The Blacklist

Chapter 82 The True Cause of Death of Adoptive Father Sam
A little after 3:00 p.m., Carrey and his two companions arrived at the FBI New York branch in downtown Manhattan and borrowed an SUV to drive to the St. Rose Hotel in Midtown.

On the way, Carrie called Donald and learned that he and Mira had visited the bridge where the state congressman had the accident and found two suspicious points: one was that they had no reason to cross the bridge, as Chandler's home and office were not nearby; the other suspicious point was that there were no brake marks on the bridge where the accident occurred, neither from the car that caused the accident nor from Chandler's car. This had been confirmed by the local police who handled the accident.

Now, Donald and Mira were on their way to find Senator Chandler. When they heard that Carrie and the other two had also arrived in New York, they made an appointment with him to meet up after finishing their work and go back together.

Carrie and his two companions did not find the British man Smithson in the St. Rose Hotel. There was a young black couple in the room. Their credit card must have been stolen, but they didn't know it yet.

In fact, Carrey knew the result was coming, so he just went out for a drive to relax and have a talk with Elizabeth. So he asked Gina to drive the car to the Williamsburg Bridge at the southeast corner of Manhattan Island, and the three of them got off the car and went to the bridge to enjoy the scenery of the Isle River.

Elizabeth was the first to speak. She said, "Come on, Lee, you must be in trouble."

"Yes, there is something wrong." Carrie said, "I know you are investigating the cause of death of your adoptive father Miloen, and you suspect that his death is related to Reddington, so I want to tell you that you don't need to investigate."

"It must be Aram who betrayed me, this guy!" Elizabeth said angrily, "But I'm not going to investigate further, because Aram helped me find the surveillance video outside the hospital at that time. Reddington was indeed on it, but he left at 4:37 pm, and my adoptive father died at 5:30 pm. So it only proves that Reddington went to see Sam without telling me, and it had nothing to do with his death."

"No, you're wrong." Carrie shook her head and said, "The time on the video has been tampered with. Reddington should have left the hospital at 5:37."

"Ah?" Elizabeth widened her eyes in surprise, "You mean..."

"You guessed right before." Carrie said, "Reddington killed Sam. He used a pillow and suffocated him to death."

"Ah..." Elizabeth screamed, tears immediately welling up in her eyes, and shouted, "Why? Why did he kill Sam?" Gina, who was next to her, saw that she was too emotional, and immediately reached out from behind and hugged her.

At this time, a police car stopped behind their car, and two patrol officers, a man and a woman, got out and walked over, asking them what was going on here.
Carrie, who was well prepared, raised his FBI ID and said, "FBI, we just completed a mission, and my partner's father passed away!"

As soon as he said this, the two policemen immediately said, "Sorry, please take good care of her!" After that, they immediately turned around and left without even saying anything like "You can't park on the bridge."

With this little episode, Elizabeth controlled her emotions and calmed down, but still asked: "Lee, tell me, why?"

"Although I wasn't at the scene, I can imagine the scene at that time..." Carrie said, "Remember that Sam called you before he died? At that time, he should have known that he was going to die, or in other words, he knew that he was going to be killed by Reddington, and he agreed to it..."

"That's impossible!" Elizabeth denied flatly, "How could Sam agree to be killed?" "Nothing is impossible!" Carrie said, "You went to see his body, you should have found that he didn't struggle before his death... or he didn't struggle violently, which means a lot."

"But..." Elizabeth hesitated. As an experienced FBI agent, she knew this was a possibility, but she had never thought about it seriously before. However, she still didn't understand. "But why is this?"

"Because both Sam and Reddington want to protect one or more big secrets, and they are secrets about you!" Carrie said, "Sam actually had the opportunity to tell you the secret in the last phone call, but he chose to remain silent in the end. In order to keep it secret, he was either worried that he would not be able to help himself later, or worried that he would reveal the secret when he was critically ill and unconscious, so he agreed to let Reddington kill him, which was also considered to end his pain in advance!"

"So, Sam and Reddington have known each other for a long time, and may even be good friends?" After Elizabeth regained her composure, she thought a lot.

"They should be best friends, because people who are not related to them will not agree to such a thing. This is murder!" Carrie said, "Of course, Reddington is also worried about what Sam is worried about, or even more worried, so he took action!"

Elizabeth listened in a daze. Although she felt it made sense, she still said hatefully: "Even if Sam agreed, I will not forgive Reddington! He prevented me from even seeing Sam for the last time..." When she said this, tears came out again.

Carrie looked at her with pity and said, "Perhaps it was because you told Sam to go see him as soon as the mission was over that he and Reddington made up their minds as soon as possible!"

Ah... Elizabeth was stunned! This time the shock she received was even greater than before.

"Lee! Stop talking!" Gina couldn't help it anymore and stopped him.

Kerry sighed, knowing that her words were too hurtful, but that was the truth. If she didn't explain everything at once, this nitpicking girl would continue to get into big trouble in the future, hurting herself and others!
But let her cry for a while! Carrie took out a cigarette, lit it, and looked at the river under the bridge. Her main task was to protect Elizabeth and Reddington. She also had to be a nanny and a psychologist for them. It was very tiring!
After crying for a while, Elizabeth regained her strength. She wiped her tears and asked again: "I don't understand, even if Sam agreed, how could Reddington do it?"

Carrie didn't look at her, but at the river surface, and said, "Liz, why don't you understand? In the eyes of Reddington and Sam, you are the most important. In order to protect you, they are willing to sacrifice their lives!"

"What?" Elizabeth was stunned. After a long while, she asked again, "Why?" But this time her tone was much lower.

"Liz, have you ever thought about this question? Since you are so important to Reddington, why didn't he come to you until more than nine months ago, and he surrendered to the FBI?" Carrie said.

(End of this chapter)