The Blacklist

Chapter 339 What is the real purpose?

When they arrived in Italy, by Lake Como, Reddington demonstrated to Elizabeth how to use the bad reputation of a criminal to "rent" the luxury villa she needed, and how to quickly find the best local professionals to arrange the party, including catering, drinks and guests, without any preparation, and successfully prepare it before Saturday.

Of course, the most important thing is that he also found a master forger who forged a nearly lifelike fake of "The Storm on the Sea of ​​Galilee" in just 20 hours!
Elizabeth began to understand a little bit. This was Reddington teaching her how to coordinate and utilize resources to complete tasks that seemed impossible to ordinary people. After thinking about it, she felt that she benefited a lot.

During the whole process, Kerry and Gina did not intervene, but just watched and protected, and learned a lot. The two of them had the same idea that this old Lei really has a way! ——
On Saturday afternoon, Grayson came as scheduled. Seeing the lively scene in this luxurious villa, he didn't realize that it was a temporary "rented" venue. Although he was anxious to see the famous painting he had dreamed of, he still patiently greeted Reddington...

Reddington was not in a hurry at all, and spoke of his future shipping plans in a nonchalant tone. In the end, Grayson couldn't help but promise: as long as he let him appreciate "The Storm on the Sea of ​​Galilee", he would be willing to provide Reddington with his two docks on the Aegean Sea, and would only charge 5% of the value of the goods!
Reddington laughed, then took him to a room and instructed two workers to take down the 1.5-meter-square painting frame on the wall. He said, "Grayson, since we are going to become partners, I will give you this Rembrandt's "Storm on the Sea of ​​Galilee" as a gift to celebrate our relationship!"

Grayson was surprised at first, then excited, and pretended to refuse a few times without even checking the authenticity of the painting. He happily accepted it. After watching the two workers carefully pack the painting and deliver it to his SUV, he felt relieved. Then he told Raven that both parties would sign a cooperation agreement tomorrow, and then he left in a hurry, as if he was afraid that Reddington would regret it!
Watching Grayson happily driving away, Reddington took out his cell phone to call the police in front of Elizabeth's astonished eyes, notifying the cultural relics police of the Italian Ministry of Culture that someone was found using a car to transport a famous Rembrandt painting that was stolen from a museum in Rome 27 years ago. It seemed to be the famous "Storm on the Sea of ​​Galilee"!
After Reddington hung up the phone, Elizabeth asked in confusion, "Old Reddington, you gave Grayson a fake painting just to call the police to arrest him?"

Gina and Dembe were also surprised, but Carrie laughed heartily. This old Ray was really bad! This trick alone would take Elizabeth several years to learn.

“Hahaha…” Reddington also laughed, “Come on, everyone follow me, you will soon know why I do this… Oh, by the way, Lee, you are not allowed to tell them in advance!”
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Ten minutes later, Grayson was stopped by Italian cultural relics police on his way home. He was caught red-handed and taken to the Milan police station with the painting.

Ten minutes later, Reddington brought Elizabeth and Dembe to Grayson's villa, which was also near Lake Como. He introduced himself to the security personnel as Grayson's chief security consultant and came to handle the emergency!

Reddington said that Grayson was arrested by the Italian police, and now all the documents that may endanger the boss must be destroyed immediately. Because the security captain went to the party with Grayson and was arrested on the way back, the remaining security personnel were skeptical, but someone was smart enough to contact the insider in the police, who confirmed that the boss was indeed arrested, so they believed Reddington's words and began to destroy the documents.

Reddington methodically directed the security personnel to burn paper documents, throw hard drives into the water, throw mobile phones, walkie-talkies, surveillance videos into the microwave, etc. He looked like an expert in destroying evidence, making the security personnel more convinced of his identity.

Afterwards, Reddington said that he would be personally responsible for the most important study, and took Elizabeth and Dembe to the study to work. He took advantage of the chaos to open the safe and took out the USB drive, Napoleon necklace and the one-cent coin worth three million.

When the villa was almost cleaned up, Reddington took Elizabeth and Dumby away. Before leaving, he asked the security personnel to leave only the gatekeeper and the gardener, and everyone else to evacuate separately, hide their whereabouts, not contact anyone, not disclose what happened today to anyone, and then wait for the boss to call! ——
While Reddington went to Grayson's villa to complete the last step of his plan, Carrie and Gina put on makeup and tracked the antiquities police who captured Grayson to Milan, 25 miles south of Lake Como. They waited patiently outside the Seventh Precinct, sitting in a street cafe drinking coffee and admiring the street view.

At about six in the evening, Grayson was brought out by his lawyer. Because the painting in his car was confirmed to be a fake, the cultural relics police had no choice but to release him. For this, Grayson also lost his temper, not only because he was caught by the police, but also because he was deceived by Reddington!
After they drove away from the police station, Grayson was angry for a while before he remembered the important matter. He asked the security captain to call back to the villa to get people - he was going to cause trouble for Reddington!
The security captain called his men, but no one answered. This made Grayson have bad associations and he ordered them to hurry home because he was worried that something had happened at home!

Gina drove a Ferrari sports car and followed Grayson's Mercedes-Benz G-Class SUV from a distance. When they reached a section of road with no surveillance cameras, they accelerated and began to overtake...

The security captain saw that it was a Ferrari catching up, but he didn't care and gave up the overtaking lane on the left; the lawyer sitting in the passenger seat and Grayson sitting in the back seat also didn't care. There are many people driving Ferraris in Italy, most of them are rich second-generations who are looking for excitement, and it is normal for them to overtake wild cars.

When the Ferrari overtook the Mercedes SUV from the left, Carrey, who was sitting in the passenger seat, raised his right hand, holding a famous Italian gun Beretta 92F with a silencer, and fired two shots. The bullets passed through the open left rear window of the SUV and hit Grayson's head! Under the cover of the noise, the security captain and the lawyer in the front row did not even notice that Grayson in the back row had been shot dead!
The Ferrari roared, accelerated, and instantly reached a speed of 100 miles per hour, leaving behind a cloud of dust...

Half an hour later, at a small airport, Reddington's private plane took off and returned to the United States!
(End of this chapter)