The Blacklist

Chapter 86: Big Action on the th
On February 2, the FBI issued an urgent internal report that a money truck driver named Paul Blankenship died suddenly in the Westland Bank in Manhattan, New York. The CDC report showed that the cause of death may be the Karen virus! Currently, the DHS chemical defense force has sealed off the bank and is investigating how he was infected.

After receiving the news, Reddington rushed to the post office, claiming that this was a precursor to an attack by "Berlin" and asked the SER team to intervene in the investigation.

While Cooper and others were still hesitating, Carrie expressed her support for Reddington's suggestion.

Because he valued his opinion, Cooper applied to the DOJ Deputy Director in charge of SER and obtained the investigation authority for the case. He sent Donald to lead the team, taking Mira and Gina to New York again; Elizabeth, who was supposed to go, was replaced by Gina.

During this process, Elizabeth did not treat Reddington well, but she did not avoid him either, as if she was treating him like an ordinary person.

Even so, Reddington was already very happy. This was much better than he had imagined.
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During the investigation in New York, experts from the CDC told Donald that the Karen virus detected on the deceased had been modified to remove its strong infectiousness and was only targeted at the target person... and a needle box was found on the deceased, containing a needle of an unknown substance, which was suspected to be the virus that infected the deceased.

However, subsequent tests proved that the injection was not the Karen virus, but an antidote that could temporarily suppress the virus! This made the case a little confusing.

After returning to the post office, everyone studied the situation in the command hall. Mira was very puzzled and said, "The antidote was found on Blankenship. Since there was an antidote, why didn't he use it, but chose to die?"

Alam sent the latest news: "Forensic personnel found a text message on the deceased's mobile phone: 'Your next treatment medicine has been sent. Do your work well on the afternoon of the 28th, and the treatment will continue!'"

Elizabeth said, "The 28th is tomorrow. What job does the threat actor want Blankenship to do?"

Kerry sighed and said, "Whatever the job was, it was definitely not a good thing. Blankenship was infected with the deadly Karen virus, but he was unwilling to succumb to the threat and harm others. He refused to use the antidote, so he died!"

Everyone fell silent when they heard this. Although the deceased was just an ordinary person, he could be called a hero!

Cooper's face turned even darker with anger, and he said firmly: "So we must catch this bastard!"

At this time, Carrie said, "Liz, call Reddington and ask him how much he knows about the Cullen virus. Who can make a modified virus that is targeted at a certain person?"

Hearing this, Elizabeth hesitated a little, but when she saw everyone looking at her, she nodded and walked aside to make a phone call. After a while, she came back and said: Reddington wanted to take her to a place to meet someone who was capable of researching this virus.

"Gina, you go with Liz." Carrie made the arrangement directly without waiting for Elizabeth to express other opinions. Cooper and Donald also nodded in agreement, which made Elizabeth unable to refuse.

After the two of them left, Carrie called Donald and went to Cooper's office together, telling him the plan he had been thinking about for a long time, and trying to win their support...
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The next morning at around nine o'clock, Elizabeth and Gina returned to the post office. They took Reddington's private plane to and from the post office, which was fast enough. This time, everyone ate fast food delivered by the restaurant in the command hall, and listened to Elizabeth's introduction while eating.

The person Reddington took her to see was a "legend" named Bruce Sanders, who was once the chief expert at the military's virus research institute, but now lives in a mental hospital in Bangor, Maine.

When Elizabeth followed Reddington to see him, her first impression was that this man was really crazy! However, this man actually remembered that he had met Reddington in 2010 and remembered his name, which made their chat quite happy - except that he went crazy twice in the middle and spoke incoherently!

Elizabeth brought back three key pieces of information this time: the first death was just the beginning, there was a space agent named UD4126, and there were five Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Everyone was confused after hearing this and didn't understand what it meant.

Kerry stroked his chin and looked at the information on the big screen. He used his "cheating" skill and said, "Aram, check this UD4126. I think this should be the ID code of a government department!"

"Understood." Aram started immediately and spent more than twenty minutes to check. Among the current government departments, the only one with a code beginning with UD is the "Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry," which is the Centers for Disease Control. The coded certificate UD4126 belongs to Dr. Nicholas Vogel, who lives in Arlington.

Everyone immediately became excited, and Donald and Mira set out with the action team to capture him.

The arrest went smoothly this time and he was quickly captured at home. Then, when his home was searched, a private laboratory was found in the basement, where Karen virus samples and antidote were found. It was confirmed that Vogel was the poisoner and manipulator.

Vogel was taken back to the post office and refused to confess anything. The others didn't have time to deal with him, so they organized a forensic team to check the documents and computers copied from his home...

It was past the end of the working day, and Alam found a video on Vogel's computer that had just contacted the target person and had not been deleted. It also threatened with the virus antidote, but he successfully found the address information of the person who received the video: Lanston City Airport in Millville, New Jersey!
In the video, Vogel asked the other party to use his airport logistics room pass to open the computer room during the break at 2:55 pm, and someone would take over later! There is a lot of information here.

For Carrie, this information was enough, so he looked at Cooper and said, "Boss, we can arrange the operation now!"
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At 28 p.m. on the 2th, Lanston City Airport, which mainly handles domestic flights, was operating normally. Staff from various departments were working normally and everything looked the same as usual.

This time, Cooper led the team personally. He not only dispatched the post office's action team, but also used his authority as deputy director of the FBI's Counter-Terrorism Division to mobilize 200 people from the New York branch and the New Jersey office. Fifty of them entered the airport in plain clothes, and the other hundreds of people were secretly deployed at various locations outside the airport, ready to enter and perform tasks at any time.

Carrey was appointed by Cooper as the commander-in-chief of on-site operations, responsible for the overall operation.

(End of this chapter)