The Blacklist

Chapter 328: Sitting in Luocheng and controlling the situation

Cooper in Washington was furious after receiving Gina's call. The explosion in the Los Angeles police station caused such serious casualties, but it was caused by someone concealing information! He rushed directly to the White House to report to President Palmer.

Palmer was extremely angry when he learned about this situation, and immediately ordered an investigation. He soon found out that it was NSA Director Eric Rayburn who did it. His explanation was: If the CTU Los Angeles branch personnel evacuated in advance, the terrorists would notice that there was a traitor, which would expose Jack who was undercover and affect the search for the nuclear bomb!
Cooper scoffed at this. Before the explosion, the Los Angeles police station had enough time to conduct a secret evacuation, not letting the terrorists know that the personnel had left, thus avoiding heavy casualties!

Rayburn argued: What if there is a mole in the Los Angeles police station? That would leak the news! In order to ensure that the news of Jack's undercover work does not leak out, it is necessary to make certain sacrifices...

His view was not shared by Cooper and Palmer. 36 people were killed or missing and dozens were injured. This was an unprecedented loss for domestic law enforcement agencies and a great blow to the government's prestige. CTU, as a professional anti-terrorism agency, suffered a great loss of reputation!

This series of heavy losses can never be explained or compensated by Rayburn's point of view. More importantly, the implication revealed by Rayburn's actions is very terrible - concealing important intelligence and watching brother units being attacked will seriously affect the trust between law enforcement agencies!

Palmer ordered the suspension of Rayburn's position as NSA director, expelled him from the White House, and placed him under house arrest by CTU.

Palmer could not accept this "second wave" of attacks against US law enforcement, and immediately called the Iranian Prime Minister in person, asking him to provide intelligence, otherwise the United States would impose strong sanctions against him!

The Iranian Prime Minister capitulated and arranged for the country's ambassador to the United States to pick up a senior intelligence officer from the East Coast and take a helicopter back to Washington, D.C., to share information about the "second wave" of terrorist organizations with the White House. However, the helicopter crashed in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., and all people on board were killed.

Cooper informed Carrie in Los Angeles of the relevant news and asked him to comfort the survivors of the Los Angeles branch. At the same time, he ordered Donald to take SER agents to investigate the helicopter crash.
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In Los Angeles, Jack, who was acting alone, received a notice from Tony and learned that Director Carrie was here to take charge. Thinking of his previous experience, he immediately took Nina to the new location of the branch to report to his superior.

Seeing Jack's decadent look at this moment, Carrie criticized him without hesitation: "Jack, look at yourself, what are you like now? Terry's death was an accident, but the real reason was that there was a problem with your education of Kim since she was a child... Don't you understand what I said more than a year ago?"

Jack was more than ten years older than him, but when he was criticized, he dared not say a word of rebuttal because it was the fact, and Carrie had indeed reminded him more than a year ago!
After criticizing her, Carrie put away her anger and turned to the topic that Jack was concerned about: "I know what you are thinking. Don't worry, I have arranged for Team Leader Julian to lead a group of agents to look for Kim... However, as far as I know, she is not an obedient and worry-free person. I guess she has caused trouble again. You should be prepared."

"Thank you!" Jack breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that. Kim was of course his biggest concern. He knew that Carrie's subordinates were all elite soldiers and with their help, they should be able to find her soon.

Kerry continued: "Tell me about Nina. Why do you think she has a problem? How did you find her? What did you do when you went out?"

Jack reported: "After the Los Angeles police station was attacked by a bomb, I realized that Wald might not know about the nuclear bomb and was just being used to divert our attention, so I decided to arrest him. But when I killed his men and found him, he shot himself in front of me, leaving only some photos..." As he spoke, he took out a few photos from the confession and placed them on the table.

Carrie picked up the photos and looked at them. In addition to Nina's photo, there were also the Los Angeles branch's architectural composition, network layout, alarm facilities, etc. She continued to listen to his report.

"I was very surprised when I found Nina and the police station in the photos!" Jack said, "Although Wald had committed suicide, these photos proved that they were connected. I judged that Wald knew about the Los Angeles police station through Nina, so I went to arrest her. "It turns out that she did know something about the terrorist attack! Under my interrogation, she confessed a person who might know the whereabouts of the nuclear bomb. This person is called Faxin, a Middle Easterner. After I captured her, I could only interrogate her through Nina who knew Arabic. I didn't expect that after getting the information, Nina suddenly killed her in order to master the intelligence content in exchange for her release..."

"Where is Nina? Have you brought her back?" Carrie asked.

"He's been brought back and is in the interrogation room," said Jack.

"Keep him locked up for now, I'll go and interrogate him myself later." Carrie nodded.

At this time, Tony found a Middle Eastern American named Reza Nayel, whose account had financial transactions with Sayyid Ali, the leader of the "Second Wave" organization, and he was preparing to get married today.

Kerry asked, "What about Reza's father-in-law, the bride, and others? What do they know?"

"Tony is questioning them," Gina said, "but it seems that they don't know about Reza and Sayid at the moment."

"Leave them here, I will see them in person," said Carrie.

"Okay." Gina continued, "Julian has found Kim and is on his way to pick her up."

"Where is Kim?" Jack asked excitedly, "Sorry, I'm a little anxious! But can you tell her the current situation?"

Gina looked at Carrie, and after getting her nod of agreement, she said, "Kim was driving away from Los Angeles with a little girl when they were stopped by the police. The body of the little girl's mother was found in the trunk of the car... They were arrested and sent back to the Los Angeles Police Department..."

"Corpse?" Jack was confused. What was going on?

"Don't worry, you will meet soon. Just ask her clearly then. I believe Kim would not kill anyone." Carrie comforted him, and in her heart she felt sorry for the girl's willfulness and bad luck...she deserved it!
At this point, although Jack was anxious, he also knew that Carrie was right. He could only wait patiently for Team Leader Julian to bring his daughter back. For a moment, he could not think of anything else!

(End of this chapter)