The Blacklist

Chapter 419 The Big Secret in the Tape
Elizabeth and Nawabi interrogated Dredmer's mistress Michaela and got the result easily - they knew the location and time where the blackmailer "Minister D" demanded the payment of the ransom.

The next afternoon, Michaela brought a handbag containing $20 in cash to the Huggins Museum, put the handbag in a gift bag, placed it on the stone bench on the windowsill at : pm, and then got up and left.

This time, Carrie personally went to the museum with the team, but it was Elizabeth who was in charge of the on-site command.

After Michaela left, the agents discovered that a cleaner had taken the gift bag and quickly handed it over to the lost and found at the front desk. When Nawabi went to the front desk to check, he found that the wallet in the bag was indeed missing. Elizabeth immediately ordered the agents to block all exits and capture the escaped "Minister D".

A few minutes later, two gunshots were heard in the corridor in the corner of the first floor of the museum. When the agents arrived at the scene, they saw Carrie in a very good posture after firing the gun. A dozen meters away, a scarred middle-aged man in his fifties was lying on the ground. He had a revolver in his right hand and special blue paint on his head and body - this was sprayed by a special mechanism installed in the money bag, and it was very difficult to clean off!
Afterwards, an agent found a handbag with a triggered mechanism in a bathroom not far away, and footprints with traces of paint continued all the way to the middle-aged man who was shot dead.

Although "Minister D" was shot dead by Kerry on the spot, everyone was very satisfied because all the relevant evidence had been collected and his life or death was not important at all. It was even better if he died to avoid subsequent troubles!
Of course, Kerry was more satisfied. This time, he had made a lot of money! However, he was a little confused. Was this "Minister D" mentally ill? He was nearly sixty years old and had tens of millions of cash in various bank accounts. Instead of taking good care of his retirement, he was blackmailing. Was it because the money was not enough? Now, leave it to the system and yourself!
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That evening, Reddington came to Carrey and asked for a copy of the tape from December 1990, 12, because it was extremely important to him.

Carrie knew what he meant and didn't make it difficult. She asked Abby to copy a tape for him and classified the original as level five encryption - the other tapes also had to be screened one by one, as they might involve more secrets, just like a bunch of blind boxes, no one knew what was inside until they were opened.

For this reason, Carrie arranged Abby to be in charge of this matter. Any special content must be personally identified and then handed over to him for the final processing!

After Reddington got the copy of the tape, he wanted to leave, but Carrie stopped him and said in a disappointed tone: "Old Reddington, what can I say? What a good opportunity. Ask Elizabeth to listen to the original recording and let her know how difficult it is for you to be a father... You don't even know how to use such a good opportunity. I really don't know what you think all day long?"

Reddington was stunned by what he said. After thinking for a while, he said, "Lee, can you let Liz know about this? I don't want her to have a bad impression of Katarina..."

"Forget it!" Carrie pouted, "The only way to be good to Liz is to tell her what Katarina really looks like and what she has done! You wanted to hide everything from her before, and if I hadn't reminded you, you would still be doing that. Have you ever thought about this: Liz is already the director of CTU, and she is making progress every day. When she realizes that you have been hiding so many things, what will she think?"

Reddington touched his head, feeling that his brain circuit was not enough, but in the end he admitted that Carrie was more right! ——
Elizabeth didn't know what was going on when she was called upstairs. She saw the leisurely Carrie and the serious Reddington, and asked curiously, "What's wrong? SER has too many case reports and case files to deal with. Why did you call me here?"

"I want you to come here!" said Reddington. "There are some things that happened in the past that I always thought were better kept secret, but Carrie said that she couldn't hide it from you, so I decided to tell you a secret from a long time ago..." "Of course you can't hide it from me!" Elizabeth said when she heard this, "Old Reddington, tell me quickly, what are you hiding from me?" She knew very well that what Carrie insisted on letting her know must be something related to her, and she must know it.

Reddington nodded, thinking: Carrey is right. So he explained: "In early December 1990, a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine, the Gideon, was carrying out a confidential mission. When it entered the deep Atlantic Ocean, it temporarily changed its course, but was ambushed and sunk by a Soviet submarine in advance. All 12 crew members on the boat were killed..."

Hearing this, Elizabeth's eyes widened - she had checked Reddington's FBI file before and knew that it was because of this incident that Reddington was identified as a traitor by the Navy, because after the submarine changed its track, the coordinates of the new mission were only known by Reddington, the naval intelligence officer at the time!

Therefore, after the Gideon submarine was sunk, the DOD and the CIA conducted a long investigation into the reasons for the ambush. After sacrificing several undercover agents, they obtained an internal secret bulletin from the KGB, which stated that it was the intelligence provided to them by Reddington, and they paid a considerable amount of money for it!

In addition, investigators at the time also found out that a short-selling company controlled by the KGB transferred 300 million to an account at a Cypriot bank the day before the incident, and another 300 million the day after the incident. The account was later verified to be controlled by Reddington, and the money in the account was transferred away by wire transfer a week later.

Combining this information, the joint investigation team determined that Reddington was a traitor and issued a wanted warrant for him!
Thinking of this, Elizabeth couldn't help but ask, "Old Lei, what happened at that time?"

Reddington was silent for a moment, then said, "Liz, I've told you before that I became Reddington after conspiring with Katarina, but one thing I didn't say is: what happened after the submarine was sunk! And now, after you cracked the case of Minister D and obtained his previous recordings, I also confirmed how Katarina operated at the time..."

Hearing this, Elizabeth felt a little overwhelmed and stretched out her hand and said, "Gina, give me a beer!"

Gina, who had been listening, took a can of German beer from Carrie, opened it, and handed it to Elizabeth. She was now interested in the story.

Reddington smoked a cigar and said leisurely: "Katerina is more suitable to be an agent than me..."

(End of this chapter)