The Blacklist

Chapter 467: New Agents Need Training
As Carrie finished speaking, the eavesdropping agents in the command hall all turned their eyes to him...

This made the new agent Elina a little nervous, but she immediately calmed down and said loudly: "Yes, Director Kerry. I have tried to directly track the original IP of the person who first posted the video, but found that it was impossible. The other party's technology is obviously very high...

“But I thought about one thing. Even if the person who posted the video is highly skilled, can he always be so careful?

"After changing my mindset, I started searching for the publisher's online username on the Internet - most people who frequently surf the Internet use their favorite usernames consciously or unconsciously!

“After searching, I found that this username had posted on quite a few underground forums recently, and in one of the posts he did not use a virtual network or IP redirection - I suspected he was negligent.

"So, I contacted the forum operator and sent an online query to it in the name of CTU. In its reply, I got the IP address of the poster. Then I confirmed through the network operator that this IP address was rented to a 16-year-old boy named Aiden McCullough, who lives in Bethesda, Maryland..."

After hearing what Elina said, the agents were a little surprised at her quick thinking, but Carrie took the lead in applauding to express her appreciation, and the other agents immediately followed suit; only Alam was surprised and ashamed, he felt that he was outdone by a newcomer this time, and had a sense of crisis!
Elizabeth was very satisfied with Alina's results, so she said, "Very good, Alina, since you found the clue, you can go with Duke and O'Neal to talk to Aiden and his parents - I deliberately made him either used by someone or his computer was hacked, let's get to the bottom of it!"

"Understood, Chief." Alina responded immediately with great interest. She had the opportunity to go out on field trips right after joining the company, and she found the clues herself, so she was very motivated to solve the case!
Duke is white and O'Neal is black. The two guys were very interested in accompanying the new Chinese girl to investigate the case. They immediately stood up and surrounded her to get equipment and cars, and set off to take action. Everyone behind them laughed! ——
After Alina and the other two arrived at Aiden's house, they didn't expect Aiden's mother to be so cooperative. They had been wishing someone would pull her son away from the computer and mobile phone screens.

After understanding the situation, they found that Aiden was a typical American teenager who was still in his rebellious period. His computer was basically filled with online games and pornographic videos. Later, Alina, who was good at computers, discovered that a Trojan horse had been implanted in the computer, so it actually became a zombie tool for hackers when it was turned on.

Although Alina was a little disappointed about this - her previous confident expression in front of Director Kerry and Director Keane was still wrong, but fortunately: she found an automatically recorded transaction data on Aiden's computer, which was operated by the real hacker through his computer - transferring 70,000 US dollars to a man named Walter Higgins, and found the receiving account.

After returning to the tenement building, Elena kept a much lower profile. After reporting the situation to Elizabeth, she took the initiative to help Alam check the bank surveillance and obtained the facial image of the person who withdrew the money.

Based on the facial recognition system developed by Abby, they quickly found Walter, but when Alina, Duke and O'Neal rushed to Walter's apartment, they saw that the target they had finally found was dead, and Reddington at the scene was dispatching a team of scavengers to clean up the scene - what made Alina even more unacceptable was that this team of scavengers turned out to be a legal team dedicated to post-processing work for the NYPD Murder Investigation Department!
Agent Elina is a person who hates evil. Only after joining SER and signing a confidentiality agreement did she learn that Reddington was an important informant. But in fact, she had some reservations about the government agency's cooperation with this most wanted criminal. Now seeing this situation, she could no longer tolerate it and left angrily.

As soon as she left, Reddington told Duke and O'Neill the results of the interrogation and asked them to pass it on to Elizabeth: Walter was a killer who was good at using a sniper rifle. He was paid $70,000 to carry out the mission of assassinating Tracy Long, an artificial intelligence expert at Fleet Technologies.
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Elizabeth had a headache after receiving the report. She knew that Reddington was deliberately provoking Elena. She asked Dembe to drive her to Fleet Company in Arlington County to meet Tracy, while she called directly to question the bad old man!

However, Reddington has his own theory: He had investigated Agent Elina Parker before and learned that she was a unique and overly righteous person when she was in the FBI. After completing her training at Quantico, she had excellent grades and could have stayed at the headquarters or even chosen her own department. However, because she didn't like the working style of the FBI's middle and senior leaders, she took the initiative to apply to go to remote Alaska!
As a result, after Alina arrived in Alaska, the state branch gave her priority in assigning her to the Anchorage office in the most important city because of her excellent grades. However, her hatred of evil soon caused a rift with her colleagues, so she applied for and insisted on transfer many times. If Donald, now the director general of CTU, had not seen her results, she would probably have been kicked out of the sequence of government employees long ago!

After hearing that she was transferred to SER by Elizabeth, Reddington wanted to give her some stimulation to let this girl with an excessive sense of justice know what the social reality is - he, the FBI's most wanted criminal, is actually the most important collaborator of CTU, because he can provide more clues to major crimes than most informants combined. Under this basic premise, everything else is not important!
After hanging up the phone, Elizabeth was helpless about the old man's willfulness, but she felt that what he said made sense. However, the most important thing now was to solve the case first, so this matter could only be put aside! As for Alina's personal emotions, were they important? She could only say: It really doesn't matter. If you can't adapt, just leave - and that's on the premise of signing a confidentiality agreement!
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After Elizabeth and Dumby arrived at Fleet Company, Dr. Tracy, a senior executive of the company, came out to receive them politely in person. However, he was surprised to hear that he had become the target of a killer. He claimed that he had no grudges with anyone and could not imagine who would hire someone to kill him.

At this moment, Elizabeth suddenly remembered that Duke had reported that Walter was a sniper and that there was an adjusted sniper rifle in his apartment. She suddenly asked Tracy if she was going to meet someone today...

(End of this chapter)