The Blacklist

Chapter 54 Things are back on track
That night, Diane Fowler, the head of the DOJ Criminal Division, disappeared without a trace. Later, Cooper received a courier with a handwritten confession from Diane, stating that she had been bribed and sold out SER's intelligence and internal security, which led to the post office being captured by a group of mercenaries and dozens of deaths... Following that was Diane's handwritten signature, and the trace examiner confirmed that the signature was authentic!

Cooper reported the matter to the FBI director and the Attorney General. Two investigation teams came to the post office and found out the relevant "facts" in just two days. However, the conclusion was not made public. Instead, they immediately withdrew from the post office and resumed the operation of the SER team.

The DOJ then announced at an internal high-level meeting that the SER group would be directly managed by the deputy attorney general designated by the Attorney General, and no other person or department would have the right to interfere.

The FBI was actually very dissatisfied with this result, but they could not object. Fortunately, the direct person in charge of the SER group was still their Deputy Director of Counterterrorism, Harold Cooper, and it was still nominally an FBI agency, so they had to accept it. Moreover, in order to prevent SER from being completely out of the control of the FBI, they had to ensure the personnel and material equipment of SER, and no one dared to hinder SER's needs.

From this time on, Cooper completely relaxed his control over Carrey within SER, allowing him to act freely and no longer assigning him any tasks.

The two seemed to have reached a tacit understanding, like "kings do not meet kings", and rarely appeared in the same occasion.

Mira, Elizabeth and others noticed this situation, but no one said anything and they all remained silent.
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A DOJ department head is missing, but there are no reports or rumors about him, as if he never existed! It has no impact on SER, which is still handling major cases and arresting one or two big criminals from time to time based on Reddington's tips, keeping SER's crime-solving rate at the top of all FBI branches and bureaus.

Carrie went to work and came home normally as if nothing had happened. He would take the initiative to participate in any case that interested him, and spent most of the rest of his time in the archives room checking materials. Occasionally, he would say hello to the duty officer and take Gina out. No one knew what he was busy with, and no one cared to ask.

During this period, Elizabeth and Tom's marriage life was full of problems. The frictions between them due to work and life issues became more and more frequent, and they began to quarrel and have a cold war.

Reddington seems to have disappeared recently and has not shown up for a long time. Only Carrie knows that the last time he intercepted Congressman Allen, the two had a "friendly exchange" alone, which not only solved the "communication barriers" between the two sides, but also obtained some new "development opportunities". The cancellation of the wanted warrants for him and Gina was just a small benefit.
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At the end of October, a number of vicious cases occurred in the area around Washington. A crazy criminal kept kidnapping and attacking various unspecified people. After seriously injuring them, he sent them back to crowded areas. These victims all died because they did not receive timely medical treatment.

Police from all over the country were helpless and had to turn to the FBI for help. After reviewing similar cases in other parts of the country, the FBI headquarters determined that the murderer in these cases was the legendary "Good Samaritan," who had committed crimes in many states before but had never been caught. It is unclear why he committed crimes so crazily in the District of Columbia this time.

Finally, the case was handed over to SER. Cooper, who also had no clue, could only ask Elizabeth to ask Reddington, but the reply she got was: "The targets of the "good Samaritan" were carefully selected, so we must first check what the victims had done!"
The detectives of the SER team did not understand this, but they still launched an investigation. During the investigation, Donald, who was discharged from the hospital on crutches, first discovered clues during a visit to the victim's family - the latest female victim who was severely injured and disabled turned out to be a serious domestic violence perpetrator, and the target was her 10-year-old son. Her father knew or guessed this situation, but did not interfere or stop it. Later, after investigating the families of other victims, everyone found that the victims all had the same problem, that is, violence against family members, mainly children and wives. Only then was it determined that the murderer was enforcing his own justice and punishing these domestic violence perpetrators!
Mira and Elizabeth also discovered that the "Good Samaritan" obviously had extensive medical knowledge, because he perfectly reproduced the injuries suffered by the domestic violence victim on the target, but only aggravated them!

Moreover, the two speculated that the murderer did not actually intend to kill. Every time after punishing the target, he would send him to a hospital or a crowded area, as if hoping that he could receive timely medical treatment. But I don’t know if it is a coincidence that in recent cases, the victims were not found in time, resulting in death from serious injuries.

Carrie, who happened to be back at work at the post office, looked at the case files, listened to their analysis, nodded in agreement, and added one more point: this "Samaritan" must have experienced abuse and domestic violence in his childhood and adolescence, so he committed crimes everywhere after he became an adult, with the purpose of punishing those domestic violence perpetrators.

Donald, who is currently lame and unable to walk, sat in front of the computer for a rare time, and tracked down the suspect by analyzing various information he had retrieved. Although he looked a little clumsy, he did it very seriously.

The staff around him did not laugh at him, but were extremely envious - because he had a beautiful woman by his side to help and take care of him!

Carrey had a frank conversation with Cooper, explaining Donald and Audrey's situation clearly, and won a special recruitment quota, and really recruited Audrey into the post office and arranged her to work as an office clerk in the service department. At this time, Donald came back to work with an injury, and Audrey naturally took the initiative to come to help. No one would have any objection to taking care of the "disabled", but seeing the two of them constantly showing off their love, it was a bit unbearable!

In response to this, Donald's partner Mira had "warned" him several times when Audrey was not around, and Elizabeth had talked to Audrey twice, but the two of them still "refused to change", which was really infuriating, and finally they reported the case to Cooper.

Cooper also felt that this was not a good thing. As soon as the case was solved and the "Samaritan" was caught, he forced Donald and Audrey to take paid sick leave and sent them home.

This move was unanimously agreed upon by everyone in the post office. They all praised the leadership for its wisdom. They could finally give their eyes a two-day rest because they were really tired of seeing the two of them showing their affection!
(End of this chapter)