The Blacklist

Chapter 327: Los Angeles Branch Office Attacked and Exploded
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Kerry suddenly received an emergency report from the headquarters: CTU's Los Angeles branch suffered a bomb attack, 29 people were killed, 7 were missing, and dozens were injured. It was completely paralyzed!
In addition, Branch Chief George Mason was exposed to nuclear radiation while tracking down a warehouse suspected of assembling Fang weapons, and may only have one to two days left to live!
Cooper called him personally to ask for his opinion. Carrey knew that he was embarrassed to ask him to go to Los Angeles, but he was still confident about it and decided to go there personally to deal with the nuclear crisis.

Later, when he was arranging the work of SLR, the agents had to follow him to Los Angeles. He explained the situation and said he didn't want to take everyone on an adventure, but none of the agents backed down. Even Donald, who heard about it, came with the SERs and wanted to go along!

Finally, he decided to fly over with only Gina, Abby, Jeffrey and Julian to supervise the case, and everyone else stayed at home to look after the house; Donald and the SER team were responsible for guarding the post office to deal with emergencies.

Before leaving, Carrie called the director of the California State Police and asked him to gather personnel from the Los Angeles branch, and team leader Tony Almeida would temporarily be responsible for the investigation.

Afterwards, he took the group to California on Reddington's private plane, Speke 512. Because the situation was urgent, he ordered the pilot to fly at a high speed of Mach 1.5, and it took only more than five hours to fly over a distance of more than 17 kilometers, arriving in Los Angeles at 45: Western Time (Washington is three hours faster than Los Angeles).

At 18:, Kerry and his party deliberately went to the Los Angeles Branch Office at the intersection of Gesell Street. Seeing the four-story office building that had been basically bombed into ruins, they were still shocked. Mason was too incompetent and afraid of death. He turned the Los Angeles Branch Office into this state! Not only was he going to die, but his old nest was also destroyed. This matter would soon become a joke among law enforcement departments.

Ten minutes later, the group arrived at the California State Police at Norton Square. At this time, the entire seventh floor had been vacated for use by the Los Angeles branch, but less than 30 branch staff were able to continue working, and more than half of them had minor injuries. It was a miserable scene.

When they saw Kerry leading his men into the hall, the Los Angeles branch staff all stood up. Most of them were former employees, so they naturally recognized his identity. At this moment, it was like seeing someone they could rely on. Some female employees couldn't help but have tears in their eyes...

Carrie didn't have time to comfort everyone now, so she left Gina and Abby in the hall to understand the situation and rebuild the network, and took Jeffrey and Julian into the conference room. Tony, the temporary head of the branch, led several team leaders to follow hurriedly.

After sitting down at the conference table, Carrie didn't waste any words and said directly: "Donny, tell me about the current situation."

"Yes, Chief." Tony said, "According to the intelligence sent by the General Administration, it is basically confirmed that the attacker is a terrorist named Mam Rashed Fahain. He is associated with the fundamentalist organization "Second Wave" and planned and carried out the Valentine's Day bombing in the West Bank on February 2 this year, which killed 14 people and injured 13 people. He also used this to create the illusion that he was dead.

“NSA intelligence analysts accidentally discovered that one of the photos taken five days ago at a small airport in Lyon, France, was of a Korean suspect Jason Park, and Fahain was in it!

"Later, the NSA captured Park and interrogated him, from which they learned that for the past two years, Fahain had been preparing for today's attack on Los Angeles...

"After analysis by the NSA and CTU headquarters, they believe that the most likely person to support Fahain in Los Angeles is the local terrorist Joseph Wald. Because Jack Bauer had contact with him during an undercover mission, he was specially recalled to track down Wald...

"Oh, Jack has put forward a condition that we should send someone to take his daughter Kim away from Los Angeles..."

At this time, the intelligence team leader Michelle Dessler next to him interrupted and said, "Director, I think Agent Jack's behavior is very problematic. He actually shot and killed the only tainted witness who could point out Wald's crimes, and cut off his head and took it away, saying that this was the only way to gain Wald's trust. This makes it impossible for us to explain to the FBI..." Carrie raised her hand to stop her and asked, "Have you found Kim?"

Michelle was stunned for a moment, and the duty team leader Rebecca Nice said, "Before, Chief Mason sent two agents to look for Kim, but they didn't find her, and then they didn't take care of her anymore."

Kerry frowned and asked, "Does Jack know?"

Tony shook his head and said, "Mason won't let us tell him."

"Mason is an asshole!" Carrie said angrily, "Although Jack is an asshole, he is now undercover outside to investigate the case. Since Mason promised to take Kim away, he should do it. Otherwise, what will our CTU become?" Then, he turned his head and said to the people around him, "Julian, this task is for you. Take a group of agents out, find Kim, and send someone to send her away. Rebecca, you assign a group of agents to Team Leader Julian."

"Yes, Director." The two men stood up and answered, then walked out together.

"Tell me about the explosion," Carrie said again.

Speaking of the explosion, Tony was furious and said angrily: "It has been confirmed before that Jack notified the NSA contact half an hour before the explosion, but no one notified us until 5 minutes before the explosion. The explosion occurred while we were evacuating..."

"Have you reported this?" Carrie asked seriously. He knew this was part of the conspiracy.

"It's too late!" Tony said, "After the explosion, we were busy rescuing the injured, and Mason left the police station before...

"Later, when Jack caught the suspect Nina and brought her back for interrogation, we learned about this situation. Afterwards, Jack took Nina to find the whereabouts of the nuclear bomb... We were busy the whole time, so we didn't pay attention to it."

"Tony, contact Jack. I want to know what he is doing now." Carrie nodded and ordered, "Jeffrey, go find Gina and ask her to contact Director Cooper and have the General Administration contact the NSA for questioning. I want to know all the details of the explosion intelligence. The person who suppressed the intelligence and delayed time must be held responsible for the casualties of our CTU!"

After arranging this, he turned to Michelle, the somewhat unhappy intelligence team leader, and said to her: "Jack's previous behavior was indeed inappropriate, even against the rules, but when facing a major threat, these can only be put aside. As a member of CTU, you should understand what is most important!"

(End of this chapter)