The Blacklist

Chapter 431 Tom and Susan Recognize Each Other
In New York, Tom is not in the mood to celebrate the Spring Festival. He is now worried about his parents' affairs and feels that he has no energy to do anything...

Susan received Dumont's report. What she didn't expect was that the person who appeared in the surveillance video after image enhancement was actually Tom. This made her angry and thought it was an act of betrayal. Although Tom was a person sent by CTU before, she still felt friendly to him and trusted him!
At the same time, she was full of opinions about CTU's Carrie, believing that she must have sent Tom to her company with a conspiracy, most likely for Howard!

In extreme anger, Susan dispatched a secret action team to track and monitor Tom. After hearing that Tom had been snooping on the company's finances and external operations in the past two days, she made up her mind: to order the action team to wait for an opportunity to carry out a plan to eliminate Tom - of course, the premise is to ensure that this is not exposed as a company action!

In order to deal a blow to the now mentally ill Howard, Susan came to Fairhaven and told him: she had sent people to assassinate Tom, so no one would come to save him!

However, what Susan didn't expect was that Howard showed a strange smile on his face. He looked at her and said, "Do you know Tom Chris's true identity? Have you checked his origins?"

Susan frowned and said, "Howard, what do you want to say?"

"Have you ever thought about why Tom came to Halcyon Shield?" Howard continued, "According to convention, during a specific operation, it is common for law enforcement agencies to send agents to the company for supervision. But Tom is a senior agent of CTU, why is he stationed in the company for a long time?"

Susan still didn't understand, because in her mind, her son must have died after he disappeared in his childhood, so she never thought about it in that way.

Howard continued, "Susan, you know, no matter how successful you are now, you will never be as good as me, because I found my missing son, Christopher is still alive, he is Tom Chris!"

When Susan heard that Tom was her biological son Christopher, she couldn't believe her ears. Her brain was working fast, trying to find a flaw in Howard's words, but... before she could figure it out, she immediately discovered one thing: she had already issued the order to purge!

Without saying anything, Susan immediately dialed the phone of the action team with shaking hands, fearing that she would hear the voice of "Mission Accomplished"! Fortunately, the sniper of the action team had not yet fired because he was following her previous order and wanted to shoot at an absolutely safe time to avoid any suspicion falling on the company!
After the clear order to cancel the operation was given, Susan burst into tears and sat down on the ground.
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Tom, who had no idea that he had escaped death, went to Washington seeing that nothing was happening in the company. His relationship with Katie had encountered a crisis because of their separation. After calming down for a while, they decided to make things clear!
Both of them were senior agents with mature personalities. They were much more rational than ordinary people in their understanding of such things. When they determined that their relationship was no longer suitable to continue, they broke up peacefully and even had a dinner together as friends, leaving no regrets or resentment! —
Tuesday was the first day of the Chinese New Year. Kerry was so lazy that he didn't go to work, but he didn't go anywhere. He just stayed at home all day. In his mind, the first day of the Chinese New Year was a holiday, and even the eighth day should be a holiday! However, in the United States, he had nowhere to go to celebrate the New Year, which was a big regret.

While he was slacking off, Gina and Elizabeth both went to work as usual, after all, the work of the SLR and SER departments could not be stopped.

Elizabeth had a good relationship with Katie, and when she first learned about her breakup with Tom, she told Gina and Kerry that night. Although the three of them felt a little sorry, it was normal and they were not too surprised. On the first night of the new year, Kerry told Gina and Elizabeth about the problems Tom was facing. They were both very sad. Tom's life was indeed a bit miserable, and they were all thinking about how to help him?

Seeing the two worried looks, Kerry said, "Don't think about anything else for now. The first step is to solve the problem of Tom's parents. Only then will he be in the mood to find a new girlfriend!"

Both women thought this made sense, and turned to talk about Howard and Susan...
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After Susan was surprised to find her son, she began to feel annoyed that Tom had been hiding the truth from her and had obviously known Howard earlier. She wanted to catch him and beat him up immediately!
Early in the morning on Wednesday, Tom was called to Susan's office as soon as he arrived at the company. When he saw Susan sitting behind the desk and crying while looking at the photo that had been placed on the desk, he immediately realized that she already knew his identity!
Sure enough, Susan looked up at him, crying and loudly scolding him for being a bad boy who had concealed the truth for several years and had recognized Howard, who had mental problems, so early on. He was simply too heartless...

Tom was sad and embarrassed, and couldn't argue at all. He could only bow his head and take the scolding!

After all, Susan was a strong-willed professional woman, and she had been in charge of an armed security company for several years. After venting her emotions, she quickly calmed down and began to ask Tom about his experiences over the years...

Tom ran away from his adoptive parents' home when he was sixteen, and was then adopted by the "Major". After going through arduous special training, he became an excellent "disguiser". Later, he met Elizabeth while on a mission...

After listening to Tom's story and knowing how much her son had suffered, Susan couldn't hold back any longer and went up to hug him and burst into tears!
Tom could only try his best to comfort her, and it took him a long time to calm her down...

After the recognition, the relationship between the two was naturally different, but Susan, who had regained her composure, thought of the key issue again. She asked Tom whether he had learned about the situation in "Whitehall" from Howard. This matter was very important!
Tom was very surprised when he heard this, because Howard thought that the "Whitehall" project was initiated by Susan, but now she asked this question, which meant that there was something else going on, which was not what Howard had judged before! So he told her about this situation.

Susan had never thought of this possibility before, and was extremely surprised to hear Tom's words - how was it possible that someone in Halcyon Shield could spend the company's money and carry out a separate covert operation without Howard and herself knowing?

(End of this chapter)