The Blacklist

Chapter 414 Everyone’s Social Value

Half an hour later, when Elizabeth and her people arrived at the hotel, they saw that it had been blocked by DCPD. It turned out that a female guest named Carter had died in the hotel. After inspection, the police initially concluded that she accidentally slipped and hit her head while bathing, leading to accidental death!
After inspecting the scene, Elizabeth, Demby, Nawabi and others all agreed that this was a disguised scene and Carter was murdered!

More importantly, the room Carter lived in was booked by the District Attorney's Office because she was a key witness in a hit-and-run case and was waiting for the prosecution to arrange a hearing.

The defendant in the traffic accident case is Digby Tamerlan, the founder of the large e-commerce company Chione and a super-rich man. He was under investigation for hitting and killing a 12-year-old girl at night and then fleeing. Now that there are no witnesses, the case cannot be filed! In this respect, Digby is the biggest beneficiary of Carter's death.

After learning of this situation, Elizabeth and others felt that this was obviously the motive for murder, and Gerard acted as a hired killer this time. He booked a room in this hotel using Cameron's name, and it was not far from Carter's room, just to be able to reasonably enter the most heavily guarded floor in the hotel!
The detectives were just a little surprised. Gerard had used medical means to kill people before, but now he was using violent means. Was this an escalation of criminal behavior?

The detectives and police officers searched the entire hotel together but found no trace of Gerard. However, they did find his current appearance as Cameron from the hotel surveillance, which was a gain!
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After Elizabeth and the others left the post office, Carrie received a call from Donald: "Lee, Director Stanton of the NSA just called me and said that the code hard drive has been confirmed to have been physically damaged internally, and the data cannot be exported at all. He asked if we had backed it up before?"

"Of course not!" Carrie said, "What does he mean? Questioning us?"

"That's not the case!" Donald said, "Stanton is just holding on to a glimmer of hope. If there is a real backup, it can make up for this loss. Otherwise, the four years of hard work of the entire project team will be in vain!"

"That's their business," Carrie said. "We handed it over in person, and we didn't leave any backup copies in advance. There's nothing we can do about it!"

"OK, now I understand!" Donald said, "By the way, the collateral in the pawn shop case you cracked before was never found. Not long ago, a stolen armored car was found, and the real robber was identified..."

"Yes, I heard about it!" Carrie said, "Only the money transport truck was found, and the other collaterals are still missing. I have asked the Baltimore branch to continue looking for the pawnshop warehouse." At this point, he changed the subject and said, "Tang, let's get together tonight, at the post office!"

"Okay, I'll be there at seven." Donald said happily.
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At 5pm, Elizabeth and her group came back first. They detained the wealthy Digby Tamerlan and brought him back to SER. Then Elizabeth and Nawabi interrogated him. It should be said that Digby's ability and character far exceeded those of ordinary people, as he was able to achieve great success in business and become the founder of Kaone, one of the three largest e-commerce companies in the United States. Facing the interrogation of the two female detectives, he always insisted that he did not know Cameron, and did not do anything privately to the witnesses in the case! Of course, this was also because of his special identity, and he did not enjoy many interrogation methods!

Carrie received Elizabeth's call for help and went downstairs to help with the interrogation. With his current ability, even if he didn't use the reading skill, it would be enough to deal with an emerging technology businessman like Digby!
He directly warned Digby: This is CTU. Hiring someone to kill is just a small matter, but Cameron's crime involves national security and can be attributed to the category of anti-terrorism. If you don't answer the question within three minutes, you don't have to answer it!
Just after three minutes, Carrie stood up and left, but Digby could not hold on any longer and hurriedly confessed: He had indeed met Cameron, and the other party knew about his traffic accident, but said that he would create better social benefits if he stayed in the outside world to run a business than in prison, and promised to help him solve the problem on the condition that he would change his original investment plan in Asia to Detroit, which would benefit the domestic economy more.

Kerry finally asked, "How did you get in touch?"

"I only have his cell phone number..." Digby said hurriedly.
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Aram located the RV camp at the corner of Third Street and Sycamore Street based on the cell phone number. After Elizabeth and her men rushed over, they found Gerald in an RV...

Facing Elizabeth and others who were pointing guns at him, Gerard, with a gun against his chin, calmly stated a theory: He believed that everyone's life was valuable, but the value was different!
He killed those 28 terminally ill patients 17 years ago to save precious medical resources for other patients who were easier to treat;
He helped Digby kill the witness Carter because Digby was a successful entrepreneur and was responsible for the survival of tens of thousands of employees, and had great social value;
In comparison, Carter, who is just a bus driver, has negligible social value!
But now, if the federal agents catch him, he will be convicted and spend his whole life in prison, without any social value, so he will not choose that path!
After saying that, Gerard (Cameron) pulled the trigger in front of all the agents!

The case was solved, but it also seemed like it was not. After Gerard's death, there was no way to find out what he had done in the past 28 years. After searching the entire RV, no other clues were found, so they had to return empty-handed.

On the way back to the post office, no one spoke. Gerard's last words had a great impact on everyone's thinking: From an ethical point of view, this view is obviously wrong, but they clearly know that this is actually a reality that happens every day in society...
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In the post office, Carrie did not leave after get off work, but prepared a sumptuous dinner for them.

While listening to the meal, after understanding the situation and seeing everyone's expressions, Carrey said disapprovingly: "You guys are stuck in a rut again! Everyone knows what society is like, but only Gerrard can ignore life and commit crimes with such an excuse, which shows that there is something wrong with him!
"But he did get one thing right - his final suicide! Doing so not only confirmed his own theory, but also saved the society from further wasting resources. It was the best choice!"

"Lee, you are so cold-blooded!" Elizabeth curled her lips, but then she became cheerful!

(End of this chapter)