The Blacklist

Chapter 330: The Link between the White House and Los Angeles
At the White House in Washington, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. Palmer's ex-wife Shirley, who had been divorced for a long time, suddenly came and asked to talk to him alone. He was not going to pay attention to her, but she told him a piece of news that surprised him - without the president's order, the troops stationed in Los Angeles had begun to withdraw, and it was precisely because of the withdrawal of the troops that ordinary people began to panic!
In a subsequent private conversation, Shirley told Palmer that she had received news that some senior government officials had united to use the nuclear attack to force him to step down, and that these people were accomplices in his White House team!
Palmer felt like he had enemies everywhere, so he could only temporarily accept Shirley's stay, hoping that she could help him find the traitor around him.

In the subsequent private questioning, Palmer unexpectedly learned that it was Roger, the newly appointed acting NSA director, who notified the military and asked the Los Angeles garrison to evacuate. Although Roger claimed that he was following the director's documents left by Rayburn, his behavior had already made Palmer suspicious.

Palmer couldn't believe the team around him. He felt a strong conspiracy! Fortunately, the security director Katie still stood firmly beside him and told him: Director Kerry has made some arrangements, so there is no need to worry.

Soon, Elise and Jiva from SLR entered the White House with 60 members of the operation team and completely took over the security work around Palmer. With the permission of Katie, the security director, no one could stop them, which made some people start to get anxious! ——
In Los Angeles, Kim, who was forced to return to the police station with two female agents because she could not leave the city, said that she would not leave. Although it was dangerous here, she was willing to stay with her father! Moreover, she believed that her father would be able to catch the bad guys and prevent the nuclear bomb from exploding.

Jack was still anxious, but Carrie smiled. After finding out that Kim had studied computer design and had a certain level of computer proficiency, she gave her a temporary job - as a trainee employee in the technical team, and let Milo Pressman guide her. It happened that the branch was extremely short of staff at that time.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but Jack felt that after his daughter got this temporary job, she seemed to have become a completely different person and had matured a lot!
In the investigation of the case, Kerry had already determined that the groom, Reza Nayel, who was brought back, actually knew nothing. He had been working hard to marry the girl he loved, but he was actually being pushed out as a target. He gave Reza some time to think about what the problem with the account was.
After some time of consideration, Reza, who felt the seriousness of the situation, finally confessed: he was nominally in charge of the company's accounts, but in fact, it was his father-in-law who did it himself, and he had no idea what was going on. In order to avoid going to jail and losing his American citizenship, he was willing to cooperate with the investigation and go to the company to retrieve the accounts.

So, Kerry sent Gina and Tony to take Reza to the company to get the accounts, and gave them a few more instructions.

Afterwards, Tony was amazed by his foresight - the bride Mary Warner, who was waiting in the company, heard that they were there to collect the company's accounts, and she actually pulled out a pistol from her bag, but before she could fire, she was subdued by Gina!

Afterwards, the bride's father, who had been taken to the police station, was formally taken into custody. During Carrie's personal interrogation, he obtained key information about Sayyid Ali - he was a devout fundamentalist and would go to the mosque to pray every day.

After investigation, they determined that there were a total of six mosques in the urban area of ​​Los Angeles. Abby used his skills and led the technical team of agents to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the six mosques. They found traces of Sayyid in the Dakar Mosque, 15 miles away from the state bureau.

Jack immediately led the operatives to the mosque. In order to take care of the already fragile national sentiment, they surrounded the mosque but did not rush in immediately. Instead, they wanted to wait until the prayer meeting was over and capture Sayyid when he left. However, the situation did not go as planned. After the prayer meeting ended, the congregants left one after another, but they did not find him! When Jack led the operatives to search, they found that a person with the same body shape and clothing as Sayyid had spontaneously combusted and died! However, Jack soon discovered that the deceased's pants were three points shorter, unlike Sayyid who had entered the mosque before. It seemed that he had faked his death to escape, but how did he escape?

Afterwards, Jack contacted Carrie and admitted that his action had failed!
However, Kerry dispatched reinforcements to them, and brought a municipal engineering team to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the mosque's buildings. They discovered a secret underground passage, which allowed them to track the direction again.
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In Washington, at the White House, after investigation, Palmer discovered that Roger, the acting director of the NSA, had lied to him - Rayburn, who had been suspended before, had left no unprocessed orders or documents. In other words, it was Roger who contacted the Pentagon and ordered the troops stationed in Los Angeles to withdraw in the name of the president, thereby exacerbating the panic among the people and proving that he had ulterior motives!

After careful consideration, Palmer made up his mind and ordered Roger to be formally arrested and handed over to CTU's Jiva for interrogation to find out the purpose of his abnormal behavior and whether he was involved in the conspiracy of nuclear attack.

The president's harsh behavior shocked some people, and his staff also discovered a new group of elite agents around the president. Security director Katie Todd reorganized and integrated the original USSS agents, the White House Guard and these new agents, built a new security system, and raised the president's security measures to the highest level.
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At 8 pm Western Time, Jack led the team to successfully track down and capture Sayyid Ali and brought him back to the police station. However, this guy was very tough and refused to answer any questions, claiming that he was not afraid of death!
Of course, Carrey sneered at this and personally interrogated Sayyid, using an interrogation method that no one could understand until now to break down Sayyid's psychological defenses - although it was different from the original plot where Jack threatened Sayyid with his family's lives, revealing his inner secrets bit by bit was enough to make him collapse!
According to Sayid's explanation, the "second wave" operatives had already sent the nuclear bomb to Nottingham Airport, 20 miles outside the city, and planned to use an airplane to carry the nuclear warhead to detonate it over the city center!

Just as Carrie was about to send Jack and Jeffrey to lead the team to Nottingham Airport, he received a call from President Palmer himself...

Palmer asked, "Lee, how are you doing over there?"

Kerry: "We've just identified the possible location of the nuclear warheads, and I'm about to send someone there!"

Palmer: "Great! I have some information here too..."

(End of this chapter)