🔴 Season 4 Storybook: Episodes 1-22
This feature tells the story of each episode using the best lines and selected scenes illustrated with enhanced screenshots. The important storylines are emphasized and may be clearer than in the full scripts. From time to time, due to length constraints, I have to omit scenes I love.
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🔴 Episode 4:1 Esteban: 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:2 Mato 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:3 Miles McGrath: 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:4 Gaia 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:5 Lindquist Concern 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:6 The Thrushes 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:7 Dr Adrian Shaw 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:8 Dr Adrian Shaw Pt 2 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:9 Lipet’s Seafood Company 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:10 The Forecaster 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:11 The Harem 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:12 Natalie Luca 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:13 Isabella Stone 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:14 The Architect 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:15 The Apothecary 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:16 Dembe Zuma 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:17 Requiem 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:18 Philomena 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:19 Dr Bogdan Krilov 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:20 The Debt Collector 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚 ❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:21 Mr Kaplan 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
🔴 Episode 4:22 Mr Kaplan Pt 2 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📚❣STORYBOOK❣ ¤ 📒 Script
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⭕ Season 5 Promo
⬆ Go to Top ¤ ⬅️ Previous Episode
Blurb: Mr Kaplan and Baz appear to be gone (though who ever knows with this series?) Special Agent Julian Gale has been foiled in his attempt to bring down the task force but is sure to be a thorn in Ressler’s side, especially since Ressler accidentally caused the death of national security advisor Laurel Hitchen. Tom has a suitcase full of bones and Liz has test results showing that Red is her father (though – lol – who ever knows with this series?)
I Will Survive By Gloria Gaynor
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🔴 Storybook 4:22 Mr Kaplan – Conclusion
⬆ Go to Top ¤ ⬅️ Previous Episode ¤ ➡️ Next Episode
Episode 4:22 Mr Kaplan Pt 2 🎯 EW recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 📒 Script
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Blurb: Two episode season finale, Part 2. Mr Kaplan and Special Agent Julian Gale join forces to bring down Red and everyone on the Task Force.
[ In a motel room, Red cuts up fake IDs with his photo on them and lights them on fire ]
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[ An escort of police cars arrives at a federal courthouse. Mr (Kate) Kaplan is escorted inside ]
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Stanton: My name is Alvin Stanton. I’m the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. … You understand why you’re here.Kate: To tell you what I know so you can judge if my truthful testimony merits immunity.
Stanton: There are allegations that the FBI allowed Raymond Reddington to continue to commit crimes while acting as a criminal informant.
Kate: That’s a fact. He has continued to commit crimes, including murder.Stanton: And the task force led by Harold Cooper? They knew about this?
Kate: Yes, and I can prove it. I gave Agent Gale the bodies. I can give you locations and dates that the bodies were collected and buried. …
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Cooper: When you authorized Reddington’s immunity deal, you knew that we would have to let him maintain his criminal empire. That’s what makes him valuable to us.Panabaker: You’re a big boy, Harold. You knew we’d support you as long as you kept the deal hidden. You didn’t.
Cooper: My people could go to jail.
Panabaker: Well, you’ve done good work. Grand jury hands up an indictment, I’m sure the judge and jury will agree. …
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Cooper: … We’re going to be arrested. And there’s nothing Reddington can do to protect us against that. To be honest, that’s what makes me the angriest. That here we are at the end, and we still don’t know why he walked into your life that day.Liz: Where are you going?
Cooper: To do something I should’ve done a long time ago.
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Red: Once Kaplan testifies, an indictment is inevitable.Liz: Cooper tried to shut it down.
Red: Harold has to work within the system. Henry Prescott does not.
Liz: Who’s Henry Prescott?
Red: A man who knows how to bury problems. If you find yourself up against impossible odds due to poor judgment, Henry Prescott’s the man you want on speed dial. … Finding him is the key to sweeping the grand jury under the rug. … I need your help in finding Prescott. …༺ ♤ ༻
Samar: The lead on Prescott, Warren Casualty, it has no physical address. Only a P.O. Box. …Ressler: Well, the address was a bust, but corporate tax returns tell a different story. See, in the last three years, the company’s reported $17 million in earnings from various sources, including–
Samar: Banish Capital, an investment firm owned by one Jay-Jay Brickman.Liz: The football player?
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[ Beep, speed-dialing ]
Liz: Reddington, I think we found a way for you to get to Prescott. …
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Jay-Jay: Now who the hell are you? … What do you want?Red: Ooh, that’s a long list. But at the moment, I’ll settle for Henry Prescott.
Jay-Jay: Doesn’t ring a bell.Red: Well, let me ring it for you. A few months ago, you were … at that nightclub in Vegas and inadvertently discharged your handgun … sending a Belgian tourist to the emergency
room. Henry Prescott is the man who made that all go away.Jay-Jay: … I’d only call him if I had a problem. Like a real problem.
Red: [ Laughing ] Yes. Yes. [ Click, gunshot 💥 Drug dealer falls ]
Drug dealer: Aah!
Red: There. There’s a problem. Your drug dealer’s bleeding out on the floor in your VIP room of your new nightclub. With the morals clause in your new contract, you won’t collect a penny. … Henry Prescott. Call him. …
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Cooper: I was told it was still here.Attendant: Guess it should be here then. Just go on right over there. 475-6826-B. Knock yourself out.
[Cooper uses a knife to slice through the sealing tape of a confidential file box. He digs down into the box, flipping past a photo of a torture scene, and removes an old blood-soaked shirt. He snips a small piece of the bloodied cloth and slips it into a small zip-locked bag] …༺ ♤ ༻
Prescott: I’m gonna transport your associate to a private clinic. But first, you need to tell me what happened here.Red: I happened.
Prescott: Who’s this?
Jay-Jay: I don’t even know. He came here looking for you.
Next thing I know, he’s shooting up the place. …Red: My apologies for the forced introduction, Mr. Prescott, but I require some information. On November 19, 2015, your services were engaged to pick up a package in Dupont Circle. I need you to tell me the exact disposition of that package. …
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Judge Drucker: Sir, please state your name and occupation for the grand jury.Aram: Um, Aram Mojtabai, and I am an FBI agent.
Drucker: You’re an agent with a task force created to work with a criminal informant named Raymond Reddington?
Aram: Yeah I’m not really supposed to talk about my work, so–Drucker: We’ve heard testimony that your task force has allowed Reddington to commit violent crimes and done nothing to stop it.
Aram: Stop Mr. Reddington? Well, if you knew him,
you’d know that’s- that’s basically impossible.Drucker: I see. So you knew he was continuing to commit crimes while serving as your informant. … You just weren’t able … to control him.
Aram: I-I didn’t say that. No, no– …Drucker: Newton Phillips. Alistair Pitt. Milos Pavel Kinsky, AKA Berlin. Diane Fowler. … Agent Mojtabai, … You have immunity. Nothing you say can incriminate you, so you can be compelled to answer!
Aram: Okay, you know what? Fine. I’m proud of the work we do with Mr. Reddington. Yeah, I’m proud of it. You heard me. Yes, his world is absolutely terrifying … but it exists.Drucker: Okay, we’re done here. Agent Mojtabai. … Agent Gale, please hold Agent Mojtabai in contempt. …
[ Aram is forcefully escorted from the courtroom, past Janet ]
Aram: [ To Janet ] I-I told you this was a mistake.
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Red: … Mr. Prescott, my associate, Frank Sturgeon. I’ll need him to confirm the findings.
Prescott: It’s organized by date.
Ressler: What is this place?
Red: A depository of sorts. Prescott’s insurance policies. … We’re looking for 11-19-15. … And here we are.
Ressler: These have particular interest to me?
Red: I’m certain of it.
[Red removes the cover of the barrel marked “11-19-15”]
Red: Ready? Dive in.
[ Ressler reaches into the tank and pulls a body up until the head is visible ]
Ressler: Mother of God.
Red: Congratulations, Donald. Your hunt for Reven Wright is over. …
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Samar: What did you get for giving him up?
Janet: I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Samar: I got a warrant for your car’s navigation system to see where you’ve been. And guess what? You’ve been here at the courthouse, on the same day as the grand jury was in session.Janet: I was subpoenaed to testify. I didn’t tell Aram because I wasn’t allowed to.
Samar: Aram wasn’t allowed to either, and yet he told us.
Janet: They told me if I cooperated, they would expunge my criminal record. The second chance I couldn’t pass up. Can you honestly tell me you would’ve done differently?
Samar: Yes. I can.
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Samar: Hey. You did the right thing. I know it doesn’t seem like it right now, but you did.Aram: I’m totally freaking out in here. And I’m half-Muslim, which is definitely not a plus.
Samar: I’m sorry. What can I do?
Aram: Uh, nothing. It’s, uh- Thank you, it’s fine.
Samar: What is it?
Aram: Look, Janet’s been amazing. I know you hate
her, which is why I didn’t wanna say anything, but the fact is, is I’m barely hanging on in here, and if it wasn’t for her– Not that it even matters, because Mr. Kaplan is gonna testify tomorrow afternoon, and when she does, there’s, um there’s nothing I can do to protect you.
Samar: Reddington has a lead, an angle he thinks might get you out of here.
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[ A wooden sign is labeled “Tansi Farms.” Kate walks past a red barn up to a tree on which the letter “K” is carved in the moss-covered bark. Kate’s hand touches the letter. Kate paces off four steps from the base of the tree. She removes a collapsible shovel from the blue plastic bag she is carrying, then kneels down on the bag ]
Kate: I’m sorry, Katarina.
[ Kate begins to dig ]
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Liz: You wanted to see me?Cooper: I know it’s hard to believe, but I was a golden boy once. Fresh out of the Navy. Youngest agent ever appointed to the Pentagon’s combined investigation and intelligence task force. At the time, Reddington was stationed overseas working counterintelligence.
Liz: You worked together.
Cooper: He was shadowing a Russian operative code-named Seaduke.
Liz: So that’s why he surrendered to you.
Cooper: Seaduke made Reddington and dispatched a team of Spetsnatz to abduct him. For 10 days, they tortured him, until he was rescued by an FBI-SEAL Joint Task Force. I was working lead on the agency side. My job was to secure the physical evidence in the event that Seaduke was captured and prosecuted.Liz: I’m sorry, um, why are you telling me this?
Cooper: Because I meant what I said. I’m angry
that you still don’t know why Reddington walked into your life. The blood on this shirt from Raymond Reddington has been sealed in an evidence locker for over three decades. I procured a sample and submitted it for a DNA profile. Yours was already on file. … I submitted the sample and your profile to a private lab. They’ll have the results within 24 hours, so you’ll finally know whether or not Raymond Reddington is your father.༺ ♤ ༻
Medical Examiner: Female victim, apparent cause of death mid-range gunshot wound. … The body appears to have been preserved through full immersion in a formaldehyde-phenol bath.
[ The ME removes a bullet. Ressler walks up, takes out a small plastic ziplock bag into which the ME drops the bullet ]
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[ The Post Office. Red holds up the bag with the bullet removed from Reven Wright’s body ]
Red: Ah, the straw in the wind.Ressler: Ballistics will match this to a weapon of Hitchin’s.
Red: Yes, proving her guilt.
Cooper: You get Prescott, he gets us Reven Wright, her body gives us that bullet, that bullet gets us Hitchin, who has the power to derail a grand jury.
Red: If we provide her with the proper motivation. I’m sorry, Donald, I know you’ve been longing to prove Hitchin’s guilt. But the only way to survive now that you finally have that proof is to trade it away. …༺ ♤ ༻
[ Kate Kaplan walks up to a bank of storage lockers. She opens one and puts inside the large leather suitcase she has brought ]
[ Cellphone rings ]
Kate: Elizabeth.
Liz: Mr. Kaplan. Please don’t do this.
Kate: Raymond has left me no choice.
Liz: Let’s meet. Just you and me.
Kate: I can no longer trust you.
Liz: Yeah. But I have every reason to trust you.
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Hitchin: Well, if it isn’t America’s Most Wanted and Deputy Dawg. [ Laughs ] I thought you were on administrative leave, not cavorting with criminals.Red: Donald doesn’t cavort. In fact, I think you’ll find our little meeting today rather serious in tone.
Hitchin: Is that right? Say something, Agent Ressler. You don’t look well.Red: There’s a federal grand jury investigating whether Donald and his task force have been enabling me to
continue to commit crimes.Hitchin: My, sounds like a problem.
Red: It seems inevitable that my immunity agreement will be revoked and the members of the task force will be indicted forthwith.
Hitchin: Well, jeez, fellas, I’m so sorry to hear that.
Red: Fortunately, for us, our problem is your problem.
Hitchin: Yeah? And why is that?
Ressler: I can’t do this. I–
Red: … As you can see, Laurel, Donald’s upset. And what has him wound tighter than a $2 watch? His impending indictment? No. It’s this. A slug the medical examiner just pulled out of Reven Wright’s body. You and I both know ballistics will match it to the Glock 19
in your nightstand, and as I understand it, Agent Ressler has a team standing by as we speak ready to enter your home and seize the firearm.
Hitchin: [ Chuckles ] You’re bluffing. Tragically, Reven Wright’s body was never found.
Ressler: Until today. Until Henry Prescott, the cleaner that you hired to dispose of Reven’s body like a piece of garbage, took us right to her.
Red: Let’s give Prescott a call so you can hear for
yourself. With that bullet, Donald finally has what he’s been looking for since the day you killed Reven – irrefutable proof.
Hitchin: I’m listening.
Ressler: We hand over the slug, and you make that grand jury go away.
Hitchin: Ha ha. It’s not easy.
Red: I see. Then we’ve wasted your time and ours. I do
wonder what else Donald’s men will find in your nightstand. Are you a vibrator kind of gal, Laurel? We’ll see.
Hitchin: If I do this, you don’t mention me and Reven Wright in the same sentence again. Say it.
Red: Deal.
Hitchin: Not you. Him. Boy Scouts don’t give up their merit badges easily. How do I know you’re gonna hold up your end?
Ressler: I give you my word.
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Judge Drucker: Ms. Hitchin, what are you doing here?Hitchin: The question, Lindsay, is what the hell are you doing here?
Drucker: Conducting a grand jury investigation.
Hitchin: You’re investigating the FBI’s relationship to Raymond Reddington here? What the hell are you thinking? Do you have– Who’s this?
Gale: I’m Special Agent Julian Gale.
Hitchin: Are you? Well, you may not be for long, Agent Gale. Reddington’s supposed deal with the FBI is a
matter of national security. The testimony you’re taking touches on highly sensitive matters that go way
beyond what anyone in this room should be hearing, including the two of you.Gale: Is that so? Because I–
Hitchin: This investigation is over by executive authority. Sorry. I want this case closed and all the records expunged.
Gale: What’s he got on you? Must be good.Hitchin: Excuse me?
Gale: So it’s true. Reddington can corrupt just about anybody, huh?
Hitchin: Keep talking, Agent Gale. Please. Your entire career’s not over just yet. Make sure you destroy what little you have left.
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[ Cellphone rings ]Kate: Kaplan.
Gale: The grand jury investigation was just closed. The whole damn case, it was withdrawn.
Kate: Withdrawn?
Gale: Yes, withdrawn by National Security Advisor Laurel Hitchin. It’s a cover-up.
Kate: What about my immunity agreement?
Gale: It’s gone. The deal was you testify, then you get immunity. …
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[ Julian Gale sighs, gets in his car ] [ Gun cocks ]Dembe: Hands on the wheel.
Red: Ah. Julian. It’s been a long time. You look fit. Jumping jacks?
Gale: Hitchin. You got to her.
Red: When was the last time you and I saw each other? London? No. Cape Town? No, that’s not right. Don’t tell me. [ Laughs ] It’ll come. Ah.Gale: Uh- How? Did you bribe her?
Red: As a matter of fact, I did. Ah, anyhoo, Mr Kaplan– I need to know how to reach her.Gale: Yeah. Good luck with that.
Red: She uses burner phones. You must have her latest number.
Gale: So what are you gonna do? Kill me?
Red: No, I’m gonna take your phone. [ Red takes Gale’s burner phone from the dashboard ] Ho Chi Minh City! [ Laughs ] That’s it. I got away from you aboard that catfish trawler on the Saigon River. My God, the humidity. But fun times indeed. More to come, Agent Gale. More to come.[ Red and Dembe leave ]
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Cooper: Hitchin did it. We’re in the clear.Ressler: Which means so is she.
Samar: And Aram?
Cooper: He was found in contempt of a grand jury that no longer exists. …
[ Cellphone rings ]
Cooper: [ To Red ] Your plan worked.
Red: I’m gonna give you a cellphone number I need you to trace.Cooper: Did you hear me? We’re in the clear.
Red: I haven’t been able to reach Elizabeth. Is she there?
Cooper: No. Who’s the number for?
Red: Kaplan’s burner. If we find it, we find her, and I think Agent Keen. …
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[ At a beach. Liz gets out. Van departs ]Liz: Mr. Kaplan? Hello? … Are you okay?
Kate: I swore an oath to your mother I would protect
you with my life. I fear I’ve failed you.Liz: What are you talking about?
Kate: We’re at the end now, and I’m lost. Tired. I don’t know how to keep you safe.
Liz: You don’t have to keep me safe. This could be over. It could stop.Kate: [ Sniffles ] Masha, I can show you the truth.
Liz: What truth?
Kate: If you want to know why he came into your life–
Liz: You’re scaring me.
Kate: I can take you. We can go together. But it has to be your choice.
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Cooper: [ On phone ] We have a location. Virginia State Highway 501, just south of Brookneal. We’re rolling out.
Red: [ To Dembe ] We need to take 501 North. [ To Cooper ] We’re closer. Keep us updated.
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Liz: Kate, where are we going?Kate: I loved Raymond. And your mother. I loved her, too.
Liz: This secret what Redding- ton’s hiding from me I think I know–
[ Suddenly a black car comes up from behind. Others appear and force Kate’s car off the road ]
Kate: Elizabeth, if you get out of the car, you choose Raymond. If you stay, you choose the truth.
Baz: Kate, get out of the car.
[ Seat belt clicks ]
[Looking back at Kate, Liz gets out of the car]
Baz: Turn the engine off, Kate.
Kate: Baz.
Baz: Please, Kate, turn it off. Get out of the car.
[ Kate leans over as if to turn off the ignition. Baz leans forward to open the door. Kate draws a large gun and shoots 💥 Baz ]
[ Gunfire 💥💥💥 is returned. Tires screech as Kate speeds off, engine roaring ]
Liz: Baz? My God.
[ Engine starts, tires peal ]
Liz: [ On phone ] I need an ambulance! Highway 501!
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Red:Hello, Kate.
Kate: Raymond. Clever use of Laurel Hitchin to commandeer the grand jury. Critical oversight on my part.
[ Police and FBI vehicles surround Kate’s and Red’s cars on a high bridge ]Red: You’re so focused on destroying me, you’re willing to hurt one of the few people you’ve ever loved.
Kate: You’re right. I was so focused on you, I didn’t see that getting you away from her is unnecessary. All I have to do is give her the truth.
Red: I don’t know what that means.
Kate: Our secret. At Tansi Farms.
Red: What have you done?
Kate: I have it, Raymond. I went there and I dug it up, and I’m gonna give it to her. …Red: Look around you, Kate. It’s over.
Kate: You honestly think I didn’t consider this moment, anticipate the possibility of prison?
Red: I don’t see what choice you have.Kate: I made a promise to Elizabeth’s mother to protect her girl at all costs. And I can’t do that from a cell, which is why I have a contingency plan. Isn’t that what you taught me, Raymond? Always make contingencies.
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[ Liz gets out of a car ]
Cooper: Are you okay? You’re not hurt?
Liz: Yeah, I’m fine. We gotta get out there.
Cooper: Absolutely not.
Liz: No, we can’t wait. We gotta help her. Reddington’s gonna kill her.
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Kate: We both know why you’re here to finish what you couldn’t months ago, to put a bullet in my head. That’s the moment I’ve anticipated. Shoot me dead, and when you do, my confidante will be alerted, and Elizabeth will be given our secret from Tansi Farms.
Red: There’s one flaw in your plan, Kate. I’m not gonna hurt you. I never should’ve pulled that trigger in the first place. I certainly won’t now. Not again.
Kate: I’m not going to prison, Raymond. Pull the trigger. Release the truth.Red: I won’t.
Kate: Then I will. I loved you, Raymond.[ Suddenly, Kate leaps over the guardrail ]
Red: Kate!
Liz: [ Running ] No!
[ Splash ]
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Janet: I’m so sorry. I didn’t think I had a choice. When they said they were gonna revoke my immunity agreement if I didn’t cooperate, they threatened me, so I gave you up.
Aram: I’m sorry, you what?
Janet: When I testified for the grand jur– Hang on. Didn’t- Didn’t Samar tell you?
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Hitchin: I asked Harold if he would mind if I delivered this to you personally. I … want to make sure you understand your place in this marriage. You do what I want, when I want it.Donald: Yeah, that’s not gonna happen.
Hitchin: That’s exactly what’s gonna happen. …Donald: Stop it!
[ Donald grabs his badge, slapping Hitchin away. She trips on the leg of a stool and falls head-first to the floor. Head thuds. A pool of blood spreads on the carpet ]
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Cooper: Have a moment?Liz: Yeah.
[ Cooper hands the envelope with the DNA results to Liz ]
Cooper: I’ll give you some privacy–
Liz: I ran his DNA two weeks after we met.
Liz: We were undercover in Montreal having dinner, and he said that everything I thought I knew about myself was a lie. It was intimate and weird … I palmed his scotch glass. But when the envelope came back, I was scared it would confirm the devil was my father. I didn’t look at it. Threw it away.
Cooper: Elizabeth, I’m sorry. If you don’t want to know–
Liz: Mr. Kaplan was my nanny.Cooper: Somehow I’m not surprised. She loved you so much.
Liz: And now she’s gone. Just like Sam. And my mom. Everyone who knew me best, knew the answers about who I was, where I came from.
Cooper: I hope you get the answer you’re looking for.
[ Cooper leaves, closing the door ]
[ Liz opens the envelope, reads the report, exhales slowly ]
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Samar: You got out.
Aram: When you came to see me in jail why didn’t you tell me Janet was the reason I was in there?
Samar: Because I saw that she was making you happy. You seemed–
[ A sudden move by Aram and they are kissing passionately ]
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[ Ressler is sitting on a couch some distance away from Laurel Hitchin’s body ]
[ Henry Prescott enters ]
Prescott: [ To Ressler ] You should be going, Mr. Sturgeon.
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[ Knock ] [ Red unlocks door ]Liz: You lied to me. … The day we met, you asked how I got my scar. And I told you my father gave it to me. But
you knew that already, didn’t you?[Liz hands the DNA report to Red. Red reads the report]
Liz: What was it you said? A father who’s a career criminal and a mother who died of weakness and shame. Why didn’t you just tell me who you were? Why
keep it a secret? Come into my life, give up everything, go broke trying to protect me, and not tell me you’re my father?Red: Broke is such a harsh word. I prefer illiquid.
Liz: What was so awful that you withheld the answer to a question I’ve been wondering my entire life? Were you afraid I’d turn out like you? ‘Cause guess what? I am like you. All those times you asked me to think like a criminal, was it a test to see how naturally it came to me? Because it did come naturally. And that terrifies me.
Red: [ Inhales sharply ] Elizabeth, if you need to walk away–Liz: Walk away? Are you serious? How can you be so smart and so clueless? Yes, I’m terrified. I’m angry. I’m angry at you, at who I am, at the fact that I want to help you despite everything you’ve done to me and to yourself. But anger and fear and a certain amount of hatred are all normal in a family. And that’s what we are. And I’m not gonna walk away from that.
[ Liz hugs Red. He relaxes, responds ]
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[ At Tansi Farms ]Dembe: You didn’t deny it?
Red: I didn’t.
Dembe: And she thinks that’s Kate secret?
Red: Yes.
Dembe: So she doesn’t know about the suitcase?
Red: Not yet.
[ They walk to the spot where Kate had dug ]
Red: It is gone.
Dembe: [ Sighs ] Raymond I’m not sure Elizabeth will ever be ready to learn about what you did to Katarina.
Red: We gotta find that goddamn suitcase.
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[ Tom Keen removes the leather suitcase from the locker Kate put it in ]
[ Cellphone rings ] [ Ring, beep ]
Tom: Hey. I got it. Mr. Kaplan’s instructions were very specific. I’m on my way.
[ Tom opens the suitcase. Inside is a mangled set of bones ]
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Blurb: Two episode season finale, Part 1. Red tries to track down Mr Kaplan to make a peace offering, even as Aram is called before a grand jury.
Salaam: [ Arabic ] What the hell is going on? Is this fool going to deliver? …
Rhinehart: [ Arabic ] Relax. … [ English ] It’s been an hour, Raymond. Your men coming or not?
Red: As I said, there’s been a slight delay at the border.
Rhinehart: Yes, you said that. … The truck isn’t coming, is it?
Red: What is that supposed to mean?
Rhinehart: [ Chuckles ] Oh, I’ve heard the rumors, Raymond. We all have. People are whispering … [B]ills are
not being paid. Yeah, suppliers are defecting. People are talking, Raymond. The– the rats are fleeing the ship.
Salaam: [ Arabic ] I’ll put a bullet in his head if he’s lying.
Rhinehart: Salaam– Salaam has men in the field, waiting for arms. If they’re not supplied as promised, they’ll die. …
Red: Tell him to put the gun down.
[ Garage door opens. Van pulls in ]
Red: And what do you know?
Driver: [ Gets out ] Ah. I got here as soon as I could, but the situation at the border is the least of our problems.
[ Van door slides open. It is empty ]
Red: What happened?
Driver: The supplier never showed. They sent a man to say your funds never arrived. …
Salaam: [ Arabic ] The blood of my sons is on your–
[ Dembe shoots 💥 Salaam before he can shoot Red then Dembe and Red 💥💥💥 unload their weapons 💥💥💥 taking out everyone except the driver ]
Red: Indeed, the rats are fleeing, Dembe. If the payment wasn’t made, it’s because Kaplan’s making a run on the bank. …
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Bank Manager: Confirmation of the funds transfer. … In the event Mr Reddington would reconsider–
Kate: He won’t reconsider. Thank you.
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Yes. Yes. Von Hauser is gone, which is unfortunate, but … I can assure you the passage is safe and the documents are clean.Dembe: I’ve got Rice on the line. He’s– He hung up.
Red: Well, what did he say?
Dembe: Cancel the order.
Abe: It appears the Frankfurt and Bagan accounts are both gone.
Red: I thought Kaplan was removed from the account.
Abe: She must be trading on your trust, saying she still represents you.
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[ Aram and Janet Sutherland are walking down a street in exercise clothes ]Aram: [ Inhales deeply ] Oh, it’s exhilarating. I can actually feel my body releasing endorphins.
Janet: You were on the treadmill for 15 minutes. Walking. [ Laughs ]
Aram: See, this is why you’re so good for me. I never exercise this much. I feel amazing.
It’s like a total stress reducer.
[ A man walks up ]
Man: Aram Mojtabai?Aram: Uh uh, yeah?
Man: You’ve been subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury. Tomorrow. Noon. Everything’s there in the envelope.
Aram: Is this about the task force? Did– did everyone get one of these?
Man: It’s illegal to tell a target of an investigation that you’ve been called to testify. Keep it to yourself.
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Brimley: Knock, knock![ Brimley enters. There is a python (“Betsy”) draped around his neck ]
Red: Brimley. At last, a friendly face.
Brimley: Here. Here. [ Brimley groans ] Two rabbits.
[ Door closes and locks ]
Red: There’s a woman in the other room. I need you to get her to divulge the name and the address of Kaplan’s new driver.
Brimley: I’m skipping euchre with the Saltmans to tell you this face-to-face– I’m out.
Red: Please, we can discuss that later.Brimley: I’m with you what, 19 years? There’s talk of bodies turning up, an investigation. I wanna help, but you’re hotter than a 4-peckered billy goat, and I can’t risk doing another stretch, not even for you.
Red: I need you, Teddy.
Brimley: Betsy’s the best I can do for you. You know what my time at Lompoc did. … I barely made it, and that was before the hypoxemia.
Whatever you need her to say, Betsy’ll squeeze it out of her.
Red: And then it’s rabbit stew for dinner.Brimley: Not stewed. Live. She likes a little tickle in her throat.
[ Door opens, closes ]
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Abe: Uh, Mr. Reddington, whatever this is I-I don’t wanna know. The accounts. I’ve gone over each one.
Red: And?
Abe: She’s cleaning you out.
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Ressler: That’s brutal.
Julian Gale: Yeah, the ME says the decapitation occurred postmortem. Why do you think Reddington would do something like that?
Ressler: Well, maybe he gave it to someone as proof. You know, a warning to an enemy.Gale: See, I’m thinking he gave it to a friend as a– as a gift. Like an offering.
Flashback:
Red: [ Voice-over ] Donald, I want you to know that I do understand how you feel.
Dembe: From Mr. Reddington.
Ressler: You get an ID?
Gale: Oh, yeah. I ID’d the body and I was able to ID the friend.
Flashback:
[ Ressler opens box containing Mako Tanida’s head ]
Ressler: You know where to find them?
Gale: I already did. He’s standing right in front of me. This is Mako Tanida. He killed some of the Bureau’s best men and women. And then Reddington goes and kills him.Why would Reddington do that? In exchange for your protection. I followed you to the woods. I saw you
and Keen with Reddington. I was wrong. Keen wasn’t informing Reddington. Reddington was informing you, the Bureau. … America’s most wanted man. You cut a deal with him.
Ressler: No. No, Julian. I didn’t make a deal, all right? Main Justice did, and– and when I found out, what you’re feelin’ right now, that’s exactly how I felt.
Gale: So then what? Reddington cuts Tanida’s head off, and you think, “Whoa, not so bad having an assassin on
the payroll”?
Ressler: No. No, you went to records. You read SCI7. You know the good we do.
Gale: Are you trying to justify this to– to me?
Ressler: Four years, we’ve made more high-level arrests than every other division combined.
Gale: Yeah. Okay. [ Sighs ] Reddington’s a mass murderer. … I’m gonna take you down. Yeah. I’m gonna take everybody down.
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Red: Don Julio.Don Julio: Raymond. … You said you had a question. If so, I must ask you to be brief about it.
Red: Don Julio, I’ve never known you to be brusque….
Don Julio: I hear things, Raymond. And what I hear is that your associate, Mr Kaplan, is proving to be a formidable adversary.
Red: I have a name. Squeezed it out of a contractor inKaplan’s employ. Phillip Roque. I understand he used to be your driver. If I get to him, I get to Kaplan. …
Don Julio: Seems this Mr Kaplan pays well. I’m told that Roque recently bought a Porsche.
Red: That’s all you know?
Don Julio: No. That’s all you need. …
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[ A car dealership ]
Man: Stainless steel. Set of six. You got your large and medium kitchen, your boning, your fruit, your paring, and your bread. End of the month, guy with the most sales takes home a set. …[ Red enters ]
Man: We’re in a meeting here. Who the hell do you think you are?
Red: I’m Raymond Reddington. I’m looking for a
customer of yours – Phillip Roque. … [H]e purchased an automobile from one of you fine gentlemen….[ Red picks up the largest knife ]
Man: [ Typing ] Phillip Roque. [ Sighs ] No address or number. Everything ran through a business manager.
Red: And who was that exactly?
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[ Door opens ]Red: Hello, Abe.
[ Gunshot 💥 ]
Abe: Aah! [ Groaning ]
Red: You won’t be using that arm again. But it’s your left arm. I know you’re right-handed. …
Abe: [ Grunts ]
Red: Abe, you steal my money … which I’ve ignored because you’re an accounting wizard. What I cannot ignore is your betrayal. You are how Mr. Kaplan has drained my accounts.
Abe: Red, I can explain–Red: Phillip Roque. You wired money to buy him a car. Where is he?
Abe: [ Grunting ] Page 12.
Red: Mario Dixon?
Abe: I can’t help with Roque. I would if I knew where he was, but I don’t.
Red: Who’s Mario Dixon?
Abe: [ Panting ] No! [ Gunshot 💥 ]
Red: [ To Dembe ] We have a new target.
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[ Speed-dials cellphone ]
Red: Elizabeth, I need you to find out what you can about a Mario Dixon. Kaplan wired him $300,000 two days ago. Whatever her next move is, Dixon is helping her make it.
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[ Stone Island Storage Facility, Bethesda Maryland ][ A worker, Gorrell, walks down a corridor in the stacks of library-like building. He looks into a retinal scanner ] [ Beep ] [ He steps out onto the street ] [ Tires screech ] [ Two men jump out; one slaps him hard ]
Gorrell: [ Grunting ] Ah!
[ The two men force force Gorrell into a van ] [ Tires peal ]
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Kate: [ To driver ] Thank you, Mario.
Gorrell: Who are you? Where am I?
Kate: The good news is you’re going to live. The bad news is, your depth perception will never be the same. … Which is your dominant eye? [ Gloves snap ]
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Judge Drucker: Agent Mojtabai, thank you for coming in.
Aram: Did I have a choice?
Drucker: … I’ve convened a grand jury to hear testimony about whether the task force you are a part of enabled Raymond Reddington to continue committing crimes while working as a Bureau informant–Aram: Yeah, I have nothing to say about that. …
Lawyer: If you insist on calling my client before the grand jury, he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Drucker: I’m granting him immunity.
Aram: Immunity? To testify against my friends who, uh, may, uh, or may not work for a task force that may or may not even, uh, exist.… I don’t have to do that, right?
Lawyer: Granting you immunity in exchange for your testimony takes away your right to plead the Fifth.Aram: How- … I- I don’t want immunity. You can- Um, I refuse, uh, to let you grant it. Consider me ungranted.
Drucker: Counselor, I trust you will help your client to understand the gift he has been given.
Aram: Gift? To turn on my friends. My alleged friends.
Drucker: To stay out of prison. Unless you refuse to answer my questions, in which case, you could go to jail for being in contempt.
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Ressler: Look, Gale– he knows everything. He saw me with– with Keen and Reddington. … Gale’s angle is Reddington and what we’ve let him do in exchange for cases.
Cooper: It’s a slippery moral slope we’ve navigated with care, as we do with any CI.
Samar: But our CI is responsible for 86 homicides in America.
Ressler: He’s ID’d most of them. He has a timeline. He knows we’ve let Reddington get away with murder. …
Cooper: Unless he can prove the existence of a deal, he has nothing. …
Aram: I’m just– I’m proud of the work that we’ve done here. …
Liz: I agree with Ressler, and with Aram. I’m proud and I’m ashamed. … But right now, we need to get Kate Kaplan.
Cooper: Kaplan? I think you missed the part about Julian Gale. …
Liz: [W]e need Reddington to deal with Gale. … [I]f we don’t stop Kaplan now, he won’t be around to give it to us.
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[ Flash to Kate performing surgery on Gorrell’s eye ]Kate: Westcott scissors.
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Liz: Her real name is Kathryn Nemec. She’s a trained mortician turned crime scene cleaner, and one of Reddington’s oldest and most trusted confidantes.
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Liz: Kaplan spent 30 years tending to his messes while Reddington built his criminal empire, and it took her five months to surgically dismantle it. … She put 86 skeletons in the hands of Julian Gale….
Samar: Does Reddington have any leads?
Liz: One. Mario Dixon.
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[ Kate has finished the eye excision. She puts the eye in a small container ]Kate: Put it on ice.
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Liz: According to the NCIC database, Mario Brandon Dixon is a thief who specializes in high value targets– jewels, art, cars…. He has a kid brother in prison. Mecklenburg Correctional. …
Cooper: Navabi, you and Keen get to Mecklenburg. See what the brother has to say.
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Dino Dixon: If you’re here about Mario–Liz: No, we’re here for you, Dino….
Samar: Mario saw the life you wanted and he dragged you into his, into this. … We can get you moved.
Liz: If the information you provide leads us to your brother, we’re authorized to slice five years off your sentence.
Dino: Deal. … He’s got a place in Baltimore where he keeps his booty.…
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Red: What do you know?
Liz: Mario Dixon works out of some high-end hipster boutique in Hampden. …
Red: A warrant won’t be necessary. Just the address.
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Clerk: Can I help you fellas find something?
Red: Laughs ] What might this old thing be worth? [ Gun cocks ] Perhaps a trip to the back room? I trust there’s a back room.⋘⋙
Red: Now this is more like it. [ Door creaks ] Where might we find Mr. Dixon?
Clerk: I don’t know. Honestly, I-I don’t know who that is.
Red: … [Y]ou can either be honest with me about Mario Dixon or I can get behind the wheel of this fine automobile and run you over.
Clerk: He’s in Philly. On a job. Picking up a package from a client.
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Kate: You’re clear on the document and its location?
Mario Dixon: Good to go. …
Kate: Please get the document. The document is all that matters.
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[ Mario Dixon holds up Gorrell’s employee ID to a scanner ] [ Door buzzes, door unlocks ]
Man: Afternoon, Mr. Gorrell.[ Mario shoots him and another worker: silenced gunshots (💥)(💥) ]
[ Sensor beeping ] [ Mario uses Gorrell’s excised eye to satisfy the biometric lock ] [ Beep ] …
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[ Mario Dixon flips through a card Index, finds one for Reddington. He takes the card out ] …
[ Mario uses the card to find a metal document box, removes a folder and replaces the box ]
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[ Red and Dembe enter ] [ Gorrell groaning ] [ Door creaks ]Dembe: It’s okay. They’re gone.
[ Gorrell turns his head, revealing his bloody, empty eye socket ] …
Red: Dembe, call an ambulance. Why on earth would she do this?
Gorrell: My eye. My eye! [ Groans ] [ Grunts ]
Red: Why did she take your eye?
Gorrell: There’s a scanner at work. She needs my eye for access.Red: To what? Where do you work?
Gorrell: Aah! Stone Canyon Storage Facility.
Red: I don’t know what that is. Stone Canyon. What’s stored there?
Gorrell: The government. Their secrets– everything. [ Groans ]
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Gale: Georgie, what’s that?George: Lunch. Your mom dropped it off. Homemade tuna salad. She seems like a real sweet lady.
[ Gale carefully opens the paper bag. Inside is a sandwich and a burner phone ]
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[ Cellphone rings, beeps ]
Gale: Who is this?Kate: You can call me The Cleaner. Where are you on the case, Agent Gale? …
Gale: A grand jury’s been convened. Without proof of a connection between Reddington and the task force, they’ll never hand up in indictment.…
Kate: No, they don’t, but I can. …
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Cooper: We’ve got support units from the Bureau, ATF, ICE, and DEA scrambling right now.Samar: That’s great. How?
Cooper: Word got out that Stone Canyon was compromised. They insisted.
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[ Mario is apprehended as he encounters a police blockade as he exits a tunnel ]
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FBI Agent: You Agent Keen? We found him carrying this.Liz: Has anyone opened it yet?
FBI Agent: No, ma’am. On orders from Director Harold Cooper himself.
Liz: Thank you.
Samar: What is it?
Liz: It’s Reddington’s signed immunity deal with the Department of Justice.
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Mario Dixon: Let me get this straight. You think I’m going to jail? You two are smarter than that.Liz: …You stole a classified document from a government facility you shouldn’t have even known existed.
Mario: You won’t charge me. … See, I know what I stole
back there– proof of an immunity agreement between the FBI and Raymond Reddington. … See, you charge me, I have a constitutional right to present a defense, and I promise you that immunity deal will be Exhibit A.Liz: I wouldn’t celebrate. We’re not charging you, but we’re not exactly letting you go either. …
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Mario: Reddington. … Impressive. You got the FBI on your payroll? They deliver me right to you, no questions asked.Red: I was thinking about that poor soul whose eye you stole. What a shame. Disfigured for life, caught up in all this nastiness.
Mario: Wasn’t my decision. Take it up with the lady who hired me.
Red: Mr. Kaplan? I will, when you tell me where to find her.
Mario: Are you nuts? I know about your immunity deal. That means I’m dead no matter what I tell you.
Ratting Kaplan out gets me nothing.Red: She had you steal that agreement. Must’ve had a plan to bring it to her. You can tell me where and when, or you can tell him [ indicating Dembe ]. One way or another, the truth will come out.
Mario: We don’t know each other, so I’ll forgive you for not knowing that I don’t scare easily. I expect to die here today. That’s the end of your leverage. But–
Red: There’s a “but.” Please, do go on. …
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Liz: [H]e told you how to find Kaplan?Red: Yes. Southwest Waterfront. 5:00 PM. She’ll be there personally to take possession of the agreement.
Liz: 5:00 doesn’t give us much time.Red: Then you’ll just have to hurry, Elizabeth. I’ll be in touch as soon as I know more.…
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[ Dembe and Red are at the home of Liz’s grandfather, Dom (Katarina’s father), deep in the woods ]Red: Hello, Dom.
Dom: What do you want?
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Dom: You told me never to open this.
Red: Yes, without me.
Dom: …You said this was for emergency only. The last resort. If you opened this, it
would mean– … What is it, Raymond? What’s happened?Red: I’m under attack, Dom. Most of my business has been destroyed, many of my people killed. … But regardless, this isn’t for me.
[Red opens the cover of the box buried in the ground]Dom: I don’t understand. You’re just giving this away. Why would you do that?
Red: [ Grunts, exhales, pulls out a smaller metal box ] For Masha. She’s alive, Dom. I thought we lost her once. I won’t lose her again.
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Dom: Unbelievable!Red: Dom, will you wait a second? You’re gonna give yourself a heart attack.
Dom: Like you care. Like you’re even capable of considering anyone else’s feelings but your own!
Red: That’s not fair.
Dom: Masha’s alive. My granddaughter is alive. … [Voice breaks] How long you let me sit here, thinking that she was– You told me she was dead! How could you lie to me like–Red: I wasn’t lying when I told you Masha was gone. I believed she had died in childbirth. She deceived me, faked her own death. At the time, she wanted to get away from me.
Dom: Ha! Well, so do I.
Red: She had help from one of my people, a woman close to me who betrayed my trust. … This woman, she’s made it her mission to eliminate me, to remove me from Masha’s life, whatever the cost. … She knows everything about my operation. … But the one thing she doesn’t know is you. I haven’t told you about Masha because I didn’t wanna risk coming here or making contact with you again until this fight was over.Dom: So now I’m supposed to say thank you?
Red: [T]his isn’t about me, Dom. This is about Masha. If I don’t come back–
Dom: You always come back!
Red: If I don’t come back, you need to find her, Dom. Tell her who you are. … I have to go. I’m sorry.
Dom: For what?
Red: All of it. I wish I’d been the person you wanted me to be. …
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[ Beep, cellphone rings ]Red: Elizabeth.
Liz: What’s goin’ on? You’re supposed to be here with Dixon. Our meeting with Kaplan’s in less than an hour.
Red: I’ll be taking that meeting alone.
Liz: [ Lowered voice ] You lied about the location. You’re gonna kill her. … I asked you not to do this.
Red: You asked if I could promise you that I wouldn’t. I said no.[ Line disconnects ] [ Cellphone beeps ]
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Liz: That was Dembe. He said he can’t find Reddington.
Cooper: What do you mean he can’t find him? If we don’t show up with Dixon, our whole operation’s blown. Where the hell is he?
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[ Car door opens, closes ]Red: Where did Kaplan tell you to meet?
Mario Dixon: Where’s what you promised me? A box? I’m supposed to believe that my escape plan and my future survival fits into a box?
Red: This is no mere box. Inside, you’ll find travel vouchers, security codes, boat keys, and
ownership papers for a private 96-acre island off the coast of Brunei. It’s a self-sufficient turnkey property with a
desalination well, a solar and wind farm, full-time waitstaff, a grounds crew, security team, and a property manager, all paid for in perpetuity by a very healthy trust fund.Paradise with no extradition treaty. … Right now, the island’s owner is legend. Nobody on the island knows who it belongs to. [ Opens box ] All they know is that one day, someone will arrive with a key that fits into an old lock on the front door. …
[ Holds up key ] [ Latches click box shut ]Red: The location of the meeting.
Mario: [ Sighs ] Falstaff Theatre on M Street. Two miles from here. Kaplan expects me in 20 minutes.
[ Red leans forward as if to hand Mario the box, but instead throws his left arm around his neck as he shoots Mario’s two guards 💥💥 ]
Red: The box is actually intended for someone else.
[ Gunshot 💥 Red shoots Mario ] [ Body thuds ]
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[ Knock on door ]Cooper: Whatever it is, if it’s not about locating Reddington–
Aram: Sir, I’ve been subpoenaed to testify in front of a grand jury. I’m not supposed to tell you because you’re a target of the investigation.
Cooper: Me?Aram: Everyone. Julian Gale’s convinced the US Attorney that we’ve broken the law. Sir, he’s coming after us. All of us.
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[ Door unlocks. Kate and two guards enter an ornate theatre ]
Kate: Mario? [ When Mario does not appear, Kate alerts her guards ] Weapons.
[ Silenced gunshots (💥)(💥) ] [ Both of Kate’s guards fall ]
Red: Hello, Kate.
Kate: Raymond.
Red: I have to hand it to you, you did it. My associates, my accounts, cash reserves– gone. About the only thing you left me is a hat on my head. And this. The way out.
Kate: The island.
Red: Too many killings, Kate, on all sides. I don’t want more death, and neither do you. I simply want this to end. You can have the island.
Kate: To be my prison.
Red: Yes. In paradise. Elizabeth is who she is, Kate. She’s not Masha anymore. … [S]he has grown up to be Special Agent Elizabeth Keen. Her area of scholarship and expertise is the study of criminals. The habits and inclinations, the curiosities and proclivities, the psychiatry of criminals. That’s who she is. … I can continue to give her more distance, but she is going to continue to be who she is. And I’m not going to stop watching out for her. So either you go and save yourself, or this ends right here. Now.
Kate: I’m not going anywhere, Raymond, so you better make sure you finish the job this time, for both our sakes.
Julian Gale: FBI! Drop your weapons!
[ 💥💥💥 Gunshots 💥💥💥 ] [ Red and Dembe cover their exit and escape to their car outside ]
Dembe: How did he find us?
Red: Kate must’ve made a deal. …
[ Car doors close ] [ Engine revs, tires peal ] [ Red and Dembe escape amid 💥💥💥 gunfire 💥💥💥 ]
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Gale: You didn’t run.Kaplan: Run? Just standing here makes my hip flare. I’m sorry I failed to deliver on my promise to you. Raymond must’ve intercepted the immunity agreement….
Gale: No, no, it does matter, lady. I needed that document to prove … the FBI enabled Reddington to grow and profit from a criminal empire. [T]hat agreement, that was my smoking gun to bring them
down. So, yeah, it does matter, because without it, I’ve got nothing.Kate: Wrong. You have me. Raymond thinks he out maneuvered me today, but he underestimated my commitment. I’ve been his cleaner, keeper, and confessor for 30 years, and I’m prepared to tell you everything you need to know in open court.
Gale: In exchange for immunity.
Kate: Yes. So maybe we should get on with it, and you should arrest me.
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Blurb: Liz has been taken, forcing an alliance between Red and Mr Kaplan who promised to ‘put him in the ground.’
Red: Baldur!
Baldur Magnusson: What are you doing here? …
Red: You’re not still upset about our little misunderstanding, are you?
Baldur: You wanted to kill me.
Red: Prepared. I was prepared to kill you. Being
prepared for something doesn’t necessarily speak to desire, and here we are. Congratulations. … My accountant’s untimely demise left the door wide open for you to purchase that fleet of cruise ships for a song.
Baldur: …I know what happened with Von Hauser. Everyone does. That’s why you’re here, isn’t it? For safe passage?
Red: Yes. Werner’s death has cost me my travel routes in and out of the continent.… I have urgent business in the States and no way to get there. …
Baldur, you and I are deal-makers. We buy low and sell high. Getting that cruise line on the cheap was better than sex with your mistress. Either of them.
Baldur: [ Chuckles ]
Red: I’m a little down on my luck. A penny stock. Invest in me now and when I rise, you’ll be able to afford three mistresses.
Baldur: I may have something in steerage. …
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Red: He’s known as the Debt Collector, a mercenary paid to exact revenge.Liz: Exact revenge on me? For what?
Red: All I can tell you is he’s coming to Washington.
Liz: But who hired him? Mr. Kaplan?
Red: No. Kate may be targeting people around you, but not you. Someone else put him up to this. Unfortunately, I’m in no position to help. … You need to take this to Cooper.Liz: Are you sure?
Red: … I have eyes and ears everywhere. And they tell me the Debt Collector is coming for you, which means he’s the next Blacklister.
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Liz: The Debt Collector is an avenging angel who’s hired to exact poetic revenge. His terms are simple – whatever the perceived crime, he exacts an equal measure of punishment.Samar: A pound of flesh. An extra-legal way to even the score.
Cooper: …Does Reddington have a lead?Liz: Just a 15-year-old murder story about a Senator’s daughter who bought cocaine laced with ketamine. Ultimately, she passed out on the beach and drowned when the tide came
in.Samar: Reddington says the Senator hired the Debt Collector to get revenge.
Liz: Against the kid who sold her the drugs, Tyler Obermeir. Story has it, the Senator wanted him to die exactly like his daughter did. …
Aram: So exactly where did she die?
Liz: Long Beach, under the pier.
Cooper: Alert local authorities. Tell them to start digging. …
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Liz: What do we got?Man: One hell of an informant is what you got. Whoever tipped you two had incredible specifics. 15 years later, it’s a miracle we found anything.
Liz: The body hasn’t decomposed.
Expert: Desiccation must’ve slowed the decay. Airtight. He mummified. …Liz: After all this time, you think toxicology could give us anything on the killer?
Expert: [I]t’s gonna take time. … Two weeks. 10 days if we throw everything we got at it.
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Red: Elizabeth, tell me something good.Liz: We found Tyler Obermeir, but even if toxicology can tell us something about the killer, this Debt Collector, it’s gonna take some time.
Red: We don’t have time. … Elizabeth, … when it comes to the matters of death and necropsy, there is one
technician who has gifts that simply cannot be matched.⋘⋙
Kate Kaplan: [ Answers phone ] How did you get this number?
Red: Kate, I need your services.
Kate: Said the spider to the fly.
Red: I wish I were that clever. This is for Elizabeth. I need you to look at a body. …
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Kate: Raymond notified me that the Bureau may require my assistance.Cooper: You’re wanted for crimes ranging from kidnapping to murder. We are not offering you a deal in exchange for your assistance.
Kate: … The body from the beach. Tell me about him.
Cooper: He was murdered by the man we believe is hunting Agent Keen. …Kate: I’ll examine the body under terms and conditions that guarantee my freedom. I can’t very well protect Elizabeth from prison.
Liz: I don’t need your protection.
Kate: You do know why you’re being hunted by the Debt Collector, don’t you? … It’s because you’re in
Raymond’s life. As long as you are, killers will be in yours.Cooper: What are your terms and conditions?
Kate: I need you to dead drop the body.
Samar: Dead drop a corpse?
Kate: Sounds fun, doesn’t it? … If the transport goes as expected, the body will be delivered to me for examination. …
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[ Door slams ] [ Men roll in a mummified corpse and lift it onto a steel table ]
Kate Kaplan: Thank you. You can leave us.
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Ressler: New digs, nice. You get tired of the, uh, ice rink?Julian Gale: The crime scene’s been officially processed. B-But these these bodies, they’re still talking to me. You want to know what they’re saying?
Ressler: You tell me. You’re the ghost whisperer.
Gale: They’re saying that Reddington is untouchable. I mean, these were powerful people, Donnie, yet they’re all here. Why? Hmm? Because they crossed Reddington. Because they informed on him. Because they- they actually thought that they could defy him. [ Laughs ] Now the living- the living are telling a whole different story.
Ressler: This is about Keen helping him. That’s not a story. I mean, that’s a fairy tale.Gale: … I’m talking about Reddington’s
cleaner. She unearthed 86 of his victims. 86. You know what that tells me? That she thinks he’s touchable. And if she thinks he’s touchable, I’m willing to bet that others
do as well. Let’s find out, Donnie. Come on. …Ressler: Where are we going, Julian?
Gale: Federal Building. We have an appointment with Marvin Gerard.
Ressler: Reddington’s lawyer?
Gale: Yeah. How’d you know that?
Ressler: Come on, how many years did we track him for?
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Kate: … The man you’re looking for is Edgar Grant. … He left no trace evidence and did everything he could to make sure the body was never found, which is how I found him. Zeolite.
Cooper: Zeolite?Kate: Mr. Obermeir died of suffocation, which tells us nothing. The tell is in how he was buried. Zeolite absorbed the odors from the decaying body, which is why he wasn’t found.
Zeolite is commonly used to control odors in hospitals and schools. … He’s a janitor.Aram: Grant works at Horizon Middle School in Fairfax County. …
Cooper: Get a last known address. Navabi, Keen, get there.
Kate: Not Elizabeth. The Debt Collector’s looking for her.
Cooper: She’s right. It’s too dangerous. … [Y]ou should be at the safe house with Agnes. We’ll notify you when we have Grant in custody. …
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Grant: Edgar’s working late. There’s a dance at the school tonight. Is my husband in some kind of trouble? …[ Samar tries a locked door ]
Samar: What’s in here, Mrs. Grant?Mrs Grant: Edgar’s antiques.
Samar: Antiques?
Mrs Grant: He’s a collector– garage and estate sales. It’s where he dilly dallies, his workshop. Edgar says the collection’s quite valuable.
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[ Switch clicks, lights humming ] [ Footsteps descend stairs ]
[ Shelves are stacked with bottles of liquid in various shades of yellow. In them appear to be fossils of some sort … or body parts ]
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[ Line ringing ]Samar: Hey, it’s me. Is everything okay?
Liz: Under control. Red’s people took Agnes … to the safe house. I’m headed there now. I just have to pack a bag. What’s going on?
Samar: We found his place. This guy, Liz, he’s a special
kind of strange.Liz: Take photos. I wanna see everything. … Bye.
[ Phone beeps ] [ Floor creaks behind Liz ]
Edgar Grant: Don’t move. Just be still. I’d like to ask you to turn around very slowly. That’s it.
[ He sprays a mist in Liz’s face ]
Liz: Aah!
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Red: [ On phone ] …Agnes is safe with my people, but it appears the Debt Collector grabbed Elizabeth before she made it to the safe house.Cooper: …I thought your people were protecting her.
Red: So did I.
Cooper: It had to be Kaplan. She must’ve hired the Debt Collector and told him where to find Agent Keen, which makes no sense. She helped us to identify a suspect. …Red: I don’t believe Kaplan is behind this. We’re not seeing the whole picture. Find your suspect and do it fast before he collects on whatever debt Elizabeth allegedly owes. …
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Liz: Listen to me, Edgar. That’s your name, isn’t it? Edgar Grant?Edgar: How do you know that?
Liz: The FBI raided your house this morning. So if you hurt me, you’ll only make it worse for yourself and your family when you’re arrested. Why are you doing this? …
Edgar: Oh, I’m a debt collector. My client wants what you owe him, and he hired me to make you pay. … Your old friend, Tyson Pryor.Liz: Tyson Pryor’s in prison. Why would you want to help him?
Edgar: Like I said, it’s my job. Things got a little rough
for Mr. Pryor in prison. His face got disfigured because of a faulty deep fryer while he’s doing kitchen duty.Liz: So that’s my fault? He wants to kill me ’cause he had a rough go inside?
Edgar: Kill you? Nobody’s saying anything about killing you. My instructions were not to harm a hair on your pretty little head until he’s present.
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Cooper: So it’s him? Edgar Grant is the Debt Collector?Samar: Definitely. He keeps the items he’s collected in his basement along with detailed specs on each object. A pair of hands taken from a man who physically abused his wife. An eye from a witness who supposedly made a false ID. …
Agent: Agent Navabi, you asked about anything relating to Elizabeth Keen?Samar: Hang on, I think we might have something.
Cooper: Please tell me it’s something we can use to track this guy.
Samar: No, not him. But, um, maybe the psycho who hired him to grab Liz. What do we know about Tyson Pryor?
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Cooper: In 2012, eight handwritten envelopes were sent and delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to the president of eight universities around the country. Inside the envelopes were blank pages. And highly lethal doses of anthrax. … Three of the presidents targeted were
killed. … Ultimately, the case was solved by a young FBI profiler who was on the New York Mobile Psych Unit.Samar: Liz.
Cooper: Keen’s profile led to the arrest of one Tyson Pryor, a sociology professor at one of the schools who was angry at his university president because he was denied tenure.
Aram: I thought he was sentenced to life.
Cooper: He was. But according to the Bureau of Prisons, he has terminal cancer. Pryor was granted compassionate release to a hospice in Baltimore two weeks ago. …
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Gale: Mr. Gerard, I’m Special Agent Julian Gale. This is Special Agent Ressler.Marvin Gerard: Yes, Agent Ressler.
Gale: W-Wait, you two know each other?
Marvin: Well, Donald was the public face of the manhunt for Raymond when he was on the run with Elizabeth Keen. Everyone in my world knows Donald Ressler. … If there’s a deal to make, I’ll make it with Agent Ressler.
Ressler: Yeah, that’s not happening.
Marvin: During the manhunt, I watched Agent Ressler’s press briefings. He was smug, arrogant, and professional. You, my friend, just seem smug and arrogant. You may go.
Ressler: Listen, pal, you don’t get to decide who stays, who goes.Marvin: No, only whether to talk or not.
Gale: Well, I’ll just be right outside then. Have a nice chat, Mr. Gerard. …
[ Door opens, closes ]
Ressler: What the hell was that? He doesn’t know anything.
Marvin: Clearly you wanna keep it that way, which is why there is a deal to be made. You get me out, and I keep my mouth shut. …Ressler: So if we say no, what are you, gonna betray Reddington? No way.
Marvin: When it comes to self-preservation, there is only one person that I am more devoted to than Raymond, and you’re lookin’ at him. …
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Kate: [ On phone ] I did what you requested, Raymond. The FBI has my findings.Red: She’s gone, Kate. Elizabeth’s been taken. … Whatever our issues, please tell me you didn’t–
Kate: If Elizabeth is in danger, you know it’s not because of me.
Red: You may not have ordered her taken, but
because of you, I am here. If Elizabeth is harmed because of all this–Kate: I gave the FBI a name.
Red: Yes, Edgar Grant. And the FBI is doing everything they can. But he’s already got her. Whatever it takes, whatever you need, this conflict of ours can wait.
Kate: Goodbye, Raymond.
[ Cellphone beeps ]
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Samar: FBI. Put your hands in the air and turn around slowly.[ Tyson Pryor turns around. His face is disfigured from the accident he had with cooking oil ]
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Dembe: You’re having doubts.Red: I am. I haven’t loved many people in my life. Kate is one of them. You know, as much as her betrayal hurt, what really hurt was [ Breathes sharply ] knowing what I would have to do in response. …
Dembe: It broke my heart. That day in the woods. Hearing the gunshot. Leaving her behind. Right or wrong, it was between you and her. This war she started must stop. Kate must be stopped.
Red: …I need to look her in the face and see if I still recognize her.Dembe: Raymond, she has gone too far all to prove that you have gone too far. She can’t see what she’s become.
Red: What if I’m the one who can’t see?
Dembe: No, Raymond. Remember why you surrendered
yourself to the FBI in the first place. Remember what all of this was about. You can’t give up now. You can’t let Kate destroy everything that gives you purpose. Our work is not yet done. I loved Kate, too, but it’s time to end this. Stop it. Stop her.༺ ♤ ༻
Ressler: I got nothin’.Julian Gale: Did you tell him he could walk?
Ressler: Yeah. For the keys to the kingdom, and he says no deal. He won’t talk.
Gale: Is that a fact?
Ressler: You don’t believe me? You wanna go talk to him?
Gale: I’d love to. Except he insisted on talking to you alone. …Ressler: Don’t go there. …
[ Ressler grabs Gale by the collar and forces him against a wall ]
Ressler: … Do not doubt me. Ever. You got that?
Gale: Loud and clear.
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Samar: Elizabeth Keen – where is she?Tyson Pryor: Burning in hell for all I care. … Lady, I just got out of prison two weeks ago.
Samar: Where you were overheard swearing revenge on Elizabeth Keen. … Now where is she?
Pryor: Keen’s been taken? [ Chuckles softly ] I thought the sky looked a little bluer this morning.Samar: You can drop the act, Tyson. We found this in the home of … a man known as the Debt Collector, proof that you paid him to abduct Keen. …
Pryor: I swear to God, lady, I don’t know what you’re talking about. …
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Edgar: I got a wife, you know. Joyce. She was a dancer till a drunk driver hit her, took her legs.Six years for aggravated vehicular assault, out in four for good behavior. That don’t seem fair, now, does it?
Liz: Let me guess, you killed him.
Edgar: No, no, no. When that trucker got paroled, I tied
him up, pounded his legs into meat with a sledgehammer. Recompense.Liz: So you see yourself as a crusader?
Edgar: Oh, heavens, no. I’m a sociopath, clearly. Turns out I-I enjoy inflicting pain, and I’m very good at it. But there’s not really a market for open sadism. Crimes of revenge, on the other hand? [ Chuckles ] Now there’s a gold mine. …
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Woman: [ On intercom ] Can I help you?Kate: Miss Brady Boatright. I’m here to sub. Sixth grade,
I believe.Woman: [ On intercom ] Come on in. Sign in at the office.
[ Kate enters a room marked “Janitorial” ]
[ Kate looks around, finds a set of keys marked “Troop #14441” ]
[ Kate overhears an argument outside ]
Ike: Yeah, I posted it. And I’m not taking it down. …
[ Door opens, Kate comes out ][ Kate and a girl, Jenna, bump into one another. Kate drops the keys. Jenna picks them up. She sees the key ring with the number “#14441” ]
Kate: Thank you. [ Calls out ] Young man? Young man! Cyberbullying is grounds for expulsion.
Ike: I didn’t do anything.Kate: You’re gonna take that post down.
Ike: What are you gonna do? Send me to the principal’s office?
[ Kate draws her gun ]
Kate: No, son. I’m gonna send you to the morgue. [ Gun cocks ] Delete the post. …
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[ Edgar Grant pulls in to a cabin in the woods ]
Edgar: Hey, looks like the gang’s all here. Come on!
[ Edgar sprays Liz in the face, grabs her by the hair and forces her toward the cabin ]
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Kate: I know where the Debt Collector’s taking Elizabeth.Red: Have you called Harold Cooper?
Kate: To arrest me? No. …Red: Then call my people.
Kate: Your people will kill me on sight. …Red: We’re talking about Elizabeth. I guarantee you won’t be harmed.
Kate: I’m closer than your people and the FBI. I’m handling this myself.
Red: If something goes wrong–
Kate: You’ll what? Shoot me? Again?
Red: Please be careful, Kate.
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Edgar: [ Calls out ] Pryor? Where are you? I got a young lady here who’s dying to get reacquainted. …[ Sits Liz in a chair, ties her to it ]
[ Red enters ]
Red: No need for alarm, Edgar.Edgar: Who are you? Where’s Tyson Pryor?
Red: I’m sorry to have misled you, but Tyson Pryor didn’t hire you. I did. Hello, Elizabeth.
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Aram: Sir, I could be wrong, but, uh, I think I might know where Agent Keen is. Some kids at Horizon Middle School reported seeing a woman matching Mr. Kaplan’s description, and she was holding a key ring that said “Troop 1-4-4-4-1.” And their old cabin is on Johnson Lake.
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Edgar: Who are you? What- what do you want?Red: From you? Nothing.
Liz: This is all about getting to Kaplan.
Red: Yes. By taking advantage of her love for you. The only emotion powerful enough to get her to set aside
the rage that consumes her. A rage that I’m not sure she’ll ever recover from.Edgar: I didn’t hurt her.
Red: That must’ve been dissatisfying for you. You’re a glutton for vengeance. I understand. There’s almost nothing as satisfying as revenge, wanting someone to hurt because you hurt. An eye for an eye. Feels like God’s work, until you realize there is no God and you’ve committed sins for which there is no absolution.
Edgar: I just did what you asked. Heh. Nothing more.
Red: Word to the wise – before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.[ Gunshot 💥 ]
Red: Confucius. Stunningly applicable even after all these years.
Liz: Two graves? Is the other one for you or for Kaplan?
Red: Neither, I hope. That’s up to her.
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Ressler: ID’d all but six of the John Doe’s. Nice work.
Gale: I guess being a monomaniacal prick has its benefits.
Ressler: You’re all that except for the monomaniacal part. …[ Cellphone ringing ] [ Cellphone beeps ]
Samar: Liz is in trouble. … I know where she is and I’ve got backup. But you need to be there. …
Ressler: Look, just text me the address, all right? [ Cellphone beeps ] It’s a– it’s another case.
Gale: You don’t have to explain Donnie, look, what I said before, I didn’t mean it. No one’s worked harder to find Reddington than you. And I’m– I’m sorry. I mean–
Ressler: Forget about it.
Gale: All right. …
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Liz: You lied. You said you were trapped in steerage on a ship.Red: I thought I was until I was able to trade one of my last supply routes in the Balkans for a ride on Prince Hajjar’s jet.
Liz: You had me kidnapped. You put Agnes at risk.Red: Agnes was never at risk. And I gave explicit instructions you were not to be harmed in any way.
Liz: Untie me. I said untie me!Red: I wish I could.
Liz: She’s on her way here now thinking she’s going to save me.
Red: I assume so, yes.Liz: And you’re gonna kill her.
Red: As I said, that’s entirely up to her. I want to believe there’s another way.
Liz: After everything that’s happened? What could she possibly say to convince you?Red: She doesn’t have to convince me. You already did that. But for a war to end, both sides have to be willing to find peace. And up until now, it seems Kate has believed the only satisfactory outcome would be if one of us dies. If that’s true, it has to be her.
Dembe: She’s here.
Liz: Reddington, don’t do this.
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[ Vehicles pull up ]
Kate: Thank you for coming, Cliff. We believe Elizabeth’s inside. One unsub, likely armed.⋘⋙
Dembe: The men are in position.
Red: [ Beep ] Pascal, she brought a lot of backup. Is this gonna be a problem?Pascal: No, sir. This will not be a problem. Over.
Liz: Reddington, there has to be another way. Please don’t do this.
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Kate: We move quickly. Two men from the south. Two from the north. …
Liz: [ Cries out ] Kaplan! No! It’s a trap!
[ Dembe muffles Liz ]
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[ Kate stops ]
Kate: Raymond. We’ve been set up.
Cliff: I got eyes on a grass man 60 yards out.
Kate’s man: There’s another on our wing to the south.
Kate: No, don’t shoot.
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Pascal: I’m made. I can take one shot, maybe two on your ready.
Red: Hold. …
⋘⋙
Cliff: They’ve got over-watch. I count three.
Kate: Everyone, hold your positions.
[ Beep, speed-dialing ] [ Cellphone rings ] [ Ring, beep ]
Kate: Hello, Raymond.
Red: Said the fly to the spider.
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[ Red steps outside the cabin. Liz stands in the doorway behind him ]Red: [ On phone ] We go where our hearts take us. Yours took you to Elizabeth.
Kate: And yours kidnapped her. Thank you, Raymond, for proving my point better than I ever could.Red: You underestimate yourself, Kate. The deaths you’ve caused in the name of crippling me have been more than adequate to prove what you’ve become.
Kate: I’ve watched you hold Elizabeth emotionally hostage. I never thought you’d hold her physically hostage as well.
Red: I wanted her here to bear witness. I regret any hardship it caused her, but I believe, in the end, she’ll agree it’s a small price to pay for the truth.
[ Kate walks forward ]
Kate: I was your friend. I protected you. I comforted you. I loved you. The truth? This is the truth. [ She turns
her head to show her wound ] And it came at an excruciatingly high price.
Liz: [ Steps forward ] What he did is indefensible. But it’s done and it can’t be changed. What matters is now, the truth today,
and that is Reddington has given me his word that he can coexist with you. Will you give me your word that you can coexist with him?
Kate: [ Pause ] No. Because I can’t.
[ FBI vehicles pull up ]
Ressler: FBI! Hands in the air!
Liz: There are snipers in the trees! I count at least two!
Samar: Bring them out. Do it! Both of you.
Red: I’ll show you mine if she’ll show you hers.
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[ Through a binoculars, Julian Gale trains his sight first on Liz, then on Red ]
Kate: The Debt Collector –
Liz: Is dead. Reddington hired him to lure [you] out.
Kate: I gave you 86 victims and you’re arresting me?
Liz: I don’t know what to say.
Kate: Because you’ve already said it, deary. When you called out to warn me. To protect me from him.
[ Julian Gale gets a high-powered rifle, aims it at Red and shoots 💥 – He misses, hitting the doorframe. Red ducks
[ Mayhem ensues. 💥💥Shots ring out💥💥 Everyone takes cover. No one knows where the first shot came from ]
Liz: Stop! Don’t shoot!
Liz: Stand down! Stand down!
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[ Hours later, Red is in his car as Dembe drives ]Red: [ On phone ] Any sign of Kate?
Liz: Nothing yet. A search party is still on site.
Red: You let her get away.
Liz: I couldn’t stop her.
Red: Well, you heard it yourself. Her truth. That we cannot coexist.Liz: We ran the ballistics. Kaplan’s men didn’t take that shot.
Red: So we have a new actor in the mix.
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[ Door opens. Ressler enters ]Julian Gale: Hey, Donnie. So? Any luck on that case you mentioned?
Ressler: No. Two steps forward and three back.Julian Gale: [ Chuckles ] I know exactly how that feels.
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Liz: A new actor. How is that even possible? Nobody even knew you were at that cabin.Red: No. That’s what makes our mystery guest so intriguing.
Liz: I know Mr. Kaplan said that the two of you can’t coexist, that that was her truth, but I still hope it can change.
Red: I have found in my experience people rarely change. And when they do, they’re not to be trusted.
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Blurb: In an effort to disrupt the work of the Task Force, Mr Kaplan engages a specialist who can alter memories.
[ Dr Bogdan Krilov steps out of a treatment room. A woman, Mr (Kate) Kaplan is there, silhouetted against a lighted doorway ]
Dr Krilov: Who are you? Who the hell are you? How did
you get in here? You can’t be here.
Kate: Dr. Krilov, I’m a friend of a friend. I’d like to discuss a proposal with you. May I buy you lunch? …
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Julian Gale: We were able to identify three more of Reddington’s victims. Milos Kirchoff, Alistair Pitt, and, uh, Geoff Perl. Those names mean anything to you?
Ressler: No.
Gale: Which is why I’m gonna pull the case files and see who the lead detectives were. I have a feeling they may know something that could help me prove that Keen was tipping off Reddington …
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Ressler: [ Answers phone ] Ressler.Detective: It’s Detective Elijah Bell, Philly PD, Southwest division.…
I got a case down here.… I looked into the dates and the
location and I think it may relate to an investigation you were working – the disappearance of Reven Wright. If that’s still active, you may want to pay her a visit. …༺ ♤ ༻
[ At a music store, Mozart’s ♪ “Don Giovanni” plays ]
Red: Ah, I hate the Mozart. … Just heard too much of it. It’s like pop music to me. Kate, on the other hand, simply adores “Don Giovanni.”[ Red shows Liz a photo of Kate Kaplan at a restaurant with Dr Bogdan Krilov ]
Liz: You found her.
Red: That was taken 18 hours ago at the Café Grundstein in Vienna, where Mozart held one of his last public performances.Liz: And the man she’s with?
Red: Dr Bogdan Ivanovich Krilov. One of the few people who have mastered the science of memory
manipulation. … The memory of an accident, a tragedy, a fire in which a 4-year-old girl killed her father.Liz: This man, is he the one who erased my memory of that night?
Red: That’s how Kaplan knows him.
Liz: Why is she meeting with him now? Is it connected to the fire? To me?
Red: I don’t know. But we have to find out, which is why the next name on the Blacklist is Dr. Krilov.
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Liz: We’ve confirmed that after meeting with Kaplan, Krilov boarded a flight to New York. He landed in JFK four hours ago …
Aram: Agent Keen, I think I speak for all of us when I say my recollection of the last memory specialist we dealt with was not a pleasant one. …
Cooper: Ressler, Navabi, get to Krilov. Find out what Kaplan wants with him.
Ressler: Sir, a new witness just came forward in the Reven Wright case. … Hey, Keen. Give us a second, would you? Gale thinks you’re Reddington’s informant…Liz: I’m not Reddington’s informant.
Ressler: So tell him. [I]t’ll … help hide the truth about the task force. …
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Concierge: Mr. Krilov checked in shortly after 9:00. And the security logs indicate he left the hotel shortly after checking in… This letter arrived for him after he left.[ The Concierge lays a white envelope on the counter. Liz takes it and puts it inside her jacket ]
Concierge: I want to be cooperative, but he’s a guest. And that letter is private property. I can’t let you take it
without a warrant. …[ Liz hands a white envelope back to the Concierge. Liz and Samar walk away ]
Liz: Walk fast.
Samar: Why?Liz: Because any second he’s gonna realize he’s holding my rent check.
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Samar: And here I thought you’d gone all pink and perfect on me.
Liz: The man who raised me was a grifter. Couldn’t be pink and perfect if I tried. [ Opens the envelope ] It’s an invoice and arrival itinerary. Manilow Van Lines. …
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[ At Manilow Van Lines ]Man: I just move ’em through. Customs deals with inspections.… Here we go. Whatever’s inside, nobody’s shown up to collect it. …
Liz: This is what? A stash of medical equipment?
Samar: Looks like Krilov was here to manipulate some memories. …
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[ Krilov is watching from some distance away ]Dr Krilov: [ On phone ] It’s all over. The FBI just seized my equipment.
Kate Kaplan: The mission cannot be compromised.…
I’ll get you new equipment.Dr Krilov: It’s not that easy. My equipment is specialized. …
Kate: …Take out a pen and paper. I’m gonna give you a name.
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[ At a bakery shop in Vienna, Austria ]
Woman behind counter: Hello. [ Speaks German: ] How can I help you?
Red: [ Speaks German: ] Two pieces of Sachertorte, please. …Woman: Oh. This is too much.
Red: Perhaps I’ll add to the order. I’m looking for this
woman [ Shows a photo of Kate ] … I was hoping you might have some information that would help me find her.Woman: …[S]he was here when we opened this morning. With a suitcase. Um, perhaps the train. It’d be only a few blocks from Wien Mitte. …
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Ressler: So you told Detective Bell that you saw some people moving a body.Linda McFaden: …I probably shouldn’t have said anything. … You know who my neighbor was?
Ressler: Yes. Laurel Hitchin.
Linda: The President’s National Security Advisor. …
Ressler: I need you to tell me what you saw. …
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Aram: Hey, you guys, okay, so after Krilov didn’t show up at the hotel, … a transit cop spotted him on a subway platform…. So I pulled the security feeds from the street outside the station.[ Liz’s cellphone vibrates. She checks the caller but doesn’t answer ]
Liz: That was Gale again. Third time today.Samar: You know my vote. Stay away. …
[ They watch the security feed ]
Samar: It looks like he’s watching someone. There. That woman.Liz: Oh, my God. That’s Dr. Selma Orchard, the … specialist who was forced to look into my memory…. Krilov needs a new lab so maybe he’s going after someone who could supply him with one.
Samar: Aram, pull up Selma Orchard’s number. We need to get to her before Krilov does.
⋘⋙Dr Selma Orchard: [ Answers phone ] This is Dr. Orchard.
Liz: Dr. Orchard, this is Elizabeth Keen. … There’s a man coming for you. His name is Bogdan Krilov.[ Too late: someone grabs Dr Orchard from behind ]
Liz: Hello? [ Dial tone ] Dr. Orchard? …
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[ A train speeds through an Alpen landscape outside Vienna ] [ Red is playing solitaire ]Red: You found him! Grand. Please, sit.
Conductor: Is everything okay, sir?Red: Marvelous. I have such a fondness for the little snacks from the bar car, crackers and cheeses, the sausages. …
Conductor: Your friend has a gun.
Red: He does. But he’ll have little use for it so long as you assist me in locating a passenger. [ He shows the Conductor a photo of Kate ] Her name is unimportant, as her ticket was likely purchased under any number of aliases, which is why I’ll need to see all of the various passenger manifests leaving from Wien Mitte.Conductor: I can’t do that.
Red: How long has it been since your rail line has had a robbery?
Conductor: What?Red: A robbery, a stickup, like the Old West.
Conductor: Sir, what are you talking about?
Red: I’m talking about making you stop this train while my associate and I rob your passengers of their money and jewelry. I must admit, I’ve always been somewhat seduced by the idea. Bill Miner, the old gray fox. Butch Cassidy. But I’ve never really felt the itch until now.…
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[ Dr Krilov slaps a new magazine into his handgun ]Dr Selma Orchard: I won’t say anything. I won’t. I won’t. I swear. Please, I have a son. I don’t care about the equipment. Keep it. Just keep it. … I know what you do, your work. It’s really incredible. If you had asked me, I would’ve given you my equipment.
Krilov: I wish I could have taken that chance. [ Hammer clicks ] I really do. …
[ Sirens wail ] [ The FBI raid the site where Dr Krilov is holding Dr Orchard ]
⋘⋙[ Dr Orchard is slumped over ]
Liz: Dr. Orchard? Selma?
[ Dr Orchard has a cut on her forehead, moans ]
Liz: It’s okay. You’re gonna be okay. It’s okay. He’s gone.
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Linda McFaden: There were three men. I didn’t see a body, at first. Just a a rug or a rolled up tarp. But when they put it in the back of the van, it- It unrolled, and I saw a foot.
Ressler: All right, I’m gonna need you to come to DC with me to make a statement. …[ Armed commandos storm the scene ] [ 💥 A concussion grenade knocks Ressler to the floor. The commandos grab Linda and drag her away ] [ Ressler passes out ]
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Conductor: …This is a list of all the paid passengers who boarded today.Red: [ Scans list ] Here. Susan Stahley.
Conductor: …That’s this train, one of our sleepers …
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[ Red opens the compartment where Kate (Susan Stahley) stayed ]
Red: The woman– There was a woman.Woman: Yes, she got off at the last stop. You must be Raymond. She said you might come. Said to give you this.
[ She hands Red a burner phone ]
Red: Thank you.[ Cellphone ringing, beeps ]
Kate: Hello, Raymond.
Red: You can’t keep up this wild goose chase, Kate. I’m gonna find you.
Kate: I’ll save you the trouble. I’m heading to Lucerne.… You remember what’s in Lucerne, don’t you?
Red: Kate–
Kate: I’m so sorry, Raymond… My car just arrived. I’ll call you when I get there.
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Liz: [ On phone ] You heard me. Selma Orchard.Red: Kaplan sent Krilov to Orchard? I don’t like the connection. … Not long ago, the idea that Kate would hurt you as a way to get to me was unthinkable. But the Kate I’m after now is difficult to recognize. The bodies, the ones Julian Gale is investigating, I need the list… of the ones who’ve been identified so far. As quickly as you can and send it to Dembe.
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Liz: … Krilov was hired to adjust someone’s memory. We confiscated his lab. So he stole yours. … Do you have any idea where he went?Dr Orchard: No. But my equipment might.
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Aram: Hey. Dr. Orchard was right. … The EEG machine he stole from her is state-of-the-art. It’s designed to receive updates from a main server. Which we can use to locate the machine, and Krilov, once he turns it on. …
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[ Ressler groans, wakes up. He goes outside ] [ An SUV pulls up, a window whirs open ]
Laurel Hitchin: Agent Ressler, I think it’s time we had a heart to heart.
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Dembe: Raymond. The list of victims from Agent Keen.[ Red scans the list ]
Red: Hans.
[ Cellphone ringing ]Red: Kate. You made good time.
Kate: I assume you know why I’m here. I told you the bodies I unearthed would destroy you, that each one would tell a story. … You can’t change what you’ve done, and you can’t stop what’s coming. Your own sins, Raymond. You did this to yourself.
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[ At a castle-like mansion near Lucerne, Switzerland ]Werner Von Hauser: My word. So this is you. The Mr. Kaplan my people whisper about. Reddington’s hidden protector. The fairy tale come to life.
Kate: Mr Von Hauser, thank you for seeing me. …[Y]ou’re right. Raymond and I prefer to keep my role in his affairs to
ourselves. He certainly doesn’t approve of my visit today. … But I’m here because I have something to tell you – a story that I’m sorry to say will cause you profound grief and anger.Von Hauser: About?
Kate: Hans.⋘⋙
[ Red relates the same story to Dembe ]
Red: He was Werner’s son. A formidable young man, early 20s, already in the family business. Understand
this was 25 years ago now. I was younger, myself. Intent on building an empire, intent on becoming the powerful criminal the world had been told I already was. Werner was very impressive to me then. International weapons dealer,… a jack of almost every illicit trade one might imagine. I wanted an alliance – to become Werner’s most trusted associate.⋘⋙
Kate: Raymond crafted a plan based on an ancient principle. If you want your enemy to become your friend, create a problem for him, and then solve it.Von Hauser: You are talking about Hans’s abduction. …
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Red: The idea was simple enough, to make it appear as if Hans had been kidnapped, to send Werner a ransom demand. …I would intervene, talk to the brutal abductors, convince them they should release Hans unharmed. … Werner would be deeply grateful.
And so, my enemy would become my friend.⋘⋙
Von Hauser: No, no, no. Hans was taken by the Taddicken Brothers, known around the world for their savagery.
Kate: Yes, that’s why Raymond chose them. They were given very clear instructions not to harm your son. Unfortunately, they didn’t follow those instructions.… Hans was suffocated while in transit. Tragic, unforgivable. Raymond was–
Red: Horrified. Devastated. In a rage, I obliterated the Taddicken Brothers. … Werner was beyond bereft. But he was also very grateful to me – the man who had killed the animals responsible for murdering his only son. It remains one of my most profound regrets. But, of course, I never told Werner the truth. Instead,
we began one of the most profitable alliances in modern criminal history. An alliance that has remained intact for decades.
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Von Hauser: Can you prove what you have told me?
Kate: I can do better than that, Mr Von Hauser. I can return your son’s body so you can give him the burial he was so wrongly denied. …
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[ In Laurel Hitchin’s SUV ]Ressler: Where’s Linda McFaden? You tell me now or I swear–
Hitchin: Donald, enough with the Reven Wright thing. Come on. …
Ressler: I’m not going anywhere without my witness.Hitchin: [ Sighs ] Damn it. I don’t want to hurt that girl, but you and your pursuit of another Boy Scout honor badge have forced my hand, and now I have no choice. Get out. Shoo. [ Voice warps ] Hey, remember. You did this to her. Not me.
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[ The scene morphs into Dr Krilov’s lab, where Ressler is in an induced hypnotic state ]
Dr Krilov: You did this to her. Not me. [ To his assistants ] He has accepted the fiction that he is in her car talking with Hitchin. We should have no problem uploading the remaining selected memories.
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George: … Sorry, boss. I put in a request for those files you asked for. … Geoff Perl, Alistair Pitt, Milos Kirchoff. But those files are designated SCI7. …Gale: Hmm. Never heard of that.
George: Pretty sure that’s the point.
Gale: I wonder what’s so special about those three cases.George: Three? Try every case on the east wall of Main Records plus the annex. …
Gale: And they’re all off-limits? … Now we’re getting somewhere, Georgie.
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Aram: …Dr. Orchard’s EEG, it is pinging the manufacturer’s server. I am tracking the signal….
Liz: There. Where is that?
Aram: A clinic in Rockville, Maryland. Shut down nearly a decade ago. …
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Dembe: You didn’t kill his son.Red: No. But Werner won’t see it that way, will he? …
Dembe: I believe this is a bad idea, Raymond.
Red: I’ll handle Werner. It’s Kate who has me on
tenterhooks. We put out one fire, she starts another. The woman is an arsonist. She’s not gonna stop until she burns me to the ground.༺ ♤ ༻
[ FBI agents storm Dr Krilov’s lab 💥💥💥 ]
Liz: … Who is here?!
Samar: Your patient, the person Kaplan hired you to work on.
Dr Krilov: You don’t remember me, do you?Liz: I know who you are. The memories you took from me when I was a girl and trust me, we’re gonna talk about that, but first, your patient– where is he?
Samar: Liz. [ Samar turns the computer screen so Liz can see the profile and photo of a patient: It is Ressler ]Dr Krilov: He was an excellent patient. Very pliable, unlike you.
[ Liz slugs Krilov in the jaw ] [ Krilov grunts, exhales ]
Samar: Definitely not pink or perfect.
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[ At Werner Von Hauser’s mansion ]Dembe: This isn’t right. Since when does he have so much security?
Red: Since today. [ To one of the guards ] Nikolaus, how are you, my friend?
Nikolaus: Very well, Mr. Reddington. Thank you.
If you don’t mind, we need to wand you and your man.[ Electronic beeps and whirs ]
Red: Change in protocol, I see.
[ Nikolaus confiscates Red’s firearm. Dembe is relieved of his by another guard ]
Nikolaus: Orders of Mr Von Hauser.
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Red: Werner. Thank you for agreeing to hear me out.Von Hauser: …I never said I would listen to you. Our
relationship is built on a lie.
Red: A tragedy.Von Hauser: The fact that you walked into this room confirms you know nothing about me. You severely underestimated my love for my son then and now.…
[Y]ou will pay with your life.
[ Nikolaus and another guard cock their guns, pointing them at Red’s and Dembe’s heads ]
Red: I deserve to pay. But I can’t.
[ Nikolaus rapidly💥shoots💥the guard next to Dembe and another outside the door ]
Red: I never underestimated you, Werner. I just hoped things could work out.
Von Hauser: [ Astonished ] Nikolaus?
Red: Nikolaus has been on my payroll since I introduced him to you 25 years ago. I knew one day we would have to look each other in the eye and face the truth. And I knew it would be an event that one of us would not recover from. Your abiding love for your son
was always evident to me, Werner. The loss of Hans– There are no words to duly express my remorse. I’m sorry for that. And I’m– I’m sorry for this.
[ Red shoots Von Hauser 💥💥 ] [ Von Hauser grunts, falls back in a chair, dead ]
Nikolaus: His men outside will be pulling in any minute.… You need to [escape] into the woods.
Red: Thank you for your loyalty, Nikolaus. I’ll be in touch.
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Liz: Where’s Agent Ressler? … I’m not gonna ask again.Dr Krilov: I already told you, Princess, I’m not talking to
you until my lawyer’s present.[ Liz takes a syringe and fills it with Propofol ] …
Liz: You know, unfortunately, I don’t know much about Propofol. … Can you even inject this directly into the arm? … You tell me. You’re the doctor, Princess. …[ Liz jabs the needle into Krilov’s arm ]
Dr Krilov: Hey.
Liz: Would mainlining this cause long-term damage to the heart? … The lungs, the kidneys – would it kill an old man?
Dr Krilov: Okay, okay, stop it. I tell you. …
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Liz: …Kaplan’s target was Ressler. … We think Krilov somehow programmed Ressler to believe Hitchin abducted a witness that could connect her to Reven Wright’s murder. …Cooper: If Kaplan[‘s] goal is to hurt Reddington, how does using Ressler to take out Hitchin help?
Liz: Kaplan gave us the chance to abandon our relationship with Reddington, and we didn’t. Now she’ll take every step necessary to dismantle the task force, starting with Ressler. …
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[ Ressler is unconscious, propped up in the back seat of a car. A nurse injects him in the neck ]Nurse: Let’s go. He’ll wake up soon.
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[ Ressler wakens. Seeing the lake house and recognizing it, he runs in its direction. Confronted by a guard, he shoots 💥 ]
Guard: Aah! [ Groans ] [ Ressler handcuffs him ]
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[ Ressler enters Hitchin’s house. He finds Hitchin talking with an Asian Ambassador ]Ressler: Where is she? Where’s Linda? …
Ambassador: What is the meaning of this? Who is he?
Ressler: Donald Ressler, FBI. Now Ms. Hitchin here is a prime suspect in Reven Wright’s murder.
Hitchin: Agent Ressler isn’t well, Mr. Ambassador. …Ressler: “Mr. Ambassador.” Is he part of the Cabal as well?
Hitchin: Yes, Donald. He is. We all are. It’s all one big, global conspiracy. And you weren’t invited to the party.
Sorry.Ressler: [ To the Ambassador] Well, I think you should go.… Now!
Hitchin: It’s okay. I’m fine. He’s delusional, not dangerous.
[ The Ambassador leaves ]
Hitchin: … Okay, first of all, I don’t know any Linda, but if you put the gun away, I’m sure we can work this out. …
Ressler: I think you’re keeping her here.… We’re gonna go through this place room by room….
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[ Red and Dembe make their way through the forest ]
Red: … Without Werner or his contacts, shipping lanes, airfields, I can’t do anything from Gibraltar to the Urals. Every piece of his machinery is up in the air now, and where they land is anybody’s guess. For the time being, we’ll have to be comfortable with chaos.
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[ Samar and Liz get out of their SUV at Laurel Hitchin’s house. They see the wounded guard ]
Liz: Stay with him. …
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Hitchin: Like I said, there’s nobody here.Ressler: Then… you’re gonna tell me where you’re holding her–
Liz: Ressler! Stand down.
Ressler: Keen. I found a witness who saw Hitchin’s men dispose of Reven’s body.Liz: There is no witness. … Your memory was manipulated by Dr. Bogdan Krilov.… The Detective who reached out to you? … There is no Elijah Bell in the Philly PD. He works with Krilov. So does your witness.
Ressler: No. No.… I was there when she was taken.
Liz: By Krilov’s men. He staged the whole thing.… During the raid, you were knocked out.… That’s when Krilov started to work on you, implanting memories. …
Ressler: No. No! We’re not gonna let her get away with this. No.
Liz: You’re right. We will find justice for Reven. Just not this way. Ressler, look at your hand.
[ Ressler sees the purple bruise at the injection site ]
Liz: You were drugged. Propofol, Tramadol. It’s not your fault. You’re the victim here.
Hitchin: He’s the victim? I’m–
Liz: Yes. And you’re a murderer. And one day, we’re gonna prove it.
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[ Leaning on a tree in the Swiss foothills, Red talks to Kate ]Red: [ Exhaling ] Every part of this little drama, Kate, is playing out as grand tragedy.
Kate: Family feuds always do.
Red: Werner’s dead.Kate: Oh, Raymond. You may have bitten the hand that feeds you this time, dearie. Every one of Werner’s allies will be out hunting to put you down. Are you going to cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war, Raymond?
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[ An officer leads Ressler away in handcuffs ]
Hitchin: I really wanna thank you, Agent Keen. I genuinely believe he would’ve shot me if you hadn’t shown up.Liz: I didn’t do it for you. I did it for him.
Hitchin: Fair enough, but you did it, and for that, I’m
grateful.Liz: Donald Ressler represents what’s best about this country. He’s loyal and honest, and he believes that no one – no one – is above the law. And I believe that one day, you’ll be the one being dragged off in handcuffs. And he’ll be walking into his lake house to watch the sunset.
Hitchin: [ Laughs ] Yeah. [ Clicks tongue ] Never gonna happen.
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Dr Krilov: … You don’t remember me, do you?Liz: From 25 years ago? No. But then, you wouldn’t be very good at your job if I did.
Dr Krilov: No. Not 25 years ago. Just two.
Liz: What are you talking about?
Dr Krilov: You were brought to me by a mutual acquaintance of ours who wanted me to take certain memories away from you.… Let us say, you had uncovered a certain truth about Raymond Reddington.…Liz: You’re lying.
Dr Krilov: No. I’m not lying. And I think you know that. So let’s make a deal. Full immunity, I walk, in exchange for the memories I took from you.
Liz: That’s not gonna happen.…
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Liz: [ On phone ] Two years ago? Two, not 25. Two.Red: Kaplan is using Krilov … to pull at threads to continue to unravel my life. He sidelined Ressler. He’s trying to do the same to you.
Liz: You did it once.
Red: Yes. When you were a child, to protect you from the memory of killing your father. I hired Krilov once. Never again.Liz: [ Cellphone vibrates ] That’s Julian Gale. I’ve been avoiding his calls, and I’m beginning to think that was a mistake.
Red: … Speak with him if you must. All I ask is that you don’t do it in anger. I wouldn’t want you to say anything either of us would regret.
[ Bleating ] [ Red is with Dembe and others, including a boy about 8 years old, sitting on the floor of a truck transporting goats. The boy points towards Red’s hat. Red puts his hat on the boy’s head. The boy smiles. Red chuckles ]
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[ Liz is at the ice rink morgue, looking around. Julian Gale comes up behind her ]
Gale: Unfortunately, some of them were killed because they were trying to help us catch Reddington.…
Liz: You must be Agent Gale.
Gale: Charmed, I’m sure. Speaking of charm, I hear Reddington can be very charming. What was it like going on the run with him? Did he charm you?
Liz: I was a fugitive. It was awful.
Gale: Hmm. September 23, 2013 – Does that date ring a bell?
Liz: Should it?
Gale: It should for you. You see, that’s the day that you went from being a rookie profiler to a classified assignment. … How ’bout SCI7? You ever hear of that?
Liz: Never have.
Gale: …[I]t’s a designation that the Bureau reserves for certain high profile cases. It’s classified, so I can’t look at the files.… However, I was able to pinpoint the first time that, uh, the designation was used.… See, I love dates.
Liz: Is there a question here?
Gale: No, but-but there’s a pattern. See, there was a rash of major cases that were solved, hundreds of them. … Reddington’s been feeding the Bureau intel. Hmm? Big names. SCI7 big. Names that the Bureau never knew existed. He’s feeding them through you. And in exchange, you’re allowing him to stay one step ahead of
the law, ain’t that right?
Liz: Why did you wanna see me?
Gale: I didn’t wanna see you. I wanted you to see that. [ He points to the corpses laid out on the ice ] See, I’ve already asked them for their forgiveness, for my part in their being– I wanted to give you a chance to do the same.
Gale: Unfortunately, some of them were killed because they were trying to help us catch Reddington.…
Liz: You must be Agent Gale.Gale: Charmed, I’m sure. Speaking of charm, I hear Reddington can be very charming. What was it like going on the run with him? Did he charm you?
Liz: I was a fugitive. It was awful.Gale: Hmm. September 23, 2013 – Does that date ring a bell?
Liz: Should it?
Gale: It should for you. You see, that’s the day that you went from being a rookie profiler to a classified assignment. … How ’bout SCI7? You ever hear of that?Liz: Never have.
Gale: …[I]t’s a designation that the Bureau reserves for certain high profile cases. It’s classified, so I can’t look at the files.… However, I was able to pinpoint the first time that, uh, the designation was used.… See, I love dates.Liz: Is there a question here?Gale: No, but-but there’s a pattern. See, there was a rash of major cases that were solved, hundreds of them. … Reddington’s been feeding the Bureau intel. Hmm? Big names. SCI7 big. Names that the Bureau never knew existed. He’s feeding them through you. And in exchange, you’re allowing him to stay one step ahead of
the law, ain’t that right?Liz: Why did you wanna see me?
Gale: I didn’t wanna see you. I wanted you to see that. [ He points to the corpses laid out on the ice ] See, I’ve already asked them for their forgiveness, for my part in their being– I wanted to give you a chance to do the same.
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Blurb: Mr Kaplan is on a mission – to destroy Red and all those who have protected him.
Joe Perrachio, one of Red’s money men: Kaplan. I thought–
Kate Kaplan: I was dead. I know. The reports were greatly exaggerated.
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Cynthia Panabaker: 86 bodies at an ice rink in Reston. An anonymous tipster claims every one of them’s a former associate or competitor of Raymond Reddington.Ressler: Yeah? And?
Panabaker: 86 bodies, Agent Ressler. 86!
Cooper: Wasn’t our idea to paper a deal with the most dangerous criminal in the Western hemisphere. That decision was made by Diane Fowler at Main Justice. … Ressler was chasing after Reddington for years, trying to put him behind bars. Agent Keen has had her life turned inside out.Panabaker: And I sympathize. Really, I do. But we’ve got a political hurricane on our hands, and everybody is headin’ to the storm cellar. … The AG has fast-tracked an investigation into the bodies. Way I hear it, man in charge on the case is as wild as a peach orchard hog.
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Officer Winchell: Oof. What a stink.Julian Gale: Yeah, that stink- that stink is the smell of injustice.
Winchell: These people aren’t victims. They worked with Reddington.
Gale: Whoa, whoa. What’s that supposed to mean exactly? That their wives didn’t love ’em? That their kids don’t miss ’em? That their murders should go unsolved ? Is that what you’re saying Officer Winchell? Hmm?
Winchell: [ Chuckles ] You’re messin’ with me, right?Gale: No. I ain’t messin’ with you. … Now I’m gonna need some space. Everybody, I want this site clear! Yes, you. Let’s go. All of you. … Everyone out. Thank you. And goodbye.
[ The area is cleared ]
[ Gale, emotional, sniffs ]
Gale: I’m sorry. This is all my fault.
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[ At a motel ] [ Door bell jingles ]
Motel Manager: And you are?Red: Officer Simmons. State Police. … I’m looking for a woman traveling alone. She’s gone missing, and all evidence indicates she may have stayed here on the night of November 10th. I’m hoping you have some record.
[ The Motel Manager fingers a Braille registration list ]
Manager: Yeah. Ah, let’s see here. Yes, Sheila Barker. … Room 4.
Red: I need to look at that room.
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Kate Kaplan: Your life as you know it is over, Joe. But I’m gonna give you the chance I was denied. All you have to do is walk away. Leave Raymond Reddington.
Joe Perrachio: I won’t betray him. The answer is no.
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Liz: The person who unearthed the bodies goes by the name of Mr. Kaplan. She’s Reddington’s cleaner and one of his closest confidants. …
[ Cellphone rings ] [ Ressler steps aside to answer ]
Ressler: Ressler.Julian Gale: I got two questions for you. One, what are you working on? And two, can you get reassigned?
Ressler: Gale. … Uh, what do you mean reassigned? …Gale: … I’m standing in the middle of a freezing cold ice skating rink surrounded by 86 corpses. Bureau called me up. They want me to connect them to Reddington, so I called you to see if you want to work together again.
Ressler: I don’t know.
Gale: What do you mean you don’t know? Do you not hear me? We’re talking about Reddington. …
Do me a favor. Think about it. Actually, no. Don’t think about it and get your ass down here so we can finally finish what we started.⋘⋙
Cooper: Everything okay?
Ressler: No. It’s not. That was the peach orchard hog. Name’s Julian Gale. We worked together on that Reddington task force. He asked me to join him.Cooper: Maybe you should. Keep up with the investigation. Stay a step ahead. …
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[ Red is investigating the motel room Kate stayed in ] [ Cellphone ringing ]
Red: Yeah?
Marvin Gerard: Raymond? We have a problem. Peracchio’s been arrested.Red: What? How?
Marvin: Trussed like a tom turkey and dumped in front of the 9th Precinct, a detailed financial statement tying him to you pinned to his chest.
Red: It would seem Kate has started her endgame. Pull the fire alarm, Marvin. Let the others know. Go to ground. …
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[ Red finds a recording device hidden in a vent ]
⋘⋙Red: … I wanna hear those tapes.
Manager: I’m not some type of sicko, you know? People fascinate me.Red: I’m not here to judge. I just need to hear Sheila’s tape.
Motel Manager: She was a peculiar one. A real loner. Hardly a word from her all day and then she’d cry like a baby in her sleep. …
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[ Red listens to the recording ]
Kate: … [ Clicks ] Thank you for coming, Miss Philomena.
Philomena: Please, call me Philomena.
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Red: She uses a mononym Philomena. This woman has elevated the rickety practice of bounty hunting to a sort of performance art. One of the most effective ways to retrieve an unwilling target is to slip under their radar, get close, make a friend. That’s where Philomena shines.
Aram: Sorry to interrupt, but Agent Keen told us about Mr. Kaplan, and I need to ask. Is it true that you shot her because she tried to help Agent Keen and her family escape to a normal life?
Red: Yes. Unfortunately, Mr. Kaplan’s efforts ran counter to her intended consequence.
Liz: Mr. Kaplan has told the authorities about the ice rink. The bodies.
Cooper: They’ve ordered an investigation.
Red: I’m sure they have.
Cooper: This is a real problem. We’re talking about 86 bodies.
Red: Not an innocent bystander in the bunch, Harold. Still [ Inhales sharply ] 86. … Still in all, the problem we’re talking about, Harold, is a political one. Rest assured, your government will sweep this whole tawdry mess under a rug, providing we continue to deliver the goods on my list. …
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[ Car door closes, engine starts, car pulls out. Philomena mounts her bicycle and rides it into the car which stops immediately ] [ Philomena tumbles to the ground ] [ The driver gasps, gets out of the car and rushes to Philomena’s aid ]
Alexa Feist: Oh, my God! Are you all right?
Philomena: Yeah, I think so. … It’s okay. I’m fine. Ow.
Alexa: Oh, my God! … At least let me pay for the damage to your bike. Let’s just exchange information, okay?
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Red: [I]f my instincts are correct, [Philamena’s] going after more of my people right now. I’m off to see an individual who I believe also employed her services. …Cooper: … Keen, go with Reddington.
Red: So I get a babysitter now? I haven’t had a babysitter since Brenda Gilroy. My God, pot pies, Lawrence Welk, bath time with Brenda. Still my perfect Saturday night.༺ ♤ ༻
[ Boy singing in Hebrew ] [ Red laughs, applauds ]
Red: Excellent, excellent.
Edelstein: Can I help you?Red: Yes, congratulations, Congressman Edelstein. Aron’s going to make you and your wife very, very proud.
Edelstein: Do we know you?
Red: … Just consider me a fellow traveler, one who understands and appreciates the importance of strong family bonds … And well worth defending, by the way. Or hiring someone to defend. Like, uh, ah, Philomena, for instance.
Edelstein: Can you give us a moment? …
[ The others leave ]
Red: You engaged Philomena to compromise a certain tennis instructor at the Town & Country Racquet Club who was carrying on a long-term fervid affair with your wife, thereby preserving your marriage for this happy occasion. …Edelstein: What do you want? Money?
Red: All I want is to know the means by which you contacted Philomena. Consider it a mitzvah.
Edelstein: There’s a place on 29th – Randy’s Boot Emporium. Go to the repair counter in the back and ask for ticket 652. …
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Aram: Sir, Mr. Reddington was right. 20 seconds after he left, the owner of the boot store made a call. I’m tracing it now…⋘⋙
Samar: DC Metro found Peracchio’s car abandoned in Adams Morgan. There’s not much to go on, but they did find
traces of cement powder on the floor mat.Cooper: Cement powder?
Samar: It was mixed with copper, which indicates that the powder was transferred from an active construction site.
Cooper: Dispatch ERT to gather samples from construction sites, starting where they recovered the car and fanning out from there. …
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Gale: Yeah – Ah. [ Clapping ] Special Agent Donald Ressler.Ressler: Good to see you, too, Julian.
Gale: …Uh, by the way, you’re welcome.
Ressler: For what? Inviting me to the morgue?
Gale: For what? For yanking you away from whatever’s the Bureau’s got you working on to do some real work. Come on, you remember the leads that we used to have on Reddington that would just evaporate every time some person of interest would magically, uh, vanish? Guess what? They’re all here. They’re no longer missing persons. 86 bodies.
What do you think that means?Ressler: 86 active homicide investigations. … Jesus, these are guys that we all tried to turn.
Gale: Guys that we got killed. Look, Don, this is our chance to wash the blood off our hands.
Ressler: … These are just scumbags nobody cares about.
Gale: Ladies, can I have a second? [ Women leave ] Thank you. Agent Ressler, I’d like for you to meet the former head of the Criminal Division of the United States Justice Department, Miss Diane–
Ressler: Fowler.
Gale: Miss Diane Fowler. This, these bodies, they’re like a big, wet kiss on the mouth. Now I don’t know who the kiss is from, but whoever it is, they obviously want Reddington’s head as badly as we do. …
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Red: How’s Agnes?
Liz: She’s amazing.
Red: May I come up and see her?Liz: If you’ll do something for me.
Red: Name it.Liz: When I thought you’d killed Mr. Kaplan, I felt responsible. Not just responsible. I felt complicit.
Red: It wasn’t about you. She made her choice. Her. Not you.
Liz: Yes, but she did it for me. … I will help you stop her, but I will not let you hurt her. Now I need you to look me in the eye and tell me you won’t harm her.
Red: I can’t do that, Elizabeth.
Liz: Then you can’t come up.
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[ Liz enters her apartment. She hears a woman humming and draws her gun ]
Kate: I haven’t laid eyes on Agnes since the night I helped you escape. So big. Whatever are you feeding her?⋘⋙
Liz: You risked your life for our family, and he shot you for it. He shot you. I can never make that right, but I can protect you. …Kate: [ To Agnes ] You are safe. You are loved. You are wise.
Liz: [ Mouths words ] Where’d did you hear those words? I- I know those words.
Kate: Yes, deary, you know them because I said them to you many times a day when you were a baby.Liz: That can’t be true.
Kate: Regular affirmations build a child’s self-confidence. You’re proof of that. … You and I were very close once. You know me as Katya. I was your nanny.
Liz: I don’t believe you.
Kate: Your mother hired me to care for you. I promised her that I would defend you with my life.
The reason I’m telling you this now is so that you’ll listen to me when I beg you – walk away. I gave the authorities enough to put him away forever. But you and your team must disavow any knowledge of the task force.Liz: So you served Reddington up on a silver platter to the FBI. You did that for me.
Kate: Not you, Elizabeth. I’ve already failed you. I did it for Agnes. … Please, do what your mother never had the courage to do until it was too late. Walk away from Raymond.
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[ Phone rings ]
Alexa: Bronwyn, hi. It’s Alexa. I’m the one who hit you with my car.… I just I need to know that you’re okay. …Philomena: [ Sniffles, crying ]
Alexa: Hello?
Philomena: [ Crying continues ]
Alexa: Bronwyn? … What’s wrong?
Philomena: My husband, um, my ex-husband, I, uh [ Sniffles ] I left him, and, um, we’re in a custody battle. He’s trying to steal my little girl, and if he found out that I caused an accident– …Alexa: What can I do? Just tell me.
Philomena: I mean, you can just [ Sighs ] just forget about me. Just forget about the accident. I’m so sorry. I have to go.
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Samar: Is it true?Liz: She was at my apartment. …
Aram: Uh, I got a hit on the trace. It’s a pay phone near a construction site in Anacostia.Cooper: There are vacant warehouses all around that area. Could be we’ve located our Blacklister.
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Ressler: Hey. So what’s all this?
Gale: Diane Fowler’s living room. It was catalogued, crated, and stored in evidence.
Ressler: Seems the Bureau spares no expense for their leadership.
Gale: [ Chuckles ] We’re gonna reconstruct the whole scene, and we’re gonna dissect it until we find exactly what we need.Ressler: This is extreme, even for you.
Gale: I’m just getting warmed up. Are you working on anything related to Reddington? Is anybody?
Were you ever given a satisfactory answer as to why the task force was disbanded by the Bureau? Hmm? Why all of a sudden everyone just gave up from one minute to the next? You didn’t, did you?Ressler: Well, he flipped. Nobody’s looking for Reddington because he already turned himself in.
Gale: [ Laughs ] Now, that right there, what you just said, is why I love you. ‘Cause you’re a crazy son of a bitch.
Ressler: [ Chuckles ] Yeah, what can I say? I’m here to amuse.
Gale: [ Still laughing ] He turned himself in. That- that’s good.
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Red: With you down for the count the last few days, I’ve felt the consequences of your absence on my soul.Dembe: So you bought me shoes?
Red: No, no, no, not now. They’re not shoes. A parting gift.
Dembe: I don’t understand, Raymond.
Red: Most of my associates are under the impression that once I’ve granted them
a favor, they’re indebted to me for life. But it’s a false assumption. They’re indebted to me because I make them a lot of money. They’re loyal to me because I’ve earned it. It’s good business.
But at the end of the day, it’s just business. In service of what? Safety, security the health and well-being of the ones we love? Well, I really only have one friend. You’re my friend. And I- I misjudged you in a way that no
apology could suffice. I’m ashamed of that. I want you to keep that box, and on the day you decide to leave–Dembe: I’m not going to leave.
Red: But you can. At any point of your own choosing, I’ll insist that you do. No questions asked, no debts accrued, with our friendship intact and flourishing. For we’ll have new lands to discover. Not as coworkers, but as cohorts. Whether that’s today or tomorrow or 10 years from now, that’s when you open the box.
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[ FBI storm the warehouse where Philomena is staying ]
Agents: FBI! Move! All right.
Liz: I wonder how long she’s been staying here.
[ Samar finds a slip of paper on the bed, reads: ]
Samar: Alexa Feist. And who might you be?
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Gale: We’re missing a brown leather wing-back chair. I mean, just like that one. They were sold as a pair.
Ressler: It’s clearly where Fowler was sitting when she was shot. It’s easier to throw out than to clean. They didn’t find any trace evidence?
Gale: No. And therein lies the tale. There was no unaccounted-for DNA anywhere. … I mean, we’re talking antiseptic.
Ressler: Obviously cleaned by a professional. So the killer sits here –
Gales: [ Sits down ] Directly across from the victim.
Flashback*:
Red: You’re the dirty rat, Diane.
Gale: … All right, now the turntable was scrubbed of DNA. So was the record that was on it. Gordon Lightfoot. Sundown.
[ ♪ Tap square below twice to play ♪ ]
Ressler: So what are you suggesting? That Reddington put on some music after killing a woman in cold blood?
Gale: No, the evidence suggests it. In addition, a path was cleared of DNA from the killer’s chair across the floor to that window.
♪ I can see her lying back in her satin dress
In a room where you do what you don’t confess
Gale: Now, that windowpane was cleaned at a center height of 5’10”. Reddington’s height. …
Flashback:
♪ Sundown, you better take care
If I find you’ve been creeping round my back stairs
Diane: I know the truth, Red.
[ Gunshot 💥 ]
♪ Sometimes I think it’s a sin
When I feel like I’m winnin’ when I’m losin’ again
Gale: So he shoots Fowler, he comes over here, and he stares out the window. He’s listening to “Sundown.” The strum of the guitar, the voice of a man who’s seen too much sorrow. …
♪ Sometimes I think it’s a shame
When I get feeling better when I’m feeling no pain
Gale: … She comes here, she cleans the turntable, she cleans the album. … But did she clean this?
Ressler: A record cleaning brush.
Gale: It’s full of prints.
Ressler: Mm-hmm.
Gale: Well, partner, we’re finally gonna nail Reddington.
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Philomena: A skinny mocha latte.
Alexa: I’m not stalking you, I swear. Well, I kinda am, but I need to talk to you just for a minute.
Philomena: How did you know where I work?Alexa: You were wearing the shirt when I hit you. Listen– … I know how hard it is to be a young working mother. … To be doing all that alone and fighting a spiteful husband in court, you need help. My brother’s a trial attorney. … He said he’d consider helping you as a favor to me. Will you just meet with him?
Philomena: [ Exhales ] Yeah. That would be amazing.
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Ressler: … We pulled a print off the Fowler crime scene.
Samar: Reddington’s?
Ressler: Possibly. If it is, it ties him to our murder. Haven’t run it yet.
Samar: And you don’t know if you should.
Ressler: Oh, I know I should, but if I do, this could all end and we might end up in jail.
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Liz: Remember that number we found? Alexa Feist? … I looked
into who she is – PTA, Rotary Club.
Samar: Pure vanilla. Why would Philomena have anything to do with her?
Liz: Well, she isn’t interested in her. She’s interested in her brother. Alexa Feist’s maiden name is Gerard.
Ressler: As in Marvin Gerard.
Samar: Reddington’s lawyer.
Ressler: Kaplan’s using Philomena to go after his closest allies.
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Alexa: Boo! Marvin. This is Bronwyn, the woman I was telling you about. …
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[ Liz and Samar are in a vehicle. So is Red ]Liz: Reddington.
Red: What’s going on?
Liz: Marvin Gerard is Philomena’s next target. … We’re headed to her place now.Red: No, first, secure Marvin. I’ll call to alert him you’re coming. …
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Marvin: Look, I can’t represent you in court, but I can draft up some briefs that you can bring to any attorney and, uh, your ex-husband? He won’t know what hit him.Philomena: [ Sighs ] Oh. Wow. I-I don’t– I can’t thank you enough. …
[Cellphone ringing]Red: You’ve been targeted, Marvin. Our people are on their way.
[Philomena pulls out a gun]
Red: Until they arrive, don’t let anyone in. Marvin?Marvin: Too late.
Philomena: Hang up.
[ Phone beeps ]
Alexa: I’m so sorry.
Marvin: Alexa, this is not your fault. She’s a professional.
This is what she does. Look, I will do whatever you want. Just let my sister go.Philomena: Well, that’s good, ’cause I’m only here for you.
[ Philomena hands Marvin a Taser while she holds her gun to Alexa’s neck ]
Philomena: Hold it to your neck.
[ Marvin Tases himself ] [ ⚡️Electricity⚡️ crackles ] [ Whimpers ]
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Agent: FBI! …[ Muffled shouting ]
Samar: Here.
[ They find Alexa bound and gagged in a closet ]
Alexa: My brother– she took him.
Liz: How long ago?
Alexa: 10 minutes.
Liz: Did you see the vehicle she was driving?
Alexa: She drove me here. A green SUV. Gray interior. …
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Samar: That’s her.[ Siren wailing ] [ Engine roaring ] [ Tires screech ] [ Tires screech, crash ]
Liz: Don’t move!
Liz: Hands in the air! … On your knees. Gerard. Where’s Marvin Gerard?
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Kate: Hello, Marvin. I wish I could say it was good to see you. … Nothing? No stream of invectives? No mediation offers? Perhaps a lecture on criminal ethics?Marvin: What’s the point? I’m looking at a dead woman.
Kate: I’ve been underestimated before.
Marvin: Why the hell didn’t you run? You survived a gunshot to the head. Lord knows how. That’s the
mother-loving lottery right there. Take your ticket and board a jet plane, sister. Why come back to this cesspool?Kate: To clean it up.
Marvin: You think maybe you’re taking this whole cleaner concept a bit too far? …
Kate: [ Exhales ] I’m not cleaning Raymond’s mess. I’m taking responsibility for my own. I enabled him, Marvin.You did, too. He used us.
Marvin: That’s an alternative truth. I provide
Reddington with a service for which I am very well compensated. He takes care of me.Kate: Does he? You had a new fiancé, … a whole life waiting. What do you have now, Marvin? Alone, on the run til you die? Unless you help yourself.
Marvin: I’m not turning state’s evidence against him. No way.
Kate: I’m sorry to hear that, Marvin. …
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Ressler: It didn’t match.Gale: [ Chuckles ] What?
Ressler: The print – it’s not Reddington’s.
Gale: That’s impossible. Did they even run it through AFIS?
Ressler: Yeah, the unsub wasn’t in the system. …
Gale: The system’s rigged by Reddington, for Reddington. It’s the only explanation. I mean, he’s he’s got somebody on the inside. … What about that Fed he went on the run with, hmm? Hmm? The one you hunted? That’s our next move. We start with Elizabeth Keen.༺ ♤ ༻
Liz: [ Philomena ] finally turned. Kaplan’s headed to Vienna.
Red: Ah! Springtime in Vienna. The market’s are a bit crowded, but the flowers – oh, my gosh. … I’ll let you two talk.Cooper: Like hell. Stay put. I’m contacting Homeland Security. Then we’ll come up with an action plan. Together. …
Liz: How’d you do it? How’d you change the fingerprint?Red: The fingerprint?
Liz: Don’t play dumb. The one Gale and Ressler found that connects you to the death of Diane Fowler.
Red: I assure you I know nothing of it.
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Samar: I heard about the fingerprints. You did the right thing.Ressler: Yeah, I know. I sent the prints in. Your guess as good as mine as to why they came back negative.
Samar: You think Reddington has someone else at the Bureau in his pocket?
Ressler: I don’t know. Maybe. But what I do know is
that working with Gale– I mean, the guy’s an inspiration. He never lets anything slide. Ever. Kind of reminds me of the way I used to be.Samar: The Reven Wright case.
Ressler: Laurel Hitchin murdered her. I know that in my bones, and I’m not gonna let this go until I can prove it. …
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[ Marvin, alive, is bound to a street post by plastic wrapped around him. Police arrive and cut him free ]༺ ♤ ༻
FBI Agent: [ To Joe Perrachio ] Sir, as we’ve explained to your
counsel, the Bureau will protect you and your family as long as you cooperate fully. Now let’s start from the beginning. Why don’t you tell us how you first met Raymond Reddington?
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Blurb: Red and Kaplan’s past is explored.
Note: For Mr Kaplan’s lines, “Kate” is used for the present. “Kathryn” is used for the past (dreams and flashbacks).
[ Kate Kaplan is driving a pick-up truck pulling a metal-sheathed camper/trailer. She sighs and pulls over to the side of the road. She takes some pills, washing them down with an energy drink ]
[ Gloria Gaynor’s ♫ “I Will Survive” plays ]
[ ♪ Tap square below twice to play ♪ ]
Weren’t you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye?
Did you think I’d crumble?
Did you think I’d lay down and die? Oh, no, not I!
I will survive. …
[ Line rings ] [ A man at an ice rink answers ]
Kate: One more stop to make. I’ll fill you in when I get back. I’m cutting this trip short. I just have one more.
Ice Rink Man: Migraines again?
Kate: I’ll be all right.
[ Kate pulls back the hair in the back of her head to reveal a huge wound, the result of a past trauma ]
♪ Oh, as long as I know how to love I know I’ll stay alive.
I’ve got all my life to live.
I’ve got all my love to give.
And I’ll survive, I will survive …
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Katarina Rostova: Kathryn Nemec. Your references are outstanding. Fluent in Italian, French, German, and Russian. Most of your charges appear to have been in various diplomatic corps. … You attended medical school at Northwestern, yet you decided not to continue. May I ask why?
Kathryn: Human anatomy was my Waterloo. The cadavers–Katarina: Yes. Gruesome.
Kathryn: No. I found them compelling. Much more interesting than our living patients. I decided it will be healthier to reorient my efforts from the end of life to its beginning.
Katarina: Thus a Master’s degree in Child Development.
Kathryn: There’s no vocation more critical than raising a child. It’s my belief one can’t be overqualified.
Katarina: This job will not be without its challenges. I have no interest in abdicating my role as a mother.
While I’m in this house, I will be responsible for tending to Masha’s needs. You and Masha will join me whenever you can. There will be times I need to be unencumbered. … During my absences, I will expect you to provide a continuity of care. The way I dress her, hold her, change her, bathe her. You will be what I am to her – with one exception.Kathryn: Yes?
Katarina: You will not love her.
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[ Kate pulls into the parking lot of a motel ]Kate: I have a reservation for room 8.
Motel Manager: Here you go.
[ The room number on the key is 12 ]
Kate: I reserved room 8.
Manager: The young couple in there extended their stay. What can you do?
Kate: Is the adjacent room empty?
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[ Kate enters motel room 7. A man and woman can be heard arguing in room 8 through the thin walls of the motel ]
[ This argument fades into a different argument long ago … ]
[ Man and woman shouting in Russian ] [ Kathryn witnesses a brutal fight between Katarina and a dark-haired man. Katarina attempts to strangle the man with a lamp cord. Katarina sees Kathryn and nods toward a knife
lying on the floor. Kathryn slides the knife to Katarina. Katarina slices the man’s throat with it. He falls to the floor. Katarina is breathing heavily, a wild look on her face ]
Kathryn: Are you hurt?
Katarina: I’m fine. Alexander will be home soon. He can’t see this.
Kathryn: Go upstairs. Take a shower. Katarina: While you do what?
Kathryn: Clean the mess. Go.
[ Kathryn puts on a pair of yellow rubber gloves ]
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[ The scene returns to the present. The man and woman in the next motel room continue arguing ]
Man: I don’t know when I’ll be back. How’s never?
Woman: Jason!
[ The man (Jason) leaves the motel room and walks to the motel office ]
[ Door rattles ]
Jason: Oh! [ Rattles the door ] You gotta be– Oh. Come on! I just wanna buy some cigarettes! [ Pounds on the door ] Come on!
[ Kate approaches Jason ]
Kate: I have a pack in my trailer.
Jason: Okay. Sure, lady. Thanks. …
[ Jason gets in Kate’s camper/trailer. She follows him in, then slams the door shut decisively ]
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[ In the past again, the morning after Katarina has killed the dark-haired man ]Katarina: I considered killing you last night.
Kathryn: Why didn’t you?
Katarina: What you saw, it’s more than Alexander or anyone knows about me, except the people I work for.
Kathryn: Soviet Intelligence? There were some documents on the man–
Katarina: Where’s the body?
Kathryn: In the woods.
Katarina: Kate, there are specific ways–Kathryn: Sealed him in plastic wrap after I exsanguinated the corpse in the tulip garden to speed the rate of decay. I buried the rest below the frost line so that the grave won’t heave open during the freeze and thaw cycles.
Katarina: Never expected to have this conversation with you. What you saw last night– You might see other things, too.
Kathryn: I told you.… I will do everything in my power to keep her safe. And her mother.
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[ The present ] [ Knocking on Kate’s motel door ]Jason’s girlfriend: Have you seen my boyfriend? He went for smokes last night. He didn’t come back.
Kate: Maybe he ran out on you.
Jason’s girlfriend: No, he left his car.
Kate: Did he leave his keys?Jason’s girlfriend: Yes.
Kate: Maybe he left them for you.
Jason’s girlfriend: No, he’s a total dick. He would never leave me his car. Oh, Christ, what the hell is he up to? Now I gotta go find him.
Kate: You do that, dearie.
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[ Birds chirping ][ Kathryn is pushing Masha in a stroller along a path in a secluded part of a wooded area. A car in parked there. Inside is Katarina with a man with light-colored hair. They are having sex in the front seat ] [ Moaning ] [ Breathing heavily ] [ Katarina and Kathryn make eye contact. Kathryn quickly turns the stroller around and heads back in the direction they came from ]
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[ Kathryn is in the kitchen. Katarina comes in. She runs the tap and fills a glass with water ]Katarina: Do you wanna ask me something, Kate?
Kathryn: None of my business.
Katarina: I’m sorry to put you in that uncomfortable position, especially with Masha.
Kathryn: Is he American?
Katarina: He’s an assignment. Was an assignment.I don’t know what he is. He’s married.
Kathryn: Is it serious?
Katarina: Yes. It’s frivolous… exciting…
dangerous.Kathryn: Do you love him?
Katarina: I don’t know about love, Kate. In my job the only one I know I love is Masha.
Kathryn: Then you should end it with the American.
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[ The present ]
[ At last, Kate is allowed into Room 8. The motel cleaning woman exits the room, smiles at Kate ]
Kate: Thank you.
[ Kate closes the door, puts down a large black canvas suitcase, unzips it. It’s empty. She pulls a dresser away and takes a picture off the plaster wall ]
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[ Indistinct radio chatter ] [ Kathryn arrives at Katarina’s house. Police cars are outside. Kathryn runs inside ]
Kathryn: What happened?
Katarina: Masha was abducted.
Kathryn: What?!
Katarina: A man was seen carrying her off the campus.
A blonde man.
Kathryn: The American?Katarina: I started pulling away. We couldn’t continue the way we were. He didn’t take it well.
Kathryn: So what he– he– he stole Masha to hurt you?
Katarina: No, that’s not it. He thinks she’s his.
Kathryn: Is she?
Katarina: I don’t know, Kate. I never found out. I didn’t want to. It didn’t matter. I was never gonna end up with Raymond.
Kathryn: Did you give the police his name?
Katarina: Never. It’d put Masha in danger– even more danger. I know where he’s taking her. Home to America. I’m gonna have to find her on my own.
Kathryn: Not on your own.
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[ The present. Inside motel room 8, Kate gets to work ]
[ ♫ “I Will Survive” plays – version sung by John McCrea of Cake ]
♪ At first I was afraid, I was petrified,
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side
And I spent, oh, so many nights just feeling sorry for myself.
I used to cry but now I hold my head up high
I will survive. …
[ Cartoon plays indistinctly on TV ] [ Kate begins to saw through the plaster walls of the motel room with an electric saw ] [ Whirs ] [ Whirring ]
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[ The past ]
On the television:
Man: Firefighters are gathering and continue to battle a 3-alarm blaze that occurred at a residence downtown.
[ Knock on door ]
[ Kathryn opens the door. Katarina enters holding Masha. Both are streaked with smoke and Masha’s clothing is singed ]
Kathryn: Oh! Oh, my God! Are you okay? You two okay?
Katarina: There was a fire. [ Breathing heavily ] Too many people. There was shouting and fighting. And Masha. [ Breathing heavily ]
Kathryn: What?
[ Katarina kisses Masha and sniffles ]
Katarina: Listen, carefully, you stay here with Masha. Speak to no one. Do not answer the door or the telephone. Don’t go out unless you absolutely have to. …
When it’s safe, I’ll call with instructions.
Katarina: [ To Masha, in Russian with subtitles ] Be good, little one. It wasn’t your fault. He was a bad man. I love you.
Katarina: [ Sniffles ] Oh. Lock the door behind me. [ Kisses Masha ]
[ Kathryn locks the door ]
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[ Masha is sleeping ] [ Telephone rings ]Kathryn: [ Whispers ] Where are you?
Katarina: I don’t know. Pay phone.
Kathryn: You need to come back for your daughter. It’s been over a week.
Katarina: I can’t. The KGB uncovered my affair with Raymond, which means US Intelligence knows as well. Both sides are tracking me down. I have to leave the country. It’ll be weeks before I can come for Masha.
Kathryn: Masha can’t stay in a hotel that long. She needs a home. I can take her to my sister in Chicago.Katarina: No. You’re the family nanny. You’re a person of interest. They’ll track you. You have to leave Masha with someone unconnected, who I can trust. I want you to get in touch with Sam Milhoan. He’s listed. Kearney, Nebraska.
Kathryn: Leave Masha?
Katarina: You must.
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Sam Milhoan: I’m sorry you had to drive all this way. But I’m in no position to help here. I told Kat. …Kathryn: She told me that you are the only person who knew both her and Raymond, the only one they both trusted. …
Sam: Did Kat happen to mention that I’m a grifter? Now I scam people out of their hard-earned
cash. Now I’m trying to go straight here. But I don’t have room in my life for a kid. I’m not able to be with Masha. …[ Masha has been overhearing ]
Masha: You’re not gonna stay with me? You said when we find someplace to live, we would all be together.
Kathryn: Oh. I want that more than anything in the
world. It just can’t be now.Masha: You promised.
Sam: Ah, crap. [ Claps ] Gordo!
[ A large black dog barks and comes in, tail wagging ] [ Gasps of excitement ]
Kathryn: Hi. [ Kathryn and Masha laugh ]
Sam: The kid needs her mother. Until the heat’s off, she’s got me.
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[ Kate zips shut a black canvas suitcase, which is now bulging. Another suitcase is nearby. Kate exits the motel room, lugging one of the suitcases. She opens the door of her camper/trailer. Inside the phone is ringing ]
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[ In the past ]
[ Katarina is making a call from an outdoor phone booth. Behind her is a sandy beach and the ocean. A brown slatted wooden fence lining the beach evokes the beach at Cape May ]
[ Kathryn’s telephone rings ]Katarina: Kate, I’m so sorry. …
Kathryn: So when are you coming back for Masha?
Katarina: I can’t. I’m going away.
Kathryn: What? What about Masha? Masha’s still with Sam, and he’s not–
Katarina: Please.
Kathryn: Listen, I can go there. I can take care of her. I–
Katarina: No. She won’t be safe with you. You know that. You– you have to disappear yourself, Kate. There’s nothing more you can do for me or for Masha. I’m begging you Kate, walk away. You know how much I love her.Kathryn: I do.
Katarina: You’ll walk away, then.
Kathryn: Yes.
[ Katarina looks out at the ocean, inhales sharply ]
Katarina: [ Tearfully ] I love you, Kate.
[ Receiver clatters ] [ Line disconnects ]
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[ Kate gets in the pick-up truck, starts the engine and pulls away from the motel ]
[ A motel cleaning woman opens the door to Room 8. A large gaping hole has been cut in the wall ]
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[ Kathryn is seated at a bar, reading the newspaper classifieds. She circles a posting for help in a mortuary. The ad notes applicants must be “unfazed by cadavers and blood” ][ A short distance away, a blonde woman with curly hair puts coins in a juke box. Three men leer at her ]
Man: Whoa. Look at this.
[ Kathryn sees an article in the newspaper headlined “Search Called Off for Missing Russian Woman” with a photo of Katarina ][ Kathryn removes her glasses, shocked ]
[ The young blonde woman leaves the company of the men and walks over to Kathryn ]Young blonde woman: You okay?
Kathryn: [ Clears throat ] Yeah.
Annie Kaplan: Hope you don’t mind. I need saving from the wolves. If I had a hose, I’d spray ’em down. I’m just passing through to Texas. My name’s Annie Kaplan. What’s yours?
Kathryn: Kate.Annie: You wanna dance, Kate?
Kathryn: What?
Annie: [ Laughs ] Come on.
[ Annie takes Kathryn’s hand and leads her to the dance floor ]
Annie: What’s wrong, Kate?Kathryn: My friend just died.
Annie: Oh, honey. Come here.
[ They hug ]
Kathryn: I think she was my best friend.
[ They dance to slow, swaying music ]
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Annie: So what’s next for you? You gonna find some more Russians to live with?Kathryn: I don’t know. … Masha and her family were my whole world for so long.
Annie: Well, there are other worlds out there. My future’s in Amarillo. A lot of people sing about Amarillo,
you know? George Strait, Neil Sedaka, Rob Zombie.Kathryn: [ Laughs ] Is that what’s leading you there?
Annie: No, uh, that would be my Uncle Nikos. He’s a bail bondsman. Gonna teach me everything he knows about the business.
Kathryn: Hmm. Amarillo. What’s the job market like there?
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[ The present ]
[ Kate is in her camper/trailer. She speaks into a recorder, inventorying frozen body parts wrapped in plastic ]
Kate: Everett Oldfield. [ Plastic rustles ] August 11, 2006. Died of blunt force trauma to the right temple. Knee surgery scar a likely ACL reconstruction, left leg. Wedding ring, left hand. Simple gold band, inscription, “All my love.”
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[ The past ][ Door bell jingles. Kathryn enters Little Nikos’ bail bond office ]
Annie: Hey, I thought you were working tonight.
Kathryn: The Pattersons canceled their dinner plans. They wanted a family night in with the kids instead. [ Jangles ] So I got the night off.
Annie: Is that chicken and black bean sauce I smell?
[ Kathryn gives Annie a bottle of wine ]
Kathryn: Here.Annie: Mmm.
Kathryn: Open it.
Annie: You know, Little Nikos does not like it when employees eat at the office.
Kathryn: Well, Little Nikos can suck it.
Annie: [ Laughs ] Romantic and saucy. [ Inhales sharply ] I like it.
[ Giggling ]
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[ Door bell jingles ] [ A man comes in pointing a gun ]Ex-Con: Where’s Little Nikos?
Annie: I’m sorry, sir. We’re closed. …Ex-Con: I missed my court appearance ’cause my daddy passed. I was at his funeral. There’s no reason for Nikos to send his dog Mato after me. … Who are you?! What’s your name?!
Annie: Annie Kaplan.Ex-Con: [ To Kathryn ] I guess that makes you Mr. Kaplan. …
Kathryn: Don’t you point that gun at her!
[ Gunshot 💥 – Annie is hit in the chest ]
Annie: Aah!
Kathryn: No!
Annie: Aah!
[ Another gunshot 💥 hits Kathryn in the back of the head ] [ The Ex-Con leaves. The door bells jingle ]
Kathryn: Annie. [ Inhales sharply ] Annie.Annie: Aah!
Kathryn: I know! Shh, shh. Here.
[ Kathryn, bleeding badly from the wound in her head, helps Annie up. They stumble to the door, looking for help. Door bells jingle. Once outside they collapse, facing each other ]
Annie: [ Muttering indistinctly ]
Kathryn: Oh! Oh, my God. [ Crying ] No. Annie, no! No, no, Annie! Annie, stay awake. Annie, don’t close– don’t close your eyes. Stay- stay awake.
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Dr Soska: Kate? Hello, Kate? Can you hear me? I’m Dr. Soska. … Fortunately, the bullet caught you at an angle. It was a perforating wound, in and out, no vital tissue was damaged. It was quite a bit of swelling. We had to induce a coma to reduce it, give your brain time to heal.Kathryn: How long?
Dr Soska: It’s been three weeks, Kate.
Little Nikos: They even installed an upgrade. Metal plate.Kathryn: Nikos. [ Monitor beeping steadily ] Where’s Annie?
Dr Soska: I’ll let you two talk.
[ Dr Soska leaves ]
Kathryn: Nikos, where’s Annie?
Nikos: I’m sorry, Kate. She was gone before the ambulance even got there.Kathryn: Oh [ Crying ] [ Wailing ]
Nikos: Listen to me. Annie was my family. I know how she felt about you, how you felt about each other. And that makes you family. I will be here for you, and we will get through this together.
Kathryn: How?
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[ The present ]
[ Kate pulls the camper/trailer over to the side of the road, turns the engine off ] [ Kate takes more pills ] [ Kate goes inside the camper/trailer and lies down ]
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[ In the past ] [ Kathryn in working at Niko’s bail bond business ]Kathryn: Sam. What are you doing here? Is it Elizabeth? Did something happen?
Sam Milhoan: No, no, no. …
Kathryn: Then what are you doing here?
Sam: Someone wants to see you. Asked me to come to you. Raymond Reddington.
Kathryn: That man set off a chain reaction that took everything I loved from me.
And not just me. He turned his back on his family, his country. And for what? A life of crime? He’s a traitor. I have nothing to say to him, and I don’t wanna hear anything he has to say to me.Sam: Yes, you do. Lizzy is fine, now. But Red says she’s in danger.
Kathryn: What kind of danger?
Sam: You’d have to ask him. And there’s something he wants to ask you.
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Kathryn: Work for you? I don’t know you.Red: I’m not as unknown as you might like to believe, Ms. Nemec. We shared the affection of Katarina. We have a common bond in Elizabeth. I presume your love for the child abides. After Katarina’s sudden departure, I felt a responsibility to watch over the girl from a distance. I’ve provided for her and Sam financially.
Kathryn: I’m surprised you found the time, between selling illegal services or ordering hits on anyone who got in your way.
Red: I make no apologies for who I am or what I do. Katarina was a traitor to two countries, both global superpowers. God willing, Katarina’s daughter will live a private life of quiet courage. But if anyone learns her identity, the only way I can stop the threats from rising is to rise up as a greater threat than all of them.Kathryn: So you want me to join you in organized crime to protect Elizabeth.
Red: Yes, Kate. Help me protect the girl we love.
Kathryn: And what do I have that you could possibly want?Red: A trusted voice. A cool head. Undaunted initiative in a messy situation. All the things that you gave to Elizabeth’s mother.
Kathryn: If you ever put me in a position where I have to choose between what’s best for you and what’s best for her, I will choose Elizabeth every time.
Red: Yes. I would insist on that.
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[ Fall 2013 ][ From a perch overlooking FBI Headquarters ]
Kate: You can’t just stroll into her life after all these years. This is a mistake.
Red: I’m aware of your feelings, Kate.
Kate: Raymond, stop. The instant you walk through that door, the damage will be done. You’ll destroy her innocence, everything we’ve been fighting to be preserved. You’ll never undo it.
Red: As I feared would happen, elements from Katarina’s past are circling Elizabeth like a pack of wolves in the night. I put Tom Keen in her life to keep an eye on her, and he married her.
Kate: This isn’t about Tom Keen. It’s about your need for control.
Red: Indeed, I need to control the danger to Elizabeth. I’ve built a vast criminal network predicated on that very principal. It’s time to live up to my mission statement.
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Grey: Must be good to be home again, sir.Red: Yeah. Well, we’ll see about that. [ Chuckles ]
[Grey turns and walks back to a vehicle with Kate and Dembe inside]Grey: He’ll be fine.
[ Alarm sounding ]
Grey: He’s in FBI custody. What’s the worst that could happen?
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[ Kate is at the ice rink ][ Cellphone rings ] [ Ring ] [ Ring ] [ Beep ]
Kate: Hello, Raymond.
Red: Hello, Kate. Took some searching. We found your friend’s phone buried in the rubble.
Kate: I knew you’d survive the blast. I tried to warn him, but he was very proud of his bushcraft.Red: He would’ve made you proud right to the end. …
Kate: I’ve been thinking about you.
Red: Happy thoughts?Kate: I realize now I was so wrapped up in helping you build your empire, I lost sight of why I joined you in the first place. Somewhere along the way, I stopped serving Liz’s needs to enable yours.
Red: They’re one and the same. They always have been. What we’ve done, we’ve done for her.Kate: I believed that, Raymond. Like a Pied Piper, you made me believe. But when I did what I thought was best for her–
Red: It wasn’t best. You almost got her killed, and you betrayed me.Kate: No. I kept my word to you. When you hired me, you told me to choose Elizabeth over you. And so I tried to help her disappear to a safe place with her newborn daughter. And for that, you put me down like a mad dog.
For the last two decades of my life, you had me convinced I was helping keep Elizabeth safe. But in reality, I was helping you become a monster.Red: It’s time for us to meet and talk.
Kate: No, Raymond. I’m gonna do what I should’ve done years ago. I took a bullet to my head, but I remember what my father taught me. Our stories are written in flesh. And I’m gonna use that lesson to render you powerless.
Red: Are you familiar with Master James of St. George? Favored architect of Edward I. You know why? Concentric construction. He literally built castles within castles. Impossible to penetrate.… The architecture of my organization has risen stone by stone over decades. You can’t get inside to hurt me, Kate.Kate: You forget I was by your side the whole time. I know what was required to amass your power, who you hurt, who you betrayed, who you
killed. More importantly, as your cleaner, I know where the bodies are buried. Were buried, dearie. And I’m going to use them and the stories they tell to put you in the ground.[ The large ice rink has been converted into a morgue. Dozens* of bodies, covered in blankets, are carefully laid out on the ice ]
Red: You’ve been busy.
[ Nancy Sinatra’s ♫ “These boots are made for walkin'” plays ]
♪ these boots are made for walking
and that’s just what they’ll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you
[ Spoken: ] Start walkin’ …
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Blurb: Red seeks out his bodyguard, Dembe Zuma, who is missing and may be responsible for poisoning him.
[ Aram is showering. Janet (formerly “Elise”) startles him, then joins him in the shower ]Aram: Oh, my God. [ Laughs ] Don’t do that.
Janet: What? This?
Aram: Mm-mm No, that’s– that’s fine. Wait, how’d you get in?
Janet: You left the front door unlocked, silly. …
Aram: I swear I locked it. Wait, I know I locked it.
[ Aram grabs a towel ] …
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[ Aram checks the door ][ Aram is grabbed from behind ] [Janet hears muffled shouting]
Janet: Aram? Aram? Aram, you okay?
[Janet wraps herself in a towel and goes to the living room. Janet sees Dembe. He has a gun]Janet: Oh, my God.
Dembe: Be still. Don’t make a sound.
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[ Ressler and police are at Aram’s apartment when Samar arrives ]Samar: What happened? Where’s Aram?
Ressler: We’re still piecing it together. We’ve got a 9-1-1 call. Neighbors reported a pounding on the walls. … [W]e found her bound and gagged in the closet.
Samar: Found who?
[Ressler avoids answering. Samar sees Janet and angrily grabs her]Samar: What have you done with him?
Ressler: Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Janet: Is she nuts?
Ressler: Easy. She’s not a suspect here. She’s a victim. One of the victims. They were together. Here.
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Cooper: Tell me everything you’ve dug up on Dembe Zuma since he vanished.Red: Why? What’s happened?
Cooper: … You’ve been hunting Dembe for over a month. I want to know everything you’ve found because
now Agent Mojtabai is in danger. …Red: Aram?
Liz: He was abducted by Dembe last night. …
Red: Dembe has taken a calculated risk abducting Agent Mojtabai. He wouldn’t have done that to harm him, but to use him. For the time being, Aram is perfectly safe. …
Liz: Are you closer to finding him or not?
Red: I am now.
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[ Keys jangle ]Janet: It’s a key hunter. Aram has one just like it.… You attach it to things that you don’t wanna lose– You know, car keys, laptops, pets. It uses cellphones as a location array. Once you activate it, it transmits a signal that is relayed by any live cellular device in its proximity.
Ressler: Aram’s keys weren’t at his apartment.
Janet: Right. Which means he probably still has them with him. And if he does, we’ve got a shot.
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Liz: Where are we going?Red: To find the Sanctum Corporation. A refuge, an enterprise that specializes in relocating criminals who are on the verge of being arrested or being dispatched by an adversary. An underground railroad for miscreants.
Liz: And you think that’s how Dembe disappeared? He hired them?Red: Not for himself. Last year, Matias Solomon used Dembe’s family as leverage against him to get to me. Afterward, I told him to hide his daughter and granddaughter.
Liz: Why couldn’t you hide them?
Red: I wanted Dembe to pick a vendor I knew nothing about to keep his family as far from my world as possible. He did as I instructed– so well, in fact, that I haven’t been able to identify the vendor he contracted. Sanctum is the last on my list. …
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[ Bees buzzing ] [ A woman enters a room filled with box bee hives and swarming with tens of thousands on buzzing bees. She removes her shirt and smears something over her upper body. She reaches out her arms and the bees accumulate on her ]
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Aram: Okay, uh what is this?Dembe: Raymond’s. He has lockers like this all around the globe.
Aram: You want me to hack it so you can steal from Mr. Reddington. No. I’m not gonna do that.
[ Electronic trills, beeps ] [ Dembe opens the locker. It is empty ]
Dembe: I did not bring you here to steal from Raymond. I brought you here to find out who already did.
Aram: You’re trying to help him. Uh, then why not just tell him? He– he thinks you poisoned him.
Dembe: Yes. I handed him the drink that nearly killed him, but I did not poison it.Aram: So tell him.
Dembe: Not without proof.
Aram: That’s why you’re here. You think whoever accessed this locker is the person who tried to kill Mr. Reddington?
Dembe: Yes.Aram: Okay, uh, fine. Uh– Okay, okay, these scanners usually use a syslog-d. That’s a-a program that stores a list of previous users. I’ll try to access that log… Uh– Do you really need to still point that at me? I’m– I’m gonna help.
[ Dembe points the gun more deliberately ]
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Glen: So Dembe finally went off the deep end, huh? I can’t say I’m surprised, what with the whole package. You know, strong, silent type, all stoic with the eyes and the phony African accent. I, for one, never bought it. …
Red: I’m in no mood, Glen. Did you access the footage I asked for?Glen: Yeah. I rolled back the DOT camera you called about.
Liz: Those cameras are live feeds. You can’t rewind them. Glen: Maybe you can’t rewind them, toots, but I’ve got a team of Hindus running a server farm in Adams Morgan recording every second of every traffic cam in this burg. You’d be surprised how often that comes in handy. Only one other car was at that warehouse before you guys showed up. Registered to Chuck Shaw. Info’s all there.[ Glen hands Red a folder ]
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[ Chuck Shaw is doing bench presses ]
Red: Good afternoon, Chuck.
Chuck: Yo. Who the hell are you?… What do you want?
Red: Richard Fickman.
Chuck: He’s dead.
Red: That’s unfortunate. … Who hired you to kill him?
Chuck: [ Groaning ] We made a deal.
Red: Who?
Chuck: Dr Sofia Gallup. [ Groaning ]
[Baz lifts the dumbbells off Chuck] [ Coughing ]
Red: Please go on.
Chuck: [ Exhales ] I was locked up. She was my therapist. She got me paroled. Dr. Gallup said all I had to do was kill a guy she wanted dead. …
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Aram: I did it, okay? Uh– Here’s the data you wanted. But … [t]he scanner uses proprietary encryption. I’m sorry, but it would take me days to crack this and figure out who, uh, accessed the– this locker. I’m so sorry.[ Dembe lowers his gun, sits down on a curb ]
Dembe: You can go.
Aram: I can go? Just like that?
Dembe: Please, forgive me.
Aram: Well, uh, there might be one way to get past the proprietary encryption. Are you really trying to help Mr. Redding-
ton?Dembe: I have three people in my life. My daughter, my granddaughter, and Raymond. …
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Liz: Thank you. [ Phone beeps ] Bureau of Prisons confirmed Dr. Sofia Gallup consults for them. …
Red: How about the last parolee for whom the good doctor testified?
Liz: A felon named Dennis Cauley.
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[ Denis Cauley’s apartment ]
Liz: This looks like a dossier on Dr. Gallup’s next victim. Alex Sato.
[ Red looks at the man’s photo ]
Red:Except his name isn’t Alex Sato. It’s Daniel Nakamoto, a master forger of antiquities. 13 years ago, he was paid a pile of money for a cuneiform tablet by the boss of the Sacriponti crime family. … Daniel Nakamoto disappeared shortly after. …Liz: [Cauley’s] been tracking Nakamoto. Tracing his movements.
Red: Circling his prey.
Liz: Looks like Nakamoto is at the Gabor Museum every afternoon.
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Red: Afternoon, Daniel. …Nakamoto: Raymond Reddington?
Red: …I’m afraid your cover has been blown. I suppose that’s fairly obvious at this point. But nonetheless, I’m here to tell you that an assassin is coming to kill you. …
Nakamoto: You’re lying. There’s no way Sanctum could betray me. Impossible. …
Red: I’m warning you, Daniel. Your life is in grave danger.
Nakamoto: If you’re right, and the Sanctum Corporation has failed me, then no one can keep me safe. Not even you.[ Nakamoto gets up and leaves. A man in a brown jacket approaches him. Blade clicks ]
Nakamoto: Aah!
[Baz attacks the man, kicks away his knife]Liz: FBI!
Denis Cauley: Aah! Aah!
Liz: Hands on your head.
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Nakamoto: What do you want to know?
Red: Everything you can tell me about the Sanctum Corporation.
Nakamoto: It was run by Tony and Maria Lopez. They owned a honey company in Ohio. They used bee colonies around the world as safe houses and way stations. But … [t]he Lopezes died months ago.
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Red: Glen. I need information on a deceased couple. Tony and Maria Lopez of Ohio. They were apiarists.
Glen: What? Ape fairies?
Red: Apiarists. Bees.
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Janet: When I first met Aram, oh, he was so uptight. I mean, with the strict Muslim upbringing with a healthy dose of Jewish guilt. … He really needed to cut loose.Samar: And you helped him.
Janet: You say that like I’m some sort of enabler or something. Yeah, okay, fine. I enable him to have fun. I
enable him to blow off steam. I enable him to laugh. Do you have a problem with that?Samar: I do if it interferes with the work that he does here. …
Janet: You’re upset because I know Aram and you don’t.
[ Beeping ]
Janet: Got him. RBM Digital Security Bureau Data Site.
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[ Aram and Dembe approach a security check station at the RBM Digital Security Bureau Data Site ]
Aram: Agents Mojtabai and Zuma, FBI. We got a warrant to run a confiscated device through your proprietary decryption. … [W]e’re on a time crunch. It’s a matter of national security.Security Guard: [ Sighs ] The warrant?
Aram: Zuma. Give the man the warrant. Don’t tell me you didn’t grab it off the desk. Oh, Zuma, you’re killin’ me.Dembe: I am sorry. …
Aram: It’s all right. That’s all right. Okay. You got somewhere we can sit and call this in? Court should be able to messenger a new one ASAP.
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[ A car marked “Student Driver” pulls up to Red and Liz. Glen is inside with a student driver ]
Red: You got to be kidding me.
Glen: You’re the one in such a damn rush. Get in. … We can speak freely. Señora Vazquez doesn’t know a lick of English.
Glen: [ Spanish: ] Turn right on the next light.Red: What did you find?
Glen: The Lopezes ran Sanctum for decades. But nine months ago, they got burnt to a crisp. Fire started in the middle of the night. Police report says arson, no suspects, though.
Glen: [ To the student driver ] It’s a car, sweet cheeks, not a roller coaster. They had a daughter named Vanessa. Apple fell far from the tree. She was on the up and up. A therapist.Liz: A therapist? Like Dr. Gallup? Gallup and Lopez could be one and the same.
Glen: I don’t know no Gallup, but Vanessa was there during the fire. Got burnt pretty bad, but survived.
Liz: Says here all the Lopez family bee farms were foreclosed by the bank, all but the one that burned down. It’s still owned by Vanessa Lopez.
Red: Then that’s where we’re headed. …
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Aram: …If I’m lucky, I can find the encryption key before he gets back.Dembe: Thank you, Aram. …
Aram: Crap. Samar and Ressler are here. … Okay, come on. Downloading. All right, here we are. [ Typing ] [ Beeps ] Kathryn Nemec. Who is who is Kathryn Nemec?[ Dembe looks “like he’s seen a ghost” ]
Aram: Oh, is this bad? Oh, this seems bad.
Dembe: I cannot go back yet. I need proof. There’s one last thing I must do.Aram: Okay, uh, go. You better go. Do what you gotta do to help Mr. Reddington, but do it fast.
[ Dembe leaves as Ressler and Samar are arriving. Ressler takes chase. Aram watches on his laptop as Ressler chases Dembe. He locks and unlocks doors as needed to assist Dembe’s escape ]
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Ressler: Dembe, stop!
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[ Ressler points his gun at Dembe through the glass window of a locked door ]Ressler: Dembe! Don’t make me shoot you!
Dembe: I didn’t do anything.
Ressler: Then come in. Prove it.
Dembe: That’s my plan. But I need the proof.
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[ Aram becomes alarmed that Ressler might shoot Dembe ]
Aram: Dembe. No. No, no. Ressler, no.
[ Aram kills the power ] [ Clank ] [ Dembe escapes ]
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[ Red and Liz enter the room with the bees. Vanessa Vasquez turns around slowly ]
Red: Fascinating. I hope you don’t mind me diving right in. I’ve been looking for you for quite a while, and time is of the essence.
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Cooper: What were you thinking?Aram: He needed my help.
Ressler: Well, you didn’t have to help him escape. If he’s on the level, we all could’ve helped. …
Cooper: Did you find anything that would exonerate Dembe?Aram: Honestly, I don’t know. We found a name– Kathryn Nemec.
Cooper: Run her down and find out what you can. …
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Red: It’s hypnotic.Vanessa Vasquez: I suppose it was only a matter of time before one of you figured it out and showed up.
Red: … I’m not one of your parents’ clients.
Liz: But we know what you’re doing to them.… We know you made deals with some of your prison therapy patients.
Red: We just don’t know why.
Vanessa: When I was a child, this place was a backbone of our honey business. My father knew a guy that
needed a hideout. And he helped. And then another showed up. And another one.… The fortune my parents made hiding criminals was in a Vulcan safe in our basement. The only people that knew that were the criminals that passed through. Someone came back and tried to steal the money. But while cutting through the lock with an acetylene torch, they set the house on fire. I was the only one that survived. Apitherapy is the only thing I’ve found effective in fighting the infection. …Liz: You have no idea which client did this, so you’re killing them all.
Vanessa: If their file is in my parents’ ledger, they deserve punishment for one thing or the other.Red: There’s an entry in that ledger I need to see. For your sake, I hope it’s not crossed off.
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[ Red searches the ledger. He tears out a page ]
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Cooper: Kathryn Nemec is missing?Aram: Yeah, she disappeared in 1991, just dropped off the grid. Lived at a few addresses in the Midwest in her 30s. Worked at an exclusive domestic staffing agency, but then one day she’s just gone. And there is
no more record.Cooper: You say this Nemec, she’s the one who was attacking Reddington? …
Aram: Yeah, I cannot explain it, but had you seen Dembe’s face when he saw her name – It was like he’d seen a ghost. …
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Isabella Zuma: Mr. Reddington. How did you find me? …Red: I need to speak with your father, Isabella.
Isabella: Speak with him? What do you mean? Where is he? … [S]omething’s happened?
Red: I hope not, but I won’t know until I find him.Isabella: Does he want you to find him?
Red: He does not, but I have to. And I must insist on your help to do so.
Isabella: Sometimes he sends me packages. Pre-paid cellphones with one number saved for emergencies. …
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[ Cellphone ringing ]
Dembe: Are you okay, Isabella?
Red: Yes, she’s okay.
Dembe: What are you doing there, Raymond?
Red: Trying to find you. … What are you doing, Dembe? Because everything you seem to be doing is making you look guilty.Dembe: We’re both guilty, Raymond. I came here to see for myself. She’s not here.
Red: Who– who’s not? What are you saying?
[An arrow hits Dembe in the leg]
Dembe: Ah! Ah!
[ Dembe drops the phone and stumbles off ]
Red: Dembe? Dembe? Dembe?
[ The Hunter is tracking Dembe with a crossbow. He walks over to the mobile phone and crushes it ]
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[ The Hunter catches up with Dembe ]The Hunter: I know who you are. You and that fella in the hat brought Kate out here. Two men against an unarmed woman. That was cowardly. And you still couldn’t get the job done. You didn’t know she survived, did you? Ol’ Kate flat out refused to die. She warned me about you.… Kate told me you’d be back. I’ve been waiting. I’m gonna kill you both for what you did to her. Now, where is your slick-suited
friend?[ Dembe mumbles. The Hunter moves closer and leans over him ]
Hunter: What?
[ Dembe pulls the arrow out of his own leg and stabs The Hunter’s leg with it ]
Hunter: Aah! [ Groaning ]
[ Dembe hurries away, limping ]
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[ Telephone rings ] [ Ring, beep ]Aram: Agent Mojtabai.
Red: What did you and Dembe find, Aram? … I spoke to him. He began to tell me something. But he was attacked.
Aram: Attacked? …
Red: He released you. Why? Did you discover something?
Aram: We did. We found a name. Kathryn Nemec.
Red: [ Shocked ] S-Say that again.
Aram: Kathryn Nemec. But she’s been missing since 1991.
[ Phone beeps off ]
Isabella: What? Please, tell me, is he okay?
Liz: Reddington, what’s going on? What’s happened to Dembe?
Red: I’ll find him. I’ll find him.
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[ The Hunter has tied a tourniquet on his leg ] [ Grunts ] [ Exhales ] [ Beeps, speed dials ]
The Hunter: It’s me. Hate to leave this on your machine, but there’s something you ought to know…
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Red: A man’s greatest enemy is the dark forces pent up within himself. But not for me. My dark forces had a name. A person I entrusted with the most heinous offenses of my life. Every trespass I committed, expunged. Cleansed as if it had never happened. My confessor who doth now condemn me.Liz: What are you talking about?
Red: Kathryn Nemec.
Liz: Now who is Kathryn Nemec?
Red: A name that came to represent my darkest hours. My friend. [ Smacks lips ] Mr. Kaplan.
Liz: Mr. Kaplan? She’s alive. [ Tears ]Red: When I pulled the trigger, I– I left without checking. I would never have been so careless if there wasn’t a part of me that wished I hadn’t done what I
had just done. It’s been her all along. Retribution for what I did to her.Liz: Can the score be even now? Can this be over?
Red: All I know is I need to find Dembe.
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[ Baz drives Red and Liz to the place in the woods where Red had shot Kate ][ They park behind the car Dembe came in ] [ Dembe stumbles out of the woods ]
Liz: Dembe!
Dembe: [ Groaning ] She’s alive. Kate is alive.
Red: I’m sorry, Dembe.Liz: Who did this to you?
Dembe: A man. He found Kate. He’s injured in his left knee.
Red: Where did you last see him?
Dembe: West of here. [ Panting ][ Red ties a tourniquet on Dembe’s leg ]
Dembe: Aah!
Red: You need a doctor. Keep that tight.
Liz: Okay, we go. You’re not going after him.
Red: I am. He’ll lead me to Kate. Get Dembe to a hospital, please.
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Red: We should double back, find another path. This is all too exposed.[ Dart hits ]
Baz: [ Gasps ] Oh!
[ The Hunter approaches. He sees a figure crumpled on the forest floor and Red’s hat behind a log. He is taking aim at the hat when he is shot from the side by Red ]
The Hunter: [ Groans ] Ohh! Ow, ow.
[ Baz was wearing Red’s hat. He is uninjured. It was a trap ]
[ Red approaches The Hunter who is not critical ]
Red: You must know my friend Kate.
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Aram: Should’ve told you about Janet.Samar: It doesn’t matter.
Aram: It does to me. I-I’m sorry that I’m– Hey. Can I tell you something I admire about you?
Samar: I would rather you didn’t.
Aram: Your intensity. The way you talk and think. The way you do the job.Samar: Stop it.
Aram: I don’t just admire it. I’m also terrified by it. And by what it would do to me if we got too close.
Samar: How’s this for terrifying? I couldn’t care less what you admire.
[ Samar gets in the elevator. The elevator doors creak and clang shut ]
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[ Inside his cabin, The Hunter is tied to a chair ]Red: I can appreciate the kindness you showed to an injured woman in need. It’s commendable, as is your
loyalty to her. … But you do need to call her.The Hunter: She was right about you. Said you were very dangerous and absolutely relentless… Kate’s also very dangerous and absolutely relentless. Guess she learned that from you. If I’d been in your shoes, I’d have
made damn sure I didn’t miss.Red: Yes, that was a mistake I won’t make again. Call her.
The Hunter: Seems to me I’m not gonna survive this either way.
Red: This may seem ironic considering the circumstances, but I abhor violence. I only resort to it in times of extreme necessity. So believe me when I say, this is both extreme and necessary.
[ Gun cocks. Red holds his pistol to The Hunter’s forehead ]Red: Call her.
The Hunter: [ Dialing ] She said you’d do this. [ Chuckles ]
Red: She said I’d do what exactly?
The Hunter: Underestimate her.
[ Line ringing ] [ Buzzing sound ]
[ Through the floor boards, Red sees an apparatus with a flashing red light ]
Red: Baz!
[ Both Red and Baz run for their lives as a huge 💥🔥 explosion 🔥💥 engulfs the cabin ]
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[ Kate is walking along the catwalk of a motel. She listens to a message on her answering machine ]The Hunter: [ Recorded voice ] It’s me. Hate to leave this on your machine, but there’s something you ought to know. Your friends, uhm– the black fella and the man in the hat, Reddington– they’re here. You said they’d kill me to get you. If this is the last time you hear my voice, know that I didn’t give you up. And I didn’t go down without a fight. You told me, if he ever figured out you’re still alive, he’d come at you full bore. Well, lock and load, Katie. Your war has come.
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Blurb: Red needs to find out who in his organization has seized control of his accounts and threatens his life.
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[ Red’s secret flat ][ Dembe uncorks a bottle of Scotch ]
Dembe: Raymond. Are you sure about this? Bringing them all together in one location. It’s dangerous. [ Scotch pours ]
Red: One of our most trusted confidantes intends to do irrevocable damage to the organization. … [ Swallows, exhales ] There’s a traitor in the family. I intend to find them.
Dembe: And if something goes wrong?
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[ Red is in a hospital bed in a mobile surgical unit struggling for breath as a doctor holds a ventilator mask to his face ]Red: [ Gasps, coughing loudly ] Where am I? … What’s going on?
Haverkamp: Mr. Reddington, my name is Dr. Haverkamp. I’m an on-call specialist on your code 77 team, and you had an emergency.
Red: [ Gasping ] Why can’t– why can’t I breathe?
Haverkamp: Give the medication a minute. Just give it a minute. … What do you remember?Red: [ Gasps ] Dinner, restaurant. [ Gasping ] What’s wrong with me?
Haverkamp: We’re not quite sure. We thought, at first, you may have had a series of mini strokes. But the MRIs, the EEGs, they ruled that out.
Red: Where’s Dembe? Dembe will know.
Haverkamp: … Mr. Reddington, I was told that you insist on a frank, unvarnished assessment of the situation. So here it is. You’re dying.
Red: [ Exhales sharply ] How?Haverkamp: We believe you’ve been poisoned. …
Red: How long can you keep me alive?
Haverkamp: It’s hard to say. Uh, a day? Maybe two.
Red: [ Exhales sharply ]
[ Red begins ripping off the blood pressure cuff ]
Haverkamp: What– what– No. No. What are you doing? You can’t– …
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[ Red has his suit on, is walking away from the medical setup ]
Dr Haverkamp: Please, Mr. Reddington. You need medical attention. Your condition is critical. Where– are you going?
Red: [ On cell phone ] Elizabeth. Gather the task force. I need your help — to solve a murder.
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[ The Post Office ] [ Elevator door scrapes, slams ]Red: [ Coughs ]
Ressler: Uh, what’s going on?
Red: Your prayers have been answered, Donald.. Apparently, I’m dying. … I’ve been poisoned.
Cooper: Poisoned? By whom?
Red: Someone within my organization. Someone with access to an offshore account that was used to fund recent attacks against me.
11 people had access to that account. Last evening, I called those 11 to a dinner to confront them. …Samar: Where is Dembe?
Red: Missing. … They can’t identify the toxin. … I’ve been told I have a day, two at most.
Aram: No. That– that can’t be true.
Red: I need you to find the pharmaco-toxicologist who, I believe, crafted the deadly cocktail and get the antidote from him.Ressler: What do you know about him?
Liz: There’s a man. He told me he’s known as–
Red: The Apothecary.
Liz: A druggist whose potions hijack the immune system, causing any number of allergic reactions, each one impossible to identify unless you know what you’re looking for. …
Red: The Apothecary can create embolisms, aneurysms, inhibit respiration, induce paralysis. …
Cooper: So this Apothecary, how do we find him, find the antidote?Red: Ilario Panetti. … He’s about to go up on RICO charges. The government’s star witness against him has rather conveniently fallen into a coma. I believe Panetti has availed himself of the Apothecary’s services. …
Liz: Hold on. Where are you going?
Red: To find Dembe. While you try to save my life, I’ll spend what time I have saving his.
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FBI Director: Let me tell you about Ilario Panetti. He takes organized crime to a whole new level. Everything he does is meticulously planned. I’ve never seen anybody more cautious in avoiding surveillance. …Liz: So what happened?
Director: He got greedy. His largest competitor got firebombed. Their offices completely destroyed. Two days later, Panetti paid 200 grand to an associate – we still don’t know who – for services rendered. Competition over.
Ressler: How do you know?Director: We flipped his accountant. A woman named Helen Dahle. She was the one who cut the check and she was prepared to testify that Panetti ordered her to make payment for the arson hit. A few days before trial, she goes to dinner, has a mysterious allergic reaction to the food, and wham. She’s on life support, and so is my case.
Liz: We think we know how Panetti got to her. …
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[ Asa Hightower is working in a lab. He prepares a vial of liquid which he then places in a refrigerator alongside other vials containing fluids of various hues. Asa leaves the lab and enters a bedroom. His wife, Ruby, a sad, tired-looking woman, is lying motionless on the bed. Asa removes his shirt and gets into the bed alongside Ruby ]Asa Hightower: Don’t worry, sweetheart. It’ll be okay. I will never give up on you. I promise. It’ll be just fine.
[ Ruby’s face is wet with tears. Asa wipes her cheek with his thumb and looks at his thumb while another tear runs down her face ]
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[ At a hospital, Red walks up on Dr Haverkamp ]
Red: Doctor. …
Haverkamp: People will see you. Us. Together. Uh– I was promised discretion. …[ They duck into a patient room ] [ Door closes ]
Red: The night I was poisoned, I was with people. …
Haverkamp: But I don’t know anything. …
Red: How ’bout the– a man who brought me in? How did we get there?
Haverkamp: He drove you. It was in a green station wagon. It was parked outside the triage cube.
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[ Outside Helen Dahle’s hospital room ]Liz: How long has she been like this?
Dr Lydia Ralston: She was barely responsive when admitted two weeks ago. Comatose within a day.
Ressler: What happened?
Ralston: Well, it presented as an acute allergic reaction. We treated her for anaphylaxis, but her symptoms didn’t respond to treatment. In fact, they got worse. …Liz: What if someone designed a poison to mimic the symptoms of an allergic reaction?
Ralston: It would mean whoever created the poison knew we would treat the allergy and lose precious time. …
Ressler: Is that her husband?
Ralston: Yeah. Robert Dahle. He and Helen’s parents haven’t left her side.
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Robert Dahle: One minute she’s heading to a client dinner and everything is fine, and the next she’s– like this.Ressler: What did Helen tell you about the case against Panetti?
Robert: Nothing. The attorneys instructed her not to. She knew how dangerous this was, but she agreed to testify anyway. …
Liz: And you’ve been with her the entire time she’s been
comatose?Robert: No, I– I went to Sarasota Springs this past weekend. … There’s a little hotel in Sarasota. A sort of a getaway for us– birthdays, anniversaries, and– We would’ve been married 10 years next month. Last weekend, I went there to be alone. Think about what to do.
Helen’s father: With Helen. In case she doesn’t–
Robert: Please, I’m begging you. Find out what happened to my wife.
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Blanton: Agent Navabi. Thank you for meeting me.
Samar: Oh, what an unpleasant surprise.
Blanton: Mr. Panetti insisted on being present for this conversation.
Samar: It’s fine with me. I fully intend on being present the day your client is sentenced for poisoning Helen Dahle.Ilario Panetti: We never touched Helen. Not me or anyone who works for me. …
Samar: We know about the Apothecary. We know that he specializes in untraceable toxins and that you hired him to create that “allergic” reaction.
Panetti: What is she talkin’ about?Samar: You can play dumb, Mr. Panetti. From what I hear, you’ve made quite a profession out of skirting responsibility for your actions. …
Panetti: Honey, I don’t know what the hell you’re going on about. … I’ve never heard of this “Apothecary.” And for your information, Helen Dahle’s testimony wouldn’t have hurt me or my case one bit. …
Blanton: Whoever took out Mr. Panetti’s competitor contacted us the next day, threatened to destroy our business if we didn’t pay their extortion fee. Now my client did instruct Helen to make that phantom payment, but not for taking out a rival. To avoid becoming a victim as well. …
Panetti: … Arnold, give Agent Navabi copies of whatever she needs. I think we’re done here.
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[ Red drives up to a house and parks ] [ Door creaking ] [ Lock clicks ]Red: Hello?
[ Red sees signs of a struggle ] [ Clattering, rumbling ]
[Red follows the sound to the back of a Mercedes and opens the trunk ]
[A young black woman, Lou Lou McClellan is in the trunk . Red removes the duct tape from her mouth ]Red: Who are you? Who put you in there?
Lou Lou: Is this a sick joke? You did! …
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Liz: Aram, I sent you a video.Samar: The lead on Panetti didn’t pan out. …
Liz: Take a look at this. Helen Dahle’s husband said he had to get away to clear his head and think about his wife’s future. Well, Robert Dahle did go to Sarasota Springs, and he did stay in the hotel he mentioned, but he did not stay alone.
[ On the security footage are Robert Dahle and a young woman ]
Cooper: Dahle was cheating on his wife.
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Red: [ Coughing ] When did I meet you?
Lou Lou: Are you serious?
Red: Humor me.
Lou Lou: Last night. Before you threw me in the car and drove here.Red: Here? I-I, uh– Who lives here?
Lou Lou: How would I know? I got here in a trunk.
Red: Right. I know this is – [ Clears throat ] – an unusual, frightening predicament. But I assure you, I mean you no harm.
Lou Lou: Says the man with the gun.Red: [ Coughing ] What is your name? …
Lou Lou: Lou Lou McLellan. Hey, hey. Can you be careful with that thing?
Red: [ Exhales ] Was I alone last night, or was I accompanied by – anybody – my associate? Uh, Dembe. [ Coughing violently ]
Lou Lou: What is wrong with you?
Red: I don’t know.
Lou Lou: You need a doctor.
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[ Glass shatters as Red smashes the glass door of a pharmacy ]Red: We’re looking for corticosteroids, bronchodilator. [ Coughing ]
Lou Lou: Corticosteroids.
Red: Oh. I’ve lived my entire adult life surrounded by – a corona of death. Some days I’ve even longed for it. But lately, I– I find I’m– I’m unwilling to go gentle into that good night.
Lou Lou: Bronchodilator.
[ Red collapses against the counter and loses consciousness ]
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Liz: Helen’s father, John Tadsen, was a hedge fund titan. His New York firm was worth $4.7 billion. His children and his children’s children are set for life.Ressler: To protect his daughter from gold diggers,
Tadsen made Robert sign a prenup. Now, according to the agreement, there’s no payout for death or divorce before 10 years.Cooper: How long have they been married?
Liz: They’re two weeks shy of their 10-year anniversary. …
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[ Red wakes in a bed. Lou Lou is sitting in a chair a few feet away ]
Lou Lou: Who’s Elizabeth? After I got some of those pills in you, you came to. Well, sort of. Kept saying her name.
Red: [ Coughs ] Elizabeth.
Lou Lou: Someone who’d miss you if you died?
Red: I don’t know. Maybe. Tell me your name again.
Lou Lou: Lou Lou.
Red: Lou Lou. You saved my life, Lou Lou. Thank you.
Lou Lou: Like I needed a dead body on my conscience. [ Chuckles ] You were in bad shape. Well, worse shape. You try to hide it, but you’re scared. I wasn’t just gonna leave you.
Red: [ Inhales sharply ] Well, it was remarkably generous given that I locked you in the trunk of a car.
Lou Lou: Well, you were pretty polite about it, all things considered. …
Red: What happened last night? I can’t remember.
Lou Lou: You and your friend broke into the apartment across the hall. I called the cops and then I went over to peek through the door. It was all busted in, and there you were. I said the police are on their way, and you said, “My sincerest apologies, but if that’s the case, then you’re coming with us.” Then you put me in the trunk.
Red: Why?
Lou Lou: Damned if I know. But while you were asleep, I found out the name of the guy that lives in that apartment. Marvin Gerard. You know him?
Red: He’s my attorney.
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Ressler: It’s over, Brooklyn. Robert told us everything. … [H]e told us that you poisoned his wife. Now if that’s not true, you better tell us what really happened.Brooklyn: You know that woman treats him like a servant, right? He’s carried that princess’s baggage
for nine years, and he couldn’t take it anymore!Liz: So you planned it together?
Brooklyn: No, I told him I didn’t want anything to do with it.
Ressler: But you knew what he was doing. See, that makes you a co-conspirator. Now if you wanna reduce your jail time, you’re gonna tell us exactly how he did. …
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[ Ressler and Liz barge into Robert Dahle’s bathroom where he is taking a bath ]Robert Dahle: What the hell? Hey! Hey, you have no right to come into my–
Ressler: No knock search warrant.
Robert: I have no idea what you’re looking for. But I guarantee you’re not gonna find it.
[ Robert stands up in the tub ]
Liz: Unless you wanna parade that on your perp walk, I suggest you get dressed.
Robert: You think you’re arresting me?
Ressler: As a matter of fact, I do – [ Ressler finds the vial of poison eye drops and holds it up ] for the attempted murder of Helen Dahle. … Let’s get this to the lab, ID was kind of a poison it is. Maybe it’ll tell us something about whoever created it. … ༺✦ ♤ ✦༻
Red: Becky. I took you to Marvin’s fiancée’s house.Lou Lou: Looks like he left in a hurry.
[ Red checks the answering machine. Machine beeps ]
Red’s voice on answering machine: Marvin. It’s Raymond. We’re all here at John’s. Where are you?
Red: [ To Lou Lou ] You’ve been– kind to an extraordinary degree considering how we began our acquaintance. But I won’t drag you any further into this. You don’t deserve that. I’ll take it from here. [ Inhales deeply from the bronchodilator ]
Lou Lou: Well, I hope you get better. And I hope you find the answers you’re looking for. I hope you get to see Elizabeth again. …
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Aram: The lab [ found ] one distinct element in the molecular structure of the drops taken from Robert Dahle’s apartment. A peptide unique to the venom of Bungarus flaviceps, also known as the red-headed krait [ a snake ] – Incredibly rare.
Liz: So it’s easy to trace.Aram: Only four suppliers in the world, and only one in America. A defunct reptile farm outside of Scranton, PA. Hightower Serpentarium. Owned by – Asa Hightower, who, according to his license, still lives in an apartment on site.
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[ Liz and Ressler arrive at the Hightower Serpentarium ] [ Door slams open ]Ressler: FBI!
[ Liz and Ressler find Asa Hightower’s collection of venomous snakes and other poisonous reptiles, as well as files, including one for Helen Dahle. They also discover Ruby Hightower ]
Liz: It’s gonna be okay, Mrs. Hightower.
Ruby Hightower: [ Weakly ] I have to tell you where. . .
Liz: Are you trying to tell us where your husband is?
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[ Red enters John’s restaurant ]
[ A long table is set for a dozen or so. Most plates have remnants of a dinner, except one. A double door is jammed shut with a coat rack. Red pulls out the coat rack and opens the doors. Inside are a dozen or so people, including Abe, one of his accountants, and David Levine, one of his bankers ]
Red: [ Exhales ] What happened here?David Levine: What happened? What happened is you summoned us here to dinner and locked us in the kitchen without an explanation. Feel free to give us one now.
Red: … Believe me, David, no one wants an explanation more than I. Please. Accept my apologies. Just take me back to the dinner and– tell me what happened.
Abe: Mr. Reddington, you invited us to dinner. We’re sitting here. You– you get up, you make a speech.
Flashback:
Red: I do wish we could enjoy it under more auspicious circumstances, but so be it.
Maura: It was about the attack on your assets. By whoever killed Zack Smoll?
Flashback:
I’ve always found stories of betrayal to be so
compelling, so tragic for all those involved. Judas, Iago, men who were beloved by those they’d betrayed.
David Levine: You were telling one of those stories you love.
Flashback:
Red: Ironic, isn’t it? That the ones in whom we place our greatest trust are best positioned to put the knife in our backs.
Abe: You said you had Levine follow the money. The funds came from one of your own accounts.
Flashback:
Red: The 11 people to whom I extended invitations tonight were the only ones who could have accessed that particular account. One of those 11 is a traitor, and only 10 of you are here. Perhaps our Judas didn’t have the nerve to attend this last supper. Well, I can assure you, I will find the guilty party, and he or she will be held accountable. Cheers.
[ Wine glass shatters ]
Levine: What the hell is wrong with you?
Red: The wine. I had a glass of wine at the dinner. Was it from one of these bottles?
Maura: No. The waiter poured it from a bottle that was set aside.
Red: What bottle? [ Coughs ]
[ Maura fetches the bottle ]
Note on bottle: “Sorry I can’t be there old friend – Marvin”
Red: [ Reads: ] Marvin Gerard.
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[ Liz and Ressler in SUV ]Liz: Aram, we need a list of all the stores that sell baby products in a 10-mile radius of the Serpentarium. …
Samar: But wait, why are we looking for baby stores?
Ressler: Hightower’s wife thinks he’s out buying nursery supplies. She’s pregnant.
Cooper: I thought she was comatose?
Ressler: That’s when he assaulted her.
Cooper: My God.
Aram: The closest one is Albee Baby in Harding. I’m sending you an address now.
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[ At Albee Baby Store ]Clerk: Looking for a mobile?
Asa Hightower: I thought perhaps the planets, but I think we’ll go with the dinosaurs. Reptiles have a special place in our hearts.
Clerk: Well, congratulations. You must be thrilled. How far along is she?
Asa: Almost 7 weeks. It’s our first. …
[ FBI storm in ]
Liz: Asa Hightower, FBI. Hands where I can see them.
[ Asa grabs the clerk from behind and holds a sharp pen to her throat ] [Shrieks, gasping ]Liz: We have your files, your wife. She’s eager to testify against you. Now put it down.
[ Asa pushes the clerk toward Liz and tries to run but Liz picks up a wooden stool and hits him over the head with it ]
Ressler: Get down! On the ground. [ To Liz: ] How’d you know that was gonna work?
Liz: You ever trip over one of those things in the dark? They’re lethal.
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[ Cellphone vibrates ]Liz: Reddington.
Red: Elizabeth, where are you?Liz: Asa Hightower, the Apothecary – we have him in custody and we found his lab.
Red: Have you i-identified the toxin?
Liz: The lab’s working on it. Not yet, but they will.
Red: [ Coughs ] [ Groans ] Elizabeth, I found the wine that was used to administer the poison. One of my men is bringing it to you now. If the Apothecary doesn’t tell you what you need to know, the bottle will.Red: [ Coughing ]
Liz: Reddington?
Red: [ Coughing continues ]
Liz: Reddington!
Red: [ Coughing violently ] Oh!
[ Red collapses ]
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[ Ressler and Samar interrogate Asa Hightower ]Ressler: All right. Let’s keep this simple. We have two questions – who paid you to poison Reddington, and how do we cure him?
Asa: My clients contact me anonymously over the dark web. They don’t want me to know who they are and I don’t want to know. Clean.
Ressler: The antidote for the poison you gave Reddington. …Asa: You take the death penalty off the table, and I’ll tell you how to cure Raymond Reddington.
Ressler: …You’re afraid of the needle.
Asa: I’m not afraid to die, but it turns out I have something to live for. I’m gonna be a father. We wished for a child for so long. Even from a jail cell, we’ll be a family.
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[ Dr Haverkamp steps out of the vinyl-enclosed hospital room ]
Dr Haverkamp: I want to caution you against unwarranted optimism, but he’s stable for the moment.
Liz: Do you think he’ll recover?Haverkamp: Too early to say … but the antidote does seem to be working.
Cooper: Is there anything else you can tell us?
Haverkamp: Well, just that whoever poisoned him knew his medical history – intimately. The toxins were uniquely designed to target his body chemistry.Liz: Can we see him?
Haverkamp: Well, he’s just coming to. You should give him a few minutes.
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[ Inside the vinyl enclosure ] [ Monitor beeping steadily ]
Baz: Welcome back.
Red: Did you find Marvin?
Glen: [ Clears throat ] Oh, yeah. I found the weasel.Red: Tell me what happened.
Glen: I put the word out. We found him at Dulles. He was with his broad, the big girl. Bags packed, headed for the South Pacific.Red: Thank you, Glen. Good work. And Dembe?
[ Baz and Glen do not respond ]
[ Red writes something on a the edge of a medical record. Paper rips. Red gives the slip to Baz ]
Red: Have Marvin taken to that address. [ Exhales ]
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[ Liz’s cellphone vibrates ]
Liz: It’s the tox lab. Yes? What? I don’t under– … That can’t be right. Are you sure?
[ Liz goes into the vinyl hospital room enclosure ]
Liz: Reddington, the result–
[ Red is gone ]
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[ At Red’s secret flat ][ Door creaking. Red enters. Marvin Gerard is tied to a chair ]
Marvin: Red. What the hell is this about?
Red: Where’s Dembe?
Marvin: Dembe? How would I know? I don’t know what you’re talking about. …
[ Red sits in a chair across from Marvin ]Red: Unfortunately, for this grand pantomime of innocence, I know a great deal about all of it. I know about the wine. I know about you hiring Isabella Stone. About Zack Smoll, Stratos and his wife. … The only thing I don’t know is what you’ve done with Dembe.
Marvin: I didn’t show up to dinner because Becky and I were on our way to a yoga retreat in Tahiti.
It’s a place we found when you sent us down there last year, you remember?Red: Tell me where Dembe is.Marvin: Red, I swear to you. I don’t know any of what you’re talking about. …
Red: Remember that wretched bit of business on the Malay Peninsula? I was positive I would rot alone in that holding cell in Surat Thani. … 47 interminable days of near-constant rain.
I couldn’t be sure any of my messages had been dispatched. And then, on the 48th day, they swung the cell door wide and handed me a package. Half a dozen tins of chilled Beluga caviar and a note. “Love, Marvin.” … The bribes alone must have cost you a fortune. … [Y]ou had my undying gratitude …Marvin: Exactly. Why would I betray you?
Red: …I need to know about Dembe.
Marvin: Jesus, Red, I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
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[ Door opens ]
Guard: It’s Elizabeth Keen. She says it’s important.
Red: Yes?
Liz: The wine was clean. The tox lab said there was nothing in it. … They said the poison had to have been administered by something with a higher alcohol content, like gin or–
Red: Scotch.
Liz: Yes. Did you drink Scotch?
Red: I did. [ Uncorks and sniffs the Scotch bottle, recalls drinking it ] But there were only two people who had access to the bottle. And I’m one of them.Liz: Who was the other?
Red: [ Inhales ] No, it can’t be. …,
Liz: Reddington, talk to me. Who poisoned you?
[ Red clicks the phone shut ]
Red: That can’t be.
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[ Bob Dylan’s ♫ “All Along The Watchtower” plays ]
♪ “There must be some kind of way outta here” ♪
♪ said the joker to the thief ♪
[ Dembe Zuma walks down a crowded city street at night. He pulls over the hood of his jacket and heads down the steps to a subway station ]
♪ “There’s too much confusion ♪
♪ I can’t get no relief ♪
♪ Businessmen – they drink my wine ♪
♪ Plowmen dig my earth ♪
♪ None will level on the line ♪
♪ Nobody of it is worth.” ♪
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Blurb: The ties between Red and the FBI are becoming increasingly frayed as Red takes things into his own hands to find out who is behind the death of his accountant.
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[ Inside an ice storage facility ]
Red: You’ve murdered my friends and colleagues. … You seem to have a comprehensive knowledge of my life that you could only realize through an association with someone close to me.
Isabella Stone/Judith Pruitt: You don’t recognize me, do you?Red: I want to know who hired you.
Isabella: Gavin Pruitt was my husband. … Gavin set up your tax havens in Mauritius. And when the Feds got to him, you thought he would talk. So you had him killed.
Red: I want a name.
[ Cellphone rings ]
Dembe: Raymond, it’s Cooper.
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Cooper: [ On phone ] I just came from Main Justice. They threatened to shut us down.Red: They’re bluffing. …
Cooper: From the beginning, this has been all about serving your agenda. And I’ve rolled with that because I genuinely believe this task force makes the world a
safer place. … Now I want a name. I want a big one, not some independent contractor like Stone.Red: You can’t just order up super-criminals like Chinese takeout, Harold.
Cooper: I want it now.
Red: The Architect.
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Cooper: Reddington says The Architect is in Philadelphia recruiting hackers at an underground gathering called Black Mass 13.Liz: Sounds like a slasher movie.
Aram: More like a ghost story. Black Mass is where the worst of the worst compete to see who can hack a set of security measures. The winner is supposed to be hired for the type of gig that you don’t come back from with a soul …
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Liz: [ On phone ] Hey. Did you talk to Richard Game?
Tom: No. … He’s dead. Turns out his mother’s still alive, so I’m gonna see her. Maybe she has some answers.
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Cooper: Agent Ressler, a word. … Reven Wright was my superior and my friend, so I don’t like this any more than you, but the inquiry into her disappearance–
Ressler: Reven Wright didn’t disappear. She was murdered by Laurel Hitchin. We know that.Cooper: The inquiry’s being shut down.
Ressler: [ Scoffs ] The president’s National Security Advisor is a murderer. …
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Aram: Okay, I got something. It’s a pickup point, I think. 248 Garfield. 3:20 PM. It says, “Come alone and wear a yellow hat.”Liz: We need to get an agent to that pickup point to get into Black Mass to ID The Architect.
Aram: Yeah, but whoever we send in would have to really know their stuff. Not just the programming, but the buzzwords, the culture. It’s gonna–
[ Liz and Samar both look at Aram ]
Aram: No. I can’t, not after last time.
Samar: You were amazing last time.
Aram: Which part, getting beaten to a pulp by my psycho girlfriend, or screaming our safe word like a baby who needs his diaper changed?
Cooper: The Architect is a mass murderer. This is our only chance to catch him. We need you to do this.
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Aram: Are you getting the CCTV feeds?Samar: Okay, we have eyes. Yellow hat, gray blazer. Very handsome.
Aram: And the, um, TAC team is standing by?
Samar: They’ll be in place as soon as you give us a location for the Black Mass site.
Aram: So when I ID The Architect, they’re gonna breach, right?
[ A plain white van stops. Aram gets in the back door, with rough assistance from a man inside ]
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Red: Gavin was a brilliant accountant. And an even better man. Who worshiped you. When the Feds came asking questions about the nature of his relationship with me, his only thoughts were about whether you and your children would be safe and well provided for. I didn’t kill your husband. I helped him walk away from
everything he loved to protect you and your innocence. Ironic.Isabella: Where is he?
Red: Who hired you?
Isabella: I got an anonymous package [ Shivering ]
detailing files a-about every aspect of your operations, and–Red: And your payment?
Isabella: I received a credit stick. It’s in my apartment. It’s in the– the lining of a red silk dress. Now, my husband– where is he?
Red: He’s married. He remembers you as you were. To show him what you’ve become would be devastating. I’m not gonna tell you where he is. But I will turn the heat up.
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Lucy Game: Who are you?Tom: Uh, Ms. Lucy Game? My name is Frank Carraro. … It’s about your son.
Lucy: My son is dead. Have some respect.
Tom: I’m with the Innocence Project, and we believe that your son spent time in prison for a crime he did not commit.
⋘⋙[ Inside the house ]
Tom: His name was Christopher Hargrave.
Lucy: Yeah, I remember. … You obviously didn’t know my boy. Richard killed a lot of people. Took ’em apart in the garage out back. Did things to them– I’ll never forget. … Your services had better be used for someone who didn’t belong in prison. Richard never belonged anywhere else.
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[ Aram arrives at the Black Mass site ]Man: You looking for work?
Aram: Uh, you know, if, um, the job’s right.
Man: What do you know about batch credit card spoofing?
Aram: I’ve done, uh, some, you know. …[ Across the room at the bar, Aram recognizes “Elise”! – his former girlfriend who was actually a criminal hacker ]
Aram: Uh, excuse me. I think I see an old friend.
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Aram: Elise, Excuse me. Um. Aren’t you supposed to be in jail?Elise: Now’s not a good time.
Aram: Oh, really? I’m sorry. Am– Am I inconveniencing you?
Elise: I said not now. …
Bigsie Patel: [ Amplified ] Five minutes to HackStar! Nut up and get your hack on![ Aram and Elise get into the contest, hacking away ]
Bigsie: Whoa! … Gettin’ tense, gettin’ tense, gettin’ tense! Come on, wizards! Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is your picture on a milk carton!
Bigsie: Come on, come on, come on.
[ Error sounds, 💥🔥💥 explosion ] [ Aram wins ‼️ ]
Aram: Yes! Take that, biatch!Bigsie: All right, all right, all right! We have a new heavyweight champion of the world!
[ Explosion 💥🔥💥 ] [ Gunfire 💥💥 Screaming ]
Elise: They find out that we work for the government, we’re dead.
Aram: What do you mean “we”?
[ They run to a stairwell ]
[ The Architect enters with his mercenaries ]
Architect: 51.3 seconds. Excellent.
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Elise: Do you really think that the Feds are gonna let a prodigy like me rot in a jail cell?[ Elise removes her glasses and pulls out a device ]
Aram: Is that a remote code cypher? Are you trying to steal proprietary ideas?
Elise: Why do you think that I’m here? I had three agencies fighting a cage match to cut a deal with me before your
girlfriend even finished reading me my rights.Aram: She is not my girlfriend.
Elise: Oh, you’re pathetic.
Aram: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait. Who won that cage match?
Elise: The NSA. Who do you think I’m stealing for?
Aram: The NSA? Are you kidding me?
Elise: Come on!
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The Architect: 3.7 seconds ahead of schedule.Bigsie Patel: Who– Who the hell are you?
Architect: Doesn’t matter who I am, Mr. Patel. What matters is I would very much like to speak to the
young man who won your contest.Bigsie: Uh, I-I don’t know where he is.
Architect: How tragic.
[💥Gunshot. Bigsie falls ]
Architect: [ To his mercs ] Find him. [ Amplified ] Everyone, find a terminal. There’s something I
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Elise: Who is that guy?
Aram: I don’t know. My job was to ID him.
Elise: Okay, and then what?
Ara: The cavalry was supposed to come.
Elise: Tell me you have a plan “B.”
Aram: Yeah, I’m working on it, Elise. Or whatever you’re calling yourself this week.
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The Architect: [ Amplified ] A US power grid has never been compromised by hackers, for one reason– It requires the combined skills of people who are unwilling to work together. Today, you will work together – unwillingly.
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Aram: The Architect is gonna have the exits covered. But the mercs have radios, and if I can get one and I can get to the roof, I can notify the FBI.Elise: The roof? Please tell me you just said that to impress me.
Aram: If you think you’re that hot– Well, you are, but I don’t care. …
[ Elise helps Aram adjust his scarf ]
Aram: Was any of it real?
Elise: It wasn’t personal.
Aram: What we did at night with the lights off? That was personal. The way you let me feel about you– I can’t think of anything more personal.
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[ Aram creeps up on a merc with a fire hydrant, but he sees Aram’s sneaker ]
Merc: Let me guess. You were gonna clock me from behind.Aram: No. She was.
[ Fistfight between merc and Elise until Aram clobbers him with the fire hydrant. Aram takes the merc’s radio ]
Elise: There’s gotta be sewer access in the sub-basement. You know, it’s not too late to join me.
Aram: To run? I’m not gonna do that.
Elise: You do you, man.
[ Elise leaves ]
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Warden: Ready for your big day, Lonnie?
Lonnie: I do believe I am, Warden.
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[ Aram has made it to the rooftop ]Aram: Break emergency. I’m requesting an emergency autopatch relay to 9-1-1.
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Liz: [ On phone ] Did you see the mother?
Tom: Dead end. She thinks her son got what he deserved.
Cooper: Emergency patch from switching control. It’s Aram.Liz: [ On phone ] Look, I have to go, but I’m gonna make a few calls, see what I can find out. …
Cooper: Aram?
Aram: The Architect has control of the convention. I
count six mercs, heavily armed.Liz: Where are you?
Aram: I don’t know exactly, but, um, gonna switch this radio to tone so you can trace my signal.
Cooper: Aram, Agents Ressler and Navabi are in the area. We’re on our way.
Aram: Okay, they’re here, they’re here.
Merc: Hands! Keep ’em up! Keep ’em up!
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Architect: Well, you’re a many of many skills, Mister– Well, whoever you are, I need those skills.
Aram: Count me out.
Architect: Like him? [ Motion’s toward Patel’s dead body ][ Aram walks over to the dead man. Lying next to him are Elise’s glasses. Aram picks them up and puts them in his pocket ]
Aram: [ To The Architect ] I know who you are, and that you’re willing to kill me if you have to. But you don’t know who I am. And I am not someone who’s gonna help you commit a crime.
[ Hammer clicks ]
Aram: I’m not gonna help you.[ 💥 Gunshot, screaming ] [ FBI, including Ressler and Samar, storm the scene ]
[ 💥💥Gunfire 💥💥 ]
Aram: Samar!
[ The Architect throws a small canister ]
Woman: Get down! Grenade! 💥
[ The room fills with smoke. When it lifts, The Architect and Aram are gone ]
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Tom: [ On phone ] Liz, hey, what’d you find?Liz: When Richard Game confessed to your murder, he had been sick for years. He had a virus called Jenkins-Fowler. …[I]t’s incredibly contagious. He lived under constant quarantine. … Every interaction was supervised by prison doctors.
Tom: So maybe it’s one of them.
Liz: Or maybe it was the one person allowed unsupervised visitation with Game– his mother. …
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Ressler: No sign of Aram. He must have been taken hostage.
Samar: Which means he’s still alive.
Ressler: But for how long? We have no leads on The Architect’s plan.
Elise: Aram is the plan.Samar: Where is he?
Elise (aka Janet): Case number 91170086. The US Government vs. Janet Sutherland. You might wanna look that up before pulling the trigger.
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Samar: She cut a deal?Ressler: Full immunity. … She’s now an asset for the NSA.
Samar: You said Aram is the plan. What did you mean by that?
Elise: He won a contest. It was an audition to hack a tranche of softwares. I couldn’t crack it. … The Architect– he made them launch a cyber attack on a power grid in Southern Virginia.
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[ Classical music playing ] [ David Levine is having his portrait painted ]David Levine: Not now.
Randolf: He said it’s urgent.
[ Red enters ]
Red: I wouldn’t have come if the circumstances weren’t extraordinary. David, I need you to help me identify a
depositor at the bank.Levine: You know the rules.
Red; Yes, and I have great respect for them.
Levine: Then you know I can’t help you. Besides, I’m busy. … Is my jacket puckering?
Polpetto: Puckering. Come si dice “puckering”?
Red: I need a name.
Polpetto: [ Italian, subtitles ] Come on, move over.Levine: You know who the depositors are. Complete privacy.
Red: David, please.
Levine: Perhaps you don’t recognize Polpetto. The man is one of the great living artists. He rarely does portraits. He’s very selective in who he portrays with his brush.
Red: David, it’s a painting. What I’m talking about is life and death. …
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Tom: I owe you an apology.Lucy Game: Oh! You can’t come in here!
Tom: I lied to you. … I’m Christopher Hargrave– the boy you convinced your son to say he killed. …
How much were you paid, and by who?[ Tom draws a gun ]
Lucy: Ahh! Ahh! … Letter come. Special delivery. Return address was a PO box in New York. $100,000 if Richard said he did something he didn’t. … I got a script. It– What Richard was supposed to say.
Tom: Do you still have it?
[ Lucy fetches the script from a canister ]
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Ressler: The Architect– according to Reddington, he designs, constructs and executes the perfect crime.Cooper: You figured out what he’s after in Southern Virginia.
Ressler: Greenville Correctional Facility– one of the most secure
prisons in America. Home to Virginia’s Death Row, which is why they sent Lonnie Perkins there.Cooper: The cop killer.
Ressler: And president of the Aryan Revolutionary Council. Right now, they’re the biggest white supremacist gang in the prison system. Perkins is scheduled to be executed tonight.
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The Architect: On my signal, you will execute a remote takeover of the software controlling the internal operations of the prison.
Aram: Do you have any idea how many firewalls are built into a system like that?
Architect: Twenty-six. All disabled– thanks to a statewide blackout we created. …
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[ At the execution site, Lonnie is strapped to a gurney as a doctor checks his heart rate ]Warden: I’d like the door open, please, in case any of our visitors feel the need to step out…
The Architect: [ Over intercom ] Warden McCaslin, honored guests of the state, pleased direct your attention to guard tower 5.
[ High-pitched whirring ]
Architect: 3. 2. 1.
[ 💥 Gunshot ] [ 💥🔥💥 Explosion 💥🔥💥 ]
Architect: … I do hope I have your attention.
[ As The Architect is speaking, Aram removes the remote code cypher from the glasses he pocketed earlier and plugs it into the UBS port on the laptop ]
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[ Polpetto is in his car, ready to leave. Red and Dembe get in the car with him ]
Polpetto: [ In Italian, w subtitles ] What is this? What do you want? Come si dice–
Red: Uh, “kidnapping”?
Dembe: “Rapimento.”Red: You speak Italian?
Dembe: There was a girl.
Red: Of course there was. Tell Polpetto I’m a great admirer of his work. Mm, not so much his nudes. They’re a hair splayed for my tastes. And that I do apologize, but I require his services.
Dembe: [ To Polpetto, simply: ] Rapimento.
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Warden: Who are you?The Architect: It’s not important who I am. What’s important is that I have control of your prison. Once you release Lonnie Perkins, I will return that control to you.
Warden: That isn’t gonna happen!
The Architect: The next rod will strike the room where you and your guests are standing. You have 30 seconds, Warden, to release Perkins. …
Lonnie: Sounds like you don’t have much of a choice,
Warden.Warden: I could still have that man put a needle in your arm.
Lonnie: But if I go down, you’re going down with me. …
Architect: Last chance, Warden. Mach 7 leaves very little time for equivocation.
Warden: Let him go.
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Ressler: [ On phone ] We have a location for The Architect?Cooper: And Aram. He’s reached out using a device he got from Janet Sutherland.
Samar: That bitch?Cooper: She’s sitting right here.
Elise/Janet: Hey, Samar. It turns out your boyfriend picked up the remote code cypher during the attack. It’s meant to transmit data, which it’s doing now. …
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[ The Architect gives Lonnie Perkins exact instructions for getting out of the prison ]
Architect: Turn left and proceed 20 feet. … Turn right. [ To Aram ] Open the gate.Aram: If– If I set him free, more innocent people are gonna die.
Architect: Just open the gate.
Aram: I just– If you shoot me, you’ll never be able to open the gate.[ Hammer clicks ]
Architect: Just do it– now!
[ Aram complies and the prison gates open ]
[ Lonnie runs and gets into a blue van ]
Aram: You can’t do this.
Architect: I already have.
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[ Samar and Ressler arrive ] [ 💥💥Gunfire 💥💥 ]
[ The Architect’s mercs are shot by Ressler and Samar ] [ The Architect gets in his SUV and takes off ]Aram: No, no, no, no! Watch him! He’s getting away! Don’t let him get away! No! …
Ressler: Look, if he leaves now, we lose him for good.
[ Aram gets in the back of the pickup truck with the rocket-launcher ]
Ressler: What are you doing?
[ Aram aims the rocket launcher ]
Aram: He escapes, more people die.
[ Gunshot 💥🔥💥 Explosion 💥🔥💥 ]
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[ Classical music playing ]
Levine: Reddington.Red: Oh, my goodness. This is tedious. I’d give almost anything to have a scratch. But seeing as how, given your profession, David, you might be more inclined to squeeze them rather than scratch them, I won’t impose.
Levine: What– What’s he– Why is he painting your portrait?
Red: I only brought him here to leverage you to kill him unless you give me the name of the depositor who has declared war, but once I properly introduced myself, the little fellow just lit right up.
Levine: I didn’t fly him all the way here to paint your– Where is my portrait?Red: He needed the canvas. Turns out he’s a huge fan of spaghetti Westerns– the antihero, the outlaw, you know.
Levine: That’s quite enough. Out.
Polpetto: Shh!
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[ Polpetto puts down his brushes and walks over to Levine ]Polpetto: [ Italian, subtitles ] Please, my boy. Just a few hours with the man. He’s a legend. [ Kisses Levine’s cheek ]
Red: [ Laughs ] He is the sweetest man. It’s gonna break my heart to put a bullet in his head, but that’s what will
happen unless you tell me who at your bank is coming after me.Levine: You wouldn’t.
Red: I would. In fact, what better way to assure my place in history? The last portrait by a master, unfinished, killed by his subject. And you without a portrait at all. It’s a shame.
Levine: …Okay, okay, okay. Just stop. [ Exhales ] Give me the stick, and I’ll look into it. But you have to promise, please – spare the man’s life.
Red: We’ll see how the portrait turns out.
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Samar: I just got off with the DC field office. Perkins and the driver were stopped on I-274. They’re in custody now. I told you you would be amazing.
Aram: You don’t have to say that.Samar: It’s true.
Aram: I killed a man today. And by killing him, I prevented us from interrogating him. From getting information on his other cases and clients, victims.
Samar: Aram, you did the right thing. She’s the reason we were able to find you.Aram: Hey, uh, Janet. Um. Uh, I’m probably only alive because of you, so thank you for that. It doesn’t make up for– you know. [ Pause ] You should go.
[ Elise begins to walk away then hesitates ]
Elise: Hey, Aram? I am sorry.
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Liz: The mother?
Tom: She was paid $100,000 to convince her son to confess.
Liz: She admitted it. That’s great. Who paid her?Tom: She doesn’t know.… She was paid in cash. Half came in [a] script, and half came after Game was convicted. …
Liz: [ Reading ] Is any of this accurate?
Tom: It has to be, right? I mean, I don’t remember any of it.Liz: You should show this to your mother. She probably knows something.
Tom: … But– Reddington says I can’t trust her. That if I tell her I’m her son, I’ll never get the answers I’m looking for.
Liz: Based on this, it seems like the only way you will is if you do.
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Red: Harold, it troubles me that you’re dissatisfied with the results of our efforts.Cooper: Doing good for selfish reasons doesn’t make you good. It just makes you good at being selfish.
Red: I’m sorry about your daughter. … When someone you love is sick, you don’t need to shoulder that burden
alone.Cooper: My daughter isn’t a burden. She’s my greatest blessing. You want to know why those closest to you betray you? Why you’re alone and hunted? It’s because even when you try to do something good, you cannot seem to understand where your selfishness ends and other people’s lives begin. …
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Dembe: Raymond. It’s Levine. …Levine: Is this some kind of test? See if I would violate client confidentiality?
Red: What’d you find?
Levine: You know what I found.
Red: David, the name of the account holder who paid
Isabella Stone– who is it?Levine: It’s you, Raymond. The money came from one of your accounts.
Red: That’s not possible.
Levine: You have been catastrophically compromised. Forget having your testicles scratched. You’ve been castrated.
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Blurb: Isabella Stone destroys reputations – and she’s coming for Red’s. Meanwhile, Tom discovers things about his past that Red assures him can come to no good.
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[ Paris, France ] [ The scene of a car crash ]
Woman: Whoa. You got him good.
[ The man reaches into the front seat and pulls out an artificial leg. He shakes it to dislodge some wadding. The woman reaches inside and pulls out a rolled package, bonds of some sort ]
Woman: I get a kick out of this job.
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Liz: [ Quietly ] Tom. Tom, honey, wake up. I was feeding Agnes–
Tom: She okay? What’s wrong with–
Liz: No, no, she’s fine. I was watching the news and there was a plane crash. Honey, it was your father’s plane. He died.
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Stratos: Is it true about the courier?Red: Yes.
Stratos: I’m sorry, Red.
Red: Stratos, we have to take the bitter with the sweet.Stratos: Unfortunately, it’s not just one courier. People are talking about other setbacks.
Red: I have a lead on three cargo ships in Marseilles. If they are as advertised, we should purchase them. … I booked a room for you and Corina. … A very quiet, lovely villa on the outskirts of Monte Carlo. … Chin up, old friend. … We’ve been through worse.
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Red: A courier of mine was murdered in Paris last night, … killed by our next Blacklister. … The woman you’ll be looking for is quite literally a character assassin. Her objective is to utterly obliterate her target by any means necessary. Scandal, public humiliation, extortion, theft, murder.
Liz: And her next target is you.Red: Yes. …
Liz: What’s her name?
Red: I only know an alias. Isabella Stone.
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Liz: Dr Eric Bannon, a world-renowned cardiologist, was charged in a series of angel-of-mercy killings, due to lethal prescription drug interactions that were in fact engineered by Isabella Stone. …Aram: 2011, Bangladesh. Fire broke out in a Dhaka ghetto sweatshop. Sixty-eight perished, 27 were children. Subsequent news coverage exposed horrific working conditions which were blamed by activists on the factory’s primary contractor … and their CEO, haute couture designer, Cynthia Brooks. …
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Ressler: [ To the side, on phone ] Has he been admitted yet? … Has the doctor said anything? … Okay, let me see if I can come out. … No. I wanna be there. Bye.
Cooper: Ressler, Navabi, get with DGSE. See what they can tell us about the murdered courier.
Ressler: With all due respect, sir. It seems that Reddington gave us this case to protect himself.
Liz: Against someone we should be interested in taking down anyway.
Cooper: Why? Is there somewhere else you have to be? … Reddington insists his courier’s death was part of a larger threat and we’re going to investigate it. …
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Samar: Thank you for coming, Director. We were hoping the DGSE could tell us about the hit-and-run in Paris. … We’d like to review any eyewitness reports. …Director: You will have the eyewitness reports within the hour, as well as surveillance footage.
Samar: You have video from the hit-and-run?
Director: Of a nearby bar where the victim had been moments before the incident. …
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[ Monte Carlo, Monaco ]
Corina: I love this place.
Stratos: I know you don’t like him, but Mr Reddington, he takes care of his people. …
Corina: Darling, … I’m dying to bask in that beautiful bathtub.
Stratos: Bask away but hurry. I need my good luck charm. Mmmm. [ Kiss ]
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[ Corina steps into the bathroom, shedding her white terry robe to reveal a black bra and panties. She turns on the water in the tub, takes a red gown from the closet and steps back into the bedroom. Two women, dressed in black are standing there ][ Corina Gasps ]
Corina: Please don’t shoot.
Isabella Stone: Oh, honey, I’m not going to shoot you. The gun is only to make sure you stay quiet while Charlotte strangles you. …
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Cooper: What do we know?Aram: Okay, so, I think I found something. … Watch this. Do you see it?
Cooper: See what?
Aram: Hideous sweater. The coffee cup in the corner. …
Liz: So what? He’s thirsty.
Aram: No, no, no. Watch, watch.
See how long he’s holding the cup in front of his mouth? …Liz: He’s talking into a mike.
Aram: And following Mr Reddington’s courier out the door. …
Ressler: You get an ID?
Aram: Yes. Charles “Chip” Murphy. Former NCIS agent. … No fixed address … but he does own a storage unit in Fredericksburg, Virginia. …
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[ Red is in a backlit workshop, tinkering with a tiny, intricate piece of machinery ]
Tom: My father is dead. She’s the only one left who knows who I am.
Red: You’re Elizabeth’s husband and Agnes’ father.Tom: Who I was.
Red: You need to stay away from Scottie Hargrave.
Tom: Yeah, I know. You said that. My question is why?
Red: My question is “why not?” You have a wife and a child and a life. Leave well enough alone. …
Tom: You knew my father.Red: I had a brief professional relationship with your father, a man who wrestled with significant demons. I know his wife, your mother, is a manipulative creature whose own husband didn’t trust her, whose answers to the questions you want to answer could never be trusted. … Leave the past in the past, Tom. Nothing good will come from digging up secrets.
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Attendant: Sorry, sport. I can’t let you guys in a unit unless you guys have a warrant. … Now if you’ll excuse me,
I gotta get back to the front office. [ Attendant leaves ]Ressler: Let me call the U.S. Attorney’s office in Richmond, see if I can’t get an ETA on that warrant.
Liz: We don’t have time for that. For all we know, Murphy’s on his way back from Paris right now. … He might come back … before we can get a warrant.
[ Liz fishes for something to break the lock ]
Ressler: Jesus, Keen, you just got your badge back. … I’m not going in there without a warrant, and neither should you.[ Lock clicks ] [ Liz enters the storage locker. She defeats the lock on a file cabinet, takes out files and begins going through them ]
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[ Ring, beep ]
Red: Elizabeth.
Liz: We found a pop-up safe house used by one of Stone’s operatives, Charles Murphy. He has dossiers and photographs of Zack Smoll, your courier, and the man you were meeting with the other day.Red: Stratos?
Liz: Sarantos, yeah. And there’s a file on a woman with the same last name, Corina Sarantos?…
Red: I have to go. [ Hangs up ]
Liz: Reddington, wait [ Groans ]
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[ In the casino at the hotel outside Monte Carlo ][ Murphy slips a vial of something into Stratos’ drink ]
Stratos: 7 or 11. 7 or 11. Yes![Stratos downs the rest of his drink]
[Cellphone rings]
Stratos: Raymond. I’m at the tables.
Red: Stratos, listen to me. You’re in danger.Stratos: I can’t hear you. I gotta hang up. I’ll call you right back.
Isabella Stone, dressed as Corina: You son of a bitch.
Stratos: Corina, what are you–
Isabella/”Corina”: You are drunk!
Stratos: What the–
[ Isabella slaps Stratos ]
Isabella: How dare you! We talked about this. Talked about you, Reddington. … You should be ashamed of yourself.
Stratos: What the hell is wrong? What did I do?
Isabella: Not here.
[ They head up the staircase. Stratos and Isabella/”Corina” enter the hotel room where real Corina’s body is propped against the bed ][ Ring ] [ Ring ] [ Ring ]
Stratos: [ Groggy ] Hello?
Red: Stratos, listen to me. You and Corina, you’re in danger.
Stratos: Red, I can’t– [ Gasps, collapses ]
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[ Minutes later, Corina’s body is wearing the red dress. Murphy presses Stratos’ fingers against Corina’s neck ]Isabella: Perfect. Although I do think I wore it better. On my
signal. Set.[ Phone beeps ]
Isabella: Hotel security, please. Y-yes, the- the- The people in the room next door are having a terrible row. Hurry! I think he’s killing her!
Charlotte Hart: [ Screams, from the adjoining room ]
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Samar: I’m excited. This is my first time in Monte Carlo. … My favorite number is 36. So if we get the chance, we’re going to the roulette table, and we’re placing a hundred on red 36.[ Ressler does not respond ]
Samar: [ Teasingly ] What? You don’t like 36? You don’t like red? Hey.
Ressler: My brother’s going in for surgery.
Samar: Oh, God. Is it serious? What’s wrong?Ressler: What’s wrong is I’m here in Monaco when my brother’s going in for surgery. I mean, maybe if it was for the right reason, I-I wouldn’t have a problem, but it’s not. It’s for Reddington…
Samar: What’s wrong with your brother?
Ressler: It’s his heart. … He’s gonna go in for a bypass in the morning. …
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[ Stratos is being interrogated by Etienne Chiras. Ressler and Samar are observing ]
Stratos: I didn’t kill my wife.
Chiras: Hmm. Tell me about Raymond Reddington.Stratos: There’s nothing to tell.
Chiras: … Is that why you killed her? Because she didn’t want you working with Reddington? … She taunted you in public and five minutes later, a witness reported hearing her scream for her life.
Stratos: That woman, whoever she was, she was not Corina.
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Red: He was framed.Cooper: Judging by the preliminary crime scene analysis, I’d have to disagree.
Red: I can count the things I envy in this life. Their relationship was one. Corina was his soul mate. …
Cooper: First, your courier and the bearer bonds. Now Stratos. How are they connected?
Red: They’re not. But those bonds are traceable back to a shell company I own. A fact which I’m confident Isabella
Stone will use to my disadvantage. …Cooper: How much does Stratos know about your operations?
Red: I first met Stratos Sarantos when he was running guns to Cypriot resistance fighters in 1987. … He knows enough.
Cooper: So you are afraid he’ll talk.
Red: Stratos is very loyal. I’m not afraid he’ll talk. I’m afraid of what they’ll do to him when he won’t.
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Aram: All right, the hotel takes photocopies of every guest’s passport. This is the person registered in room 21 the day of the murder.
Cooper: Hallie Johnson?
Aram: Oh, no. It’s a fake. … Her real name is Charlotte Hart.Cooper: Did you find a connection between her and Murphy?
Aram: They both worked for this woman, Murphy as a private investigator, and Hart as an event planner.
Liz: Isn’t that Judith Pruitt, the one whose husband was arrested?Aram: Yeah, Gavin Pruitt, CEO of Pruitt Securities, one of the first big Wall Street pyramid schemes to go down in the late ’90s. Pruitt insisted he was innocent, but … he was convicted on 11 felony counts. … In the end, he was stabbed to death by a fellow convict.
Liz: What if he was innocent? Or Judith thought he was innocent? … What better way for the bereaved wife of an innocent man – a powerful man, destroyed, humiliated, imprisoned, and murdered – What better way for her to strike back than to inflict the same fate on the guilty?
Cooper: I’ve heard that she’s very active around town. Political fundraisers, charity events.
Aram: Oh, yeah, you’re right. … She is a major donor and will be at [a] fundraiser this afternoon at the Mandarin Oriental hotel.
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[ Knock on door ]
Tom: Um, Detective Kotchwar? … 30 years ago, you were the lead detective in the disappearance of a boy who vanished from a rental home in Ocean City. His name was 
Christopher Hargrave.Kotchwar: Yeah, he didn’t vanish. … He died.
Tom: Sir, that’s not possible.
Kotchwar: What makes you think that?
Tom: Because I’m Christopher Hargrave.
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Policeman: Monsieur Leroy Bloom? … Monsieur, did you see the person who took your vehicle?Red: Yes, absolutely I saw them. They took the damn thing right in front of me. They had the audacity to wave as they went away.
Policeman: A description?
Red: Uh, well, the one, the- The white one had a ponytail. The other, the black one, very worked out. He must drink a ton of those muscle shakes. …
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MC: Ladies and gentlemen, our fundraising efforts have once again exceeded our goals, allowing us to continue to help needy people in every country on earth. I now have the distinct pleasure to introduce the man behind all this good work. Our chairman, Dr. Justin Sperry.Dr Justin Sperry: Thank you, Joy. Good
afternoon, friends. Isn’t this a glorious day? I’m sure you all feel terrific. You know why? Because it feels good to do good. …[ The MC comes up and whispers something to him ]
Dr Sperry: I- Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen.
[ Dr Sperry abruptly leaves the stage ]
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Aram: One of the physician volunteers for the Sperry Medical Foundation was just arrested by Nigerian Customs for trying to smuggle $22 million in bonds held by one of Mr. Reddington’s shell corporations. … The chairman of the foundation is Dr. Justin Sperry. And he is the keynote speaker at today’s charity gala. …Cooper: Get a SWAT team and get to that event now. …
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[ At a police lineup ]
Red: That’s them. 100%. Ponytail. Muscle shake.
Policeman: D’accord, Monsieur Bloom. We’ll need your passport again for some paperwork. … Red: I can’t thank you enough. And I apologize in advance.[ Red punches the policeman, points gun at him ]
Red: Drop it, please. And would you do me the courtesy of sliding it over? Lovely.
Unlock it. [ Lock clicks ]
Chiras: [ About to enter ] Reddington.
Red: Ah, ah, ah, ah.
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[ Red, Dembe and Baz come to the cell holding Stratos ]
Red: Stratos.
Stratos: I knew you’d come.
Red: Time to go, my friend.
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Liz: Agent Keen, FBI.MC: Great. You’re here to arrest him now? You’re too late. He’s gone.
Liz: I’m not looking for Dr. Sperry. I’m looking for this woman. Judith Pruitt.
MC: I don’t understand. Judy’s the only one that was nice. Everyone else walked out. … They said the most horrible things about Justin after all the good work he’s done.Liz: Do you know where she went? Did she say?
MC: She’s with him. She insisted. Said he shouldn’t be alone, so she followed him home.
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[ Red, Stratos, Dembe and Baz are making their way through a labyrinth of corridors. Guards show up and a 💥💥gunfight 💥💥 ensures. Stratos is shot in the back ][ Red pulls back Stratos suit coat and sees he is bleeding heavily ]
Red: Oh, we gotta get you out of here.
Stratos: [ Gasping ] I can’t make it.
Red: Yes, you can.Stratos: Go. You have to go now.
Red: No. No, no, I’m not leaving you.
Dembe: We need to move. He won’t survive the escape.
Stratos: He’s right. Red, I won’t make it. Just give me a gun. It’s okay. …Red: Whatever happens, whatever you do, just know your children will be cared for and your honor is intact.
[ Red hugs Stratos and kisses him, then reluctantly leaves ]
[ 💥💥 Gunfire 💥💥 continues ] [ At last, the three climb a staircase toward sunlight ]
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Sperry: … I don’t understand. What do you people want?
Isabella: Oh, nothing’s that not well within your skill set, Dr. Sperry. All we want is for you to tell the truth. Charlotte.
[ Charlotte has set up a video camera ]
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[ Red and Dembe are flying back in Red’s private plane ]Cooper: [ On phone ] I told you, we’d handle Stratos.
Red: Yes, but you failed.
Cooper: Breaking him out was never our intention.
Red: I did what I thought was necessary.
Cooper: And now he’s dead, a man you said would do anything to protect you.
Red: Isabella Stone.
Cooper: She used the bonds to expose your involvement in the Sperry Medical Foundation.
Red: I’m told you have the location.Cooper: Correct. Keen, Ressler, and Navabi are in pursuit.
Red: I need to speak with her the moment she’s detained.
Cooper: Oh, that’s not gonna happen.
Red: I wasn’t asking permission.
Cooper: Hey. I stood by you. Signed off on cases that are increasingly personal to you. I have
done that.
Over the objections of both agents I respect and superiors I answer to. So before you start telling me what it is you wa–[ Red hangs up on Cooper ]
Red: [ Sighs ]
Dembe: Maybe we shouldn’t have gone there, Raymond. You keep putting yourself in more and more danger every year, every day. And people are dying all around you.
Red: I don’t know how to respond to that.
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Dr Sperry: I’m not going to read this. Th-This is nonsense.Isabella: Is it? Because my source was quite certain that Reddington has donated millions to your foundation.
Sperry: You have no proof. …
Isabella: Which is why I am so glad that I can count on people buying into appearances. Cubic zirconia. …Sperry: Forget it. I-I won’t do it.
Isabella: Oh, you will. And I urge you to be convincing. After all, your life depends on it. To enter the water strapped into that wheelchair, a last tragic act of a desperate man … Trust me, Dr.
Sperry, no matter how sterling your reputation, people will believe the most awful things.[ Murphy pushes Sperry’s wheelchair right up to the edge of the pool ]
Sperry: All right, all right, all right! All right.
Isabella: … Let’s get started.
Sperry: [ Reading ] Ladies and gentlemen, those of you who have been kind enough to support the Sperry Medical Foundation in the past with your contributions … I owe you all a heartfelt apology and a confession. For decades, I have not only accepted millions of dollars from Raymond Reddington, a known criminal …
[ FBI storm the scene ]
Dr Sperry: Oh! Help! Help!
[ Isabella pushes the wheelchair into the swimming pool ]
[ 💥💥 Gunfire 💥💥 ]
[ Liz dives into the pool, unstraps Sperry and pulls him to the surface ]
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Samar: Who were you working for? Who contracted you to go after the people working for Reddington?Isabella: You should be thanking me.
Ressler: For what?
Isabella: For targeting him, hurting him.…
Ressler: See, you wanna hurt Reddington. We wanna capture him. It seems like we both want the same things.
Isabella: I can assure you, we do not. …
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Red: I was relieved to hear about Justin. He’s a good man.
Liz: Is there any truth to Stone’s allegations?
Red: Only in so far as I’ve made substantial anonymous contributions to his foundation. … I consider Justin to be a saint. Or as close to a saint as one can be in this world.
Liz: You know him?Red: I met him a decade ago in West Africa. The WHO and the Gabonese Ministry of Health had declared a hemorrhagic fever outbreak .… I happened to be in the area transporting materials to the Congolese border when we ran into an improvised roadblock … Out steps this young, skinny kid, fresh out of Harvard Medical School. Justin hadn’t yet lost the use of his limbs [to ALS]. … He was fearless. A lion. He demanded to commandeer our convoy in order to transport refugees to Ekata. …
Liz: What did you do?
Red: In the face of that kind of will, I re-organized my cargo and complied with his demands. …
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Liz: What is this?
Red: For Agnes.
Oh, it’s beautiful.
Red: You’ll find your time with her goes by too quickly. That’s why cuckoo clocks are perfect. I don’t really care what time it is. I just want to hear the birds sing.
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Samar: Your brother?
Ressler: [ Exhales slowly ] He’s fine. [ Voice breaks ] But he might not have been. I should’ve been there.
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[ Police vehicles transporting Isabella Stone are caught in a trap laid by Red’s men. Vehicles careen and 💥🔥 crash 🔥💥 in a fiery melee. The vehicle containing Isabella Stone is rolled over. She is hurt but conscious ]
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[ Tom is sitting on the floor surrounded by papers listening to a video of a man ]
Richard Game: When I went into his room, there was a little light on. Like a night-light. Enough to get around. … When I walked up to him, he was sleeping there. Like a doll or something.
[ Liz arrives home ]
Liz: Hey, babe. You know, I was thinking about your dad, and you’re right. We should just let it lie. … Honey, these are police reports. What do those have to do with your dad?
Tom: They don’t. They’re about me.
Liz: [ Referring to the video ] Who’s that?
Tom: That’s Richard Game. The man who murdered me.
Game: When I picked him up, he sorta looked at me a minute. Like maybe he knew me. Then he started slapping, or hitting. So I put my hand over his mouth. Guess he was trying to fight.
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[ In a frozen storage locker, a hood is removed from Isabella’s head ]
Red: Isabella, we have much to talk about.
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Blurb: One of Red’s accountants is disappeared or dead – along with a huge cache of cash (Red’s cash). The Task Force confronts an assassin who uses disease to kill.
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Red: How much? Smoll was cleaning over two hundred million. How much was lost?
Abe: All of it. …
[ Liz enters ]
Liz: Problems?
Red: Yes. [ Clears throat ] Transactions vital to my interests failed to be tendered.Liz: What kinds of transactions?
Red: It seems that a bid I made on the Whistler Cruise Line wasn’t tendered because my accountant dropped dead before he could transfer the funds. In addition, millions are missing that the same accountant was in the process of laundering.Liz: I think I’ve heard enough.
Red: It appears my operation is under seige. … I’m under attack, Elizabeth, and I need to find out by whom.
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Liz: Roughly 14 hours ago, Zack Smoll was found dead in the Gentle Bliss Massage Parlor. ME’s initial report describes symptoms consistent with acute meningitis. …
Ressler: If someone killed Reddington’s accountant, you think he’s gonna want us to just put him in jail? I mean, the second we find him, he’s gonna insist we turn him over so he can make an example by murdering him.
Cooper: I agree. Agent Keen, tell Reddington he’s on his own.
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[ Aram’s computer 🦆*quacks* 🦆 ]
Aram: Uh, guys, Smoll’s body has just been flagged by the CDC. They’ve rerouted it to a level four biocontainment lab.
Ressler: What does that mean?
Liz: It means whatever killed Smoll is a lot more dangerous than meningitis.
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Liz: Any idea what we’re dealing with?
Doctor Nina: Luschen’s disease. It’s a form of viral meningitis. …
Ressler: How contagious is it?Doctor Nina: This strain’s mutated such that it’s transmitted via physical contact. Sweat, saliva, even the lightest touch can be lethal. …
Liz: So how did Smoll get infected?
Dr Nina: Lipstick. We found traces of it around the victim’s mouth. …
Ressler: So, who is she? Why isn’t she dead? …
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[ Aram laughs in excitement ]Aram: Oh ho ho! I found our suspect.
Samar: Good for you.
Aram: Okay, uh, what’s going on?
Samar: Nothing. I’m fine.
Aram: Really? Because you seems upset.…Samar: I just lost it with the ladies in payroll. They gave me your check instead of mine, because, you know, we both have brown faces.
Aram: I’m sure that was a mistake.
Samar: You make 32% more than I do. …
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Samar: Aram has a suspect.
Aram: …Uh, the suspect. Okay, the CDC has only one other recorded outbreak of Luschen’s in the U.S. A pawn broker in Maryland.… And so, I dug up some security feeds and look who was there.
Cooper: The same woman at both outbreaks. One a robbery, the other an assassination.… [I]f we don’t find her soon, someone else is going to die in the process.
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[ Natalie Luca is lying on her side, in preparation for a spinal tap to be administered by her boyfriend, Malik Roumain ]Malik: I wish there was another way.
Natalie: It’s okay. … You don’t have to explain. This is what we both want. Just do it.
[ Malik injects her with a long needle. Natalie’s face contorts in pain ]
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Baldur Magnusson: [ Answers phone ] What do you want?Red: Are the rumors true that you’re responsible for the death of my accountant, Zack Smoll?
Baldur: The truth doesn’t matter. It’s about appearances.
And at the moment it appears to virtually anyone who gives a damn that I killed Smoll, and your failure to retaliate is proof of your weakness. Whether I killed him or not is immaterial. You have no choice but to come for me.Red: And you for me. …
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Red: I’ve reviewed the case file you sent.Liz: And you’ve got something?
Red: You know, many ancient cultures shares a common figure, a god or demon who brought disease to humanity. The Finns called her Loviatar, the Yoruba people knew her as Shapona. The Greeks of course immortalized Pandora. Odd that they’re always women. Have you ever heard of Mary Mallon?Liz: Should I have?
Red: She was a cook for the New York elite in the late 19th Century. When an alarming number of high society swells came down with typhoid fever, a research scientist traced the outbreak to a woman with the rare ability to carry the disease without suffering its effects or exhibiting any outward symptoms. Earning her the name–Liz: Typhoid Mary.
Red: Correct. You’re looking for an asymptomatic carrier of Luschen’s Disease. … And, hurry. There’s a reason the plague-bringers were the most feared among the ancient deities.
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[ Natalie and Malik are eating a meal. They are seated alongside each other but separated by the vinyl panel of a bio-containment unit ]
Malik: The spinal tap didn’t yield the results that I was expecting. And we still need specialized equipment, which
means…Natalie: More money. More people.
Malik: I found another opportunity, that we- we can handle, that you can handle, I’m sure of it. Please look at me. I’m gonna figure this out. I swear it. I just need a little more time. [ He puts his hand against the vinyl ] We’re so close.
[ Natalie places her hand against his ]
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Red: Please excuse the intrusion.Tom: She’s not here.
Red: I’m not here to see Elizabeth. … What do you know about Edgar Legate?
Tom: When it comes to assassins, he’s the gold standard. Nobody’s ever seen the guy.
Red: Precisely. Because he doesn’t exist. Legate is an elaborate fiction, a bogeyman I created.… One of my competitors, Baldur Magnusson, is actively seeking a reliable independent contractor to kill me, someone I won’t see coming. I think Legate would fit the bill nicely.Tom: And you want me to become Legate.
Red: I thought maybe… If you can find a sitter. [ Red smiles merrily at Agnes ]
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Aram: …The first recorded outbreak of Luschen’s in human beings occurred in rural Moldova in 2002. A family of nine wiped out except for one daughter Natalie Luca. She was taken to a local clinic, but the outbreak was deemed too much for them to handle.
Cooper: How did she get out of Moldova?Aram: The World Health Organization called in Hawthorne Biologics, a company that specializes in infectious disease response. They brought the girl back to their research clinic outside Alexandria for further treatment.
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Ressler: If she was so infectious, how come she’s at large?Hawthorne Biologics MD: We had no legal right to hold her. She was young. She was in love.
Ressler: In love? With who?
MD: Malik Roumain. He was a promising young bio research tech.
Samar: But they couldn’t touch each other?MD: No. …He advocated for her, agreed to take responsibility for her quarantine, see to her needs. We agreed to a year-long break from testing in exchange for Malik submitting regular reports.… The reports kept coming in, so we assumed they were still at the house we’d provided. …
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[ Natalie emerges from a van and approaches a guard for an armored car ]Natalie: Hi. I’m so sorry, but we’re doing this scavenger hunt for my sorority, and I need to kiss two guys with a gun
Guard: Seriously?
Natalie: I know. It’s stupid.
Guard: Do your worst.
Natalie: So does your friend have a gun, too?⋘⋙
[ Guard #2 emerges with two heavy leather bags to load into their vehicle. He opens the door to see the first guard dead inside. Immediately, Guard #2 is also overtaken. Vomiting he falls to the ground. ] [ Grunts softly ] [ Coughs ] [ Gurgling ]
[ Malik walks over and retrieves the two leather bags ]
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Volker Graves: If you had allowed me secure the facility as I requested, Malik never could’ve broken her out in the first place.Hawthorne Biologics MD: We agreed your men would’ve drawn unnecessary attention.
Hawthorne Biologics Exec: Enough. What did you tell the FBI?
MD: That Natalie voluntarily chose to leave with Malik. They have no reason to suspect the true nature of our research. …
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Liz: Malik Roumain born to immigrant parents.… The American dream. By 23, he had his PhD in biochemistry from Johns
Hopkins and turned down a number of highly paid offers to accept a post-doc at Hawthorne.Ressler: Hawthorne claims that he and Natalie fell for each other while he was working there.
Liz: Talk about forbidden love.
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Samar: Aram. Cooper called me in.… [H]e offered me a raise. 16%.
Aram: That’s fantastic. …
Samar: No, it isn’t. It’s an insult. I turned it down. …
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[ In a hotel lobby ]Concierge: Can I help you, sir?
Red: As a matter of fact, you can. [ Red shows the Concierge a photo of Tom ] I believe this man checked out of your hotel earlier today.
He’s an old friend, and I completely lost my head and forgot our appointment. I was wondering if you could tell me where he was headed. …Concierge: I’m afraid I don’t know. And even if I did, I would not be at liberty to say. …
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Baldur Magnusson: [ Answers phone ] Yes?
Concierge: Reddington was here looking for one of the guests, Michel Badot. …
Baldur: It’s Legate.
Concierge: What do you want me to do?
Baldur: Secure Legate. I want a word.
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Natalie: You got itMalik: Yeah. It cost everything that we got. But if I can isolate the enzymes, we’ll be able to– [ Phone beeping ] [ Looking at his phone, Malik sees police in their house ]
Natalie: What is it? What’s wrong?
Malik: They found the house.Natalie: Who?
Malik: The cops. They have all of our equipment and our research.
Natalie: Well, what should we do? …
Malik: Another job. One that I heard about from Hawthorne…Natalie: [ Breathes sharply ] But after this, I won’t have to hurt anyone else?
Malik: No. Never again. I promise. I’ll take your hand in mine.Natalie: [ Inhales sharply ] And I’ll pull you closer.
Malik: I’ll feel your breath against my skin.
Natalie: And I kiss you.
Malik: The two of us.
Both: Forever.
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[ One of Magnusson’s goons comes up behind Tom as he is walking and sticks a gun in his back ]
Goon: Monsieur Legate. My employer would like a word with you. …
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Cooper: What are we looking at?Aram: Okay, I pulled these from from one of Malik’s hard drives. They’re blueprints for a compound in Sag Harbor, New York, owned by an offshore trust. Now, he also had a number of dossiers, including these. …
Cooper: Other than being rich, what do these three have in common?
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Red: [ On the phone ] Xavier Holcombe’s annual poker bash. An all cash, no limit marathon with positively obscene stakes.Liz: How obscene?
Red: Buy-in is half a million, quite the research grant for our starcrossed outlaws. I bought in on a lark three years ago. Lost my– well, no one has a shirt that expensive. …
Liz: You know, Tom and I were just starting to find some semblance of normalcy. And you had to just sweep in, drag him back down your rabbit hole. There must be dozens of contract operatives just like
him. Why him?Red: Tom is very good at what he does. It defines him. He can no sooner choose to stop than a great white shark can choose to stop swimming and eating. He will do what he does. But at least if he’s doing it for me, he won’t risk a double-cross, unlike with the vast majority of his prospective employers. Because unlike them, I genuinely care for him. Or rather you, and your daughter.
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[ Two goons escort Tom aka “Edgar Legate” to a table where Baldur Magnusson is seated, eating lobster ]
Baldur: Care for a claw? Hmm. [ Chuckling ] That Saudi oil minister in Kuala Lumpur How on earth did you manage that one?Tom: I don’t discuss the details of my work.
Baldur: I appreciate that, particularly as I wish to engage your services. …⋘⋙
[ Red and Dembe enter ]
Baldur: So Legate works for you.
Red: In a manner of speaking.
Baldur: Well, I suppose it was inevitable, one way or the other. … Kill me and restore your reputation.
Red: [ Dismissing the others ] Give us a moment.
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Baldur: I didn’t kill your accountant. Your deal was falling apart. I stepped in and took it.Red: I would’ve done exactly the same. Keep the ships, Baldur. As Rat said to Mole, “There is nothing, absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
It’s funny. For the longest time, I’ve been perfectly comfortable knowing I could die at any moment. I could walk out of this room and be shot in the street. I’ve always been fine with that. But lately, I can smell it in the air around me. Like death is slouching towards me from the corners of the room. And I cannot tell if it is here for me. Just an echo of the past. I wish it had been you. Would’ve been so much easier.༺ ♤ ༻
[ Elsewhere, the high stakes poker game is beginning ]
[ Indistinct conversations ] [ Chips clatter ]
⋘⋙[ At a back entrance ]
Malik: [ Knocking ] Uh, oyster delivery for Mr. Holcombe.
Holcombe: About time. You’re an hour late.
[ Malik unloads boxes of oysters from the van. The body of the driver whom Natalie infected to get the van is in the back. Natalie gets out of the van dressed in a server uniform ]
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[ Natalie is in the kitchen. Along with other servers, she takes a tray of oysters and heads to where the guests are playing poker ]⋘⋙
Ressler: [ On phone ] Samar, what do you got?
Samar: There’s no sign of Malik. I’m going in. …
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[ Inside, Natalie sees Ressler and gasps. She drops her tray and runs ]
Ressler: … Stop, Natalie, stop!
[ Natalie runs up a staircase, but Samar is waiting at the top for her, gun drawn ]
Samar: Stop, Natalie! Stop! Don’t move. No one else has to die today.Natalie: [ Screams ] Malik!
Samar: You need to come with us now.
Natalie: If you wanna stop me, you’re gonna have to kill me.
Samar: Please don’t make me do that.
Natalie: I can’t be locked up again.
[ Ressler catches up. Taser clicking. Natalie falls ]
Ressler: [ On phone ] Suspect’s in custody.
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Samar: There’s no sign of Malik.Ressler: Aram, check that local PD has shut down the roads 10 miles in every direction.
Aram: On it. And that Hazmat team we sent earlier, they should be there any minute.
Ressler: No, Hazmat’s already transported her. What are you talking about? …
Samar: [ Suddenly: ] Oh, my God.
[ Samar and Ressler run and jump into their SUV ]
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[ Inside Hawthorne Biologics’ HAZMAT van ]Volker Graves: We have gone through quite a lot of trouble to find you, young lady.You’re the most valuable asset in our portfolio. …
Natalie: I won’t go back there.
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[ Ressler and Samar are attempting to catch up with the van with Natalie ]Aram: [ Over comm ]… All right, uh, satellite’s coming around now. Okay, they’re heading southeast on Holly Knoll Drive. They’re about 200 yards past mile marker 46. Okay, weird. There’s another vehicle trying to push them off the road. Uh, okay, now both vehicles are off the roadway. They’re about 1/4 mile before marker 45.
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[ Malik and Natalie get out of the crashed vans ]Malik: I thought I lost you.
Natalie: Are you okay?
Malik: Yes.
Natalie: What do we do now?
Malik: We’ll go in the woods. We’ll find a car.
[ Gunshot 💥 ➔ Malik is shot in the abdomen by Volker Graves ]
[ Tires screech. Ressler and Samar arrive and jump out of their SUV ]
Ressler: Don’t move!
Natalie: Aah!
Malik: Natalie.
Natalie: Oh, God.
[ Malik gasping ]
Ressler: Don’t!
Natalie: [ Screams ] We need help!
Malik: I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I was wrong.
Natalie: No. …
Malik: No. I never should’ve made you …
Natalie: I would’ve done anything to be with you.Malik: Oh, I take your hand in mine. So soft.
Natalie: And I pull you close.Malik: I feel your breath against my skin.
Natalie: And I kiss you.
Malik: [ Whispers ] The two of us.
Natalie: [ Whispers ] Forever.
Samar: [ To the others: ] Give her a minute.
[ Crying ] [ Sobbing ]
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Natalie: I can describe every tile in the room they kept me in. … But then, there was Malik. He was the only one who really saw me, not the subject, but me, Natalie.Samar: What made you leave?
Natalie: At first, we thought the research they were doing was our best chance at being
together. But when Malik learned what Whitehall was doing–Ressler: Whitehall?
Natalie: Hawthorne’s weapons lab. They weren’t trying to cure me. They were using me, my cells, to develop a biological weapon.… We– We’re really sorry for all those people. [ Crying ]
Samar: I know.
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Samar: It was one of the most romantic things I’ve ever seen. He died in her arms. It was like an episode of– I don’t know. Some show.… [I]t made me feel a little sorry for myself, that I didn’t have someone like that.
Aram: What, to die in your arms?Samar: And then I started thinking about my raise. 16%. …[I] t’s exactly half of the difference between what you and I make.… You gave me half of your 32%.
Aram: Now we get paid equally.Samar: I don’t want your money.
Aram: Why not? You were right. We do the same thing. …I’m sure you deserve more. It’s just I have this this student loan and this online poker debt.
Samar: What you did, no one else would do for me.
Aram: I’d do anything for you.
Samar: I know. Which is why I have no reason to feel sorry for myself.
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[ Red sits down in the area where Natalie is being held ]Natalie: Who are you?
Red: [ Exhales ] Losing someone we love is painful. Agonizing even unto death. The Japanese call it tako-tsubo – a grieving surge of abnormal electrical waves that causes the heart to deflate and contort until it resembles a a fishing pot. Hollow and cold, an empty vessel at the bottom of a fathomless sea.
I’m sorry for your loss. You have suffered enough of that in your life.Natalie: What do you want?
Red: The man you killed at the massage parlor was an associate of mine. You didn’t know him, you didn’t rob him. Someone hired you to assassinate him.
Natalie: She knew who I was. We had no choice.
She said if I didn’t kill him, she would tell Hawthorne where to find us.Red: Who?
Natalie: Isabella Stone.
Red: [ Pause ] Thank you. Natalie, do you mind if I sit here for a moment? For the life of me, I don’t think I could get up right now.
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Blurb: The US witness protection list has been stolen by a group of female thieves called The Harem. Dembe has confided in Liz that Red murdered Kate (“Mr Kaplan”).
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[ Zack Smoll pulls up to a pleasant brick house and enters. Inside, machines are whirring as several men process thousands of bills of United States currency ]Red: [A]n investment opportunity has come up. I need funds in that amount [for] a floundering cruise line in urgent need of a bailout.
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Red: Your government’s Witness Protection list has been stolen.
Liz. You know who stole it?
Red: No, but I know who’s going to steal it next. …
This was a jewel heist that netted over $10 million in diamonds perpetrated by a heist crew known as The Harem, … an elite group of female thieves who steal only from other criminals. And with the Witness Protection list out in the open, the timing is no coincidence.Liz: Every one of those witnesses would be in danger if their identities get out.
Red: Which makes the list extraordinarily valuable. And irresistible to the Harem. Catch them in the act of stealing it, and you’ll save the lives of everyone on that list.
Liz: How exactly are we supposed to catch them in the act? –
Red: You can’t. And if you can’t beat them, as the saying goes…
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Ressler: Join them? That’s Reddington’s plan to put you undercover in a heist crew?
Liz: The Harem is responsible for a number of high-line thefts. … The leader of The Harem is a woman named Margot Rochet. She’s staying at The Fairborne under the alias Kate Morgan.Samar: How do we get her to believe that you’re some kind of elite thief?
Liz: Reddington says he knows someone she worked with in the past who can vouch for me. …
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Gaynier: I knew Margot. She likes to know the people she works with. Control. She’ll smell a lie on me a mile away.
Liz: We’ll go over our story until we forget it’s a lie.
Gaynier: You’re still gonna have to prove yourself.
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Liz: Sorry to disturb you, ma’am. I need to check the mini bar.Margot: Oh, I didn’t drink anything.
Liz: I’m so sorry. Hotel policy.
Margot: Oh. Go ahead. [ Resumes her phone call ] [ As Margot is on the phone, Liz checks her bag and quickly finds the pouch of stolen diamonds and pockets them ]
Margot: Do nuts count? Because I had a small bag of salted almonds. Whatever. I couldn’t resist. Sue me.
[ Liz has already left. Where the diamonds were, Margot finds a note: “I will be waiting in the bar” ]
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[ Liz is sitting at the bar. Margot joins her ]Margot: Give me one good reason I shouldn’t take you upstairs right now and kick your ass.
Liz: I’ll give you 73.
[ Liz gives Margot the pouch of diamonds ]
Liz: My name’s Liz Crawford. I wanna join The Harem.
Margot: And what do you do, Liz Crawford?
Liz: I read people. I tell people exactly what they need to hear in order to do exactly what I need them to do. …
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Margot: There is one boss here. You do as I say. And no questions asked.Liz: I understand.
Margot: Good. Shoot him.
Gaynier: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
Margot: I’m told the feds are kicking your baby brother for “good behavior.” And since his behavior is never good, that means he cut a deal or… you cut one for him.Ressler: [ Outside in vehicle ] Wish we had eyes in there.
Gaynier: That’s crazy. I’d never do that–
Margot: Never sell me out to save your own flesh and blood? [ To Liz: ] I told you to shoot him.
Liz: Shoot him yourself.
Margot: I gave you an order.Liz: No, you gave me a test, and I’m gonna tell you why I passed. You don’t need blind followers. What you’re interested in is loyalty. I worked with Craig. I’m loyal to him. Take me on, I’ll be equally loyal to you.
Margot: You are good. [ Chuckles ] And you’re right. Loyalty is everything. [ To Gaynier: ] But I still haven’t forgotten Majorca.
[ Margot shoots Gaynier 💥 ]
Margot: [ To Liz: ] Welcome to The Harem! …
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[ Sydney, Australia ]Wilson: I am sorry I’m late. Gentlemen. I’m Carter Wilson. I spoke with your associate on the phone. I’m not entirely certain what I can do for you, Mr. Lockhart.
Red: I’ll be blunt, Mr. Wilson. Whistler Cruise Line is sinking. The band is on deck and warming up “Nearer My God to Thee.”
Wilson: [ Chuckles ] We’re having some difficulties, but–
Red: Running aground on endangered coral reefs, E. coli at the buffet, sailing half-empty ships. Your difficulties are about to land you in bankruptcy court. …Wilson: I’m afraid I don’t follow.
Red: I bail you out, you transport my cargo.
Wilson: What kind of cargo?
Red: Could be Dutch tulip bulbs to New York, ghost guns from Danao. But … plausible deniability’s the best option. I save your business, you don’t look too closely at mine.
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[ Liz wakes up in the night ] [ She walks to the kitchen and notices several pill bottles. Emma comes up behind her ]Emma: This job is hard.
Liz: I’m sorry. I-I didn’t mean to…
Emma: It’s for anxiety… depression, pain. Mental, physical. Definitely spiritual. …
You’re a funny drunk. Chatty.Liz: Chatty?
Emma: Couldn’t shut you up.
Liz: That’s embarrassing. I mean, how embarrassing was it?
Emma: Not embarrassing at all.
Liz: Good. That’s a relief.
Emma: It was more… revealing.
Liz: How revealing was it, exactly?
Emma: Enough for me to know what you’re really about. –
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Cooper: A rackets informant in Witness Protection was just murdered in Dubuque– Jordan Pomaville.Ressler: Here we go. It’s starting.
Cooper: Tell Reddington. See if he can find who did it. That person has the list– or knows where to find it.
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Red: The guy your government was protecting was murdered by Tony Giannusa.
Ressler: Giannusa’s New Jersey mob. Justice has a pending racketeering case against him.
Cooper: Not if their star witness is dead. …
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Red: Smoll?
Dembe: I’ve tried him twice.
Red: Try again. I want to know the minute the transfer is complete.
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Sasha: To get the WITSEC list, we need to get Giannusa alone. We’ve got leverage over him once we do.
Liz: What kind of leverage?
Emma: Giannusa had a courier transporting diamonds through Atlanta.
Jessica: We stole them. He wants them back. …
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[ At Giannusa’s strip club ]Lexie: Looking for something special?
[ Instead of replying, Liz hands her a diamond.]
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Tony Giannusa: What’s all the racket? I pay you girls to dance, not stand in the back clucking like a bunch of hens in hair extensions. What do you got there, Lexie?[ Lexie shows him the diamond ]
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Giannusa: You know who I am?
Liz: I know you’re missing 72 stones just like that one.
You want ’em back? Be at the Menchaca Produce warehouse tomorrow morning at 10:00.[ Giannusa is furious. Gun clicks ]
Liz: I don’t walk out of here in 30 seconds, you’ll never see your diamonds again.
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Jessica: Giannusa’s not with them. Pay up.
Emma: Bollocks.
Jessica: [ To the men: ] You may wanna call your boss.
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[ At the strip club ]
Giannusa: [ On phone ] What the hell are you saying? Okay– What? Slow do– hey.[ Giannusa sees Liz ]
Giannusa: Hey, you said the diamonds would be at the warehouse.
Liz: No, I didn’t. I said you’d get them back if you went to the warehouse. You didn’t. Now we get to talk in private.
[ Margot appears and takes out the single guard of Giannusa’s not diverted to the warehouse 💥]
Margot: This one says she reads people. Like those, uh, FBI mindhunters who predict behavior. That’s nonsense, right? But I will be damned if she didn’t just predict yours. Now the diamonds are in a locker at the bus depot downtown. You get the locker number and a key on two conditions.Giannusa: I’m listenin’.
Margot: One, tell us who’s got the WITSEC list. Two, burn this place down.
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Ressler: Did you figure out who’s got the list?
Liz: Ever heard of the hacker Helldritch?Ressler: Of course. The guy’s hit political candidates, government servers. He’s released thousands of classified documents online. The guy’s a national security nightmare.
Ressler: Where is he?
Liz: I don’t know. …
Ressler: So how’s that cover holding up?
Liz: Margot’s on board. Emma… something’s off. Has Aram had any luck with her background?
Ressler: No. It’s like her ID was professionally scrubbed.
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[ It’s raining ] [ Emma walks through the rain and enters a restaurant ] [ Liz is tracking Emma. She follows her to the restaurant and peers through the window. Emma is seated across from Red❗They are talking ]༺ ♤ ༻
[ Liz parks her car. Red’s Mercedes pulls up. Liz gets in ]
Liz: She works for you?
Red: I placed Emma Knightly in The Harem so she could keep me posted as to their criminal activities.
Liz: So, what? She could tell you what they were planning to steal so you could steal it first?Red: Something like that.
Liz: If you already had someone inside, then why add me?
Red: Because Emma went silent.
Liz: You’re telling me she turned. Who is she anyway? Aram says her records have all been scrubbed.Red: Yes. By MI-6.
Liz: So she’s a British agent?
Red: You can’t think the FBI is the only law enforcement agency I have a relationship with. Elizabeth, none of this changes the fact that the WITSEC list is still in play.
Liz: She knows who I am.
Red: Emma Knightly can be trusted. I wouldn’t have put you in otherwise. …
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[ Emma is driving with Liz in the front seat ]
Emma: [ Inhales sharply, sighs ] When I said the job was hard, I meant working for Reddington. Don’t worry. The others don’t know.
Liz: How long has it been?
Emma: Almost eight years. I was working as an analyst on low level immigration cases when he cut a deal.Liz: Reddington works for MI-6?
Emma: I don’t know. I left. I went to work for him full-time.
Liz: Why would you ever do that?
Emma: [ Chuckles ] [ Inhales deeply ] I was star-struck. He made me feel like I was the center of his universe. It was exciting and captivating and… it consumed me. My work, my marriage. I had no idea how many lines I was crossing until it was too late.
Liz: It’s never too late.
Emma: Spoken like someone who’s still in the honeymoon phase. Trust me, that ends. You should get out before it does.
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Ressler: She knows you’re FBI? Keen, we gotta pull you out.
Liz: Margot’s contact says Helldritch is in Hong Kong.
Ressler: We have no jurisdiction there.
Liz: Our only shot at recovering the WITSEC list is to have The Harem steal it, and I’ve got to be there. …
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Red: … Carter! I’d stand, but after all these years, I still get aroused when I close a deal.Carter Wilson: [ Laughs ] I closed a deal, you didn’t.
Red: What are you talking about?
Wilson: Your Bitcoin transfer never arrived. … I made a deal with someone else.Red: With whom, may I ask?
Wilson: Baldur Magnusson. You know him?
Red: Mr. Wilson, good day. And happy sailing.
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Dembe: Baldur Magnusson. That’s a coincidence.
Red: I don’t believe in coincidences.
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[ Liz and The Harem are celebrating their victory ]Margot: To stealing from thieves.
[ They all raise their glasses and empty them ]
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[ Liz is a bit woozy from the last drink. She leaves for the ladies room ]
Liz: Ooh. [ Exhales slowly ] [ Sighs ]
[ Margot enters, looking for Liz. She approaches and tries to kiss Liz ]
Liz: Whoa.
[ Margot tries again ]
Liz: Listen, uh…
Margot: Hey. It’s about loyalty, remember?
Liz: To the group.
Margot: No, to me. You’re either in or you’re out. So what’s it gonna be?
[ Liz considers what to do. She is about to engage in a kiss with Margot when Emma enters ]
Emma: Am I interrupting?
Margot: This doesn’t concern you.
Emma: It doesn’t? [To Liz: ] Run along, little girl.
[ Margot and Emma leave, hand in hand ]
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[ In Hong Kong ]
Sasha: Helldritch’s home is a fortress. … Everything’s controlled by an RFID transmitter. … This thing is top shelf. It includes a gig of storage, which is where he keeps the WITSEC list. Problem is, the chip’s implanted in his hand.
Jessica: So? Shoot him. Or– Ooh. Cut off his hand.Margot: No, there’s a micro-processor in the chip tied to his heart rate. If he dies, so does the chip, and everything on it.
[ Sasha produces a hand-sized device ]
Sasha: Artificial heartbeat. The chip needs to be plugged into the device within 20 seconds of being removed from Helldritch’s hand. …
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Emma: I have a son. A junior at boarding school. He plays soccer. I go to visit him sometimes– or at least I try. I usually just end up sitting in the car, watching him practice. I want to talk to him, but I don’t know what I’d say. About what I have become.
Liz: You act like it’s too late. It isn’t. You could still get out.Emma: I dream about that, the life I had, wishing I could get it back.
Liz: [ Whispers ] I can help you. The WITSEC list, when we get it back, I can get you on it. Testify against Margot. Start over.
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[ Static crackles ] [ Margot directs the operation over the phone, observing events on live video ]
Sasha: Ladies, target is on site. It’s go time. …
Liz: Congratulations on your citizenship.
Helldritch: Thanks. Hong Kong recognizes talent when they see it. …
Liz: The WITSEC list. Tony Giannusa and I are friends. Got anywhere we can talk business?
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[ Helldritch and Liz enter the bedroom ]Helldritch: What the hell?
[ Liz kicks him ]
Helldritch: Oh, hell no!
[❗⚡❗Fight ❗⚡❗]
Liz: Get something to restrain him! … Jessica, find something!
Jessica: I’m looking!Helldritch: Help! Security!
Jessica: Here, use this belt.
[ Emma strangles Helldritch ][ Liz hits Helldritch, knocking him out ]
Jessica: Is he still alive?
Sasha: 90 seconds until system reset. I’m locked out after that.
[ Liz uses a small knife to excise the chip from Helldritch’s palm ] …⋘⋙
Margot: Where the hell is Emma going? What’s going on? She’s on the move.
Liz: She took the chip. … She’s using our exit strategy. We gotta get out of here.[ One of Hellritch’s guards shoots Jessica 💥💥 ]
Liz: Jessica’s down!
Margot: You know the protocol. Split up. We rendezvous when the heat’s off.
Liz: Screw protocol! Jessica’s dead! Emma’s got the list. …
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Liz: [ On phone ] The whole thing went sideways. Jessica’s dead. The rest of the Harem, I don’t know. They split up. Margot and Sasha are leaving the country under aliases– Eva Taylor and Lily Hum. Aram, can you–
Aram: Tracking them as we speak.Ressler: Look, what about the list?
Liz: Emma took it. You were right.
Cooper: Elizabeth, you know her.
Liz: Clearly, I don’t.
Cooper: You do. More than any of us. What did she tell you? Think.
Liz: She burned MI-6. Burned Reddington, The Harem. She has nowhere to go. Oh, my God. That’s it.
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Red: Hello, Emma.
Emma: How did you find me?
Red: He looks just like you.Emma: I’ve missed so much. I don’t want to miss anymore.
Red: I can’t let you sell the list. I can’t let you fund a life on the run by exposing innocent people on that list.
Emma: I don’t think you understand me. I’m done. I know the consequences. I have to stop. I’m out, Raymond.
[ Red gives Emma a brown folding file ]
Red: There’s a cabin in Vermont on Lake Champlain. Remote. Simple. Once you’re settled, you’ll open a bank account. Money will be transferred into it to cover expenses, Will’s education. … The list.[ Emma reaches into her pocket, gives Red the device with the chip containing the list ]
[ Red turns and walks toward his car ]
Emma: [ Calls after Red: ] You need to let her go.
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[ Liz is sitting in the restaurant where Red and Emma had met earlier. Red joins Liz. Dembe sits a short distance away ]Liz: Emma’s disappeared. … You got to her before we could?
Red: Yes. The list. [ He gives Liz the device with the list ]Liz: She betrayed you, so you… killed her just like you killed Mr. Kaplan?
[ Red looks at Dembe ]
Red: Elizabeth…
Liz: And I’m just supposed to look the other way, right? … You wanna kill someone the government’s protecting, but you can’t find them, so you had us… find this list for you.
Red: [ Inhales ] Years ago, a Wisconsin housewife named Maureen Rowan was outside in the wee hours with the family dog, Dodger. It was absolutely frigid. … [A]s fate would have it, her neighbor, Alexei Lagunov… [ Sighs ] …the avtoritet of a Russian bratva, felt given the late hour and windchill, he and his boyeviks could move a body from his basement to the trunk of an associate’s car without being observed. They didn’t count on Dodger’s call to nature. So Maureen had a choice between remaining silent or doing the right thing. She chose to testify. And while she helped to bring Alexei Lagunov to justice, she also forfeited the rest of her life in doing so. She’s on that list.
Liz: Who is she to you?Red: Maureen Rowan is Kate’s sister– uh, Mr. Kaplan’s sister. I didn’t need to find her. I just needed to… make sure no one else can.
Liz: This doesn’t excuse what you’ve done.Red: No. No, it doesn’t. …
[ Liz gets up and leaves ]
Dembe: Raymond. I told her because I felt it was important for her to know.
Red: I understand.
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Samar: Margot Rochet is in custody, and Sasha Lau was just picked up at SeaTac passport control.Cooper: Helldritch is facing charges in Hong Kong in connection with Jessica Piha’s death.
Samar: And what about Emma Knightly?
Cooper: Agent Keen recovered the WITSEC list from Reddington. What that means for Emma Knightly, I can’t say.
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Red: Where is he?
Abe: He’s gone.
Red: How much did he take?
Abe: Oh. He’s gone, Mr. Reddington. Missus said it was a heart attack.Red: And the money? Where’s the money?
Abe: I don’t know. Nobody knows except Mr. Smoll.
He would’ve transferred it to an untraceable account … If the wire wasn’t made, all that money is still just sitting there in some anonymous account. That could be anywhere in the world.Red: Thank you, Abe.
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[ Red and Dembe leave ]
Red: Smoll didn’t have a heart attack. Someone killed him. Someone determined to start a war.
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Blurb: Someone is baiting Liz by sending her dioramas of crimes that are about to be committed. Worse, these “forecasts” are being brought to her new home address.
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[ A hazel-colored eye darts about in extreme closeup ] [ Someone working with cardboard, colored paper, glue, dollhouse furniture and clay is constructing a diorama. The style is childlike, but the scene is not. It depicts a woman lying face down in a pool of water ]༺ ♤ ༻
Liz: We’ve got Agnes back. We’ve got each other. I’m an agent again.Tom: Yeah, we got out of Reddington’s safe house. No more bodyguards. We have windows that we can look out of and actually see the sky. Not bad. It’s a new beginning.
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[ Liz grabs her coat to leave and opens the front door then halts. On the floor is a diorama of a woman face down in a pool of water. A sign on a small piece of white paper on the diorama reads “PLEASE SAVE HER” ]Liz: Tom.
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[ A middle-aged woman drinking a green health concoction walks to the side of a swimming pool. She is alone. She puts down her drink, takes off her robe, and dives into the pool. She swims about half way across, then she seizes up. Gasping, she struggles for air, clenching her chest. She is unable to gain control and drowns, face down in the pool ]༺ ♤ ༻
[ Liz arrives at work with the diorama ]
Liz: I just found this outside my front door.
Aram: What? Like a gift? …
Liz: Federal Judge Trisha Culpepper drowned in her country club pool this morning. …
Cooper: Someone made this diorama after learning about what happened and put it on your doorstep?
Liz: No, the guard saw her at 8 AM. I found this around 7 AM– an hour before she drowned.
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[ Pamela, a real estate agent is showing Red around an apartment. The apartment is decorated entirely in white ]Pamela: Everything’s included. The last tenant left the furnishings behind. Just disappeared.
Red: I’d have to stick to champagnes and white Burgundies. One spill of a red varietal and this heavenly sanctuary would look like a crime scene. … But would I be capable? Let’s say somebody stops by with a Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, and it’s a ’78! [ Laughs ] …
Pamela: So I’ll draw up the paperwork. Month to month, right, Mr. Homan?
[ Knock on door. Liz enters ]
Red: Thank you, Pamela.
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Liz: I don’t want to know how you did it or what it says about the fate of our country that you were able to, but I wanna thank you for getting the President of the United States to pardon me.Red: As my grandmother used to say, it’s good to have friends in low places. …
Liz: You looked at the photos I sent.
Red: Yes. Judge Culpepper was above reproach, which means many people would like her dead, but none I could connect to you in any way. … Any leads off the diorama?
Liz: A partial print, but inconclusive.
Red: Do not take this lightly. This is your next Blacklister. … He’s killed a federal judge, which means he goes after high profile targets. He left clues at your doorstep, which means it’s a game to him, one he’ll keep playing until you stop him. …
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[ Tom is unpacking, while Agnes giggles and wiggles in her bouncer swing ] …[ Footsteps approach. Tom sees shadows and hears a rustling outside the door. He grabs a box cutter and opens the door. There is another diorama on the floor with a sign “PLEASE STOP THIS.”
This diorama shows a man in a park slain by someone on a cycle. ] …
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Aram: I think it’s the old Post Office tower.
Ressler: Well, this clock [ in the diorama ] says 12:30. If that’s PM, we’re in trouble. …
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[ In the white apartment, Red receives a visitor ]Red: Geoffroy! Thank you for coming. … Tell me about cobalt.
Geoffroy: Every cellphone battery requires at least 3 grams of it. Laptops, even more.
Red: I’m told Iniko’s investing in cobalt mines. I want in.
Geoffroy: You’re gonna have to talk to Iniko about that. Shall I set a meeting?Red: Do you recognize this apartment? … Belonged to a dear friend of mine, a former acquaintance of Iniko’s. I say “former” because Iniko had him killed right where you’re standing. Imagine all that blood on this very carpet. Amazing. It’s like it never happened, as if he never existed. … I’m interested in the mines, but not in doing business with Iniko.
Geoffroy: [ Chuckles ] You’re asking me to betray my boss.Red: Yes, I’m prepared to make a substantial contribution to the venture.
Geoffroy: He would kill me if he found out.
Red: If he were still alive.
Geoffroy: Look, Mr. Reddington, I don’t know what you’re suggesting–
Red: I’m suggesting that this is your moment if you’re smart enough to seize it. …
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[ In the park by the old Post Office tower, Aram is seated on a park bench with his laptop. Ressler, Samar and Liz scan the crowd and traffic. … ]
Liz: I just got word from the lab. They were able to pull a print from a handrail outside my apartment. It matches a partial we pulled from the first model. Suspect’s name is Fiona Driscoll.༺ ♤ ༻
[ Clock tower chimes 12:30 ]
Aram: Uh, guys? We’re looking for a guy on a bike, right? … I think that bike might be a motorcycle.
[ A motorcycle hones in on a grey haired businessman. Liz tackles the businessman to the ground and covers him ]Liz: Down! Get down!
[ 💥 The motorcyclist fires off several shots 💥💥 but misses ] [ It speeds away ]
Liz: You okay?
Businessman: Yeah. Who the hell are you?
Liz: FBI.
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[ Iniko is enjoying lunch in a restaurant. Red sits down ]
Red: Iniko. I understand you’re in town to bribe a congressman. Tell me, what’s the going rate to get someone to ignore rape, slave labor, child soldiers, child brides?Iniko: I was told you had a business proposition, not a lecture.
Red: The cobalt mines. I want in.Iniko: Not interested.
Red: So lecture then. You’ve been betrayed by a trusted employee.
Iniko: And you will give me the name in exchange for a cut of the mines.
Red: Twenty-five percent. …
Iniko: Twenty.
Red: Geoffroy Keino. He approached me about investing in the mines if I agreed to kill you. His terms were very generous, so you can imagine how tempted I was. … I simply couldn’t bring myself to facilitate such a betrayal of someone else, even someone so loathsome.
Iniko: [Chuckles] And people say there is no honor among thieves. Stay. Have some foie gras.
Red: No, thank you. I find it difficult to enjoy foie gras. All those poor geese, all those painfully engorged livers.Iniko: [ Chuckles ] In my opinion, some lives are inconsequential, and delicious. …
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[ Cellphone beeps, speed dials ]Motorcyclist: Hey, it’s me. We have a problem. It’s about Milch. The feds were waiting when I got there. I
don’t know how, but they knew it was gonna happen.Older Man: All right, calm down. Don’t talk to anybody. I’ll call my source downtown, see what he knows.
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Liz: Hello, Ms. Driscoll.
Fiona Driscoll: Agent Keen, I think there’s been a terrible mistake.
Liz: We have your fingerprints on the renderings of crime scenes you left outside my home.Fiona: I know what you must be thinking. I know how this looks.
Liz: We found traces of aconitine in the judge’s system. You poisoned her and then tried to murder Marlon Milch. …
Fiona: You’ve got it all wrong. I wasn’t trying to kill these people. I was trying to save them. I left the models for you because I wasn’t sure what else to do.
Liz: Models of crime scenes made before the crimes were committed.
Ressler: So how do you explain that? Unless you’re the killer.
Fiona: They’re premonitions. … I only know what I see in the dioramas.Liz: Why haven’t you taken these premonitions to the police?
Fiona: I have. They looked at me like I’m crazy. That’s why I came to you, Agent Keen. I saw you at the grocery store, recognized you from the news. I followed you home because I thought you’d understand. The pardon. You know what it’s like to be judged harshly, how it feels not to be believed.
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[ A key unlocks a padlock on a door ]
Fiona: At first, it was butterflies with glitter, and things like that. Then they turned into… these.[ In the room there are shelves and shelves of dioramas ]
Fiona: There are 42 in all, each forecasting some horrible tragedy– murders, accidents, catastrophes. This is Flight 361. It crashed in the Andes last year. Sometimes they come with vivid detail. Others are more… impressionistic.
Liz: How do you get these visions?
Fiona: Oh, no. They’re not mine. I don’t see them.
[ Door creaks open ]
Fiona: Her name’s Maggie. She’s 9.
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Fiona: Maggie’s mind is… different. She suffers from what doctors call a constellation of birth defects, the result of fetal rubella. Heart problems, hearing impairment, any number of developmental issues. But I feel like she understands more than they think. Just because she can’t talk doesn’t mean she has nothing to say.Liz: Maggie’s visions, when did they start?
Fiona: February, two years ago. She drew me a picture, this terrible image. A train and a bus crashing. Bodies everywhere. The next day, a bus was struck by a train in the Ukraine. … [S]he knew. Somehow, Maggie knew. …
Liz: What is she working on now?
Fiona: The next one.
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Aram: I cross-checked the dioramas against verifiable incidents, and in each case, the incident and the diorama were a match. … A bus accident in Miami. A mass shooting in Madrid. …
Cooper: I don’t believe in premonitions. So prior knowledge of these events has to have come from somewhere. … Pull her medical file. I want to know exactly what we can and cannot expect her to be able to tell us about these premonitions.
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Geoffroy: The mining deal is closed. … Iniko completed financing without consulting me. And now he’s not returning my calls.Red: Perhaps he has a new acolyte. Or grew wary of your ambition.
Geoffroy: I’ve given him no reason to be.
Red: Others might have. People hoping to gain his trust by betraying you.
Geoffroy: I haven’t done anything.
Red: [ Laughs ] But you’re here. So you want to.Geoffroy: If he suspects me…
Red: Oh, please. Spare me the wide-eyed innocence. You’re the top aide to a man who pays your salary with the lives of women and children. You’re every bit as responsible for committing atrocities as he is. Cheer up, Geoffroy. This isn’t the end. It’s the beginning. Your beginning. … Might I suggest something in broad daylight? Perhaps a nice car bombing.
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Aram: Hey. I think we found something in Maggie Driscoll’s medical records. … She wears a hearing aid, a very tiny high-frequency model.Cooper: So? –
Aram: I think the hearing aid might be picking up nearby conversations via radio frequency interference.
Cooper: Conversations?
Samar: Phone calls transmitted over a frequency that bleeds onto the one her hearing aid operates on.
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[ Cartoon music playing on TV ]
Aram: We, uh, we need to unplug anything that might cause RF interference– lights, appliances… cellphones. And, uh, turn off your coms. We gotta go with walkies.Ressler: Aram, we listening for bad guys or are we holding a séance?
Aram: That is… not funny. When I was in college, Matt Skrdell had a Ouija board, and we actually made contact with my pet rabbit, Dash, God rest her soul, and it turns out she did not escape from her cage like I was told.
[ Static. Distorted voices ]
Man: That should solve it.
Motorcycle Man: [ Distorted ] Hey, it’s me. We have a problem.
Older Man: …has to happen sooner… in the tower as discussed. …
Motorcycle Man: We couldn’t finish Milch, and you’re talking about the next job? What have you found out?
Older Man: I said I’d get back to you when I know more. Stick to the plan.
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Fiona: I don’t know whether to be relieved or terrified. Thanks to you, I know how it’s happening, but it’s only happening because these people, these killers live nearby. …
Motorcycle Man: …a kid? That’s ridiculous. …
Older Man: Not according to my source downtown. Her mother told the cops about us six months ago. They ignored her, so she must’ve gone to the FBI. That little kid was able to give them the time and the location of the Milch assignment.
Motorcycle Man: You’re saying she’s listening, watching. How is that possible?
Older Man: I don’t know. The investors are upset. If we lose another offer– Look, she’s a threat that needs to be dealt with. …
Motorcycle Man: Get me a name. I’ll handle the kid. …
[ Motorcycle Man sees he is being watched through the blinds. He disconnects his computers, grabs some papers from wall, puts his cell phone in the microwave, turns it on and leaves ] [ The microwave smokes and flares ] …
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[ Ressler and Liz enter Motorcycle Man’s apartment ]Ressler: FBI! Clear.
Liz: How did we miss him?
[ Motorcycle Man climbs a staircase, exits through the door at the top ]
Ressler: Aram, issue an alert. White male, dark hair, about 5’10”. … Aram?[ Ressler looks through window at Fiona’s and Maggie’s apartment.
Aram is stretched out on the floor. Motorcycle Man is in the apartment ]
Ressler: Aram’s down! We’re gonna need an ambulance!
[ Armed police storm the building building. Motorcycle Man encounters two officers in the hallway ]
[ 💥💥 Gunshots 💥💥 – Policemen fall ]
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[ Geoffroy arrives at the white apartment ] …Geoffroy: Are you playing me? Is this some kind of sick joke to you?
Red: Okay, calm down and tell me what happened.
Geoffroy: He found it. The car bomb. It was as if his security detail knew where to look.
Red: And you think I told him?
Geoffroy: No one else knew.Red: Except the munitions expert who made the bomb, the mechanic who installed it. You were sloppy, and you’re looking for someone to blame. Blame yourself.
Geoffroy: If I go home, I’m a dead man.
Red: Then don’t go home. …Geoffroy: I told you, the deal on the mine is closed.
Red: There’s always another deal. I have one in mind that I know he will find especially hard to resist. Relax. Have a drink. Help me finish this infuriating puzzle. And when Iniko does come, you’ll be waiting with a magic bullet.
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Ressler: Aram, talk to me. Are you sure you didn’t see which way they went?[ Aram received a superficial wound on the side of his neck. Maggie is gone. A female officer is calming Fiona ]
Aram: I didn’t, no. But MPD says we had two officers down in the building. One was stripped, missing his gun, his badge.Ressler: The guy’s in uniform. Great.
[ Motorcycle Man is outside in crowd with Maggie, dressed in the officer’s MPD uniform. They get into a parked school bus ]Ressler: Well, she’s gotta be close. We could call out to her if she could only hear us.
Aram: Maybe she can.
Liz: How?
Aram: Police radios operate on an RF frequency just like Maggie’s hearing device, which can cause interference.
All right, go to frequency 154.400 and turn it up. [ Beep ] Turn it all the way up. …[ Maggie groans. They exit the parked school bus. Maggie falls to her knees and flings her head back and forth ]
Motorcycle Man: What is wrong with you? Get up!
[ Maggie screams. Motorcycle Man panics and leaves her. Ressler and Liz follow the sound of Maggie’s screaming and find her ]
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[ Dembe gives Geoffroy a handgun with a silencer ]Dembe: Use this. It’s untraceable.
Geoffroy: Would you ever do this? Betray your own boss?
Dembe: I don’t know.
[ Geoffroy and Dembe enter the white apartment ]
Iniko: Geoffroy, what are you doing here?
Red: Unfinished business, I’m afraid.[ Geoffroy points his gun at Iniko and pulls the trigger. Trigger clicking ]
Geoffroy: What the hell? You set me up. Reddington– it was his idea.
Iniko: Actually, it was ours. [ (💥) Silenced gunshots (💥💥) ] [ Gun clatters. Geoffroy falls. Blood is splattered on the white wall and carpet ]
Iniko: [ On phone ] I’m texting you an address. [ To Red: ] My clean-up crew.
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Red: I once bankrolled a diamond mine outside Tshikapa. One day, a man showed up alone, unarmed, started to talk to me about the mine. I had guns and guards and an enterprise worth… I don’t know, $50, $150 million dollars.
He had nothing but a story about greed driving atrocities and conflict, about armed groups using mass rape and mutilation as a means to control people in the villages around the mines.
“I had bullets, he had words. But when he was done talking,
for the first time, I truly understood which of those was more
powerful”
Red: [ Continues ] I abandoned the mine, agreed to finance his campaign of protection and protest, and did so until two months ago when you had him murdered.Iniko: Cyrus Choi.
Red: Yeah. He was a good man… and my friend. And somehow, your cleaners removed even the memory of his blood from this carpet.Iniko: They are the best in the business.
Red: They better be. They’re gonna have a lot to clean up.
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[ Ressler, Liz and Aram are in Motorcycle Man’s apartment, going through the evidence left behind ]
Ressler: The girl’s with the paramedics now. She’s gonna be fine. What do we know about our runner?[ At the Post Office, Cooper and Samar talk to the others over speaker phone ]
Samar: Benjamin Allen Charnquist, 35. [ “Motorcycle Man” ] He went to Berkeley. He was kicked out his junior year after being convicted of rape. He was shipped off to San Quentin.
Liz: When did he get out?
Cooper: 2002. He’s been off the radar ever since. Now we know why.
[ Aram is looking though a bunch of papers ]
Aram: Guys, um, check this out. We couldn’t see it from Maggie’s dioramas, but, uh, there is a pattern. All right, the factory fire in Jaipur, it tanked the stock of the Zardozi Imports company. The man and his wife, who vanished off the coast of Naples in their sailboat, he was the CEO of a Silicon Valley tech firm. The company lost a quarter of its value after he disappeared. … Each of these catastrophes involved someone who was invaluable to the company they worked for, and their deaths dramatically affected the stock prices of those companies.
Cooper: So maybe the motive is profit. Maybe Charnquist was shorting the stocks.Liz: He’s a college dropout with a felony record. I doubt he came up with this on his own.
Ressler: The partner, the guy he was talking to? At his parole hearing, three people testified on his behalf – his parents, and the CEO of the private equities firm he interned at in college. Chris Farnsworth. CEO of Jasek Financial. [ “Older Man” ] …
Samar: According to SEC filings, Farnsworth’s company made a fortune after each and every one of the people Aram mentioned were murdered. Once or twice is luck. This many times is a conspiracy.
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Benjamin Charnquist: They know everything. I’ve got feds swarming my place.Chris Farnsworth: Calm down. Stick to the plan. We knew this day would eventually come, that it would eventually end. …
Charnquist: And Beckner?
Farnsworth: Beckner is the only loose end. I just hung up with him. He placed the short against Jasek through the shell 20 minutes ago. …Charnquist: Why don’t we just put a bullet in Beckner’s head?
Farnsworth: …No. It has to look like an accident. He’s the only one who knows where our funds are routed. If he’s dead, we’re ghosts– rich ghosts.
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Iniko: Cobalt. Cassiterite. Wolframite. They are the diamonds of tomorrow. Let me go, and you can have a piece of all of them. … Think of the money you will make.Red: On the backs of children. Given enough money to eat, but not enough to ever leave. Cyrus would be disappointed.
Iniko: I worked in the mines. I got out.
Red: And instead of helping those who suffer as you once did, you profit off them. I’m a bad man, Iniko, but not that bad.[ Knock on door ]
Red: Ah, your cleaners. What are their names?
Iniko: Sakiya and Fudo. Why?
Red: I want to hire them.
Iniko: They work for me.
Red: Not anymore.
[ Silenced gunshot 💥 – more blood splatters across the white room ]
Dembe: That’s what this was all about, replacing Kate.
Red: Kate is irreplaceable.
Dembe: To me, she is.
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[ Knock on door ]
Sakiya: We’re meeting Iniko.
Red: Iniko just met his maker.
Sakiya: You done did him?
Red: I did done… do.
Sakiya: Sweet. Guy was a straight up tool.
Fudo: This place looks familiar.
Red: It should. You cleaned it two months ago. Friend of mine, shot six times, 5 liters of his blood on this carpet. After you were done, not a drop.
Sakiya: You’re Raymond Reddington.
Red: Yes. And this is my associate Dembe Zuma.
Fudo: Well, aren’t you a tall drink of chocolate milk?
Red: I’d like you to work for me. Whatever Iniko was paying you, I’ll double it.
Sakiya: So you know, we only moonlight.
Red: A day job. How old-fashioned.
Sakiya: Not really. We’re crime scene cleaners for Metro PD.
Red: Well, won’t this be fun.
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[ Maggie is working on her latest diorama. It features a building with a crashed elevator. She writes “Jasek” on a paper sign ]
Ressler: “Jasek.” Keen. … I think we know what his next target’s gonna be. Aram, Farnsworth’s gonna hit his own company. …
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Aram: Agent Ressler, I think I have something, a way Charnquist may be planning to access the building. Surveillance imagery shows an engine room on the roof, and it is connected to a–
Ressler: An elevator.Aram: How’d you know that?
Ressler: Because of the girl. Her diorama’s focused on how the crime’s going to be committed. This one featured an elevator.
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[Maggie sits at her table. She is placing crumpled pieces of aluminum foil at the base of the elevator shaft ]⋘⋙
Aram: Okay, the one in this building is a Westbrook freight built in 1922. That’s before pneumatic fail-safes.
Ressler: They’re gonna crash the elevator.
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Bobby: Security. This is Bobby.Cooper: This is FBI Assistant Director Cooper. We have credible intel that one of your employees in the building may be in danger. I need you to shut down everything. …
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[ Maggie adds a man lying on his back, shot, to her diorama ]
⋘⋙[ Charnquist enters the room Bobby is in and shoots him 💥💥] …
[ Charnquist begins sawing through the elevator cables ]
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Aram: Sir, I know have a lot of bad news today, but the security system in the building shows there’s a backup generator.
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[ Beckner gets on the elevator in the building ]
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[ FBI and MPD vehicles arrive at Jasek Financial. Ressler and Liz exit their vehicle. Liz goes into the Jasek building. Ressler heads across the street, enters a building and runs up the stairs ]༺ ♤ ༻
[ From an upper floor, Ressler gets Charnquist in his sights and shoots him 💥 But the final cable Charnquist failed to finish cutting snaps and the elevator begins to plummet ][ Uselessly, Beckner tries to push the elevator buttons ]
[Liz arrives]Liz: The stop! Where’s the emergency stop?
[ Liz finds the crank and pulls it back. The elevator stops. Beckner falls to the elevator floor, but is unhurt ]
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[ Red is examining the cleaners’ work with a small flashlight ]
Red:[ From across the room ] Incredible. Truly incredible.Fudo: What happened to your last cleaner?
Dembe: She was murdered.
Fudo: I’m so sorry. Were you close?Dembe: Yes.
Red: Not a speck to be found.Fudo: Have you caught the killer?
Dembe: No.
Red: Clean as a whistle. Clean as a whistle.
Fudo: Do you know who he is?
Dembe: Yes, I do.
Fudo: That’s good. Then it’s only a matter of time.
[ Red walks over to talk to Fudo and Sakiya ]
Red: Well, this seems like a good fit.
Sakiya: For now. Last two years haven’t been kind to people we work for.Fudo: You take care… [ Door opens ] .. or we’ll be mopping you up with club soda.
Red: [ Laughs ] So you do use club soda. Fascinating.
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Red: I spoke with Harold. He tells me you’ve had a… pyrrhic victory.Liz: We lost one of the killers.
Red: Chris Farnsworth.Liz: Who were those two?
Red: For years, colleagues have crowed about his rates of return, urging me to invest with them. Called him “The Forecaster.” But as I don’t believe in investing in anything I can’t control, I declined.
Liz: I know you’ve been concerned about me, about a killer knowing where I live. I just wanted you to know
you’ve got nothing to worry about anymore.Red: May I see your new apartment?
Liz: Not yet. Maybe someday.
[ Red snaps the final white piece into the white puzzle ]
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[ Knock on door ] …Liz: Dembe. Is everything okay?
Dembe: No.
Liz: Please come in.
[ Dembe signals that he wants to speak privately with Liz ]
Dembe: I’m worried about Raymond. I don’t think he cares about anything or anyone in the world right now other than you or Agnes. I don’t recognize him. I can’t reach him.
Liz: And you think I can.
Dembe: The people at the apartment…Liz: He wouldn’t tell me who they were.
Dembe: They’re cleaners.
Liz: Cleaners? What about Mr. Kaplan? It’s because she
helped me fake my death, isn’t it? He’s punishing her.Dembe: He saw it as a betrayal.
Liz: So he’s replacing her.
Dembe: No. He didn’t replace Kate. He killed her.
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Blurb: Winter Premiere. Two groups of competing dark ops thieves clash over high tech gadgetry on US soil. Cooper excoriates Red over having brought Elizabeth Keen “nothing but pain, grief, and regret” – and cost her her status as a federal agent.
Cooper: We spent months hunting for Alexander Kirk at your insistance. The man is responsible for the deaths of FBI agents, the abduction of Elizabeth and her daughter–
Red: You’re upset.
Cooper: You’re damn right I’m upset. You let him go. And worse, it’s clear to me now that was your intent all along. You played us.
Red: … Alexander Kirk is gone, and he won’t be back. It’s time to move on. Last night, a seafood processing plant in Maryland was attacked by armed commandos. …
[ Red shows Cooper a photo of one of the men killed in the raid ]
Red: That is Hassan Arkani.
Cooper: … You’re telling me one of the most wanted terrorists on the planet was conducting a secret operation out of the back room of a Maryland fish factory?
Red: You see? No time to dwell on the past. If my people hear anything, I’ll contact Agent Keen.
Cooper: Agent Keen. Did you forget her agent status was revoked? … [T]he loss of her badge was a stain on Elizabeth’s name and reputation, which you are ultimately responsible for. … You’ve brought her nothing but pain, grief, and regret, which you seem utterly oblivious to, and surprisingly powerless to rectify.
Red: Good talk, Harold.
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Cooper: Hassan Arkani … was a munitions expert linked to the New Martyrs Brigade. The NMB is deadly enough to rank number six on the Group Threat Index. …
Ressler: … So what was Arkani doing in Maryland?
Samar: … [W]hatever it was, he’s not doing it anymore. …
Cooper: … Ressler, Navabi, get to that factory. …
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Samar: Hey. Cooper told me. You have nothing to worry about.Aram: Really? I’m being questioned in connection to a Justice Department investigation into whether my girlfriend committed espionage.
Samar: You didn’t know.Aram: So I’m either a traitor or a moron.
Samar: A moron. Definitely.
Aram: Ah, you always know just what to say.
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[ Ressler and Samar are investigating Lipet’s Seafood Company ]Forensic Tech: You need to see this.
Ressler: Excuse us. …
Tech: We found … this. It’s definitely an integrated circuit timing chip, but I haven’t seen one quite like this before.
Ressler: Timing chip, that’s used in–
Tech: Everything from traffic lights to railway switches–
Ressler: To bombs.
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[ Tripoli, Libya ]
NMB Leader: [ Subtitles ] Arkani is dead. The Amtar Hamida Project may be finished. The technology was stolen. Those responsible must be found and exterminated. The work must be reacquired.
Farook Al-Thani: Consider it done.
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Aram: [T]he timer chip you recovered from Arkani’s factory… is as good as anything the United States can make because… we did make it. … More specifically, the defense contractor Blackthorn Kincaid made it.Ressler: Well, they make everything from our own ICBMs to Israel’s Iron Dome.
Samar: So how’d Arkani get it? …
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Cooper: Panabaker’s gonna be at the deposition. I’m gonna push her to get you reinstated as an agent.
Liz: That would be… amazing. …
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Blackthorn CEO: I resent any implication that we would be less than forthcoming. … Everyone here has dedicated his or her life to protecting the American people.
Samar: Tell us about the timing chip.Blackthorn Administrator: It was manufactured within the last four months as part of a surface-to-air missile teleguidance system.
Samar: Can you tell us who manufactured it? Specifically which employees?CEO: Of course, but maybe we could suggest a more targeted approach.
Mr Deavers: James Maddox. At one time, he was one of our best programmers.
Ressler: Was?
Deavers: He had a drinking problem along with anger issues. We tried to help, but, uh, in the end, we– we had to part ways. … I knew Jim. I find it hard to believe that he would betray his country.
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Red: Wendy, dear, your ears must be burning. Dembe and I were just talking about you.
Wendy: Yeah? You figure out how I’m-a get my 13-year-old to soccer at the same time as Liam’s piano lesson?Red: To what do I owe the pleasure, my love?
Wendy: I got word that you’re looking for the 411 on the New Martyrs Brigade.Red: You got something?
Wendy: A little chatter. … I hear the NMB’s America bound.
Red: How many?
Wendy: I’m hearing six. Coming in scattershot.
Red: … Who’s running it? Al-Hambri?
Wendy: Ha! You wish. They sent Farook.
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Samar: James Maddox … Does this look like the face of a traitor to you?
Ressler: Anybody’s capable of anything. You know that.
Samar: Yeah, well, there’s a special level in hell for people who provide arms to terrorists.
[ Samar sees Maddox. They get out of the car ]
Samar: James Maddox?
[ Maddox takes off running, but Ressler catches him ]
Ressler: FBI. Maddox: FBI? Ressler: Yeah
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Aram: [ Hangs up ] Uh, that was Agent Keen. Mr. Reddington says NMB leadership sent six operatives to reclaim that bomb or, um, uh, whatever it is they lost at that factory. …
Cooper: Does Reddington have a name?
Aram: Oh, yeah, one. Farook Al-Thani.
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Cynthia Panabaker: Agent Mojtabi, walk us through this again. Tell us exactly how you met Elise Nickerson.Aram: Okay, I was at the gym, and she had been waiting for a friend and asked to borrow my phone. Uh, she said hers was lost. And then, you know, one thing led to another and…
Panabaker: And the next thing you knew, she was using your personal laptop to access classified data.
Aram: Well, when you put it like that–Panabaker: You expect us to believe you knew nothing about this?
Aram: Yes, because I didn’t. I love this country. I take my job very, very seriously. If I’m guilty of anything, it’s– it– I have bad taste in women. …Panabaker: This is a deposition, not a memoir. Let’s keep the focus on how your computer was used to breach national security.
Aram: Yes, ma’am.
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Guard: As-salamu alaykum. Farook.
Andrew Wyatt: We didn’t know our location was exposed. I had no idea an attack was coming.Farook Al-Thani: Yes. That’s the problem.
Wyatt: Look, I know they sent you to warn me. Just… tell them, warning received.
Farook: They didn’t send me to warn you. They sent me to replace you. [Gunshot 💥]
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Dembe: He’s here.
Marlin Heiden: I’m not here.
Red: [ Laughs ]
Heiden: This meeting never took place. And you will never be in the same room with the President-elect.
Red: You really should try Ginny’s Cheeseburger Chowder. The ground chuck and spices, the melted cheese. I highly recommend it for the inaugural balls.
Heiden: If you think you can maintain your immunity agreement by blackmailing the President-elect, you’re not as smart as everyone says you are.
Red: Marlin, your boss made a campaign promise to me, and I intend to make sure he keeps it. Tell Robert I’ll be in touch.
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Samar: How was the deposition?Aram: Terrifying.
Samar: I’m sure you were great.
Aram: [ Scoffs ] In your eyes. In theirs, I look a lot like this guy.
Samar: [ Reading ] Yusuf Tillisi?
Aram: Mr. Reddington said six NMB members were dispatched to the US in the last 24 hours. He gave us one name, but not the other five..
Samar: What makes you think Tillisi is one?Aram: Well, he’s the right age. He works for a Middle Eastern trade organization that I’m not sure actually exists. He lives in Lebanon, but flew into Libya last month. Thing is, he flew into JFK almost 72 hours ago …
Samar: He’s probably legit, but it’s probably worth tracking him down … Let me do it. Based on the places he flew, I have channels that might be a bit more comprehensive.
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Mr Deavers: You want to tell me what the hell happened? …
Farook: That’s what I’m here to find out. Our people know the penalty for disloyalty. So I thought perhaps, I would ask you–
Deavers: …I did my part. I provided the necessary
technology. I’m not going to lose everything because you people are too stupid to secure your own operation.
Farook: … You made an agreement to see our project through to its completion. …If you expect to get paid, you will help us find whoever did this and recover our system. …
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James Maddox: I told you, I don’t know anything about a missing timer chip.Liz: Here’s a tip, Mr. Maddox. Next time you wanna appear innocent, don’t run from the FBI. …
Maddox: My brother was a Marine. He died in Kandahar. You really think I’d put this on my arm and dishonor his sacrifice…?
Ressler: Mr. Maddox, we just executed a search warrant at your apartment and found a bank passbook hidden in a bathroom vent traceable to an account in Madrid.Maddox: That’s a lie.
Ressler: Oh. And we also found a burner phone taped underneath your kitchen table, one with a string of international calls– to Libya.
Maddox: Okay, what the hell’s going on? I’m being framed. I swear, none of that is mine.
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Ressler: … Don’t tell me you believe him.
Liz: Something’s off. It’s just a read, but his denial seems genuine.
Cooper: [ Walks up ] I might take that bet. Blackthorn called. Another programmer came forward. Says he saw Maddox handling that timer chip a month ago, just before it dropped out of inventory.
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[ Samar is being followed by a menacing-looking man around 30. He gets closer and closer. She stops at a door, slides her card through the reader ] [ Beep ] [ Samar senses the man behind her, spins around … ]Samar: Ezra. [ They hug ] We’ve got a problem.
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[ Samar, her former boyfriend Levi Shur, Ezra, and other Mossad meet ]Samar: One of my colleagues at the Bureau flagged Ezra.
Agent Levi Shur: What does he know?
Samar: Nothing yet. I volunteered to verify that he’s in
the country for a legitimate reason.Ezra: Defending our homeland from extremist savages? Doesn’t get more legitimate than that.
Samar: Mossad carried out a black op on American soil. If the FBI finds out about it, it will be an international incident. … You need to take the system and go. You all need to leave the country.
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Kinross: Our program creates a computed tomography map, which I had to convert into a 3-D image. Based on the data, we got a 96% match.
[ Laters of cloth peel away from the face in the image. It’s – Samar! ]
Deavers: My God.
Kinross: Do you know her?
Deavers: She’s FBI.
Kinross: According to our profile, she’s Mossad.
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[ Marlin Heiden is fuming in the back of a parked police car. … ]
[ Car door opens ] [ Heiden groans ] [ Red sits down next to him ]
Red: Oh, boy. Isn’t this a sticky wicket?
Heiden: You son of a bitch.Red: You blew a .12 blood alcohol content. Next time, call a cab.
Heiden: [ Laughs ] Are you out of your mind? I’ve been sober for 12 years.
Red: Which is what makes your relapse that much more tragic. The President can’t have a dipsomaniac serving as legal counsel. Happily, there is a way to avoid the drunk tank. …
Heiden: The inauguration is in two weeks. How the hell do you expect me to get you a private meeting?
Red: I have no idea. Let’s hope you’re smarter than everyone says you are … Set the meeting, Marlin.
[ Red gets out ] [ Door thuds ]
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[ Samar steps off the elevator at the Post Office ]
Samar: I got your text. What’s up?
Ressler: We’re rolling out. Gotta take a witness statement.
Samar: Someone from Blackthorn?
Cooper: A programmer who claims he saw Maddox with the timer chip.
Liz: A month ago, but for some reason didn’t bother coming forward until [now]. …
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Cooper: I spoke with Panabaker about your reinstatement. She said there’s nothing she can do.Liz: Nothing she can do now or ever?…
Cooper: She said the Attorney General would need to okay your reinstatement. Since you pled guilty to killing his predecessor, that’s… not going to happen. I’m so sorry.
Liz: Yeah, so am I.
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Samar: Hey, I ran down Yusuf Tillisi. The trade company he works for, it’s real. … [H]e checks out.Aram: Mr. Cooper got word from Main Justice. I am officially… not a person of interest.
Samar: That’s great news.
Aram: Um… Yeah, right? Um… Hey, I’ve never been so relieved to be told I am not interesting. Uh, I thought we could, um, could maybe celebrate over… dinner.
Samar: It’s a date. You pick. And make it somewhere amazing.
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[ Knock on door ] [ Door opens; a nervous-looking man appears ] …
Samar: We understand you have information regarding a James Maddox and a theft at Blackthorn Kincaid.
Atwell: Uh, yes, please come in. …
[ Ressler and Samar are attacked ❗] [ 💥💥Gunshots💥💥 ]
[ A man subdues Samar, puts a bag over her head and drags her off ]
[ Farook Al-Thani points his gun at Atwell ]
Atwell: No, no, no, please. I did what you asked. [ Gunshot 💥 ]
[ Farook runs outside and jumps into a black SUV ]
[ Ressler shoots at the SUV 💥 ] [ The rear window is blown out ]
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Aram: [ Answers ] Agent Ressler.
Ressler: [ Breathless ] We were set up. There was no witness. It was an ambush. They were inside the house. The NMB took Samar.Aram: The NMB?
Ressler: Look, they wanted to kill me and abduct her.
[ Liz dials Red ]
Liz: Reddington, we need your help. Samar’s been abducted. The NMB just took her. … We’re sending you everything … Maybe we missed something.
Red: Have you identified anyone other than Farook?Aram: No. My program’s vetted tens of thousands of possible candidates but only one real suspect so far, and Agent Navabi cleared him.
Red: Who?
Aram: His name is Yusuf Tillisi. His photo was part of the file we just sent you. But Samar spoke to him– said it was nothing. Yusuf Tillisi isn’t a terrorist.
Red: He also isn’t Yusuf Tillisi. His real name is Ezra Mandell, an operative for the Mossad. Samar knows him. She’s worked with him.Cooper: Why would she lie about that?
Red: To protect her fellow countrymen. To prevent you from linking the Mossad to the attack on Arkani’s operation.
Cooper: A Mossad strike team was operating here? Without permission?
Red: At least we know why the NMB took her. The question is where and how long they’ll keep her alive.
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[ Farook removes the hood from Samar’s head ]
Farook: Tell me where the system is. Save yourself an immense amount of pain.
Samar: I’m good. …
Farook: I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t fighting Israel. As a boy in Gaza, I threw rocks at soldiers. As I grew, so did the weapons. The rocks became guns, the guns became rockets. For me, life is war. And that war changed with the creation of the Iron Dome, the most advanced missile defense system in history. Over 1,200 of our rockets were intercepted. …Mr Deavers: …I promised them a teleguidance system capable of getting past the Iron Dome. After six months of work, I do not intend to start over. …
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Levi Shur: We’re all set. Take the system. Use one of those SKB cases.…[ Door thuds open ]
Ressler: FBI! Hands in the air now! Levi Shur. You don’t call, you don’t write. … The NMB has Samar. she was taken by Farook Al-Thani almost an hour ago. We know you hit Arkani’s factories, and so do they. … [Samar] lied to us. Tried to protect you when she found out Mossad was behind the raid.Levi: I don’t know what you’re talking about.… Samar didn’t find out about the raid. Samar planned the raid.
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[ Samar smashes Farook in the face with her head ] …
Farook: [ Laughs ]
Deavers: What the hell is so funny?
Farook: She won’t talk. We’re both the same. Both true believers willing to die for what we love.
NMB operative: Farook, we may have something. There’s an entry for someone only under the letter “L.” The number’s on the list we have for possible Mossad operatives.
Farook: Call it. …Deavers: That wasn’t the plan. She’s seen my face. She can’t be traded for anything, understand? She’s never leaving this room.
Farook: You are not my concern.
Deavers: We had a deal. I’m not signing off on this.
Farook: Then it seems you are the one never leaving this room.
[ Farook shoots Deavers 💥 ]
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Levi: [I]t’s not a bomb. It’s a missile guidance system designed to defeat the Iron Dome. In the wrong hands, it could jeopardize the lives of thousands.Ressler: Then I’ll feel better when it’s in my hands. Get it.
Levi: Fine. … Take it. All I care about is finding Samar.
[Cellphone rings]
Ezra: Levi. It’s her.Levi: Samar.
Farook: I’m afraid Agent Navabi can’t come to the phone. … If you want to see your colleague alive again, bring our system to Cornerstone Park… in the next 30 minutes.
Levi: Let me speak to her.[Line clicks, dial tone] …
Ezra: She’s an operative, Levi. She knew the risks.
Levi: I’m not letting her die.
Ezra: You said it yourself– the wrong step now could jeopardize the lives of thousands of innocent civilians.Ressler: Hey, neither of you is gonna do anything. This is an FBI matter now. Are we clear?
Levi: I’m still going to that park.
[ A SWAT guy follows Levi out ]⋘⋙
Cooper: [ On phone ] Agent Ressler, no word on Agent Navabi. You have the system?
Ressler: Yeah, we have it right here. But look–
[Ressler opens the SKB case – It’s empty ]Ressler: Levi!
[ Ressler rushes after Levi … heads down a stopped elevator. The first SWAT guy lies crunched at the bottom, shot ]
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Levi: [ On phone] I’m here.
Farook: Take the jogging path to your right until you reach a pushcart vendor.
[ Levi walks into Cornerstone park ]
Levi: Before you get anything, I need proof of life, do you hear me?Samar: [ Over the phone ] Levi, destroy it. You can’t give it to them.
Farook: You have your proof.
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[ Ressler in his vehicle sees Levi walking some distance away ]Ressler: I’ve got him. Do I stop him?
Cooper: …No, let him make the drop. Just make damn sure that system doesn’t get out of the park.
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[ Levi walks up to the vendor’s cart as instructed. He passes the device to the vendor ]Levi: This goes nowhere until Samar is brought here.
NMB “Vendor”: It’s been authenticated.
Levi: Where is she?
[ A white van pulls up beneath the knoll they are on, a door opens, and Samar gets out ]⋘⋙
Aram: That’s her. [ Jumps up, pointing ] That’s her! Uh, South Drive.
Cooper: All units move in. Stop that van! Ressler, move your team in now.
[ Levi heads down the knoll to meet Samar ]
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[ Ressler’s team rushes up to the cart ]Ressler: Hands! Hands where I can see ’em.
[ The Vendor obliges, but as he raises his arms, he releases a small drone ]
[ Drone whirring.
It hovers for a moment by his head before speeding away with its small cargo ]
Ressler: Bring it down!
[ It takes a split-second for the SWAT team to respond and their few 💥 rifleshots 💥💥💥 fail to bring it down ]
Vendor: I’m not the one controlling it.
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Ressler: Aram, I lost visual. What do you got?Aram: Nothing. It just– it disappeared. …
Cooper: Somebody saw it. We’re monitoring for reports or complaints.
Aram: Oh, oh, I got one. I got one. Reports of someone flying a drone from the roof of the Mazelon Hostel. All right, the address–
Ressler: I got it.…
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[ A man checking out has his back turned to Ressler. He starts to leave the counter ]
Ressler: On the ground! On the ground!
[ Farook takes off, grabs a woman and backs through a revolving glass door using her as a shield ] [ Screams ]
Ressler: … Hey! Drop the bag!
[ Ressler catches up with Farook and they fight ] [ Farook bites Ressler’s hand and Ressler screams ] [ The fight rages until Farook is thrown over Ressler’s back under a moving vehicle ] [ Tires squeal ] [ The vehicle stops ]
[ Ressler straightens up, picks up the bag and walks past Farook’s body ] …
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Diaz: Ah, now, two million people may watch the inauguration, but the dance floor’s all Miriam cares about. And my girl and I are gonna tear it up.Marlin Heiden: Uh, sir, sir. … Sir, there’s a… situation. I’m so sorry. I would’ve told you about it earlier, but–
⋘ [ Red enters ] ⋙Red: There you are. Dance lessons. What fun!
Diaz: What the hell is he doing here?
Miriam: Oh, my God. You’re–
Diaz: What the hell are you doing here?
Red: Robert, I know your dance card is full, but we have an appointment that I must insist you keep. …
Miriam: Marlin, call security.
Diaz: No, just… give us a moment.
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Diaz: You and I are even.Red: Not quite.
Diaz: The hell we’re not. I halted my presidential campaign and launched a Senate hearing into Alexander Kirk’s links to terrorism.
Red: And in exchange, you received a generous donation and an appreciable bump in the polls, and now look what’s happened. …Diaz: This is over. You and I are done.
Red:Then perhaps I should speak to Miriam. I’m sure she’s dying to know what kind of business you and I have been conducting. It’s up to you, Robert. Would you prefer to be in the White House or the doghouse?
Miriam: [ Sharply ] Robert?
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Cooper: You obstructed our investigation, put lives at risk, lied to us.Samar: Yes, to protect my country.
Cooper: Your country? While you’re on this task force, the country you’re protecting is the United States.
Samar: And today, I protected both.
Aram: [ Quietly ] Almost died in the process.
Cooper: You need to think about where your allegiance lies. … Let me be clear about this– You can’t lie to me. You can’t operate without my authority, ever. I feel I’ve earned your trust and respect. Now go home, get some rest, and think about whether you agree with that. If you do, I’ll see you in the morning. If not, I won’t.༺ ♤ ༻
Aram: He’s right. You should, uh, get some rest. Dinner can wait. …Samar: Thank you for the rain check.
Aram: Actually, uh… I don’t, uh, want a rain check. I mean… I do. Obviously, I do, but… I don’t. You know how I told you that deposition was terrifying? Yeah, it was worse than
terrifying. It was… embarrassing. There I was on the record, testifying to… my, uh, habit of falling for people who aren’t what they appear to be … To find out that the person that you love … the person that you can see yourself marrying and having a family with and– and growing old with, to find out that person…Samar: Is a spy. Someone whose allegiances you can’t trust.
Aram: I can’t be with a person like that.
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Tom: I thought Panabaker told Cooper you’d never be reinstated.Liz: She did, why?
Woman: … [T]he full presidential pardon of Elizabeth Keen for the murder of Attorney General Tom Connolly is certainly the most surprising in recent memory…
Liz: Did she just say…
Tom: You’ve been pardoned. Oh, my God. Liz, you’ve been pardoned.
[ Gasps ] [ Laughs ] [ Hugs, kisses ]
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[ Red is sitting in the back of his car as Dembe drives him through the darkness to his next destination. The radio is on ]
…continue to speculate on what was behind the President’s controversial decision to pardon Elizabeth Keen. The White House issued a statement that the President will not be commenting.
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Samar: Hey.
Levi: Hey.
Samar: … There’s someone else. I’ve been waiting a long time for this, for us, for you. But… I am in love with someone else.
Levi: Hey.
Samar: … There’s someone else. I’ve been waiting a long time for this, for us, for you. But… I am in love with someone else.
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Liz: It was Reddington. He got the President of the United States to pardon me. How does he do that?
Cooper: I don’t know. And right now, I don’t care. [ Drawer opens ] I’m just glad I can finally say… it’s good to have you back, Agent Keen.
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🔴 4:8 Dr Adrian Shaw – Conclusion (№ 98)
Blurb: Fall Finale. Kirk is under guard in a high security hospital as Odette plans to extract him. Red holds the key to possibly curing Kirk. Who is Liz’s real father? Did Red falsify the DNA evidence that says Kirk is not Liz’s father? Did Katarina? Will Liz ever learn the truth about her heritage, her childhood, her mother – the mysterious Katarina Rostova?
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Hospital Manager: Can I help you?[ Kirk’s man Viktor shoots the manager 💥Silenced gunshots (💥)(💥) ]
[ Viktor drills into a vent ]
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Cooper: Is it true? The DNA test? You’re not Kirk’s daughter.
Liz: Tell your team to expect a full military assault.
Cooper: What are you talking about?Liz: I just got off the phone with Reddington. He has reason to believe Kirk’s men are coming to break him out.
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[ Viktor drops an object into the ventilation system ]
Viktor: [ Russian accent ] Incendiaries are live.
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Liz: Even if you could get out, what’s the point? You are sick.Kirk: You can help me, Masha.
Liz: I know you don’t wanna believe this, but those test results…
Kirk: They were altered by Reddington.Liz: No, they’re real. I’m not your daughter.
Kirk: Reddington wants me dead, Masha. He always has.
Liz: Maybe. I don’t know. But I do know that I can’t save your life. And you aren’t going anywhere.
[ Smoke starts to come out of the wall vent ] [ Coughing ]
[ Doctors and nurses begin hurrying patients out of the unit ]
[ Kirk’s men are walking through halls toward Kirk’s unit ]
⋘⋙
Cooper: We believe the fire’s a false flag to help Kirk break out. Tell your people no one in or out of this room until I say otherwise.
Liz: Has anyone seen Tom?
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[ Tom is outside the unit ]
Tom: Come on, man. Let me in. My wife’s in there.
Guard: Can’t do it.
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Odette: Blow it. Now. Go.
Tom: Get down!
[ 💥🔥💥 Explosion 💥🔥💥 ]
[ Kirk’s men prepare weapons and head out; Tom recovers from the blast and follows them ]
Guard: Ready? One, two, three.
[ More 💥🔥💥 Explosions 💥🔥💥 ]
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[ Screams, clamoring ] [ 💥 Gunfire 💥 ] [ (💥) Silenced gunshots ( 💥) ]Guard: Move, move, down! Out, out. Come on! Go!
[Dmitri and Tom fight. Dmitri is strangling Tom]Dmitri: Are you saying something? I still cannot hear you! [ Tom reaches for the gun on the floor ] [ Tom shoots Dmitri in the head 💥 ]
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[ Kate is dreaming ]
Red: You’ve told me you’ve always wanted a… pristine, unspoiled place to live out your days in peace. So the acre is yours – for all eternity. [ Gunshot 💥 ]
Kate: [ Gasps ] [ Aloud: ] Raymond.
[ She wakes up ]
Hunter: Fever broke. Think we beat that infection. So, who’s Raymond? He the one that shot you? Or the other
guy? … I don’t know why you’re protecting these people. Truth is, I don’t care. You’re not leaving me a lot of options here, sweetheart. Can’t hold you prisoner forever.
Kate: So let me go.
Hunter: This here is a squat. Public land. Rangers would run me off if they knew. Nobody knows I’m here but you. You don’t trust me. So how am I supposed to trust you with my whole world? …
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Dembe: It was Kirk’s men at the hospital.
Red: Did Elizabeth get out?
Dembe: She was taken by Kirk.Red: … We need to find patient zero. How long, Dr. Shaw?
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[ Siren wailing ] [ Kirk and Liz are in the back of the escape ambulance ]
Kirk: You’re angry, and I accept that.
Liz: Tom better not be dead.
Kirk: In time, you’ll understand I did this to hold my family together. The test… Reddington falsified it. He’ll do anything to keep us apart.
Driver: We’re approaching the switch site. Medical teams are prepped and waiting.
Kirk: [ To his men ] Tom Keen, make sure he’s not hurt.
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[ At the Post Office, the phone rings ]Aram: Agent Mojtabai.
Tom: Aram! I’m following Liz. She’s in an ambulance heading north on Bristoll. …
Aram: I’m tracking it now. Agents Ressler and Navabi are closing in from the west. I’m vectoring you in.
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Kirk: Why are we slowing?
Odette: [ On phone ] You can’t stop. You need to get to the switch car.
Kirk’s driver: Hold on.[ The ambulance tries to maneuver through traffic but 💥slams💥 into back of a car ] [ Tom’s car catches up]
Kirk’s man: Everybody out! Let’s go!
[ Tom attacks.💥 Gunfire 💥 ]
Kirk’s man: Out! Get out of the way!
[ A woman is forced out of her car. Some of Kirk’s force and Liz and Kirk take off in it ]
[ 💥 Gunfire 💥 continues between Tom and one of Kirk’s goons ]
[ Tom runs out of ammo. He crawls under a van, but Kirk’s man sees him ]
Kirk’s man: Hey. How’s it going under there? My boss ordered me not to kill you, but he didn’t say anything about messing up that pretty face.Tom: Whoo! Okay, okay, okay.
[ Car doors open ] [ 💥 Gunshot 💥 ] [ Thud ]
[ Footsteps approach ]
[ Ressler bends down to look at Tom under the car ]
Ressler: You owe me.
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[ Kate, who has freed herself, holds a self-fashioned knife to the Hunter’s neck ]
Hunter: Can’t keep you. Can’t kill you. I was gonna cut you loose and… pray you don’t tell anybody I’m up here.
[ Kate releases her grip ]
Kate: You could’ve left me in the woods.
Hunter: No, I couldn’t do that.
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[ Interrogation room ]
Samar: Police found the sedan abandoned under a bridge about a mile away.
Kirk’s man, Viktor: Where is this place?
Ressler: That bridge was well chosen. No surveillance cameras, a complete dead zone.Samar: You had a switch vehicle stashed there. You were supposed to be in it. …
Viktor: Prisoners are legally guaranteed medical care. And… I’ve been shot.
Samar: You were treated by paramedics.
Viktor: I need a doctor. You are showing deliberate indifference to my injuries, and that is against the law.
[ Ressler takes a pen-like object and presses it into the bullet hole ]
Samar: Where is Alexander Kirk?
[ Ressler presses harder ]
Viktor: [ Strained voice ] They had a van waiting under the bridge. [ Inhales sharply ] A silver panel van. The safe house was 10 minutes away, but they hadn’t told me where in case of something like this. …
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Ressler: Keen was taken from the drop site in a silver panel van. Safe house is less than 10 minutes away. …
Aram: I’ll start a search for properties in the area associated with Kirk or his shell companies.
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Tom: [ On phone, to Red ] I talked to Ressler. … They think they’ve nailed a location where she’s being held, somewhere in Silver Spring.Dr Shaw: I think I found something.
Tom: Hey. Hello, did you hear me? I need to find her, and I need your help.Red: No. The FBI needs to find her. We need to focus on keeping Elizabeth alive once they do. … I’ll call you on this number when I know more. [ Cellphone closes ]
Dr Shaw: I found patient zero.
Red: Call Baz. Tell him to get Dr. Reifler here right away. Go on.Shaw: Mr. Reddington, I was on the verge of patenting cutting-edge research that would’ve saved countless lives. I had to restore my credentials as a doctor, and thanks to you, I’ve lost it all again.
Red: Patient zero. I need a name.Shaw: I want you to bankroll my work. I want my future back. My research is illegal, not immoral.
Red: A distinction I’m comfortable drawing. But human experimentation in the hull of a ship is a bit too Draconian even for me.Shaw: I need your word that you will not kill her.
Red: Her name.
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Doctor: The HLA proteins aren’t a match. We’re not meeting the criteria.Kirk: How much did he pay you?
[ Kirk fires gun 💥 over the doctor’s head ]
Kirk: How much did he pay you?!
Doctor: Sir, please. It… it’s not a match.[ Gun cocks, Kirk points it at him ]
Kirk: You look into my eyes and you tell me Elizabeth Keen is not my daughter.
Odette: [ Stepping up, lowers his arm ] She’s not.
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Dr Reifler: Why are you doing this? I’ve told you everything I know about Kirk, and I have been locked in a sweaty motel room with your goons for weeks.
Red: Goons. That… that’s not fair. Well, Carlton is a bit goonish, but Matthew is actually quite erudite and a world-class chess player to boot. In any case, there’s someone I’d like to introduce you to. Dr. Adrian Shaw, meet Dr. Sebastian Reifler. Dr. Reifler is a hematologist. Dr. Shaw is a research scientist who worked with a patient you also treated, Lucille Bockes.
Reifler: Lucille Bockes is dead. … I-I put her into hospice care over four years ago. …
Shaw: Lucille responded to my treatment and went into full remission.Reifler: It’s… it’s not possible.
Red: Lucille Bockes is alive and well… [ Cellphone rings ] and working as a prosecuting attorney.
Dembe: It’s Kirk.
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Red: [ On phone ] Constantin.
Kirk: She’s not my daughter.
Red: No, she’s not.
Kirk: And yet, she’s here.
Red: She’s nothing to you. A distant, confused memory. I’m the one you want.
Kirk: What I want is to put a bullet in your head before I die.
Red: Then do that. An even trade.
Kirk: With the FBI wanting to ambush me the moment I give her up, I don’t think so.
Red: You set the terms. However you want, I’ll do it. My life for hers. …
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Dembe: We can find her.
Red: There’s no more time.
Dembe: He’ll kill you, no matter what you do or say. You can’t go.
Red: [ Pause ] It’s Elizabeth.
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[Red and Dembe are sitting on a park bench]
Red: [ To Dembe ] Forgive me. For Kate. For everything.
[ A car pulls up. Red gets in car as Dembe watches ]
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[ In the hunter’s cabin, Kate is sitting at the table ] [ The Hunter and his dog enter ]
Kate: The man you saw in the picture was my employer. He lost his way. … He placed a lovely young woman and her baby girl in terrible danger… not deliberately, mind you.
He loves them deeply. … I tried to help her. All I managed to do was to place her and the child in even greater danger. My efforts earned me a bullet in the head. This man, he is very dangerous and absolutely relentless. If he even suspects I survived, there will be no place I can be safe. …༺ ♤ ༻
Kirk: I’m not ready to die… just yet.
Odette: Reddington. He’s arriving.
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Liz: [ to Red ] You shouldn’t have come.Red: The ripe apple falls. Doesn’t know what else to do. So here I am. Time to let her go.
Kirk: I bear Masha no grudges. I promise her safe passage. …
Liz: Let him go.
Kirk: Love did it, if you can believe it. It doesn’t make much sense, but sometimes you can feel too much, hold on too long… it poisons you. …
Kirk: … I should have let go of you… years ago, but you were my child. I’m gonna be dead soon, and my biggest regret is that… you will remember me like this and not the young father who cradled you in his arms. A lifetime in front of us.
Liz: You want me to remember you that way? Let Reddington go.Kirk: [ To Odette ] Hold her for an hour. Take her somewhere remote. Leave her safe. Safe, Odette.
Liz: [ To Red ] I’ll come for you. I’ll come for you.
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Miss Bockes: Excuse me, what are you doing?Tom: I locked my keys in the car, you believe it? Yeah, I stopped to get something and then… never mind.
Bockes: You’re blocking my car. …Tom: I called a, uh, car service. Yeah, they’re almost here. So I’m gonna have my assistant come down and deal…
Bockes: You can’t just leave. I am a lawyer. I have a trial.
Tom: Why don’t we do this? Why don’t you just take my ride?
Bockes: That, uh, would be very helpful.
Bockes: Great. Thank you.
Tom: Sure, no problem. Yeah, I’ll just, um… it’s a black Town Car. And, uh, the driver’s name is unpronounceable. Ha! I can’t even say…[ Dembe pulls up, rolls down window ]
Dembe: Hey, you called for a ride?
Tom: Yes, thank you. Would you be so kind as to drive
this young woman wherever she would like to go?Woman: I’m going to the county courthouse. Chestnut and Jefferson.
[ Tom gets in too and pulls his gun on her ]
Tom: I’m not gonna hurt you.
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Kirk: I don’t really know how we got here, Raymond. I remember being an honest businessman in a happy marriage until you came along.
Red: Constantin, I can save your life.
Kirk: Seduced my wife. …
Red: I have a cure.
Kirk: I came home one night and they were gone… my wife, my child. – …
Red: There’s a science. Some sort of genetics. It’s called CRISPR.
Kirk: [ Chuckles ] Your magic bullet to save my life is some experimental treatment they’re not even testing on humans.
Red: CRISPR is not just experimental.
Kirk: Gene re-sequencing may work someday, but I won’t live that long.
Red: There was a breakthrough 19 years ago by a scientist who was murdered. His partner carried on his work on humans, not animals, with remarkable success. I have a doctor who can apply that science today. I can make her available to you.
Kirk: And why would you save my life?
Red: Because I want you to save mine. …
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Kirk: Because of my chronic illness, I’ve become something of an expert in pain management… what causes it, and what prevents it. Naturally occurring toxins, bacterial proteins, mutagens. … Kirk: I’m confident Mr. Kleeb can encourage you to answer some of my questions, Raymond. As I said, I have many. Now, let’s start at the beginning.
[ Kirk’s assistant injects Red’s hand ] …
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[ Cellphone rings ] …Ressler: [ Answers phone ] Ressler.
Aram: All right, I’m looking at CCTV feeds of a silver panel van that crossed through the intersection of Newmarket and Maiden less than five minutes ago.
Ressler: [ To Samar ] Aram’s got eyes on the van.
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Kirk: I had proof that she was my daughter. A DNA test.
Red: You saw what Katarina wanted you to see. She lied to you about everything. KGB trained her to seduce… foreign diplomats, intel… intelligence personnel… into… believ… revealing secrets. You always thought I was the interloper.
The truth is that I was an assignment. I’m… I’m sure you were, too. …Kirk: All that matters is that we had a family, and you destroyed it. We had a daughter, and you took her from us. Why?
Mr. Kleeb: If I dose him again, it could induce an Adrenergic storm. We could lose him.
Kirk: Are you her father?
[ Kirk injects Red in the neck ]
Kirk: Are you her father? Answer me.
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[ Odette and Liz are walking along a pier. Odette has a gun pointed at Liz. One of Kirk’s men follows behind ]
Odette: Let’s go.
Liz: What good is killing me gonna do? It won’t bring him back. He’s gonna die. He can’t be saved.
Odette: Well, he wouldn’t need to be saved if it wasn’t for you. …
Liz: He’s dying because he’s sick.
Odette: I’m not talking about his death. That was inevitable. I’m talking about who he’s become because of his obsession with you. He was a good man when I met him. And then he saw you, a fugitive on television. Finding you, that changed him. He did things that I didn’t think he was capable of. Terrible things. Awful. I blame you for that’s.
[ Ressler appears and 💥 shoots Kirk’s guy ]
[ Liz turns and attacks Odette, gets the gun. Samar arrives and also points her gun at Odette ]
Liz: You’re going to jail.
Odette: No. I’m not.
[ Odette leaps off the edge of the building hitting the water far below ]
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Mr. Kleeb: His heart rate is 122. BP is 180 over 110. We’ve made him tachycardic.Kirk: The antidote.
[ Ragged breathing ]
[ Kirk holds up two syringes ]
Kirk: Pain. Relief. Which I administer next is completely up to you.
⋘ No response ⋙
Kirk: So be it.
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[ A black SUV pulls up. Dr Shaw, Dr .Reifler and Miss Bockes get out ]
Miss Bockes: I don’t know what this is. I don’t know why I’m here, but I am a district attorney and people will be looking for me.
Kirk: Who is she?Dr Reifler: She is a miracle. Lucille was a patient of mine. Lucille Bockes.
Kirk: That’s not possible.
Reifler: I know.
Kirk: What trick are you playing?
Red:It’s not a trick. It’s a proof of concept.Kirk: CRISPR?
Red: It can save you.
Kirk: If I let you go.
Red: We both die… or we both live. It’s up to you.
Kirk: [ To Reifler ] Run every test on her you can think of. I don’t believe in miracles.
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Ressler: You’re telling me that Reddington was there with Kirk.
Liz: Yeah. He traded himself for me.
Ressler: They were in some kind of an underground parking lot?
Liz: … They had my head covered going in and out. – I’d say we drove 15, maybe 20 minutes.
Ressler: 10 mile radius to search. We’re right back to where we started.
Liz: No, we’re not. I have an idea.
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[ Phone rings at the Post Office ]
Aram: Yeah.
Liz: Aram, I have a question. If the van Kirk’s guys were using has a GPS system, could you use that to retrace where it’s been?
Aram: If the van has a telematics system, it may have a two-way link to a service provider that relays GPS data. …༺ ♤ ༻
Kirk: [Y]ou’re gonna have to answer my question.Red: No.
Kirk: You’re not her father?
Red: No, I’m not gonna answer your question. She lived at… at your house as your daughter… on and off for… four years. Sometimes you were there, sometimes you weren’t. What difference does it make?Kirk: Are you her father? …
Red: It doesn’t matter.
Mr Kleeb: I can’t. If I inject him again…
Kirk: I’m gonna ask you one more time. Is Masha your daughter?
Red: [ Murmurs indistinctly ] What do you want me to say? Yes… [ Murmurs indistinctly ] Is that what you want me to say? Yes, Elizabeth is my daughter.
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Kirk: It’s true?
Reifler: Yes. I did a full work up. She’s cured.
Red: My proposition still stands. … Dr. Shaw is standing by in a fully assembled lab waiting for you.
Kirk: I want everybody out. Clear the area. Miss Bockes, you’re free to go. All of you, go. Out!
Kirk: So… you can cure me. How ironic. You, of all people. But if the price for my life is sharing the Earth with you, I’m gonna have to turn you down.
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Aram: All right, stay on Hampden unless you cross 188, then take your next right.
Ressler: Aram, we don’t have time to retrace the entire route.Liz: The site had an underground parking structure. Does that help you filter the search? …
Aram: … The van made eight stops in the last 96 minutes. An apartment complex in Friendship
Heights, a gym in Bethesda, what looks like a strip mall…Ressler: Wait, wait. Did you say gym?
Aram: Uh, right. Bodhi Fitness.
Ressler: That’s the place.
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Kirk: Since we have a history together, I’ll give you the choice. Would you prefer to suffocate or to have a heart attack?
Red: You’re not gonna kill me.
Kirk: And why is that? Because that means I’ll die, too?
Red: Dying isn’t so bad. I did it once in Marrakesh.
Kirk: Suffocation. You talk too much.
Red: Perhaps I should listen more. Tell me about Katarina.
Kirk: And why would I do that?
Red: Because we both miss her. Because… after all these years… I have forgotten what she was… really like. …
Kirk: When… when we… when we first met, there was this house near where she lived, a case study house built by this famous mid-century architect. … [S]he said she wanted to look at it. I thought she meant look from the street. But when we got there, she jumped the fence. The lights were on. People lived there. She didn’t care. I stood there… frozen, angry, nervous. Then I felt… this rush of exhilaration. I climbed up, looked into the yard… and she was just…
Red: … Dancing.
Kirk: … unafraid. Daring. Being. I’d never seen anything like it. She had…
Red: … A joy for living.
Kirk: She was more alive than anyone I knew. When I heard she killed herself… I didn’t believe it. I still don’t. You’re wrong. I didn’t see what she wanted me to see of her, I saw her. And despite what happened, I know she loved me.
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Red: You don’t have to do this.
Kirk: Raymond, there’s nothing in this world you can tell me to change my mind.
[ Kirk stabs Red in the neck with another long needle ]
[ Red whispers something to Kirk ] [ Kirk appears shocked. He does not complete the injection ]
[ Red looks at Kirk, with grave seriousness ]
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[ Liz and Ressler search the parking structure of the Gym. They find the ad hoc lab, the chair Red had sat on, Red’s hat on the floor ]
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Cooper: Reddington did what?
Ressler: We thought he kidnapped Dr. Shaw in order to make sure that Kirk died. But the truth is, he kidnapped her hoping to keep Kirk alive.
Samar: The data recovered from Kirk’s lab indicates that Reddington was trying to prove to Kirk that Shaw could save him.
Cooper: Why the hell would he do that?
Samar: Why does Reddington do any of the things he does? …
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[ Kate walks along a highway. A truck slows down, picks her up ]
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[ Knock on door ]Tom: So it worked?
Red: Yes.
Tom: I’ll take that as a thank you.
[ Red enters ]
Liz: Oh, my God. How did you…[ Liz hugs Red ]
Liz: Kirk?
Red: Gone.
Liz: Dead?
Red: Gone.
Liz: I don’t… I don’t understand. How did you…
Red: It’s over. May I?
Liz: Mm. Come here. Come here. Yes. [ Sighs ] Here you go.[ Liz hands the baby to Red. He makes an “Aha!” face and smiles ]
[ Cooing ] [ Both laugh ] [ Chuckles ]
Liz: You know, I really believed he was my father.
Red: You had every reason to.
Liz: Except for one. You. You told me my father died when I was a little girl. I just… I guess I didn’t want to believe it. I really wanted my dad here to see her grow up.
Red: He would’ve wanted that, too.
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Blurb: At last Liz and Tom have been reunited with baby Agnes. Alexander Kirk aka Constantin Rostov, who may well be Liz’s biological father, is in custody, held in the notorious “red box.” Will Liz and Tom finally be free of Red? Will Liz be able to find out more about her own past from Kirk?
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Dr Adrian Shaw: I’m sorry you haven’t responded to our treatment. I hope it’s some small consolation that what we’ve learned from treating you will help others in your situation.
[ Groaning ] [ Coughing ] [ Gasping ]
[ Groaning ] [ Coughing ] [ Gasping ]
Second Doctor: He’s the second one this week.
Shaw: He knew the odds.
Second Doctor: The morgue is filled to capacity.
Patient: Please… Please, God. Please… [ Groaning ] [ Gasps ] [ Body thuds ]
Shaw: Use the bone saw.
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Cooper: Mr. Kirk, you’re being charged under Title 18, Chapter 113B of the United States Code– Acts of Terrorism Transcending National Boundaries. … That’s a fancy way of saying you killed a lot of good men. Anything you want to say?
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Cooper: Then we’re done here.
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[ Liz is above, observing by video feed. Kirk, knowing she must be watching, addresses her ]
Alexander Kirk: You know the truth, Masha. If this is what it took for you to call me “Father,” it was worth it.
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[ In a park. Birds chirping ]
Red: Have you ever been spearfishing? You should go spearfishing. I love spearfishing. On the Ambergris Caye, there is a reef–Liz: If there’s a reason you felt this story couldn’t wait, I’d love to hear it, but quickly if possible.
Red: I have a Blacklister for you. They call him The Coroner.
Liz: [ Sighs ] I just got my baby back, my husband, my family. This can wait. … We caught the Thrushes, arrested his mole. Who else is there?
Red: You.
Liz: You think I’m gonna help Kirk escape?
Red: I think you’re compassionate. You believe he’s your father. When push comes to shove, your impulse will be to save him.
Liz: Fine. I’ll bite. Tell me more.
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[ Liz briefs the task force ]
Liz: According to Reddington, The Coroner runs a witness protection program for criminals. He provides them with new lives, fully documented from cradle to present. … He then takes these meticulously crafted identities and sells them to the world’s most dangerous criminals. …
Aram: … Apparently, [Mr Reddington] lost a job to The Coroner. Her name was Giza Barerra. …
[Her] father was a Mexican drug trafficker who forced her to marry a dangerous rival when she was 14 years old. 20 years later, she got her revenge by murdering her father and his rival, uniting their cartels under her leadership.
Ressler: The other cartels felt threatened. So 6 years later, 60,000 people were dead. Giza Barerra disappeared.Samar: Thanks to an identity sold to her by The Coroner.
Aram: Now Barerra was raised in a convent. Apparently, her father also was a devout Catholic who insisted his child learn Latin.
Cooper: Latin. That’s your lead.
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Aram: So I wrote an algorithm to search for schools that still require Latin and cross-indexed it with a web search of tutoring services that teach Latin and, well… [ Typing ] …this woman works at a private school in Brooklyn Heights. Think it could be her?
Cooper: Let’s ask her. Ressler, Navabi, check it out. …
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Liz: I feel like you deserve some clarity on what’s about to happen. They’re transferring you to Fort McNair, where you’ll be held until your initial hearing. You’ll have access to your lawyers–
Kirk: Did you mean what you said when you called me “Father”?
Liz: Yes.
Kirk: And yet you picked Reddington.
Liz: I picked myself. You said you were trying to protect Agnes from Reddington, and that’s my decision to make– and Tom’s. But no one else’s. Not even my father’s.Kirk: You remind me so much of her. Your mother. She was an amazing woman. I’ve been wanting to tell you about her. I thought we had more time. …
[ Breathing heavily ] [ Blood begins to seep from Kirk’s nostril ]
Liz: Alexander? … Kirk?
[ Kirk mutters, then collapses ]
Liz: Enter the code! Open the door right now!
[ Liz performs chest compressions ]
Liz: He’s not breathing! Get a medic in here now!
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[Walter Reed Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland]Cooper: We’ll be taking the whole wing. Everyone in and out will get a full body scan.
Security: This guy’s that important?
Ressler: He is to us.
Colonel Wright: Your prisoner’s in the end stages of aplastic anemia.
Cooper: What does that mean?
Wright: An average person has between 150 to 400,000 platelets per microliter of blood. Mr. Kirk’s is under 10,000. I’d expect to see intracranial bleeding within hours. … Unless he has a blood relative willing to donate stem cells his body won’t reject, your prisoner will be dead by morning.
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Odette: Kirk is being held under guard in a US Army hospital in Bethesda. I want a full workup of all medical requirements for his transport and a list of potential destinations, both overt and covert. …
Man: Don’t we need to get him out of the hospital first?
Odette: Leave that to me.
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[ Brooklyn Heights ]
Principal Brezinski: Renata has been tutoring our students in Latin for a decade. …Renata: Oh, you wanted to see me?
Principal: Yes, these are Agents Ressler and Navabi from the FBI.
Ressler: Can we see some identification, please? … That’s a nice tattoo.Renata: Oh. Where I come from, a tattoo is a dream made flesh. A rose is a sign of beauty.
Ressler: Except when laid on a grave.
[ Renata sprays mace or red pepper in Ressler’s face ]
Ressler: Aah! [ Grunts ]
[ Renata runs. Samar chases after her. After a few moments, rubbing his eyes, Ressler follows ]
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[ Children playing soccer on a green, shouting playfully ]Child: Over here!
[ Samar catches up with Renata and tackles her ]
[ Ressler catches up, cocks gun, points it at Renata ]
Boy: [ To Ressler ] You’re not supposed to have guns in school.
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Ressler: Santa Muerte? I hear the Mexican cartels pray to her for protection. …Samar: Your DNA is going to come back ID’ing you as Giza Barerra.
Renata: I don’t know who that is. …
Samar: You were 14 years old when your father married you to a man 40 years older than you. I can’t imagine what that was like. Fathers are supposed to protect their daughters. Yours didn’t. But we can – if you tell us how to contact The Coroner.Renata aka Giza Barrera: [ Exhales sharply ] Every week there’s a standing ad in the “Lexington Herald” asking for volunteers for a blood drive. …
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Liz: I know. I’m sorry I didn’t call. Kirk collapsed in the Post Office.Tom: Oh, well, that’s good.
Liz: His only hope is for a blood relative to donate stem cells. … I just wanted to talk to you about it.
Tom: Liz, what is there to talk about? He attacked our wedding, kidnapped you, and threatened to throw our child from a rooftop.
Liz: And for that, he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison. I’m not talking about freeing him. I’m talking about saving his life.
Tom: Why would you do that?
Liz: Because he’s my father. …
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[ At a bar ] [ Samar is wired. Ressler is also at the bar nearby ]
Samar: [ To Ressler ] Listen up, boys. This is him.
Ressler: No one wonder they call him The Coroner. Our teams are in place.
[ The Coroner sits down across from Samar ]
Samar: Thank you for agreeing to meet. Would you like me to start by explaining my situation?The Coroner: Your name is Victoria Cronin. You have a Master’s in health care administration from Smith College.
[ Red’s voice is heard from from a booth a short distance away, talking to a man (Willie Adair) ]
Reddington: …so Rory says, “In Boston, a shot of whiskey and a pint of stout is an Irish Car Bomb. In Belfast, it’s breakfast.” [ Both laugh ] Excuse me.
[ Red gets up and sits down next to a surprised Samar ]
Ressler: [ Over the wire ]: The hell is he doing here?
Red: You must be The Coroner. … [ Laughs ] I used her to lure you here. She doesn’t need an identity. I do.
The Coroner: You are Raymond Reddington.
Red: And you’re on the wrong side of 80, sitting on a donut pillow. My sympathies to your significant other. And if your flag is flying at half mast, rest assured, I find in the privacy of one’s boudoir, pleasing others is the key to pleasing oneself.
The Coroner: Do you expect me to make you disappear?
Red: I’ve been disappearing for over 25 years. I don’t need your help to disappear. I need an identity, specifically the one you created for Sonia Bloom– the research scientist. …
The Coroner: That’s impossible. My clients expect absolute confidentiality.
Red: Hmm. Few things in life are truly impossible. Talking an Irishman out of vengeance for his brother’s death is one of them. You see that ruddy-faced fellow in my booth? Willie Adair. …
The Coroner: I don’t know who that is.
Red: But you gave the man who killed his brother a new identity. Perhaps I should call him over so you can explain your policy on confidentiality.
The Coroner: That won’t be necessary.
Red: Hmm. Sonia Bloom.
The Coroner: Adrian Shaw.
Red: Cheers.
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Ressler: What the hell was that all about? Who’s Sonia Bloom?
Red: Apparently, Adrian Shaw.
Samar: You didn’t care about The Coroner.
Red: No, I didn’t.
Ressler: You used us to find him for you so he could tell you about Bloom.
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Liz: Colonel Wright– … I’m Alexander Kirk’s daughter.Wright: Why didn’t you say so before?
Liz: I wasn’t sure I wanted to help.
Wright: And now you are?
Liz: If I am, what do I need to do?
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Cooper: Harvest stem cells?Liz: It sounds worse than it is.
Cooper: I certainly hope so.
Liz: They put me on dialysis and collect the cells. And if they get enough, they transfuse them to Kirk. … [ Sighs ] Reddington said I’d save him. Tom will never forgive me if I do.
Cooper: Kirk hurt the two people Tom loves. You can’t be surprised if he doesn’t want you to help him. …
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[ Red and Dembe are seated in a doctors clinic waiting room. Red is looking at a copy of “Highlights for Children” ]Red: Found the teacup. Oh! And the banana. Mm. That’s 11. One more. Don’t tell me.
Office attendant: The doctor will see you now.
Red: Mm.
Dembe: Raymond.
Red: One second. The sailboat.
[ Dembe points to the sailboat ]
Red: Oh! Why’d you– Oh! Show-off.
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Aram: Mr. Reddington’s a genius. Could be an evil genius, but still.
Ressler: So you figured out his connection to Sonia Bloom.Aram: Yes. Sonia Bloom. Worked on next-gen genome research, re-sequencing DNA to help the body fight off disease. In 2001, she and her partner applied for a patent. A week later, her partner was murdered, and she went underground. … Her partner was Matthew Hadj.
Samar: One of the inventors murdered by the Lindquist Concern.
Ressler: So Reddington only gave us that case just to get to the partner.Samar: And then when he couldn’t, when he found out Sonia Bloom had disappeared, he gave us The Coroner to find where she went.
Ressler: So what is it about her research that connects to Kirk?
Aram: Okay. Sonia Bloom is hiding as Adrian Shaw. … Current AMA records indicate that now, as Shaw, she has a new partner who specializes in… Wait for it. Hematology.
Ressler: So Kirk’s dying of anemia, and Reddington’s suddenly looking for a mysterious blood doctor who’s doing cutting-edge research into gene sequencing.Aram: Dr. Shaw may be Kirk’s last best hope for finding a cure.
Samar: Reddington wants Kirk dead. One way of guaranteeing that is to kill the one doctor capable of keeping him alive.
Ressler: The partner. What’s the new partner’s name?
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[ Knock on door ] [ Red enters and sits down across from Dr Rayburn ]Dr Rayburn: Hmm?
Red: Thank you. Dr Rayburn, thank you for seeing me without an appointment.
Dr Rayburn: What seems to be the trouble?
Red: I have a pain right here. [ Reaches back to his hip, pulls out his gun out, cocks it ]Dr Rayburn: We don’t keep drugs in the office.
Red: If I want narcotics, Doctor, I’ll call the guy with the briefcase like everybody else. I’m looking for Dr. Adrian Shaw.
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Ressler: If the genome research Reddington’s after is worth killing over, it’s not being done at a clinic. What else does the LLC own?
Aram; Uh, checking. Hang on.
Ressler: A warehouse, a building, somewhere no one would look.
[ Taps keys ]
Samar: What is it? Did you find something?
Aram: Yeah. And it’s definitely not somewhere anyone would look.
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Dr Adrian Shaw: Mr. Fox, might I remind you of the condition you were in when you arrived?Fox: I’m dying, not poor. I won’t live like this. I’m leaving. …
Shaw: You signed up for me to save your life, and that is what I’m doing. For you and the two dozen former patients who are leading normal, healthy lives because of this program.
Fox: You mean the ones whose skin hasn’t melted off? I know what’s happening. Blake. Zion. Kearney. Oates. This trial is a death sentence.Shaw: What we’re doing here is illegal, not immoral. When you came aboard, you knew the risks. …
Fox: I agreed to keep quiet about science, not murder.
Shaw: There’s simply nowhere for you to go.
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[ A rusty ship plows through the waves. (Dr Shaw’s clinic is on that ship)]
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[ Liz enters ] [ Kirk exhales deeply ]
Kirk: … My entire life, all I ever wanted was to make you safe, protect you. And in the end, the only way I’m able to do that is by dying.Liz: I don’t understand.
Kirk: It’s yours. Everything I have. I’m leaving you my fortune.Liz: Which you’ll have plenty of time to spend, because you’re not dying. Not now, anyway. I told your doctor that I’ve decided to be your donor. …
Kirk: Why did you decide to help me?
Liz: Because you didn’t ask.
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[ Door opens ] [ Cooper ushers Odette inside ]
Cooper: Your lawyer’s here to see you.Odette: If I could have a moment alone with my client…
Cooper: Of course. For now.
[Liz and Cooper leave][Odette speaking Russian]
Kirk: Out, but not cured. Only she can do that.
Odette: An FBI agent and a life saver. You must be so proud.
Kirk: She’s agreed to be my donor. I need a day, maybe two. And I need you to watch your mouth.
Odette: We had everything before her. And now look at us. I am not apologizing for disliking her. [ She kisses him languorously ] The extraction plan is in place. We move on your signal.
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[ Tom arrives at Liz’s waiting room ] [ Sighs ]
Liz: Don’t say it.
Tom: What is there to say? I gave you my opinion. You ignored it.
Liz: I didn’t ignore it. I just… didn’t agree.
Tom: Okay, what are the risks? …
Liz: All I have to do is give blood. [ Sighs ] I should’ve told you sooner. I’m sorry. Just everything is happening so fast.
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Aram: Red Hook Harbor Master has the ship docking in 45 minutes.Ressler: Is there a manifest?
Aram: Yeah, already e-mailed it to you. 16 crew members and the licensed cargo is medical equipment. … Not just any equipment– thermal cyclers, centrifuges, incubators. Yeah, these are products used in genome research.
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Dr Shaw: [ On phone ] We’re about to dock. What’s the emergency?
[ Red is in the Mercedes with Dr Rayburn ]
Red: Dr. Shaw! Or should I call you Dr. Bloom? …Shaw: Who is this?
Red: I’m here with your colleague, Dr. Rayburn, who can confirm we have a situation. As we speak, the FBI is raiding his medical clinic.
Rayburn: Sonia, he knows everything about the research, The Coroner.
Red: I’m like the Ghost of Christmas Past… and Future, which is how I know the FBI will board your ship the moment it docks.Shaw: Whoever you are, why should I believe you?
Red: Belief is such a relative concept. Is there a God? Are we alone in the universe? What the hell have they found out there in Area 51 anyway? I prefer to think of your decision as judicious risk assessment. I have considerable resources to put at your disposal. I’m here to help you, Dr. Shaw. If you don’t want to go to jail, listen to me carefully. Firstly, is there a helipad on your ship?
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Wright: We got your results back.Liz: How’d I do?
Wright: We couldn’t harvest enough stem cells to justify a transfusion.
Liz: So what happens now?Wright: With a compatible donor, we could do a surgical procedure to harvest marrow directly from the cavity of your hip bone. … [But] the hospital won’t transfuse your stem cells into Mr. Kirk unless and until we receive confirmation that you’re a genetic match.
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[ Ressler and Samar arrive at the dock, where a rusty old freighter ship has just docked. The name of the ship: Madame Curie ]
Ressler: Special Agent Donald Ressler, Samar Navabi, FBI.Captain Lasko: Is there a problem?
Ressler: There won’t be if you direct us to Dr. Adrian Shaw.Lasko: I don’t know who that is.
Ressler: Maybe a warrant to board your ship will jog your memory.
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FBI Agent: Searched the entire ship. No sign of Dr. Shaw.
Lasko: I told you. This isn’t a passenger ship. There is no Dr. Shaw.Ressler: I know you’re hiding something. …
Samar: [ Calling from deck above ] Ressler.
[ Indistinct conversations ] [ An FBI man pulls back a tarp to reveal a shiney new piece of medical equipment ]
Samar: Does this look odd to you?
Ressler: [ Pointing to Lasko ] Arrest him.
[ Samar and Ressler do a search of the hidden compartment of the ship. They separate. Samar points her flashlight at fresh blood splattered on he wall ]
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[ At Walter Reed, Liz is pushed in a wheelchair to the OR where she will have the planned procedure. Doctors prepare their sterile instruments ][ Liz is prepped for surgery. The phone in the OR rings ]
Pre-op nurse: [ On phone ] Yes.
[ Hangs up phone ]
Pre-op nurse: That was the lab. They’ve got the results.
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[ On the docked ship, Samar opens a door to find a long, narrow room with two levels of narrow cots with patients lining one wall. Many patients are emaciated, their faces are inflamed and pustulent. A few look up at her as she passes ]
[ A man jumps Samar ][ The man gains the upper hand and is about to cut Samar’s throat just as Ressler kicks him off her and subdues him ]
Ressler: You okay?
Samar: Yeah. [ Exhales ]
Ressler: What the hell is this place?
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[ Liz enters Kirk’s hospital room ]Kirk: I thought you were in surgery.
Liz: I was.Kirk: You just saved my life.
Liz: I tried to.
Kirk: What, you weren’t a match? …
Liz: It’s not just that we weren’t compatible. The test results showed something else. I’m not your daughter.
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[ Red’s Mercedes is waiting behind a large brick building as a second car pulls up. Dr Rayburn gets out of Red’s car and Dr Shaw emerges from the second car ]Shaw: How did the FBI find us?
Rayburn: I don’t know. All that matters is Reddington was able to chopper you off the ship.
Shaw: What does he want? Why are we here?
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[ Cellphone rings ]
Dembe: [ Handing phone to Red ] Agent Navabi.[ Cellphone beeps ]
Red: Yes?
Samar: … Dr. Adrian Shaw– You abducted her.
Red: I kept her from you. There’s a difference.
Samar: Yes, we would’ve arrested her. You’re going to kill her.
Red: You looked absolutely ravishing the other night.Samar: We’ve seen her research–
Red: What do you do to stay in such incredible shape? Calisthenics? Or Jazzercise?
Samar: The gene-sequencing technology she’s trying to perfect– it’s called CRISPR. It’s supposed to teach your DNA to repair itself. …
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Rayburn: He knows everything. I don’t know how, but he does– about you being Sonia Bloom, going on the run after Matthew was murdered. He found Matthew’s killer. He avenged his death after all these years. .
Shaw: You’re Raymond Reddington.
Red: And you’re in my debt, which can be a complicated place to be. …
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[ Kirk gets up out of the hospital bed and walks over to the large window. He raises the blinds and crosses himself ]
[ Across the street, a man in a van is looking at the hospital window through binoculars ]
The Man: [ In Russian, into a phone ] We just got the sign.
Odette: All teams ready. We move in five.
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[ Red, Dr Shaw and Dembe walk through a long darkened room, cluttered with cast-off items ][ At the far end of the room is a door. It opens into a modern, brightly-lit room with tables of shiny glass tubes and flasks, as well a computer printer and other equipment ]
Dr Shaw: What is this?Red: This was a thriving business that manufactured counterfeit cigarette tax stamps until a little over two weeks ago. … Right now I have a pressing matter which requires your assistance.
Shaw: Are you sick?
Red: You have no idea.
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Kirk: … That DNA test was altered.
Liz: I thought it was a mistake, too.
Kirk: Mistake? It wasn’t a mistake. No. It was altered by Reddington.Liz: I had the lab rerun the test. It came back the same way.
Kirk: Yes. To make it look like you’re not my daughter. He knew you’d want to save me. So he did everything in his power to prevent that from happening! But he’s not going to prevent it. Do you hear me?! I will not die in here!
[ A guard enters and restrains Kirk ]
Kirk: You are going to save me, Masha! You’re going to save me… Masha. Save me, Masha!
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[ Dialing ] [ Cellphone rings ]
Red: Yes?
Liz: Did you manipulate the test?
Red: What are you talking about?Liz: I just showed Kirk DNA proof he’s not my father, and he blames you for faking the test.
Red: Get out of the hospital.
Liz: Don’t change the subject.
Red: The only subject that interests me, Elizabeth, is your safety– a safety that has been guaranteed thus far because Alexander Kirk believed you to be his daughter. He now knows you’re not.
Liz: He’s under federal guard. There are marshals with tactical gear watching every entrance. What’s he gonna do?
Red: I’ll tell you what he won’t do. He won’t die alone in that hospital. I promise you, the plan is already in motion. All of Kirk’s resources will be brought to bear. … Every angle has been calculated. Every obstacle considered and accounted for. Men are coming, Elizabeth– men who kill every living thing that gets in their way. Tell Harold, and then you get out of that hospital.
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Man: [ Russian accent ] We’re in place. On your ready.
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Blurb: Red has a plan to draw out Alexander Kirk (aka Constantin Rostov), who Red and Liz have discovered has hacked into the task force’s computers. Red suspects a group named the Thrushes performed the difficult technical feat. Liz remains torn between Kirk and Red. Liz and Tom’s baby, Agnes, becomes a pawn in game of charades in which no one but Liz knows her true intentions.
[ Minsk, Belarus ]
[ René Le Bron is explaining to assorted criminals his offer to fund their activities until US sanctions are lifted ]
René Le Bron: The President of the United States is not God, gentlemen. His judgment is not final. He has judged you to be human rights violators, drug traffickers, impediments to democracy, and he has signed Executive Order 13405, freezing 760 million Euros of your money. My judgment is that you are sanctioned businessmen with no cash to run your business. … All I ask in return is a market rate on the loan until your assets are unfrozen. At which point, you will transfer them to me.
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[ Elevator door opens ] [ Muzak plays ] [ Laughter ] [ Elevator door closes ]
[ The group that just boarded quickly put down Le Bron’s group, leaving only Le Bron standing ][ Oscar’s men put a white sack over Le Bron’s head and lead him off the elevator ]
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[ Red in his Mercedes ]
[ Cellphone beeps ]
Red: Hello, Oscar. I trust you secured the package.
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[ Red briefs the task force ]
Red: Iranian mullahs, Mexican cartels, radical despots… Your government declares them enemies and freezes their assets to influence their behavior. Economic sanctions are relatively easy to implement and historically effective. Until now. Agent Navabi, would you be so kind? [ Mouse clicking ]
Red: René Le Bron, … financier of terrorist states and criminal organizations, offers them sizable loans, … affording the bad actors the ability to continue conducting business as usual. When the sanctions are lifted, Le Bron makes a hefty profit by pocketing the frozen assets he insisted his borrowers put up as collateral.
Ressler: Brilliant idea. Sick, but brilliant.
Red: Yes, Donald. Truth be told, I’m disappointed I didn’t think of it.
Liz: Why bother when you can have us arrest him and then take his place?Red: Good point.
Aram: Sorry. Did I miss something? I-Is this about going after Kirk and…
Liz: Finding my daughter? No, it isn’t. Apparently, empire building takes precedence.
Red: Alexander Kirk is a client of Le Bron’s. After your government froze Kirk’s assets, he turned to Le Bron for a loan. … I intercepted Le Bron in Minsk closing a deal. He’s willing to cooperate, but on a condition I am powerless to fulfill… Immunity from prosecution.
Ressler: So you think that he’ll cooperate in exchange for witness protection?
Red: Well, one can hardly expect unconditional virtue from creatures like René Le Bron.
Liz. So I’ve learned.
Cooper: I’ll have to clear immunity with Cynthia Panabaker. Ressler, Navabi, Aram, clear the logistics for transfer of custody. Keen, a word.
Cooper: I can’t pretend to know the stress you’re under. But from where I sit, he’s doing everything in his power to find Agnes.
Liz: And kill Kirk.
Cooper: You have a problem with that?
Liz: Alexander Kirk is my father. …
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[ Aram confides in Samar about his new girlfriend, Elise ]Aram: … [ Chuckles ] She’s beautiful and smart. She’s an 11. I mean, I’m a 6, 4 on most days. Don’t get me wrong. I am going to enjoy it, but… something is up. Maybe I’m her rebound guy, or she’s got three months to live or…
Samar: Or maybe she thinks you’re a handsome, smart, incredibly nice guy who’s easy to be around.
Aram: Really? You think so?
Samar: No. But she might.
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[ In front of a vast computer array, a tech guy has been listening in on Cooper’s discussion with Panabaker ]
[Dialing]Odette: Yes, what is it?
Kirk tech guy: Yeah, we got a problem.
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[ Odette enters the sauna room where Kirk sits shrouded in a white terry robe ]
Odette: I just received confirmation from the Farm. Reddington was behind the Le Bron abduction. … Shall I deal with it? I’ve already acquired the details of his transport.Kirk: Yeah. Anything else?
Odette: It appears the seeds of doubt you sowed in Masha have taken root.
Kirk: It’s time to reach out. Take adequate precautions.
Odette: Adequate precautions? She’s a key consultant for the FBI.
Kirk: Yes. And she’s my daughter.
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[ A cavalcade of FBI and police vehicles speed toward the rendezvous point ][ Tires screech ]
[ Atop a building, a sniper assembles his weapon ]
[ Le Bron and captors (Red’s men) as well as Ressler, Samar and FBI unit arrive at the rendezvous point for the prisoner exchange ]
[ A single shot 💥 from the high powered rifle hits Le Bron in the head, killing him instantly ] …
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[ Red in Mercedes, answers phone ]Red: Yes?
Cooper: We lost the asset. Single shot. Fatal. …
Red: Thank you, Harold.
[ Red clicks phone shut ]
Red: [ To Dembe ] Le Bron is dead. Right on schedule. Time to send out the invitations.
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[ Elise wakes in Aram’s bed ]
Aram: Good morning.
Elise: How long were you staring at me?
Aram: All night.
[ Both chuckle ] [ Kisses ]
[ Doorbell buzzes ] [ Aram goes to door, looks through peephole ]
Pizza Delivery Boy: Nick’s Pizzas.
[ Aram, Ressler, Samar and Cooper each receive an early morning pizza with a card attached to the inside of the cover reading: ]
Red: Welcome to the past. This space is impregnable to every frequency of wireless transmission, including microwaves. Every piece of equipment you see is analog. Our sole concession to the digital revolution is a Ms. Pac-Man machine in the break room.
Cooper: But why?
Red: Because I like Ms. Pac-Man.
Cooper: No. Why this… museum?
[ Liz enters ]
Liz: We’ve been breached.
Cooper: Wait a minute. You two have been working together on this?
Liz: Yes. Our public disagreement was staged for Kirk’s benefit.
Aram: You think he’s got a tap into the Post Office?
Red: I know it. René Le Bron’s death was proof.
Ressler: You sicced us on Le Bron as a test. You knew that if Kirk was listening and he heard that we were going after Le Bron, he’d try to get to him first.
Red: We set the bait. He took it.
Cooper: A human sacrifice.
Red: I prefer the term “tethered goat.” Besides, Harold, the man was a degenerate, and his death denies pariah states access to ready cash, putting teeth back in the sanctions your country imposes with such tumescence. …
Liz: Our system. It’s been hacked.
Aram: Impossible. We’ve got more firewalls than the NSA’s Utah Data Center. … It is a bit-banger’s nightmare. Unhackable.
Red: Which tells us exactly who the culprits are… The Thrushes, a crew that hacks the unhackable. …
Liz: … Their specialty is not only cracking systems, but doing so without leaving a trace of their intrusion. Last year… a top-secret nuclear fuel enrichment plant outside of Jaipur, India. Motor-speed variations destroyed 1,200 industrial centrifuges.
Samar: A colleague at the British Embassy was lead on that case. 38 people died, thousands were exposed to radiation, but they never found evidence of a hack.
Red: … Harold, this presents a unique opportunity to feed Kirk disinformation. …
Cooper: If we were to do this, I’d have to clear it with Panabaker. Samar, reach out to your contact at the embassy. …
Cynthia Panabaker: Harold, you are one bubble off plumb if you think I’m gonna sit back while heaven knows how many horses run out of the barn.
Cooper: It’s the best chance we have of apprehending Alexander Kirk.
Panabaker: This represents a five-alarm fire to national security. … Okay, Harold. Let them run out some line. But you best keep your thumb tight on the drag, or you’re like to find a bird’s nest on your reel. Understand?
Cooper: Not a word. Absolute gibberish.
Panabaker: Well, let me translate. Don’t screw up.
[ In The Hunter’s cabin ]
[ Dog barking ] [ Kate Kaplan groans ] [ Chain rattles ]
[ Door opens ] [ Door closes ] [ The Hunter pulls up a chair to talk to Kate ]
Hunter: I been thinking. You and I, we, uh… We got a problem. … Way I see it, whoever shot you is gonna shoot somebody else and dump them where they dumped you and see you’re not there. … And I don’t like visitors …
Kate: [ Raspy whisper ] No one… is coming….
Hunter: Is that a fact?
Kate: I tried to kill myself. …
Red: Any word from Kirk?
Liz: You mean my father?
Red: Honestly, Elizabeth, it astounds me that you could be hornswoggled by something as simple to fabricate as a DNA profile.
Liz: Not just the DNA. It’s memories… Places I recognize, things we did together. A time capsule we buried in the
yard that no one else would know about.
Red: Just because he was your mother’s husband doesn’t make him your father.
Liz: You know what you sound like? Desperate. Just a suspect caught in a lie.
Red: I have never lied to you.
[ Liz receives a message to pick up a cell phone at a shoe repair shop, which she does ]
[ In Red’s Mercedes ]
Liz: There’s only one number saved. International prefix 40.
[ Dialing ]
Red: Romania. No doubt untraceable.
[ Liz dials as Red listens in ]
[ Cellphone rings ]
[ Cellphone beeps ]
[ Samar and her contact at the British Embassy are reviewing photos of the devastation caused by the computer virus at the top-secret nuclear fuel enrichment plant outside of Jaipur, India ]
Security Expert: Our case file on Jaipur. Everything we have on The Thrushes… which is nothing. … The cheeky bastards actually debugged
the system before uploading the virus. Of that, of course, there wasn’t a trace. …38 murders that are impossible to solve.
[ The security expert shows Samar photos of the dead ]
[ Samar notices that one of the photos is of Elise! – Aram’s new girlfriend ]
Samar: Unless only 37 were killed.
Security Expert: What do you mean?
Samar: This victim is not an engineer, and she is most certainly not dead.
[ Cooper, Ressler and Samar are meeting in an interrogation room ]
Ressler: I knew she was too hot for him.
Samar: When Aram finds out, he’s going to be crushed.
Ressler: Yeah, and then he’s gonna wear his heart on his sleeve, and his little girlfriend here is gonna know that we’re onto her.
Samar: We can’t keep this from him.
Cooper: That’s exactly what we’re gonna do. Our objective is to feed The Thrushes disinformation in order to draw out Kirk. …
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[ Aram appears, disheveled and distraught ]
Cooper: Aram.
Samar: Are you all right? What’s wrong?
Aram: Everything. Everything’s wrong. Sir, I did as you ordered and isolated all the malicious code. … But then… I realized the only way we could have been breached was through social engineering, or physical access with a Rubber Ducky.
Ressler: A what?
Aram: A keystroke injection attack platform disguised as a thumb drive. It would bypass all standard countermeasures by emulating a plug-in keyboard, reprogramming our host computer as if the hacker was manually typing in the code.
Cooper: Still, the culprit would have to plug in a thumb drive.
Aram: Yes. Someone had to dupe an FBI employee with level 4 clearance. I spent the last 18 hours [ trying ] to figure out who got punk’d so we could interview the employee and nail that hacker.
[ Samar and Aram are in a van preparing him to hack Elise’s laptop ] …
[ Samar offers Aram a pistol ]
Samar: This is an LCR .357. It’s light, reliable…
[ Dialing ]
[ Cellphone rings ]
Kirk: You’ve decided.
Liz: You abducted me once. What assurances do I have you won’t do it again?
Kirk: Things have changed. The DNA test.
Liz: I want this to be real.
Kirk: I’ll contact you with instructions.
Elise: Aram, what’s, uh… What’s going on? You… You seem preoccupied.
[ … Ressler and Samar listen in the van … ]
Elise: You never told me about your day.
Aram: Oh, you know, the usual. FBI stuff. You know, good guys, bad guys. Oh! They got Cheese
Nibs for the snack machine downstairs. So, so awesome.
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Ressler: Cheese Nibs?
Samar: He’s doing fine.
Ressler: Sounds like a gerbil on meth.
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Aram: I know, right? I love Cheese Nibs. I mean, I don’t love them as much as Goldfish…
Elise: Goldfish? …
Aram: …Oh, I forgot, I got wine.
Elise: You don’t drink.
Aram: It is for you. …
[ Aram pops the cork but spills wine on his shirt ]
Aram: Oh, no. … I’m such a klutz.
Elise: [ Chuckling ] No, no, no, no. That’s what I love about you.
Aram: You know what? Uh, just… just give me a… give me a second to go change.
[ Aram goes into the bedroom, pulls Elise’s laptop out of her bag and plugs in the Rubber Ducky. He covers the laptop with his wet shirt ]
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Samar: He’s uploading now.
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Elise: Aram? You okay?
[ Elise enters the bedroom ] …
[ Elise kisses Aram, pushes him back on the bed ]
Samar: We have the target in custody. We have a tap on her computer, and, thanks to Aram, we will find The Thrushes. …
Tom: Liz. We got word from Kirk. He texted the burner phone.
Liz: [ Sighs ] The meeting’s set. 5:30 a.m.
Cooper: Manhattan. BMT Nassau Street Line. Delancey Street and Bowery. Of course. That station’s been abandoned for years.
Ressler: I’ll call FBI S.W.A.T. New York.
Red: I’ll be handling Kirk on my own, Harold.
Cooper: If you expect us to stand down…
Red: I do. If you expect this relationship to continue.
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Tom: You sure about this?
Liz: No. I’m not sure about any of this.
[ The Hunter’s cabin. Door closes ]
Hunter: You lied to me. …
[ The Hunter shows Kate photos taken in the forest of Red, Dembe and Kate ]
Hunter: Motion-activated. Three come in. Two go out. Are you gonna get straight with me, or we gonna keep playing games?
[ Cellphone ringing ] …
Kirk: Masha.
Liz: It’s off. We can’t meet. It’s not safe.
Kirk: No, no, no. I-I secured the location. You have my word you’ll be safe.
Liz: The FBI knows about your mole. They’ve got her in custody. … They know about our meeting… The time, the location. I’m telling you, it’s a trap. …
Kirk: Doesn’t matter. I have an alternate location. …
[ On a rooftop in Manhattan, high above street level, Freedom Tower in view ]
Liz: Where’s Agnes?
Kirk: Masha.
Liz: You said three of us. Where is she?
Kirk: Close. I’ll bring her to you as soon as Reddington has been dealt with.
Liz: What are you talking about?
Kirk: Smile, solnishko. In less than 5 minutes, he will be dead. I have a small army awaiting his arrival at the Delancey Street Station.
Liz: That wasn’t our agreement.
Kirk: No. But you know as well as I do, it needs to be done. …
Liz: We had a deal.
Kirk: Patience, dove.
[ Liz draws her firearm, cocks it ]
Kirk: [ Calls out ] Romina.
[ Romina emerges with Agnes, who hands the baby to Kirk ]
Liz: [ Gasps ] You’ll see, solnishko. Soon, you will be free.
[ Just then, Red’s forces attack 💥💥💥 ]
Liz: Don’t shoot! He’s got Agnes!
[ 💥💥💥 Gunshots 💥💥💥 ] [ Kirk runs around a corner, out of sight ]
[ Liz runs toward the sound of Agnes crying. Red and Baz follow ]
[ They find Kirk standing on a ledge – still holding Agnes ]
Kirk: Don’t! You may lack the courage to do what must be done, but I do not. I will take her with me. One way or the other.
Red: This is madness, Constantin. Because you cannot have that child, you’re gonna take her forever from her mother? It’s madness. Constantin, this needs to end now.
Kirk: Yes. You’re right. It needs to end. …
Liz: [ Speaks Russian ] Don’t do this.
Kirk: There is no other way, solnishko. This man, that took your mother away from us, took you from me, he will not have my granddaughter.
Liz: And I hate him as much as you do for it. But if you love me, if you ever loved me, just give her to me. Please. Otets. Please, father.
[ Liz reaches up her arms, imploring. At last, Kirk lets his gun clatter to the concrete, leans over and lets Liz take her child ]
[ Liz gasps, takes Agnes from Kirk, holds her close and hurries away ]
[ Kirk is captured as Red looks on ]
Samar: … You did a pretty good job in there playing the “I’m in love with another woman” card. Nicely done. … I thought you’d like to know that I’m rescinding my transfer request.
Aram: That’s… That’s great. I mean, for real? Because if that’s true, we have to celebrate, right?
Samar: Do you like Paco’s Tacos? Because I was told that there was some leftovers upstairs in the fridge.
Aram: I love them.
[ Red appears at Liz and Tom’s apartment ] [ Liz opens the door ]
Red: I just wanted to thank you for trusting me, trusting the plan. I understand what a… a leap of faith it must have been.
Liz: Not really. Considering what was at stake.
Red: May I? [ Asking permission to enter ]
[ Door closes ]
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[ Red, Tom and Liz admire the baby who is bright-eyed and curious ]
Red: She’s a beautiful girl.
Liz: Yeah, she is.
Liz: So… now that Kirk has been captured, we’re no longer gonna live under your guard. We’re gonna find a place of our own.
Red: I know. Good night, Elizabeth, Tom.
[ Red turns and leaves ]
Tom: There’s got to be something I can do.…
Ressler: Look, we’re doing everything that we can. You got to understand that.
Tom: I do, and I appreciate it, but there’s got to be a lead that I can run down.…
Ressler: [ Sighs ] The Kremlin hates Kirk just as much as we do. I reached out to the DC Station Chief to take a look at their intel. Got a big fat nyet. Look, you want to revisit that dead end, be my guest. Maybe your, uh… methods will be a bit more persuasive.
[ In a church ] [ Organ music playing ]
Brimley: [ To Red ] The doctor has been baptized and is ready to make his confession. I’m getting hitched on the 16th. Wee Chapel of the Casino. Extend the invite to Mr. Kaplan.
[ Dr Sebastian Reifler is sitting in a tub of water ]
Red: As Alexander Kirk’s hematologist, I assume you oversee his transfusions.… I want to know how it works– where you meet, with whom, and when.
Dr Reifler: Please. He’s a sick man.
Red: Perhaps another go with the candiru fish. I understand they burrow into the most impossible nooks and crannies.
Reifler: All right, I– I give him blood transfusions once a month. And, uh… weekly erythropoietin injections.
Red: When did you last see him?
Reifler: I– Six days ago.
Red: Then you’ll be seeing him within the next 24 hours. Where?
Reifler: …I don’t know until they call me with the next location.…
[ Liz arrives at the church ]
Liz: Let me guess. You and the pastor are dear friends.
Red: Never met the man. I am, however, a benefactor for the artists they hired to lead the restoration. As luck would have it, sprucing up the old apse hole will take months.
Liz: You’re squatting in a church.
Red: I usually have a devil of a time getting to sleep, but here I sleep like a babe in the manger.
Liz: Did you get Kirk’s doctor?
Red: Yes, and he’s going to lead me to Kirk.
Liz: I want to be there when he does.
Red: The Lindquist Concern–
Liz: Don’t change the subject.
Red: I’m not. The doctor gets us Kirk. The Lindquist Concern gets Kirk to give us Agnes.
Liz: Why? Who are they?
Red: A group that corporations pay to suppress inventions that would undercut them if brought to market.… When they can’t kill the invention, they have the Lindquist Concern kill the inventor.…
[ Samar is briefing the task force ]
Samar: Ian Pugachevsky worked on a cold-fusion device in his basement for 20 years.… He vanished while hiking in the Sierras. Karen Rose… developed an alternative to opiate-based painkillers that was just as strong, non-addictive, and had fewer side effects. …She died of an apparent overdose. According to Reddington, these people were murdered, their ideas suppressed, and their research never found.…
Cooper: Who is the most recent?
Samar: Omar Najjar.…
Cooper: Start there.… I want to know what revolutionary technology they got their hands on.
Theo: …The guy was smart, and recently super excited. He’d had some kind of breakthrough.
Ressler: On what?
Theo: I don’t know. Wasn’t anything he was doing here. We all have IP clauses in our contracts that allow us to pursue projects outside the company.
[ A young woman enters ]
Lydia: Theo, these need your signature.
Samar: Excuse me. Omar Najjar– did you know him?
Lydia: Not really. I-I wish I could help. Sorry to interrupt.…
[ Mona Najjar, Omar’s wife, is holding a photo of him and crying ] [ She hears noise from the basement and descends the stairs ]
Mona: Somebody down here?
[ Printer whirring ] [ A sheet of paper comes off the printer. She glances at it: ” … my life. I can’t go on … … must end my life … ”
[ Silas grabs her from behind ] [ Mona screams ]
Ressler: [ Reads out loud from suicide note: ] “My husband, Omar, was my life. I can’t go on without him. To end this pain, I must end my life. Please understand, suicide was my only option. – Mona Najjar” …
Samar: And look at this. Fun summer reading?
[ Samar opens a large volume. A strip of photos from a photo booth is inside. It shows Omar and Lydia together, hugging and laughing ]
Samar: Hidden inside– Omar and one of the co-workers that I spoke with.
Ressler: What about it?
Samar: She said she didn’t know him.
[ Red and Dembe are seated in a pew in the church ] [ Dembe’s head is bowed ]
Dembe: It won’t come.
Red: What?
Dembe: Forgiveness. For Kate. For what I did.
Red: You did nothing.
Dembe: Exactly.…
… [ Cellphone beeps ]
Dr Reifler: Hello? Yes. I understand. Go ahead. [ Writing ] Tell Mr. Kirk I’ll be there. Goodbye.
[ Cellphone beeps ] [ Red looks at the slip of paper ]
Red: Dembe, please inform Edward we’re going to Geneva.…
Lydia: …I wasn’t involved in Omar’s murder. I was involved with him.… Nobody at work knew about us or about what he was working on.
Samar: Which was?
Lydia: A desalination process. 600 million people don’t have access to clean water, and Omar invented a way to extract it from seawater that’s efficient and cheap.…
Samar: Who else did Omar talk to about this?
Lydia: No one… until last weekend. He met this amazing guy. He knew everything about bringing an idea to market.…
Riley Emerson: Magnesium is more abundant, less reactive… and cheaper to produce than lithium.…
Silas: Hold on. This doesn’t say “patent pending.” You’re not pitching your invention without intellectual property protection?
Riley: Oh, no. I mean… yeah, I was. I know, I’m a huge moron, right?
Silas: Well, not if your idea sucks. If it’s brilliant, then, yeah, you’re a moron. Find good patent counsel. VCs won’t invest unless they know your technology’s protected.
Riley: Then protect me. You’re an attorney, right? …
Silas: What’s your name?
Riley: Riley Emerson.
Silas: You have a working prototype, Riley Emerson?
Riley: Like you said, show no one until it’s patented.
Silas: [ Gives her his card ] Let me know if you want me to take a look. Maybe I can file the patent application pro bono.…
[ Vasily Komarov is sitting at a table in a park ] [ Tom sits down across from him ]
Vasily: What is this? Who are you?
Tom: Who I am doesn’t matter, Vasily. What matters is that you’re passing state secrets to the FBI through Annabelle Dixon.…
[ Silas’ apartment. On a long table are arranged the files of his past and future victims. Each pile has a separate cellphone on top. Silas is at his desk, using a syringe to inject poison into bottles of champaign ]
[ Cellphone ringing ]
Silas: Hello?
Riley: Mr. Wellington? Hey. This is Riley Emerson. We met in Boston.
Silas: Riley! Funny, I was just talking about you with my managing partner.
Riley: About whether I was brilliant or a moron?
Silas: About your idea. We think it’s very interesting. We’d like to talk about helping you out.
Riley: Oh, my God. That’s so great. Do you want to get together, let me show you the prototype?Silas: I’d like nothing more.
Ressler: Law firm checks out. Seems like Lindquist agents assume the identities of patent experts to lure inventors into revealing their ideas and their research.
Cooper: Cell number on the business card. Where are we on that? …
Aram: I found… this burner phone, and I had the cell carrier triangulate its location to this apartment building in Oak Hill.… Our suspect’s name is… Silas Gouldsberry.
Cooper: And how do you know that?
Aram: He is the only tenant who works for the US Patent Office.
Cooper: Get there now.
[ Cellphone ringing ] [ Cellphone beeps ]
Samar: Navabi.
Elise: Samar? Hi. Uh, I hope this isn’t weird, me calling you. Uh, my name is Elise. I’m a friend of Aram’s, and–
Samar: Elise. Hello.… Is there something I can help you with?
Elise: From what I can tell, you know him so well, and point is, why I called, Aram, uh, his perfect date– what would that be?
Samar: Is that why you’re calling me? For dating advice?
Elise: Yeah, I mean, you’re his best friend.… I– want to give him a night he’ll never forget. How would you do that?
[ In Red’s jet, on the way to Geneva ]
Liz: Reifler admires Kirk, says he’s a good man.
Red: He shouldn’t. And he’s not.
Liz: I’m in the middle. Between you and Kirk, between Tom and Kirk. Can you at least admit how difficult that is?
Red: No. It’s only difficult if you accept the premise that Kirk is your father. I don’t.
Liz: At the church, what was Dembe praying for?
Red: Salvation… that will never come.
[ Ressler leads a raid on Silas’ apartment ]
Ressler: FBI! Federal agents!
Man: Kitchen’s clear. Bathroom’s clear. Bedroom’s clear. Down that hall.
Ressler: Some kind of a directory of registered patent attorneys and patent agents. He’s got half a dozen doctored IDs with matching business cards– patent agents, angel investor, patent attorney.… What’s that?
Samar: His next victim.
Riley: A magnesium battery is the holy grail of energy storage. Everyone and their mother is working on one. But no one could find a magnesium-friendly electrolyte.…
Silas: [ Chuckles ] And you, all of 24, have cracked it. That is pretty young to be a billionaire.… I am gonna file for expedited status on the patent application. Now, anyone who knows anything about this is gonna have to sign a nondisclosure, and that includes me.
Riley: I haven’t really had anyone else to tell.
[ Silas pours champaign. Riley drinks ]
Riley: You know, you’re the first person to ever really believe in me. Thank– [ Coughing ]
Silas: You okay there?
Riley: Yeah. No, I’m getting sick– [ Coughing ]
Silas: I don’t think you are.
[ Gasping ] [ Silas starts car engine ]
Silas: So stupid. You should never use a car engine to power anything in a garage with no ventilation.
[ Ressler and Samar’s vehicle approaches ] [ Tires screech ] [ Silas runs off ]
Samar: There’s a car running.
[ Samar discovers Riley in the garage coughing and breathing heavily ]
Samar: Ressler! [ To Riley: ] It’s okay. [ Shouts: ] Ressler! …
[ Ressler enters garage ]
Samar: The car.
[ Ressler shuts off the engine ]
Ressler: [ Calls ] I need an ambulance, 310 North View Drive.
[ Samar is giving Riley CPR ]
Red: During World War II, the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants smuggled Jewish children out of France to Switzerland. This was one of their staging areas. Now it’s mine.
[ Guns clicking ]
Liz: Are you planning an extraction or a land war in Asia?
Red: My plan is to make contact with you as soon as Alexander Kirk is in my possession.
Liz: What do you mean? I’m going with you.
Red: Given your conflicted feelings for Kirk, I believe that would be unwise.… As you said, you’re in the middle. Given our mission, that’s not a point of view we can indulge.
Liz: I’m not going anywhere.
Red: My point exactly.
[ At the Patent Office ]
Samar: I have a subpoena here for Silas Gouldsberry’s phone, computer, and employment records. And I need you to revoke his employee access card.
HR manager: I can revoke the card, but it won’t do you much good.
Samar: Why is that?
HR manager: He’s in the building.…
Liz: [ On phone ] We found Kirk. He’s in Geneva.…
Tom: What do you mean Geneva?
Liz: That’s where Kirk’s meeting his doctor. He’s headed there now.
Tom: No, he’s not. He’s in Russia.
Liz: What are you talking about?
Tom: The lead Ressler gave me. It panned out. I got the SVR file on Kirk. They had actionable intel–
Liz: That Kirk’s in Russia?
Tom: This morning. They raided a safe house, but he was gone.
Liz: I need to call you back.
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[ A car enters the garage; Red and Dembe approach ] [ Dembe’s cellphone rings ]
Liz: Put him on.
Dembe: [ To Red ] Elizabeth.
Liz: Tell him it’s a trap. You’re walking into a trap.
Dembe: [ To Red ] She says this is a setup.
[ Red and Dembe pause and Red takes a few steps back. Red takes the phone, flips it shut and hands it back to Dembe ]
[ 💥🔥💥Explosion 💥🔥💥 ]
[ Red and Dembe are thrown back by the force of the explosion ]
Cooper: Laurel, now is not a good time.
Laurel Hitchin: Yeah, I know. That’s why I’m here. The patent office– I want an update.
Cooper: 20 hostages– 1 wounded, 1 dead– barricaded into a server room. The demand is $20 million. We have 22 minutes before he starts shooting again.
Hitchin: And the inventions, the ones he kills for, where are they?
Cooper: How do you know about that?
Laurel: I’m the National Security Advisor, Harold. It’s my job to know about anything that impacts national security.…
[ Red, Dembe and Dr Reifler survived the blast with only minor cuts ]
Red: How did he know? How did Kirk know?
Dr Reifler: I don’t know. It wasn’t me, okay? I-I was with you the whole time.
Red: Attend to my men.
[ Cellphone ringing. Dembe holds out phone for Red ]
Dembe: Raymond.
[ Cellphone beeps ]
Red: Yeah.
Liz: What happened? Is everyone okay?
Red: No. Men are dead, others gravely injured… because someone warned Kirk.
Liz: You don’t think… I called to warn you.
Red: I know that.
Liz: You don’t sound convinced.
Red: We’re at cross purposes, Elizabeth. Not about Agnes.… But about Kirk– about who he is and what he wants– we’re… at odds.…
Silas: …Where’s my money?
Samar: I’m working on it, but that amount of money takes time.…
Silas: You ever invented anything? You ever experience that moment of discovery? It’s a revelation.
Samar: And the man you shot?
Silas: Will never know what that feels like. But I do. I’ve come up with an idea that doesn’t need a patent. An idea that is going to change the world.
Samar: I don’t see anything world-altering about what you’re doing, Silas.
Silas: Oh, you will do. In 19 minutes.
Cooper: What are we looking at?
Aram: I’ve got access to the Patent Office’s server’s infrastructure, and… someone is uploading data. Like– like, a ton of it.
Hitchin: …Can you see what’s being uploaded?
Aram: Uh, no, but I can– I can see how long it’s gonna take. Another 14 minutes– same timetable he gave Agent Navabi to get the money.…
Hitchin: So, the demand is a smokescreen.…
Cooper: Aram, if he had enough schematics, could uploading them possibly take this long?
Aram: Sure, maybe, but if he did that, then they’d become available… to the many at the expense of the few. He’s open-sourcing them.
Cooper: Is HRT in place?
Aram: Yes.
Hitchin: Send it in now.
Cooper: If I do that, hostages will die.
Hitchin: If you don’t, national security will be compromised.
Cooper: We can’t be sure of that.
Hitchin: Harold, the ideas he has are revolutionary, right– in medicine and in energy, and, for all you know, in computers and next-gen weaponry. You really want to open-source that to Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea?
Cooper: What I want is to let this play out for another 13 minutes, see if it can be resolved without a bloodbath.
Hitchin: That’s not a risk I’m willing to take. Send in the breach order or I will.
Silas: I was 23 when I sold my first invention– was gonna be a star. Company that bought it, they had a plan. We were gonna save lives and change the world. Three weeks after signing it over, they killed it, shelved my idea for the sake of their bottom line.…
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Ressler: Teams in position?
HRT man: Perimeters are set. We enter from the south on your ready.
Silas: People start out with a pure idea. It gets corrupted. So that’s why I came to work here, so I could be exposed to breakthrough technologies and prevent them falling victim to corporate greed. You think I’m trying to suppress inventions? I’m doing the exact opposite. That’s my great idea. I’m gonna set them free.…
Hitchin: Call in the order, Harold, or that countdown represents what’s left of your career.
Cooper: I’m not sending my men in guns blazing.
Aram: Sir, I think I have another way.
Ressler: [ Has been listening in ] Fire-suppression system?
Aram: Yes, if you manually set it off, the safety override should automatically open the doors. You should be able to access the system from a utility module in the fire panel.… There should be a circuit board on the lower right corner.
Samar: Aram, what the hell is going on? …
Ressler: All right, I found the circuit board. What do I do?
Aram: Agent Navabi. We’re gonna kill the power to the fire system. Doing so will release a fire-suppression agent. It’s an inert gas, so it’s safe, but you might have a problem with …
Ressler: Aram!
Aram: Oh! Uh, the plug with two red wires just below the green blinking light, pull that– pull it now!
Samar: A problem with what, Aram?
Aram: … Visibility.
[ Alarm wailing ] [ Gas fills the server room ] [ Screaming ]
[ Samar and Silas have weapons drawn ]
Samar: Drop it!
[ Gunshot 💥 ] [ Silas falls ]
⋘⋙
Aram: [ To Samar ] Okay, don’t pull out the flash drive. To corrupt the entire zipped file, hit “Abort” …
Samar: Yes!
Ressler: Phew.
[ Door opens ]
Liz: We didn’t get Agnes.
Tom: I know. I talked to Ressler. This, um, SVR report, when I talked to you earlier, I hadn’t finished reading it.
Liz: Did you find something about Agnes?
Tom: No.
Liz: Then what difference does it make?
Tom: It’s about you. And your father.
Liz: What’s this?
Tom: It’s a DNA report.
[ Ressler and Samar enter Cooper’s office ]
Cooper: Here they are.
Hitchin: Hey, you did great work today.
Ressler: [ To Cooper ] What’s she doing here?
Cooper: You have the data file?
[ Samar gives him the flash drive ]
Samar: I wish I could meet all the people who dreamed up what’s on here. Every one of them killed for no other reason than the power of their imagination.
[ Cooper gives the flash drive to Hitchin ]
Ressler: You know who she is and you’re gonna give her that?
Hitchin: Yes, Agent Ressler, he does. But apparently you’ve forgotten. “She” is your boss’s boss’s boss’s boss.
Ressler: Well, my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss is a killer. See, I know you murdered Reven Wright, and one day, I’m gonna prove it.
Hitchin: Harold, I’ll give the President your regards. [ To Ressler: ] Excuse me. Thank you.
[ In Red’s Mercedes ]
Hitchin: You sure that’s the only invention you’re interested in?
Red: Yes.
Hitchin: ‘Cause I’ve seen the rest and they’re incredible.
Red: Mm. Good afternoon, Laurel.
Hitchin: All right.
Red: Per our agreement, no friends and family discount. Our compatriots on the Cabal pay full market value. My cut is 50%. That sounds greedy – 45%.
Ressler: Seen Aram? I need his report.
Samar: He left early.
Ressler: Right. Date night. Did she order takeout from Pacos Tacos?
Samar: Oh, yeah, and a ginger beer and crispy beef from Ho Kow… and chicken from that disgusting Italian place he likes.…
Ressler: [ Chuckles ] She’s really working it.
Samar: If he likes her, I’m happy for him… but there’s something about her that bugs me.
Ressler: Yeah, it’s terrible. She’s actually nice to him. I mean, personally, I hate it when cute girls buy me crispy beef.
Samar: She may be cute, but trust me, she’ll age badly.…
[ Red is seated, having dinner alone and drinking wine. Liz walks in. She is angry ]
Liz: You lied to me about everything.
Red: May I pour you a glass of this delicious Aglianico?
[ Liz hands Red a sheet of paper ]
Red: What’s this?
Liz: A DNA report. Proof that Alexander Kirk is my father. You told me my father was dead, that I killed him. Everything you’ve said from the start, from the
very beginning… all lies.
[ Liz scoffs. She takes the report back and stomps out ]
[ Red’s left eye twitches ]
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Tom: What do you mean, you don’t want to trace the link?
Liz: You don’t think he’s thought of that? The second he discovers we traced it, he’ll take it away, take her away.
Tom: Liz, the only way we’re gonna get her is by finding where that link is coming from.
Liz: I don’t think he’ll hurt her.
Tom: Of course he will. She’s his last chance of survival.… Liz, I think you’re being naive.
Liz: I know you think that. And I’m asking you to trust me.
Liz: Dembe said you had a lead on Agnes.
Red: Some years ago, I had a rather awkward encounter with a bull shark while diving off the Great Barrier Reef. I actually think it was trying to be affectionate, even a little forward. (LAUGHS) But the net result was excruciating. But I did spend a glorious month submitting to the healing hands of an utterly divine lighthouse keeper on Bramble Cay… a low-lying island that’s rapidly being submerged by rise in the sea levels due to climate change.
Liz: Climate change?
Red: Our next blacklister is devoted to protecting the Earth from the greatest threat to its existence as we know it… us. He’s a stealth eco-terrorist known only as Gaia… Earth Mother in Greek mythology.… We must find this man… unless you have a better lead on Kirk. Has he reached out to you?
Liz: No, he hasn’t.
Red: Gaia then.
Liz: A stealth eco-terrorist? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Red: Nine times out of 10, the public reacts to an act of eco-terror by getting angry at the terrorist rather than the environmental offense he seeks to draw attention to. By disguising his sabotage in accidents, Gaia succeeds in focusing the public’s rage on the actual danger, not the criminal who exposes it.
[ Liz debriefs the task force ]
Liz: 2011, 10,000 gallons of MCHM, a toxic chemical used to wash coal, was leaked from the Fullerton Chemical Plant.… A few hundred people were poisoned, including two children and three elderly victims who later died. Environmentalists had warned of the danger of a spill for years, but no one listened until this leak, and then the EPA finally mandated changes.
Aram: So it worked. In Gaia’s mind, he protected people.
Ressler: Yeah, well, tell that to the parents who lost their kids.…
Cooper: I want this guy found. Go over every detail of that spill. If it was sabotage, Gaia left a trail. Find it.
[ On site at the Fullerton Chemical Plant, going through evidence from the chemical spill ]
Ressler: Googled Aram’s new girlfriend.
Samar: Why?
Ressler: Why do guys do anything? To see if she was hot, which she is.
[ Man pushes in cart with additional boxes of evidence ]
Ressler: I thought we had everything.
Man: … These are from the internal investigation. I told you folks you’re wasting your time. That spill was an accident. Two days before the leak, a veteran DEP inspector looked over the storage tanks. He didn’t see anything wrong, and neither did the other guy about two weeks earlier.
Ressler: What other guy? I just looked at the list of scheduled inspections, and there was only one in the month prior.
Man: Scheduled, yeah, but we get spot inspections from time to time.
Ressler: We’re gonna need to see everything you have on that spot inspector… now.
[ At a gas station coffee self-service table ]
Gaia: Borron Energy Services. That’s fracking, right? That’s bad stuff, man… fracking. Messing up the water table.…
Field Inspector: You want to know what’s in your sweetener? The chemicals in that creamer?
[ Gaia drops a pill in the Field Inspector’s coffee ]
Field Inspector: Everything’s killing us. So spare me the guilt trip… and the righteous lecture. I earn my living… same as you.
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[ Gaia follows the Field Inspector out to his truck ]
(CHOKING) (BREATHING HEAVILY)
Gaia: You were right… The world is just filled with things that are gonna kill us.
[ Kate is lying on a bed in a rough cabin, a ragged bandage on her right cheek. The right side of her face is matted with blood ]
[ A grizzled old man – the Hunter – enters with his dog ]
Aram: Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a suspect.… I got surveillance video from three of the facilities on this particular spot inspector.
Liz: That’s our guy.
Cooper: Alert the DHS and circulate the photo. Put a name to that face.
Kirk: Six months?
Dr. Reifler: Maybe. Maybe less. But we both knew this day was coming. Your body would start rejecting the transfusions. It’s remarkable it’s lasted this long.
Odette: There is a solution.
Kirk: We’ve already discussed this.
Dr. Reifler: It’s unacceptable.
Odette: Easy for you to say. You’re not the one that’s gonna die.
Kirk: No, I am, and I agree with Sebastian.
Odette: The girl is your only option.…
Samar: Agents Navabi and Ressler. Where is he?
Plant Security: Sector 7. Said he had to check the pressure gauges.
[ Ressler and Samar search the area. Gaia takes off running ]
Ressler: Stop! Federal agent!
[ Gaia jumps into his truck, guns it. Ressler and Samar follow in pursuit. Ahead are two police cruisers. Gaia slams on his brakes and tries to reverse, but Ressler’s car blocks the way ]
Officer: Get out of the vehicle!
[ Gaia hits the gas, smashes through the police cars and is gone ]
Ressler: Damn it.
[ At a laundromat ]
Krantz: Long time, Martell… or whatever you’re calling yourself now.
Tom: Martell will be fine.…
Krantz: So, what’s on your mind, Martell?
Tom: I got a job for you and your crew… digital trace… break-in.
Krantz: I’m all ears.
Aram: The pipeline targeted by Gaia carries fracked gas… a process that environmentalists oppose.
Samar: Why? Because fracking creates jobs and energy independence?
Aram: Maybe. Or maybe because of this. San Bruno, 2010. A ruptured natural-gas pipeline caused a 72-foot-long crater and killed 8 people. Last year in Allentown, another one exploded underneath a city street, killing five.
Cooper: So it fits the M.O. He was gonna cause an accident to provoke public outrage.
Liz: Yeah, but how? We didn’t find any explosives. What was he doing?
Aram: Research. Look at where Gaia’s tools and fake I.D. badge were found… the spot of the highest gas pressure.… I had an expert over at PHMSA do a blast-radius projection just to see what kind of damage an explosion at this spot would cause. In an urban area like this, we’re talking hundreds of homes, schools, a city hospital… and this… Stone Park, the largest nuclear power plant on the eastern seaboard of the United States.
Cooper: Where are we on the fake I.D. badge you recovered?
Liz: Nowhere. But Reddington says he’s got a guy who might be able to help.
Cooper: Reddington’s guy. Who is he?
[ Bowling alley ] (PINS CLATTER)
Red: I have a job for you, Glen.
Glen: News flash… I’m off the clock, Reddington.
Red: It’s a matter of some urgency.
Glen: No, it’s a matter of some me time, boundaries, work-life balance, the pause that refreshes.
Red: We need to know who made this I.D.
Dembe: [ To Glen ] Your release point is off.
Glen: Yeah, but I’m a charming conversationalist, so the ladies don’t mind.
Dembe: Keep your elbows in.
Red: Some haste would be appreciated. A child’s life is in the balance.
Glen: Hologram. RFID chip. Ji Ming’s your man.…
Glen: [ On phone ] Ji Ming? Jellybean here.
⋘⋙
(Glen and Ji Ming are SPEAKING MANDARIN)
Red: All I need is an address, Glen.
(SPEAKING MANDARIN)
Red: Glen, an address.
Glen: Hey, I don’t see you jumping in here, pal. I’m doing the best I can. A night course in Mandarin doesn’t get you much past reading the menu and “Hey, honey, your caboose looks tasty in those slacks.” …
(Red: He’s already given you the address, hasn’t he?
Glen: Yeah, but it’s a little off the grid. (CLEARS THROAT) I’d ditch the wingtips.
Red: Dembe, call Elizabeth.
[ Red and Liz are at Gaia’s place. They enter Gaia’s living quarters ]
Red: What do you see?
Liz: Um… he’s withdrawn, a loner, and yet he’s committed to making the world a cleaner place. Photo of a pregnant woman. But no child. Maybe the child was taken or… or died.
Red: We’re going to get her back, Lizzy.
Liz: Tidal charts for the Hudson.
Red: Stone Park is on the Hudson.
[ Gaia barges into his ex-wife Maya’s home. A child [ age 2 or 3 ] is sitting in a stroller, facing away ]
Maya: If you don’t leave, I’m gonna call the police!
Gaia: The only reason I’m here is because you didn’t return my calls. It’s not safe.…
Maya: What are you planning?
Gaia: You need to leave the state.
[ Gaia goes to his son, Skyler. The right side of Skyler’s face and head are horribly disfigured ]
Gaia: Hey, Sky. How’s my little man? You’re going on a car trip with Mommy.… Won’t that be nice? [ To Maya: ] You need to get on the road now.
[ Inside the Hunter’s rustic cabin ]
Hunter: [ Kindly ] Hey, there. Hmm. What happened out there, young lady? You’re not dressed for the woods. Can you talk? That’s all right. You don’t need to say nothing. We’re gonna get you fed. Build your strength up. Plenty of time to talk later.
[ Liz is watching Agnes on the video feed ]
(COOING) (DIALING)
Tom: [ On phone ] Hey.
Liz: I’m looking at our little girl. It’s almost like a baby monitor, like she’s in the next room.… Everything’s gonna be all right, Liz. Blow her a kiss for me.…
[ But Tom is already at Kirk’s place, outside, with Krantz and a team of men ] …
Tom: Your guys are sure about this?
Krantz: They traced the server. This island, that house. Your baby’s inside. Let’s do it.
Kirk: [ To Liz, over video ] I’m disappointed in you.
Liz: But wait. Don’t…
Kirk: I thought we had an understanding.
Liz: About what? What are you talking about?
Kirk: You traced this feed.… I’m sorry, Masha.
Liz: No, I told Tom. I specifically said…
[ Kirk shuts off the video feed ]
Liz: No! Please bring her back! I’m begging you! Bring her back!
The Hunter: You got a lot of grit for such a little girl.… Hunter: You hungry? You understand me? Can you nod?
[ Kate nods slightly ]
Hunter: That’s good. (CHUCKLES) You in some kind of trouble, sweetheart?
[ Kate moves her head back and forth, painfully ]
Hunter: The men that did this… …they, uh, coming back for you?
[ Kate shakes her head ‘no’ ]
[ The Hunter feeds Kate some soup from a spoon ] …
Hunter: What is it? What are you trying to say?
Kate: [ Weakly ] Thank you.
[ Liz is trying to reach Tom ]
Tom: [ On recording ] Hey, I’m not here right now. Leave a message, and I’ll call you back.
(CELLPHONE BUZZING)
Liz: [ Picks up phone ] Tom, what the hell did you… No, n-no, no, no, no, no. Excuse me, Doctor. Um… I was just, uh… Doesn’t matter. The tidal charts… Were you able to review them?
[ At the Post Office, Gaia’s photo and bio are up on the big screen ]
Ressler: Owen Ayers, former officer in the Navy. Found his name on bills and receipts we seized from Gaia’s trailer.
Aram: Ayers was a helicopter pilot, and before that, an enlisted aircraft mechanic. Three tours in Iraq, decorated. This guy’s a war hero. Medical discharge in 2011 after participating in Operation Tomodachi.
Cooper: The U.S. military relief effort at Fukushima.
Aram: Flew into an unscheduled emergency venting of radioactive gas. He and several members of his crew got radiation poisoning.
Samar: He was the victim of a nuclear meltdown, so now he wants to cause one.…
Liz: These charts identify exactly when the Hudson will be at its lowest.
Ressler: Stone Park sits on the Hudson, though. I mean, they cool their nuclear reactors by drawing water from the river.…
Cooper: Ayers wasn’t trying to send a message about the danger of nuclear power. He’s trying to re-create Fukushima on the Hudson.… Get me Homeland! Keen, notify NRC. Aram, have security at the pipeline and at Stone Park and make sure the NYPD and Harbor Patrol get everybody out of that area immediately.… Make sure Ayers never gets one of those choppers off the ground.
Gelber: Arnie Gelber, agents. Here to cooperate any way I can.
Samar: What’s the status of your fleet?
Gelber: We’re secure. Only got three choppers. Two of them are in the air with my best pilots. One’s on a 30. The other’s on a full-hour tour.… The third chopper… being repaired. One of my veteran mechanics passed away a couple nights ago.… I got a new man working on it now.
Ressler: We’re gonna need to talk to him now.
[ A helicopter takes off ]
Gelber: What the hell?
[ Ressler and Samar shoot at the helicopter ] ( 💥 GUNSHOTS 💥 )
[ Gaia is piloting the helicopter. Ressler and Samar are at the heliport in contact with Gaia by radio. At the Post Office, Cooper, Liz and Aram can hear the conversation ]
Gelber: Sky 3, please respond. Sky 3, please respond.
Ressler: Owen Ayers, this is Special Agent Ressler of the FBI ordering you to return to home base immediately.… We will shoot you down if you do not return immediately.
Gaia: You can’t scramble fighters fast enough. I’ve gamed this out to the last detail. Give me some credit, Agent Ressler of the FBI.… Oh, and if your next bright idea is to have them shut the pipeline down, sorry. That takes three whole days.
Cooper: Notify local authorities to immediately activate evacuation protocols. Aram, we need options.
Aram: Yeah, I can, uh… I can try and hack into the onboard avionics, try and take control.
Ressler: [ To Gaia ] Don’t do this.… There are other ways.
Gaia: What? Protests? Hearings? They’ve had them. No one listens. They’ll listen to this.
Ressler: Ayers, you can’t go through with this. Millions of innocent people are gonna die.
Gaia: That’s an interesting formulation. Innocent people. Innocent of what? … I’m a dead man walking thanks to Fukushima. It poisoned my innocent unborn son into someone people look at as if he’s a monster! Now, whoever dies from this, they’ve got it coming.…
Aram: Okay, I may have something. Okay, I’ve hacked into something called the stability augmentation system.…
Cooper: Can’t you just shut down the rotor?
Aram: You mean?
Cooper: I mean turn the damn thing off.
Aram: Right, right. … I got it. I got it.
Cooper: Then do it.
Aram: Yeah, um…
Cooper: What’s wrong?
Aram: If I click on this, he’ll die. I’ve killed somebody once. I can’t take another life again.
[ Cooper reaches over and hits the key ]
(ALARM BLARING)
Gaia: Come on! No! (❗SCREAMS❗)
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Aram: (SIGHS) I’m sorry.
Cooper: For what? You did your job. And then I did mine.
[ Red enters a diner and sits down across from Maya and Skyler ]
Red: Hello, Maya. … And you must be Skyler. My name is Raymond. I’ve been looking forward to meeting you, Skyler.
Maya: Did Owen send you? Is that why you’re here?
Red: No. But from what I understand, your ex-husband poses no further threat.…
Maya: I don’t… Are you with the police?
Red: (LAUGHING) Oh, my goodness, no. I’m simply an interested third party who needs your assistance.
[ A waitress brings three large sundaes ]
Waitress: Here we go.… One chocolate, one strawberry, and one caramel.
Red: Forgive me. I took the liberty. In my experience, caramel sauce is an excellent lubricant when it comes to awkward introductions.…
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Maya: That’s all you want? To meet with Sky’s doctor?
Red: His hematologist, yes.
Maya: Do you have a child with special needs?
Red: Picasso said it took four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. They live in a delightful space somewhere between dreams and reality. They taste color, hear shapes, see sounds. We should all have such special needs. [ To Maya ] There is a child. Her life hangs in the balance. I believe Skyler’s doctor could save her.
Liz: We talked about this! We agreed!
Tom: Yeah, on how you felt. I told you I disagreed.
Liz: What you didn’t tell me was that you were gonna do something about it. Instead, you went behind my back and did exactly what I told you not to do.…
Tom: I’m not gonna fight with you about this, Liz! I did what I thought was best! And nobody is sorrier than me that it didn’t work!
Liz: Oh, no. I know someone who’s sorrier. Our daughter… who now, because of you, is God knows where.
[ Kirk is holding Agnes who is fussing ]
Odette: I know you don’t want to. But you need to use the child.
[ Red and Liz are talking in the back of Red’s Mercedes ]
Red: You asked me how this case is connected to finding Agnes. Owen Ayers and his son Skyler share a rare blood disorder. But Dr. Sebastian Reifler … treats both Skyler Ayers and Alexander Kirk. If we can get to his doctor, we can get to Kirk. We’re getting close, Lizzy.
Liz: I lied to you. You asked if Kirk had reached out, and I told you he hadn’t. That wasn’t true. He set up a link… a video feed so I could see Agnes.
Red: How incredibly cruel.
Liz: Tom tried to trace the link, tried to find Agnes, but Kirk found out, and now, uh…
Red: She’s gone.
Liz: I thought I could make it better, that I could protect my baby. I mean, that’s my one job… to protect my child.… To hold her. To tell her everything’s gonna be okay. [ Crying ] But now because of me, because of what I’ve done, I can’t even do that.
(SIGHS) [ Red, in his awkward way, takes Liz’s hand to comfort her ]
[ Red pays a visit to Dr Riefler, the hematologist shared by Skyler Ayers and Kirk ]
Red: Forgive the Shanghai summons, Dr. Reifler, but I have a matter of some urgency we must discuss.…
[ Kate Kaplan is feeling slightly better ]
[ Kate struggles to sit up, rises to her feet – only to find her left foot is chained ]
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Blurb: Liz gets information about her mother from FBI headquarters, including a journal which describes her complex relationship with Red. Red has a plan for locating Kirk, who may have Agnes. Kate is discovered still alive by – who?
Tom: We have no idea where she is or what he’s doing with her.
Liz: Kirk thinks Agnes is his granddaughter, so he won’t hurt her.
Ressler: You really think that Alexander Kirk is your biological father?
Liz: I don’t know what to believe, but after what happened, it’s possible. … According to Kirk, he was just doing whatever it took to get his daughter away from Reddington. Look how far we went to do the same thing.
[ Red and Liz meet at the grave of “Elizabeth Keen” ]
Liz: This is where you wanted to meet?
Red: I wonder what poor soul Mr. Kaplan buried down there.
Liz: Where is Mr. Kaplan?
Red: I understand why you ran. You believe your family’s in danger because of who I am. But what you don’t seem to grasp is you’re also in danger because of who you are.
Liz: Alexander Kirk says he’s my father.
Red: I’m doing everything in my power to find Agnes and bring her home safely to you.
Liz: Do you have any leads?
Red: Yes. … I have it on good authority he reached out to a… uniquely inventive young man named Miles McGrath. He’s a venture capitalist of sorts, for criminals. What those in the tech industry might call an “incubator.”
[ Liz briefs the Task Force ]
Liz: Miles McGrath was a child prodigy. He wrote the code for OnScreen when he was at Princeton. … Criminals come to him, pitch their business plan. If he likes it, he invests his money in exchange for a cut of the profits.
Aram: That’s an amazing idea. I mean, um, it’s horrible, but, uh, it’s amazing.
Samar: Okay. So what’s McGrath’s connection to Alexander Kirk?
Liz: I don’t know.
Saboteur: We destroyed the place. The city won’t have full power restored for at least five days. All we needed was three.
McGrath: Construction?
Sabateur: Completed. Halbeck thinks we can keep casualties under a dozen.
McGrath: Sweet! Think we’re ready to roll into Phase Two.
[ Kate (“Mr Kaplan”) wakes face down where she fell after Red shot her. She lifts her head and sees a lake 100 meters or so away. She sees her glasses in the dirt and manages to retrieve them ]
[ Liz and Tom are in the FBI Director’s office ]
Tom: Look, all we’re asking for is an update here, okay? We’re in the dark. Surely there is something that you can tell us.
Director: I know it’s hard to hear, but the Bureau doesn’t have any actionable intel on the whereabouts of Kirk or your daughter.
Tom: Then why don’t you get some?
Liz: Tom, please.
Tom: No, she works for the Bureau.
Director: And the Bureau is doing everything we can. Agent Savino is leading a team of agents and combing through every piece of evidence we confiscated from Kirk’s residence. …
Liz: Tom!
Tom: No. She was targeted, accused of being a Russian sleeper agent, forced to go on the run, only to be victimized– again!
Liz: [ Voice breaking ] I’m sorry. I just need a minute.
Tom: Liz. Liz…
Liz: It’s okay.
[ Liz leaves the office without Tom ]
[ After Liz sees Savino leave his office, Liz enters it ] [ Liz uses her phone to photograph the Rostov/Rostova papers on Savino’s desk ] [ Camera shutter clicking ] [ Liz finds a packet labeled “Journal” and sees that it is embossed with “KR.” She slips the journal into her purse and leaves ]
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[ Liz returns to the Director’s office ]
Liz: [ Whispers to Tom ] Let’s just go.
Tom: Liz, we came here for answers.
Liz: I know, and I’m sure he’s given us all he can. Thank you so much for your time. I’m sorry.
Tom: [ To the Director, as he leaves ] You and I aren’t done here.
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Tom: Find anything?
Liz: About Agnes? Maybe. About my mother? Definitely.
[ McGrath tosses a canister to Halbeck ]
McGrath: Nice catch. Those are quick reflexes. I was never very athletic. … My point is that there’s a reason why your reflexes are so good. See, you’re a technician. You’re an operative. An instrument of a larger plan. I, on the other hand, I’m a strategist. You whip that can at me, and I’ll catch it but only because I calculated the risk that someone might throw it in advance. So why don’t you leave the risk assessment to me?
Halbeck: And where am I supposed to find a replacement so late in the game?
McGrath: Not my problem. But you’d better think of something. I don’t intend to lose my investment.
Ressler: Few nights ago, near Savannah, a power station was hit by a four-man attack team wearing the same kind of equipment.
Red: Were there any witnesses left alive?
Ressler: None. The guards never saw it coming. My guess is, they came out of the water.
Red: Four frog men.
Ressler: Yeah.
Red: Interesting.
Ressler: How so?
Red: I know an ex-SEAL commander, recruited some former colleagues, formed an elite heist crew. I hired them once to get back a shamefully expensive Patek Philippe [ $$$ watch ] I foolishly left on the nightstand in Ras Al Khaimah [ in the UAE ] after a dalliance with a lovely but very… Oh, never mind.
[ Ends call ]
[ Red stops by to visit Johan Halbeck, who leads McGrath’s hired ex-SEAL team ]
[ Laughing. Man-Hug ]
Red: … Listen, pal, I have a job.
Halbeck: Can it wait a day? I got a deal going down tomorrow.
Red: No, it can’t. I’ll double whatever you’re being paid. Come on, Johan. Burn the deal, help out an old friend.
Halbeck: Would if I could, Red. But I got a partner in this one. Biggest mistake I ever made. …
Guy I’m in bed with is nuts. Killed one of my best men.
Red: [ Seriously ] Oh. Johan, you should walk away. I’d help you out if I could, offer a man, but… this sounds like a mess, a real mess. I am so sorry. Anyway, I’ve taken too much of your time already. Call me when you get things sorted out.
[ Back-slap hug ]
Halbeck: Hey, uh… you think you can get a man on such short notice?
Red: Depends on my cut.
Red: We’re making progress. I told you Miles McGrath is an incubator, that he’s our link to Alexander Kirk. Turns out, he’s been incubating a crime with a man named Johan Halbeck.
[ Red slaps a stuffed Manila envelope on the table in front of Tom ]
Tom: What’s that?
Red: That’s you. Halbeck’s running a mission tomorrow. He needs a man with your… expertise.
Tom: And you volunteered me?
Red:Desperate times. Staying close to Halbeck will lead to McGrath, and as a bonus, the FBI can stop whatever crime they’re planning.
[ Red sees Liz is reading something ]
Red: Study date?
Tom: This is what the FBI confiscated from Kirk’s estate.
Red: Mm. Anything interesting?
Liz: Yeah. My mother’s journal. She talks about you. About the affair. I’m up to the part where she writes about you pressuring her to leave her husband.
[ Kate lies exhausted near the lake ] [ A large dog comes through the brush, detects her ] [ Dog barks ]
Man: [ Whistles ] Heel!
[ The man sees Kate. With great effort, she lifts her head to acknowledge him ]
[ Dog whimpers ]
[ Liz reads. A phantasm of Katarina Rostova – Liz’s mother – speaks ]
Cooper: Heads up, people. 7:00 AM. Our asset’s in play.
Aram: Sir, we have six vehicles in floating-box formation. Agents Ressler and Navabi are to the southeast.
Cooper: Any visual? …
Ressler: Target on the move.
Cooper: Charlie Team is the trigger. They have command.
Samar: They’re making a left towards Mason.
Cooper: Anybody see anything?
Ressler: No, no vehicles approaching.
[ Train horn blares ]
Samar: They’re getting out.
[ Four men throw ropes over the bridge and land on the train ]
Ressler: Train! They’re on the train!
[ Train horn blares ]
Cooper: Aram, we need to know what’s on that train.
Aram: I am way ahead of you, sir. Except there is no train. I mean, there’s no train officially scheduled on the track at this time.
Cooper: Well, it’s there. Keen, get on the damn phone and figure out why. Agent Ressler, you and the other surveillance units get there now. Call HRT, let them know they might be boarding a hijacked train.
[ Tom and Janowski are attacked by guards.⚡️Fight.⚡️ Tom wins ] [ Groaning ]
[ Tom looks through a grill and sees cases marked CDC ]
Tom: CDC? Are you guys crazy?
Aram: Agent Keen. … Uh, it’s a CDC shipment. They must be transporting some kind of biohazardous materials.
Liz: [ Hangs up ] That was CDC’s Washington Director.
Cooper: What are they moving?
Liz: Six containers holding samples of every Class A infectious substance– Ebola, dengue, polio, HIV, and maybe 50 others.
Aram: [ Reading ] “Class A– substances capable of causing permanent disability, life-threatening or fatal disease in humans or animals.”
Cooper: My God.
Liz: That’s why McGrath had Halbeck shut down the substations near Savannah.
They triggered the CDC’s transfer protocol. They won’t keep Class A substances in a facility using only backup generators for more than 72 hours. They’re moving the samples to a secure satellite lab outside Philadelphia.
Ressler: Singleton Freight Station, mile marker 272. That’s where you said and we’re here, but, look, nothing’s come through.
Aram: That’s not possible. There’s only one rail line in the area. The train was going at least 40. It should’ve passed you two minutes ago.
Samar: No, it didn’t. …
Tom: [ Over wire ] Aram, if you can you hear me, the train’s coming to a stop. I’ll try to get you new coordinates if I can.
Halbeck: Mr. McGrath, this concludes our broadcast day.
McGrath: What’d I tell you, Halbeck? Leave the strategy to the scrawny kids. Tell Vincent I’ll meet him at the Lodge in 20.
Halbeck: Nice working with you, sir. [ Hangs up ] Patronizing son of a bitch.
Samar: … You said there was only one track in this area.
Aram: Yeah, that’s true.
Ressler: Then why am I looking at another one? Some kind of a split-off line going west.
Aram: West? No.
Ressler: By the looks of this material, it’s been put in recently.
Liz: Wait. Halbeck and McGrath built a second rail line?
Cooper: Going where?
Samar: We’re about to find out.
[ Inside the building, forklift beeping ] [ Tom is inside the building watching men in orange biohazard suits move cases of material ]
[ Outside ]
Ressler: I think we found our train.
Liz: Where?
Ressler: About 200 yards from the split-off. The second set of tracks leads to some kind of hangar.
Samar: They must be unloading the CDC containers. We’ll take a look.
Halbeck: That’s it. We’re clear. Let’s roll.
[ One of the orange-suited men hands him a case. He, in turn, hands it to a tall, thin man, Vincent ]
Vincent: You sure you got the right one?
Halbeck: Sample number 17. That was our deal. The rest is mine.
[ Red’s car pulls up. Tires screech as Vincent’s car leaves in a hurry ]
[ Ressler & Samar see Red enter the hangar ]
Ressler: Got to be kidding me.
Red: Johan, where the hell was that guy going? The guy with the case. Please do not tell me that you parted with the best samples.
Halbeck: Just one. Take it easy. I told you I had a partner.
Red: I’m your partner now, Johan, and I’ve been out promising prospective buyers the full complement of Class A weaponry. Do you have any idea what was in that sample?
Halbeck: Sorry, Raymond. I don’t know what to tell you.
Red: Well, I insist on speaking with this so-called partner. At least let me try to buy it back.
Halbeck: [ Chuckles ] Be my guest. Miles McGrath. His man went to meet him at the Lodge. It’s a bar. Find him, talk to him. Hell, I hope you shoot the bastard. [ Laughs ]
[ Red leaves just before the HRT arrives and a 💥💥💥gunfight ensues💥💥💥 ]
[ Halbeck and crew are outnumbered. Halbeck surrenders and Tom “surrenders” ]
[ At the bar named The Lodge ] [ McGrath is there with Vincent ]
McGrath: The Feds are Halbeck’s problem. All that matters to me is that we are right on schedule.
[ Red appears, sits next to Vincent ]
Red: Gentlemen, mind if I join you?
McGrath: Yeah. We do.
Red: Raymond Reddington.
McGrath: The Raymond Reddington? Concierge of Crime? Man In The Hat? The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold?
Red: Haven’t heard that last one. Never read the Le Carré novel. Dembe, we should see if we can get the audiobook on cassette for the car. Now, about that sample…
McGrath: Screw you. I’ll–
[ Gunshot 💥 Red shoots Vincent. Vincent slumps over ] …
McGrath: I don’t know where he is. I’m supposed to call to arrange delivery. [ Dialing ] Mr. Kirk. I have it. Yeah. Fine. I’ll have it sent right away. [ Cellphone beeps ] Bench outside Dan’s Tavern. Bar on Sedgwick. Half-hour.
Red: Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. McGrath.
McGrath: Just calculating my odds. I’d say my only chance of leaving this room is by giving you exactly what you want.
Red: You’re a good strategist, Miles. But your odds are longer than you think. The FBI found that missing train, along with Halbeck and his team and the CDC samples. In fact, I’d imagine they’d be on their way here by now.
[ Red deftly handcuffs the dead man Vincent ] [ Dembe cuffs McGrath to Vincent ]
McGrath: Wait. Don’t. Reddington! Look, Reddington, we can make a deal! Look, I know people! What do you want?! Look, don’t walk away from me! Reddington!
[ Red and Dembe leave the bar ]
[ Cellphone rings ] [ Cellphone beeps ]
Red: Not an ideal time, Harold.
Cooper: Ressler and Samar just called. They found McGrath handcuffed to a corpse.
Red: Wonderful. I have to go.
Cooper: Wait. McGrath– Did he tell you how to find Kirk?
Aram: We just heard from the CDC. The missing sample, number 17? It’s cultures taken from the Ribowski virus.
Liz: I know that name. One of the most deadly viral pathogens we know of– killed tens of thousands in Europe and Asia in the early 1900s.
[ Red hangs up. Click ]
Cooper: Reddington? Reddington?
[ Red and Dembe arrive at the meetup point ]
Dembe: Raymond, there’s no one.
[ Pay phone ringing. Red answers it ]
Red: Well done, Constantin.
Kirk: I was about to say the same to you, Raymond. So close and yet so far. Still as tenacious as ever.
Red: How’d you know I’d be here? Even I didn’t know a half-hour ago.
Kirk: Well, I knew because I’m the better man. Always have been.
Red: I have what you want. And I know why you want it. So it’s true, then. After all these years, everything you feared has happened.
Kirk: It isn’t over yet.
Red: It doesn’t have to be. You can have your virus. All I want is Agnes in return.
Kirk: I don’t think so, old boy. I’ll die before you ever hold my granddaughter again.
[ Dog barking ] [ Kate is on a tarp being dragged, roughly, through the forest ] [ Barking continues ]
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Blurb: Liz has been separated from her infant daughter Agnes, forced by Alexander Kirk (aka Constantin Rostov), a man claiming to be her father, to leave Cuba headed “home.” Red and Mr Kaplan rescue Agnes, only to have her taken again by the mysterious shamanic Mato.
[ Kirk, who claims to be Liz’s father Constantin Rostov, has forced Liz to accompany him on a float plane to a place he tells her is “home.” ]
Kirk: He won’t find you– Reddington– if that’s what you’re hoping for or worried about.
Liz: Tom’s alive. You don’t have Agnes. I’m not worried about anything.
Kirk: I won’t apologize for trying to restore my family.
Liz: Even if it means destroying mine.
[ Suddenly, Liz lunges at the pilot. The plane nosedives ] [ Gunshot 💥 ]
Pilot: She’s gonna kill us! Aah!
[ Gunshot 💥 – The pilot is fatally shot. Liz leans over the pilot to grab the controls of the plane tries to level it. The plane is about to hit the water … ]
[ The car with Dembe, Red, Mr Kaplan (“Kate”) and baby Agnes was rammed by Mato, who has taken Agnes. Tom drives up in a red pickup truck ]
Tom: You all right? Where are they?
Red: In danger.
Kate: Mato. I saw his face.
Tom: Who’s Mato?
Kate: A finder. A tracker. Killer when necessary. We had a mutual friend. He gave Mato his start as a skip tracer. It was years ago.
Red: Little Nikos. West Texas’ favorite bail bondsman. An Amarillo institution for 25 years to life. Mato isn’t your garden-variety mercenary. From what I’m told, he’s an Indian– part Sioux, part I don’t know what, son of a Shaman. Mato could sneak up on a deer in a glade and smack it on the rump. He’ll find his way off the island. Dembe, call Edward. Tell him to ready the jet. We’re gonna pay a visit to Little Nikos.
Kate: [ To Tom ] This is my fault. If anything happens to Elizabeth or the baby…
Tom: You have nothing to apologize for. You tried to help us find a normal life. I’d take that risk again. [ To Red ] I don’t regret trying to get away from you.
Red: Of course you don’t. Regret requires age or wisdom.
Tom: We were trying to protect Agnes.
Red: I guess that didn’t work out. When we get to Amarillo, I think it would be best to do as I say, both of you.
Liz: Mayday, mayday, mayday. Plane down off the coast of Havana. 23 degrees, 52 minutes north. Can anyone hear me?
Kirk: You need to untie me, Masha.
Liz: Mayday, mayday, mayday, is anyone there?
Kirk: Untie me! Masha, I’m your father. You can’t let me drown.
Liz: Watch me.
[ Red and Kate get out of the car ]
Kate: When we get inside, let me talk to him. He and I have history.
Red: He and I don’t. I’ll be more persuasive.
Kate: Is that what this has come to? The chance for you to punish me by hurting someone I care about?
Red: You are not my concern. Agnes is. If someone you care about is hurt in the process of finding her, so be it.
Kate: He’s a decent man. I’m only here to serve you today because of his kindness.
Red: You may speak to him first. Briefly.
[ Door bell jingles ]
Maisie: Afternoon. Can I help you?
[ Door closes ]
Kate: Little Nikos, please.
Maisie: Oh, wish I could oblige, Miss…
Kate: Mr. Kaplan, an old friend.
Maisie: Uh, I’m afraid that’s not possible. He’s in surgery.
Red: Where?
Maisie: His stomach.
Red: And where might we find his stomach?
[ Red and Kate burst into an operating room where a laparoscopic surgery is underway ]
Ellen: I told him he couldn’t come in.
Red: Oh, my. Me and my timing.
Surgeon: What the hell is going on?
Red: I need your capable team here to wake up your patient.
Surgeon: What? Call security right now.
Red: Wake him up.
Surgeon: I can’t. We’re in the middle of a procedure. I’d be putting his life in danger.
Red: His life’s already in danger. [ Draws gun ] How ’bout yours?
Kirk: Our only chance is out there, holding onto the pontoons.
Liz: You mean my only chance. You’re not going anywhere.
[ Liz finds a flare gun. She puts down her pistol and fires the flare gun ¸„💥º°¨¨¨* ]
Kirk: We’re not gonna survive unless we trust each other.
Liz: I’ll never trust you.
[ But Kirk has freed himself and grabbed the pistol while Liz was distracted with the flare. He points it at her ]
Kirk: We’re a family. Not Reddington. Us. If you wanna hold your child in your arms again, we need to trust each other. [ Kirk then hands the gun back to Liz ]
Surgeon: He’s awake and in excruciating pain.
Red: [ To Kate ] Remember… we’re getting what we need, one way or another.
Little Nikos: Kate. What are you… What’s happening?
Kate: We only have a minute. Raymond Reddington is here. He wants Mato. Tell me how to find Mato.
Little Nikos: No. He’ll kill Mato if I do.
Red: I’m not gonna hurt you, Nikos. You’re a good man. Loyal. Protective of those who are protective of you. I admire that in a person. Unfortunately for you, I’m surrounded by people who don’t. Tom, I’d like to introduce you to Little Nikos, the man who’s protecting the sociopath who stole your baby.
[ Kirk and Liz are clinging to the pontoons of the overturned float plane ]
Kirk: Don’t let go. No matter what, don’t let go.
Liz: They’re looking. The FBI, the Coast Guard. They’ll find us.
Kirk: They’ll find you… [ Gasps ] …which is enough.
[ Kirk exhales sharply, then loses his grip and slips under the water ]
Liz: No. No!
[ Liz dives down and saves Kirk ] .
Liz: I can help you.
Kirk: It’s too much.
Liz: You said we have to trust each other. Do you trust me?
Kirk: Yes.
Liz: Then hold on. They will find us. They will find us.
[ Tom shows Little Nikos a small photo of baby Agnes ]
Tom: Here’s my little girl. That’s Agnes. I’m gonna put this right… here, because she is the reason I am doing this. Remember that. Tell me how to find Mato.
Little Nikos: I… I can’t do that.
Tom: Well, you do have guts.
Tom: What do you think this does? [ Surgical saw whirs ]
[ Red and Kate are sitting in the waiting room ]
[ In the next room, Nikos screams, cries ]
Red: I’m sorry it had to be Nikos.
Kate: If there’s no sincerity behind your words, don’t waste them.
Liz: Hey, stay awake. Stay with me. Talk to me. Tell me, uh, about your parents. What were their names?
[ Fishing boat horn blows ]
Liz: Help! Over here! Help!
[ Horn blows ] [ Liz waves to get the boat’s attention ]
[ Door opens ]
Tom: I got a phone number and a password.
Red: Nakaidoklini?
Tom: It’s a famous medicine man. I don’t know. You text that name to that number using Nikos’ cellphone, and Mato will show up in person at the bail office. It’s how they do it.
[ Kate goes to Nikos’ bedside. Monitor beeping steadily ]
Kate: I’m so sorry, Nikos.
Liz: [ To fishing boat captain ] Oh, thank you. Thank you. Uh, he needs medical attention. First aid? Medicina.
Boat Captain: ¿Medicina? Sí. I have a first aid kid–
Liz: Good, good. Show me. He needs it right now. Right now.
Kirk: Why did you save me? Why?
Liz: Because you know where Agnes is.
Kirk: Is that the only reason?
Liz: I saved you because of Agnes, but… also maybe because you might be telling the truth.
[ Liz talks to the boat captain alone ]
Liz: I’m with the FBI. That man was in my custody when our plane crashed. Uh… Señor… terrorist. Muy malo. Muy malo.
Captain: ¿Terrorista?
Liz: [ Whispers ] Shh, shh, shh, yes. Uh, necesito un radio.
Captain: ¿Radio? Sí, sí.
Liz: [ Speaking Spanish ] Do you have a gun? ¿Pistola?
Captain: ¿Pistola? [ In Spanish ] The gun is in the toolbox.
Liz: Uh, I don’t– No comprendo.
[ Gunshot 💥 – the captain is hit ] [ Groans ]
Kirk: I believe he said the pistol is in the toolbox.
[ A wooded site. Agnes lies on a blanket on the ground. Mato performs a Native American ritual over her as Romina watches ]
Mato: Honor the sacred, Honor the Earth, and everyone who shares it. Honor the elders …the 4-legged, the 2-legged, the winged ones, the plant and animal people. Walk in beauty and balance. Oy, kak krasivo!
[Two men with Russian accents walk in on the scene ]
Russian: I take photo for Facebook, yeah? [ Chuckles ] You don’t want your money?
[ Russian tosses black leather bag to Mato ]
Mato: I need to know that you’re gonna safely deliver that baby to Kirk.
[ Mato checks contents of satchel ]
Mato: [ To Romina ] Put the girl into Kirk’s hands only.
Romina: I understand.
[ Cellphone chimes. Mato checks the text message. It’s from Nikos ]
[ In Nikos’ bail office, Maisy sighs, is sweaty, appears stressed ]
Red: You’re doing fine, Maisy.
Dembe: He should be here any minute.
[ In the car, waiting outside for Mato ]
Tom: Sorry about Nikos.
Kate: Why are you telling me this?
Tom: Because he’s your friend.
Kate: So you want me to make you feel better? Everyone wants me to make things easier for them. Cleaner. That’s what I am, after all, the Cleaner.
Tom: Just forget I brought it up.
Kate: In my desire to make life easier for your baby, I betrayed Raymond, and now he doesn’t know what to do with me. Well, he knows what he has to do, and he wants me to make it easier for him. But I won’t. I’m not here to make him feel better, and I’m not here to make you feel better, Tom.
[ Footsteps approaching. Mato pauses at door of Nikos’ office. Kate sees him. He sees her and takes off running. Tom takes off after him. Dembe soon follows ]
[ Tires screech as Kate drives the car into Mato⚡️]
Tom: Where’s my daughter?! Where’s my daughter? [ Punches Mato ] Huh? Where is she?! Where– where’s my daughter? Huh? Where is she?
Red: Tom! Let’s get out of the heat.
Captain Daly: Found your boat near Madeira Bay, a few miles offshore. It’s being escorted to a nearby marina.
Ressler: Was there anyone on board?
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Samar: Where’s the survivor?
[ The fishing boat captain is receving medical attention on the pier for his gunshot wound ]
Ressler: Excuse me. FBI. We need a minute. [ To the boat captain ] Sir, the woman, the one who was with you–
Samar: [ In Spanish ] Where is she?
Captain: He took her. On a speedboat. They took her away in a speedboat.
[ Kirk and Liz are in a plane ]
Kirk: Put Romina on the phone. I want Agnes to see her mother.
Liz: Where is she?
Kirk: We’ll all be together soon.
[ Kirk gives Liz his cellphone ]
[ Agnes appears on cellphone, coos ]
Liz: Hi, Agnes. Did you hear that? We’re gonna be together soon. I love you.
Red: [ To Mato ] This’ll be quick, as I have no time and less patience. Tell me where Alexander Kirk took Elizabeth Keen and her daughter. [ Silence ] The strong silent type. You’re not doing much to break down stereotypes here.
Mato: I’m not afraid of pain.
Red: Mm. Or dying, I’m sure. You know, some years back, I was hiking Devils Tower for a bracing dip in the spiritual vortex, when who did I run into but the tribal leader of the Lakota Nation, a man of vast responsibility. He invited me to witness the extreme version of the Sun Dance ritual.
Mato: Not just anyone can attend the Sun Dance.
Red: True, and you can’t get a table at The Fat Duck without a reservation. But I find in either case, a generous donation gets you in the teepee. I watched a tribal member, much like yourself, suspend himself from a cottonwood tree with flesh hooks through his chest.
Three hours he dangled, skin stretched like salt water taffy, while he left his body to communicate with the Great Spirit. Like you, the man on that tree didn’t fear death. But you know what terrified him? The thought of eternity on earth, trapped in a dark box, surrounded by rotting flesh, forever. After I shoot you, sir, you will be locked in an airtight, concrete crypt, unless you tell me what I need to know before those figures stop dancing.
Mato: Kirk said they’re going to the Summer Palace. That’s all I know.
Red: Yes. I know the Summer Palace.
[ Red shoots Mato 💥 ] [ Thud ]
[ Liz and Kirk arrive at a cottage in the woods ]
Liz: What is this place?
Kirk: It’s yours. It belongs to you and Agnes, of course. It’s a lovely location to raise a little girl, don’t you think?
Liz: The armed goons don’t do much for the landscape.
Kirk: Well, the coercion was necessary and temporary. All I ever intended to do was show you, prove to you who you are, who I am. And then you can choose for yourself.
Liz: Like a Russian fairy tale.
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Katya: Hello, Elizabeth. My name is Katja. You can think of me as the Palace Keeper.
Liz: Palace? The Summer Palace. It’s what Mr. Kirk calls the cottage. Anything you need during your stay, let me know.
[ Telephone rings, beeps ]
Cooper: Director Cooper.
Red: I know where Elizabeth is, Harold, where Kirk is taking Agnes. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Kirk owns a cottage there where he would go to escape the dreary summers in Novosibirsk. How quickly can your people get there?
Cooper: Agents Ressler and Navabi are flying back from Miami. I can redirect their plane.
Katya: I know some of what you’ve been through, but little Agnes will be here soon. And when she’s here, you will need your strength.
Liz: Tell me about Kirk. How long have you known him?
Katya: I have worked here for nine years. I took over from my mother. She worked my entire childhood maintaining the Summer Palace.
Liz: So you know him well?
Katya: No, actually, I don’t. He hasn’t visited here in years. It’s been… too painful for him. Until now.
[ Liz investigates the cottage. Liz enters a room for a young girl. On a child-sized table with dolls seated on small chairs, she finds a drawing of a little girl holding hands with her parents. It is the same drawing in her memories of the fire during the memory recall session and in flashbacks. But it is unscorched, pristine ]
[ Footsteps approach. It is Kirk ]
Liz: This was my bedroom.
Kirk: Welcome home, Masha.
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Kirk: I promised you the truth.
Liz: But… there was a fire. I… I shot my father. I remember.
Kirk: What’s the memory of a small child? Reddington lied to you, Masha. He told you your father was dead, but thanks to you– what you did on the water– I’m very much alive. All the stories Reddington’s told you about who he is and his connection to you– he knew you were looking for answers and he took advantage of that to re-enter your life. But the answers you’ve been looking for are here.
Reddington, he was in love with your mother
[ Suddenly, an FBI helicopter appears overhead ]
[ Ressler and other agents run toward the front of the cottage ]
Ressler: Spread out! Come on, let’s go!
[ Gunshots 💥💥💥]
Ressler: Return fire!
[ Gunshots 💥💥💥]
Guard: Aah! [ One of Kirk’s guards tumbles off a balcony ]
FBI: Move in! Move in!
[ An armed agent encounters Liz in the house, points his rifle at her ]
[ Ressler and Samar arrive at the marina ]
FBI: Hands in the air! In the air!
Ressler: Stand down! Stand down, she’s one of ours. Secure the house. Find Kirk. Find that child.
[ Liz & Ressler stare at each other for an endless second ]
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Samar: He’s gone, and if Agnes is with him, she’s gone, too.
[ Liz is being led toward a police vehicle when she sees Ressler ] [ They hug ] [ Liz sobs ]
[ A black SUV pulls up in front of an industrial-looking building. Liz and Ressler get out. Baz is there ]
Baz: He’s waiting for you inside.
Liz: Where are we?
Baz: Home. Your home.
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[ Red has been observing Liz’s arrival from his car. Briefly, Red and Liz make eye contact. He offers a faint hint of a smile. Her look is chilly ]
Red: [ Turns away ] [ To Dembe ] Let’s go.
[ Red rolls up his window ]
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[ Baz escorts Liz through the almost-empty building ]
Liz: What is this place?
[ A warm light appears, an apartment in a remote part of the facility ]
[ Tom is there ] [ Liz and Tom embrace ] [ Sobs ]
Tom: I’m gonna find her.
[ Dembe drives Red and Kate through a remote wooded area. The car stops deep in the woods ]
Red: [ To Dembe ] Stay with the car.
[ Red and Kate walk into the woods ]
Red: There are places back here that have never borne a human footprint. 53,000 acres of virgin wilderness, all but one owned by the Bureau of Land Management. One acre, a jewel. A single buildable acre. Like a flawless diamond set in a sea of emeralds. The real estate equivalent of a unicorn. I acquired it some years ago from a family who had held it in trust for over a century and a half.
Kate: Beautiful.
Red: Yes. [ He stops ] You understand, Kate, that I–
Kate: Have no choice? Isn’t that the speech, Raymond? That I know too much? Every single one of your weaknesses, all your faults, all your secrets. I dedicated my life to you. You entrusted me with everything you value– your freedom, your life, a child. I have never failed you. What you see as a betrayal of trust was actually a fulfillment of your wishes, to protect your interests. No more, no less.
Red: You presumed to decide what was best for me. Even if I resolve the anger, the pain you caused… I can’t trust you. Ever. I’m standing before a stranger. And yet, I know you believe what you did was best for Elizabeth, which is why I brought you here. You’ve told me you’ve always wanted a pristine, unspoiled place to live out your days in peace. So the acre is yours. For all eternity.
[ Red cocks gun ] [ Gunshot 💥 ] [ Kate spins and collapses, face first, arm outstretched ] [ Red turns around and walks away ]
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[ Kate’s right hand moves, grasping a handful of grass ]
Red: I need to speak with the patient.
Doctor: He’s gone.
Red: As you well know, one of the keys to my success is a clear and consistent understanding of my own limitations. So often people overestimate themselves, misapply their gifts. The cleaner suddenly fancies herself the strategist. Wisdom is learning the boundaries of one’s designated lane. For instance, this, I will do poorly. Clumsily, with more mess than necessary. It’ll take longer and be considerably more unpleasant to boot. [ To Kate ] But I can’t very well have you do it, can I?
[ Red proceeds to cut the head off the dead man ]
Aram: Is it true? She’s alive?
Samar: Apparently.
Aram: Wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. How is that… there were complications during labor. And the doctor, he declared her dead.
Samar: He lied.
Aram: But there was a funeral. I-I was a pallbearer.
Samar: … It was a charade, Aram.
Aram: … She faked her death. Why would she do that?
Ressler: To get away from Reddington. So that her and Tom and Agnes could have a normal life.
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Cooper: I just got off the phone with the embassy in Havana. Briefed them on Kirk, gave them the tail number to his plane. If that was how he was planning to get off the island, that’s not gonna happen. … Notify FBI headquarters. Elizabeth Keen is alive.
[ Kirk offers Liz a glass of water; she refuses ]
Kirk: You think I’d drug you?
Liz: You kidnapped my infant daughter, my husband, and me. I’d say you’re capable of anything.
Kirk: Listen… you were my entire life. You were all your mother and I ever cared about. Now you don’t know any of that because Reddington took you away from us when you were just a little girl. He and your mother had an affair. For a time, I thought maybe he was the father, but I have proof that he’s not. He’s just a spiteful, evil man. Couldn’t accept it when Katarina broke off the affair. One day I came home, and you were gone. He’d taken you. I never thought I’d ever see you again… until there you were in the news, you… and Reddington, – the most wanted fugitives in the world. … Everything I did was to get my child away from Reddington. Who understands that more than you? You did the exact same thing, faked your own death to get your child away from him. [Door opens ]
Balzan: [ Lowered voice, to Kirk ] We have a problem. The PNR have surrounded the plane.
Kirk: Then find another plane. [ To Liz ] Agnes will be here shortly.
Liz: And Tom?
[ Siren whoops, Agnes crying ] [ Police car stops blue Dodge sedan with Mato and Romina holding Agnes in the front seat. [ Tom is in the trunk ] …
Tom: Hey, they have my baby! Please!
Mato: Keen, you breathe a word, I’m gonna fire two bullets– one in the cop and the other between the eyes of that screaming kid. You got it?
[ Agnes’ crying continues ]
Romina: [ Spanish ] What do we do? What the hell are you doing, Bobo?
Officer: [ Spanish ] Out of the car.
[ They get out ] … [ Romina lays Agnes on the car seat ]
Officer: [ Spanish ] Open the trunk.
[ Mato opens the car trunk ]
Tom: [ Yells ] He’s got a gun! [ Gunshot 💥 misses ]
[ Mato gets the PNR officer in a stranglehold ]
Tom: No, don’t– please!
[ Bones crack. The PNR officer’s neck is broken ] [ Body thuds ] [ Agnes fusses ] [ Mato punches Tom, knocking him out ][ Mato loads the body of the dead PNR officer into the trunk with Tom ] [ Agnes continues crying ]
Samar: I informed the Bureau that Elizabeth Keen has risen from the dead. They said three Hail Mary’s and they’re on the lookout for the zombie apocalypse.
Cooper: I understand. You feel played.
Aram: Don’t you, sir? …
Cooper: All right, let’s just have this conversation. Keen lied to us, took advantage of all of us, and no one is more upset about that than I. Or… relieved. Truth be told, I didn’t think it was possible to be this joyous and livid at the same time. But I have a job to do– find Keen and her family and bring them home safely. And I know that no matter how I feel, I can do that job. I need to know if each of you can say the same.
[ Red and Dembe enter a house. Guns drawn, they enter room with a large one-way mirror: Kirk and Liz can see Red and Dembe – Red and Dembe see only their own reflections ]
Kirk: Hello, Raymond.
Red: Elizabeth, are you okay?
Kirk: Of course she is. Unlike you, I would never hurt my own daughter.
Red: Elizabeth? Elizabeth.
Liz: I’m on your left.
[ Red rapidly fires multiple gunshots 💥💥💥💥💥 through the right side of the mirror, but Kirk is unscathed ] [ Tires screech ]
Red: Constantin. What do you want? Name it. You bring her out unharmed, you’ll have it.
Kirk: Of course, the Concierge of Crime wants to cut a deal. You’ll give me whatever I want?
Red: Yes. …
Kirk: What I desire is to raise my child, to watch her grow, and to have back the 26 years of being a father that you took from me. But you can’t give me that, can you?
Red: No, – because she was never yours to raise.
Dembe: [ Quietly, to Red ] Patrol unit incoming. Military patrol. Armored military. …
Liz: If they get you, they’ll kill you.
Dembe: Raymond.
Liz: Did you hear me? You have to go. Go!
Red: Elizabeth, I will come for you. [ Red and Dembe leave ]
Red: [ In car, on phone ] Harold, gather your team.
Cooper: Reddington. Where are you? Tell me you have Agent Keen.
Red: No, but she’s still on the island. Kirk’s preparing her exit plan. I don’t know what the preparations are, but I know who can find out– Manuel Esteban.
Cooper: The Chilean Spymaster?
Samar: Who’s Esteban?
Red: Our next Blacklister.
Aram: Manuel Orentez Esteban. [ Gasps ] Leader of Pinochet’s Caravan of Death that institutionalized a state-sponsored system of terror through abuse, abduction, and murder.
Ressler: According to our database, he died in 1989.
Red: Except he didn’t. Esteban is alive and well and a legendary enforcer for a series of authoritarian regimes. … Kirk’s man in Cuba is protected by the military. If the military is involved, Esteban will know about it.
Cooper: … We have no assets in Cuba.
Red: [ Laughs ] Of course you do, Harold. Esteban. He works for your government. Castro took him in, and the CIA immediately put him on the payroll as a double agent. … The CIA knows where to find him, and he knows where to find Elizabeth.
[ A young woman, Ivelisse, crying, is being interrogated by Manuel Esteban. He wears sunglasses. He speaks with an ominous, raspy voice ]
Esteban: [ Spanish subtitles ] Ivelisse, dear, don’t cry, my love. You know who I am.
[ Gasps, nods, continues crying ]
Esteban: [ Spanish ] And you know what it means to see my face.
[ Esteban removes his sunglasses. His eyes are hideous, dull, the skin around them disfigured ]
[ Click ] [ He touches her chin ] [ Ivelisse ontinues gasping and crying ]
Esteban: [ Spanish ] Most people fear the dark. I don’t know anything else. I see with my ears.
[ Exhales deeply ] [ Continues crying ] …
Cynthia Panabaker: What are you talking to Reddington for? I thought your task force was disbanded after Agent Keen’s death.
Cooper: It turns out she’s not dead. She’s been kidnapped. And if we have any hope for finding her, it rests in finding Esteban. …
Panabaker: [ Sighs ] I hate getting into bed with Reddington. I… hate needing him and his list. If you find Agent Keen, will he continue to give you names?
Cooper: He just did– Esteban. According to him, Esteban works for the Agency.
Panabaker: [ Sighs ] Good Lord. Is there anything that man doesn’t know?
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Cooper: I appreciate you burning a source for this.
Panabaker: You knowing he exists is the least of Esteban’s problems. Now that we’re all chummy with the Cubanos, his relationship with the Agency is, uh, something of a liability.
Cooper: You’re gonna scrub him?
Panabaker: Let’s just say, if you wanna reach out to Esteban, you should do it quickly.
[ Ressler is seated in café. A man is singing in Spanish. A man sits down at Ressler’s table ]
Ressler: Jesus. Hot as balls in here. You guys actually drink this stuff?
♪♪ [ Door bell jingles ] ♪♪ [ Someone puts a black sack over Ressler’s head ]
[ Speaks indistinctly in Spanish ] [ Mato and Angel approach the car. Mato opens the trunk. Tom is startled awake ]
Mato: [ Points at Tom ] Kill him first. Come back for the cop. Meet you at that place.
[ Angel lifts the dead cop out of the trunk ]
Tom: Hey. Hey. Let her go. Look, you can take me, all right? Do whatever you want. Just give me my little girl! Hey! I’m begging you! Give me my little girl! Please!
[ Car door closes, engine starts ] [ Engine revs ] [ Mato and Romina leave with Agnes ]
Angel: [ To Tom ] You and I are gonna have some fun, man.
[ Ressler is in a dark prison cell, a dungeon, really ] [ Door clanks, keys jingle ] [ Indistinct whispering ]
Ressler: Hey.
Woman: Shh. [ Whispers ] Don’t talk. They’ll kill us. … Woman: It’s him.
[ Door unlocks and opens ] [ Ressler is escorted from the cell ]
[ Ressler is escorted to an interrogation table. Esteban sits across from him ]
Esteban: So the rumors are true. They sent you to finish me. …
Ressler: Look, I’m not here to kill you, pal, I’m here to tell you that Raymond Reddington wants to see you.
Esteban: Oh, so now the US government is Reddington’s messenger.
Ressler: Oh, you know how it works. The American government has deals with all kinds of scumbags.
[ Later, Red and Esteban are walking along a busy wooded walkway ]
Red: I’m looking for a woman.
Esteban: Aren’t we all?
Red: Her name is Elizabeth Keen, and the man holding her has the protection of the FAR. They know where she is, which means you know where she is, or you could certainly find out.
Esteban: Why would I help you? You’re an anarchist.
Red: [ Laughs ] Probably. Maybe more of an opportunist. And I have the opportunity to help you. You spent a lifetime bouncing from one authoritarian regime to the next. But this is the last stop. You’re a relic. The détente between America and Cuba makes you a man without a country. Sooner or later, both sides will want you dead. My money’s on sooner. …
Esteban: What do you propose? …
Tom: The baby– I can pay you.
Angel: Quiet.
Tom: Not me. I have a friend. Whatever you want, he’ll help you. We’ll get you off the island, he’ll protect you.
Angel: I said quiet, man. … Let’s go and dig.
[ Kate sits down at small table across from Red ]
Kate: I know you don’t want to talk to me. Fine. Then listen. It was excruciating to watch you mourn Elizabeth’s death, to know that I was making you endure that. Yes, I betrayed you, but only after you had betrayed her. Raymond, you have to change. [ Esteban approaches ]
Red: [ To Kate ] Why don’t you wait in the car? [ She leaves ]
Esteban: I have a location for the girl.
Red: And the child?
Esteban: I asked, but people know nothing about a child.
Kirk: I have a blood disorder.
Liz: Good.
Kirk: I’m dying.
Liz: Even better.
Kirk: They’re here.
[ Door opens. Mato and Romina, holding Agnes, enter ]
Liz: Oh, baby. Are you okay, sweetheart? [ Exhales sharply ] Let me look at you. [ Cries ] Oh, you’re okay. Oh, my God. [ Sniffles ] It’s okay. You’re a strong girl. Everything’s gonna be okay. You’re with Mommy now. Shh.
Kirk: She’s beautiful.
[ Shovel thudding: Tom is being forced to dig a grave for the dead officer – and himself ] [ Cellphone rings ]
Balzan: Hello? Is it done? What’s taking so long?
[ Tom attacks Angel. Thud, then a gunshot 💥 ] [ Grunting ]
Balzan: Angel. Angel? Angel. [ Gunshot 💥 ] He wants to talk to you.
Kirk: Hello. Who’s this?
Tom: All that matters is that you have a little girl, and you have her mother.
Liz: Tom.
Tom: I’m coming for them, for you. And not just me, an army. You hear me? An army is coming for you.
[ Knock on door ]
Kirk: Elizabeth? Ready to go?
[ Door opens ]
Kirk: Balzan! Balzan! He’s gone. Your guards, your security, they’re all gone. The child and the girl– find them.
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[ Liz is running through a wooded area. Agnes is crying ]
Liz: Shh, shh, shh. Shh. Shh. [ Crying continues ] Please, Agnes, stop crying. Mommy’s here. Shh, shh, shh. [ Agnes continues crying ]
[ Romina appears wielding a knife and swipes at Liz ]
Liz: Think about what you’re doing. What are you gonna do? Hurt me? Hurt my baby? Kirk will kill you if you do. Are you a mother? Do you have children? Look at her…
[ Blade whooshes, Romina goes down ] [ Liz throws the baby blanket aside – she has a piece of firewood and is about to attack Romina with it ]
[ Mato appears and points the gun at Agnes, who is lying on the ground ]
Mato: Hey! [ Gun clicks ]
Liz: No! [ She holds her hands up. Agnes resumes crying ]
Mato: Little mama, you got spirit. Get up. [ To Romina ] Get the baby.
[ The float boat circles in for a water landing ]
Kirk: You’ll learn to trust me. Get the baby and the things. We’re leaving.
Liz: Like hell we are. No!
Kirk: I wish there was another way, I do, but Reddington’s on his way.
Liz: Agnes!
Kirk: [ To his men ] Come on. Get her onboard.
[ They muscle Liz into the float plane, leaving Agnes behind with Romina ]
Red: Luis, you and your men take the perimeters to the north and the west. Dembe, secure the house. Silvio, you’re with me to the south. [ To Kate ] You stay put.
[ They leave to search the area and the house ]
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[ Red runs to the beach and sees the float plane rising from its takeoff. He looks up, defeated. He must feel his life’s mission – to protect Elizabeth from this man – has ended in failure. Liz looks down tearfully through the plane’s window. ]
[ Kate sees Romina with Agnes, she draws her gun ]
Kate: That’s not your child.
Red: They’re gone.
Kate: I’m sorry, Raymond.
[ Agnes fusses ]
Red: We have her.
Panabaker: You told them he worked for us? Do you have any idea what kind of blowback I’m dealing with here? And it doesn’t take long to find out who told the Cubans.
Ressler: I heard it was an anonymous tip. …
Panabaker: Are you a traitor or– or just a moron? …
Cooper: Whoever this anonymous source is, he just saved a lot of lives. …
Panabaker: Let’s not mince words. You took it upon yourself to tell the Cubans about our–
Ressler: No, I took it upon myself to stop what Esteban was doing. Do you have any idea what that was? No, because all you care about is what Esteban was doing for you.
Panabaker: There are bigger issues, Agent Ressler.
Ressler: Torture, abuse, murder. I don’t see any bigger issues than that. …
[ Dembe drives car with Red and Kate in the back seat with the baby ]
[ Cellphone rings ]
Dembe: Yes? [ To Red ] It’s Tom.
Red: Tell him we were too late. Kirk has Elizabeth.
Tom: What about Agnes?
Dembe: She’s with us. Safe. Your daughter is safe.
[ Tom gets into Angel’s red Ford pickup truck. The ignition sputters, then catches and revs and he departs ]
[ In the back seat as Dembe drives, Red plays with Agnes who grasps his fingers & coos. Red smiles. ]
Kate: Raymond, I’ve been thinking about where we go from here–
[ Engine revs ] [ The blue Dodge sedan accelerates and❗💥 crashes 💥❗into the car with Red, Dembe, Kate and Agnes ]
[ The car is flipped on its side, its wheel spinning ]
[ Agnes is crying ]
[ Mato approaches the wrecked car, reaches in through the window and takes Agnes. Mato kisses his finger and touches Kate’s lips as she loses consciousness. Red is crunched over motionless ]
[ Agnes’ crying continues ]
Aram: Good morning.
Elise: How long were you staring at me?
Aram: All night.
[ Both chuckle ] [ Kisses ]
[ Doorbell buzzes ] [ Aram goes to door, looks through peephole ]
Pizza Delivery Boy: Nick’s Pizzas.
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[ Aram, Ressler, Samar and Cooper each receive an early morning pizza with a card attached to the inside of the cover reading: ]
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Red: Welcome to the past. This space is impregnable to every frequency of wireless transmission, including microwaves. Every piece of equipment you see is analog. Our sole concession to the digital revolution is a Ms. Pac-Man machine in the break room.
Cooper: But why?
Red: Because I like Ms. Pac-Man.
Cooper: No. Why this… museum?
[ Liz enters ]
Liz: We’ve been breached.
Cooper: Wait a minute. You two have been working together on this?
Liz: Yes. Our public disagreement was staged for Kirk’s benefit.
Aram: You think he’s got a tap into the Post Office?Red: I know it. René Le Bron’s death was proof.
Ressler: You sicced us on Le Bron as a test. You knew that if Kirk was listening and he heard that we were going after Le Bron, he’d try to get to him first.
Red: We set the bait. He took it.Cooper: A human sacrifice.
Red: I prefer the term “tethered goat.” Besides, Harold, the man was a degenerate, and his death denies pariah states access to ready cash, putting teeth back in the sanctions your country imposes with such tumescence. …
Liz: Our system. It’s been hacked.Aram: Impossible. We’ve got more firewalls than the NSA’s Utah Data Center. … It is a bit-banger’s nightmare. Unhackable.
Red: Which tells us exactly who the culprits are… The Thrushes, a crew that hacks the unhackable. …
Liz: … Their specialty is not only cracking systems, but doing so without leaving a trace of their intrusion. Last year… a top-secret nuclear fuel enrichment plant outside of Jaipur, India. Motor-speed variations destroyed 1,200 industrial centrifuges.
Samar: A colleague at the British Embassy was lead on that case. 38 people died, thousands were exposed to radiation, but they never found evidence of a hack.Red: … Harold, this presents a unique opportunity to feed Kirk disinformation. …Cooper: If we were to do this, I’d have to clear it with Panabaker. Samar, reach out to your contact at the embassy. …
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Cynthia Panabaker: Harold, you are one bubble off plumb if you think I’m gonna sit back while heaven knows how many horses run out of the barn.Cooper: It’s the best chance we have of apprehending Alexander Kirk.
Panabaker: This represents a five-alarm fire to national security. … Okay, Harold. Let them run out some line. But you best keep your thumb tight on the drag, or you’re like to find a bird’s nest on your reel. Understand?
Cooper: Not a word. Absolute gibberish.
Panabaker: Well, let me translate. Don’t screw up.
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[ In The Hunter’s cabin ]
[ Dog barking ] [ Kate Kaplan groans ] [ Chain rattles ]
[ Door opens ] [ Door closes ] [ The Hunter pulls up a chair to talk to Kate ]
Hunter: I been thinking. You and I, we, uh… We got a problem. … Way I see it, whoever shot you is gonna shoot somebody else and dump them where they dumped you and see you’re not there. … And I don’t like visitors …
Kate: [ Raspy whisper ] No one… is coming….
Hunter: Is that a fact?
Kate: I tried to kill myself. …
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Red: Any word from Kirk?Liz: You mean my father?
Red: Honestly, Elizabeth, it astounds me that you could be hornswoggled by something as simple to fabricate as a DNA profile.
Liz: Not just the DNA. It’s memories… Places I recognize, things we did together. A time capsule we buried in the
yard that no one else would know about.Red: Just because he was your mother’s husband doesn’t make him your father.
Liz: You know what you sound like? Desperate. Just a suspect caught in a lie.
Red: I have never lied to you.
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[ Liz receives a message to pick up a cell phone at a shoe repair shop, which she does ][ In Red’s Mercedes ]
Liz: There’s only one number saved. International prefix 40.[ Dialing ]
Red: Romania. No doubt untraceable.
[ Liz dials as Red listens in ]
[ Cellphone rings ]
[ Cellphone beeps ]
Kirk: Masha.
Liz: Tell me about Agnes.
Kirk: She’s healthy. She’s happy. Can’t wait to see her mother.
Liz: You could make that happen.
Kirk: I want to. But as long as you refuse to shield her from Reddington, I can’t.
Liz: I got your SVR file. Your DNA profile was in it. I know you’re my father.
Kirk: Then you know Reddington lied to you from the beginning.
Liz: Yes.
Kirk: There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be together.
Liz: What are you suggesting?
Kirk: A meeting. Just the two of us and Agnes.
Liz: That won’t be easy. Reddington has his goons guarding me 24/7.
Kirk: Because he doesn’t trust you. I’ll work something out, contact you.
Liz: [ Speaks Russian ]
Kirk: [ Speaks Russian ]
[ Hangs up ]
Red: You were very convincing.
Liz: That’s because I meant every word.
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[ Samar and her contact at the British Embassy are reviewing photos of the devastation caused by the computer virus at the top-secret nuclear fuel enrichment plant outside of Jaipur, India ]Security Expert: Our case file on Jaipur. Everything we have on The Thrushes… which is nothing. … The cheeky bastards actually debugged
the system before uploading the virus. Of that, of course, there wasn’t a trace. …38 murders that are impossible to solve.[ The security expert shows Samar photos of the dead ]
[ Samar notices that one of the photos is of Elise! – Aram’s new girlfriend ]
Samar: Unless only 37 were killed.
Security Expert: What do you mean?
Samar: This victim is not an engineer, and she is most certainly not dead.
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[ Cooper, Ressler and Samar are meeting in an interrogation room ]Ressler: I knew she was too hot for him.
Samar: When Aram finds out, he’s going to be crushed.
Ressler: Yeah, and then he’s gonna wear his heart on his sleeve, and his little girlfriend here is gonna know that we’re onto her.
Samar: We can’t keep this from him.
Cooper: That’s exactly what we’re gonna do. Our objective is to feed The Thrushes disinformation in order to draw out Kirk. …
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[ Aram appears, disheveled and distraught ]
Cooper: Aram.
Samar: Are you all right? What’s wrong?
Aram: Everything. Everything’s wrong. Sir, I did as you ordered and isolated all the malicious code. … But then… I realized the only way we could have been breached was through social engineering, or physical access with a Rubber Ducky.
Ressler: A what?
Aram: A keystroke injection attack platform disguised as a thumb drive. It would bypass all standard countermeasures by emulating a plug-in keyboard, reprogramming our host computer as if the hacker was manually typing in the code.
Cooper: Still, the culprit would have to plug in a thumb drive.
Aram: Yes. Someone had to dupe an FBI employee with level 4 clearance. I spent the last 18 hours [ trying ] to figure out who got punk’d so we could interview the employee and nail that hacker.
Samar: And it was you.
Aram: You knew.
[ Samar shows Aram the photos ]
Samar: She was a key player in the Jaipur centrifuge hack.
Aram: [ Voice breaking ] Why didn’t you tell… Oh, God.
Samar: We wanted to, but we thought if you knew, she might pick it up.
Ressler: Look, you didn’t tell her anything, did you?
Aram: No. I may be dumb, [ he sits down ] but I’m not stupid. I just don’t… I don’t know how I’m gonna pull this off.
Cooper: Pull what off?
Aram: She’s coming over to my place for dinner tonight.
Cooper: I don’t think that’s a good idea.
Aram: No. It is a horrible idea. But I have to if we’re gonna have any chance of accessing The Thrushes’ servers.
Cooper: What do you mean?
[ Aram pulls out a device that looks like a thumb drive ]
Aram: I’ve got my own Rubber Ducky.
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[ Samar and Aram are in a van preparing him to hack Elise’s laptop ] …[ Samar offers Aram a pistol ]
Samar: This is an LCR .357. It’s light, reliable…
Aram: No, no. What, am I gonna shoot my girlfriend?
Samar: She’s not your girlfriend. She’s a hostile operative, and you are a trained federal agent. I’m not sending you in there without a piece. Do you understand me?
Aram: I’m not like you. I’m really scared.
Samar: I know, but I promise you’ll be fine. I’ll have your back. No safety catch to worry about. You just draw, point, and shoot. … If anything goes wrong, the safety word is “banana.”
Aram: Banana?
Samar: Use it, and in come the Marines. But they better get there before I do because I will mess that bitch up.
Aram: Really?
Samar: Oh, yeah. Really.
Aram: Okay.
Samar: Good luck.
[ Samar kisses Aram’s cheek ]
[ Aram pauses ]
Aram: That dream date… The crispy beef, ginger beer… That was all you, wasn’t it? I knew it was too good to be true. …
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[ Dialing ]
[ Cellphone rings ]
Kirk: You’ve decided.
Liz: You abducted me once. What assurances do I have you won’t do it again?
Kirk: Things have changed. The DNA test.
Liz: I want this to be real.
Kirk: I’ll contact you with instructions.
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Elise: Aram, what’s, uh… What’s going on? You… You seem preoccupied.[ … Ressler and Samar listen in the van … ]
Elise: You never told me about your day.
Aram: Oh, you know, the usual. FBI stuff. You know, good guys, bad guys. Oh! They got Cheese
Nibs for the snack machine downstairs. So, so awesome.⋘⋙
Ressler: Cheese Nibs?
Samar: He’s doing fine.
Ressler: Sounds like a gerbil on meth.
⋘⋙Aram: I know, right? I love Cheese Nibs. I mean, I don’t love them as much as Goldfish…
Elise: Goldfish? …
Aram: …Oh, I forgot, I got wine.
Elise: You don’t drink.Aram: It is for you. …
[ Aram pops the cork but spills wine on his shirt ]
Aram: Oh, no. … I’m such a klutz.
Elise: [ Chuckling ] No, no, no, no. That’s what I love about you.Aram: You know what? Uh, just… just give me a… give me a second to go change.
[ Aram goes into the bedroom, pulls Elise’s laptop out of her bag and plugs in the Rubber Ducky. He covers the laptop with his wet shirt ]
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Samar: He’s uploading now.
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Elise: Aram? You okay?
[ Elise enters the bedroom ] …
[ Elise kisses Aram, pushes him back on the bed ]
Aram: No, uh… We… We shouldn’t. Um… Your sauce, I think it’s burning. …
Elise: Are you gonna tell me what’s going on?
Aram: I don’t want to cause a fire is all.
Elise: I know you, Aram. You’re lying to me. …
[ Elise’s cellphone is beeping ]
Elise: [ On phone ] What?
Odette: Do you have any reason to believe our tap has been compromised?
Elise: [ To Aram: ] One minute. It’s work.
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[ Elise goes into the hallway ]
Elise: No. Everything’s fine.
Odette: Are you quite certain? …
Elise: Fine. I’ll run another system check.
[ Elise looks for her laptop in her bag, but instead finds it under Aram’s shirt, with the Rubber Ducky plugged in ]
Elise: [ Gasps ]
[ Aram points his pistol at Elise ]
Aram: Quack, quack, bitch.
[ ‼️Aram and Elise fight over the gun, then just fight‼️ ]
Aram: Banana! I could use a banana!
[ ‼️Both grunting. Furniture and equipment getting smashed‼️ ]
Aram: Hey. Okay. Banana. Okay, okay, okay. Oh! Jesus! No!
[ Elise is on top of Aram, about to smash him in the head with a piece of wood ]
Ressler: Drop it!
[ Elise drops it ]
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[ Samar helps Aram up ]
Samar: Are you okay?
Aram: [ Panting ] Yeah. Yeah. What part of “banana” did you not understand?
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Samar: We have the target in custody. We have a tap on her computer, and, thanks to Aram, we will find The Thrushes. …
Tom: Liz. We got word from Kirk. He texted the burner phone.
Liz: [ Sighs ] The meeting’s set. 5:30 a.m.
Cooper: Manhattan. BMT Nassau Street Line. Delancey Street and Bowery. Of course. That station’s been abandoned for years.Ressler: I’ll call FBI S.W.A.T. New York.
Red: I’ll be handling Kirk on my own, Harold.
Cooper: If you expect us to stand down…
Red: I do. If you expect this relationship to continue.
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Tom: You sure about this?
Liz: No. I’m not sure about any of this.
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[ The Hunter’s cabin. Door closes ]
Hunter: You lied to me. …
[ The Hunter shows Kate photos taken in the forest of Red, Dembe and Kate ]
Hunter: Motion-activated. Three come in. Two go out. Are you gonna get straight with me, or we gonna keep playing games?
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[ Cellphone ringing ] …Kirk: Masha.
Liz: It’s off. We can’t meet. It’s not safe.
Kirk: No, no, no. I-I secured the location. You have my word you’ll be safe.
Liz: The FBI knows about your mole. They’ve got her in custody. … They know about our meeting… The time, the location. I’m telling you, it’s a trap. …
Kirk: Doesn’t matter. I have an alternate location. …
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[ On a rooftop in Manhattan, high above street level, Freedom Tower in view ]Liz: Where’s Agnes?
Kirk: Masha.
Liz: You said three of us. Where is she?
Kirk: Close. I’ll bring her to you as soon as Reddington has been dealt with.
Liz: What are you talking about?
Kirk: Smile, solnishko. In less than 5 minutes, he will be dead. I have a small army awaiting his arrival at the Delancey Street Station.
Liz: That wasn’t our agreement.
Kirk: No. But you know as well as I do, it needs to be done. …
Liz: We had a deal.Kirk: Patience, dove.
[ Liz draws her firearm, cocks it ]Kirk: [ Calls out ] Romina.
[ Romina emerges with Agnes, who hands the baby to Kirk ]
Liz: [ Gasps ] You’ll see, solnishko. Soon, you will be free.
[ Just then, Red’s forces attack 💥💥💥 ]
Liz: Don’t shoot! He’s got Agnes!
[ 💥💥💥 Gunshots 💥💥💥 ] [ Kirk runs around a corner, out of sight ]
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[ Liz runs toward the sound of Agnes crying. Red and Baz follow ][ They find Kirk standing on a ledge – still holding Agnes ]
Kirk: Don’t! You may lack the courage to do what must be done, but I do not. I will take her with me. One way or the other.
Red: This is madness, Constantin. Because you cannot have that child, you’re gonna take her forever from her mother? It’s madness. Constantin, this needs to end now.Kirk: Yes. You’re right. It needs to end. …
Liz: [ Speaks Russian ] Don’t do this.
Kirk: There is no other way, solnishko. This man, that took your mother away from us, took you from me, he will not have my granddaughter.
Liz: And I hate him as much as you do for it. But if you love me, if you ever loved me, just give her to me. Please. Otets. Please, father.[ Liz reaches up her arms, imploring. At last, Kirk lets his gun clatter to the concrete, leans over and lets Liz take her child ]
[ Liz gasps, takes Agnes from Kirk, holds her close and hurries away ]
[ Kirk is captured as Red looks on ]
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Samar: … You did a pretty good job in there playing the “I’m in love with another woman” card. Nicely done. … I thought you’d like to know that I’m rescinding my transfer request.Aram: That’s… That’s great. I mean, for real? Because if that’s true, we have to celebrate, right?
Samar: Do you like Paco’s Tacos? Because I was told that there was some leftovers upstairs in the fridge.
Aram: I love them.
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[ Red appears at Liz and Tom’s apartment ] [ Liz opens the door ]Red: I just wanted to thank you for trusting me, trusting the plan. I understand what a… a leap of faith it must have been.
Liz: Not really. Considering what was at stake.
Red: May I? [ Asking permission to enter ][ Door closes ]
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[ Red, Tom and Liz admire the baby who is bright-eyed and curious ]
Red: She’s a beautiful girl.
Liz: Yeah, she is.
Liz: So… now that Kirk has been captured, we’re no longer gonna live under your guard. We’re gonna find a place of our own.
Red: I know. Good night, Elizabeth, Tom.
[ Red turns and leaves ]
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[ Kirk is walked through the darkened Post Office by armed guards to the high value prisoner containment unit – the notorious ‘red box’ ]
[ Alarm blaring ] [ Clanging, banging ]
[ Alexander Kirk sits down on the chair in the red box as the door closes ]
[ Clanging. The door ‼️thwams‼️ shut ]
[ A guard locks the door ]
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Blurb: Red has identified a doctor who is treating Alexander Kirk aka Constantin Rostov. Kirk has been persuaded that his sole chance for survival is a bone marrow transplant from baby Agnes, a procedure that puts the infant in grave danger. Liz presents Red with a DNA report. Kate has discovered that the kind hunter who saved her life is now keeping her captive.
[ Silas Gouldsberry arrives late to work ]
Silas’ Boss: Honest to God, third time this month? My fifth grader’s more punctual than you.… And dust off your shoulders. You got dandruff everywhere.
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Tom: There’s got to be something I can do.…
Ressler: Look, we’re doing everything that we can. You got to understand that.
Tom: I do, and I appreciate it, but there’s got to be a lead that I can run down.…
Ressler: [ Sighs ] The Kremlin hates Kirk just as much as we do. I reached out to the DC Station Chief to take a look at their intel. Got a big fat nyet. Look, you want to revisit that dead end, be my guest. Maybe your, uh… methods will be a bit more persuasive.
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[ In a church ] [ Organ music playing ]
Brimley: [ To Red ] The doctor has been baptized and is ready to make his confession. I’m getting hitched on the 16th. Wee Chapel of the Casino. Extend the invite to Mr. Kaplan.༺ ♤ ༻
[ Dr Sebastian Reifler is sitting in a tub of water ]
Red: As Alexander Kirk’s hematologist, I assume you oversee his transfusions.… I want to know how it works– where you meet, with whom, and when.
Dr Reifler: Please. He’s a sick man.
Red: Perhaps another go with the candiru fish. I understand they burrow into the most impossible nooks and crannies.
Reifler: All right, I– I give him blood transfusions once a month. And, uh… weekly erythropoietin injections.
Red: When did you last see him?
Reifler: I– Six days ago.
Red: Then you’ll be seeing him within the next 24 hours. Where?
Reifler: …I don’t know until they call me with the next location.…
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[ Liz arrives at the church ]Liz: Let me guess. You and the pastor are dear friends.
Red: Never met the man. I am, however, a benefactor for the artists they hired to lead the restoration. As luck would have it, sprucing up the old apse hole will take months.
Liz: You’re squatting in a church.
Red: I usually have a devil of a time getting to sleep, but here I sleep like a babe in the manger.
Liz: Did you get Kirk’s doctor?
Red: Yes, and he’s going to lead me to Kirk.
Liz: I want to be there when he does.
Red: The Lindquist Concern–
Liz: Don’t change the subject.Red: I’m not. The doctor gets us Kirk. The Lindquist Concern gets Kirk to give us Agnes.
Liz: Why? Who are they?
Red: A group that corporations pay to suppress inventions that would undercut them if brought to market.… When they can’t kill the invention, they have the Lindquist Concern kill the inventor.…
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[ Samar is briefing the task force ]
Samar: Ian Pugachevsky worked on a cold-fusion device in his basement for 20 years.… He vanished while hiking in the Sierras. Karen Rose… developed an alternative to opiate-based painkillers that was just as strong, non-addictive, and had fewer side effects. …She died of an apparent overdose. According to Reddington, these people were murdered, their ideas suppressed, and their research never found.…
Cooper: Who is the most recent?
Samar: Omar Najjar.…
Cooper: Start there.… I want to know what revolutionary technology they got their hands on.
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Theo: …The guy was smart, and recently super excited. He’d had some kind of breakthrough.Ressler: On what?
Theo: I don’t know. Wasn’t anything he was doing here. We all have IP clauses in our contracts that allow us to pursue projects outside the company.[ A young woman enters ]
Lydia: Theo, these need your signature.
Samar: Excuse me. Omar Najjar– did you know him?
Lydia: Not really. I-I wish I could help. Sorry to interrupt.…
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[ Mona Najjar, Omar’s wife, is holding a photo of him and crying ] [ She hears noise from the basement and descends the stairs ]Mona: Somebody down here?
[ Printer whirring ] [ A sheet of paper comes off the printer. She glances at it: ” … my life. I can’t go on … … must end my life … ”
[ Silas grabs her from behind ] [ Mona screams ]
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Ressler: [ Reads out loud from suicide note: ] “My husband, Omar, was my life. I can’t go on without him. To end this pain, I must end my life. Please understand, suicide was my only option. – Mona Najjar” …Samar: And look at this. Fun summer reading?
[ Samar opens a large volume. A strip of photos from a photo booth is inside. It shows Omar and Lydia together, hugging and laughing ]
Samar: Hidden inside– Omar and one of the co-workers that I spoke with.
Ressler: What about it?
Samar: She said she didn’t know him.
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[ Red and Dembe are seated in a pew in the church ] [ Dembe’s head is bowed ]Dembe: It won’t come.
Red: What?
Dembe: Forgiveness. For Kate. For what I did.
Red: You did nothing.
Dembe: Exactly.…
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… [ Cellphone beeps ]
Dr Reifler: Hello? Yes. I understand. Go ahead. [ Writing ] Tell Mr. Kirk I’ll be there. Goodbye.
[ Cellphone beeps ] [ Red looks at the slip of paper ]
Red: Dembe, please inform Edward we’re going to Geneva.…
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Lydia: …I wasn’t involved in Omar’s murder. I was involved with him.… Nobody at work knew about us or about what he was working on.
Samar: Which was?
Lydia: A desalination process. 600 million people don’t have access to clean water, and Omar invented a way to extract it from seawater that’s efficient and cheap.…Samar: Who else did Omar talk to about this?
Lydia: No one… until last weekend. He met this amazing guy. He knew everything about bringing an idea to market.…
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Riley Emerson: Magnesium is more abundant, less reactive… and cheaper to produce than lithium.…Silas: Hold on. This doesn’t say “patent pending.” You’re not pitching your invention without intellectual property protection?
Riley: Oh, no. I mean… yeah, I was. I know, I’m a huge moron, right?
Silas: Well, not if your idea sucks. If it’s brilliant, then, yeah, you’re a moron. Find good patent counsel. VCs won’t invest unless they know your technology’s protected.Riley: Then protect me. You’re an attorney, right? …
Silas: What’s your name?
Riley: Riley Emerson.
Silas: You have a working prototype, Riley Emerson?
Riley: Like you said, show no one until it’s patented.
Silas: [ Gives her his card ] Let me know if you want me to take a look. Maybe I can file the patent application pro bono.…
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[ Vasily Komarov is sitting at a table in a park ] [ Tom sits down across from him ]
Vasily: What is this? Who are you?
Tom: Who I am doesn’t matter, Vasily. What matters is that you’re passing state secrets to the FBI through Annabelle Dixon.…
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[ Silas’ apartment. On a long table are arranged the files of his past and future victims. Each pile has a separate cellphone on top. Silas is at his desk, using a syringe to inject poison into bottles of champaign ]
[ Cellphone ringing ]
Silas: Hello?
Riley: Mr. Wellington? Hey. This is Riley Emerson. We met in Boston.Silas: Riley! Funny, I was just talking about you with my managing partner.
Riley: About whether I was brilliant or a moron?
Silas: About your idea. We think it’s very interesting. We’d like to talk about helping you out.
Riley: Oh, my God. That’s so great. Do you want to get together, let me show you the prototype?Silas: I’d like nothing more.
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Ressler: Law firm checks out. Seems like Lindquist agents assume the identities of patent experts to lure inventors into revealing their ideas and their research.
Cooper: Cell number on the business card. Where are we on that? …
Aram: I found… this burner phone, and I had the cell carrier triangulate its location to this apartment building in Oak Hill.… Our suspect’s name is… Silas Gouldsberry.
Cooper: And how do you know that?Aram: He is the only tenant who works for the US Patent Office.
Cooper: Get there now.
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[ Cellphone ringing ] [ Cellphone beeps ]Samar: Navabi.
Elise: Samar? Hi. Uh, I hope this isn’t weird, me calling you. Uh, my name is Elise. I’m a friend of Aram’s, and–
Samar: Elise. Hello.… Is there something I can help you with?
Elise: From what I can tell, you know him so well, and point is, why I called, Aram, uh, his perfect date– what would that be?
Samar: Is that why you’re calling me? For dating advice?
Elise: Yeah, I mean, you’re his best friend.… I– want to give him a night he’ll never forget. How would you do that?
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[ In Red’s jet, on the way to Geneva ]Liz: Reifler admires Kirk, says he’s a good man.
Red: He shouldn’t. And he’s not.
Liz: I’m in the middle. Between you and Kirk, between Tom and Kirk. Can you at least admit how difficult that is?
Red: No. It’s only difficult if you accept the premise that Kirk is your father. I don’t.
Liz: At the church, what was Dembe praying for?
Red: Salvation… that will never come.
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[ Ressler leads a raid on Silas’ apartment ]Ressler: FBI! Federal agents!
Man: Kitchen’s clear. Bathroom’s clear. Bedroom’s clear. Down that hall.
Ressler: Some kind of a directory of registered patent attorneys and patent agents. He’s got half a dozen doctored IDs with matching business cards– patent agents, angel investor, patent attorney.… What’s that?Samar: His next victim.
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Riley: A magnesium battery is the holy grail of energy storage. Everyone and their mother is working on one. But no one could find a magnesium-friendly electrolyte.…
Silas: [ Chuckles ] And you, all of 24, have cracked it. That is pretty young to be a billionaire.… I am gonna file for expedited status on the patent application. Now, anyone who knows anything about this is gonna have to sign a nondisclosure, and that includes me.
Riley: I haven’t really had anyone else to tell.
[ Silas pours champaign. Riley drinks ]
Riley: You know, you’re the first person to ever really believe in me. Thank– [ Coughing ]
Silas: You okay there?
Riley: Yeah. No, I’m getting sick– [ Coughing ]
Silas: I don’t think you are.
[ Gasping ] [ Silas starts car engine ]
Silas: So stupid. You should never use a car engine to power anything in a garage with no ventilation.
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[ Ressler and Samar’s vehicle approaches ] [ Tires screech ] [ Silas runs off ]
Samar: There’s a car running.
[ Samar discovers Riley in the garage coughing and breathing heavily ]
Samar: Ressler! [ To Riley: ] It’s okay. [ Shouts: ] Ressler! …
[ Ressler enters garage ]
Samar: The car.
[ Ressler shuts off the engine ]
Ressler: [ Calls ] I need an ambulance, 310 North View Drive.
[ Samar is giving Riley CPR ]
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Red: During World War II, the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants smuggled Jewish children out of France to Switzerland. This was one of their staging areas. Now it’s mine.
[ Guns clicking ]
Liz: Are you planning an extraction or a land war in Asia?
Red: My plan is to make contact with you as soon as Alexander Kirk is in my possession.Liz: What do you mean? I’m going with you.Red: Given your conflicted feelings for Kirk, I believe that would be unwise.… As you said, you’re in the middle. Given our mission, that’s not a point of view we can indulge.
Liz: I’m not going anywhere.
Red: My point exactly.
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[ At the Patent Office ]
Samar: I have a subpoena here for Silas Gouldsberry’s phone, computer, and employment records. And I need you to revoke his employee access card.
HR manager: I can revoke the card, but it won’t do you much good.
Samar: Why is that?
HR manager: He’s in the building.…
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[ A security guard recognizes Silas ]
Guard: [ On phone ] I have a visual– basement, sector 5. Sir–
[ Silas shoots the guard 💥 ] [ People screaming ]
[ Card reader beeps ] [ Silas enters server room. His boss is there ]
Silas’ Boss: Hey, buttercup. Glad you could make it. Now we–
[ Silas shoots him 💥 ] [ People screaming ] [ Silas shoots at ceiling 💥💥💥 ]
Silas: Everyone on the ground!
Samar: [ To a second guard ] What’s on the other side of that glass?
Guard: Server room.
Samar: Call for backup.
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[ Silas gets on the computer and begins transferring files ]
Samar: Silas Gouldsberry? FBI.… Let me help you.
Silas: I don’t need your help.
Samar: Sure, you do. What do you want?
Silas: I want money. $20 million in unmarked bills.… In 30 minutes, or I start shooting the hostages.
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[ At the garage where Red’s sting is taking place ]
[ Rapid gunfire 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 ]
[ Red, Dembe and Reifler enter ]
Red: As requested, Doctor, your medical team, safe and sound. Bravo.
[ Cellphone ringing ]
Kirk: [ On phone ] Dr. Reifler?
Dr. Reifler: Yes, Alexander.
Kirk: I’m here. We just passed Rue du Clos. We’ll be right there.
Reifler: Very good. [ Cellphone beeps ] He’s five minutes out.
Red: In five.…
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Liz: [ On phone ] We found Kirk. He’s in Geneva.…
Tom: What do you mean Geneva?Liz: That’s where Kirk’s meeting his doctor. He’s headed there now.
Tom: No, he’s not. He’s in Russia.
Liz: What are you talking about?
Tom: The lead Ressler gave me. It panned out. I got the SVR file on Kirk. They had actionable intel–Liz: That Kirk’s in Russia?
Tom: This morning. They raided a safe house, but he was gone.
Liz: I need to call you back.
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[ A car enters the garage; Red and Dembe approach ] [ Dembe’s cellphone rings ]
Liz: Put him on.
Dembe: [ To Red ] Elizabeth.
Liz: Tell him it’s a trap. You’re walking into a trap.
Dembe: [ To Red ] She says this is a setup.
[ Red and Dembe pause and Red takes a few steps back. Red takes the phone, flips it shut and hands it back to Dembe ]
[ 💥🔥💥Explosion 💥🔥💥 ]
[ Red and Dembe are thrown back by the force of the explosion ]
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Cooper: Laurel, now is not a good time.Laurel Hitchin: Yeah, I know. That’s why I’m here. The patent office– I want an update.
Cooper: 20 hostages– 1 wounded, 1 dead– barricaded into a server room. The demand is $20 million. We have 22 minutes before he starts shooting again.
Hitchin: And the inventions, the ones he kills for, where are they?
Cooper: How do you know about that?
Laurel: I’m the National Security Advisor, Harold. It’s my job to know about anything that impacts national security.…
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[ Red, Dembe and Dr Reifler survived the blast with only minor cuts ]
Red: How did he know? How did Kirk know?
Dr Reifler: I don’t know. It wasn’t me, okay? I-I was with you the whole time.
Red: Attend to my men.
[ Cellphone ringing. Dembe holds out phone for Red ]
Dembe: Raymond.
[ Cellphone beeps ]
Red: Yeah.Liz: What happened? Is everyone okay?
Red: No. Men are dead, others gravely injured… because someone warned Kirk.
Liz: You don’t think… I called to warn you.
Red: I know that.
Liz: You don’t sound convinced.
Red: We’re at cross purposes, Elizabeth. Not about Agnes.… But about Kirk– about who he is and what he wants– we’re… at odds.…
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Silas: …Where’s my money?
Samar: I’m working on it, but that amount of money takes time.…
Silas: You ever invented anything? You ever experience that moment of discovery? It’s a revelation.
Samar: And the man you shot?
Silas: Will never know what that feels like. But I do. I’ve come up with an idea that doesn’t need a patent. An idea that is going to change the world.
Samar: I don’t see anything world-altering about what you’re doing, Silas.
Silas: Oh, you will do. In 19 minutes.
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Cooper: What are we looking at?Aram: I’ve got access to the Patent Office’s server’s infrastructure, and… someone is uploading data. Like– like, a ton of it.
Hitchin: …Can you see what’s being uploaded?
Aram: Uh, no, but I can– I can see how long it’s gonna take. Another 14 minutes– same timetable he gave Agent Navabi to get the money.…
Hitchin: So, the demand is a smokescreen.…
Cooper: Aram, if he had enough schematics, could uploading them possibly take this long?
Aram: Sure, maybe, but if he did that, then they’d become available… to the many at the expense of the few. He’s open-sourcing them.Cooper: Is HRT in place?
Aram: Yes.
Hitchin: Send it in now.
Cooper: If I do that, hostages will die.
Hitchin: If you don’t, national security will be compromised.
Cooper: We can’t be sure of that.
Hitchin: Harold, the ideas he has are revolutionary, right– in medicine and in energy, and, for all you know, in computers and next-gen weaponry. You really want to open-source that to Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea?Cooper: What I want is to let this play out for another 13 minutes, see if it can be resolved without a bloodbath.
Hitchin: That’s not a risk I’m willing to take. Send in the breach order or I will.
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Silas: I was 23 when I sold my first invention– was gonna be a star. Company that bought it, they had a plan. We were gonna save lives and change the world. Three weeks after signing it over, they killed it, shelved my idea for the sake of their bottom line.…
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Ressler: Teams in position?
HRT man: Perimeters are set. We enter from the south on your ready.
Silas: People start out with a pure idea. It gets corrupted. So that’s why I came to work here, so I could be exposed to breakthrough technologies and prevent them falling victim to corporate greed. You think I’m trying to suppress inventions? I’m doing the exact opposite. That’s my great idea. I’m gonna set them free.…
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Hitchin: Call in the order, Harold, or that countdown represents what’s left of your career.Cooper: I’m not sending my men in guns blazing.
Aram: Sir, I think I have another way.
Ressler: [ Has been listening in ] Fire-suppression system?
Aram: Yes, if you manually set it off, the safety override should automatically open the doors. You should be able to access the system from a utility module in the fire panel.… There should be a circuit board on the lower right corner.
Samar: Aram, what the hell is going on? …
Ressler: All right, I found the circuit board. What do I do?
Aram: Agent Navabi. We’re gonna kill the power to the fire system. Doing so will release a fire-suppression agent. It’s an inert gas, so it’s safe, but you might have a problem with …
Ressler: Aram!
Aram: Oh! Uh, the plug with two red wires just below the green blinking light, pull that– pull it now!
Samar: A problem with what, Aram?
Aram: … Visibility.
[ Alarm wailing ] [ Gas fills the server room ] [ Screaming ]
[ Samar and Silas have weapons drawn ]
Samar: Drop it!
[ Gunshot 💥 ] [ Silas falls ]
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Aram: [ To Samar ] Okay, don’t pull out the flash drive. To corrupt the entire zipped file, hit “Abort” …
Samar: Yes!
Ressler: Phew.
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[ Door opens ]Liz: We didn’t get Agnes.
Tom: I know. I talked to Ressler. This, um, SVR report, when I talked to you earlier, I hadn’t finished reading it.
Liz: Did you find something about Agnes?
Tom: No.
Liz: Then what difference does it make?
Tom: It’s about you. And your father.
Liz: What’s this?
Tom: It’s a DNA report.
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[ Ressler and Samar enter Cooper’s office ]Cooper: Here they are.
Hitchin: Hey, you did great work today.
Ressler: [ To Cooper ] What’s she doing here?
Cooper: You have the data file?
[ Samar gives him the flash drive ]
Samar: I wish I could meet all the people who dreamed up what’s on here. Every one of them killed for no other reason than the power of their imagination.
[ Cooper gives the flash drive to Hitchin ]
Ressler: You know who she is and you’re gonna give her that?
Hitchin: Yes, Agent Ressler, he does. But apparently you’ve forgotten. “She” is your boss’s boss’s boss’s boss.
Ressler: Well, my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss is a killer. See, I know you murdered Reven Wright, and one day, I’m gonna prove it.
Hitchin: Harold, I’ll give the President your regards. [ To Ressler: ] Excuse me. Thank you.
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[ In Red’s Mercedes ]Hitchin: You sure that’s the only invention you’re interested in?
Red: Yes.
Hitchin: ‘Cause I’ve seen the rest and they’re incredible.
Red: Mm. Good afternoon, Laurel.
Hitchin: All right.
Red: Per our agreement, no friends and family discount. Our compatriots on the Cabal pay full market value. My cut is 50%. That sounds greedy – 45%.
[ Door closes ]
Odette: [ To Kirk ] Our asset made contact. Reddington survived.
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Ressler: Seen Aram? I need his report.Samar: He left early.
Ressler: Right. Date night. Did she order takeout from Pacos Tacos?
Samar: Oh, yeah, and a ginger beer and crispy beef from Ho Kow… and chicken from that disgusting Italian place he likes.…
Ressler: [ Chuckles ] She’s really working it.Samar: If he likes her, I’m happy for him… but there’s something about her that bugs me.
Ressler: Yeah, it’s terrible. She’s actually nice to him. I mean, personally, I hate it when cute girls buy me crispy beef.
Samar: She may be cute, but trust me, she’ll age badly.…
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[ Red is seated, having dinner alone and drinking wine. Liz walks in. She is angry ]Liz: You lied to me about everything.
Red: May I pour you a glass of this delicious Aglianico?
[ Liz hands Red a sheet of paper ]
Red: What’s this?
Liz: A DNA report. Proof that Alexander Kirk is my father. You told me my father was dead, that I killed him. Everything you’ve said from the start, from thevery beginning… all lies.[ Liz scoffs. She takes the report back and stomps out ]
[ Red’s left eye twitches ]
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🔴 Script 4:4 Gaia (№ 81)
Blurb: Liz has learned from Katarina’s journal that her mother had been “assigned” to Red by the KGB but instead had fallen in love with him. She also learned that the reason Kirk has searched for her is that he needs her to save him from a deadly form of hereditary anemia passed only from father to son. Now Agnes may provide him with what he needs.
Kirk/Rostov: [ On Liz’s computer screen ] Hello, Masha. I know it’s late, but I wanted to speak to you alone.
Liz: Where is she? … Where’s my daughter?!
Kirk: Right here, safe.
Baby Agnes: (COOING) (CRYING)
Liz: If you so much as… If you hurt her… I know the truth. The only reason you came for me… the only reason you want Agnes is because what’s killing you, it’s a genetic disease, and you think we can cure you, that our blood can…
Kirk: Yes, the blood is what I need, but it’s not what I want. What I want is for us to be together … Only you can make that happen. I want you to know that your baby is safe. This link is open day or night any time you want to see Agnes.
(COOING)
Liz: Hi, baby.
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Tom: What do you mean, you don’t want to trace the link?Liz: You don’t think he’s thought of that? The second he discovers we traced it, he’ll take it away, take her away.
Tom: Liz, the only way we’re gonna get her is by finding where that link is coming from.
Liz: I don’t think he’ll hurt her.
Tom: Of course he will. She’s his last chance of survival.… Liz, I think you’re being naive.
Liz: I know you think that. And I’m asking you to trust me.
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Liz: Dembe said you had a lead on Agnes.
Red: Some years ago, I had a rather awkward encounter with a bull shark while diving off the Great Barrier Reef. I actually think it was trying to be affectionate, even a little forward. (LAUGHS) But the net result was excruciating. But I did spend a glorious month submitting to the healing hands of an utterly divine lighthouse keeper on Bramble Cay… a low-lying island that’s rapidly being submerged by rise in the sea levels due to climate change.
Liz: Climate change?
Red: Our next blacklister is devoted to protecting the Earth from the greatest threat to its existence as we know it… us. He’s a stealth eco-terrorist known only as Gaia… Earth Mother in Greek mythology.… We must find this man… unless you have a better lead on Kirk. Has he reached out to you?
Liz: No, he hasn’t.
Red: Gaia then.
Liz: A stealth eco-terrorist? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Red: Nine times out of 10, the public reacts to an act of eco-terror by getting angry at the terrorist rather than the environmental offense he seeks to draw attention to. By disguising his sabotage in accidents, Gaia succeeds in focusing the public’s rage on the actual danger, not the criminal who exposes it.
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[ Liz debriefs the task force ]
Liz: 2011, 10,000 gallons of MCHM, a toxic chemical used to wash coal, was leaked from the Fullerton Chemical Plant.… A few hundred people were poisoned, including two children and three elderly victims who later died. Environmentalists had warned of the danger of a spill for years, but no one listened until this leak, and then the EPA finally mandated changes.
Aram: So it worked. In Gaia’s mind, he protected people.
Ressler: Yeah, well, tell that to the parents who lost their kids.…
Cooper: I want this guy found. Go over every detail of that spill. If it was sabotage, Gaia left a trail. Find it.
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[ On site at the Fullerton Chemical Plant, going through evidence from the chemical spill ]
Ressler: Googled Aram’s new girlfriend.
Samar: Why?
Ressler: Why do guys do anything? To see if she was hot, which she is.
[ Man pushes in cart with additional boxes of evidence ]Ressler: I thought we had everything.
Man: … These are from the internal investigation. I told you folks you’re wasting your time. That spill was an accident. Two days before the leak, a veteran DEP inspector looked over the storage tanks. He didn’t see anything wrong, and neither did the other guy about two weeks earlier.Ressler: What other guy? I just looked at the list of scheduled inspections, and there was only one in the month prior.
Man: Scheduled, yeah, but we get spot inspections from time to time.
Ressler: We’re gonna need to see everything you have on that spot inspector… now.
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[ At a gas station coffee self-service table ]Gaia: Borron Energy Services. That’s fracking, right? That’s bad stuff, man… fracking. Messing up the water table.…
Field Inspector: You want to know what’s in your sweetener? The chemicals in that creamer?
[ Gaia drops a pill in the Field Inspector’s coffee ]Field Inspector: Everything’s killing us. So spare me the guilt trip… and the righteous lecture. I earn my living… same as you.
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[ Gaia follows the Field Inspector out to his truck ]
(CHOKING) (BREATHING HEAVILY)
Gaia: You were right… The world is just filled with things that are gonna kill us.
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[ Kate is lying on a bed in a rough cabin, a ragged bandage on her right cheek. The right side of her face is matted with blood ][ A grizzled old man – the Hunter – enters with his dog ]
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Aram: Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a suspect.… I got surveillance video from three of the facilities on this particular spot inspector.
Liz: That’s our guy.
Cooper: Alert the DHS and circulate the photo. Put a name to that face.
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Kirk: Six months?Dr. Reifler: Maybe. Maybe less. But we both knew this day was coming. Your body would start rejecting the transfusions. It’s remarkable it’s lasted this long.
Odette: There is a solution.
Kirk: We’ve already discussed this.
Dr. Reifler: It’s unacceptable.Odette: Easy for you to say. You’re not the one that’s gonna die.
Kirk: No, I am, and I agree with Sebastian.
Odette: The girl is your only option.…
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Liz: I think we’ve got something. We put out a general alert to all government and private facilities… oil and gas, chemical plants.… A gas pipeline inspector in Newark was found dead in his car this morning. Heart attack.
Samar: Could be a coincidence.
Liz: Maybe, but he had an appointment to evaluate a gas pipeline in Westchester County.…
Cooper: Ressler, Navabi, get there. Keen, call the plant manager and the county sheriff. See if they can evacuate the area without tipping off Gaia that we’re on our way.
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Samar: Agents Navabi and Ressler. Where is he?
Plant Security: Sector 7. Said he had to check the pressure gauges.[ Ressler and Samar search the area. Gaia takes off running ]
Ressler: Stop! Federal agent!
[ Gaia jumps into his truck, guns it. Ressler and Samar follow in pursuit. Ahead are two police cruisers. Gaia slams on his brakes and tries to reverse, but Ressler’s car blocks the way ]
Officer: Get out of the vehicle!
[ Gaia hits the gas, smashes through the police cars and is gone ]
Ressler: Damn it.
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[ At a laundromat ]Krantz: Long time, Martell… or whatever you’re calling yourself now.
Tom: Martell will be fine.…
Krantz: So, what’s on your mind, Martell?
Tom: I got a job for you and your crew… digital trace… break-in.
Krantz: I’m all ears.
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Aram: The pipeline targeted by Gaia carries fracked gas… a process that environmentalists oppose.
Samar: Why? Because fracking creates jobs and energy independence?
Aram: Maybe. Or maybe because of this. San Bruno, 2010. A ruptured natural-gas pipeline caused a 72-foot-long crater and killed 8 people. Last year in Allentown, another one exploded underneath a city street, killing five.Cooper: So it fits the M.O. He was gonna cause an accident to provoke public outrage.
Liz: Yeah, but how? We didn’t find any explosives. What was he doing?Aram: Research. Look at where Gaia’s tools and fake I.D. badge were found… the spot of the highest gas pressure.… I had an expert over at PHMSA do a blast-radius projection just to see what kind of damage an explosion at this spot would cause. In an urban area like this, we’re talking hundreds of homes, schools, a city hospital… and this… Stone Park, the largest nuclear power plant on the eastern seaboard of the United States.
Cooper: Where are we on the fake I.D. badge you recovered?
Liz: Nowhere. But Reddington says he’s got a guy who might be able to help.
Cooper: Reddington’s guy. Who is he?
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[ Bowling alley ] (PINS CLATTER)
Red: I have a job for you, Glen.
Glen: News flash… I’m off the clock, Reddington.Red: It’s a matter of some urgency.
Glen: No, it’s a matter of some me time, boundaries, work-life balance, the pause that refreshes.
Red: We need to know who made this I.D.
Dembe: [ To Glen ] Your release point is off.
Glen: Yeah, but I’m a charming conversationalist, so the ladies don’t mind.
Dembe: Keep your elbows in.
Red: Some haste would be appreciated. A child’s life is in the balance.
Glen: Hologram. RFID chip. Ji Ming’s your man.…Glen: [ On phone ] Ji Ming? Jellybean here.
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(Glen and Ji Ming are SPEAKING MANDARIN)
Red: All I need is an address, Glen.
(SPEAKING MANDARIN)
Red: Glen, an address.
Glen: Hey, I don’t see you jumping in here, pal. I’m doing the best I can. A night course in Mandarin doesn’t get you much past reading the menu and “Hey, honey, your caboose looks tasty in those slacks.” …(Red: He’s already given you the address, hasn’t he?
Glen: Yeah, but it’s a little off the grid. (CLEARS THROAT) I’d ditch the wingtips.
Red: Dembe, call Elizabeth.
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[ Red and Liz are at Gaia’s place. They enter Gaia’s living quarters ]
Red: What do you see?
Liz: Um… he’s withdrawn, a loner, and yet he’s committed to making the world a cleaner place. Photo of a pregnant woman. But no child. Maybe the child was taken or… or died.
Red: We’re going to get her back, Lizzy.
Liz: Tidal charts for the Hudson.
Red: Stone Park is on the Hudson.
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[ Gaia barges into his ex-wife Maya’s home. A child [ age 2 or 3 ] is sitting in a stroller, facing away ]Maya: If you don’t leave, I’m gonna call the police!
Gaia: The only reason I’m here is because you didn’t return my calls. It’s not safe.…
Maya: What are you planning?Gaia: You need to leave the state.
[ Gaia goes to his son, Skyler. The right side of Skyler’s face and head are horribly disfigured ]
Gaia: Hey, Sky. How’s my little man? You’re going on a car trip with Mommy.… Won’t that be nice? [ To Maya: ] You need to get on the road now.
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[ Inside the Hunter’s rustic cabin ]
Hunter: [ Kindly ] Hey, there. Hmm. What happened out there, young lady? You’re not dressed for the woods. Can you talk? That’s all right. You don’t need to say nothing. We’re gonna get you fed. Build your strength up. Plenty of time to talk later.
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[ Liz is watching Agnes on the video feed ]
(COOING) (DIALING)
Tom: [ On phone ] Hey.
Liz: I’m looking at our little girl. It’s almost like a baby monitor, like she’s in the next room.… Everything’s gonna be all right, Liz. Blow her a kiss for me.…
[ But Tom is already at Kirk’s place, outside, with Krantz and a team of men ] …
Tom: Your guys are sure about this?
Krantz: They traced the server. This island, that house. Your baby’s inside. Let’s do it.
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Kirk: [ To Liz, over video ] I’m disappointed in you.Liz: But wait. Don’t…
Kirk: I thought we had an understanding.
Liz: About what? What are you talking about?
Kirk: You traced this feed.… I’m sorry, Masha.
Liz: No, I told Tom. I specifically said…
[ Kirk shuts off the video feed ]
Liz: No! Please bring her back! I’m begging you! Bring her back!
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The Hunter: You got a lot of grit for such a little girl.… Hunter: You hungry? You understand me? Can you nod?[ Kate nods slightly ]
Hunter: That’s good. (CHUCKLES) You in some kind of trouble, sweetheart?
[ Kate moves her head back and forth, painfully ]
Hunter: The men that did this… …they, uh, coming back for you?
[ Kate shakes her head ‘no’ ]
[ The Hunter feeds Kate some soup from a spoon ] …
Hunter: What is it? What are you trying to say?
Kate: [ Weakly ] Thank you.
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[ Liz is trying to reach Tom ]
Tom: [ On recording ] Hey, I’m not here right now. Leave a message, and I’ll call you back.
(CELLPHONE BUZZING)
Liz: [ Picks up phone ] Tom, what the hell did you… No, n-no, no, no, no, no. Excuse me, Doctor. Um… I was just, uh… Doesn’t matter. The tidal charts… Were you able to review them?
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[ At the Post Office, Gaia’s photo and bio are up on the big screen ]Ressler: Owen Ayers, former officer in the Navy. Found his name on bills and receipts we seized from Gaia’s trailer.
Aram: Ayers was a helicopter pilot, and before that, an enlisted aircraft mechanic. Three tours in Iraq, decorated. This guy’s a war hero. Medical discharge in 2011 after participating in Operation Tomodachi.
Cooper: The U.S. military relief effort at Fukushima.
Aram: Flew into an unscheduled emergency venting of radioactive gas. He and several members of his crew got radiation poisoning.
Samar: He was the victim of a nuclear meltdown, so now he wants to cause one.…
Liz: These charts identify exactly when the Hudson will be at its lowest.Ressler: Stone Park sits on the Hudson, though. I mean, they cool their nuclear reactors by drawing water from the river.…
Cooper: Ayers wasn’t trying to send a message about the danger of nuclear power. He’s trying to re-create Fukushima on the Hudson.… Get me Homeland! Keen, notify NRC. Aram, have security at the pipeline and at Stone Park and make sure the NYPD and Harbor Patrol get everybody out of that area immediately.… Make sure Ayers never gets one of those choppers off the ground.
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Gelber: Arnie Gelber, agents. Here to cooperate any way I can.
Samar: What’s the status of your fleet?
Gelber: We’re secure. Only got three choppers. Two of them are in the air with my best pilots. One’s on a 30. The other’s on a full-hour tour.… The third chopper… being repaired. One of my veteran mechanics passed away a couple nights ago.… I got a new man working on it now.
Ressler: We’re gonna need to talk to him now.
[ A helicopter takes off ]
Gelber: What the hell?
[ Ressler and Samar shoot at the helicopter ] ( 💥 GUNSHOTS 💥 )
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[ Gaia is piloting the helicopter. Ressler and Samar are at the heliport in contact with Gaia by radio. At the Post Office, Cooper, Liz and Aram can hear the conversation ]Gelber: Sky 3, please respond. Sky 3, please respond.
Ressler: Owen Ayers, this is Special Agent Ressler of the FBI ordering you to return to home base immediately.… We will shoot you down if you do not return immediately.
Gaia: You can’t scramble fighters fast enough. I’ve gamed this out to the last detail. Give me some credit, Agent Ressler of the FBI.… Oh, and if your next bright idea is to have them shut the pipeline down, sorry. That takes three whole days.Cooper: Notify local authorities to immediately activate evacuation protocols. Aram, we need options.
Aram: Yeah, I can, uh… I can try and hack into the onboard avionics, try and take control.
Ressler: [ To Gaia ] Don’t do this.… There are other ways.
Gaia: What? Protests? Hearings? They’ve had them. No one listens. They’ll listen to this.
Ressler: Ayers, you can’t go through with this. Millions of innocent people are gonna die.
Gaia: That’s an interesting formulation. Innocent people. Innocent of what? … I’m a dead man walking thanks to Fukushima. It poisoned my innocent unborn son into someone people look at as if he’s a monster! Now, whoever dies from this, they’ve got it coming.…Aram: Okay, I may have something. Okay, I’ve hacked into something called the stability augmentation system.…
Cooper: Can’t you just shut down the rotor?Aram: You mean?
Cooper: I mean turn the damn thing off.
Aram: Right, right. … I got it. I got it.
Cooper: Then do it.
Aram: Yeah, um…
Cooper: What’s wrong?
Aram: If I click on this, he’ll die. I’ve killed somebody once. I can’t take another life again.
[ Cooper reaches over and hits the key ]
(ALARM BLARING)
Gaia: Come on! No! (❗SCREAMS❗)
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Aram: (SIGHS) I’m sorry.
Cooper: For what? You did your job. And then I did mine.
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[ Red enters a diner and sits down across from Maya and Skyler ]Red: Hello, Maya. … And you must be Skyler. My name is Raymond. I’ve been looking forward to meeting you, Skyler.Maya: Did Owen send you? Is that why you’re here?
Red: No. But from what I understand, your ex-husband poses no further threat.…
Maya: I don’t… Are you with the police?
Red: (LAUGHING) Oh, my goodness, no. I’m simply an interested third party who needs your assistance.
[ A waitress brings three large sundaes ]
Waitress: Here we go.… One chocolate, one strawberry, and one caramel.
Red: Forgive me. I took the liberty. In my experience, caramel sauce is an excellent lubricant when it comes to awkward introductions.…⋘⋙
Maya: That’s all you want? To meet with Sky’s doctor?
Red: His hematologist, yes.
Maya: Do you have a child with special needs?Red: Picasso said it took four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. They live in a delightful space somewhere between dreams and reality. They taste color, hear shapes, see sounds. We should all have such special needs. [ To Maya ] There is a child. Her life hangs in the balance. I believe Skyler’s doctor could save her.
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Liz: We talked about this! We agreed!
Tom: Yeah, on how you felt. I told you I disagreed.Liz: What you didn’t tell me was that you were gonna do something about it. Instead, you went behind my back and did exactly what I told you not to do.…
Tom: I’m not gonna fight with you about this, Liz! I did what I thought was best! And nobody is sorrier than me that it didn’t work!
Liz: Oh, no. I know someone who’s sorrier. Our daughter… who now, because of you, is God knows where.
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[ Kirk is holding Agnes who is fussing ]
Odette: I know you don’t want to. But you need to use the child.
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[ Red and Liz are talking in the back of Red’s Mercedes ]Red: You asked me how this case is connected to finding Agnes. Owen Ayers and his son Skyler share a rare blood disorder. But Dr. Sebastian Reifler … treats both Skyler Ayers and Alexander Kirk. If we can get to his doctor, we can get to Kirk. We’re getting close, Lizzy.
Liz: I lied to you. You asked if Kirk had reached out, and I told you he hadn’t. That wasn’t true. He set up a link… a video feed so I could see Agnes.Red: How incredibly cruel.
Liz: Tom tried to trace the link, tried to find Agnes, but Kirk found out, and now, uh…
Red: She’s gone.
Liz: I thought I could make it better, that I could protect my baby. I mean, that’s my one job… to protect my child.… To hold her. To tell her everything’s gonna be okay. [ Crying ] But now because of me, because of what I’ve done, I can’t even do that.(SIGHS) [ Red, in his awkward way, takes Liz’s hand to comfort her ]
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[ Red pays a visit to Dr Riefler, the hematologist shared by Skyler Ayers and Kirk ]
Red: Forgive the Shanghai summons, Dr. Reifler, but I have a matter of some urgency we must discuss.…
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[ Kate Kaplan is feeling slightly better ]
[ Kate struggles to sit up, rises to her feet – only to find her left foot is chained ]
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Blurb: Liz gets information about her mother from FBI headquarters, including a journal which describes her complex relationship with Red. Red has a plan for locating Kirk, who may have Agnes. Kate is discovered still alive by – who?
[ Section by section, the lights of a large city go out ] “McGrath: “… Then I said, let there be darkness”
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Tom: We have no idea where she is or what he’s doing with her.Liz: Kirk thinks Agnes is his granddaughter, so he won’t hurt her.
Ressler: You really think that Alexander Kirk is your biological father?
Liz: I don’t know what to believe, but after what happened, it’s possible. … According to Kirk, he was just doing whatever it took to get his daughter away from Reddington. Look how far we went to do the same thing.
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[ Red and Liz meet at the grave of “Elizabeth Keen” ]
Liz: This is where you wanted to meet?
Red: I wonder what poor soul Mr. Kaplan buried down there.
Liz: Where is Mr. Kaplan?
Red: I understand why you ran. You believe your family’s in danger because of who I am. But what you don’t seem to grasp is you’re also in danger because of who you are.
Liz: Alexander Kirk says he’s my father.Red: I’m doing everything in my power to find Agnes and bring her home safely to you.
Liz: Do you have any leads?
Red: Yes. … I have it on good authority he reached out to a… uniquely inventive young man named Miles McGrath. He’s a venture capitalist of sorts, for criminals. What those in the tech industry might call an “incubator.”
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[ Liz briefs the Task Force ]Liz: Miles McGrath was a child prodigy. He wrote the code for OnScreen when he was at Princeton. … Criminals come to him, pitch their business plan. If he likes it, he invests his money in exchange for a cut of the profits.
Aram: That’s an amazing idea. I mean, um, it’s horrible, but, uh, it’s amazing.
Samar: Okay. So what’s McGrath’s connection to Alexander Kirk?
Liz: I don’t know.
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Saboteur: We destroyed the place. The city won’t have full power restored for at least five days. All we needed was three.McGrath: Construction?
Sabateur: Completed. Halbeck thinks we can keep casualties under a dozen.
McGrath: Sweet! Think we’re ready to roll into Phase Two.
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[ Kate (“Mr Kaplan”) wakes face down where she fell after Red shot her. She lifts her head and sees a lake 100 meters or so away. She sees her glasses in the dirt and manages to retrieve them ]
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[ Liz and Tom are in the FBI Director’s office ]Tom: Look, all we’re asking for is an update here, okay? We’re in the dark. Surely there is something that you can tell us.Director: I know it’s hard to hear, but the Bureau doesn’t have any actionable intel on the whereabouts of Kirk or your daughter.
Tom: Then why don’t you get some?
Liz: Tom, please.
Tom: No, she works for the Bureau.
Director: And the Bureau is doing everything we can. Agent Savino is leading a team of agents and combing through every piece of evidence we confiscated from Kirk’s residence. …Liz: Tom!
Tom: No. She was targeted, accused of being a Russian sleeper agent, forced to go on the run, only to be victimized– again!
Liz: [ Voice breaking ] I’m sorry. I just need a minute.
Tom: Liz. Liz…
Liz: It’s okay.
[ Liz leaves the office without Tom ]
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[ After Liz sees Savino leave his office, Liz enters it ] [ Liz uses her phone to photograph the Rostov/Rostova papers on Savino’s desk ] [ Camera shutter clicking ] [ Liz finds a packet labeled “Journal” and sees that it is embossed with “KR.” She slips the journal into her purse and leaves ]⋘⋙
[ Liz returns to the Director’s office ]
Liz: [ Whispers to Tom ] Let’s just go.
Tom: Liz, we came here for answers.
Liz: I know, and I’m sure he’s given us all he can. Thank you so much for your time. I’m sorry.
Tom: [ To the Director, as he leaves ] You and I aren’t done here.
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Tom: Find anything?
Liz: About Agnes? Maybe. About my mother? Definitely.
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[ McGrath tosses a canister to Halbeck ]McGrath: Nice catch. Those are quick reflexes. I was never very athletic. … My point is that there’s a reason why your reflexes are so good. See, you’re a technician. You’re an operative. An instrument of a larger plan. I, on the other hand, I’m a strategist. You whip that can at me, and I’ll catch it but only because I calculated the risk that someone might throw it in advance. So why don’t you leave the risk assessment to me?
Halbeck: And where am I supposed to find a replacement so late in the game?
McGrath: Not my problem. But you’d better think of something. I don’t intend to lose my investment.
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Ressler: Few nights ago, near Savannah, a power station was hit by a four-man attack team wearing the same kind of equipment.
Red: Were there any witnesses left alive?
Ressler: None. The guards never saw it coming. My guess is, they came out of the water.
Red: Four frog men.
Ressler: Yeah.
Red: Interesting.
Ressler: How so?
Red: I know an ex-SEAL commander, recruited some former colleagues, formed an elite heist crew. I hired them once to get back a shamefully expensive Patek Philippe [ $$$ watch ] I foolishly left on the nightstand in Ras Al Khaimah [ in the UAE ] after a dalliance with a lovely but very… Oh, never mind.
[ Ends call ]
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[ Red stops by to visit Johan Halbeck, who leads McGrath’s hired ex-SEAL team ]
[ Laughing. Man-Hug ]
Red: … Listen, pal, I have a job.
Halbeck: Can it wait a day? I got a deal going down tomorrow.
Red: No, it can’t. I’ll double whatever you’re being paid. Come on, Johan. Burn the deal, help out an old friend.
Halbeck: Would if I could, Red. But I got a partner in this one. Biggest mistake I ever made. …
Guy I’m in bed with is nuts. Killed one of my best men.
Red: [ Seriously ] Oh. Johan, you should walk away. I’d help you out if I could, offer a man, but… this sounds like a mess, a real mess. I am so sorry. Anyway, I’ve taken too much of your time already. Call me when you get things sorted out.
[ Back-slap hug ]
Halbeck: Hey, uh… you think you can get a man on such short notice?
Red: Depends on my cut.
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Red: We’re making progress. I told you Miles McGrath is an incubator, that he’s our link to Alexander Kirk. Turns out, he’s been incubating a crime with a man named Johan Halbeck.
[ Red slaps a stuffed Manila envelope on the table in front of Tom ]
Tom: What’s that?
Red: That’s you. Halbeck’s running a mission tomorrow. He needs a man with your… expertise.
Tom: And you volunteered me?
Red:Desperate times. Staying close to Halbeck will lead to McGrath, and as a bonus, the FBI can stop whatever crime they’re planning.
[ Red sees Liz is reading something ]Red: Study date?
Tom: This is what the FBI confiscated from Kirk’s estate.Red: Mm. Anything interesting?
Liz: Yeah. My mother’s journal. She talks about you. About the affair. I’m up to the part where she writes about you pressuring her to leave her husband.
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[ Kate lies exhausted near the lake ] [ A large dog comes through the brush, detects her ] [ Dog barks ]
Man: [ Whistles ] Heel!
[ The man sees Kate. With great effort, she lifts her head to acknowledge him ]
[ Dog whimpers ]
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[ Liz reads. A phantasm of Katarina Rostova – Liz’s mother – speaks ]
Katarina: Seeing Masha with Constantin makes me think of my own father. I wonder what he would say now about the choices I’ve made.
“Look at me– in love with the man I was sent to seduce and betray. An American.”
– Katarina’s journal
Raymond wants me to run, take Masha and disappear with him, but how could I do that to her? She’s my entire life. She’s everything.
[ Liz rises and approaches Katarina ]
[ Tom has been sleeping. He wakes and interrupts Liz’s reverie ]
Tom: Was I asleep? Liz, you okay?
[ Liz joins Tom on the bed ]
Liz: Reddington didn’t just have an affair with my mother. She was assigned to him, to be in his life… the way you were assigned to be in mine.
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Cooper: Heads up, people. 7:00 AM. Our asset’s in play.Aram: Sir, we have six vehicles in floating-box formation. Agents Ressler and Navabi are to the southeast.
Cooper: Any visual? …
Ressler: Target on the move.
Cooper: Charlie Team is the trigger. They have command.
Samar: They’re making a left towards Mason.
Cooper: Anybody see anything?
Ressler: No, no vehicles approaching.
[ Train horn blares ]
Samar: They’re getting out.
[ Four men throw ropes over the bridge and land on the train ]
Ressler: Train! They’re on the train!
[ Train horn blares ]
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Cooper: Aram, we need to know what’s on that train.Aram: I am way ahead of you, sir. Except there is no train. I mean, there’s no train officially scheduled on the track at this time.
Cooper: Well, it’s there. Keen, get on the damn phone and figure out why. Agent Ressler, you and the other surveillance units get there now. Call HRT, let them know they might be boarding a hijacked train.
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[ Tom and Janowski are attacked by guards.⚡️Fight.⚡️ Tom wins ] [ Groaning ]
[ Tom looks through a grill and sees cases marked CDC ]
Tom: CDC? Are you guys crazy?
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Aram: Agent Keen. … Uh, it’s a CDC shipment. They must be transporting some kind of biohazardous materials.
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Liz: [ Hangs up ] That was CDC’s Washington Director.
Cooper: What are they moving?
Liz: Six containers holding samples of every Class A infectious substance– Ebola, dengue, polio, HIV, and maybe 50 others.
Aram: [ Reading ] “Class A– substances capable of causing permanent disability, life-threatening or fatal disease in humans or animals.”
Cooper: My God.Liz: That’s why McGrath had Halbeck shut down the substations near Savannah.
They triggered the CDC’s transfer protocol. They won’t keep Class A substances in a facility using only backup generators for more than 72 hours. They’re moving the samples to a secure satellite lab outside Philadelphia.
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Ressler: Singleton Freight Station, mile marker 272. That’s where you said and we’re here, but, look, nothing’s come through.
Aram: That’s not possible. There’s only one rail line in the area. The train was going at least 40. It should’ve passed you two minutes ago.
Samar: No, it didn’t. …
Tom: [ Over wire ] Aram, if you can you hear me, the train’s coming to a stop. I’ll try to get you new coordinates if I can.
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Halbeck: Mr. McGrath, this concludes our broadcast day.
McGrath: What’d I tell you, Halbeck? Leave the strategy to the scrawny kids. Tell Vincent I’ll meet him at the Lodge in 20.
Halbeck: Nice working with you, sir. [ Hangs up ] Patronizing son of a bitch.
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Samar: … You said there was only one track in this area.
Aram: Yeah, that’s true.
Ressler: Then why am I looking at another one? Some kind of a split-off line going west.
Aram: West? No.
Ressler: By the looks of this material, it’s been put in recently.
Liz: Wait. Halbeck and McGrath built a second rail line?
Cooper: Going where?
Samar: We’re about to find out.
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[ Inside the building, forklift beeping ] [ Tom is inside the building watching men in orange biohazard suits move cases of material ][ Outside ]
Ressler: I think we found our train.
Liz: Where?
Ressler: About 200 yards from the split-off. The second set of tracks leads to some kind of hangar.
Samar: They must be unloading the CDC containers. We’ll take a look.
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Halbeck: That’s it. We’re clear. Let’s roll.[ One of the orange-suited men hands him a case. He, in turn, hands it to a tall, thin man, Vincent ]
Vincent: You sure you got the right one?
Halbeck: Sample number 17. That was our deal. The rest is mine.
[ Red’s car pulls up. Tires screech as Vincent’s car leaves in a hurry ]
[ Ressler & Samar see Red enter the hangar ]
Ressler: Got to be kidding me.
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Red: Johan, where the hell was that guy going? The guy with the case. Please do not tell me that you parted with the best samples.
Halbeck: Just one. Take it easy. I told you I had a partner.
Red: I’m your partner now, Johan, and I’ve been out promising prospective buyers the full complement of Class A weaponry. Do you have any idea what was in that sample?
Halbeck: Sorry, Raymond. I don’t know what to tell you.
Red: Well, I insist on speaking with this so-called partner. At least let me try to buy it back.
Halbeck: [ Chuckles ] Be my guest. Miles McGrath. His man went to meet him at the Lodge. It’s a bar. Find him, talk to him. Hell, I hope you shoot the bastard. [ Laughs ]
[ Red leaves just before the HRT arrives and a 💥💥💥gunfight ensues💥💥💥 ]
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[ Halbeck and crew are outnumbered. Halbeck surrenders and Tom “surrenders” ]
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[ At the bar named The Lodge ] [ McGrath is there with Vincent ]McGrath: The Feds are Halbeck’s problem. All that matters to me is that we are right on schedule.
[ Red appears, sits next to Vincent ]
Red: Gentlemen, mind if I join you?
McGrath: Yeah. We do.
Red: Raymond Reddington.
McGrath: The Raymond Reddington? Concierge of Crime? Man In The Hat? The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold?
Red: Haven’t heard that last one. Never read the Le Carré novel. Dembe, we should see if we can get the audiobook on cassette for the car. Now, about that sample…
McGrath: Screw you. I’ll–[ Gunshot 💥 Red shoots Vincent. Vincent slumps over ] …
McGrath: I don’t know where he is. I’m supposed to call to arrange delivery. [ Dialing ] Mr. Kirk. I have it. Yeah. Fine. I’ll have it sent right away. [ Cellphone beeps ] Bench outside Dan’s Tavern. Bar on Sedgwick. Half-hour.
Red: Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. McGrath.
McGrath: Just calculating my odds. I’d say my only chance of leaving this room is by giving you exactly what you want.
Red: You’re a good strategist, Miles. But your odds are longer than you think. The FBI found that missing train, along with Halbeck and his team and the CDC samples. In fact, I’d imagine they’d be on their way here by now.
[ Red deftly handcuffs the dead man Vincent ] [ Dembe cuffs McGrath to Vincent ]
McGrath: Wait. Don’t. Reddington! Look, Reddington, we can make a deal! Look, I know people! What do you want?! Look, don’t walk away from me! Reddington!
[ Red and Dembe leave the bar ]
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[ Cellphone rings ] [ Cellphone beeps ]Red: Not an ideal time, Harold.
Cooper: Ressler and Samar just called. They found McGrath handcuffed to a corpse.
Red: Wonderful. I have to go.
Cooper: Wait. McGrath– Did he tell you how to find Kirk?
Aram: We just heard from the CDC. The missing sample, number 17? It’s cultures taken from the Ribowski virus.
Liz: I know that name. One of the most deadly viral pathogens we know of– killed tens of thousands in Europe and Asia in the early 1900s.
[ Red hangs up. Click ]
Cooper: Reddington? Reddington?
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[ Red and Dembe arrive at the meetup point ]
Dembe: Raymond, there’s no one.
[ Pay phone ringing. Red answers it ]
Red: Well done, Constantin.
Kirk: I was about to say the same to you, Raymond. So close and yet so far. Still as tenacious as ever.
Red: How’d you know I’d be here? Even I didn’t know a half-hour ago.
Kirk: Well, I knew because I’m the better man. Always have been.
Red: I have what you want. And I know why you want it. So it’s true, then. After all these years, everything you feared has happened.
Kirk: It isn’t over yet.
Red: It doesn’t have to be. You can have your virus. All I want is Agnes in return.
Kirk: I don’t think so, old boy. I’ll die before you ever hold my granddaughter again.
[ Vision of Katarina writing in her journal ]
Today, the doctor confirmed our worst fears. Constantin is going to need blood transfusions to raise his blood count. He’s known his whole life this day might come, but still it’s– it’s terrifying. The only blessing is that this accursed disease that has afflicted his family for generations is passed from father to son and that Masha is safe.
[ Katarina gazes across space and time. Liz reaches for her hand. Tearfully, Katarina says: ] Masha.
[ Knock on door ]
Tom: I got it.
Liz: You lost him.
Red: Yeah.
Tom: And our best shot at finding Agnes.
Liz: I think I know why Kirk wanted that virus. I saw him getting a blood transfusion at Cape Breton. My mother wrote about his family’s history. Generations of Rostovs had the same disease– a rare blood disorder that’s been killing them for centuries.
Red: Kirk is dying. And the Ribowski virus is a temporary antidote to what afflicts him.
Tom: Ribowski virus? That’s what– Sample 17? Isn’t that a Class A toxin? How’s it gonna help him?
Red: He has aplastic anemia – a systemic failure to produce viable bone-marrow cells. It’s been a death sentence for generations of men in his family, except a distant uncle, who had contracted the Ribowski virus. After getting the virus, the uncle lived longer than any other Rostov with the blood disease.
Tom: So Kirk wanted the virus to re-create what happened to his uncle?
Red: Yes. It’s a simple math problem, really. Kirk’s disease prevents his body from producing enough blood cells. The Ribowski virus results in a rare form of leukemia which creates the opposite problem– too many blood cells.
Tom: So he’s gonna give himself leukemia? Isn’t that gonna kill him?
Red: Eventually. But by offsetting his blood disease, he buys himself a few more precious years.
Liz: No one could be that desperate.
Red: But he is that desperate, Elizabeth. Because he no longer has you. You wanted to know why he went so far to find you, why there seemed to be nothing he wouldn’t do to physically get hold of you. Now you know. He needs a biological descendant to save his life– a genetic donation from the woman he believes to be his long-lost daughter. That’s what you are to him– a collection of cells. This isn’t about saving you from me. This is about saving you for him.
Liz: Well, he doesn’t have me.
Tom: No. But he has Agnes.
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[ Dog barking ] [ Kate is on a tarp being dragged, roughly, through the forest ] [ Barking continues ]
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Blurb: Liz has been separated from her infant daughter Agnes, forced by Alexander Kirk (aka Constantin Rostov), a man claiming to be her father, to leave Cuba headed “home.” Red and Mr Kaplan rescue Agnes, only to have her taken again by the mysterious shamanic Mato.
[ Kirk, who claims to be Liz’s father Constantin Rostov, has forced Liz to accompany him on a float plane to a place he tells her is “home.” ]
Kirk: He won’t find you– Reddington– if that’s what you’re hoping for or worried about.
Liz: Tom’s alive. You don’t have Agnes. I’m not worried about anything.
Kirk: I won’t apologize for trying to restore my family.
Liz: Even if it means destroying mine.
[ Suddenly, Liz lunges at the pilot. The plane nosedives ] [ Gunshot 💥 ]
Pilot: She’s gonna kill us! Aah!
[ Gunshot 💥 – The pilot is fatally shot. Liz leans over the pilot to grab the controls of the plane tries to level it. The plane is about to hit the water … ]
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[ The car with Dembe, Red, Mr Kaplan (“Kate”) and baby Agnes was rammed by Mato, who has taken Agnes. Tom drives up in a red pickup truck ]
Tom: You all right? Where are they?Red: In danger.
Kate: Mato. I saw his face.
Tom: Who’s Mato?
Kate: A finder. A tracker. Killer when necessary. We had a mutual friend. He gave Mato his start as a skip tracer. It was years ago.
Red: Little Nikos. West Texas’ favorite bail bondsman. An Amarillo institution for 25 years to life. Mato isn’t your garden-variety mercenary. From what I’m told, he’s an Indian– part Sioux, part I don’t know what, son of a Shaman. Mato could sneak up on a deer in a glade and smack it on the rump. He’ll find his way off the island. Dembe, call Edward. Tell him to ready the jet. We’re gonna pay a visit to Little Nikos.
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Kate: [ To Tom ] This is my fault. If anything happens to Elizabeth or the baby…Tom: You have nothing to apologize for. You tried to help us find a normal life. I’d take that risk again. [ To Red ] I don’t regret trying to get away from you.
Red: Of course you don’t. Regret requires age or wisdom.
Tom: We were trying to protect Agnes.
Red: I guess that didn’t work out. When we get to Amarillo, I think it would be best to do as I say, both of you.
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Liz: Mayday, mayday, mayday. Plane down off the coast of Havana. 23 degrees, 52 minutes north. Can anyone hear me?Kirk: You need to untie me, Masha.
Liz: Mayday, mayday, mayday, is anyone there?
Kirk: Untie me! Masha, I’m your father. You can’t let me drown.
Liz: Watch me.
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[ Red and Kate get out of the car ]
Kate: When we get inside, let me talk to him. He and I have history.
Red: He and I don’t. I’ll be more persuasive.
Kate: Is that what this has come to? The chance for you to punish me by hurting someone I care about?
Red: You are not my concern. Agnes is. If someone you care about is hurt in the process of finding her, so be it.
Kate: He’s a decent man. I’m only here to serve you today because of his kindness.
Red: You may speak to him first. Briefly.
[ Door bell jingles ]
Maisie: Afternoon. Can I help you?
[ Door closes ]
Kate: Little Nikos, please.
Maisie: Oh, wish I could oblige, Miss…
Kate: Mr. Kaplan, an old friend.
Maisie: Uh, I’m afraid that’s not possible. He’s in surgery.
Red: Where?
Maisie: His stomach.
Red: And where might we find his stomach?
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[ Red and Kate burst into an operating room where a laparoscopic surgery is underway ]
Ellen: I told him he couldn’t come in.
Red: Oh, my. Me and my timing.
Surgeon: What the hell is going on?
Red: I need your capable team here to wake up your patient.
Surgeon: What? Call security right now.
Red: Wake him up.
Surgeon: I can’t. We’re in the middle of a procedure. I’d be putting his life in danger.
Red: His life’s already in danger. [ Draws gun ] How ’bout yours?
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Kirk: Our only chance is out there, holding onto the pontoons.Liz: You mean my only chance. You’re not going anywhere.
[ Liz finds a flare gun. She puts down her pistol and fires the flare gun ¸„💥º°¨¨¨* ]
Kirk: We’re not gonna survive unless we trust each other.
Liz: I’ll never trust you.[ But Kirk has freed himself and grabbed the pistol while Liz was distracted with the flare. He points it at her ]
Kirk: We’re a family. Not Reddington. Us. If you wanna hold your child in your arms again, we need to trust each other. [ Kirk then hands the gun back to Liz ]
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Surgeon: He’s awake and in excruciating pain.Red: [ To Kate ] Remember… we’re getting what we need, one way or another.
Little Nikos: Kate. What are you… What’s happening?
Kate: We only have a minute. Raymond Reddington is here. He wants Mato. Tell me how to find Mato.
Little Nikos: No. He’ll kill Mato if I do.
Red: I’m not gonna hurt you, Nikos. You’re a good man. Loyal. Protective of those who are protective of you. I admire that in a person. Unfortunately for you, I’m surrounded by people who don’t. Tom, I’d like to introduce you to Little Nikos, the man who’s protecting the sociopath who stole your baby.
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[ Kirk and Liz are clinging to the pontoons of the overturned float plane ]
Kirk: Don’t let go. No matter what, don’t let go.
Liz: They’re looking. The FBI, the Coast Guard. They’ll find us.Kirk: They’ll find you… [ Gasps ] …which is enough.
[ Kirk exhales sharply, then loses his grip and slips under the water ]
Liz: No. No!
[ Liz dives down and saves Kirk ] .
Liz: I can help you.
Kirk: It’s too much.
Liz: You said we have to trust each other. Do you trust me?
Kirk: Yes.
Liz: Then hold on. They will find us. They will find us.
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[ Tom shows Little Nikos a small photo of baby Agnes ]
Tom: Here’s my little girl. That’s Agnes. I’m gonna put this right… here, because she is the reason I am doing this. Remember that. Tell me how to find Mato.
Little Nikos: I… I can’t do that.
Tom: Well, you do have guts.
Tom: What do you think this does? [ Surgical saw whirs ]
[ Red and Kate are sitting in the waiting room ]
[ In the next room, Nikos screams, cries ]
Red: I’m sorry it had to be Nikos.
Kate: If there’s no sincerity behind your words, don’t waste them.
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Liz: Hey, stay awake. Stay with me. Talk to me. Tell me, uh, about your parents. What were their names?
[ Fishing boat horn blows ]
Liz: Help! Over here! Help!
[ Horn blows ] [ Liz waves to get the boat’s attention ]
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[ Door opens ]
Tom: I got a phone number and a password.
Red: Nakaidoklini?
Tom: It’s a famous medicine man. I don’t know. You text that name to that number using Nikos’ cellphone, and Mato will show up in person at the bail office. It’s how they do it.
[ Kate goes to Nikos’ bedside. Monitor beeping steadily ]
Kate: I’m so sorry, Nikos.
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Liz: [ To fishing boat captain ] Oh, thank you. Thank you. Uh, he needs medical attention. First aid? Medicina.
Boat Captain: ¿Medicina? Sí. I have a first aid kid–
Liz: Good, good. Show me. He needs it right now. Right now.
Kirk: Why did you save me? Why?
Liz: Because you know where Agnes is.
Kirk: Is that the only reason?
Liz: I saved you because of Agnes, but… also maybe because you might be telling the truth.
[ Liz talks to the boat captain alone ]
Liz: I’m with the FBI. That man was in my custody when our plane crashed. Uh… Señor… terrorist. Muy malo. Muy malo.
Captain: ¿Terrorista?
Liz: [ Whispers ] Shh, shh, shh, yes. Uh, necesito un radio.
Captain: ¿Radio? Sí, sí.
Liz: [ Speaking Spanish ] Do you have a gun? ¿Pistola?
Captain: ¿Pistola? [ In Spanish ] The gun is in the toolbox.
Liz: Uh, I don’t– No comprendo.
[ Gunshot 💥 – the captain is hit ] [ Groans ]
Kirk: I believe he said the pistol is in the toolbox.
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[ A wooded site. Agnes lies on a blanket on the ground. Mato performs a Native American ritual over her as Romina watches ]Mato: Honor the sacred, Honor the Earth, and everyone who shares it. Honor the elders …the 4-legged, the 2-legged, the winged ones, the plant and animal people. Walk in beauty and balance. Oy, kak krasivo!
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[Two men with Russian accents walk in on the scene ]
Russian: I take photo for Facebook, yeah? [ Chuckles ] You don’t want your money?
[ Russian tosses black leather bag to Mato ]
Mato: I need to know that you’re gonna safely deliver that baby to Kirk.
[ Mato checks contents of satchel ]
Mato: [ To Romina ] Put the girl into Kirk’s hands only.
Romina: I understand.
[ Cellphone chimes. Mato checks the text message. It’s from Nikos ]
[ Motor whirring ]
Liz: If this man dies–
Kirk: It’ll be your fault. You got him involved. I know you were lying about believing in me. But I promise, once we reach our destination, you’ll know that everything I’ve told you is true.
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[ In Nikos’ bail office, Maisy sighs, is sweaty, appears stressed ]
Red: You’re doing fine, Maisy.
Dembe: He should be here any minute.
[ In the car, waiting outside for Mato ]
Tom: Sorry about Nikos.
Kate: Why are you telling me this?
Tom: Because he’s your friend.
Kate: So you want me to make you feel better? Everyone wants me to make things easier for them. Cleaner. That’s what I am, after all, the Cleaner.
Tom: Just forget I brought it up.
Kate: In my desire to make life easier for your baby, I betrayed Raymond, and now he doesn’t know what to do with me. Well, he knows what he has to do, and he wants me to make it easier for him. But I won’t. I’m not here to make him feel better, and I’m not here to make you feel better, Tom.[ Footsteps approaching. Mato pauses at door of Nikos’ office. Kate sees him. He sees her and takes off running. Tom takes off after him. Dembe soon follows ]
[ Tires screech as Kate drives the car into Mato⚡️]
Tom: Where’s my daughter?! Where’s my daughter? [ Punches Mato ] Huh? Where is she?! Where– where’s my daughter? Huh? Where is she?
Red: Tom! Let’s get out of the heat.
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Captain Daly: Found your boat near Madeira Bay, a few miles offshore. It’s being escorted to a nearby marina.Ressler: Was there anyone on board?
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Samar: Where’s the survivor?
[ The fishing boat captain is receving medical attention on the pier for his gunshot wound ]
Ressler: Excuse me. FBI. We need a minute. [ To the boat captain ] Sir, the woman, the one who was with you–
Samar: [ In Spanish ] Where is she?
Captain: He took her. On a speedboat. They took her away in a speedboat.
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[ Kirk and Liz are in a plane ]Kirk: Put Romina on the phone. I want Agnes to see her mother.
Liz: Where is she?
Kirk: We’ll all be together soon.
[ Kirk gives Liz his cellphone ]
[ Agnes appears on cellphone, coos ]
Liz: Hi, Agnes. Did you hear that? We’re gonna be together soon. I love you.
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Red: [ To Mato ] This’ll be quick, as I have no time and less patience. Tell me where Alexander Kirk took Elizabeth Keen and her daughter. [ Silence ] The strong silent type. You’re not doing much to break down stereotypes here.Mato: I’m not afraid of pain.
Red: Mm. Or dying, I’m sure. You know, some years back, I was hiking Devils Tower for a bracing dip in the spiritual vortex, when who did I run into but the tribal leader of the Lakota Nation, a man of vast responsibility. He invited me to witness the extreme version of the Sun Dance ritual.
Mato: Not just anyone can attend the Sun Dance.
Red: True, and you can’t get a table at The Fat Duck without a reservation. But I find in either case, a generous donation gets you in the teepee. I watched a tribal member, much like yourself, suspend himself from a cottonwood tree with flesh hooks through his chest.
Three hours he dangled, skin stretched like salt water taffy, while he left his body to communicate with the Great Spirit. Like you, the man on that tree didn’t fear death. But you know what terrified him? The thought of eternity on earth, trapped in a dark box, surrounded by rotting flesh, forever. After I shoot you, sir, you will be locked in an airtight, concrete crypt, unless you tell me what I need to know before those figures stop dancing.Mato: Kirk said they’re going to the Summer Palace. That’s all I know.
Red: Yes. I know the Summer Palace.
[ Red shoots Mato 💥 ] [ Thud ]
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[ Liz and Kirk arrive at a cottage in the woods ]Liz: What is this place?
Kirk: It’s yours. It belongs to you and Agnes, of course. It’s a lovely location to raise a little girl, don’t you think?
Liz: The armed goons don’t do much for the landscape.
Kirk: Well, the coercion was necessary and temporary. All I ever intended to do was show you, prove to you who you are, who I am. And then you can choose for yourself.
Liz: Like a Russian fairy tale.
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Katya: Hello, Elizabeth. My name is Katja. You can think of me as the Palace Keeper.
Liz: Palace? The Summer Palace. It’s what Mr. Kirk calls the cottage. Anything you need during your stay, let me know.
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[ Telephone rings, beeps ]Cooper: Director Cooper.
Red: I know where Elizabeth is, Harold, where Kirk is taking Agnes. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Kirk owns a cottage there where he would go to escape the dreary summers in Novosibirsk. How quickly can your people get there?
Cooper: Agents Ressler and Navabi are flying back from Miami. I can redirect their plane.
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Katya: I know some of what you’ve been through, but little Agnes will be here soon. And when she’s here, you will need your strength.Liz: Tell me about Kirk. How long have you known him?
Katya: I have worked here for nine years. I took over from my mother. She worked my entire childhood maintaining the Summer Palace.
Liz: So you know him well?
Katya: No, actually, I don’t. He hasn’t visited here in years. It’s been… too painful for him. Until now.
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[ Liz investigates the cottage. Liz enters a room for a young girl. On a child-sized table with dolls seated on small chairs, she finds a drawing of a little girl holding hands with her parents. It is the same drawing in her memories of the fire during the memory recall session and in flashbacks. But it is unscorched, pristine ]
[ Footsteps approach. It is Kirk ]
Liz: This was my bedroom.
Kirk: Welcome home, Masha.
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Kirk: I promised you the truth.Liz: But… there was a fire. I… I shot my father. I remember.
Kirk: What’s the memory of a small child? Reddington lied to you, Masha. He told you your father was dead, but thanks to you– what you did on the water– I’m very much alive. All the stories Reddington’s told you about who he is and his connection to you– he knew you were looking for answers and he took advantage of that to re-enter your life. But the answers you’ve been looking for are here.
Reddington, he was in love with your mother
and he’s obsessed with you.
Liz: But it can’t be true.
Kirk: [ Whispers ] But you know it is. [ Normal voice ] I’m sorry. I said too much. You must be feeling overwhelmed. I’ll go and check on your daughter’s arrival. Do you know why I call this cottage the Summer Palace? We came here for a vacation one July, and my little princess loved it. It’s been a palace ever since.
[ Liz finds a copy of the photo of herself as a child on a swing with her mother, the same as in Red’s secret flat. She flashes to: A small, dark-haired girl peering out the window to see the very swing in the photo. Liz goes outside and the swing is there. She walks up to it. She recalls her mother telling her (in Russian) that she is burying a “time machine” (in a coffee tin) in the garden near the swing. Young Liz has brought “treasures” including a Russian nesting doll. Her mother adds her own yarn bracelet to the tin, puts the cover on, and buries it. In the present time, Liz digs and finds the tin. She takes out her mother’s yarn bracelet and puts it on.]
[ Flashback. Russian dialog with subtitles: ]
Katarina: There you are. Did you bring some treasures? – Oh, these are beautiful! This is a time machine. One day you will come back here, open it, and remember me.
Masha: Yes, Mommy.
[ End flashback ]
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[ Suddenly, an FBI helicopter appears overhead ]
[ Ressler and other agents run toward the front of the cottage ]
Ressler: Spread out! Come on, let’s go!
[ Gunshots 💥💥💥]
Ressler: Return fire!
[ Gunshots 💥💥💥]
Guard: Aah! [ One of Kirk’s guards tumbles off a balcony ]FBI: Move in! Move in!
[ An armed agent encounters Liz in the house, points his rifle at her ]
[ Ressler and Samar arrive at the marina ]
FBI: Hands in the air! In the air!
Ressler: Stand down! Stand down, she’s one of ours. Secure the house. Find Kirk. Find that child.
[ Liz & Ressler stare at each other for an endless second ]
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Samar: He’s gone, and if Agnes is with him, she’s gone, too.
[ Liz is being led toward a police vehicle when she sees Ressler ] [ They hug ] [ Liz sobs ]
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[ A black SUV pulls up in front of an industrial-looking building. Liz and Ressler get out. Baz is there ]
Baz: He’s waiting for you inside.
Liz: Where are we?
Baz: Home. Your home.⋘⋙
[ Red has been observing Liz’s arrival from his car. Briefly, Red and Liz make eye contact. He offers a faint hint of a smile. Her look is chilly ]Red: [ Turns away ] [ To Dembe ] Let’s go.
[ Red rolls up his window ]
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[ Baz escorts Liz through the almost-empty building ]
Liz: What is this place?
[ A warm light appears, an apartment in a remote part of the facility ]
[ Tom is there ] [ Liz and Tom embrace ] [ Sobs ]
Tom: I’m gonna find her.
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[ Dembe drives Red and Kate through a remote wooded area. The car stops deep in the woods ]
Red: [ To Dembe ] Stay with the car.
[ Red and Kate walk into the woods ]
Red: There are places back here that have never borne a human footprint. 53,000 acres of virgin wilderness, all but one owned by the Bureau of Land Management. One acre, a jewel. A single buildable acre. Like a flawless diamond set in a sea of emeralds. The real estate equivalent of a unicorn. I acquired it some years ago from a family who had held it in trust for over a century and a half.
Kate: Beautiful.Red: Yes. [ He stops ] You understand, Kate, that I–
Kate: Have no choice? Isn’t that the speech, Raymond? That I know too much? Every single one of your weaknesses, all your faults, all your secrets. I dedicated my life to you. You entrusted me with everything you value– your freedom, your life, a child. I have never failed you. What you see as a betrayal of trust was actually a fulfillment of your wishes, to protect your interests. No more, no less.
Red: You presumed to decide what was best for me. Even if I resolve the anger, the pain you caused… I can’t trust you. Ever. I’m standing before a stranger. And yet, I know you believe what you did was best for Elizabeth, which is why I brought you here. You’ve told me you’ve always wanted a pristine, unspoiled place to live out your days in peace. So the acre is yours. For all eternity.
[ Red cocks gun ] [ Gunshot 💥 ] [ Kate spins and collapses, face first, arm outstretched ] [ Red turns around and walks away ]
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[ Kate’s right hand moves, grasping a handful of grass ]
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Red: I need to speak with the patient.
Doctor: He’s gone.
Red: As you well know, one of the keys to my success is a clear and consistent understanding of my own limitations. So often people overestimate themselves, misapply their gifts. The cleaner suddenly fancies herself the strategist. Wisdom is learning the boundaries of one’s designated lane. For instance, this, I will do poorly. Clumsily, with more mess than necessary. It’ll take longer and be considerably more unpleasant to boot. [ To Kate ] But I can’t very well have you do it, can I?[ Red proceeds to cut the head off the dead man ]
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Aram: Is it true? She’s alive?Samar: Apparently.
Aram: Wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. How is that… there were complications during labor. And the doctor, he declared her dead.
Samar: He lied.
Aram: But there was a funeral. I-I was a pallbearer.
Samar: … It was a charade, Aram.
Aram: … She faked her death. Why would she do that?
Ressler: To get away from Reddington. So that her and Tom and Agnes could have a normal life.
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Cooper: I just got off the phone with the embassy in Havana. Briefed them on Kirk, gave them the tail number to his plane. If that was how he was planning to get off the island, that’s not gonna happen. … Notify FBI headquarters. Elizabeth Keen is alive.
Red: The head worked for a Joseph Balzan? I’ve never heard of him.
Manny Soto: Yeah, he’s a supplier of all manner of contraband on the island. If the people you’re looking for are still in Cuba, Balzan is protecting them.
Kate: Should I assemble a team?
Red: Dembe, call Silvio in San Cristobal. Tell him to put a team together. We’re going after Elizabeth.
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[ Kirk offers Liz a glass of water; she refuses ]
Kirk: You think I’d drug you?
Liz: You kidnapped my infant daughter, my husband, and me. I’d say you’re capable of anything.
Kirk: Listen… you were my entire life. You were all your mother and I ever cared about. Now you don’t know any of that because Reddington took you away from us when you were just a little girl. He and your mother had an affair. For a time, I thought maybe he was the father, but I have proof that he’s not. He’s just a spiteful, evil man. Couldn’t accept it when Katarina broke off the affair. One day I came home, and you were gone. He’d taken you. I never thought I’d ever see you again… until there you were in the news, you… and Reddington, – the most wanted fugitives in the world. … Everything I did was to get my child away from Reddington. Who understands that more than you? You did the exact same thing, faked your own death to get your child away from him. [Door opens ]Balzan: [ Lowered voice, to Kirk ] We have a problem. The PNR have surrounded the plane.
Kirk: Then find another plane. [ To Liz ] Agnes will be here shortly.
Liz: And Tom?
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[ Siren whoops, Agnes crying ] [ Police car stops blue Dodge sedan with Mato and Romina holding Agnes in the front seat. [ Tom is in the trunk ] …
Tom: Hey, they have my baby! Please!
Mato: Keen, you breathe a word, I’m gonna fire two bullets– one in the cop and the other between the eyes of that screaming kid. You got it?
[ Agnes’ crying continues ]
Romina: [ Spanish ] What do we do? What the hell are you doing, Bobo?
Officer: [ Spanish ] Out of the car.
[ They get out ] … [ Romina lays Agnes on the car seat ]
Officer: [ Spanish ] Open the trunk.
[ Mato opens the car trunk ]
Tom: [ Yells ] He’s got a gun! [ Gunshot 💥 misses ]
[ Mato gets the PNR officer in a stranglehold ]
Tom: No, don’t– please!
[ Bones crack. The PNR officer’s neck is broken ] [ Body thuds ] [ Agnes fusses ] [ Mato punches Tom, knocking him out ][ Mato loads the body of the dead PNR officer into the trunk with Tom ] [ Agnes continues crying ]
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Samar: I informed the Bureau that Elizabeth Keen has risen from the dead. They said three Hail Mary’s and they’re on the lookout for the zombie apocalypse.Cooper: I understand. You feel played.
Aram: Don’t you, sir? …Cooper: All right, let’s just have this conversation. Keen lied to us, took advantage of all of us, and no one is more upset about that than I. Or… relieved. Truth be told, I didn’t think it was possible to be this joyous and livid at the same time. But I have a job to do– find Keen and her family and bring them home safely. And I know that no matter how I feel, I can do that job. I need to know if each of you can say the same.
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[ Red and Dembe enter a house. Guns drawn, they enter room with a large one-way mirror: Kirk and Liz can see Red and Dembe – Red and Dembe see only their own reflections ]Kirk: Hello, Raymond.
Red: Elizabeth, are you okay?
Kirk: Of course she is. Unlike you, I would never hurt my own daughter.
Red: Elizabeth? Elizabeth.
Liz: I’m on your left.
[ Red rapidly fires multiple gunshots 💥💥💥💥💥 through the right side of the mirror, but Kirk is unscathed ] [ Tires screech ]
Red: Constantin. What do you want? Name it. You bring her out unharmed, you’ll have it.
Kirk: Of course, the Concierge of Crime wants to cut a deal. You’ll give me whatever I want?
Red: Yes. …Kirk: What I desire is to raise my child, to watch her grow, and to have back the 26 years of being a father that you took from me. But you can’t give me that, can you?
Red: No, – because she was never yours to raise.
Dembe: [ Quietly, to Red ] Patrol unit incoming. Military patrol. Armored military. …
Liz: If they get you, they’ll kill you.
Dembe: Raymond.
Liz: Did you hear me? You have to go. Go!
Red: Elizabeth, I will come for you. [ Red and Dembe leave ]
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Red: [ In car, on phone ] Harold, gather your team.Cooper: Reddington. Where are you? Tell me you have Agent Keen.
Red: No, but she’s still on the island. Kirk’s preparing her exit plan. I don’t know what the preparations are, but I know who can find out– Manuel Esteban.
Cooper: The Chilean Spymaster?
Samar: Who’s Esteban?
Red: Our next Blacklister.
Aram: Manuel Orentez Esteban. [ Gasps ] Leader of Pinochet’s Caravan of Death that institutionalized a state-sponsored system of terror through abuse, abduction, and murder.Ressler: According to our database, he died in 1989.
Red: Except he didn’t. Esteban is alive and well and a legendary enforcer for a series of authoritarian regimes. … Kirk’s man in Cuba is protected by the military. If the military is involved, Esteban will know about it.
Cooper: … We have no assets in Cuba.
Red: [ Laughs ] Of course you do, Harold. Esteban. He works for your government. Castro took him in, and the CIA immediately put him on the payroll as a double agent. … The CIA knows where to find him, and he knows where to find Elizabeth.
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[ A young woman, Ivelisse, crying, is being interrogated by Manuel Esteban. He wears sunglasses. He speaks with an ominous, raspy voice ]
Esteban: [ Spanish subtitles ] Ivelisse, dear, don’t cry, my love. You know who I am.
[ Gasps, nods, continues crying ]
Esteban: [ Spanish ] And you know what it means to see my face.
[ Esteban removes his sunglasses. His eyes are hideous, dull, the skin around them disfigured ]
[ Click ] [ He touches her chin ] [ Ivelisse ontinues gasping and crying ]
Esteban: [ Spanish ] Most people fear the dark. I don’t know anything else. I see with my ears.
[ Exhales deeply ] [ Continues crying ] …
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Cynthia Panabaker: What are you talking to Reddington for? I thought your task force was disbanded after Agent Keen’s death.Cooper: It turns out she’s not dead. She’s been kidnapped. And if we have any hope for finding her, it rests in finding Esteban. …
Panabaker: [ Sighs ] I hate getting into bed with Reddington. I… hate needing him and his list. If you find Agent Keen, will he continue to give you names?
Cooper: He just did– Esteban. According to him, Esteban works for the Agency.Panabaker: [ Sighs ] Good Lord. Is there anything that man doesn’t know?
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Cooper: I appreciate you burning a source for this.
Panabaker: You knowing he exists is the least of Esteban’s problems. Now that we’re all chummy with the Cubanos, his relationship with the Agency is, uh, something of a liability.
Cooper: You’re gonna scrub him?
Panabaker: Let’s just say, if you wanna reach out to Esteban, you should do it quickly.
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[ Ressler is seated in café. A man is singing in Spanish. A man sits down at Ressler’s table ]
Ressler: Jesus. Hot as balls in here. You guys actually drink this stuff?
♪♪ [ Door bell jingles ] ♪♪ [ Someone puts a black sack over Ressler’s head ]
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[ Speaks indistinctly in Spanish ] [ Mato and Angel approach the car. Mato opens the trunk. Tom is startled awake ]
Mato: [ Points at Tom ] Kill him first. Come back for the cop. Meet you at that place.
[ Angel lifts the dead cop out of the trunk ]
Tom: Hey. Hey. Let her go. Look, you can take me, all right? Do whatever you want. Just give me my little girl! Hey! I’m begging you! Give me my little girl! Please!
[ Car door closes, engine starts ] [ Engine revs ] [ Mato and Romina leave with Agnes ]
Angel: [ To Tom ] You and I are gonna have some fun, man.
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[ Ressler is in a dark prison cell, a dungeon, really ] [ Door clanks, keys jingle ] [ Indistinct whispering ]Ressler: Hey.
Woman: Shh. [ Whispers ] Don’t talk. They’ll kill us. … Woman: It’s him.
[ Door unlocks and opens ] [ Ressler is escorted from the cell ]
[ Ressler is escorted to an interrogation table. Esteban sits across from him ]
Esteban: So the rumors are true. They sent you to finish me. …
Ressler: Look, I’m not here to kill you, pal, I’m here to tell you that Raymond Reddington wants to see you.
Esteban: Oh, so now the US government is Reddington’s messenger.
Ressler: Oh, you know how it works. The American government has deals with all kinds of scumbags.
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[ Later, Red and Esteban are walking along a busy wooded walkway ]
Red: I’m looking for a woman.
Esteban: Aren’t we all?
Red: Her name is Elizabeth Keen, and the man holding her has the protection of the FAR. They know where she is, which means you know where she is, or you could certainly find out.
Esteban: Why would I help you? You’re an anarchist.
Red: [ Laughs ] Probably. Maybe more of an opportunist. And I have the opportunity to help you. You spent a lifetime bouncing from one authoritarian regime to the next. But this is the last stop. You’re a relic. The détente between America and Cuba makes you a man without a country. Sooner or later, both sides will want you dead. My money’s on sooner. …
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Tom: The baby– I can pay you.
Angel: Quiet.
Tom: Not me. I have a friend. Whatever you want, he’ll help you. We’ll get you off the island, he’ll protect you.
Angel: I said quiet, man. … Let’s go and dig.
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[ Kate sits down at small table across from Red ]
Kate: I know you don’t want to talk to me. Fine. Then listen. It was excruciating to watch you mourn Elizabeth’s death, to know that I was making you endure that. Yes, I betrayed you, but only after you had betrayed her. Raymond, you have to change. [ Esteban approaches ]Red: [ To Kate ] Why don’t you wait in the car? [ She leaves ]Esteban: I have a location for the girl.
Red: And the child?
Esteban: I asked, but people know nothing about a child.
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Kirk: I have a blood disorder.
Liz: Good.
Kirk: I’m dying.
Liz: Even better.
Kirk: They’re here.
[ Door opens. Mato and Romina, holding Agnes, enter ]
Liz: Oh, baby. Are you okay, sweetheart? [ Exhales sharply ] Let me look at you. [ Cries ] Oh, you’re okay. Oh, my God. [ Sniffles ] It’s okay. You’re a strong girl. Everything’s gonna be okay. You’re with Mommy now. Shh.
Kirk: She’s beautiful.
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[ Shovel thudding: Tom is being forced to dig a grave for the dead officer – and himself ] [ Cellphone rings ]Balzan: Hello? Is it done? What’s taking so long?
[ Tom attacks Angel. Thud, then a gunshot 💥 ] [ Grunting ]
Balzan: Angel. Angel? Angel. [ Gunshot 💥 ] He wants to talk to you.Kirk: Hello. Who’s this?
Tom: All that matters is that you have a little girl, and you have her mother.
Liz: Tom.
Tom: I’m coming for them, for you. And not just me, an army. You hear me? An army is coming for you.
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Esteban: I’ve done what I can, but you must hurry. Kirk has chartered a float plane. There isn’t much time.
Red: For either of us. A stevedore will meet you on Pier 36. I’ve arranged for a berth on a container ship bound for Caracas. Adios.
Your job here is done, Donald.
Ressler: Like hell it is. I came here to get Keen. I’m not leaving without her.
Red: You think I’m gonna let you tag along so you can inform the people who kidnapped Elizabeth they have the right to remain silent? I appreciate your assistance, but I’m not interested in having an ethical debate with you about whether they have the right to consult with an attorney before I put a bullet in their head. Excuse me.
Ressler: What about that dirtball? I suppose you think, uh, I should be okay with letting him walk.
Red: It’s entirely up to you.
Ressler: You made a deal with him.
Red: Yes, in order to save Elizabeth, I made a deal with the devil of the day. I did. You didn’t. If you have a problem with that, you’ve got 12 hours before his ship leaves to do something about it. Otherwise, safe travels home, Donald.
Red: For either of us. A stevedore will meet you on Pier 36. I’ve arranged for a berth on a container ship bound for Caracas. Adios.
Your job here is done, Donald.
Ressler: Like hell it is. I came here to get Keen. I’m not leaving without her.
Red: You think I’m gonna let you tag along so you can inform the people who kidnapped Elizabeth they have the right to remain silent? I appreciate your assistance, but I’m not interested in having an ethical debate with you about whether they have the right to consult with an attorney before I put a bullet in their head. Excuse me.
Ressler: What about that dirtball? I suppose you think, uh, I should be okay with letting him walk.
Red: It’s entirely up to you.
Ressler: You made a deal with him.
Red: Yes, in order to save Elizabeth, I made a deal with the devil of the day. I did. You didn’t. If you have a problem with that, you’ve got 12 hours before his ship leaves to do something about it. Otherwise, safe travels home, Donald.
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[ Knock on door ]
Kirk: Elizabeth? Ready to go?
[ Door opens ]
Kirk: Balzan! Balzan! He’s gone. Your guards, your security, they’re all gone. The child and the girl– find them.
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[ Liz is running through a wooded area. Agnes is crying ]
Liz: Shh, shh, shh. Shh. Shh. [ Crying continues ] Please, Agnes, stop crying. Mommy’s here. Shh, shh, shh. [ Agnes continues crying ]
[ Romina appears wielding a knife and swipes at Liz ]Liz: Think about what you’re doing. What are you gonna do? Hurt me? Hurt my baby? Kirk will kill you if you do. Are you a mother? Do you have children? Look at her…
[ Blade whooshes, Romina goes down ] [ Liz throws the baby blanket aside – she has a piece of firewood and is about to attack Romina with it ]
[ Mato appears and points the gun at Agnes, who is lying on the ground ]
Mato: Hey! [ Gun clicks ]
Liz: No! [ She holds her hands up. Agnes resumes crying ]
Mato: Little mama, you got spirit. Get up. [ To Romina ] Get the baby.
[ The float boat circles in for a water landing ]
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Kirk: You’ll learn to trust me. Get the baby and the things. We’re leaving.Liz: Like hell we are. No!
Kirk: I wish there was another way, I do, but Reddington’s on his way.
Liz: Agnes!
Kirk: [ To his men ] Come on. Get her onboard.
[ They muscle Liz into the float plane, leaving Agnes behind with Romina ]
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Red: Luis, you and your men take the perimeters to the north and the west. Dembe, secure the house. Silvio, you’re with me to the south. [ To Kate ] You stay put.
[ They leave to search the area and the house ]
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[ Red runs to the beach and sees the float plane rising from its takeoff. He looks up, defeated. He must feel his life’s mission – to protect Elizabeth from this man – has ended in failure. Liz looks down tearfully through the plane’s window. ]
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[ Kate sees Romina with Agnes, she draws her gun ]
Kate: That’s not your child.
Red: They’re gone.
Kate: I’m sorry, Raymond.
[ Agnes fusses ]
Red: We have her.
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Panabaker: You told them he worked for us? Do you have any idea what kind of blowback I’m dealing with here? And it doesn’t take long to find out who told the Cubans.Ressler: I heard it was an anonymous tip. …
Panabaker: Are you a traitor or– or just a moron? …
Cooper: Whoever this anonymous source is, he just saved a lot of lives. …Panabaker: Let’s not mince words. You took it upon yourself to tell the Cubans about our–
Ressler: No, I took it upon myself to stop what Esteban was doing. Do you have any idea what that was? No, because all you care about is what Esteban was doing for you.
Panabaker: There are bigger issues, Agent Ressler.
Ressler: Torture, abuse, murder. I don’t see any bigger issues than that. …
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[ Dembe drives car with Red and Kate in the back seat with the baby ][ Cellphone rings ]
Dembe: Yes? [ To Red ] It’s Tom.
Red: Tell him we were too late. Kirk has Elizabeth.
Tom: What about Agnes?
Dembe: She’s with us. Safe. Your daughter is safe.
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[ Tom gets into Angel’s red Ford pickup truck. The ignition sputters, then catches and revs and he departs ]
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[ In the back seat as Dembe drives, Red plays with Agnes who grasps his fingers & coos. Red smiles. ]
Kate: Raymond, I’ve been thinking about where we go from here–
[ Engine revs ] [ The blue Dodge sedan accelerates and❗💥 crashes 💥❗into the car with Red, Dembe, Kate and Agnes ]
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[ The car is flipped on its side, its wheel spinning ]
[ Agnes is crying ]
[ Mato approaches the wrecked car, reaches in through the window and takes Agnes. Mato kisses his finger and touches Kate’s lips as she loses consciousness. Red is crunched over motionless ]
[ Agnes’ crying continues ]
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