The Blacklist

Chapter 307: Discovering the Traces of the Murderer Behind the Scenes
After work the next day, the agents continued to analyze the information sent from France, but Carrie invited Donald upstairs for morning tea.

After sitting down, Carrie did not make tea, but handed over a can of coffee, and then asked: "Tang, what happened, you are not in a good mood!"

Donald smiled bitterly, took the coffee, opened it, took a sip, and said, "Lee, it was Elizabeth who told you! Well, it's just a little thing at home, I can handle it." The meaning of his words was that he didn't want to say more.

Kerry knew that the principle of communication between Americans was not to interfere with each other's privacy. Americans were not willing to ask others for help on personal matters, but he was a pure Chinese soul. Caring for friends was his principle! So he still insisted: "Tang, you are not an ordinary agent now. As the director of CTU and the supervisor of SER, your family affairs may involve official business. Tell me!"

Donald was stunned when he heard this. He had indeed never thought about this issue from this perspective, but since it had come to this, and he trusted Carrie very much, he told him about it.

His younger brother was hospitalized for a serious heart disease and needed a heart bypass surgery, which was currently being scheduled... He hurried to see him yesterday and then rushed back to work, but he was still worried.

Carey immediately made a few phone calls and got the introduction he wanted from IRS Deputy Director Most: the director of cardiac surgery at the Mayo Clinic. He also helped to make the contact. As long as the patient was sent there, the operation could be performed immediately.

Donald was a little stunned when he heard the news. The Mayo Clinic is the world's number one hospital, and the level of its director of cardiac surgery is unquestionable. Before, he had never thought that he could find a doctor of this level to perform surgery on his brother.

"Okay, stop daydreaming, go back and pack up and take your brother to surgery." Carrie said, "I will send SLR medical staff to accompany you on a Gulfstream 650 to Rochester, Minnesota!"

"This..." Donald felt that it was not a good idea to mobilize such a large force, but since it involved his own brother, he didn't want to refuse.

"Go quickly and do as I arrange!" Carrie didn't give him a chance to speak and immediately drove him away. "I'll take over the work. Are you still uneasy?" Then she stood up and pushed him out.

Gina, who was standing next to him, had already understood what was going on and went out to make arrangements. When Donald came out, he saw two doctors and two nurses from SLR waiting with medicine boxes in advance...
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After sending Donald away, Carrie had to perform his duties for him. Naturally, the case could not be stopped, so he came to the SER command hall and announced that Donald had asked for leave for something and he would take over.

For the agents, this was not a problem at all. Even if Donald was there, Boss Carrey would have the final say if he wanted to take charge. However, Donald's "model worker" actually took a leave of absence. This was rare and everyone was a little surprised.

Carrie did not hide it from everyone and said clearly: Donald's brother needed surgery due to illness and needed to be accompanied.

Of course, everyone understood this, so they stopped asking questions and went back to work.

Seeing that everyone was looking up information, Kerry casually flipped through it and found a surveillance video of the inside of the bar. At this time, no one had noticed it yet, so he couldn't help but remind them, "Aram, put down your work and take a look at this video first... Well, it's marked on it as the surveillance video of Lao Lei's deliveryman Purab in the bar before he was killed!"

"Oh, I'll check it out right away." Aram accepted the order as usual, immediately connected the hard drive containing the video to his computer, called up the image, and checked it...

Kerry knew that he could find out, so he stopped talking and looked at everyone else busy, then he went back upstairs to drink tea leisurely! -
Two hours later, Alam called and said he had found a clue and asked him to go down and take a look. When Kerry came to the command hall again, everyone knew they had a clue and gathered around.

Aram projected a clip of the bar's surveillance video onto the big screen and introduced it: "Look everyone, this is what the surveillance camera in the bar captured at the time... Look at this!"

Everyone looked at the video, but after a few minutes, they were all confused. Nawabi couldn't help but ask, "What are you looking at?" Everyone else had the same question, except Kerry.

"See that big bald guy sitting in the corner with a torn sweater and a coffee cup?" Aram said, "He should be monitoring Reddington's delivery man!"

"Hmm? Play it again." Elizabeth said on behalf of everyone.

After having a target, everyone rewatched the video and immediately noticed something was wrong with the big bald man - he had been staring at the deliveryman, and when the deliveryman left, he said something into the hidden microphone and then left the bar.

"Has he been identified?" Carrie asked.

"Hey, I found it out." Aram smiled proudly, "I used the facial recognition system to find out the identity of this person. He is Murphy Charles, a former agent of the NCIS. He holds a Delaware driver's license. He retired five years ago and has no fixed residence since then... However, I found out that he rented a small commercial warehouse in Fredericksburg, Virginia."

"Well done!" Kerry nodded and praised, "Liz, Nawabi, take a task force to check this warehouse."

"Understood." Elizabeth and Nawabi agreed and stood up to leave.

Kerry continued, "Aram, Mira, you continue to investigate this Murphy, including his whereabouts, income, who he serves, etc."

"Yes." The two responded and started a new round of investigation.
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In the afternoon, Elizabeth and Nawabi came to the rental company where the small warehouse was located and opened Murphy's warehouse with CTU credentials. According to the Patriot Act, CTU has emergency search authority and does not need a search warrant issued by a judge when performing tasks.

The warehouse was arranged to look like a safe house. After Elizabeth and Nawabi checked, in addition to some daily necessities, they also found a lot of information and photos in the file cabinet. There was not only the deceased accountant Zack and the messenger Purab, but also various information about a couple.

Elizabeth recognized the husband as Stratos, whom she had met in the restaurant in the morning. It seemed that these two people were the enemy's next targets, so she immediately notified Reddington.

When Reddington received a call from Elizabeth, he immediately realized that something was wrong, but after he contacted her, he found it was too late - Stratos was arrested by the Monaco police for murdering his wife.

(End of this chapter)