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Ex-government agent and one of the FBI's Most Wanted fugitives, Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader) mysteriously turns himself in to the FBI and offers to give up everyone he has ever worked with including a long-thought-dead terrorist but under one condition - he'll only talk to newly-minted female FBI profiler, Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) with whom he seemingly has no connection. For Liz, it's going to be one hell of a first day on the job and what follows is a twisting series of events as the race to stop a terrorist begins. Written by NBC
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Red predicts an impending catastrophe, rooted by the work of an assassin, called "The Freelancer." Together, Liz and Red go undercover to prevent his next target, Floriana Campo from being killed. Elsewhere, Ressler and newly re-hired CIA agent, Meera Malik, who's been added to Red's private security detail, keep an eye on them from a distance. Meanwhile, Liz considers what she should do next concerning Tom and the mysterious box she found hidden under the floorboards. Written by NBC
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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. |
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Red (James Spader) leads Liz (Megan Boone) and Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff) in a hunt for a kidnap victim and his abductor - The Blacklist 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.
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After Tom confronts Liz about the box - he claims he's innocent and insists that they turn it into the FBI so his name can be cleared. Elsewhere, Red informs Liz and the FBI that the next name on the Blacklist is beautiful and deadly corporate terrorist, Gina Zanetakos.
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[b]"The Blacklist" - "Frederick Barnes" - Nov. 4, 2013[/b Tonight's Blacklister: Frederick Barnes, #47 We open on the subway. A mild-mannered man enters with a metallic briefcase. A woman compliments him on his hat. He eyes other people on the subway. She notes she bought a similar one for her dad and he asks the last time she saw him. She says Sunday at church. He says that's good. He gets off at the next stop and leaves his briefcase. The woman tries to catch him and give it to him but he walks off. He hits a button and a smoke emits from the briefcase. Everyone begins coughing and pounding on the window as black veins show on their faces. Liz and Tom are remodeling, she has sample colors on the dining room walls and they are picking. She wants to switch up the room because of the attack in the box in the floor. She apologizes for doubting him and them. He says their past it and are fine. Ressler calls her and tells her to turn on the TV to the news of the subway chemical bombing. She heads down. 37 people died. Their tech guy shows surveillance of the man leaving the station. Meera reports there was zero chatter about the guy. Red shows up and tells them the man was Frederick Barnes, a former research scientist who developed chemical weapons. He's a savant of "government sanctioned mass killing." Several years back he went rogue as a free agent on the open market, and he has the tools and know-how to kills thousands of people at once. He was normally the designer, not the delivery agent so they need to figure out why since this makes him the most dangerous man in the world. They go to the morgue and the doctor says they all died of a very rare disease that usually takes a decade to kill and the chemicals made it happen in two minutes. It turns out someone was intentionally spreading the disease. Barnes has access to strontium 90 which weaponized the disease and is radioactive toxic and highly regulated and Red says only a handful of people can get their hands on it. He happens to know a three of them. Two are dead. Cooper wants a name. Red doesn't give it but says he has a meeting with the guy and has to catch a plane. Red invites Liz along for the ride to Cuba and have a therapy session on the way. She demurs in order to talk to Barnes' old research partner. Red says he's sorry she's upset with him. He says it's easier to blame him for framing Tom than realize what he really is. She says Tom is a fourth grade teacher and that's the end of the story. Red says it is very much not but they need to find a way to make up because doing this isn't as much fun when she's mad at him. They head in their separate directions. Liz and Ressler go to see the research partner, Mrs. Forrester in Bethesda. She says he was a brilliant and extremely obsessive and dedicated researcher. They hadn't spoken in five years. Her son Ethan enters and they notice prominent veins on the boys' body like the victims. Liz asks if he the boy has the rare disease that Barnes weaponized. Liz tells her to stop holding back if she is. She says Barnes is Ethan's father. When he found out the boy had the disease he worked hard to figure out how to help him but couldn't get research funding because the disease is too rare. Liz figures that's why Barnes is killing people: the more who die of it the more likely he won't be ignored for research. They figure he's just getting started. Red goes to see his contact in Havana. He asks for 12 kilos of strontium 90. He needs it now but his buyer begs off and Red puts a bug on his table. He says he should reach out to his most recent client and offer him 10 million to buy some back with a hefty fee for him. He and Dembe take off and wait for his contact to call Barnes. He does and the bug picks it up and they trace the call to Arlington,VA. He calls Liz with Barnes' location. We cut to Barnes walking into a courthouse with a similar briefcase to the subway bomb. He pretends he's showing up for jury duty. He drops the briefcase and leaves. Liz and Ressler rush in as Barnes is sealing the door shut. A fire alarm goes off. Barnes hits the button and takes off with the others leaving the building. The people in the courtroom start coughing and dying. The fireman show up and Ressler grabs an oxygen tank and gas marks and tells them to vamoose. He enters the room and the people are already dead. Except one woman who he brings out, somehow unscathed. Liz chases down Barnes. He grabs a security guard as a hostage. They stand off she drops her gun. He shoots out the courthouse windows and gets away. Red's right hand woman Lou goes and buys a house for Red. She offers the realtor double the asking price, in cash. The woman who survived is in the hospital with a poor prognosis. They all head back to HQ and Meera has figured out that Barnes wants to kill a large sample of types of people either for some sort of demonstration or experiment regarding the disease. Cooper pulls Liz aside and gives her hard time for giving up her gun during the hostage situation. That's not protocol and Cooper says she'll be under review and may be sanctioned. She says it was a judgement call. Ressler ratted her out. He says she's unqualified to be in the field and says he would've taken the shot since letting one hostage die could've saved hundreds or thousands of lives. The survivor from the courthouse is being reassured by the doctor, who takes her blood sample down the hall as Barnes, dresses as an order enters her room. He changes her IV bag. He smiles at her as she falls asleep. He opens a kit with some scary looking instruments in it. Red is hiding back from Cuba and Liz tells him that Barnes got away. She asks for help and he hangs up on her. She calls him back. She asks for his help again and says please. He says that she should assume that Barnes knows there is a survivor as well and has probably visited her. Liz and Meera go to her room and discover that he took her bone marrow since she was clearly immune to the disease. We see as he takes her marrow and blood to synthesize an antidote and go "cure" his son. They call his old research partner and lover to warn her but it's too late, Barnes is there. She leaves the phone connection open so Liz can hear. He confesses about the subway. She tries to kick him out but he says he's doing what he has to do. Ethan comes in and Barnes says he's hear to help him and he needs him to trust him. Ethan takes off running to his room. Barnes gives chase. Liz and Meera pull up. Barnes ethers Ethan and sedates him. Liz and Meera bust in. Before he can give the shot, Liz draws down on him. She tells him that it's just an experiment. Barnes says he'll die anyway and that this is the only chance he'll ever have and he doesn't think Liz will stop him. He's wrong. She shoots him. Red shows up in the aftermath at the house. She confirms Barnes is dead. Red says he understands that Barnes is evil but a man willing to burn down the world to protect the person he loves most is a man he can understand. She wonders if that's meant to be directed at her. He says "aren't you presumptuous?" She says she doesn't need his protection. He says maybe not. She says she does need him to do this job and that she does appreciate what he does for the bureau. She says at work they're partners but that's where the relationship ends, she doesn't want him in her personal life. He says the problem with lines in the sand is how quickly they can disappear. She may not like him or understand him but he's there to answer questions she doesn't even know she has yet. He says if that doesn't matter to her he can disappear. He says he won't beg her for the privilege of helping her. He says to tell him to go. She doesn't. He says he'll see her tomorrow. Back at HQ he commends her for the difficult call she made with Barnes. She says he was right, letting one person die is worth saving thousands. She heads home ot find Tom eating Chinese on the dining room floor. He asks if she's having a long day. She says he has no idea. He has set up the room just like their first night in the apartment, to help her realize that the two of them is all they need. They start making out and get it on on the dining room floor. Red goes to visit the house he bought. He enters and says he remembers it being bigger. He says he raised his family in this house. Lou says it's lovely. He says it's not, but it used to be. He goes to a closet and looks at the marks of a child growing on the wall. He envisions a little girl playing in the backyard. He is pensive. Dembe comes up from the basement and says it's time to go. Red asks if he prepared everything the way he asked. Dembe nods. They leave. Lou says the place must hold a lot of memories for him. He says he spends everyday trying to forget what happened here and this should help. They drive away and the house blows up.
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Red (James Spader) demands a deal from Cooper (Harry Lennix) before he'll agree to stop an anti-capitalist terrorist network's next deadly attack, while her dad's failing health reveals secrets in Liz's (Megan Boone) past. |
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A mom named Karen drops her son off at a birthday party at a kids party place. A man introduces himself to her as uncle of one of the kids. He tries to make small talk, and offers her punch, which she accepts. She has to leave to pick up her other kid. She gets in her car, then gets out and passes out. When she wakes up, the man is looming over her. He tells her she was drugged and she's not going to be OK. He has her strapped to an operating table with all sorts of surgical tools hanging from the wall. He examines a chart then cheerfully tells her that first he's going to collapse her lung, then break her clavicle. He gets started. Later, he calls 911 and reports "I've done it again." He walks away, leaving Karen bleeding in her minivan by the phone. At home, Tom is freaked out by all the surveillance put in place until the Post Office determines who the leak is. He tells Liz he has a job interview this afternoon -- in Lincoln, Nebraska.She knows they need to talk, but she gets called in to work. The Good Samaritan is 106 on the Blacklist. She makes a case to Cooper to work the Good Samaritan case, even though he wants Moblie Psych to handle it. But it's her old case and therefore personal, which she thinks means Red might reach out. Liz is called for her interview. The whole team is questioned. Watching the interviews, Diane Fowler thinks it's a mistake to put Keen back on the street. Later, Liz explains to Ressler that the Good Samaritan got his name because he never kills his victims, he always calls 911 and gives the paramedics a chance to save them. That's how he got his name. They never had any luck figuring out how he chooses his victims. Liz and Ressler arrive at the hospital to meet with Karen's husband. Ressler keeps her son Michael company. Michael asks if his dad is in trouble -- he's a bookie. He asks about Ressler's leg and volunteers he broke his collarbone once. He doesn't ask about his mom. Karen's husband IDs her body in the morgue. Meanwhile, Red ensures Luli's ashes are transferred properly as he remembers watching her be killed in the attack on the Post Office. He tracks down a man and demands information about the man with the apple. Red takes the man to his car to interrogate him. The man insists he never met his boss and they all had individual jobs. Red goes to the next person, the EMT who pulled the chip from his neck. She says she was told she'd only have four minutes to remove it and was paid cash. She was picked up in an ambulance and didn't know where she was going. Next, Red goes to the doctor who was hired to supply the injections and monitor his vital signs. They were paid in $5s and $10s. Red finishes questioning them. Then we see each of their dead bodies. Liz gets home to see a reassuring note from Tom. Red calls. He read about the Good Samaritan and wants to help. Liz tells him one of the Samaritan's first victims died in her arms and she's stumped by a lack of pattern. Red suggests it's about the torture, and maybe it's tailored to each of his victims, suggesting the attacks are about the victims, not the Samaritan. He hangs up before she can ask more. After going back to the office and reviewing the files, Liz calls in Ressler and Meera. She tells them that Karen's son Michael had a long history of injuries -- he was abused. And the killer gave every one of those injuries to Karen. Cooper calls Meera aside and tells her she's been cleared. He asks her to look into bank accounts and she tells him Red called Liz. Red goes into a club and shoots two goons to talk to Theodore, whom he shoots in the leg. He knows Theodore funnels money through his clubs and pays in $10s because he's too cheap to get clean cash. He wants to know about his banker. When Teddy won't talk, he douses him in vodka and lights a cigar. Teddy tells him the money was wired to London office of the Gstaad bank. Having gotten the information he needs, Red pours more vodka and sticks the lit cigar in Teddy's mouth. Red waits. "Oh my god, the suspense is killing me," Red says, then he picks up a gun and shoots him. Ressler and Liz talk to Michael with his dad there. He tells them his mom hurt him. They decide to look into relatives of past victims, thinking he's a vigilante killer targeting abusers. At home with his wheelchair-bound mother, the Good Samaritan brushes her hair and leaves her facing the TV. He heads to work as an ER nurse. He treats a woman named Melissa with a long history of injuries. He notices her husband lurking nearby and that she's scared of him. Red drops in on Henry. "There's been a nasty bit of business. Blood spilled, lives lost, a modicum of torture. Words don't fully describe. I know who's responsible, I know who carried it out. To finish the job, I'll need all of your wire and transfer records," Red says. He doesn't entertain Henry's denials for a moment, and tells Henry that he'll be back tomorrow. At the office, Meera reports that one of the accounts was used to wire funds from Gstaad to Manhattan. It's under an alias, but they have the passport of the account holder -- it's Aram Mojtabai. Meera leads a team of agents to Aram's house, but he's not there. Instead, Aram is taken somewhere with a bag over his head and when it's removed he finds he's face to face with Red. Red tells him to transfer $5 million from an account into Red's own and gives him two minutes, the time it takes Red to disassemble and reassemble a Colt.45, after which point he'll shoot Aram. Aram types as Red finishes putting his gun back together. Aram finishes just in time then explains how he converted the money into Bitcoin and is sure the transaction is untraceable. Red hands Aram a bullet as a souvenir and announces he's innocent. He tells Aram about the transfer and the account set up in Aram's name -- he's being framed as a mole. "You're obviously far too clever to have accepted payment that was so easily traceable," Red says. Aram realizes Red isn't going to kill him."No, I'm going to find somebody else, and kill them," Red says. The Good Samaritan sits in a meeting for abusers and shares about his mother abusing him. Melissa's abuser is in the meeting. The Samaritan says he reconciled with his mother with a "home remedy" that allows them to be closer. After the meeting, he introduces himself to Melissa's husband, George. Henry comes home and sees Red's black hat on the hook. Red has introduced himself to Henry's wife as an old college pal and he's staying for dinner. He hugs Henry hello and whispers: "I know what you've done." Henry goes to wash up and calls someone to tell them Red is in his house. Back at the table, Janice serves dinner, but Red knows the police are coming. Red has accounted for everyone but one person involved and he asks Henry -- then calls him out for giving him the wire transfer leading to Aram, a patsy. He shoots Henry in the knee to make him talk. Janice freaks out."Janice, if you don't stop yelling, I'm going to put you in the closet," Red says, and then he does. Henry talks: Newton Phillips. Red apologizes for missing dinner and leaves. Back home, the Samaritan gets his mother and announces they have another guest. He wheels her into his shed, where George is strapped to his table. Back at the office, Liz has connected family members of victims as abuse victims. They find nurse Karl Hoffman treated all of them at different hospitals. Liz and Ressler head to the hospital, where they learn Melissa was the only person Karl saw that day with a broken bone. Back at home, Karl tells George that he realized his mother enjoyed hurting him. He believes the only way the abuser can know what his abuser goes through is to experience it himself. He forces his mother to watch. Liz and Ressler interview Melissa, who defends George, and says he went to a group meeting just today. At the meeting, someone tells them about seeing George with a man -- he IDs Karl. He mentions that Karl talked about his mother abusing him. They realize he's taking back control in the place where he was abused -- his childhood home. Back in his shed, Karl has detached George's retina and is moving on to replicate the concussion he gave Melissa. He's about to whack George with a hammer when Liz comes in. When he won't drop it and starts to swing, she shoots him. At the hospital, Liz warns George that if he hurts his wife again, she'll do what she probably should have let Karl do. At the office, a nervous Aram is brought in with a file from Red. He gives it to Cooper. "Who the hell is Newton Phillips?" Cooper says. Red dumps out Luli's ashes while a man waits for him. Red calls to him, "Newton." "If you had come to me I could have helped you. We could have avoided all of this," Red says. Newton says they threatened his family. Red promises to take care of his family. Newton asks that Red make it look like an accident for his wife's sake. Red tells Newton to look out at the water, then he suffocates him with a plastic bag. Diane Fowler meets with her superiors, including Fitch, and tells him they have identified the mole, but she still won't tell them who it is because it would compromise their asset. Red drops in on Liz at home."Does this mean you're back?" He tells her his house is clean, but he doesn't think hers is -- the incursion couldn't have taken place without help from someone on the inside. They're back where they started. And he brought her the next name on the Blacklist.
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As Red (James Spader) enlists activist whistleblowers in his search for the mole, Liz (Megan Boone) pursues a deranged scientist who's helped dozens of criminals escape by engineering and killing their genetic doubles. |
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A woman wanders the streets, barefoot and wrapped in a blanket. She babbles that someone took her baby. She finds a cop and starts trying to ask for help, but then a man comes up and tells the cop she's his sister and she's confused. The cop turns to radio for help but the man comes up behind him and shoots him in the back, then he shoots the woman. The Cyprus Agency, No. 64 At home, Liz and Tom look at a 3-D ultrasound of Julia's baby. She tells Tom she wants to stay home for a little while when the baby comes. Later, Liz meets with Red in the church. He tells her the next name on the Blacklist: The Cyprus Adoption Agency. She doesn't think it's a coincidence he's choosing this target when she's about to adopt, but he assures her life is full of little ironies. At the Agency, a couple is allowed to select all the genetic and hereditary traits of their child. Mr. Mallory, the CEO, introduce Ted Caldwell, their lawyer. Red tells Liz the Agency doesn't adopt babies, they steal them. They use a forger, one of Red's best. Liz meets with the soon-to-be parents of the most recently "adopted" boy, David and Wendy Rolland. Liz breaks the news that the baby they're expecting to bring home in the next two weeks won't be theirs. They offer to help. Later, the Rollands meet with Ted Caldwell, as Liz and Ressler stake out the coffee shop. David Dolland nervously asks for more information about the child. Caldwell tells them to talk to an adoption consultant with the agency. Caldwell steps outside to make a call, saying he thinks something is wrong. Liz and Ressler interrupt and identify themselves. Caldwell immediately gets spooked. When Liz mentions real parents, Caldwell says she has no idea. Caldwell backs into traffic, scared, and is quickly flattened by a bus. Red checks in with Ted Grimley, who's been with Meera, trying to get answers. Grimley reports that Meera is telling the truth. She tells him she was ordered by someone to open bidding for building improvements, leaking confidential building design info (the burned scrap of paper Red's nerds found), but she doesn't know by whom. She suggests he let her go so she can find out who gave the order, because they both want the same thing. At the agency, Mallory assures Liz and Ressler that they've done nothing wrong and suggests if there was an issue it was by their overseas partners. He volunteers any help he can offer. Back at the office, Liz reports Cyprus had 27 infant adoptions last year, which is a lot. But she can't find any records of the birth parents. They start DNA tests on the children and begin searching international missing children files. Liz wants to talk to Cooper about maternity leave, but is interrupted when Meera shows up late. She says she was up all night with her daughter, which prompts Cooper to remind her the job is more important. Liz doesn't ask him for time off. Liz, Ressler and Meera go get DNA swabs from the kids, many of whom are toddlers. Liz meets with Red and tells him this is her last case for awhile. None of the DNA matched to missing children. "You're so linear," Red says. He asks her to think who wouldn't report a child missing -- criminals. He suggests she run the DNA again and match it against relatives of criminal. Red tells Liz she's reaching a "point of no return" with Tom if she goes through with the adoption and she should stop if she has any doubts. She doesn't. Back at the office, they get five DNA hits and five mothers of 12 of the 27 children. The women themselves are missing. They were all in college when they disappeared, all are well educated. At the others work the case, Meera looks through Cooper's briefcase and takes his badge. They realize three of the women gave birth after they were abducted. Meera takes Cooper's badge and uses it to access classified files. Aram goes through Ted Caldwell's computer and finds a dossier on a woman named Charlotte Patterson, a sophomore at Georgetown. In a parking garage, the killer from the opening flips through the file on Charlotte and closes in on her car. Ressler and Liz race to the school to get to Charlotte before she leaves campus. The killer pulls up alongside Charlotte's car and waits. He jumps out and grabs her, yanking her into his van just before Liz and Ressler arrive. He knocks over Ressler with his van and pulls away as Liz shoots at him. The killer meets with Mallory, who is angry that he went ahead with the abduction. The kidnapper insists he had orders from Caldwell. Charlotte is sedated in the back of his van. Mallory shoots the kidnapper. Back at the office, they have no paper trail linking Caldwell or Mallory to anything. Back at the office, Mallory meets with a doctor, who assures him there's no link to his clinic. Out in the woods, a man finds Kate Ellison's body. The coroner tells Liz and Ressler that Kate was in an induced coma for all the time she was missing. She has no muscle tone and was fed through a tube, and she's given birth several times. She was given prenatal care despite being sedated. Aram calls Liz, he discovered that Owen Mallory was an alias. Liz and Ressler go talk to the Lassiters, he was posing as their son.But the Lassiters tell them Mallory was their son, by the name of Michael Shaw. They adopted him out of foster care when he was seven-years-old. He was with them for 16 months, but had severe attachment disorder. He began threatening to hurt himself and them and the doctors put him back in foster care. Mrs. Lassiter tells Liz they blame themselves, their marriage was troubled and they weren't "equipped for a child." Meera meets with Red covertly, bringing him files bearing someone's signature. He looks it over then tells her their business is done. Red takes Liz to a nice mansion on a cul-de-sac. She wants help tracking the sedative used on the women. Red tells her the house isn't what it seems and she's about to meet one of the nicest drug dealers east of Cleveland. Inside, there's a house party going on. Red introduces Liz to a college-aged kid named Russell, who knows all about the sedative hydroxapam, but says no one uses it anymore because it's too powerful. He shows Red that only three pharmacies nearby carry it and of those, only eight doctors wrote prescriptions for it -- seven sleep therapists and one fertility doctor. Liz and Ressler head to Dr. Hadley's Galatea Fertility Clinic. Mallory is there with him and cautions the receptionist to just get rid of them. Instead, when Liz and Ressler don't leave, the man at the desk pulls a gun. Ressler disarms and cuffs him then goes looking for Hadley. He finds him in a lab reaching for a gun, and Ressler shoots him several times. Liz enters a restricted area with plastic sheeting draped everywhere and finds women lying in beds, sedated and pregnant. There are more than a dozen of them. Liz is taking in the disturbing scene with Mallory sneaks up behind her and knocks her over with a hospital bed. He knocks her down and knocks her gun away. He dumps one of the sedated women from her bed onto Liz and gets to her gun. He's about to fire when Ressler arrives and shoots Mallory in the arm. Later, Cooper and a team are on the scene. There were 22 women, all unhurt. There is an in vitro clinic on site and the women's eggs were harvested. In interrogation, Liz links Owen Mallory to Michael Shaw, his childhood name. Mallory says the Lassiters "returned" him as a child because they didn't want a child, they wanted an accessory. "My legacy is complete, and there's nothing you can do to change that," he says. Liz realizes he's the father of all the children. "A part of me is thriving in every home that has my child," he says. Liz comes home to see the ultrasound. She wipes away tears and takes Tom's hands. "I can't do it," she tells him. "It's us. I don't know what's wrong, I don't understand it, but something his not right," she says. She admits to having doubts that they might be "broken." Red sneaks into Diane's house in the middle of the night and tells her he knows. "You signed a directive ordering a mandatory security upgrade of the Post Office. That's how you got the blueprints into enemy hands. You're the dirty rat, Diane," he says. She tells him she signed the directive for his protection. She tells him they came into the Post Office to make a point, but he'll never get away with hurting her. She's threatening him when he shoots her in the stomach. "You can't shoot me!" she says.Red tells her he has an agreement with Fitch, but not with her. She tells him she knows the truth about that night, about what happened to his family. He desperately wants to know, but says if she knows the truth, then somebody else does, too.He shoots her several more times, killing her. Liz sits alone at home and cries. Tom goes out with Jolene, the substitute. At the office, Cooper tells Meera he hates working with Red, but they never would have caught all these people without him. He tells her to go home. At Diane's house, Red welcomes his cleaner to fix the scene.
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Liz helps Tom adjust to the impending adoption; Red reveals a woman from his past is a target; Red convinces Liz to pull off a heist at the Syrian Embassy. |
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Red investigates Jolene's life; Liz and Ressler go after a criminal known as The Judge, who incarcerates the ones that put innocent men away. |
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An agent whom Tom knows is found dead. All evidence points to a Japanese criminal whom he, the man who died and two others apprehended while he was pursuing Reddington. And when one of the other men is found dead, Tom tries to get his girlfriend to safety but the Japanese finds him and during a struggle, she is killed. Tom only wants to find the man and even asks Reddington for help. But refuses and goes after him with the other guy. Liz asks Red for help and gives a piece of information, they were not aware of which changes things. And Red tells the cowboy to bring the woman Tom's been seen with to him but things don't go as planned.
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Red tells Liz that a hacker known by the name Ivan is responsible for the death of a man. Thing is that the man operates in Russia. Liz goes to where he died and they're approached by NSA agents who tell them to back off. Cooper shows up and tells them they should work together. They tell them that the man who was killed was working for them and he was working on something that can enable anyone to access anything which a hacker like Ivan could use. And he had it with him when he died but there's no sign of it. So Liz and Red go to Russia to find Ivan and see if he has the device. At the same time Liz is looking for Jolene while Tom tries to make sure anything linking him to Jolene is gone.
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Now aware that Tom is not who he poses to be, Liz uses an case to distract the team as she investigates her husband's true intentions. |
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The Pavlovich brothers specialize in abductions of high value targets and according to Red, they are planning their next hit. While the team tries to protect the next target, Red has a job of his own for the Pavlovich Brothers. Elsewhere, Liz patiently tries to uncover the truth about Tom.
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After a Politician in Prague is framed for a murder, Red suspects it's the work of The Kingmaker - a strategist behind the rise of some of the world's most powerful politicians. While Red helps Liz and the FBI catch him, Liz uncovers a secret that Red's been keeping from her.
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Liz refuses to work with Red after discovering the truth about the death of her father. Seeking to make amends and force Liz to see him, Red brings the FBI a case they can't ignore. Meanwhile, Liz reveals what she knows about Tom's secret life to the FBI.
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With the crashing of the mysterious prisoner transport plane, the city is on lock down as the authorities are on the hunt for all the escapees. Meanwhile, with Red in custody, Liz uses her power to get him out since he is their best chance at finding all the suspects. Elsewhere, their main objective is to track down Berlin, a prisoner on the plane who is somehow involved.
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Red continues to battle Berlin and faces a new threat from a man named Lord Baltimore. An important person comes back from the past into Red's world. Meanwhile, Liz tries to move forward with her life after her showdown with Tom. |
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When the Monarch Douglas Bank is robbed, Red seizes the opportunity to try and take the money-laundering bank down. Liz questions Red's intentions as she investigates the crime. Meanwhile, a new member joins Cooper's taskforce after impressing everyone on the team.
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When a man is found with his heart cut out, Agents Keen and Ressler team up with agent Samar Navabi to uncover the intricacies of Dr. Covington's black-market operation. Meanwhile, Red and his associate try to capitalize on a new opportunity in Indonesia, leaving Reddington in a vulnerable position.
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After a series of seemingly nonviolent citizens become killers, Red tips off Liz that a dangerous social-psychological experiment may be underway. Elsewhere, Red tries to convince, Naomi and her husband into accepting a complicated proposition.
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Agents Keen, Ressler and Cooper pursue an eco-terrorist cell in search of a destructive weapon. Meanwhile, Liz tries to lose her guardian. Elsewhere, Red uses manipulation to pursue someone close to his heart. |
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When a mutilated corpse washes ashore, Agent Liz Keen consults Red over what he knows about the deadly underworld of wildlife poachers. Meanwhile Agent Donald Ressler develops a dangerous habit. |
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When an Iranian nuclear scientist is suspiciously assassinated, a revenge ploy begins against a valued American. Red informs agents Keen and Navabi that a dangerously conniving hitman "The Scimitar" has been sent to the job. Liz and Ressler find themselves in a tricky predicament as they investigate a surveillance lead. Agent Keen attempts to gather information on Berlin, while Red finds company with a woman working at a food truck.
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The task force tries to save Red when he's arrested and taken to a secret detention facility. At the facility, Red tangles with a thief with whom he shared a complicated history. |
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FBI boss Cooper tries to rescue his team in the wake of chaos at a detention facility. Elsewhere, thief Luther Braxton attempts to attain confidential information. |
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Reddington, Liz and Ressler travel to Uzbekistan to investigate criminal Ruslan Denisov (Faran Tahir), who is holding multiple American hostages captive. Denisov, an old associate of Red's, is targeting members of a company that is refusing to replace a pipeline, whose leaking water is poisoning civilians. After unsuccessful attempts to negotiate with Denisov, Reddington works with him to capture a former Russian business associate (Olek Krupa) and use the company's history to blackmail them into repairing the pipeline. The CIA, however, have one of their agents in Denisov's custody and attempt to employ a Uzbek general (Shaun Toub) to eliminate Denisov. Cooper confronts the CIA handler and the mission is called off. Reddington captures the general, and assures Denisov that he has helped his country, and despite potential consequences, he will emerge a hero.
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When Red tips Liz off on the disappearance of Justin Kenyon, a polygamous cult leader with dangerous shipping containers buried on his property...
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A former paramour involves Reddington in a deadly game with a wealthy and powerful family dynasty whose ill-begotten fortune was amassed from an underground auction of human and material contraband. Meanwhile, Tom takes on a new mission. |
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The task force tracks a scientist who abducts disabled patients to conduct experiments on immortality. Now back in Washington, DC, Tom scrambles to save himself from new enemies. |
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The task force tracks a provocative female Blacklister (guest star Ana de la Reguera), a frame-up artist who targets the wealthy elite. Tom (Ryan Eggold) pleads for Liz's (Megan Boone) help. Red (James Spader) pressures Liz for the Fulcrum, claiming it's now a matter of life and death.
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As Red fights for his life, he pleads with Liz to track down a key figure from his past with knowledge of the Fulcrum. |
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Liz discovers she's been framed by The Cabal, prompting Red to tap into his connections to clear her name. Also: Cooper receives stunning news; and the task force is plagued by trust issues. |
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Agent Keen and Red are on the run from the FBI, while Dembe receives contact that will jeopardise his future. |
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As Liz pleads for her safety in the Russian Embassy, Red discovers a new plan divised by the Cabal to kill her. A familiar face reaches to Ressler. |
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Dembe continues at Solomon's mercy. Red and Keen head to Iowa to investigate a corporation connected to the Cabal, with Ressler and Navabi on their tail. Cooper and Tom join forces. |
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Red enlists a task force to locate the Djinn, an enigmatic woman who fulfills revenge fantasies. Red and Liz believe the Djinn can lead them to the Cabal and help them exonerate Liz.
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Red and the FBI come together to protect Liz when a huge reward for her capture attracts attention from assassins. |
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Red and Liz catch wind that Andras Halmi, a trusted advisor of The Director, has gone missing. In pursuit of Halmi...
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Dembe waits for a package as Red and Liz drive through West Virginia to meet him. Red and Liz are separated; Red ends up playing child psychologist in hillbilly hell. To find Red, Liz asks for a very huge favor from Samar. Samar must ask Aram for a huge favor, in turn, and she is blind-sided when his personal feelings cost her everything. Cooper and Tom are uneasy babysitting Karakurt, especially when they learn about his tracking chip. The naive Kessler continues to act like a Boy Scout as another member of the cabal emerges to "disappear" a valued leader in the FBI. Rescuing Red places Liz in danger.
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While Red creates a crime scene to retrieve his care package, friends of the truth rally around Liz, whose life is in danger now that she's in custody. |
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As the Cabal prepares to assassinate Liz, Red calls upon the task force to to combine efforts to outmaneuver The Cabal to exonerate her. Red delivers a final ultimatum. |
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First the Cabal, Then Shell Island, now according to Red the FBI task force must deal with the The Vehm, a deadly vigilante group from the Middle Ages who is back in action. And Liz must carefully plan her next steps after the new surprise.
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Red and Liz work with the taskforce to stop a negotiator who has resurfaced to unite two rival crime families. Tom reconnects with a former flame. |
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A child who had been missing and presumed dead reappears, prompting Red and Liz to hunt down a woman who is known to abduct children; Tom puts himself in a consequential position after aiding Gina. |
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The owner of a tech startup is murdered in his own home by a man known only as "Drexel". He takes his time staging the body. Meanwhile Tom is rushed to hospital after sustaining two bullet wounds following the jewelry heist.
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After Red learns that a tactical nuclear weapon is being targeted by thieves, it's a race against the clock as the task force struggles to stop them...
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Solomon is still after Elizabeth Keen and she is running against the clock to have her baby. An unexpected turn of events will happen to change everything. |
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A mysterious beauty on the run from unknown assailants accidentally crosses paths with Reddington and enlists his help to fight back against her attackers. |
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After an unexpected loss devastates the FBI task force, they must track down their assailants; a mysterious group whose agents operate using a worldwide satellite network. Meanwhile, Reddington is forced to confront a ghost from his past -- one who knows many of Red's secrets.
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When Reddington links an elegant, powerful and extremely dangerous romanian woman to the recent tragic events, the task force is forced to play a deadly cat and mouse game to stop her before she strikes again. |
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The FBI task force's hunt for revenge nears its endgame. As Reddington and the team close in on the mysterious arch-criminal responsible for recent tragic events, they're forced to operate outside their comfort zone - and outside the law - in order to take down their enemy once and for all.
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As Reddington and the task force close in on the person responsible for Liz's death, a shocking betrayal leaves them racing to save one of their own. |
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Red is in Cuba looking for Elizabeth. When he hits roadblock he turns to Cooper for help. He needs them to make contact with a man who can help him find Alexander Kirk who has Elizabeth. He tells Ressler and Navadi to go but Navadi doesn't want to so Ressler goes alone. He meets the man and tells him Reddington wants to talk to him and does. He helps Red find Elizabeth but her daughter is nowhere. She's with Tom who's with two of Kirk's people.
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Red enlists Tom and the Task Force to help track a notorious bounty hunter who may know Alexander Kirk's next move. Meanwhile, Liz struggles to decide if Kirk is trustworthy. |
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Red and the Task Force take extreme measures to hunt down one of Alexander Kirk's allies, Miles McGrath, a "criminal incubator" who finances crimes for profit. Meanwhile, Liz learns more about her family. |
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As Red sets Liz and the Task Force on the trail of an eco-terrorist with a mysterious connection to Alexander Kirk, Tom takes matters into his own hands. |
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Liz's loyalties are tested as Red takes action on an operation to intercept Alexander Kirk. Meanwhile the Task Force races to find a killer who targets inventors of revolutionary technology. |
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When Alexander Kirk contracts a mysterious group that specializes in hacking the world's most secure computer systems, Red and Liz see an opportunity to make a move on Kirk's organization. |
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Red directs the Task Force to track down an individual who provides new identities to criminals on the run. Meanwhile, as Alexander Kirk's medical condition worsens, Liz seeks guidance from Cooper on a crucial decision. |
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Red pressures Dr. Shaw to locate a former patient. Liz contemplates the implications of her ties to an increasingly desperate and dangerous Alexander Kirk. Mr. Kaplan comes to a critical realization about her future. |
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Liz is trying to rebuild her life with Tom and Red is trying to get Liz a pardon so she can be reinstated. When there's some kind of mass shooting at a Seafood Company it is believed it's about drugs but Red tells them the Company is a front for terrorists who are planning something. They try to find out what happened and they discover that somehow the security system was neutralized with tech from an American Company. One of the company's officers tells them to check out one of their former employees who was fired. When they find the man he claims he's been framed. Later one of officers of the terrorists comes to the US and meets with the officer of the Tech Company. He needs to find what the ones who broke in stole. In the meantime they get a lead which they show to Samar, she leaves and meets with the man they're looking for to tell them the FBI is looking for him. The terrorist with help from the officer learns Samar was one of the ones who broke into the Seafood Company and took ...
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Elizabeth is now back at the FBI and she brings an unusual case; someone left a diorama on her doorstep that depicts a crime that would be committed an hour after she gets it. She brings it in and they wonder is someone from Liz's past taunting her or is there someone who is daring her to catch him. She gets another one and they figure out who the target is and save him. They find something on the diorama that leads them to a woman who lives near Elizabeth. She tells them she sent the dioramas to prevent anyone from being killed. She claims they are premonitions but not hers; her daughter who is autistic. She says her daughter has been having them for two years; of actual incidents and has been drawing them. Cooper doesn't believe in premonitions and he wants them to find out how she knew about them. Aram thinks he knows how she found out about them. The killer tries to find out how the FBI found out about him. Reddington is presently trying to sow dissension between two men.
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Liz infiltrates an elite gang of female thieves as they prepare for their next heist, but she must first prove herself to the group's leader. Meanwhile, unexpected problems plague Red's operations, and Tom focuses on fatherly duties.
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Red wants Liz to investigate the death of his accountant. Initially Harold refuses to do it but they are told the man died from an usual disease and other people are also dying from it. They are told the carrier of this disease must be a person who fro some reason is still alive. So they check it out and learn that the carrier is woman from a foreign country who was brought to the US by medical research company to try and find a cure. So they go to the company and learn the woman is no longer there. She left and is supposedly with one of their doctors whom she's involved with. They think she's been infecting people as part of a ploy to rob them so that they could buy the equipment needed to find a cure. But why did they target Red's accountant, they got nothing from him. Red in the meantime turns to Tom for help to flush out the man, Red thinks is behind his accountant's death and his recent problems.
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Red and the team at looking for the person, Isabela Stone who's targeting Red by going after his associates. She frames one of Red's associates for murder so they go there to look into it and learn Stone's motivations. Tom's father dies and while he claims it doesn't affect him, he goes out to find out about his past.
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Aram goes undercover to find a criminal who makes crimes for a profit; Tom continues to look for details about his past; Red attempts to find the source of his compromised business operations. |
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Red sets out to find out to find out who betrayed him. He wakes up in a hospital being treated by a doctor, who tells him that he's been poisoned. Red has no memory of the night before and Dembe's nowhere. He goes to Elizabeth and tells her what happened and that he suspects he was poisoned by someone known as The Apothecary, a man who can make anyone die by exploiting their own medical conditions against them. Red tells them that he thinks a woman might be his latest victim because she was going testify against someone. They talk to that person and he denies trying to kill her if anything he needed her to testify. That's when they think that it was someone closer to her who wants her dead. Red goes out searching for Dembe and along the way he finds a woman who claims he held her against her will. She tries to help him figure out what happened the night before. Hopefully he can find Dembe and who betrayed him.
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After weeks of hunting for Dembe, Ruddington and the Task Force finally get a lead on his location when Aram goes missing. Meanwhile, Dembe takes a calculated risk as Reddington closes in. |
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Memories of the past set Red (James Spader) on a dangerous collision course with an enemy determined to destroy his criminal empire. |
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The task force chases an artful bounty hunter employed to target Red's closest associates. Meanwhile, Ressler faces a moral dilemma while taking on a new assignment with a former colleague. |
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Red sets the Task Force to trace a Blacklister with tools to manipulate memories, causing Liz to questions her own experience. When Gale intensifies his investigation, Ressler gets a new lead on a case. |
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When Liz becomes the target of a mercenary, the Debt Collector, Red turns to an unlikely source for help. Meanwhile, Ressler faces a complication in his efforts to stay ahead of Gale's investigation. |
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Facing a crippling siege on his organization, Red tracks a thief enlisted by Mr Kaplan for a mysterious assignment. Agent Gale takes extreme measures in his investigation into the conduct of his Task Force. |
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Red sets a risky plan in motion to save the Task Force. With the future of the Task Force in jeopardy, Liz confronts the biggest questions about her past. |
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With his criminal empire in ruins, Red enlists Liz in a plan to earn cash and deliver a new Blacklister to the Task Force. |
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The team investigates a number of suspicious police shootings. Ressler is distracted by his outside issues. Red needs Tom's help to re-establish his criminal empire. |
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Liz and the Task Force hunt for an elusive criminal who is destroying the world's precious treasures. Meanwhile, a surprise encounter leads Red toward a new business opportunity, as Tom investigates the bones in the suitcase. |
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Red provides intel on an international terrorist, putting the Task Force on a collision course with another unit from the CIA. Meanwhile, Red and Hawkins lay the groundwork for new business venture. Tom goes undercover in search of information.
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While Cooper enlists Red on a case of personal importance, Ressler leads the Task Force to stop the resurgence of once-dormant murder-for-hire. Tom continues to investigate the suitcase despite a warning. |
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Red and the Task Force place Dembe undercover to infiltrate an international human smuggling organization, but when communication is lost, they must intervene. Meanwhile, Tom's investigation into the suitcase lands him in grave danger. |
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Tom goes missing and Liz desperately retraces his steps to find him; Red's hunt for the suitcase of bones leads to lives being changed forever.
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Liz abandons her old life for a fresh start in a new place, but she is forced to draw on her emotional and physical strength in a brutal fight when a threat finds her.
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When Red directs the Task Force to find a Blacklister who sells sensitive information; Ressler finds himself at risk of exposure; Liz plans her next move.
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Red goes on the hunt for a legendary treasure; Liz studies the methods of one of the Blacklist's most dangerous criminals.
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As Liz works with Red to hunt for Tom's killers, she begins to question his motives. Meanwhile, the Task Force enlists the help of one arsonist to catch another.
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Red points the Task Force toward a group that targets people with reprehensible but legal actions. As Red helps one of his employees, Liz discovers a clue about Tom's investigation.
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The Task Force tracks a Blacklister who develops airtight alibis for murderous clients. Meanwhile, Liz's reinstatement at the FBI hinges on evaluation.
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As Liz continues tracking Tom's killers, Red tries to solve a tax issue in his money laundering. Meanwhile, Aram goes out to the field when the Task Force investigates a viral outbreak.
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Liz investigates new details in a cold case from her early work as an FBI profiler. The Task Force takes action to bring down Tom's killers within the legal system, while Red takes an opposite approach.
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After a member of the Nash Syndicate is murdered, Liz and the Task Force must secure crucial evidence to bring down Ian Garvey. Meanwhile, Aram contemplates taking his relationship with Samar to the next level.
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Red and the Task Force head to Paris in hopes of pressuring Garvey by taking down a prominent heroin supplier to the Nash Syndicate. Liz doesn't trust Red and takes her own path to find Garvey.
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Liz uses intel from an unexpected source to force a race with Red to uncover the secrets he holds, as Red initiates a plan to retrieve the duffel bag of bones.
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The mysterious appearance of an unidentified young girl sends Liz and the Task Force on a hunt to discover her connection to the secret Red is hiding. However, when her family steps in to protect their own secrets, the investigation turns into a race to save the little girl's life.
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When Samar lands in the crosshairs of an unconventional Blacklister, Aram and the Task Force spring into action to find her before it's too late. Meanwhile, Red journeys to Costa Rica to prevent the duffel bag of bones from being sold to the highest bidder at an underground auction.
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Liz and Red face off in a climactic race to find a Blacklister in possession of the duffle bag of bones, forcing the truth about the bones to finally come to light.
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Red gives the Task Force a Blacklister case, who creates new identities for criminals. Liz and her sister secretly investigate the events that took place the night the real Raymond Reddington died.
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As Liz and the Task Force race to stop an imminent bombing by a Blacklister, Red encounters a life changing situation.
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As the Task Force track a notorious underground biohacker, Red initiates a plan to escape a problematic position. Meanwhile, Cooper's integrity is put on test.
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Red tries to adapt in federal prison. Samar goes undercover to stop a black market organization. Meanwhile, Liz and Jennifer continue their search into Red's past.
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While Red holds his place in court for his immunity agreement, the Task Force questions a suspicious inheritance and Dembe tries to advise Red.
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When Red is sent to a federal medical institution following his request to the court for a psychiatric evaluation, Liz and Jennifer use his time away to search for a Blacklister they believe may have valuable information about Red's past.
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While Red and Dembe enlist Glenn's help is stacking the jury to Red's advantage for his upcoming trial, the Task Force investigates a series of mysterious deaths resulting from weaponized insects.
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Liz and Jennifer's pursuit of a lead on the truth about Reddington puts them in unexpected danger. Red steps in to help mediate a brewing prison gang war.
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As his trial begins, Red puts Liz and the task force on the case of a Blacklister who uses incriminating evidence to extort people, and who Red believes can prove his innocence.
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The Task Force delves into the unregulated world of cryptocurrency in order to stop an impending attack, while Red undertakes a risky endeavor in order to secure his freedom.
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Liz and the task force make a play to uncover the truth about an international assassination in a last-ditch effort to save Red's life.
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Cooper puts his reputation on the line to appeal to the White House on Red's behalf, as Liz and the task force resume their search for The Corsican, a Blacklister with ties to an international conspiracy. Samar's abilities in the field are tested.
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