Episode 100: “Pilot”
Raymond “Red” Reddington ...... James Spader Harold Cooper ...... Harry Lennix Elizabeth Keen ...... Megan Boone Tom Keen ...... Ryan Eggold Donald Ressler ...... Diego Klattenhoff Ranko Zamani ...... Jamie Jackson
Following decades on the Most Wanted list, Raymond “Red” Reddington surrenders to FBI assistant director of counterterrorism Harold Cooper and offers to deliver Ranko Zamani, a Serbian terrorist thought to have died years ago. When Red refuses to cooperate further until he can speak with Elizabeth Keen, a rookie agent and criminal profiler, agent Donald Ressler intercepts her on her way to work and whisks her away to the covert operations center where Red is being held. Surprising Liz with how much he knows about her, Red reveals that Zamani is planning to kidnap general Daniel Ryker’s eight‐year‐old daughter, Beth.
After calling her husband Tom to say she won’t be at a meeting to finalize their adoption of a new baby, Liz is escorting Beth to safety when some suspicious roadwork along their route is revealed to be an elaborate trap set by Zamani’s men. Leaving a scene of death and destruction in their wake, the kidnappers escape with Beth. As Liz concludes that Zamani is seeking to avenge the deaths of his own children during the Bosnian civil war, Red leads her to a bomb maker and Zamani henchman known as the Chemist. But when Liz finds her husband badly beaten and being held hostage at home, Zamani claims he’s done with the Chemist anyway and escapes after stabbing Tom, leaving Liz struggling to save him.
Frustrated and scared, Liz heads to the hotel where Red’s being held and disables the security cameras before stabbing him in the neck. While she threatens to let him die if he doesn’t turn over Zamani, she calls for an ambulance after Red claims to know a secret about Tom. But once she arrives at the hospital to question him, Red escapes. Though Ressler is tracking him with a microchip injected under his skin, Red cuts it out before meeting Zamani. When Zamani says he’s after more than Beth, Red calls to warn Liz, and she realizes that his target is the National Zoo. Alerting Ressler, she hurries to the zoo to find Beth strapped with a chemical bomb. Certain he’s got him cornered, Ressler discovers that Red surreptitiously gave the tracking chip to Zamani, who chooses suicide over being captured. After Red calls to say that help is on the way, a Ukrainian henchman arrives to defuse the bomb and then take it with him as payment. Finally, as Beth is reunited with her father, Red offers to continue helping the FBI – but only if he can work with Liz. So after finding evidence that Tom is part of a criminal network, she returns to the black ops site to make a deal with Red.
LOGLINE
Fugitive criminal mastermind Red Reddington (James Spader) offers to help the FBI apprehend a long list of terrorists and criminals, but only if he can work with rookie agent and criminal profiler Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone).
Directed by: Joe Carnahan Written by: Jon Bokenkam
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Episode 101: “No. 216: The Freelancer”
Raymond “Red” Reddington ...... James Spader Meera Malik ...... Parminder Nagra Elizabeth Keen ...... Megan Boone Floriana Campo ...... Isabella Rossellini Donald Ressler ...... Diego Klattenhoff Diane Fowler ...... Jane Alexander Harold Cooper ...... Harry Lennix Freelancer ...... Daniel Sauli Tom Keen ...... Ryan Eggold
When Justice Department lawyer Diane Fowler takes immunity off the table, Red maintains that he will only continue cooperating if he can speak with Liz. Tipped off to a deadly train wreck in a Maryland industrial park, Cooper and Ressler press Fowler to investigate when Red says that it wasn’t an accident, but a ploy designed to kill an Albany, New York planning commissioner on board. After identifying the killer as a prolific assassin known as the Freelancer, Red takes Liz to Montreal to meet him. Although he insists they not be followed, the operation backfires when Cooper orders tight surveillance and both Red and the Freelancer realize they are being watched. However, after turning up inside the FBI surveillance van following the chase, Red identifies the Freelancer’s next victim as anti‐human‐trafficking activist Floriana Campo. Meanwhile, Red continues to entice Liz with unsettling suggestions about her comatose husband, Tom.
Intercepting Floriana on the eve of a fundraiser in New York, Ressler and Liz warn that she’s been targeted by the Eberhardt human trafficking cartel. When Liz asks him for help protecting her, Red demands that he choose his own security team from a list of convicts and criminals. Though Fowler reluctantly agrees, she orders that ex‐CIA agent Meera Malik work alongside them. When Red points out a waiter at the gala he says is the Freelancer, Ressler gives chase. But after he’s struck by a car while trying to escape, the assassin fingers Red as his boss, and Ressler realizes that the Freelancer was used to distract Floriana’s security detail.
In the hotel suite where she’s been confined, Red confronts Floriana about the foundation being a front for the Eberhardt cartel. Just as Liz arrives, Floriana starts succumbing to the effects of a deadly poison. Though Liz refuses to believe the accusations, Red promises an antidote to get Floriana to confess, and then lets her die anyway. Finally, as Meera and a team of agents free the cartel’s latest shipment of sex slaves, Liz learns that Tom has regained consciousness. But after taking him home to recuperate and continue her search for the truth about his past, Liz is left with more questions than answers when she finds a recording of the touching interview he gave during the adoption investigation.
LOGLINE
As Red (James Spader) offers to turn over an elusive assassin whose next target is a high‐profile anti‐human‐trafficking activist, he ensures Liz’s (Megan Boone) continued cooperation with hints of troubling secrets in her comatose husband’s past. Guest starring Isabella Rossellini and Jane Alexander.
Directed by: Jace Alexander Written by: Jon Bokenkamp
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Episode 102: “No. 84: Wujing”
Raymond “Red” Reddington ...... James Spader Aram Mojtabi ...... Amir Arison Elizabeth Keen ...... Megan Boone Diane Fowler ...... Jane Alexander Donald Ressler ...... Diego Klattenhoff Henry Cho ...... Andrew Pang Harold Cooper ...... Harry Lennix Jin Sun ...... Rob Yang Tom Keen ...... Ryan Eggold Martin Van Reibeck ...... David Andrew MacDonald Meera Malik ...... Parminder Nagra Wujing...... Chin Han
After masterminding the murder of a CIA agent in Shanghai, freelance Chinese spy Wujing – no. 84 on “the blacklist” – hires Red to decode his encrypted computer files. When Red turns around and offers to bring him to the FBI, he insists that Liz pose as an encryption specialist he’s hired to identify another CIA target. Though Cooper is anxious to move, Liz balks at putting someone else in harm’s way. But after Meera says that one of the four agents Wujing killed was her former station chief, Liz prepares for her role as MIT‐trained physicist Dr. Carolyn Givens. Meanwhile, as Liz hopes a ballistics test on a gun she found at home will shed some light on her husband Tom, a shadowy figure slips in unnoticed to plant surveillance cameras in their house.
Dangerously out of range of the FBI’s surveillance once she and Red enter Wujing’s underground bunker, Liz passes a series of security tests before teaming with cryptographer Jin Sun. Needing to access Jin’s computer in order to contact Ressler, Red creates a distraction by pointing out an FBI surveillance van parked nearby. When Wujing sends a team to investigate, Liz slips a memory stick into Jin’s computer that allows the FBI to watch her decode the name of the CIA operative, Henry Cho. As Ressler discovers that Henry is not actually a CIA agent, but an architect who agreed to steal plans for a Chinese government building, Wujing realizes that his operation has been compromised. After detaining Red and Liz, he accuses Jin of betraying him. But even as Jin insists he’s innocent, Red shoots him to keep from being discovered.
As Wujing leads Red and Liz to safety, his assassins close in on a construction site where Henry is giving his young son a tour. After alerting Henry to the danger and telling him to hide with the boy, Meera and Ressler arrive just in time to keep them from being killed. Asking to be dropped off at a subway stop, Red is certain that Wujing has escaped, until Liz reveals that she secretly placed a tracking device on him that allows the CIA to stop him. When Liz presses him about his interest in her, Red claims that his attachment is because of her father. Finally, as classified tests reveal her husband’s gun was used in a homicide, Liz doesn’t know that Ressler also got the results and that someone is listening to everything going on inside her house.
LOGLINE
Red (James Spader) takes Liz (Megan Boone) on an undercover assignment to bring down a freelance Chinese spy who’s targeting CIA agents.
Directed by: Michael Watkins Written by: Lukas Reiter
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Episode 103: “THE STEWMAKER (No. 161)”
Raymond “Red” Reddington ...... James Spader Tom Keen ...... Ryan Eggold Liz Keen ...... Megan Boone Meera Malik ...... Parminder Nagra Donald Ressler ...... Diego Klattenhoff Hector Lorca ...... Clifton Collins, Jr. Harold Cooper ...... Harry Lennix Stewmaker ...... Tom Noonan
As the Justice Department prepares Luis Pena to testify against cartel boss Hector Lorca, Red tells Liz that the drug lord reached out to him for help and that the government’s case is about to fall apart. As the only witness to the kidnapping of his son, Border Patrol agent Bobby Pena, Luis arrives in court to testify that Lorca – the suspect in the deaths of more than 100 other witnesses against the cartel – ordered the crime. As Luis is about to identify Lorca, the trial is halted by a juror’s suspicious heart attack. When Luis says he’s worried for his wife’s safety, Liz leaves him in the custody of the U.S. Marshals as she goes to find her. But as Ressler learns that the heart attack was chemically induced to disrupt the proceedings, Luis is kidnapped by cartel henchmen posing as the Marshals assigned to protect him. Meanwhile, in the wake of the ballistics tests on the gun she found at home, Liz steals the case file from the Bureau’s evidence room.
While brokering the sale of Stinger missiles in Haiti, Red tells Liz that Luis’ disappearance is the work of the Stewmaker, an assassin who chemically dissolves his victims to destroy any evidence of their murders. To find him and close hundreds of unsolved murder cases, he suggests pressuring Lorca. Though they offer him a deal, Lorca says he’ll take his chances fighting the charges against him. However, as he’s being transferred to a secure Homeland Security prison, Lorca’s henchmen unleash a rocket attack to free him and kidnap Liz. When Red offers to negotiate Liz’s release, Ressler insists on going along and is forced to pose as a corrupt cop to keep from getting killed. To get Red to aid in his escape, Lorca provides a tip that helps Meera identify the Stewmaker as Maryland dentist Stanley Kornish.
As Meera and Ressler question Kornish’s wife, Red looks for Liz by using GPS to track Kornish’s emotional support dog, Blaze. With Kornish preparing to dissolve her, Liz works to get inside his head as she struggles to remain conscious and escape. But when Red catches up with them, she watches in horror as he dissolves the Stewmaker in acid. Though Ressler is upset that Lorca got away, Red assures him that he’s on a private jet from which there is no escape. Finally, as Red recovers a photo from the assassin’s collection of victims’ pictures, Liz finds more evidence connecting Tom to a murder committed with the hidden gun.
LOGLINE
When a witness in the murder trial of a ruthless cartel boss disappears, Red (James Spader) leads Liz (Megan Boone) and Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff) on a search for the blacklist’s no. 161, a gruesome hit man known as the Stewmaker.
Directed by: Vince Misiano Written by: Patrick Massett & John Zinman
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Episode 104: “No. 85: THE COURIER”
Raymond “Red” Reddington ...... James Spader Tom Keen ...... Ryan Eggold Liz Keen ...... Megan Boone Meera Malik ...... Parminder Nagra Donald Ressler ...... Diego Klattenhoff Courier (Lone Man) ...... Robert Knepper Harold Cooper ...... Harry Lennix Laurence Dechambou ...... Barbara Schulz
As Liz’s investigation into the hidden gun appears to link Tom to the unsolved murder of a Russian tourist, Red learns that no. 85 on the blacklist – a shadowy figure known as the Courier – was hired to deliver an intelligence package worth $20 million to Iranian spy Hamid Soroush. Warned that it could be anything from a genetically engineered virus to a murder victim’s head, FBI agents converge on the farmers market where the exchange is being made. Seeing the deal falling apart, the Courier kills Soroush and is seriously hurt when he tries to flee. But as Liz and Meera are stunned to see him still try to stagger away despite his many serious injuries, Ressler learns the Courier has a rare genetic disorder that makes him oblivious to pain.
When Cooper suspects the Courier is concealing evidence inside his wounds, a surgeon extracts an SD card with video of Seth Nelson, a potentially valuable NSA analyst who’s been kidnapped and buried in a refrigerator with only enough oxygen to live for a few hours. As Liz tracks down the Courier’s brother in a federal prison, Red locates Laurence Dechambou, a former French spy who’s planning to sell Nelson to the highest bidder. Posing as the Courier, Ressler arrives at Dechambou’s nightclub headquarters. Claiming Soroush is dead, he threatens to kill her and let Nelson die too unless he’s paid. Though Ressler tries to prove himself by stoically slicing his arm open with broken glass, Dechambou suspects the setup and is captured while trying to run. Meanwhile, after an ultrasound reveals evidence of past crimes hidden inside his body, the Courier escapes while being transferred to the hospital.
While Ressler and Meera track the Courier to his ramshackle backwoods trailer, Red offers Dechambou a chance to get away in exchange for helping find Nelson. As the Courier finally dies from his wounds, Dechambou leads the FBI to an abandoned industrial park where Red locates the buried refrigerator in time to save Nelson’s life. Finally, as Red gives Liz a case file that reveals the man she suspects her husband killed was a Russian spy who was defecting to the U.S., Tom demands an explanation after finding the gun, phony passports and cash hidden at home.
LOGLINE
Red (James Spader) leads Liz (Megan Boone) and Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff) in a hunt for a kidnap victim and his abductor – the blacklist’s no. 85, a secretive criminal courier whose inability to feel pain makes him impossible to stop. Liz uncovers evidence linking Tom (Ryan Eggold) to a Russian defector’s unsolved murder.
Directed by: Nick Gomez Written by: John C. Kelley
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Episode 105: “Gina Zanetakos (No. 152)”
Raymond “Red” Reddington ...... James Spader Tom Keen ...... Ryan Eggold Liz Keen ...... Megan Boone Meera Malik ...... Parminder Nagra Donald Ressler ...... Diego Klattenhoff Gina Zanetakos ...... Margarita Levieva Harold Cooper ...... Harry Lennix
Despite the evidence Liz has uncovered, Tom denies having anything to do with the murder of Russian agent Victor Fokin. As she takes him in for questioning, Liz learns that she’s been placed on leave until the investigation is complete. When she looks to Red for answers, he says the truth can be found by tracking down Gina Zanetakos, a corporate terrorist whom he says is Tom’s lover. However, as Meera grills Tom about why he was in Boston when Fokin was killed, Cooper reinstates Liz to help find Gina.
At a Washington, D.C., hotel, Liz and Ressler find that Gina’s latest contact, Turkish diplomat Nadeem Idris, has been killed. Though Ressler spots her and gives chase, in a vicious hand‐to‐hand battle Gina gets the upper hand and escapes. With evidence that Gina was hired to obtain a dirty bomb capable of contaminating a wide area with radioactivity, Liz and Ressler head to her apartment, where they find clues linking her to Tom and to Fokin’s murder. Though she’s unwilling to believe that Tom is involved, Liz does suspect Red of manufacturing evidence to manipulate her. As Liz tries to convince Cooper of Tom’s innocence, Red makes a deal with bomb maker Maxwell Rüddiger for information about the device Gina paid him to build.
Using a tip from Rüddiger, Liz tracks down Gina and wounds her as she tries to escape. With only four hours left before the bomb explodes, Liz and Ressler link Idris to a struggling company with a port in New Orleans. Realizing that the company’s fortunes could be improved if a competing port facility in Texas were rendered unusable, Meera questions Tom about the bomb as Liz and Ressler head for Houston. Suspecting Idris of using his diplomatic status to hide the bomb and expedite its shipment, Ressler finds it wired into a car with just minutes remaining before it explodes. With no time left to defuse it, Ressler drives the vehicle into the water, where it detonates without releasing any airborne contamination. Finally, when questioned by Liz, Gina says Tom had nothing to do with Fokin’s murder, even as she accuses Red of being involved.
LOGLINE
Liz’s (Megan Boone) search for corporate terrorist Gina Zanetakos (guest star Margarita Levieva) – blacklist no. 152 – exposes a plot to detonate a radioactive bomb and uncovers evidence linking Tom (Ryan Eggold) to the murder of a Russian defector.
Directed by: Adam Arkin Written by: Wendy West
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Episode 106: “Frederick Barnes (No. 47)”
Raymond “Red” Reddington ...... James Spader Tom Keen ...... Ryan Eggold Liz Keen ...... Megan Boone Meera Malik ...... Parminder Nagra Donald Ressler ...... Diego Klattenhoff Frederick Barnes ...... Robert Sean Leonard Harold Cooper ...... Harry Lennix Anne Forrester ...... Amy Hargreaves
Following a deadly chemical attack on the Washington, D.C., Metro, Red pins the blame on Frederick Barnes, a former defense research scientist who’s been selling chemical weapons to the highest bidder since quitting his government job five years ago. Now that he’s not just making weapons, but using them, too, Red says Barnes is the most dangerous man in the world. After the 37 subway victims are found to have died from a rare vascular disorder called Kurz disease, traces of strontium‐90 found on the briefcase used to deliver the bomb sends Red in search of the man who supplied Barnes with the radioactive isotope. While questioning Barnes’ former research assistant, Anne Forrester, Liz notices that her ten‐year‐old son Ethan also has Kurz. When pressed, she admits he’s Barnes’ son, something she’s never told her husband. So after Anne reveals that Barnes couldn’t get anyone interested in Kurz research, Liz concludes that the attacks are meant to call attention to finding a cure.
When Red arrives in Havana to buy strontium‐90, the supplier, Manuel Soto, says he’s all out. Red asks to be put in touch with his previous buyer in hopes of striking a deal, so Soto contacts Barnes, allowing Red’s team to trace the call to a courthouse in Virginia. Spotting Barnes after he detonates another deadly device in a jury room, Liz gives chase. Following a tense standoff during which Liz refuses to endanger a police officer he’s holding hostage, Barnes escapes. However, when she admits she didn’t shoot so as to avoid risking the hostage’s life, Liz is suspended.
After learning of a victim who survived the courthouse attack, Barnes poses as a nurse and gains access to the hospital to get a bone marrow sample he can use to try and cure Ethan. Certain that his next stop is the Forrester home, Liz calls to warn Anne to get Ethan to safety just as Barnes shows up looking for them. When she and Meera arrive, this time Liz doesn’t hesitate to shoot even when Barnes uses Ethan as a human shield. Finally, as Liz and Tom put their marriage back together now that he’s been exonerated in the murder of a Russian defector, Red concludes a series of financial transactions to buy the house where he raised his family, only to turn around and destroy it.
LOGLINE
Red (James Spader) leads Liz (Megan Boone) in the search for a deranged chemical weapons expert who unleashed a rare but fatal disease in the Washington, D.C., subway.
Directed by: Michael Watkins Written by: J.R. Orci
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Episode 107: “GENERAL LUDD (No. 109)”
Raymond “Red” Reddington ...... James Spader Tom Keen ...... Ryan Eggold Liz Keen ...... Megan Boone Meera Malik ...... Parminder Nagra Donald Ressler ...... Diego Klattenhoff Nathaniel Wolff ...... Justin Kirk Harold Cooper ...... Harry Lennix
After a bomb brings down a cargo plane over Washington, D.C., Red blames General Ludd, an anti‐capitalist terrorist network headed up by its founder, Nathaniel Wolff. As the FBI’s investigation gets underway, Meera notes that two suspects – shipping company driver Roger Gard and fertilizer plant manager Arthur Denning – are the same man. When a search of the suspect’s apartment reveals that it belongs to Wolff, Liz realizes that he’s eluding detection thanks to surgery that’s altered his face. Meanwhile, with the terrorist group planning for an even deadlier attack, Liz gets word that her dad, Sam Milhoan, has been hospitalized in Nebraska.
When she and Red track down the plastic surgeon, Liz tricks him into revealing that Wolff is posing as airline pilot Bradley Holland, sending Ressler and his team to stop him at a D.C. airport. After talking his way on board a flight to Denver, Wolff deplanes before takeoff, leaving behind a deadly bomb that explodes before anyone can get there. Meanwhile, when Tom learns that Sam is dying of cancer, he urges Liz to join him at the hospital, unaware that Red is already there. Agreeing that Liz needs to know the truth about her past, Red honors Sam’s last wish and smothers him in his hospital bed.
Having succeeded in grounding air traffic nationwide, General Ludd issues a manifesto promising an outbreak of protests aimed at corrupt corporations. However, accepting Red’s contention that the organization is really just Wolff, Ressler sets out to find him after sending Liz to be at her dying father’s bedside. Word that Wolff is now posing as armored car driver John Horleck leads Cooper to suspect that he’s stealing a shipment of cash from the Treasury Department. But when agents intercept his vehicle at a protest in Manhattan, Wolff releases the cash into the crowd and escapes with his real target, software upgrades for printing the $100 bill. Yet, after helping arrange his escape, Red takes the stolen hard drive from Wolff before sending him into the arms of the FBI.
LOG LINE
Red (James Spader) demands a deal from Cooper (Harry Lennix) before he’ll agree to stop an anonymous anti‐capitalist terrorist network’s next deadly attack. Liz’s dad’s failing health reveals secrets in her (Megan Boone) past.
Directed by: Steven Surjik Written by: Amanda Kate Shuman
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Episode 108: “ANSLO GARRICK (No. 16)” PART 1
Raymond “Red” Reddington ...... James Spader Tom Keen ...... Ryan Eggold Liz Keen ...... Megan Boone Meera Malik ...... Parminder Nagra Donald Ressler ...... Diego Klattenhoff Anslo Garrick ...... Ritchie Coster Harold Cooper ...... Harry Lennix Aram Mojtabai ...... Amir Arison
When Ressler arrives in Munich to bring him back to Washington, D.C., Red is surprised – and worried – to learn he’s been targeted for assassination by his former partner in crime, Anslo Garrick. While Ressler and Cooper are certain Garrick doesn’t know about the black site, Red’s suspicion that they have played right into his hands is confirmed when he and his Wild Bunch assault team breach the perimeter and cut off the electricity. So as Liz returns to work following an emotionally painful review of her late father’s possessions, she gets stuck in an elevator as the assault is getting underway. Ignoring orders to stay put, she escapes to join the fight.
Warned that Garrick and his team will stop at nothing to get Red, Cooper orders an immediate evacuation of nonessential personnel and complete destruction of all data in the facility. Leaving Ressler with Red, Cooper and Meera wage a losing battle to secure the armory as Aram tries to regain control of the generator room. After Ressler is seriously wounded in the battle with the Wild Bunch, Red drags him into the facility’s secure core and refuses Garrick’s demand that he surrender, even when offered a chance to save the injured agent’s life.
With Garrick mocking him from outside the core’s glass walls, Red improvises a transfusion using his own blood and cauterizes Ressler’s wounds to keep him alive. After ambushing a pair of hit men, Liz makes her way to the generator room where Aram is working to restart the power. Realizing they are Ressler’s only hope, they set out to stop the assailants from jamming their communications. Finally, as Ressler’s condition worsens, Garrick reaffirms his seriousness by killing one of Red’s handpicked associates.
LOG LINE
A fearless hit man mounts a brutal assault on the FBI’s black site to settle an old score with Red (James Spader).
Directed by: Joe Carnahan Written by: Joe Carnahan and Jason George
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Episode 109: “ANSLO GARRICK (No. 16)” PART 2
Raymond “Red” Reddington ...... James Spader Tom Keen ...... Ryan Eggold Liz Keen ...... Megan Boone Meera Malik ...... Parminder Nagra Donald Ressler ...... Diego Klattenhoff Anslo Garrick ...... Ritchie Coster Harold Cooper ...... Harry Lennix Aram Mojtabai ...... Amir Arison
As the standoff between Red and Anslo Garrick continues, Liz and Aram are taken captive after disabling the assault team’s communications scrambler. When Garrick threatens to make Liz his next victim, Red forces the wounded Ressler to open the doors to the black site’s secure core before surrendering. Leaving Ressler behind, Garrick initiates a carefully choreographed escape plan, blowing open a hole in the floor and rappelling into an ambulance that’s waiting for him and his hostages. Though Liz manages to escape, Garrick removes the tracking chip from Red’s neck and throws the FBI off his trail so he can take Red to a safe house to be tortured.
Even though the Justice Department’s Diane Fowler decommissions the task force and orders Cooper to focus on containing the damage to the FBI, Liz convinces Aram to help find Red. Evidence of a mole operating inside the FBI leads her to an abandoned house and a fatal showdown with a man who has been secretly monitoring her. Calling a phone number Red gave her, Liz is joined by a mysterious female operative and an assault team who lead her to the sophisticated communications center that’s being used to penetrate the task force.
Back at the safe house, Red comes face to face with Crowley, his former employer and the man who hired Garrick to carry out the daring kidnapping. Though Garrick persuades Crowley to let him continue the torture, Red manages to get the upper hand and kills him before escaping. Realizing that Garrick knows the locations of a series of abandoned government black sites, Meera zeros in on the one where he’s been holding Red. But by the time she and Liz arrive, Red is gone. As Fowler orders Cooper to find Red, Liz returns to the abandoned house where she’s surprised to see Tom. Finally, when the fugitive Red calls Liz, he confirms that he’s not her father, but raises more troubling questions about her husband.
LOG LINE
After Red (James Spader) is kidnapped, Liz’s (Megan Boone) search reveals the existence of a mole whose leaks threaten to bring down the task force. Liz’s questions about her past put Tom (Ryan Eggold) back in the spotlight.
Directed by: Michael Watkins Written by: Lukas Reiter & J.R. Orci
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Episode 110: “THE GOOD SAMARITAN KILLER (No. 106)”
Raymond “Red” Reddington ...... James Spader Tom Keen ...... Ryan Eggold Liz Keen ...... Megan Boone Meera Malik ...... Parminder Nagra Donald Ressler ...... Diego Klattenhoff Karl Hoffman ...... Frank Whaley Harold Cooper ...... Harry Lennix Aram Mojtabai ...... Amir Arison
LOG LINE
As the hunt for a mole inside the FBI targets the Blacklist team, Liz (Megan Boone) uncovers a surprising connection between a serial killer and his victims. Red (James Spader) methodically tracks down those involved the attempt on his life.
Directed by: Dan Lerner Written by: Brandon Margolis & Brandon Sonnier
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Episode 111: “THE ALCHEMIST (No. 101)”
Raymond “Red” Reddington ...... James Spader Tom Keen ...... Ryan Eggold Liz Keen ...... Megan Boone Meera Malik ...... Parminder Nagra Donald Ressler ...... Diego Klattenhoff Eric Trettel ...... Ryan O’Nan Harold Cooper ...... Harry Lennix Aram Mojtabai ...... Amir Arison
Despite reports that Serbian mob informants Pytor and Catherine Madrczyk died in an airplane crash, Red suspects that no. 101 on the blacklist, genetic scientist Eric Trettel (aka the Alchemist), helped the Madrczyks escape witness protection by creating virtually perfect doubles who were then killed in the crash. After Liz, Meera and Ressler find Pytor hiding in Budapest, Trettel tracks down and kills his wife. Posing as his lawyer, Trettel then talks the FBI into letting him see Pytor alone so he can kill him, too. Meanwhile, as Tom and Liz proceed with their adoption, tensions arise when he suggests she take some time off to be with their new baby.
As Liz tracks down Molly Trettel and their diabetic eight‐year‐old daughter, Annie, in Virginia, the Alchemist launches a plan to reunite them by seeking out candidates for their genetic doubles. So when Molly and Annie are found murdered, Liz orders a thorough DNA workup that proves the bodies are doubles and that they’ve actually been kidnapped. Meanwhile, Red enlists a group of high‐tech whistle‐blowers to reassemble shredded classified documents that can identify the FBI mole responsible for the attempt on his life.
When Liz locates Annie’s insulin pump with a GPS tracker, Trettel tries to run, but is trapped in a gas station when his daughter is hit by a stray bullet. But when Trettel offers to turn over the names of the criminals he’s helped escape in exchange for his freedom, Liz is stunned when he’s killed by a police sniper. Finally, after Liz’s long hours at work create even more trouble for her shaky marriage, Red uses the information he’s received to confront the mole – Meera.
LOGLINE
Liz (Megan Boone) pursues a deranged scientist who’s helped dozens of criminals escape by engineering and killing their genetic doubles. Red (James Spader) enlists activist whistle‐blowers in his search for the mole.
Directed by: Vince Misiano Written by: Anthony Sparks
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Episode 112: “THE CYPRUS AGENCY (No. 64)”
Raymond “Red” Reddington ...... James Spader Meera Malik ...... Parminder Nagra Liz Keen ...... Megan Boone Owen Mallory ...... Campbell Scott Donald Ressler ...... Diego Klattenhoff Aram Mojtabai ...... Amir Arison Harold Cooper ...... Harry Lennix Diane Fowler ...... Jane Alexander Tom Keen ...... Ryan Eggold
On the eve of the Keens finalizing their adoption, Red alerts Liz to the Cyprus Agency, an international adoption organization suspected of kidnapping children for their clients. With help from prospective parents Wendy and David Roland, Liz draws Cyprus’ lawyer, Ted Caldwell, into a trap. Though Caldwell kills himself instead of revealing what he knows about the adoptions, when Cyprus’ owner Owen Mallory finds the FBI searching his office, he insists he knows nothing of the alleged abductions and promises his full cooperation. Meanwhile, after telling Red she’s innocent, Meera offers to find the mole who tried to have him killed.
After Liz uncovers files at Cyprus of more than two dozen kids who were never reported missing, their DNA profiles reveal that 12 of them are children of the same five missing college students, all of whom are suspected kidnapping victims. Finding that one of the missing women, Kate Ellison, is the mother of two children born after she was kidnapped, Liz suspects they are being used to produce babies for the agency’s clients. However, the FBI narrowly misses stopping the next kidnapping target from being delivered to Mallory, whom Liz and Ressler discover was adopted and then given up by his parents when he proved too much for them to handle. Meanwhile, Meera uncovers a classified FBI document that identifies the mole.
When Kate is found murdered, her autopsy suggests that, despite having been bedridden, she was in excellent condition to deliver a baby. Tracing the drug used to sedate her, Red and Liz arrive at a fertility clinic where they find 22 comatose pregnant women who are being used to produce genetically perfect babies fathered by Mallory. But when Mallory attacks and is brought down by Ressler, the case gives Liz second thoughts about her own decision to be a mother. Finally, after Meera gives him the classified order used to target him for execution, Red confronts and kills the real mole, Justice Department lawyer Diane Fowler.
LOGLINE
As Liz (Megan Boone) heads up an investigation that exposes an adoption agency’s shocking secret, Red (James Spader) pursues the FBI mole, identifying a surprising new suspect.
Directed by: Michael Watkins Written by: Lukas Reiter
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