The Blacklist

Chapter 312: The Betrayer and Dumby in Danger
Kerry was speechless. This guy just didn't understand. He could only say, "Then let me ask it another way: Under what circumstances would Dembe, Kaplan, and Marvin betray you? Well, you should think about each of their situations individually."

Seeing that Carrie insisted on asking this question, Reddington began to think seriously, and then said, "Then one by one...

"Dumby's loyalty is unquestionable, but he is a man of principle. I think that unless I do something that crosses a certain bottom line and makes Dunby unbearable, he will not betray me!"

Well, Carrie nodded and agreed. This was indeed the case with the Dembe he knew.

Reddington continued: "Marvin is an ambitious man, but as long as I can always give him room for development, he will not betray me - because if he betrays me, he will not gain greater power and benefits from others."

In response, Carrie did not comment and just listened to him continue.

Reddington thought for a while before saying, "As for Kaplan, I can't imagine the possibility that she would betray me, unless..." At this point, he showed a hesitant look, but finally said, "Unless someone else finds her and makes her betray me!"

"Katerina!" Carrie said directly, using an affirmative tone.

Huh? Reddington was stunned for a moment, then he sat up straight and said incredulously, "You know that?!"

Kerry ignored him and continued to ask, "Lao Lei, where are the three of them now?"

Reddington didn't get an answer, and he was used to Carrey's magic, so he replied, "I asked Dembe to find the other ten people. I plan to gather them together for a face-to-face confrontation..."

"How stupid!" Carrey commented.

Reddington ignored his contempt and continued, "Marvin and his fat fiancée went on vacation; Kaplan went to California to deal with some previous legacy issues, and he has been gone for half a month!"

"Demby took the Red Bottle of Life just like you did. He won't betray you or me." Carrie said clearly, "Marvin's betrayal threshold is relatively high. He should not be at that level yet, so I suspect Kaplan! Well, she should have received instructions from Katarina."

He said it calmly, but Reddington was anxious and said immediately: "Impossible, even if Katarina found Kaplan, she can't be allowed to harm me!"

"What if it's a fake Katarina?" Carrie asked him back.

Reddington was stunned, and after thinking for a while, he said, "There is indeed a fake Katarina active, but how could she get Kaplan's approval? This is impossible!"

"Nothing is impossible." Carrie said, "Although I don't know the specific situation, I think Kaplan believed what this 'Katrina' said, and then dealt with you according to her instructions. And she didn't want to kill you all at once, but gradually increased the pressure to make you behave wrongly and collapse!"

Reddington was silent and fell into deep thought. Carrey knew the original plot, but he had changed a lot. What he was thinking now was: Elizabeth was well protected by him, Kaplan did not take the method of faking her death to escape, and Reddington did not shoot her, so why did she do this?
Judging from the plot, it should be Catalina who found her and asked her to do so. As for the Catalina that might appear, he thinks she is definitely fake, but there is no evidence now.
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More than ten minutes later, Reddington took out the secure mobile phone that Carrie gave him and dialed it several times, but it didn't go through!
"Lee, Kaplan isn't answering the phone!" Reddington's face changed. "Is there really something wrong with her?"

Kerry didn't answer, but pointed at the phone in his hand and said, "There is a message. Let's see what it is?"

Oh? Reddington looked down at his phone, then stood up in an instant, and said in surprise: "Demby is poisoned!"

This time, Carrie did not inform Donald and the SER people, but took Gina, Jiva and Jeffrey's team with her and followed Reddington to find Dembe.

The message just now was sent by Lei's emergency doctor, Haver Camp, and forwarded through a mailbox. The content was that Dumby called his contact number after being poisoned, and he took the ambulance to the back kitchen of a restaurant to pick him up and took him to the emergency medical point. He is currently receiving first aid.

When Carrie and Reddington arrived at the medical center, Dembe's condition was already very critical, but the doctor could not determine the cause of the disease, so he could not provide effective treatment and was helpless.

On the way, Carrie tried hard to recall the plot of the original story, and finally remembered that the poison that Reddington was poisoned with was "red-headed krait venom". She immediately bought the serum from the system mall and injected it into Dembe personally.

Two hours later, Dembe recovered and told them what happened...

Previously, following Reddington's orders, Dembe summoned ten middle-level managers to Washington for a meeting. He specially booked a restaurant that he knew well for preliminary communication. But he didn't expect that he felt something was wrong after just taking a sip of red wine...

Afterwards, Dembe ordered a team of guards to take control of the ten middle-level managers and lock them up in the storage room in the back kitchen. He then fell into a coma and no one knew what happened next.

Carrey asked Jeffrey to send Dembe to Andrews Air Force Base Hospital for follow-up treatment, and then he went to the restaurant with Reddington. However, he did not appear in front of the ten middle-level people. Instead, he let Reddington come forward and comfort these people before letting them go.

At this point, the two of them had already determined that the problem lay with Kaplan!

In addition, based on Dumby's poisoning, Reddington thought of a drug toxicologist, known as a "pharmacist" in the underground world, whose specialty is making poisons and disguising poisoning symptoms as illness.

Reddington gave a clue to find the "pharmacist" - Ilario Panetti, the leader of the Panetti Consortium. He believed that he should be related to the "pharmacist".

At this point, Carrie arranged for agents from two departments of the Post Office to investigate the "pharmacist", and Reddington was responsible for verifying the truth of Dumby's poisoning.
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Reddington went to John's restaurant to question the ten detained middle-level managers. They testified that Dembe only drank a glass of red wine last night and then fell down, and that bottle of wine was sent by Marvin, who did not attend the meeting.

He summoned the most loyal Felix guard team to go find Marvin in person. In the apartment of Marvin's fiancee Becky, they found traces of a hasty departure, and the answering light on the answering phone was still flashing, which contained a message from Dumby, notifying Marvin to meet at John's restaurant yesterday.

(End of this chapter)