The Blacklist

Chapter 409: A conspiracy by a pharmaceutical company
Although Carrie basically does no work, he always points out the direction of the investigation for everyone at critical moments. Everyone is very convinced of this, and this time is no exception.

Next, Nawabi contacted the Virginia Medical Examiner and asked him to find out the cause of death of the five patients as soon as possible.

Alam was responsible for retrieving Kobe's personal medical records and arranging for a doctor to conduct a physical examination to verify whether his condition had improved?

Abby is responsible for testing the residual drug components in the syringes left at the scene...
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On Sunday, the autopsy report and toxicology test report from the Virginia Medical Examiner were delivered: confirming that all five patients died of poisoning!
Kobe's physical examination results and comparison with his medical records confirmed that he has indeed improved, and it can even be said that he is close to recovery!

Abby found an extremely rare nerve agent, Cyrovac, in the residual drugs in the syringe, which obviously should not appear in therapeutic drugs!

After a three-way comparison, the facts became clear: it was impossible for the same drug to have such excellent therapeutic effects on Kirby while all five new test subjects died - someone was sabotaging Spalding's new drug trial, and only people around him could do this.

Elizabeth interrogated Kirby again, and he confessed that due to physical reasons, Spalding had difficulty completing delicate and complex manual work, and the new drugs were synthesized and formulated by his partner Ethan Webb.

Alam soon found out that Ethan Webb was a PhD in biochemistry and a molecular virologist. He was a researcher at Crown Life Pharmaceuticals. He was fired two years ago for stealing patent information and only then did he collaborate with Spalding.

If Ethan added poison to the formula and killed the patient, what was his purpose? To sabotage Spalding's new drug experiment, let him be charged with the crime, get caught, and keep the research results for himself? But in this way, Ethan himself will not escape punishment!
Just when everyone was puzzled, Carrie came down from upstairs and conveyed a new clue provided by Reddington: when Spalding contacted him a year ago, he was working as a pharmacist at a Green's Pharmacy in Washington, D.C. - Green is a well-known chain drugstore brand whose database covers the whole country.

With Carrie's authorization, Aram hacked into Green's pharmacy database and confirmed that Spalding had contacted patients with advanced degenerative diseases through the database. The five previous victims were found in this way. She also found that several other patients were on the contact list...

Carrie asked Elizabeth to send out SER agents in groups of two to visit these patients separately. Two hours later, the information summarized came back that five more patients had left their homes or hospitals, reportedly to receive new drug treatment.

Elizabeth and Dembe learned the address of the treatment from the wife of a patient - a warehouse near Highland Park in southeast Washington, D.C. They immediately called the agents to gather together and transferred a field operations team from the Post Office to rush to the target - Highland Park in southeast Washington, D.C.

Although Elizabeth and the others tried their best, they were still a step too late when they arrived. Five patients had already been injected with the drug and died of poisoning! However, they successfully captured Spalding and Ethan.
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After Spalding and Ethan were taken back to the post office, Carrie took Gina to interrogate Spalding in person, while Elizabeth and Nawabi went to interrogate Ethan.

Carrey's interrogation style remained the same. In the eyes of others, it was a test, but in fact, through more than a dozen questions, he figured out why Spalding developed this drug to treat degenerative diseases. Many years ago, Spalding was injected with a malaria vaccine he developed during a live broadcast on the Internet, which caused his brain's motor cortex to operate and he suffered from degenerative diseases... He recorded the whole process of his illness and conducted research on it, drawing a multi-allelic defect map, and thus developed a viral payload that would generate hybrid cells with a corrected genome after acting on the human body, which could repair the damaged brain motor cortex and even completely cure it.

Carrie admired Spalding's research spirit, but felt that this guy was not very smart. He actually chose Ethan, a traitor, as his partner, and was tricked by him into becoming a murder suspect!

On the other hand, Elizabeth and Nawabi were not polite in their interrogation of Ethan. They could have done it. It was this guy who killed ten patients who were injected with the new drug, and these people could have been cured! The most important purpose of their interrogation was only one: to find out why he did this?
Faced with two angry female agents, Ethan didn't have the courage to argue and confessed almost immediately!

His dismissal from Crown Biopharmaceuticals more than two years ago was just a cover. In fact, he accepted the company's mission to get close to Spalding, waiting for an opportunity to steal his prescriptions and sabotage his new drug trials - because only in this way could the disease control drug "Sencipcos" produced by Crown Life Pharmaceuticals continue to be sold and make money!
This kind of bad behavior made Elizabeth and Nawabi very angry. They wanted to immediately shut down the company and arrest its leaders for such a reason!

However, they all know that large pharmaceutical companies like these are protected by the Ministry of Commerce and it is difficult to touch them.

Elizabeth and Nawabi placed all their hopes on Kerry, believing that he would be able to find a way!

Kerry had already been preparing for this in advance, but to strike a large pharmaceutical company with assets of billions of dollars, he really needed to make careful arrangements. Fortunately, the resources he could mobilize now were large enough, and with the support of public power, he still had enough confidence.
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At the beginning of the new week, Elizabeth took the case files of the experimental lethality case to the headquarters and went to meet Judge Roberta with Donald.

After reading the officer's file, Judge Roberta was really shocked and couldn't help asking, "Does your CTU's SER team usually solve cases like this?"

"Of course not." Elizabeth said proudly, "This case is relatively simple. Although it involves people's livelihood and medicine, it is not difficult to solve, so it didn't take too long!"

Donald nodded and said, "That's true! Most of the cases we solved before based on the clues provided by Reddington were more complicated, more difficult to investigate, and the criminal consequences were more serious than this case! That's why we believe that compared to Reddington's personal crimes, his contribution to our maintenance of the rule of law in the country and preventing the public from being harmed is greater... If necessary, I can provide more confidentiality agreements!"

Elizabeth felt that Donald's expression was much better than her own. She nodded as she listened, but Roberta fell into deep thought...

(End of this chapter)