The Blacklist

Chapter 456: Thunderbolt Breaks the Conspiracy
Abby, who has a lively personality, kept bickering with Jeffrey while busying herself with her hands. She soon found the Johnson Grimm family driving away and discovered that they were heading towards Washington.

Carrie didn't need to make any arrangements. Jeffrey jumped up and ran out. He wanted to take people to chase him!

At this time, Alam also found out about Johnson's situation and discovered that he was a programmer working in an Internet company. No wonder he was so skillful in opening the encrypted USB flash drive.

Carrey contacted Katie on a confidential phone and informed her of Miriam and the USB flash drive, asking her to pay attention. Then he learned that everything was fine on her side for the time being, Palmer was meeting with the Governor of New York, and the next schedule was to meet with the backbone of the New York Democratic Party and attend a buffet for the business community during dinner...

In addition, he got a useful piece of information from Katie: Millian left the hotel alone, and the two people he brought with him were not from the White House security team.

This means that the two are either off-duty agents of the USSS or personnel from other forces. If it is the former, it means that the USSS high-level officials have their people; if it is the latter, the problem will be less serious, and CTU can just take action against them directly.

Carrie agreed with her not to take action against Miriam for the time being and wait and see what he was going to do.
In order to ensure Palmer's safety, Carrie sent Elise's team to secretly arrive near the Lisa Hotel to keep in touch with Katie and be ready to support her at any time.
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At 6:30 in the evening, Jeffrey led his men to track down a motel between Baltimore and Washington, but unexpectedly found three armed men who had also rushed over. He then recognized that one of them was the one who had been with Miriam not long ago!

It was too late to request anything more. Jeffrey immediately led his team into action and attacked the three men. After a brief gun battle, he wounded two of them and then arrested them all!

Johnson honestly told the terrified Parker family in the motel: it was indeed his son Parker who replaced the USB flash drive. He was curious after returning home, and saw the contents of the USB flash drive after decrypting it. He discovered that it was a plan planned by internal personnel of USSS and DSS to attract Nordic killers and assassinate the president!
Johnson was terrified and no longer dared to trust the government law enforcement agencies, so he left New York with his wife and children, preparing to go to Washington, D.C. to seek refuge with friends and hide for a while; most importantly, when his family first entered downtown Baltimore, they sent the USB flash drive to The Washington Post via the post office, hoping that it would expose it!
Jeffrey was speechless. The Johnson family was really weird. They used so many tricks with a USB drive, which made it more difficult to solve the problem! The problem now was to intercept the USB drive before the email arrived at the newspaper office and grasp the assassination plan in advance, so as to stop the subsequent actions and ensure Palmer's safety.

While Jeffrey was reporting to Carrie on the phone, he led his men to the local post office. He left two members of the operation team to protect the Parker family and notified the people at the CTU office to provide reinforcements.
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After receiving Jeffrey's report, Kerry immediately contacted Donald in Washington, asking him to send a reliable agent from the headquarters to intercept the mail route to prevent the USB flash drive from being sent to The Washington Post. Of course, this was just a precautionary measure. If Jeffrey's action was successful, the mail would not be able to leave Baltimore.

In the tenement building, Elizabeth and the others have returned and are waiting to receive the assassination plan! —
When Jeffrey and others arrived at the Baltimore Post Office, they learned that the mail truck responsible for the suburbs was delayed due to a malfunction, so the mail had not yet arrived at the headquarters.

After receiving the message from Jeffrey, Alam immediately tracked the mail truck driver's cell phone signal and found that the last location reached by the positioning signal was the east district of Baltimore, and then the signal disappeared!
He immediately switched to satellite monitoring and found that the mail truck had turned around and headed towards New York at a speed of over 100 kilometers per hour, which meant that the mail truck was most likely controlled by Milian and others.

It was too late for Jeffrey to track down the person, so Carrie sent Brian's team from the tenement building to intercept the mail truck, and asked Iris' team near the Lisa Hotel to prepare for action... Carrie used her USSS senior consultant authority to directly enter the Secret Service database, screened the employees' work phones, and after cross-location, confirmed that the people driving the mail truck were Miriam and another USSS agent, and that the post office stopped at an abandoned warehouse just after entering New York City.

After receiving the notification, Brian's team rushed over immediately and blocked Miriam and his companions who were searching for the USB flash drive among a pile of mails in the warehouse... In the ensuing gunfight, Miriam and his companions were shot dead, and Brian then found the USB flash drive in the mail bag!
The USB flash drive was brought back to the tenement building. Abby and Alam decrypted it and opened it. The agents saw the complete assassination plan. Carrie immediately ordered the agents from each team to close the net!

The investigation process is complicated and difficult, but once the situation is clarified, action will be taken with lightning speed...
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At 8 o'clock in the evening, in the banquet hall of Lisa Hotel, the buffet had just begun. President Palmer had not arrived yet, and a large number of CTU field teams surrounded the scene. Katie ordered the agents of the White House Guard to stay at their posts and not to move without permission.

After taking control of the scene, Kerry, who arrived in person to command the operation, ordered the arrests to begin. His agents took the list to arrest suspects involved in the assassination plan, including the Lieutenant Governor of New York, the Minister of Economy, two state legislators, three USSS agents, two DSS agents, and four Nordic killers disguised as reporters and business security personnel!

Because the case involves all parties, National Security Advisor Cooper, who represented the president, issued a gag order to everyone present. Anyone who leaks the inside information before the case is officially announced will be held criminally liable.

While Elizabeth and Jeffrey were working with Katie to deal with the scene, Carrie went to the suite on the top floor of the hotel to meet Palmer, bringing steak and red wine...

When Palmer saw him, he smiled and said, "Lee, you saved me again! Thank you!"

"No need!" Carrie arranged the things in her hands on the dining table, "Just don't blame me for ruining your buffet!"

Hearing this, Palmer sighed, walked over and sat down, and poured red wine for the two of them. "I really didn't expect that the Secret Service and New York would have such a big problem! If it weren't for your arrangement, I might really have been harmed by them this time!"

Kerry clinked his cup with his, took a big sip, and said, "This is all thanks to Katie and Harold. They found out something was wrong and came to me..."

(End of this chapter)