The Blacklist

Chapter 469 The Governor's Kidnapping Case is Very Strange
Carrie didn't tell anyone about this special harvest, and Clark, the artificial intelligence that was stored in his portable space, immediately fell silent! He didn't know how the system worked, but he believed that the system was actually interested in a piece of intelligent program in this world, which was definitely not a trivial matter. Now he just had to wait!
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Reddington's friend Frank found out a piece of information: Patrick Masouda, whom the fake Katarina wanted to treat, was a young man who had a rare blood disease two years ago, but he has now recovered. It is said that he spent a lot of money to treat him successfully! Patrick has been a frequent visitor to prison since he was a child. Not long ago, he changed his name and moved to Baltimore, but it is unknown what his relationship with the fake Katarina is.

Lao Lei hesitated, not knowing whether to tell Kerry about this matter - although he suspected that he already knew about it! -
As time entered March, the latest blacklist case that Reddington provided to SER was a case that the FBI had completed its investigation into - the disappearance of Virginia Governor Mason Sweeney.

More than three months after Sweeney disappeared, just as the state legislature was about to elect his successor, he suddenly appeared at a local hospital as if nothing had happened. Strangely, anyone would say something after experiencing a kidnapping, but Sweeney kept silent about it.

Although the FBI has closed the case at Sweeney's request, Reddington has reason to believe that the former governor is still under threat from kidnappers, but he is not sure in what form.

After studying the kidnapping case, Elizabeth and the agents did find many suspicious points. No one asked for a ransom during the entire process. One hundred days after Sweeney disappeared, he woke up in an unattended commercial rental warehouse, called his assistant to pick him up, and then quickly resumed work and refused to talk about what happened during that time.

The first thing that the new agent Elina thought of was the local Sironatos family, suspecting that they kidnapped Sweeney because they had refused to issue them a casino license. However, Reddington said very confidently that the matter had nothing to do with the Sironatos family because they would not achieve their goals by kidnapping politicians.

Elina disagrees with this, but Elizabeth firmly believes that although Reddington will conceal SER for his own benefit, he will not mislead the direction of the investigation during the specific case investigation, so she decides to start the investigation from Governor Sweeney.

In order to teach Alina how to handle cases in SER, Elizabeth and Dembe took her to see the governor.

At Sweeney's home, facing the questioning of three CTU agents, Sweeney looked relaxed and just said that he had been anesthetized for three months, his mind was blank, and he didn't remember anything.

This time even Elina felt something was wrong. A person who had been anesthetized and asleep for three months could actually walk normally in just two days. This was obviously impossible, but what was Sweeney hiding?
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Compared to the new case handled by SER, Carrie is more concerned about Reddington's dynamics...

After all, Reddington is different now. After a brief struggle, he took the initiative to find Carrie, told him about his investigation, and sought his opinion and support.

In this regard, Kerry expressed his appreciation - Lao Lei has really learned his lesson! In this case, he decided to accompany Lao Lei on a trip to push the incident forward a little faster.

Leaving Gina at home, Carrie, Reddington and Felix set out together to find the young man named Patrick Masouda, and found that he was a street thug! Without much effort, they got the answer from him: when he was six years old, his parents were killed for rescuing Constance Drucker, who they had never met. Since then, she has often helped and taken care of Masouda. When he was sick, she also paid for his treatment.

Reddington was not going to make things difficult for Masouda, the unfortunate child, but just took his phone and called Constance to arrange a meeting. Constance was very excited about this, and she could tell that he really cared about Masouda, but in the end she still refused to meet with Reddington, and even said: Even if he knew what she was doing from Motia, he couldn't do anything to her! After that, she hung up the phone.

Reddington was a little confused. The only thing he understood was that the Russian gangster boss in New York, Mortya Morozov, was executing the "Thompson Directive" and tracking down Constance - or Katarina, and he had already done something!

"What should we do?" Reddington couldn't help but ask Carrie.

"What should we do?" Carrie pouted, "If we can't find Constance, we can go find Mortia!"
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At the same time, Elizabeth and others found out that on the night of the kidnapping, Governor Sweeney worked very late and deliberately bypassed the security and went to a familiar restaurant alone to dine in order to have some quiet time. However, he was kidnapped when he was leaving the restaurant, his head was covered with a bag, and he lost consciousness.

After a lot of effort, Alam found the only long-preserved surveillance video outside the restaurant, and found a suspicious van from it. It drove away just a few minutes after Sweeney was kidnapped. There was an advertisement for "Express Bedding" on the body of the van. After verification, there was no such company, but based on the license plate, it was found that it was registered under the name of freelancer Wendell Wells, who had no connection with the Sironato family.

Elizabeth, Dembe and Alina went to Wells's address to investigate, but they only met his landlord. Then they found an investigation board in his room, which was covered with another person's photos and related information. It was confirmed that James Robson on the wall board was the next victim.

At this time, Aram called Elizabeth to inform her that Wells had been recruited as a volunteer for James's research institute...

Elizabeth and the other two rushed over, but they were a step too late. James had already been kidnapped!
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After returning to the tenement building, Elizabeth used her long-unused skills as a profiler to analyze Sweeney and James, who were kidnapped one after another, and found that they had some things in common: they both had considerable power and social influence, were extremely conservative in their political views, and strongly advocated and maintained the prestige of male power.

Based on these characteristics, Alam searched the recent case database and found another kidnapping case. The victim, Andrew Davis, was the pastor of the largest Baptist church in the country. He disappeared for two months last year and then reappeared, claiming to be participating in a spiritual retreat and apologized for the disturbance caused.

This situation was very similar to Sweeney's, so Elizabeth decided to ask about it.

(End of this chapter)