The Blacklist

Chapter 412: Someone Takes the Blame for the Hard Drive Handover
Following Alam's instructions, Elizabeth and her group of three large SUVs followed the best route, hoping to intercept the truck before it entered the embassy...

After half an hour of driving, the lead vehicle Elizabeth was riding in had already seen the retractable fence gate of the embassy, ​​and the small truck coming from the other direction of the street was closer to the gate than them. Elizabeth and the driver, Demby, looked at each other, one reached out to grab the door handle, and the other suddenly stepped on the accelerator to the bottom...

As the roar of engines suddenly sounded on the street, many passers-by saw: a large Chevrolet SUV accelerated forward as if out of control, and violently rammed a black pickup truck that had just stopped in front of the Oriental Embassy and was waiting to open the door!

The two SUVs behind the lead car rushed up and blocked the truck and the embassy. Before the car stopped, Jeffrey, Nawabi, Julian, Brian, Duke, Omar, Rosa and others jumped out of the car!

Nawabi and Julian rushed to the front car and helped Elizabeth and Dembe, whose faces were covered in blood, out of the car. At the same time, other agents dragged three dazed militants out of the overturned van and handcuffed them. Jeffrey also found the briefcase containing the hard drive and grabbed it!

There was a warm applause in the SER command hall on the third floor of the post office, expressing admiration for the brave Elizabeth and Dumby, who used their determination and blood to prevent the leakage of intelligence!
In his heart, Kerry praised Elizabeth's decisiveness. If he hadn't taken the approach of crashing the car, this operation would have been a complete failure and the hard drive would have been sent to the embassy! However, he had already replaced the hard drive in the suitcase with a completely physically damaged hard drive. Neither SER nor NSA could obtain any useful data!
After a while, Gina called Jeffrey at the front and got the latest report: Elizabeth and Dembe only hit their heads in the car crash and were not seriously injured. He had asked Nawabi and Rosa to take the two back to the post office. He was responsible for dealing with the aftermath of the situation on the scene with the State Department personnel, DIS and DCPD.
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When Elizabeth and the others returned to the post office, they also brought the suitcase back. Sophia from the NSA, who had been waiting, wanted to take the hard drive away immediately, but Carrie stopped her - because there was still a ceremony to be held, and the hard drive could not be simply handed over. Otherwise, if Sophia found out there was a problem after taking it back, she would be in trouble and the post office would also be blamed. He did not want to leave this loophole.

Kerry had called Donald in advance and asked him to invite NSA Director Roger Stanton to come over, and also to have technicians to witness the handover of the hard drive on the spot - he was the most suitable person to be the scapegoat, more suitable than Sophia who had a hidden identity! Yes, he knew that it was Sophia who was really serving a certain country.

After arriving at the post office, Director Stanton was very polite. He first thanked SER for its hard work in getting the hard drive back, and also expressed his condolences to Elizabeth and Dembe who had just bandaged their head wounds. Stanton was also very supportive of the face-to-face handover of the hard drive, and signaled the technical engineer who followed them to come forward to make the handover.

Since Jeffrey brought the suitcase back, he gave it to Gina for safekeeping. At this time, Gina stepped forward and opened the suitcase in front of everyone, took out the hard drive from it, connected it to the laptop brought by the NSA, and then stepped aside. The NSA engineer stepped forward to check the contents of the hard drive...

Ten minutes later, the engineer finished checking the hard drive and turned to say, "Director, supervisor, there is no problem. It is the complete code."

Stanton nodded with satisfaction, then signed the handover documents with Donald, and watched with his own eyes as the engineer next to him removed the hard drive from the laptop and put it into the original suitcase that Gina had given it. The engineer then held the box in front of him, and two NSA agents stepped forward to protect it on both sides.

After Donald sent NSA Director Stanton and his entourage out of the post office, Kerry laughed and said that this matter had nothing to do with the post office anymore!
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After intercepting the code hard drive, SER's most important task was completed. However, there were still regrets in the previous Quick Pawn Shop case. The biggest one was that the warehouse where the illegal collateral was hidden had never been found!
After being busy for several days in a row, Carrie directly ordered all SER agents to take two days off to make up for the injuries on their heads. Although they were not serious, they were considered work injuries and they needed a good rest. That night, Reddington came to Carrie again with delicious food. The first thing he did was of course to care about Elizabeth's injury. He was relieved when he saw that she was indeed fine.

After dinner, Reddington asked about the Logans' warehouse when chatting with Carrie alone, saying that there was a special big thing in it, and it would be great if it could be found!
Hearing his tone, Kerry looked at him with confusion and said, "Old Lei, are you saying something else? Don't beat around the bush!"

After taking a sip of red wine, Reddington organized his words and said, "There is a very special item among the collateral collected by the Rhodes - it is a bank's armored money transport vehicle, and there are tens of millions in cash inside!" Having said that, he looked at Carrie, as if observing Carrie's expression.

Kerry smiled and said, "Oh, that's a bit strange. Can you tell me in detail why the Rhodes and their spouses have an armored money transport vehicle?"

Thinking of Carrie's amazing performance before, Reddington knew that it was useless to talk nonsense, so he said: "Okay, I'll tell the truth! There is a guy named Alfonso Baldomero who is now imprisoned in the federal prison in Colton, waiting to go to court for robbing a bank armored car, but in fact the robber is not him!

"The real criminals are Chiggy Jepman and his brother Dipper. They robbed the armored car because they owed me money and couldn't pay it back. But because they killed two escorts during the robbery, the matter got out of hand. So I refused to accept their bloody cash, so they mortgaged the armored car and the cash to Quick Pawn Shop and fled the United States with the money..."

Kerry found it very interesting and asked, "Old Lei, are you saying that the money truck and the money inside should be yours?"

"NO, NO, NO! Of course not!" Reddington waved his hand, "What I want to say is that the follow-up of this matter is more interesting!
"I was ready to give up on this mess, but I found out by chance not long ago that Baldomero, who was willing to take the responsibility for robbing the money transporter, was very scheming. He had previously coveted the goods of a smuggling tycoon, Antonzio Ross, and was afraid of being hunted down, so he was willing to take the responsibility for this robbery and go to jail - he knew he would be safer in the Kelton Federal Prison!

"Lee, don't you think this is interesting?"

(End of this chapter)