The Blacklist

Chapter 432 The True Purpose of the Whitehall Project
While Carrie was spending her Spring Festival holiday, Susan and Tom reached a reconciliation. The reunion of mother and son after nearly 30 years was a pleasant surprise to everyone, including them.

Moreover, after the two communicated what they knew, they found that there was a deep misunderstanding between Susan and Howard. Tom decided to help his parents restore their normal relationship, so he took the initiative to ask to talk to Howard again.

When Tom told Carrie about this, Carrie encouraged him to give it a try, but deep down she thought that it was unlikely to succeed because Howard's mind was not so easy to change.
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On Friday Tom went to Fairhaven again, this time in good faith.

In the ward, due to Susan's change in attitude, Howard's treatment was greatly improved. He no longer had to be tied to the bed, as long as he stayed in the ward.

When Howard saw Tom appear with medical staff, he knew that he and Susan had known each other, so he said, "Tom, don't be fooled by Susan. Just two days ago, she wanted to get rid of you! If I hadn't told her that you were Christopher, the gunman she arranged would have shot you!"

Tom was speechless. Susan had already told him about this, but Howard's bringing it up now was obviously intended to continue to sow discord between him and Susan. He was a little annoyed about this and didn't know how to convince the other party.

Then, Tom said that Susan didn't know about the "Whitehall" incident, and that someone in the company must be playing tricks, but Howard scoffed at this and thought that Susan was lying! Because in Halcyon four years ago, it was impossible for someone to do this under the eyes of him and Susan!
Tom couldn't convince him, but Howard was in good spirits and made a suggestion. He wanted Tom to help him escape from here and do something important, but he refused to say what it was.

Speechless, Tom could only adopt the last resort he and Susan had agreed on - "rescue" Howard and see what he was up to.
Under Tom's leadership, the two of them left Fairhaven "safely". Then, under Howard's guidance, Tom helped him collect a bunch of electronic products and assembled a simple but usable satellite communication antenna! Then, in Tom's surprised eyes, Howard used only an ordinary laptop to hack into Halcyon's server through a special channel!
Although Tom admired Howard's technology and learned new things, he also realized that Howard had reserved a backdoor in the company's server in advance! In this case, Howard could always know the company's direction, so what had he been busy with in the past few years? This made Tom have a bad association.

Howard quickly found the information he needed from the company's network: a batch of unknown goods was sent to Fort Stewart military base with the highest security standards. Through the archived freight video, it can be seen that the goods were sent to a factory in Xishan. He thought that was probably where "Whitehall" was located, but he could only be sure by going there in person.

Fort Stewart, Georgia, is a highly guarded military facility, with troops from both the Air Force and the Army stationed there. To set up a secret project there, permission from the Pentagon is required! This problem was more serious than Tom had expected, so he secretly reported the intelligence to Kerry.

Today was only the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, and Kerry didn't want to move. But after receiving Tom's call, he realized that this matter was a bit serious. After all, Tom was from CTU and had been involved. As his superior, he already knew about the situation and had to take care of it! ——
On Saturday, the fifth day of the month, Carrie took Gina to Fort Stewart in a Gulfstream G650. After contacting the base headquarters, he drove a military vehicle and a team of military police to the suspicious warehouse in Xishan.

At the same time, Tom, Howard, Susan, Nez and Kumon also arrived here...

After the three parties met, Carrie and Tom knew what was going on with each other, but Howard and Susan were shocked!

Kerry was the one who took the initiative. He looked at everyone and said, "Well, now that we are all here, let's take a look at what this 'Whitehall' project is. Let's go!" The interior of the warehouse was also arranged like a factory. At the deepest part was a glass house, where a man was looking down and calculating something. When Howard saw him, he stared at him intently as if he had discovered a new continent, and walked straight over. The people in the glass house also saw Howard and came out immediately.

The two men obviously knew each other. In front of everyone, Howard could only introduce: This is Richard Whitehall, a quantum computer expert who had disappeared before. I didn't expect him to be imprisoned here!
"Is this the 'Whitehall' project?" Kerry asked with interest, "Mr. Whitehall, can you tell me who locked you up here?"

"It's President Susan!" Whitehall denied directly, "She asked me to develop the latest quantum computer, otherwise she wouldn't let me go!"

Seeing everyone looking at her, Susan spread her hands helplessly and said, "I have never issued such an order, and it is not me who started the 'Whitehall' project..."

"You did it!" Howard said immediately, "Director Kerry, Susan is a foreign agent. What she did is betraying the United States. You must arrest her!"

Kerry looked at the two people's performance, shook his head and laughed, "Okay, you two, don't argue anymore, there is only one truth, I won't force the conspirator among you to speak out, but don't think about playing tricks in front of me!

"No matter who started the Whitehall project, after learning about Mr. Whitehall's research, I am honored to tell you that this project is under the supervision of CTU! Mr. Whitehall and everything he does will be under my supervision. You are out!"

Howard's face immediately changed, and he argued: "Director Kerry, no matter who started this project, the funds and investment spent by 'Whitehall' were all paid by Halcyon, and the company should have control over it..."

This time, Susan did not refute him, but nodded in agreement.

Kerry looked at the two of them and smiled. "You have a point, but Whitehall just said that he was forced to work by Susan, which involves criminal behavior. So the government has every reason to take over this project, and I am now representing the government! Do you understand?"

(End of this chapter)