The Blacklist

Chapter 426 Whitehall Project and the Hijacking
January 1th was Monday, which was also the Chinese New Year's Eve. Kerry prepared a lot of dumplings for the restaurant in advance to ensure that all the postal employees who liked to eat them could have them. This move was welcomed by everyone!
At lunch, everyone saw Kerry eating dumplings with vinegar, and they followed suit. They felt that the taste was indeed different, and everyone learned a trick.

Elizabeth is now convinced of Reddington's judgment: Carrie definitely has special feelings for China!
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Also at noon, Howard met with Tom again and said that he had intercepted an encrypted intelligence. He was sure that this was Susan sending a message to other agents, so he asked Tom to return to Halcyon and steal the decryption key from Susan's safe.

Tom was a little fed up with his father's paranoia, but after some thought he decided to find the key. If the decrypted intelligence proved that Susan was not a foreign spy, he would follow Carrie's method, bring Howard and Susan together, confess his identity, mediate the conflict between them and end this farce!

Because of this idea, he told Carrie the information and told her that after decrypting the information, he would find a way to bring Howard and Susan together to resolve the matter completely.

After receiving Tom's call, Carrie expressed his support for his idea. Afterwards, he also studied the intelligence and tried to think about the plot in the original story. It seemed that the decoded version was a comic book, but he just couldn't remember the name and what it was about! ——
What Carrie didn't remember and Tom didn't know was that Susan was actually a member of the company's financial appropriations. She discovered the "Whitehall" project, and thus became suspicious of Howard, thinking that he was planning something without telling him, so she began to investigate... and because of her behavior of keeping it secret from Howard, Howard began to think that she was trying to usurp control of the company.

The suspicion between the two sides became worse because the "Whitehall" project had not been investigated for a long time. Compared with the impatient Howard, Susan was calmer. When she found that Howard's mental state was becoming more and more unstable, she wanted to suspend him from his post to recuperate, and at the same time protect him to prevent him from doing illegal things because of being controlled by unknown forces. So she declared to the board of directors that Howard was no longer competent for the job.

The board members also noticed Howard's abnormal emotions and all agreed with Susan's opinion. They passed a resolution to suspend Howard, but this made Howard more convinced that Susan was up to something, so he chose to run away and disappeared...

Howard has been missing for more than four years. Legally and factually, their marital relationship no longer exists. Susan, who feels increasingly lonely, finally takes a step forward - she finds a handsome professional service staff member, Dan Trevor, to relieve her loneliness. Dan Trevor is good in bed and a good listener, which gives Susan great comfort.

After dating for a while, Susan decided to keep Trevor as her long-term lover. Of course, in order to prevent possible risks, she had to prepare some precautions. So she asked her administrative assistant Carlson to prepare a contract and confidentiality agreement for the life assistant. But what she didn't expect was that Trevor was very fickle. He teased and seduced the young and beautiful Carlson, and succeeded - because Carlson wanted to try out the boss's man! ——
Susan didn't know Trevor and Carlson's little secret yet. After spending a comfortable weekend, she went to work in high spirits on Monday. Unexpectedly, CIA Deputy Director Daniel Bishop was already waiting for her in the company. There was an important case that needed to be handed over to Halcyon Shield!
——A sarin gas attack occurred at a German refugee reception center, killing dozens of refugees. The massacre was organized by an xenophobic organization called "Germany First." However, Bishop was not concerned about the dead refugees, but the delivery channels of sarin gas.

The CIA has confirmed that it was the TSA (Transportation Security Administration of the Department of Homeland Security) that secretly smuggled poison gas on a civilian airliner, and then the plane crashed and someone took the poison gas from the wreckage.

In addition to poison gas, the TSA has also used civil aviation flights to transport nuclear materials for the Department of Energy, virus specimens for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, special weapons for the Department of Defense and other dangerous goods.

This civil aviation accident was actually caused by someone who wanted to get the poison gas on the plane! There were several similar incidents before this, which shows that someone has mastered the secret of TSA's actions and is taking planned actions to obtain these special and unsafe goods!
Not long ago, the CIA received intelligence that another batch of goods was shipped out in this way, and someone had already set their sights on this batch of goods. However, if they wanted to know who was behind the hijacking of the plane, they could only send people on the plane to investigate directly.

Because the TSA involved in this matter is also a government agency, in order to prevent the investigation from affecting the horizontal relationship between the CIA and it, Deputy Director Bishop hopes that Halcyon will take over this task! ——
As for Carrie, since he remembered that Howard was the one with the real problem, he directly gave orders to Matt, who currently controls the Blue Sword Company, to arrange a group of capable people to start tracking and monitoring Howard.

This is difficult for Susan because she doesn't know Howard's whereabouts, but it is not a problem for Carrie who has Tom providing information.

Of course, he has no intention of taking Howard down directly now, because he wants Tom to solve the problem himself to avoid any regrets.
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On Tuesday, under the arrangement of the CIA, Tom and Kumon disguised themselves as Scandinavian Airlines flight attendants and boarded Flight 301 from Seattle to Tokyo to directly observe the movements of passengers.

Dumont and Nez were responsible for checking the passengers' backgrounds and luggage, but they found nothing unusual before the plane took off. None of the passengers had criminal records. Among all the luggage, only two shotguns were dangerous goods, which were legally checked in by the passenger in seat 14C, and the people and guns were separated.

However, not long after the plane took off, the wireless network on board was shut down, contact with the tower was lost, and Tom and Kumon also lost contact with the company's command center.

After re-sorting the key passengers, Nez discovered that Franklin Dutch, the maintenance technician in charge of the flight, was also on board. He was supposed to go to Dallas to work the next day. He was the only one who had the ability and time to install a shielding device in advance and cut off the aircraft's external communications when maintaining the aircraft.

Dumont immediately conducted a background check on all passengers and discovered that there were six retired soldiers on board, five of whom, including mechanic Franklin, were former Navy SEALs, and another was former Army Ranger Oden Braddock!
(End of this chapter)