The Blacklist

Chapter 356 Don’t Say You Have Free Time
As October approached, the two special departments of the post office basically maintained the frequency of handling one case a week. The work was non-stop, but not too stressful. At least there was no long overtime.

At 10 a.m. on October 7, Saturday, Carrie in Baltimore received a report from the General Administration saying that a Marine colonel had been killed in a bomb and that there was a suspected terrorist attack, and asked him if he needed to intervene now.
Kerry was a little surprised and asked, "Why are you asking me, Chief?"

The attendant said, "Director Cooper is on a business trip to California. Before he left, he told you to make the decision on matters related to the case."

"Oh, I see." Carrie said, "NCIS is in charge of the case of the attack on the navy and army. You just need to pay attention to it and record it. CTU does not need to get involved."

The attendant said, "Yes, Director Kerry."

After hanging up the phone, Carrie thought about it and vaguely remembered that this was a case in the fourth season of "NCIS". Although she couldn't remember the specific circumstances, Gibbs must have solved the case in the end, so it didn't matter whether he participated or not.
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The case that Carey did not handle occurred at the Officers Club in Roslyn, Maryland. A Marine colonel was playing golf with his son who was about to go to college. When they were playing the last hole, an explosion suddenly occurred. The colonel was killed and his body was mutilated. His son was far away and only suffered minor injuries to his hands.

When Gibbs from the NCIS First Investigation Team came to the club with his men, he found that people from CID (Army Criminal Investigation Command) were also there, led by a female lieutenant colonel, Hols Mann!

Gibbs was puzzled, what was CID doing here? Lieutenant Colonel Halls said that the case happened in the Officers Club, which was jointly owned by the Navy and the Army, so the Army also had the right to investigate.

Gibbs was speechless at what the female lieutenant colonel said, but it seemed that he couldn't drive her away, so he simply ignored her and ordered his men to start investigating the scene...

If Carrie had brought people to the scene at this time, they would definitely turn around and leave. It's not a big case, what is there to rob?
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After a pleasant weekend, when Carrie went to work on Monday, he saw that there was nothing urgent, so he asked the SLR agents to organize the written materials of the cases they handled and arrange their work progress themselves. If someone could find a beautiful woman like him to organize files and write reports for him, that would be fine too.

Under his influence, Donald has now also learned this management method, which does not emphasize too many superficial things, but requires efficiency. Over time, SER becomes more and more similar to SLR!
Now the agents in the post office work very hard. After work, they like to go to the fourth floor to chat in the water bar and sweat in the gym. They all think that this job has good treatment, good leaders and colleagues, and they can get enough performance. Everyone is very happy! ——
After a morning of nothing, Elizabeth curled up on the sofa in Kerry's office after lunch. She drank a sip of hot tea and said lazily, "Why are there no new cases these two days? I'm so idle!"

Kerry's face changed. He had heard that there were some taboos in law enforcement and emergency response departments. For example, never say anything like "idle"!

Sure enough, as soon as Elizabeth finished speaking, the phone on the desk rang...

It’s the same case as before. On Saturday, NCIS and CID took over the case of a Marine colonel being killed in a bombing. Unexpectedly, not only had the case not been solved for more than two days, but a new explosion had just occurred. Two Army military police from CID were killed, and many agents from the two departments were injured in the explosion...DOD (Department of Defense) and DHS (Department of Homeland Security) raised the threat level of this case, defining it as a domestic terrorist attack. After reporting it to the National Security Council, they asked CTU to officially take over!

After hanging up the phone, Kerry looked at Elizabeth. Gina had already told her about this taboo. She stuck out her tongue, nodded and saluted, asking for forgiveness! What else could he do? He could only sigh helplessly.
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Donald took Elizabeth and Aram to NCIS and brought back the case investigation materials, the on-site investigation records of the two previous explosions, the autopsy report of the deceased colonel, and other materials...

According to the investigation conducted by the joint investigation team of NCIS and CID, it has been determined that the bomb that exploded on the golf course used a plastic shell. Although most of it had melted in the explosion, the outstanding forensic doctor Dark found tiny fragments in the body of the deceased, but the forensic personnel have not yet analyzed any useful clues...

NCIS technical agent McGee checked the surveillance video of the officers' club and found that a 99 Toyota sedan drove out of the club just after the explosion. It was later found out that the owner of the car was the manager of the golf course!
According to traffic surveillance, they found the car under an overpass, but there was no owner. A bag of marijuana was found in the trunk, indicating that it was transporting drugs, but it could not be determined whether it was related to the explosion!
As for the second explosion, it was because the CIA provided them with the hiding place of the bomber. The joint investigation team raided the warehouse at the location based on the intelligence, but did not find anyone. During the search, it was determined that there were indeed traces of two or three people staying there... During the search, the preset bomb in the warehouse exploded!

The heads of NCIS and CID believed that this was a trap set by terrorists, and questioned the CIA about the source of the intelligence and the responsibility. However, the CIA said that the intelligence provided by the informant was accurate, but the terrorists evacuated in advance and planted a bomb. The informant should not be held responsible, and his identity was confidential and could not be disclosed...

The three parties are currently engaged in a lawsuit over this matter, which may be the reason why the case was handed over to CTU!
The case was a bit complicated, and Donald had a headache. He said directly: "Lee, you take charge!"

Kerry did not refuse and said, “Aram, you can directly use our CTU’s authority to enter the DSA (National Security Agency) confidential database and query the intelligence backup data stored in it by the CIA;

"Abby, you will be responsible for re-examining the evidence found at the two explosion sites and looking for clues;
"Liz, can you contact Lao Lei and see if he knows anything?
"Well, everyone else take a rest first, and move out when we get some clues!"

Everyone laughed and agreed in unison: "Understood, Boss!"

Donald followed him upstairs and asked, "Lee, is this okay? We'll just wait!"

"Don't worry!" Carrie said, "Trust Aram and Abby, they will find clues soon, and then we can solve the case in one go. It won't be as hard as it was for NCIS and CID! Oh, by the way, remember that the CIA is unreliable, don't trust them too much!"

(End of this chapter)