The Blacklist

Chapter 280: Investigating the Lindquist Chaebol
Based on this data, Abby re-did the simulation: If Gaia created an explosion and destroyed the natural gas pressure pipeline when the tidal level of the Hudson River was at its lowest, the nuclear power plant would not have enough energy to run the water pumps at full capacity, and would not be able to draw enough water from the river to cool the reactor, which would cause a nuclear leak and repeat the tragedy of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The situation is urgent. Donald is given the highest authority to command all law enforcement agencies in New York. On the one hand, he protects the gas plant, and on the other hand, he searches for Gaia's whereabouts...

Everyone at the post office is also trying to analyze Gaia's behavior. With law enforcement agencies on full alert, it is impossible for Gaia to act according to the original plan. So what will he do?

Seeing everyone guessing, Kerry sighed and said, "Everyone, have you forgotten that Gaia used to be a helicopter pilot in the navy?"

Abby had the highest IQ and immediately clapped her hands and said, "Right! Gaia can't enter the gas plant from the ground, so she will use her skills to fly a helicopter in. Just bring a bomb!"

Cooper reacted and said immediately: "Notify Donald immediately and ask them to check the helicopter service company in New York immediately..."
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In New York, after investigation by various law enforcement agencies, only one helicopter service company currently had idle planes, so Donald, Nawabi and Mira rushed there immediately.

They learned from the owner of the helicopter service company that a pilot had died of a heart attack not long ago, so they had to recruit a replacement pilot and were now overhauling the remaining helicopter...

Just as they were talking, a helicopter on a parking space in the distance suddenly took off and flew away along the Hudson River. Donald and others rushed to the riverside and fired repeatedly, but were unable to cause any damage and watched the helicopter fly away.

With no other options left, Donald, Nawabi and others used the radio to repeatedly call Gaia, who was flying the plane, hoping that he would give up the plan to blow up the gas station, but he was rejected directly! Time was running out, and it was too late to notify the military to send fighter jets to intercept!
Just when everyone was beginning to despair, a Chevrolet SUV suddenly drove up to the riverbank. A man jumped out of the car and took out a single-person Stinger anti-aircraft missile from the trunk! Then everyone saw a flash of white smoke, and the helicopter exploded in the air above the Hudson River, and Gaia was completely destroyed!
Wow! Although they are all law enforcement officers, the agents from SER, FBI, NYPD and other departments basically saw the anti-aircraft missile attack for the first time, and they were all stunned!
Donald and the others were surprised, but then they saw clearly that it was Jeffrey from SLR who launched the Stinger missile, and they immediately understood that this must have been sent by Kerry. This guy, who had planned everything, just watched them do useless work, how abominable!

Of course, this is just a small complaint. If Gaia was really let go and allowed to blow up the natural gas booster station, things would be out of control. Kerry still made a great contribution.
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When Gaia's helicopter was destroyed, Reddington found Gaia's ex-wife Maya and son Skye. Because Gaia was severely exposed to nuclear radiation in Fukushima, Japan, Skye's face was like a melted candle when he was born, like a monster. This is also the reason why Gaia became an extremist.

Skye suffers from the same aplastic anemia as Kirk. Reddington finds him and Maya because he wants to know where his attending physician is - Kirk's doctor, Reffler!

Reddington did not hide these things from Carrie, because he felt that it was useless to hide them. He discussed this matter with Carrie and operated it. The purpose was actually to save Kirk, but he had to convince Carrie before that, so that the magic red bottle would work.

Afterwards, Reddington captured Dr. Leffler and tortured him, and learned the time of Kirk's next blood transfusion treatment, but the location was unknown - Kirk always gave last-minute notice.

So, Reddington started to push things forward and provided SER with the next blacklist person.
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There is no way to rest this weekend. The old case files have not been sorted out yet, and a new case has come up. The blacklist target proposed by Reddington this time is called "Lindquist Chaebol", but it is not a company, but a team with this code name. They are hired by large companies to eliminate those who have revolutionary inventions but are unwilling to give up their patents, such as inventors of new energy and new drugs, in order to protect the interests of large companies.

Elizabeth introduced to everyone: "The Lindquist chaebol's style of action is to disguise murder as suicide or accident, and to take away all the inventor's research and development data and prototypes and put them aside...

“Several researchers and scientists have died accidentally in recent years at the hands of this Lindquist chaebol, the most recent of which was Omar Naja, a chemical engineer.

"According to Reddington, Omar had a major invention that could save millions of lives after its application, but he died in his garage from automobile exhaust poisoning..."

Hearing this, everyone felt that the problem was serious, but SER was really unable to function now, and Donald was still busy finishing up the Gaia case in New York. Carrie could only let SLR take over and send Jiva and Elise to investigate.
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After a day of visits on Saturday, Jiva and Elise came back to report that Omar's colleagues and friends all said that he was a low-key and unsociable person, but they didn't know what major inventions he had made. The only person who might know was Omar's wife, but she had committed suicide by leaving a suicide note! The two agreed that she must have been silenced.

During the subsequent search, they found an intimate photo of Omar and a female colleague in a book. In the previous investigation, the female colleague claimed that she was not familiar with Omar.

Kerry was unhappy that he couldn't rest on weekends. After hearing what the two said, he said directly: "Since this woman is lying, you should just 'invite' her back for investigation and see if she dares to continue lying."

Sure enough, after Jiva and Iris brought the female colleague back to the interrogation room of the post office, she was so scared when she saw this posture that she told everything.

It turned out that this female colleague had an extramarital affair with Omar, and she knew that Omar had successfully developed an efficient and convenient seawater desalination device... She also provided an important clue: before Omar was killed, he participated in a science and technology expo, where he met a patent lawyer who was willing to promote his invention.

The worst thing about investigating a case is that you have no direction. Carrie was happy. With this clue, he didn't have to think of any other ways to give a hint. He ordered, "Investigate this patent lawyer!"

(End of this chapter)