The Blacklist

Chapter 411: Transaction Failure Kerry Dahu
Sofia was even more anxious when she found out that Hardkov was dead, and SER had no weekend off, so all the scouts had to work overtime. However, since Hardkov was dead, they could only find a solution from the pawnshop.

According to the pawnshop business model they investigated, once the mortgagor dies and cannot repay the debt, the pawnshop will sell the mortgaged property for cash. The first step is to release the information about the item through underground channels, and the highest bidder will win.

On Sunday afternoon, the Brian team in charge of surveillance captured several foreign intelligence personnel entering the pawn shop, including an agent from a certain country, which indicated that the pawn shop had spread the word that it was going to sell confidential information.
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While Elizabeth led the SER team to find a way to get the hard drive back, Carrie acted alone under the cover of Gina and followed the Rhodes couple after the pawn shop closed on Sunday night...

He had planned to deal with the couple directly if he couldn't find the hard drive. The method was simple because he knew that although the couple regarded criminal behavior as normal work, they had a very good relationship. If he threatened one of them, the other would definitely confess. Although he didn't like to use this method, he would not be soft-hearted to the two old criminals.

Things were easier to accomplish than he had imagined. He followed the Rhodes and their spouses directly to the secret warehouse where they kept the collateral, and he even saw with his own eyes that they were inspecting a hard drive placed in a suitcase!

After the Rhodes and his wife left the warehouse and went home, Carrey swapped the hard drive and took it away - this thing was related to a certain country's diplomatic secrets, and now that he knew about it, he would never let it return to the NSA, or even stay with the SER! -
On Monday, after discussing with the agents, Elizabeth arranged for Nawabi, who had a Mossad background, to enter the pawn shop posing as a buyer and directly asked the other party to purchase the hard drive storing NSA confidential information.

The Rods, who have been running the business for many years, have their own special channels. Delin, who was in charge of guarding the store, quickly found out Nawabi's Mossad background. Although the information had not been updated for several years, this was in line with the work characteristics of intelligence personnel, and they did not suspect her identity change.

Delin said that a certain country had agreed to invest 200 million to purchase the hard drive, but Nawabi offered a price of 400 million and intercepted the deal.

Elizabeth and the others who were in the car outside the pawn shop were relieved when they heard this from the eavesdropping device that Nawabi was carrying, but then, Nawabi's signal suddenly disappeared...

Everyone thought that Delin had taken Nawabi to the secret room for a transaction, so they were not in a hurry. But after more than ten minutes, Nawabi's signal appeared again, but it was already on the street hundreds of meters away!
Elizabeth led the team and followed the signal to the parking lot of an old apartment, monitoring the transaction between the two parties from a distance. As the transaction was completed, Nawabi got the briefcase containing the hard drive. A van suddenly approached and several militants appeared. They launched a raid with rifles and submachine guns, catching the SER agents off guard. For a moment, the agents who only carried pistols were suppressed!
After a brief exchange of fire, although Elizabeth and Dumby each killed an armed man, the suitcase was still snatched away by the other party. Moreover, what the agents could not accept was that in the gunfight, Rod and Delin were killed by unknown guns, and even the clues of the pawn shop were gone!

After examining the bodies of the two gunmen who were shot dead, the detectives determined that they were gang members from Chinatown, which meant that they were gunmen sent by a certain country to steal the hard drives. But why did they appear at the transaction site? Who tipped them off?
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The transaction failed. Elizabeth informed Alam who stayed behind to look for the suspected vehicle. She took the agents to seal up Quick's Pawn Shop, but only found some very common collateral, such as household appliances, musical instruments, mobile phones, etc. The stolen goods and high-value collateral were nowhere to be found. This shows that the Rhodes should have a hidden warehouse, but both of them were dead, so it was too difficult to find it.

However, after a thorough search of the pawnshop, they did find two bugs, which explained the leak of the transaction!
There was no better solution, so Elizabeth could only notify the CTU Baltimore branch in the name of SER and ask them to continue searching for the Rhodes' secret warehouse, while she took the agents back to Washington.
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At the post office, Carrie rushed back ahead of time. This time, he had a huge harvest. Not only did he get the hard drive and personally kill the Rhodes, but he also cleared out a large number of unsold collateral that had been accumulated in the pawn shop since 1976. He was very surprised by the huge harvest! Just after he had showered and changed his clothes, Elizabeth and others came back and called to say that the operation had failed, and asked him to go down for guidance.

When Carrie arrived at the SER command hall, Sophia was angry. She didn't care whether the operation failed or not. She only cared about the whereabouts of the hard drive. She claimed that if the hard drive could not be found, SER would be responsible for the leak!
Elizabeth said angrily, "We, the SER, discovered Hardkov by chance when we were investigating the underground pawn shop case. He is from your NSA. What do you usually do? Didn't you find that there was something wrong with him?"

Seeing Carrie appear, all the agents looked at him...

Kerry didn't even look at the two people arguing. He looked directly at Aram and said, "Have you found the suspect vehicle?"

"Not yet." Aram was only focused on listening to Elizabeth and Sophia quarreling. When asked, he said hurriedly, "The suspect vehicle changed its license plate at least twice, but I am sure that the vehicle has entered the special zone. I am checking the traffic surveillance..."

"Start from the gate of a certain country's embassy and search backwards... everyone else should come and help!" Carrie said directly, "No matter how those people go, the ultimate goal must be to send the hard drive to the embassy!"

Hearing his order, everyone hurriedly agreed and checked the surveillance...
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This time, it only took a dozen minutes for Nawabi, who had a deep impression of the black truck at the previous transaction site, to find it. Although the license plate of the car had been changed, the bullet marks on the body could not be removed for a while. She recognized it in the traffic at a glance! And judging from the direction it was moving, it was heading towards the embassy of a certain country!

Carrie waved her hand, signaling everyone to set off, and Elizabeth rushed out with the SER agents - they had to do their best to intercept the hard drive before the militants delivered it to the embassy!
Alam mobilized traffic surveillance along the way, kept close track of the militants' vehicles, and provided navigation support to the front...

Everyone who stayed in the post office stood quietly staring at the big screen in the command hall, their hearts in their throats!

(End of this chapter)