Reddington asks Naomi for information about Jennifer and makes preparations to relocate Naomi and her husband, Frank. Solomon tries to stop Tom and Nez, claiming that Susan was set up by Howard and had no knowledge on it. Red evades Samar's question, but only mentions he will expose the truth soon. Red works to meet with the President-Elect to whose campaign he contributed in exchange for his help with the Alexander Kirk situation and is eventually able to secure a Presidential pardon for Liz killing Tom Connolly. The Blacklist recap: Reddington only has 10 minutes left. It took them holding a young woman/drug mule hostage and orchestrating a trade. Prescott mentions that should he refuse, he will expose Ressler's secret and he will go to jail for the murder of Laurel Hitchin. In "Drexel", it is revealed that Nik has become an on-call doctor for Reddington. The NBC show aired a two-hour special on Friday, and in the episode “Rassvet,” longtime fans finally got some answers about who the real Raymond “Red” Reddington, played by James Spader , really is. She later recovers and leaves. In "Alexander Kirk: Conclusion", Liz is revealed to be alive, her death having been faked by Kaplan to protect her and Agnes. Later, he separates from Charlene. He chases Liz again after her escape and hunts her ambulance as Red tries to take her to the hospital to save her life. Eventually FBI backup arrives and Solomon flees as his men are killed. Later she stole a painting from Red as revenge (leaving the second note). 13) is a corrupt U.S. Coming back to the Task Force, Aram realizes Samar's feelings for him and shares a kiss with her. She agrees, setting a trap for him. Let's get right to it: Liz just met Red's other long-lost daughter (Fiona Dourif)! He visits Peter Kotsiopulos' office as a representative of the Cabal, reprimanding the Director for his inability to prevent Reddington from releasing the Fulcrum and threatening that continued failure would mean his life. In "The Director Conclusion", after Red forces the Cabal to exonerate Liz, a mission Copper aids in, Cooper is reinstated as head of the task force and congratulates Ressler for his work in Cooper's absence. In "Rassvet," it is revealed that Katarina was a double agent working both for the Cabal and the KGB. He is on an upwardly mobile career path in the Bureau, something that his work with Reddington occasionally threatens to derail. In the beginning of "Lawrence Devlin", Red learns from Joe that the duffel bag containing the unidentified bones that Reddington is seeking are in Costa Rica with a man who was claimed to be deceased, but is alive due to Garvey keeping him in Witness Protection. Despite this, Liz mentions that she can't let Red deny the fact that she's just like him and anger, despair and love is part of a normal family. He coerces Ressler into arranging his release by threatening to reveal the latter's collaboration with Reddington to Julian Gale. After Liz and Ressler retrieve Ziegler's file, McMahon has the entire Task Force arrested, framing them for conspiring against the President. In "Ian Garvey: Conclusion", despite taking Garvey hostage and en route to collecting the skeletal remains of Katarina, Ian rams his sedan into another car, leaving Red and Dembe there as he escapes. It was only then Red reveals the truth in Kirk's plans to use Liz for a blood transfusion as her blood contains vital blood cells needed to help him replenish his own and without her, he will keep Agnes hostage. Working together as a team, they used high firepower and ruthless tactics to achieve their goals. She tells Samar that she knows about her feelings for Aram and would never admit it out of fear. Tom's final words are that Liz will be the one to make it and he dies in the hospital. 161), a dentist by trade, had a separate career as a professional body disposal expert. After attempting to hide it from Aram and the Task Force, she realizes she can no longer continue her duties after she becomes incapacitated while pursuing Bastien Moreau. A search of her apartment produced a photograph of Tom Keen who she claims not to know. In "The Troll Farmer", he takes Dembe's granddaughter hostage and uses her to capture Dembe. In "Philomena", Gerard is kidnapped by a bounty hunter, Philomena, who works for Mr. Kaplan. He is a childhood friend of Katarina Rostova, the love of his life and her occasional lover. He eventually went so far as to kidnap Timothy to keep him away from his mother, for which he was disbarred and sentenced to 7–10 years at Federal Correctional Institution, Cumberland. Despite defending the Task Force and Red, he is imprisoned in the same cell that Liz was held in. Instead, Laurel offers a plea of involuntary manslaughter with 3 years' probation. He was successfully given therapy to have the memories of it removed. One day, he was sent a pocket watch he had given his daughter. He was hired by Alan Fitch to kidnap Reddington. He was furious with Alan Fitch for lying to him about her death and takes action. However, he survived. Leader of a female elite heist crew called "The Harem". 3, Mr. Kaplan, No. In 1991, near the end of the Cold War, Kirchoff took part in a meeting in Kursk with other Soviet officials on how to combat their more progressive countrymen who wanted the Soviet Union dissolved. Dom tells Liz that Ilya underwent multiple plastic surgeries over the course of a year to change his appearance to match Reddington's and information from Katarina to fill in the blanks. Though she would be free, Liz could never return to the FBI. In "Zarak Mosadek", Garvey meets at a bar with a woman who is revealed to be Jennifer Reddington and works as a bartender. Accompanied by Liz, Reddington goes on the run to gather various resources needed for his plan to bring down the Director and exonerate Liz. In the present, Liz locates Katarina's father who reveals that twenty-eight years before, Katarina visited him and promised to send Dom a letter to a post office box once it was safe for her again. Liz is injured during the chase, forcing Reddington's doctor to perform an emergency C-section to save her baby. The Blacklist is an NBC thriller that opens with notorious wanted criminal Raymond Reddington (James Spader) handing himself into the FBI. In "Eli Matchett", Liz comes to the realization that even if her name is cleared, it's impossible for her to go back to the life she once knew and must rely on Red to help her survive as a criminal. He was attacked and put into a coma by Berlin's agents at the end of season 1. The problem was that said drug mule Alexandra died when the prosthetic burst. As she leaves, Aram realizes the extent of what could happen to Keen if the Cabal get their hands on her and has to decide where his loyalties lie. In "Lipet's Seafood Company", Samar engages in an unsanctioned Mossad operation to steal a microchip without the FBI's knowledge. Peter then reprimands him for trying to revolt and forces Solomon's cooperation. Notorious for sending his enemies to the gulags in Siberia, he was a loyal servant of the Soviet Union. Red is always three steps ahead of everyone else, and is determined to keep himself a mystery. However, Reddington died of his injuries and the two covered up his death, leading to Reddington being declared missing. No proof of this is ever shown, and Red himself initially denies it when directly confronted by Liz, although he does claim that he knew her father well. He blackmails Cooper into helping them, saying that they will destroy Cooper and his wife Charlene if he fails to cooperate. Timothy hung himself a year later. Raymond Reddington (Vater) Naomi Hyland Elizabeth Keen (Halbschwester) Agnes Keen (Nichte) He asks Samar why she kept silent. Executive producers for the series include Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, and John Davis for Sony Pictures Television, Universal Television, and Davis Entertainment. 73), outwardly, is a well-known and politically active socialite. He goes over to Paul's Pub to seek Jennifer's help in getting money while instructing her to claim it's a robbery in progress. 1 Background 2 “Pilot” 3 Unanswered Questions 4 Gallery She accompanies Harold Cooper and Donald Ressler to the Post Office for the initial meeting with Raymond Reddington. In "The Troll Farmer", it is revealed that Dembe has a daughter and a granddaughter whom Matias Solomon uses as leverage to force him to surrender to him. She tells him that she was upset that she had already lost her mother, her nanny and Sam the people who knew her the best. In "The Director, Conclusion", when Red puts together a team to exonerate Liz, he calls in Gerard as part of that team. Reddington deliberately sets out to disgust Alina, causing her to turn down the job. They stop Ressler just in time from killing Hitchin and Liz revealing he was under the influence of propofol and manipulated to kill Hitchin by Kaplan and Krilov. She tracks down Liz, only to learn that Reddington engineered the kidnapping to draw her out. Gerard continued doing legal work behind bars, serving as shadow counsel to politicians, CEOs, and high-profile criminals, including Reddington, who apparently consulted with Gerard before he turned himself in to the FBI against Gerard's strong objections. She is the only person with whom Reddington is willing to work. It is later revealed that he was innocent, but fled to find the true culprit. 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