The Blacklist

Chapter 55 Killing the Selfish Alchemist
On November 11, Halloween, a private plane took off from Washington and had an accident and crashed in West Virginia. Two pilots, a flight attendant and two passengers were confirmed dead. DNA testing confirmed their identities. The two passengers were the Medzeko couple, tainted witnesses in the Department of Justice's witness protection program.

The Ministry of Justice and the court suspected that this was a serious leak, so the case was handed over to SER, asking them to find out as soon as possible whether the deaths of the two witnesses were related to the leak and to fill this possible loophole.

After reviewing the entire case, SER did not find any problems and even felt that it was not worthy of investigation, believing that it was just a flight accident.

Kerry learned about the case when he came back to hang out. After reading the file, he shook his head and said, "Liz, this is a bit strange. You'd better ask Lao Lei and get his opinion."

Elizabeth had been unable to concentrate recently because of family problems. She was stunned for a moment before she reacted and called Dumby.

Reddington hadn't been to the post office for a long time. He was very happy to receive Elizabeth's call. After listening to her description of the case, he immediately said, "Liz, what you said reminded me of a possibility, but you need to confirm whether there are similar cases, such as the sudden death of a suspect that the FBI has locked in, the sudden death of a criminal who has been sentenced to serve a sentence, and whether there are other deaths in the witness protection program. This is very important."

After hanging up the phone, Elizabeth was a little confused and didn't understand the relationship, but she still told everyone Reddington's opinion.

As a result, after some investigation, it was found that there were more than a dozen situations like what Reddington described, but they were all treated as accidents and no investigation was launched.

Elizabeth immediately went to find Reddington again and told him about the situation.

After listening to her story, Reddington was silent for a while before he said, "In a small circle in the underground world, there is a special person. His specialty is to use high-tech means to change the appearance of ordinary people he has found, and then create accidental deaths, so that some wealthy criminals who pay money will be "dead". Then he can change his identity and continue to be free without going to jail or accepting punishment...

"This person is called the 'Alchemist'. Legend has it that he can even use physiological and chemical methods to make the victim carry the DNA of the person being replaced, so that the FBI and the police can confirm that the target person is dead and give up the pursuit and tracking, so that the real criminal will no longer be held accountable...

"Liz, isn't this amazing? Now, I think you've met him!"

After hearing her retelling, everyone was silent. Is there such a thing? This is beyond imagination.

As a tech geek, Alam thought of the possibility and immediately contacted the forensic doctor in charge of the plane crash examination, asking him to extract the bone marrow of the deceased, retest the DNA, and then compare it with the data in the database to determine whether it was the "deceased person himself"!
Half a day later, the information came back that the bodies of the two passengers, after bone marrow DNA testing, were not actually the passengers themselves, but two ordinary people with no criminal records!

At this point, everyone truly believed what Reddington said and immediately began to hunt for the real Medzeko couple...

The next day, based on the update of the new case information database, Alam discovered that the Maryland State Police had reported the latest case, in which Mrs. Medze's body was found in a private office building.

The local police have conducted a preliminary investigation and confirmed that the deceased was shot to death, with one bullet in the head and one in the chest. No traces of other people were found at the scene, but the office renter has been confirmed to be a business consultant named Detel, who is currently missing, and his wife and daughter are also missing, so the police believe that he is a major suspect and have issued a warrant.

That afternoon, the FBI received the latest report that Detelle appeared with his wife and daughter in a small supermarket in the suburbs of Newark, northeast of Washington, and held the supermarket owner and several other customers hostage at gunpoint... When Carrie, Gina, Elizabeth, and Mira arrived at the scene by helicopter, Detelle shot and killed a customer with a pistol, and in the gunfight, Detelle's daughter was also shot and fell into a coma and was in critical condition. The local police had decided to storm!

Elizabeth's stubbornness came back and she even put down her gun and wanted to go into the supermarket to negotiate with Detel!

Gina and Mira were both furious at her sudden action, but Carrie immediately walked to the side of the police sniper, took over his Remington M700 police sniper rifle, lay on the hood of the police car, aimed at the inside of the small supermarket, and prepared to provide support!
Gina and Mira also reacted and immediately took out the M4A2 rifles with scopes from the car and found a good position nearby to prepare for further shooting.

The actions of the four people taught the local police a lesson.

While Elizabeth was loudly persuading Detel to surrender so that the police could immediately treat her daughter's injuries, in the small supermarket, his wife saw her daughter was in critical condition with gunshot wounds, and her husband was still asking for amnesty, cash, and a car. She couldn't help it, so she picked up the dead customer's revolver and shot Detel!
The police outside the small supermarket were all shocked, and then saw that after being shot, Detel let go of the hostage at hand, turned back, and raised his pistol...

At this moment, a crisp gunshot rang out, and Detel was shot in the head and fell down!

Afterwards, a group of police rushed into the supermarket and confirmed that Deter had been shot dead. The crisis was resolved, and his wife and daughter were also taken to the hospital by ambulance for treatment...

Kerry, who was outside, returned the M700 in his hand to the policeman next to him and praised: "This is a good gun, man, you take good care of it!"

The other party gave him a thumbs up and praised him: "Sir, you shot well!"

On the way back, the four took a train, and the local police considerately arranged a private compartment for them.

The train rumbled southwest towards Washington, but Elizabeth lay on the small table, looking at the scenery passing by the window, and said depressedly: "Lee, why do you think this happened?"

"Why?" Carrie was lying very comfortably on Gina's thighs at this time. Hearing this, she asked back subconsciously.

"Why would that Detel ask for pardon and money regardless of his daughter's injuries? Are these more important than the lives of his loved ones?" Elizabeth said.

Kerry organized his words and said, "Everyone has different opinions. This Detel obviously loves himself more, while his wife loves their daughter more. These are two completely different emotions!"

(End of this chapter)