The Blacklist

Chapter 402 Tom is assigned a wife
Elizabeth was frustrated that she had not caught the dangerous Bastien Moreau, but Reddington took her to a bank and took out a USB drive from a safe deposit box. The drive contained all the client information kept by Dr. Hans, even their names and identities after plastic surgery - this was what he told Reddington before he died.

Although Bastian was not included in the list due to time constraints, the more than 100 customers before were enough for SER to make great contributions! Of course, all of their staff will be busy for a while!
Carrie expressed encouragement for SER's achievements, but criticized Reddington, accusing him of not providing information in a timely manner, which allowed Bastian to escape, making the old man very angry!
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In Russia, under the arrangement of Federal Security Service agent Vadim, Tom and Nez were successfully included in the recruitment plan and were notified to wait for a special person to meet them at a train station outside Moscow. After verifying their identities and codes, they were taken to the "Independence Town" deep in the mountains with a dozen other people.

The subsequent search, registration and confiscation of personal belongings were all basic operations, and they were not surprised. But then, they were immediately assigned a new identity and were warned not to reveal their previous identities, to only speak English, to only drink bottled water, to disguise themselves as ordinary Americans, etc., before being sent into the town.

Nez took only one sip of the bottled water she was given and knew there was a problem - she was a retired Marine special warfare soldier due to WSD (war sequelae), and had taken a lot of medication for treatment and became addicted. It was Howard who helped her quit her drug addiction, so she was able to enter Halcyon.

She told Tom that the bottled water contained trace amounts of drugs and psychotropic ingredients, which could lower the drinker's guard and make it easier for them to obey orders. This was one of the brainwashing methods commonly used by spy agencies.

This immediately raised the alert level in their hearts. There were at least a thousand people living in this town. Drinking water alone was a huge expense, not to mention other things. The Russian spy agency was quite generous. You know, their military expenditures could not be fully guaranteed, but they spent a huge amount of money on this town. This was a big problem! -
On Kerry's side, while guiding Elizabeth to control SER and help her handle cases, he was also paying attention to Tom's situation. Before he left Washington, he specially customized a carbon-based communication capsule from the system for Tom. After swallowing it, it can stay in his gastrointestinal tract for a month, and use its own bioelectric current to charge, and can transmit UHF signal positioning information, which can be received through the Atis satellite network he controls.

In the original plot, Tom returned safely, but Carrie was worried that the changes he made before would affect the world, so he was still a little worried about Tom's safety. Of course, it's not right to say that he was very worried. Because of the changes he brought, Tom has lived a lot longer, and Carrie doesn't owe him anything!

Despite thinking so, Carrie still asked Reddington to arrange for his men in Russia to secretly approach the town, bury satellite phones and weapons and equipment in the woods outside, and prepare several evacuation routes.

Because of this operation, Susan showed a positive attitude of cooperation. Since Tom and Nez set off, she asked her technical engineer Dumont to keep in touch with SLR and send any information from the front in a timely manner. Her friendly attitude was very obvious.

In this regard, Carrie did not express any attitude, but arranged Abby to be responsible for the connection with Dumont. In Susan's opinion, this should be an agreement to cooperate!
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In a small Russian town, Tom is assigned to be a white-collar husband. When he returns to "home", he wears the ring he was given. His "wife" Xia greets him with a considerate and gentle smile, just like a loving wife...

In the following days, Xia took Tom to visit neighbors and attend birthday parties. They played roles perfectly! However, Tom felt more and more weird inside. He didn't know what the meaning of such "training" was.
After observing for a period of time, Tom found that most of his neighbors looked very much like Americans. Except for being occasionally stumped by some American slang, there was no difference between them and ordinary Americans.

However, one day, a neighbor’s “wife” had a mental breakdown, said something like “it was just acting”, and then disappeared!
Nez is the eldest sister in a family. She has a "younger brother" Pete. But soon after she entered this family, Pete was about to leave. Before getting on the car, Pete secretly told her: He will never come back, and I hope she takes care of herself!
Tom and Nez are both experienced special agents. They easily discovered that although the town seems peaceful, there are cameras and monitoring devices everywhere, and everyone is under surveillance.

Tom used his free time at "work" to wander around the town, aiming to find the location of control - for this level of monitoring, the command and control center would have to be quite large.

A few days later, "unemployed" Nez received a notice for a "bank interview". She knew it was an internal test, but she still couldn't control her temper and beat up the interviewer for harassing her! Unexpectedly, because of this, she was considered by the higher-ups to have a personality similar to that of an American woman, and was given the qualification to carry out the task in advance!
After a conversation with a stern female training supervisor, Nez is given the assignment information, having no idea that the identity she has been assigned is actually a real person in the United States, who looks, has a similar complexion, and body shape to this person, and so can completely replace her as long as she gets a minor cosmetic surgery as arranged!
After Nez found an opportunity to meet with Tom and summarized the situation, he confirmed that he had learned the secret of Independence Town - find a suitable agent, arrange for him to familiarize himself with the target person's living conditions, then use plastic surgery to make the target look real, and then send him to the United States to replace the target... As for what he will do next, you can imagine!
The problem is serious. Over the years, no one knows how many people have been sent to the United States in this way. Tom and Nez both feel that the information must be sent back as soon as possible, but in this small town, all communications are strictly controlled. The only possible way is to transmit information through the town’s command and control center!
During this time, Tom used his skills as a disguised person and took some effort to find out that the command and control center was located in the basement of the town hall in the center of the town. After reconnaissance, he found that its security was not strict. This might be the sequelae of not having any problems for a long time!
(End of this chapter)