The Blacklist

Chapter 445: Catch Olivia's Tail
When Reddington heard Carrie's words, he froze. Everyone present felt that he was embarrassed for a moment. It was obvious that Carrie hit the nail on the head!

Reddington, who was experienced enough, adjusted his mentality immediately. He tapped Carrie on the sofa with his right hand holding a cigar, and said with a half-angry and half-smile: "You just want to ruin my plan! Well, I'll tell you the truth. This Olivia always helps my opponents and has ruined my plans many times. I don't want to tolerate it anymore, so I'll throw her out... How about it, are you satisfied?"

Hahahaha... the command hall suddenly burst into laughter, and everyone believed that Lao Lei was absolutely telling the truth this time!
Reddington himself was laughing so hard that he took the hand of Elizabeth, who also smiled and came to help him, and went to the sofa area and sat next to Carrie. He picked up a can of iced coffee on the coffee table, opened it and took a sip, and then said, "Liz, I have made an appointment with Olivia through a friend to meet at three o'clock this afternoon. You have to make arrangements in advance and catch her then. I really want to know what her next target is now?"

"Is it that simple?" Elizabeth said in disbelief.

"It's that simple!" Reddington said affirmatively.

"I don't believe it!" Carrie next to him interrupted.
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At three o'clock in the afternoon, outside a warehouse in Long Island, New York, Elizabeth and Dembe, who were watching from inside the car, saw Reddington and Felix walk into the warehouse...

However, the cunning Olivia did not show up, but made a real-time video call through a computer installed in the warehouse! Reddington could only temporarily change his previous strategy to delay time.

When the two were having a video call, the pinhole camera in the badge worn on Felix's chest transmitted the live image to Elizabeth!
Reddington asked Olivia to serve him right away, claiming that he could pay her twice as much as she wanted, provided that she told him who her current employer was?

Olivia obviously didn't expect that the famous Reddington would also want to hire her. After a moment's pause, she said that she was very willing to serve the "Red Devil", but only after she finished the order in hand! As for the name of her current employer, she couldn't reveal it because of professional ethics...

While Reddington was delaying time, in the car outside the warehouse, Abby judged based on the real-time smoothness of the video data that Olivia was nearby. She immediately defined the transmission radius and searched for nearby signal sources. It only took five minutes to determine that she was in a moving car, within a radius of 500 meters!

Elizabeth immediately ordered all teams of agents to search for large cars, SUVs and small trucks on the road nearby. The vehicles should have obvious external antennas on the outside! ——
Carrie, who stayed in the tenement building and did not go to the scene at this time, took action himself and used the master key to hack into the telecommunications companies operating in New York and Washington, and found a new clue - Olivia was related to Anna McMahan who had been shot dead by him, and the two had many call records in the previous six months!

The most important one is that before the vote on the North American Free Trade Agreement in Congress, the two communicated frequently. During this period, a member of parliament who opposed the agreement was hospitalized due to a car accident before the vote, which reduced one opposing vote and allowed the agreement to pass. The final beneficiary of this incident was Canada! ——
Reddington delayed long enough for Elizabeth and the others to spot an oncoming van - with an external antenna on the roof!

However, in the subsequent chase, the other party was prepared and drove into a narrow alley in the warehouse area. Then a large truck appeared at both ends, blocking the road and letting it escape! Elizabeth and others were very frustrated with this result. They didn't catch Olivia despite such a good opportunity, which really hit their confidence!

Carrie encouraged them with a smile, and asked Abby to come up with a new clue - the two trucks that appeared at the warehouse scene belonged to Stone Hammer Electric Company, and the company was acquired by a private holding company a month ago, and then sold to a Rain Cloud Investment Company. The style of this Rain Cloud Company is hostile takeover, which is very similar to Olivia's style of doing things!
Elizabeth immediately led a team to Long Island to search the Rain Cloud Investment Company. But when they arrived, the company looked like it was operating normally. However, Elizabeth, who was good at character profiling, easily saw that the manager's assistant was a rookie and was the easiest to be defeated. With just two sentences, she got him to confess: the real company location was the Hayman & Maine accounting firm located on the upper two floors of the same office building.

When the agents rushed to the office upstairs, the people inside were destroying computer data. Although they were stopped by the team members, most of the important data had been deleted. In the subsequent interrogation, it was discovered that Olivia had been issuing orders to the company's employees through video, and no one knew where she was!

Abby and the technical staff found some fragments of encrypted files from the company's computer hard drive. It would take time to repair, crack and extract data, but what was lacking now was time!

In this situation, Elizabeth contacted Aram in the tenement building and asked him to go online urgently to work with Abby to crack the data...

With their efficiency greatly improved, Abby and Alam quickly pieced together the fragments of the documents, showing that the company had invaded the surveillance firewall in Midtown Manhattan, with the surveillance location between 38 and 50 South Street; there were also some building structure drawings, dated last fall, which should be a new building on South Street.

By comparing with the urban building database, the building that meets these conditions is the Alta Hotel. The hotel has a new steel-framed terrace swimming pool extending out of the building on the top floor, the 72nd floor. The other party is obviously targeting this place for the attack.

Elizabeth immediately contacted the hotel's security and asked them to evacuate the hotel staff as soon as possible in the name of CTU. Then she drove to the hotel with a large group of people. But just as they arrived, they heard a huge explosion. The pipe trough under the rooftop terrace of the hotel exploded, causing the bracket to bend and break. Hundreds of tons of construction cement, steel frames and pool water fell from high altitudes. Fortunately, the crowd was evacuated in advance and no major casualties were caused!

A group of detectives were involved in the rescue work at the scene, but Elizabeth happened to see a man walking by. She recognized him as the truck driver who took Olivia away outside the warehouse that day. She immediately subdued and arrested him.

However, when they arrived at the location indicated by the driver, Olivia escaped again, but this time she left behind the server that had not been destroyed in time!
(End of this chapter)