The Blacklist

Chapter 74 The Successful Interrogation of Tom
Alam first reported that according to a joint investigation by the FBI and TSA (Transportation Security Administration of the Department of Homeland Security), the airbag of the deceased Nathan Pratt's car exploded in a non-dangerous state before the car accident, not after the car accident. There are only two possibilities for this situation to happen:
One is that the installation of the airbag poses a serious safety hazard, and the other is that an external electronic command forcibly activated the vehicle's hazard avoidance code. The traces at the scene led experts to unanimously determine that it was the latter case.

After checking the chip program of the vehicle involved in the accident, TSA experts found several lines of abnormal code in it, which were obviously added later and are currently being deciphered.

Alam asked for these lines of code and studied them. Although he still didn't understand the purpose of these codes, he found a digital signature "Ivan" in them - this is a common practice of many hackers, that is, to add signatures to their "works", similar to showing off.

After some effort, Mira and Alam jointly found some new information, proving that this "Ivan" was a famous Russian hacker, a typical anti-government activist who had been making trouble in Russia and was unlikely to come to the United States to cause trouble.

However, no matter what, this is the only valuable clue at the moment, but the problem now is that they have no information about Ivan and cannot ask the Russian security department for help.

Carrie knew the inside story, but she couldn't say anything at this time. She could only agree with everyone's suggestion: contact Reddington to see if he could find Ivan. At least two questions should be answered:
First, was this crime really committed by Ivan?

Second, if it wasn’t Ivan who did it, who else in the United States could have done it?

After receiving Elizabeth's call, Reddington agreed immediately, claiming that he could take this opportunity to go to Belarus to meet some old friends and asked her to wait for news.

In that case, Carrie waved his hand and said that was enough for today. Everyone should go home and fight again tomorrow.

His management style was very popular with everyone. After the cheers, except for the staff who stayed on duty, everyone else got the rare opportunity to leave work early.
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Carrie asked Gina to accompany Elizabeth to go shopping for daily necessities, while he went to the logistics base alone.

Tom, who had been detained for most of the day, was a little depressed. When he heard someone coming in, he immediately turned his head and shouted, "Who are you? Why are you arresting me?"

Kerry stepped forward and took off the black bag on his head, looked at him and said, "Tom, don't pretend anymore. You know who I am, so of course you know why we want to arrest you. Tell me, what did you want to do by lurking around Elizabeth for so long?"

"I don't know who you are, and I don't understand what you are saying..." Tom shook his head. He was now hung on the wall in a big letter shape. The only part of him that could move was his head. He felt uncomfortable all over, but years of training made him persist. He knew that his true identity must not be exposed, otherwise the fate that awaited him would not be good.

Kerry dragged a chair over and sat opposite him, looking him in the eye and said, "From an objective point of view, the Major did a very good job in training you, but why did you change the original mission plan from protector to lover? Don't tell me that you fell in love with Elizabeth at first sight!"

Tom was stunned for a moment, then gave up his previous disguise and calmed down. He said, "Agent Carrey, since you already know everything, why are you asking me?"

"Haha! What a good 'pretender'!" Carrie laughed. "Didn't the 'Major' tell you when he was training you that after a 'pretender''s identity is exposed during a mission, there are only two options: one is to run as fast as possible, and the other is to die! Now that you can't run away, the only option is to die." As he said that, he took out his pistol...

"Hey, hey...wait a minute!" Tom was really panicking. He had heard from Elizabeth before that her partner would never show mercy when killing criminals. "I have never done anything to harm Liz, nor have I committed any crime. You are an FBI agent, you can't kill me!"

"Not necessarily!" Carrie said, "At least you deceived Liz's feelings and made her mistakenly believe that she had found a lifelong partner. Isn't this hurtful?"

"No!" Tom said hurriedly, "At the beginning I did intend to get close to Liz and win her favor, but soon I really fell in love with her, and I married her sincerely..."

"Tom, this is back to the same question as before!" Carrie said, "Who told you to change the purpose of the mission? Why don't you tell me? My patience is limited."

"Well, I say," said Tom, "Berlin!" "Why?" asked Carrie, "For money? Or something else?"

Seeing that he was not surprised at all, Tom sighed, knowing that the other party had known about it for a long time. In this case, there was no point in hiding it, so he said, "I accidentally left evidence when I was on several missions in Europe before. I don't know how Berlin got hold of the evidence. He promised me that as long as I completed this mission, he would give me the evidence... and a sum of money!"

"What is the purpose of the mission?" Carrie asked.

"Through Liz, we can find out the whereabouts of Raymond Reddington." Tom said.

"And then?" Carrie asked.

"There's nothing for me to do after this," said Tom.

"What does Lucy Brooks want from you?" Carrie asked.

"Brooks? I don't know him." said Tom.

"Oh, when she approached you, her name was Julianne Parker," said Carey.

Tom finally understood and replied, "Julene was sent by Berlin to urge me to complete the task as soon as possible... Berlin can't wait any longer."

"Then why did you kill her?" Carrie asked.

Huh? Tom was stunned, then smiled bitterly and said, "So you even knew about this. I didn't lose unfairly! Julianne told me that after she came back from Orlando, she found that someone had entered her apartment...

"I thought she had been exposed, and staying would implicate me, so I asked her to leave. Not only did she disagree, she also took the initiative to approach Liz to find out Reddington's whereabouts...

"Her personality and behavior will expose me, so I..."

Carrey nodded. Yes, these were all true. "Why did 'Berlin' look for Reddington?"

"I don't know." Tom shook his head. "I think it should be revenge!"

"When? How?" Carrie asked.

"I don't know about that," said Tom.

(End of this chapter)