The Blacklist

Chapter 408 To prove the role of the Red Devil
Judge Roberta confirmed the authenticity of the immunity documents, but thought the matter was extremely bad - granting immunity to a federal felon outside the legal system was something she found unacceptable.

However, Donald told him that because of the clues provided by Reddington, the special operations team SER, which was set up specifically for this matter, directly solved hundreds of serious cases in the past five years and eight months, and solved thousands of backlog and unsolved cases, killed and captured thousands of felons and wanted criminals, and saved at least hundreds of thousands of people's lives and property safety. The value of its existence is immeasurable!
Senior officials from the FBI and DOJ confirmed this statement. Although SER is no longer under the jurisdiction of the two organizations, it was spun off from the FBI and is their own family. Therefore, the two of them bluntly stated: If Reddington is tried and sentenced, it will have a major impact on relevant agencies, and indirectly affect the federal law enforcement agencies' control over the underground world, causing irreparable and significant losses!
Donald gave the two of them a thumbs up in his heart, and then said, "Judge Roberta, just like what happened in court just now, Reddington can determine which criminal committed the crime as soon as he sees the news report. All we have to do is to verify and arrest them. But before, when faced with many major criminal cases, we had no clues at all. We had to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to investigate, and there was no guarantee that the case would be solved... By comparison, you can see how important Reddington is to us!"

Judge Roberta's determination was shaken, but she suddenly thought of something and asked unhappily, "Director Donald, I heard that in order to protect Reddington, your CTU actually took down the federal prosecutor in charge of the Eastern District. Isn't this a bit too much?"

"Judge, if you want to know about this matter, you need to sign a confidentiality agreement." Donald was well prepared and praised Carrie's foresight in his heart.

This time, the judge and senior officials of the FBI and DOJ all signed a confidentiality agreement, and Donald showed them the supporting documents explaining the reason for Holt's arrest!

At this point, Roberta had actually given up her original insistence, but she still made a last-ditch effort and asked, "Okay, I will believe what Director Donald said for now, but I still need a proof... Well, Reddington mentioned the case in the news report before. I want to see if SER can catch the real criminal?"

"What if we can?" Donald wanted to make this a reality.

"If the case can be solved successfully, I will make a formal ruling: drop the charges against Reddington, lift the restraining order against him, and seal the case." Roberta said, "However, before that, you CTU must continue to detain Reddington and cannot release him." I don't know if it was intentional in her words, but she didn't mention what to do if the case was not solved!
"OK, it's a deal." Donald responded immediately. He also received important information.

Afterwards, the trial of the case was suspended and Reddington was taken back to the post office. The case at hand became the key point!
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Donald followed Elizabeth and others to send Reddington back to the post office. He stayed to exchange information with Carrie before leaving.

Reddington informed SER of the experimental death case. He believed that the person who conducted the illegal drug experiments was Spalding Stark, saying that this was a genius geneticist who acted unorthodoxly and had been committed to extending human life by changing genes.

As early as a year ago, Spalding had contacted Reddington, hoping to obtain his financial support and some cutting-edge gene editing equipment, but he was not optimistic about his research at the time, so he did not sponsor it.

Aram, who always pays attention to Internet affairs, has heard of Spalding's name and knows that he is extreme. He once live-streamed the injection of a homemade malaria vaccine on the Internet, and then accepted the bite of a moth carrying malaria virus. As a result, he had a severe hyperimmune reaction and became paralyzed on the left side of his body. But he also became famous on the Internet because of this. Elizabeth, Demby, Nawabi, and Duke rushed to Virginia to investigate the warehouse where the incident occurred. They learned from the local forensic doctor that the five bodies found in the warehouse were all patients with advanced motor cortex degeneration. From a pathological point of view, the victims had not much time left, but the experimental drugs accelerated their death.

The local police found the warehouse lessor, Warren Kirby. Elizabeth and Nawabi questioned him. Kirby claimed that a man named Stark had rented the warehouse a few days ago, but the two parties had never met in person, but only talked on the phone. The other party said that the purpose of renting the warehouse was to store medical equipment...

Yesterday he wanted to come and check out the warehouse, but he found a medical tent installed in the warehouse with five bodies inside. He was so scared that he quickly called the police!
After Elizabeth and others inspected the scene, they found that the only useful evidence was a syringe found by the police at the scene. Its shape was very unique and it should be a customized product.
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After Elizabeth and the others returned to the post office with the customized syringe, Aram investigated it and found that there were very few manufacturers in the current medical server market that provided customized syringe services...

Early Saturday morning, Alam, who had been busy for most of the night, reported to Elizabeth that he had confirmed that the manufacturer of the customized syringe was in Virginia, and the owner of the company was Warren Kirby, who rented the warehouse!
Elizabeth and Nawabi were furious when they saw this message. When they questioned Kirby yesterday, he said he didn't know Spalding, but he rented warehouses and customized syringes, so it was obvious that he was lying before!

Elizabeth led the team and rushed to Virginia again, capturing Kirby directly.

As soon as he was taken into the interrogation room, Kirby confessed everything. It turned out that he was also a dementia patient. Because he felt the effectiveness of the new drug, he had been supporting Spalding's research, hoping that he could develop a new drug that could completely cure dementia...

But this time, for some unknown reason, something went wrong with the new drug and five patients who underwent the trial died. Both he and Spalding were shocked!

Because the warehouse belonged to Kirby, he stayed behind to call the police, while Spalding went into hiding, and now he didn't know where he went! ——
The case seemed clear on the surface, but there was still no clue on how to capture Spalding. Naturally, everyone thought of Carrie who was lazing around upstairs!
After reading the information, Carrie said, "Kirby said he also used Spalding's new drug and it worked well, but the last five patients who received the new drug trial all died. This is a bit too strange. It's impossible that all five people had the same complications? Check the cause of death! Check the drug ingredients!"

(End of this chapter)