The Blacklist

Chapter 66 The truth is often cruel
Carrie walked into the wooden house naturally and looked around. It could be seen that this was originally a stable, but now it has been converted into single cells, which are basically full of people. It looks like a small prison.

At the innermost part of the house, there was an iron chair with Cooper tied up on it. The generator next to it was ready, as if he was about to carry out an electric shock execution!
Kipling was not tall, with a wrinkled face full of determination. He stared at Carrey and said, "Agent Carrey, if you are here to plead for Agent Cooper, you don't have to speak!"

Behind her stood several middle-aged men of different ages, all staring at Carrie coldly.

"No, I'm not here to plead for Cooper." Carrie said, "I'm here for you, the 'Supreme Judge'. With your efforts over the past decade, you not only built this place, but also successfully let criminals across the United States know of your existence! The Amnesty International organization you helped to establish has also saved many people. All of this is due to the 'justice' you have always insisted on... I think you don't want to ruin this good reputation in this last case, right?"

"What do you mean?" Kipling frowned.

"I brought you a document..." Carrie said, indicating that he was going to take something out. He slowly opened the front of his coat with his left hand, revealing a folder in the inner pocket, and then pulled it out with his right hand. "This document involves state secrets. Under normal circumstances, whether it is you or me, if we read it, it would be a serious crime... But in this case, who cares!"

"Please sit down." Kipling took the document, sat on a chair, and motioned for him to sit down too.

After sitting down, Carrie took out a cigarette and lit it, saying as he smoked, "This is a confidential file from the Pentagon. The original confidentiality period was 30 years, but because of your reckless actions, I had to find it out in advance!

"When you open this document, you will be guilty of illegally obtaining state secrets... But I believe that this is nothing compared to the truth you want to obtain!
"On October 2002, 10, the US military intelligence department on the Afghan front sent an action team to carry out an urgent mission. They rushed to a small village in Guldada, Kabul Province by helicopter and rescued an undercover agent whose identity was exposed...

"Local Taliban militants and Alan Ray Rifkin, a US traitor who collaborated with them, received the news and rushed to the village, but it was too late. The US military rescued the undercover agent. Out of anger and suspicion, the Taliban and Rifkin executed the villagers and set fire to the village. Dozens of women and children were killed by them in revenge...

"In order to avoid attracting attention, the U.S. military intelligence department concealed the incident; the Pentagon also did not want to expose the existence of traitors in the U.S. military, so it chose to conceal the truth and sealed the operation file.

"Ms. Kipling, this is the truth you are looking for. Rifkin was sentenced to death and executed, not because he was tortured into confessing or framed by Cooper and others, but because he deserved it!"

As she listened to Carrie's narration and looked at the photos, action plans, completion status, evaluation reports and other detailed information in the documents in her hands, her face became worse and worse - all this proved that she was indeed wrong!

The others standing behind Kipling were also stunned. The "belief in justice" that they had always upheld began to collapse at this moment. They all looked at Kipling in a daze, waiting for her decision.

Kipling closed the folder, took a deep breath, and said, "Agent Carrie, even if all this is true, Agent Cooper did beat Rifkin..." "Forget it, Kipling!" Carrie interrupted her unceremoniously, "It's too light a punishment to beat a guy who betrayed his comrades on the battlefield, collaborated with terrorists, and massacred civilians! If I were there, I would have executed him with a whole box of bullets, so as to avoid wasting a lot of manpower and financial resources like later, keeping him in prison for 11 years. It would be better to use that money to pay more pensions to those soldiers who died!"

Everyone in the room, including Cooper, was shocked by his words, but after thinking about it, they felt that they did make sense.

"Okay! Agent Carrey, you win!" Kipling sighed.

"You didn't lose!" Carrie said, "You didn't make a wrong 'judgment', which allowed you to maintain your good reputation as the 'Supreme Judge'. In the future, you can appeal for those criminals who are truly wronged in prison! I think you were mentally prepared for the matter of going to jail when you chose to release Mark Hastings at the end of his 'sentence'!"

Hearing this, Kipling smiled and shook his head, saying, "I never thought that the person who really understands me is an FBI agent! Thank you, Mr. Carey. I and my companions now surrender to you!"

The matter was solved so miraculously. When Carrey led Kipling and others out of the cabin, the SER agents and action team members surrounding them were all surprised! After a while, Donald, who was the first to react, rushed forward, arrested these people, and called for support from the local FBI branch.

Except for prosecutors Cooper and Connolly who were just brought here and were released immediately, the mental state of the other nine "prisoners" was not very good and they needed to wait for medical personnel to arrive before being released and treated...
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After the SER team handed over the follow-up matters to the local FBI branch, everyone went back home. After the convoy set off, they began to chatter and discuss this operation on the communication channel.

Cooper, who was sitting in Carrie's car, asked him, "Richard, where is the document?"

"Don't worry, I didn't forget and I've put it away." Carrie said, "Boss, you really have to thank Elizabeth this time. She didn't believe you were a bad agent, so she forced Reddington to find evidence...

"Well, come to think of it, you owe Reddington a favor this time - he risked being caught and shot by the military and went to find his old colleague at the Naval Intelligence Agency, and only then did he get this document!"

Cooper didn't expect there would be so many twists and turns. Hearing this, he said to Elizabeth, who was sitting in the front passenger seat: "Thank you, Liz!"

"No, no... This is what I should do." Elizabeth waved her hands in panic, feeling very embarrassed. She had suspected Cooper before, but it was Carrie who woke her up after scolding her. It was also because of his guidance that she asked Reddington for help...

(End of this chapter)