The Blacklist

Chapter 450 It's the naughty kids who are causing trouble
When Elizabeth and Dumby went to Des's house to find out the situation, his parents had just received a blackmail video an hour ago. In the video, Des's limbs were tied to a seemingly ancient torture device, and he was struggling in pain.

Des's father, Marcos Foy, took a tough stance and claimed that he would never compromise with the terrorists. After being persuaded by Elizabeth, he agreed to cooperate, but only to go to the designated location to negotiate with the kidnappers, not to pay any money.

Elizabeth arranged a surveillance operation and escorted Marcos to the park for the meeting. However, the kidnappers did not call Foy directly, but stuck a mobile phone under the bench!
After Marcos got the new phone, he followed the instructions and went to the cafe opposite the park. A woman saw him come in and got up and left, leaving a book on the table. The bookmark stated that Foy should go out the back door and get into a black Mercedes-Benz.

Because SER could not hear the calls on the new phone, Marcos had to talk to himself, hoping to pass the message through the bug on his body. This abnormal behavior aroused the suspicion of the kidnappers, and the black Mercedes sped away, and the connection failed!
It wasn't long before Marcos received a video of his son being shot and he blamed the CTU agents for it.

Elizabeth had no time to pay attention to him, because she found that the torture device that bound Des in the video was not an ordinary object, but an antique torture rack from the 18th century, which was very rare! She didn't know much about this kind of strange thing, but she knew that Reddington must know, so she called him for help.

Reddington was very happy to receive his daughter's call for help, and he did know a lady who specialized in collecting similar antiques. He went to her shop and learned that an identical torture rack had recently been auctioned off by a historian and collector named Neil.
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On the other hand, Elizabeth instructed Alam to track down the fleeing black Mercedes and soon obtained relevant information. There was a suspicious vehicle report 48 hours ago. The reporter was Della Whitmore, the president of the pharmaceutical company, who said that the car had been lingering near her home.

When Brian and Rosa came to investigate, Della admitted that her 22-year-old son Taylor had also been kidnapped! Marcos, who had just lost his son, broke in. He was a close friend of Della and his wife, and used his son's experience as an excuse to encourage Della not to cooperate with CTU.

In desperation, Brian could only call SER. Elizabeth, who received the call, was also helpless. However, Kerry, who came downstairs to "play", pressed the speaker button on the phone and said directly: "Brian, turn on the speaker of your phone, so that those guys who become stupid when they have money can hear my words...

"Listen up, rich gentlemen across the street: I am CTU's deputy director, Kerry. I have always handled serious cases related to national security. The life and death of your children are nothing in front of national security!

"My men are here to help you rescue your children. You don't need to be grateful. But if you are unwilling or put up obstacles, I can withdraw them! You are responsible for the life and death of your children!

"Brian, remember my words: be in charge of the on-site operations. If they are unwilling to cooperate, you should just withdraw! We are law enforcement agencies, not anyone's babysitters!"

Brian received clear instructions and immediately said, "Got it, Boss!"
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On Reddington's side, he found Neil, who collected the torture platform, and learned that he did not sell the torture platform to others, but kept it in his private museum. This situation shows that the previous video of Des being tied to the torture platform and shot should have been shot in Neil's museum!
After receiving the information from Reddington, Elizabeth immediately led the team to the museum and launched a raid. They captured Des Foy, Taylor Whitmore, and Neil's daughter, who was an insider. Although they were nominally kidnapped, they were actually kidnappers, including Des who had "died" before!

After interrogating them, the detectives discovered that the four wealthy children who were "kidnapped" before and Des who faked his death were actually in the same group and were all members of the "Third World"!

Afterwards, SER agents attacked again and captured Zoe Mercer, Oliver Page, Matt Ford, and Mia Walker who had come from hiding. After some interrogation, the agents received an unexpected piece of information: The founder and leader of the "Third World" was actually a man named Rudiger!
After repeated confirmation, Elizabeth confirmed that Rudiger was the blasting expert under Reddington! She felt something was wrong and immediately called to ask what was going on.
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Carrie also received a report from SER and learned about the situation, but he did not express his opinion because this was something he had already expected. However, Reddington was very unhappy after receiving Elizabeth's call!
Old Lei ordered Felix to bring people to capture Rudiger and interrogated him personally. Finally, he confirmed one thing: Rudiger's establishment of the "Third World" had nothing to do with the previously learned conspiracy to attack the United States. His purpose was to deceive these stupid kids and make them extort money from their wealthy parents!

This behavior seemed extremely excessive to Reddington. He thought he had been very kind to Rudiger and had never lacked money for him. However, he could not accept the fact that Rudiger used such a despicable method to make money!
That night, Baltimore police reported that Rudiger's body was found in a suburban park.
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The "Third World" turned out to be a fake kidnapping gang set up by a group of rich second-generations in order to defraud their parents' money. This result was a little hard for the SER agents to accept because it was really beyond imagination!

After Rudiger's body was found, the case was considered closed. What awaited the seven rich second-generations was prosecution by the local prosecutor, but everyone knew that with the financial resources and energy of their parents, the final result would definitely be an out-of-court agreement and the parents would take their children back.

Kerry considered killing these naughty kids. Although he wouldn't get much crime-killing points, he should get a lot of money. However, after thinking about it, he still didn't do it! It's not because he is afraid of the parents of these children, but he really can't do it. After all, the original intention of these children was to "kill the rich and help the poor", but they were just used by others!
If we analyze this situation further, the malicious acquirer Olivia who escaped left the file name "Third World" in the server with the intention of deliberately misleading them. How despicable!

However, after removing the "Third World" option, there are no clues left in the hunt for Olivia, which still makes Carrie very unhappy!

(End of this chapter)