The Blacklist

Chapter 421 Special Case after the New Year
The first day of work in 2019 was on January 1th. After returning to the post office after their vacation, everyone was laughing and discussing their vacations.

When they learned that Carrie, Gina and Elizabeth had traveled to the East, everyone came around to ask about it. This was a place no one had ever been to, so they were all very curious.

Naturally, not many people came to ask questions from Kerry's side, but Elizabeth and Gina were surrounded by people. While telling their travel experiences, they distributed the gifts they brought back, including special items and oriental delicacies, which made everyone very happy...

In general, the first working week of the new year was not busy, and Kerry did not force everyone to get into work mode. After just two weeks of vacation, it takes some time to recover, which is understandable as long as it does not affect work.

At the beginning of the second working week, the post office was fully busy again. The data review work on the "Minister D" case before the New Year was accelerated. Dozens of cases were sorted out every day. Key cases were left for processing, while minor cases were directly transferred to the FBI or local police for handling.

Elizabeth reviewed and selected dozens of cases and handed them over to Carrie. Some of them involved either confidential information or special people, so he also needed to handle them carefully.
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On January 1, a Saturday, a special case occurred early in the morning - a serious car accident occurred in Manhattan, New York. At 19:4 in the morning, a heavy freight truck crashed into the pillar of the urban viaduct, causing casualties. The injured, including the truck driver, were sent to Presbyterian Hospital for treatment, two of whom were sent to the intensive care unit.

CTU headquarters received a report from the New York State Bureau saying that the traffic accident involved the CIA, but the specific circumstances were still unknown. Donald and Kerry were a little puzzled when they received the report. They didn't understand what this matter had to do with the CIA?
Susan, president of Halcyon Shield, also felt puzzled. She received a notice from the CIA early in the morning, entrusting her to go to the scene of the car accident to deal with the emergency!
She called Tom to the scene and found out that there was a CIA black prison hidden under the base of the bridge, which held prisoners who were captured from various countries and whose identities could not be revealed!
Danny, the liaison officer sent by the CIA, told her that this place was internally called the "Davenport Station" and was responsible for detaining and interrogating enemy combatants, and it was a confidential project. A private security company was responsible for the safe operation of the place, and currently Jack, the head of the company, was busy transferring the prisoners and all the monitoring equipment in the prison.

There were 32 people detained in the black jail before. Five prisoners escaped during the incident. According to information provided by the CIA, except for one American hacker Brian Mayhew, the other four were notorious international terrorists.

The CIA commissioned Halcyon Shield to secretly retrieve these prisoners who had infiltrated the Manhattan neighborhoods without alerting other official departments and the public to avoid any adverse effects.

Susan originally didn't want to take on this kind of job, but the company and the CIA had a long-term cooperative relationship, so it was hard to refuse. So she simply gave the task to Tom and went to do her own thing!
Tom arranged for Dumont to retrieve surveillance footage from the scene and nearby intersections. Nez and Cumon were responsible for investigating the accident scene and the vehicle. He contacted the NYPD in the name of the Pentagon and the company, and asked them to impose a security blockade on the Manhattan area and report any abnormal situations on the grounds of potential national security threats.

Afterwards, Tom immediately called Carrie again and reported the situation to her. This incident happened a little suddenly, but it only needed to be investigated step by step. Although it was urgent, it was not difficult to handle. However, he had another important matter and wanted to hear Carrie's opinion.

"Boss, I learned from Susan's assistant Carlson that Susan has found out some information about my disappearance..." Tom said on the phone, "At this rate, she will soon be able to find Frank Phelps and Eva, who adopted me. Then she only needs to meet the Phelps couple and she will be able to find my whereabouts easily!" After listening to him, Carrie asked, "Tom, what do you think? Do you want Susan to find out, or do you not want her to find out?"

Tom hesitated and said, "I don't know..."

"Then let it be!" Carrie knew that he still longed for family affection in his heart, "Maybe this is an opportunity for you to publicly recognize your parents and resolve the problems between them!"

Tom was obviously moved by his last words. He stopped hesitating and said, "Boss, you're right. Let's just let it go!"
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Kerry put down the phone and recalled the extra story. He found a very important clue from it - the network key controlled by the seven-member group! This thing is extremely important and related to network security. Although he can't directly control it in his own hands, he can definitely participate in it to take the initiative on the network!
Therefore, he had to participate in the case that Tom was handling, but of course he was not helping Halcyon to catch the fugitive, but to help at the critical moment! ——
Near noon, Tom received a call from Nez, who concluded, based on the traces at the scene and the fact that the truck's front bumper had been artificially reinforced like a battering ram, that the truck had deliberately crashed through the outer wall of the prison to create a gap for the prisoners to escape - so, this was not an accident, but a carefully planned jailbreak!

When Tom heard about this, he immediately asked Nez and Kumon to go to the hospital to bring back the driver.

However, when Nez and Kumon pretended to be ICE (Immigration and Customs Administration of the Department of Homeland Security) and found the truck driver in the emergency room of Presbyterian Hospital, the driver immediately got up and ran away. As soon as he ran out of the hospital, he was hit by a passing car on the street outside the gate and died on the spot!
There was no way, Tom could only ask Nez and Kumon to leave the scene quickly, because they were not real law enforcement officers and this matter had to be kept confidential, so they could not meet with the NYPD police.

Tom in the company's command room was a little disappointed. He could only rely on Dumont to see if he could find new clues from the surveillance.
However, the planner of this operation was obviously extremely cautious, and Dumont did not find any useful clues in the surveillance. Although he was still reviewing more videos, he estimated that the possibility of finding clues was slim.

However, as the flowers do not bloom even if you try hard, and the willows do not grow into shade trees even if you plant them endlessly, a monitoring program that Dumont had buried in the NYPD alarm system in advance intercepted a call for the police: a caller reported that someone had broken into his home, and the intruder was wearing a gray jumpsuit that prisoners often wear!

(End of this chapter)