The Blacklist

Chapter 429: The kidnapper was killed by Kerry
On Friday, February 2, after completing all the preparations, Tom and Nez went to the agreed Catskill Mountain Highway outside the city in the afternoon. However, the cunning Rocha only allowed one person to go to the actual negotiation site!
If it were in the past, Tom would definitely compromise with the other party in order to rescue the hostages, but before this operation, he specifically told Carrie about the situation, and the instructions he received were: no compromise, meet on the agreed highway, otherwise forget it!
Rocha’s representatives were surprised to see how resolute his attitude was!

Nez next to him and Susan, who was understanding the situation on the scene through surveillance and headphones in the back, frowned, fearing that the other party would turn against them and interrupt the negotiations.

Tom was not panicked at all, because he was wearing a hidden headset and Carrie was using voice to instruct him on how to deal with this situation!
Kerry told him: Rocha kidnapped Gabo's family not for money. If they compromised, Rocha would use the superior attitude to suppress them in order to achieve further goals, and even kill the hostages to force them to agree to his outrageous demands! Therefore, you can't be soft at the beginning.

Seeing Tom's firm attitude, Rocha could not help but show up and walked out of the woods next to him, accompanied by a group of fully armed mercenaries. Then, Rocha demanded a ransom of $1000 million and demanded that a man named Carlos Contara be handed over to him before he would release the hostage.

Tom shook his head and said, "Rocha, the authorization I got is 500 million. It is impossible to reach a deal with more than this amount. A professional manager of a software company is not worth so much! Neither the company's board of directors nor the insurance company will pay this money! In addition, you want us to hand over a person. This condition is really ridiculous!

“First of all, I don’t know who this person you are talking about is?

"Secondly, since you are the one who proposed this person under these circumstances, it means that he has either been sentenced to a heavy sentence or has been imprisoned by federal law enforcement agencies awaiting trial, and you have no other way to exonerate him!

“You threatened a family of professional managers from a software company that has nothing to do with us. Do you really think that the insurance company and we are running a charity?

"Oh, by the way, you promised to release the driver before the negotiation, but you haven't done it yet! I wonder how you got such a good reputation in the underground circle! Is it because you don't keep your word?"

Everyone present was stunned. Rocha was so angry that he was shaking. After a long silence, he waved his hand and said, "Bring the person up."

At this time, Carrie's voice rang in Tom's ears: "Tom, Rocha is likely to threaten you by shooting the driver... You must take the initiative to stop him now!"

Seeing Rocha's two men bringing the driver with his hands tied behind his back, Tom didn't have time to reply to Kerry, and hurriedly shouted: "Rocha, I know what you want to do! But I want to warn you, if you dare to kill me to gain authority, I will immediately terminate the negotiations!"

Rocha was obviously stunned. As an experienced former agent and a well-known kidnapper in the underground world in the past decade, he had never encountered such a hard-nosed rescuer! After a while, he asked, "What's your name, and what's your position in Halcyon?" Hearing him ask this, Tom knew what was going on and said coldly, "Why, do you want to retaliate against me in the future? But it doesn't matter, I can tell you - I'm Tom Chris, now working part-time in Halcyon Shield, and I'm a senior agent of CTU... Well, I often face people like you!" In fact, when he said this, his heart was also beating, but this was what Carrie taught him in his ear, so he could only repeat it.

Rocha opened his mouth but was speechless for a moment. Of course he knew CTU. This law enforcement agency, which was established only a few years ago, was well-known in the underground world. It had high authority, strong force, and ruthless means. All underground organizations and lone travelers like him were afraid of it! He couldn't understand why CTU was provoked by him just because he kidnapped the president of a software company.
After thinking it over again and again, seeing Tom's fearless look, Rocha gave up the idea of ​​establishing his authority. He waved his hand and asked his men to release the driver. Then he said, "I keep my word. I will hand over this driver to you. It is also a face for you CTU. But the conditions of 1000 million US dollars plus Carlos Contara will not change. I will only give you one day. If you can't do it, you will have to wait for Gabo's family to collect their bodies!"

Tom sneered and replied directly: "My boss asked me to tell you that if the Gabo family is harmed, you and the people around you will not be able to escape! I'm just reminding you kindly, don't let my boss take you seriously!"
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When Tom and Nez returned to the company with Gabo's driver, the first thing Susan said when they met was: "Tom, what are you doing? When you were negotiating with Rocha, you took such a tough stance. Aren't you afraid of messing things up?"

"Don't be afraid!" Tom said calmly, "Before setting off, I put on the CTU action headset and spoke under the guidance of our Director Kerry the entire time. This is what Director Kerry meant!"

Susan and the others were stunned when they heard this. Kumon couldn't help but ask, "Tom, is your Director Kerry still in New York?"

"Yes!" Tom said, "I heard from Deputy Director Gina that Director Kerry is very concerned about the situation in New York and may stay here for a while."

After Susan thought about it for a moment, she said, "Tom, what else did Chief Kerry say? How should this case be handled?"

At this time, Tom raised his head and made a listening expression. After a moment, he said, "Okay, boss, I'll go pick them up right away!" After saying this, he turned to Susan and said, "Deputy Director Gina just told me that Director Kerry personally rescued Gabo's family and sent them to the CTU State Bureau. Let's go pick them up."

Everyone was stunned. After a while, Susan asked, "What about Rocha?"

"Rocha and his six men have all been shot dead!" Tom said, "When we went to negotiate just now, Director Kerry had already arrived at the scene. After we left, he followed Rocha to his hiding place and shot them all dead, rescuing the three hostages..."

Is it that easy? Susan, Nez, Kumon and Dumont all looked at each other in bewilderment. Their previous efforts in finding information and making detailed plans seemed worthless under the action of Director Kerry!
(End of this chapter)