Episode 100: “Pilot” Raymond “Red” Reddington
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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 1 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 2 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