The Blacklist

Chapter 36 Wolfe's True Plot
On Sunday, September 9, the junior SER agents who currently had no major cases on hand were taking a break, but a sudden terrorist attack forced them to end their vacation and work overtime.

A cargo plane flying to Los Angeles exploded 90 seconds after taking off from Washington, killing all crew members. The wreckage of the fuselage that fell from the sky also killed a black father and son who were playing in the park. The child was just 10 years old.

Almost at the same time, a group of demonstrators who opposed modern capitalism and industrialism took to the streets of Washington, clashed with the police on duty, and threw stones and Molotov cocktails. The police responded with tear gas, gas and batons, and the scene was in chaos...

After gathering the team members back, Cooper asked Elizabeth to take Reddington to the post office to ask for information about the cargo plane explosion; Reddington claimed that this incident was not on the blacklist of cooperation between the two sides, and if he was required to provide relevant information, Cooper would have to exchange it for the FBI's national crime database query qualifications.

After a stalemate between the two, Cooper gave in due to the pressure of solving the case, but only agreed to provide a one-time query password that would be invalid after use, and Reddington agreed.

Based on the information provided by Reddington, Elizabeth gave a briefing on the case:
The cargo plane explosion and the demonstrations and riots on the streets of Washington were all manipulated by an organization called the "Rad Party" behind the scenes. The organization is militant and opposes industrial capitalism. Since the 1990s, it has carried out several serious terrorist attacks around the world, causing a large number of casualties and huge economic losses...

The Rad Party has a strict organization and rules. Its members are all highly educated and highly disciplined. The core members act in secret and their identities cannot be confirmed.

However, one thing that can be confirmed now is that the founder of the Rad Party is Nathaniel Wolfe...

Alam and Mira searched the FBI and CIA databases respectively, and only found one photo of Wolfe, who was obviously wearing makeup.
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Donald and Mira went to the crash site after the cargo plane exploded to understand the situation. After returning, they reported that their colleagues in the FBI bomb team had determined that the plane disintegrated directly in the air because of a bomb explosion. The bomb was obviously homemade and was placed in the cargo box of the plane before takeoff.

Flight investigators told them that the pilot was Roger Gall, who was currently missing and was the first suspect; the second suspect was a part-time worker at a fertilizer factory who had been found to have stolen a lot of chemicals from the factory warehouse. His name was Arthur Denning.

Donald took back the photo of Denning, and Aram pulled up the photo of Roger Gall, the airline pilot. Everyone saw that it was exactly the same person! But this person was obviously not Wolfe.

At this time, the task force that went to search the apartment rented by "Roger Gall" came back with a backpack full of Wolfe's father's relics. Combined with the fingerprints found in the apartment and on the bag, it was confirmed that Wolfe had lived here.

Carrie said: "Plastic surgery! I think these three should be the same person, Wolfe, but he had plastic surgery. We need to find his name after the surgery, and of course it won't be in a regular hospital, so we can only look for those underground doctors or those who practice medicine illegally." Hearing this, everyone looked at each other. This kind of thing still requires the help of Reddington.

Elizabeth and Carrie set out together. When they found Reddington based on the tracking signal, they discovered that he was in the garage of a suburban house, and that he was printing counterfeit money. What was even more outrageous was that the technician was actually a housewife in her forties! This scene made her extremely speechless, but Carrie was very interested in visiting.

The matter was urgent, and Elizabeth had no time to investigate the counterfeit money issue. She told him that she was going to find an underground plastic surgeon. Reddington was exposed to her little secret this time, so he could only magnanimously say that he was willing to go, but Carrie didn't have to go. He and Elizabeth were enough, and too many people would scare those underground doctors!
After Dembe drove the two away, Carrie chatted with Reddington's accountant Zeng Luli with great interest and got a lot of useful information before saying goodbye and leaving.
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Reddington took Elizabeth to find several underground plastic surgeons and finally found the right one in the afternoon. The two of them got the name of Nathaniel Wolfe after plastic surgery: Brandley Holland.

After investigation, it was found that Holland was actually a pilot of Innova Airlines!
Then, Alam searched the surveillance videos of the two major airports in Washington and found that Holland had swiped his employee ID to enter Reagan Airport!
Oh no! This means another plane is about to explode. Everyone reacted immediately and drove there, hoping they could still make it in time.

The agents rushed to the airport and asked the flight management staff to check. They found out that Holland had applied for a free ride on Flight 1143 to Denver as an airline employee. The plane had already left the hangar and arrived in front of the terminal, ready to start checking tickets and boarding!

Donald immediately stopped the boarding process in the name of the FBI on-site operations commander, requiring all passengers to evacuate and the area where the plane was located and the adjacent runway to be cleared...

Fortunately, this time they acted in time, and the crew members and passengers on board were evacuated in time. However, before the colleagues from the explosion team came to check and defuse the bomb, Flight 1143 exploded. The huge power of the explosion blew up the cockpit and first-class cabin at the nose of the plane!

Everyone at the scene was terrified. If it had not been dealt with in time, the Boeing 737 would have exploded one to two minutes after takeoff, when it had just reached an altitude of thousands of feet, and no one on board would have been spared!

Because of the emergency, the Federal Aviation Administration suspended all flights in the eastern United States and asked the FBI to step up its investigation, because every day of air ban would result in huge economic losses.
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The next morning, Alam found an important piece of information on the Internet: the credit card consumption record of a person named Bradley Holland, who rented a warehouse on St. Marks Avenue!
Although they knew that there was basically no possibility that Holland was in the warehouse, Donald still went there with Mira, and then they really made a new discovery: on a data wall, they found detailed information about Wolfe's plastic surgery and impersonation of Roger Gall, Arthur Denning, and Holland, as well as information about a new identity named John Holbeck!
After verification, it was found that Holbeck was a truck driver. His company cooperated with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Ministry of Finance to transfer cash from the Mint to the airport, and then transported it to various places by plane!

(End of this chapter)