The Blacklist

Chapter 295: Behind the Scenes Investigation
After hearing what Carrie said, everyone at the table was stunned. Was he directly pointing out that Colonel Dorn, the head of the decoding team, was a suspect?

Seeing everyone's expressions, Kerry knew that they couldn't accept it for the time being, so he said, "Well, what I said was just a doubt, not a conclusion. Tang, this case can still be investigated!"

Hearing him say this, Donald immediately understood the subtext: there is something behind this case, at least Lieutenant Hill did not commit suicide.

After dinner, Kerry arranged for Abby and Corissa to support Donald.

Abby is not only a computer expert, but also a certified forensic genius. Carrie gave her the task of verifying the death scene from a technical perspective and looking for traces that may have been missed.

Corissa's job is to investigate the financial situation of the deceased Lieutenant Hill and the supervisor Colonel Dorn. If there is nothing unusual, the investigation will be expanded to the entire decoding team.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, Donald, Nawabi, Elizabeth and others were all certain that Carey was sure that Lieutenant Hill was murdered, and the murderer was Colonel Dorn! -
While SER was investigating the case in a different way, NCIS found a clue: regardless of whether it was suicide or not, the Kahr P9 at the scene was confirmed to be the murder gun, and this gun was legally purchased by Lieutenant Hill's colleague, Captain Kayla Napoleon, six months ago. Naturally, there was no doubt about this, and they summoned him back for questioning.

Captain Napoleon is good-looking, with a good figure in her white navy uniform suit, but she looks a little silly with a pair of big black-framed glasses. Her answers to questions are also different from those of ordinary people, which can make non-technical personnel so angry that they want to beat her up!

Gibbs was very troubled and called McGee to talk to him. Finally, they found out why the gun was in Lieutenant Hill's hands. Captain Napoleon and Hill were colleagues with a good relationship, but she received an order to be transferred to Norfolk a month ago, so she sold her house and lived in Hill's house. She took her personal belongings, including the pistol, with her. Last night, she went to her boyfriend Alphonse's house to spend the night and went directly to work in the morning. She didn't know what happened to Hill.

Tony and Sierra went to Alphonse's home to verify, and also visited her neighbors and checked the surveillance video of the apartment building, confirming that Captain Napoleon was telling the truth, which naturally ruled out her suspicion. Of course, her behavior of not properly keeping her personal firearms should still be warned.

The captain did not have time to commit the crime, and the investigation of NCIS Gibbs team came to a standstill. At this time, Colonel Dorn from the decoding team came to their office and claimed that an authorized USB flash drive was found to have problems during the internal inspection that had just ended, but it was not certain what data was in it.

"Authorized USB drive? Is there a problem?" Gibbs was a technically challenged person in the sect, and he was a little puzzled when he heard this. McGee next to him wanted to explain to the boss, but thinking of the slap on the back of his head, he rationally remained silent.

Colonel Dorn explained: "The authorized USB flash drive has a 2G data storage capacity and is used for data transfer and exchange between non-networked computers within the department. According to confidentiality regulations, the authorized USB flash drives must be put away and stored in a safe in the basement after get off work..."

Gibbs understood what was said, but he was concerned about something else. He asked, "Colonel, this is the internal rule of your department. Does it have anything to do with NCIS or this case?"

"Oh, it's like this..." Colonel Dorn took out a small USB flash drive from his pocket, opened it with his fingers, and pointed at the empty space inside, "The flash memory chip inside is gone!"

Gibbs was stunned for a moment before he reacted. He took the USB drive and looked at it and said, "Colonel, are you saying that the chip that stores 2G data is missing? What's inside it?" "I don't know." Colonel Dorn spread his hands and said, "It could be ordinary data, or it could be the most sensitive technical data... Well, I tend to lean towards the latter."

Tony, McGee, Sera and others beside them all changed their expressions. This incident reminded them of one thing - a major leak!

Gibbs entered the state of solving the case and asked seriously, "Who can enter the basement and access these 'authorized USB drives'?"

"According to the department's management regulations, there are only Captain Napoleon and Lieutenant Hill." Colonel Dorn said.

Huh? Everyone present was surprised for a moment, and then they all rushed over with eyes flashing. Tony, who usually loves to play, winked at her, and Sera immediately understood what he meant, quietly left, and detained Captain Napoleon who was about to be released.
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After seeing off Colonel Dorn, Gibbs personally led a team of agents to the Hill family again, ready to conduct a carpet search. But when they arrived, they found that within the outer police cordon, a dozen people wearing CTU logo coats were busy doing something!
Next, when the NCIS team wanted to enter the house, they were politely stopped by the CTU people, who said that the technicians were reviewing the scene and it would take some time, so please be patient.

Gibbs had a bad temper, but he couldn't get angry when it came to the counter-terrorism department. He stepped back, took out his phone and called Donald, saying, "Director Lesler, what are you doing? Why are you sending people to recheck and not letting us in?"

Donald was always serious about his work. Hearing this, he said, "Team Leader Gibbs, this is an order from our Director Kerry himself, saying that the on-site investigation is incomplete and has doubts, and must be redone! Look, the technical director of SLR has even gone there in person! In order to solve the case faster, you just have to wait patiently!"

Hearing that it was Director Kerry's order, Gibbs was silent for a moment before saying, "Okay, I understand."

Seeing the boss hang up the phone, Tony, McGee and the others were extremely surprised - backing off like that? This is not like the boss' style!
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Half an hour later, the technical team led by Abby packed up and came out. When they saw Gibbs and others, they said hello, got in the car and left without saying a word about the verification results. This made Gibbs feel a little upset!

Then, Gibbs, who was in a bad mood, waved his hand and said bitterly: "Search thoroughly for me. Don't miss any details. You must find the flash memory chip!"

"Yes!" All the men agreed in unison, only Tony laughed and said, "Boss, what if we can't find it?"

"If you can't find it, keep looking, even if you don't eat or sleep!" Gibbs said through gritted teeth.

Huh? Tony was dumbfounded, and so were the others!
What followed was a nightmare for the NCIS agents. After more than five hours of sleepless searching, when they were almost in despair, Gibbs finally found something in a cereal box!

(End of this chapter)