was referring to PMC (private security) and PSC (mercenaries), which was a reconnaissance direction.

Relevant information was soon found: Bradley's superior in the Navy SEALs, Johan Haubeck, registered a small-scale PMC, recruiting former comrades and subordinates to carry out some bounty missions. Because he had not been found to be causing trouble in the country before, he was not included in the monitoring list.

Donald immediately said, "Then let's find him, bring him back and ask him about it."

Kerry said, "Let's try another way. If Bradley is really a PMC member under Johan, then his absence will affect the operation. We can send someone to join in and get a better grasp of the situation."

"You mean send Tom undercover?" Donald asked.

"Of course." Carrie said, "It would be a waste if we didn't use such an excellent pretender!"
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Of course, Tom is no pushover. With the arrangement of Reddington's acquaintance, he successfully passed his test after meeting Johan and participated in his new operation the next day.

At 1 pm on Wednesday, Kerry and Donald were both in the SER command hall, watching the surveillance on the big screen - Tom, who had infiltrated Johann's company, followed them and successfully hijacked a train, drove it into the dense forest, and has now lost any trace...

Aram, who was checking the train information, reported loudly: "Lee, Tang, there is no record of this train. It should be a special transport by the secret department!"

Donald said unhappily, "Damn! These guys always do this kind of sneaky stuff." Kerry nodded, admitting that he was right, but he ordered, "Everyone, get started. Contact DHS (Department of Homeland Security), TSA (Transportation Security Administration), DOD (Department of Defense), FDA (Food and Drug Administration), CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and other federal law enforcement agencies. Find out who owns this train. Also, spread the word. If we can't find the department to which it belongs, our CTU will take over!"

"Understood!" The agents immediately agreed and got busy.

The agents were busy, and Donald asked him in a low voice: "Lee, do you think something is wrong?"

Kerry nodded and said, "I'm worried that it's a secret shipment from the DOD or CDC. It's either nuclear material or a biological virus. If it's obtained by terrorists, the consequences will be disastrous!"

Huh? Donald's eyes widened immediately. He believed in Carrie's judgment very much, which had been proven by countless facts before. He immediately became nervous and took two steps forward to personally check and contact...

However, Kerry noticed that the train came from Georgia, which is the headquarters of the CDC. When thinking about the attack on the power plant, he connected the dots. It was indeed a well-planned plan!
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Through targeted inquiries, the agents quickly determined that this train was transporting the CDC's cargo. After repeated questioning and inquiries, and even a personal phone call with CTU Director Cooper, they received confirmed information: this train was a special train secretly transporting deadly viruses - because there was a power outage in the virus library at the CDC headquarters, the dangerous virus samples had to be sent to the backup storage site before the backup power was exhausted.

Donald is a man of action. Carrie is in charge of the post office. As always, Donald took his agents and action team members to the location where the train was hijacked. Soon, with Carrie's reminder, they discovered a newly built railway branch line hidden in the jungle. After tracking it to a large warehouse converted from a private airport, they found the previously missing train and immediately arranged a helicopter to pick up virus experts to test the virus samples on the train...

At the warehouse, SER captured Johan and others who attacked the train, including the undercover Tom!

Donald pulled Tom aside and asked him about it. He learned that a virus called "Sample 17" had been taken away and the recipient should be the "criminal investor" Miles.

Donald immediately called Alam and asked him to look up the recent calls made from the warehouse through the telecommunications company's phone records. He soon got the address of a restaurant and immediately took people there. However, the only person at the scene was Miles McGrath, handcuffed to the delivery man's body. He learned from him that the virus sample had been taken away by Reddington!
At the post office, Carrie silently looked at the collected information. In fact, he understood everything, but at this time he could only play the role of a genius inspired by the evidence and ordered the agents to check what the stolen virus sample was. After learning that the stolen sample was the Liborsky virus, he asked everyone to check the harm of the virus.

The reward was: the Libosky virus was indeed fatal to ordinary people because it caused leukemia, a disease characterized by a rapid increase in red blood cells, which was basically the opposite of the aplastic anemia that Kirk suffered from.

Everyone in the post office understood without Carrie's reminder that Kirk wanted to get the virus and use it on himself to fight poison with poison!

(End of this chapter)