The Blacklist

Chapter 441 The Fisherman Takes Advantage and Hunts Down the Umbrella
Since Carrie had noticed it, he naturally couldn't hide the fact that Reddington was returning to Washington this time. He asked Gina to return to the tenement building in New York to take charge and at the same time conceal his absence. He then put on makeup and flew directly to New Orleans, waiting for Reddington to come - this time he was ready to be the oriole again!
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Reddington soon found out that a fire broke out in the New Orleans Opera House shortly after Hidalgo was arrested, and Judith was also killed in the fire! Later, the opera house was rebuilt on the original site, and the ruins of Judith's dressing room are now under the new stage. Reddington and Wesco both believe that the gold is hidden there! ——
On Sunday, June 6, the New Orleans Opera House had a series of opera performances. When the third performance reached its climax and the aria sung by the male and female assistants on the stage received warm applause from the audience, Reddington's blasting expert Rudiger pressed the detonator, and the directional blasting explosives placed in advance backstage blew up the cement wall that sealed the old dressing room...

When the New Orleans police arrived after receiving the alarm, the opera house was evacuating hundreds of spectators because of the fire alarm created by Reddington's men. No one noticed that a truck full of performance props was leaving...

However, neither Reddington nor Wesco, who had planned a perfect plan, had expected that the truck loaded with gold would disappear after driving several kilometers - it disappeared without a trace, and only the driver Rudiger was knocked unconscious and thrown on the side of a suburban road!
Reddington, who was very confused, had a guess, but then overturned it because Wesco found an opportunity and escaped from under his nose!
It was very painful, but Reddington was not an ordinary person, and he quickly accepted the reality - he was fooled by Wesco again, and his master was still so powerful! But what he didn't know was that this time Wesco really disappeared completely! ——
Kerry did not even tell Gina about this private operation, and completed it all alone. The result was very good. More than $10 billion worth of gold was obtained, the cunning Robert Wesco was killed, and a large amount of crime-killing points were gained. As for the slight psychological damage that Lao Lei suffered during this... well, it can be ignored.

In fact, this large amount of gold was not very useful to Kerry. He dared not spend it or show it to others. It would take up system space if he kept it in his hands. He robbed it just because he didn't want to let Wesco or anyone in the United States get it cheaply. Now that he had the gold, he thought about it and decided to talk about it later! ——
I don’t know if it’s because of the blow from the gold case, but Reddington has been silent for a while and hasn’t come to Tanglou again.

But there was good news for the agents: Nawabi was pregnant!

As a senior agent of SER, Nawabi holds a high position in the post office, or in the current tenement system. Her relationship and marriage with Alam are blessed by everyone, but now she is pregnant, and there are some problems: the first is that she has been engaged in field operations, and now she can't be allowed to continue fighting on the front line!
Fortunately, the current SER has sufficient staffing and many senior agents who can take over her job. After talking with him, Elizabeth discussed with Kerry and decided to adjust his job position, allowing Nawabi to transfer to clerical work and serve as the security director of the Tanglou base, and no longer perform external operations.

Also, because Nawabi's pregnancy reaction is quite severe now, Elizabeth gave her and Alam some vacation, allowing them to get through this initial stage and then come back to work, and the two of them can manage their own time.
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On June 6, the third Sunday in June, Elizabeth spent Father's Day with Reddington. During dinner, she asked about her mother again. This time, Reddington told her about how Katarina was hunted down after she defected...

Reddington said: "In the early years, intelligence agencies of various countries sent people to hunt down defectors, but later found that executing their own people would affect the unity within the organization, so they began to gradually hand over this task to third parties."

"You mean, there is an organization that specializes in hunting down defecting agents?" Elizabeth asked in surprise.

"Yes." Reddington said, "After years of operation, the most famous hunting organization is the Osterman Umbrella Company."

"Did the Umbrella Company also hunt down my mother?" Elizabeth continued to ask. Reddington nodded and said, "This company has been hunting down Katarina for more than a decade, and they haven't given up yet, because this was a long-term mission ordered by the KGB. Later, the Russian Federal Intelligence Agency also continued this and never gave up."

Osterman Umbrella Company! Elizabeth remembered the name firmly.
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After going to work on Monday, Elizabeth announced the new blacklist target to the SER agents - Umbrella Company!
"In the underground world, Osterman Umbrella Company doesn't have a good reputation. This is because the company's main clients are intelligence agencies of various countries..." said Elizabeth.

Jeffrey asked, "So is this Umbrella Company a PMC (private military company) or a PSC (mercenary company)?"

Elizabeth shook her head and said, "To be precise, this is a professional assassination organization. Its main business is to accept commissions from intelligence organizations of various countries to hunt down and eliminate abandoned agents or intelligence personnel."

"There is such a company?" Even Alam, who was very familiar with the information on the Internet, was surprised, because he had never heard of such a company.

Elizabeth introduced the situation that Reddington mentioned, and everyone understood the reason why this kind of company came into being. They all lamented that the world is so big and full of wonders!
"Normally, the Umbrella Company has business in countries around the world, but rarely operates in our country, because our intelligence agencies prefer to solve problems on their own." Elizabeth continued, "However, according to the latest news obtained by Reddington, the Umbrella Company's next target is in our country!
"Our job is to find out who this target is and why he is being hunted down."

The agents all nodded, and Jeffrey said, "So, even though we don't know how to find the Umbrella Company right now, the CIA, which has a long history, should know how to contact it!"

"That should be the case." Elizabeth said, "So, I've told Lee about this and asked him to contact the CIA. Once he gets the news, we'll take action."

Elizabeth did not mention that Katarina had been hunted by this company, but she had already made up her mind that she would take advantage of the opportunity of handling the case to uproot the Umbrella Company!
(End of this chapter)