The Blacklist

After cleverly arranging his own kidnapping by a guerilla army leader in Cameroon, Raymond "Red" Reddington forces him to reveal that the hitman Berlin hired to kill him is the near-mythic bounty hunter Lord Baltimore. As Red heads back to Washington to plan his next move, Aram discovers that Lord Baltimore is targeting cyber engineer Rowan Mills for information to help find him. As Berlin ramps up his pursuit of Red, Rowan's claim of innocence is undercut when the FBI finds evidence that she rented the apartment where the cyber attacks on her data files were carried out. Meanwhile, Liz Keen warns Red that the Justice Department will no longer protect the Task Force now that its director, Harold Cooper, has been sidelined. Confronted by Liz and Donald Ressler with evidence of her complicity, Rowan admits to having a twin sister, Nora, who supposedly died in Mosul years ago, but who could be posing as her to help Berlin. But once she's released, she returns to her childhood home where Berlin's henchman uses a song to unlock memories that reveal she has a split personality and is really Nora – a fact Ressler soon confirms when he finds Rowan's corpse hidden on the property. Meanwhile, after pressuring Cooper to return to duty, Red is kidnapped by a Mossad agent sent to extract him in connection with a bombing that killed an Israeli diplomat. After Red is released on orders from the Justice Department, Aram finds that Berlin has actually hired Lord Baltimore to find Red's ex-wife, Naomi Hyland. When Liz arrives to warn her, Naomi must tell her unsuspecting new husband that she's in witness protection because of her previous marriage to Red. But before Naomi can be taken to safety, she's kidnapped by an assault team led by Nora. In the wake of the attack, Liz struggles to regain her bearings and stops Nora as she is trying to escape. Using information provided by Berlin's henchman to trigger the split personality, she forces Nora to confess to being Lord Baltimore. Fi

Following the robbery of Monarch Douglas Bank's Warsaw branch that's widely used to launder money for numerous criminal enterprises, Red asks Liz to set aside the fact that Berlin is holding his wife Naomi hostage and urges her to head to Poland to investigate. Unaware they are being followed by Mossad Agent Samar Navabi, Liz and Ressler see surveillance footage suggesting the heist was really a kidnapping of bank employee Kaja Tomczak. Told that the bank was providing Kaja with an unprecedented degree of protection, Red uses evidence found in the getaway van to lead Liz and Ressler the kidnappers. But when Liz and Ressler arrive at the safe house where she's being held, Kaja reveals she's actually running from bank executive Matthew Strickland and his criminal clientele. As Berlin warns Strickland in no uncertain terms to get to the bottom of the robbery, Kaja tells Ressler that the bank paid her to memorize the details of illicit Monarch Douglas accounts, which she then used to drain them of their assets. After a rogue FBI agent working for Strickland draws Liz and Ressler into an ambush, Samar appears out of nowhere to provide them a chance to escape – but not before Kaja is shot. With Red working behind the scenes, Liz and Ressler take Kaja to a freight train just steps ahead of the corrupt cops who are in hot pursuit. Seeing their getaway in danger, Red intercepts them and takes Kaja to his plane for a fight out of the country. Meanwhile, after Naomi nearly manages to escape, Red calls Berlin to arrange a meeting to negotiate for her freedom. Claiming he's been wrongly accused of killing Berlin's daughter, Red freezes his assets and offers to release them in exchange for Naomi. Realizing that Red used Kaja's photographic memory to gain access to Berlin's money, Liz gets her to reveal the account codes in order to stop him. However, when Red still refuses to call off his deal with Berlin, Liz concedes that it's still her job to protect him as a bureau asset and releases the cash to free Naomi. Finally, after he's told to bury the details of the case in order to protect the bureau, Cooper agrees to bring Samar inside the task force – unaware that she's secretly working for Red.

After being accosted by a pair of men at a Washington, D.C. café, shady investment manager Paul Wyatt's body is found in an alleyway with the heart removed. After the medical examiner discovers that the missing organ was actually a transplant, Ellen Wyatt admits her husband used his ill-gotten gains to lease a new heart from a discredited cardiothoracic surgeon named Dr. James Covington, who "repossessed" it when Paul couldn't make his payments. As Liz struggles with nightmares about Tom and her suspicions of Samar Navabi's motives for joining the task force, Red and his associate Niko Demakis lay plans to maintain control of an Indonesian port widely used for trafficking contraband. But when he's told that Berlin has enlisted an operative named Mr. Vargas to take it over instead, Red orders Demakis to see that no one in their syndicate defects. With help from Ellen, Liz and Ressler track down Dr. Gordon Albee, a medical examiner who's being paid to supply organs for Covington's off-the-books transplants. Agreeing to set a trap that will lead the agents to Covington, Albee calls to arrange for a pickup. But when the courier realizes he's being followed and flees, he's killed by an oncoming car, leaving the FBI without access to his boss. Meanwhile, after telling Red that two of their partners are working to undermine their deal, Demakis secretly conspires with Vargas to kill him for Berlin. After tracking down the next illegal transplant patient, Red threatens to let him die of a heart attack unless he turns on Covington. However, when Liz and Ressler burst in during surgery on a gravely ill boy at the makeshift hospital, Covington reveals he's using the proceeds from his operations to provide transplants to children with no other hope for survival. Even though she knows they have to shut down the ward, Liz persuades Ressler to allow Covington to save the child's life before arresting him. After confronting Red, Demakis learns he's been double-crossed by Vargas an

Nonviolent citizens become killers, prompting Red to suspect that a deadly psychological experiment has been put in motion. Meanwhile, Red offers a complicated proposition.

The team targets an eco-terrorist cell seeking a deadly weapon. Meanwhile, Liz attempts to lose her guardian, and Red resorts to manipulation to purse a special someone.

Liz and Red delve into the perilous underworld of wildlife poachers when a mutilated corpse washes ashore. Elsewhere, Ressler develops a dangerous habit.

A devious hit man targets an important American scientist in the wake of an Iranian nuclear scientist's assassination. Meanwhile, Keen tries to collect intelligence on Berlin, and Red connects with a food-truck worker.

Having blamed Red for years for the bombing that eradicated his Russian resistance cell and caused his daughter's death, Berlin is stunned when he learns his daughter Zoe is still alive. When Berlin expresses his anger at Red for his exile to a gulag and exposing his daughter as a dissident, Zoe reveals that in order to protect herself from her own father, she arranged to go underground with the help of a man called the Decembrist. Meanwhile, even though Liz has kept him imprisoned for months in an old cargo ship, Tom still refuses to reveal Berlin's true identity. After Liz narrowly avoids having her shipboard jail uncovered by the harbormaster, Red tells her that Aram has identified the Decembrist as Russian Finance Minister Kiryl Morozov. As Cooper is warned by his boss to steer clear of the Russians, Liz is summoned to the ship where she finds Tom and the Samoan holding the harbormaster hostage. When Liz refuses to kill him to keep them from being exposed, Tom takes matters into his own hands and strangles the harbormaster. Acting on the news about Morozov, Red and Berlin head for Moscow where they lure him into an ambush. After Berlin demands to know the truth about the bombing, Morozov tells them he was acting on behalf of the real Decembrist, whom he identifies as Assistant Director of National Intelligence Alan Fitch. Berlin kills Morozov and says he's going after Fitch, even after Red tells him he wants Fitch for himself. Back in Washington, Red confronts Fitch about being the Decembrist and warns him about Berlin, but as he's on his way to a safe house Fitch is kidnapped by Berlin's men. Now that he knows Tom is alive, Red presses Liz to use him to find Berlin and save Fitch. When Tom insists on his freedom before disclosing the information, Liz reluctantly agrees. When a SWAT team arrives they find Fitch wired with a bomb. With the bomb squad racing against time to disarm the explosive device, Red arranges for Berlin to see Zoe one last time before giving her a new identity and sending her on her way. After Berlin insists he doesn't know how to dismantle the bomb, Fitch summons Red to a meeting and gives him the combination to a safe in St. Petersburg containing information about a secret plot just before the bomb explodes. With Fitch dead, Red returns to Berlin and, after reminiscing about their past, kills him. Finally, after Liz admits to lying about Tom's death, Red gives Tom an envelope filled with cash and insists he never see her again. Before leaving, Tom assures Red that he never told Liz anything about their relationship.

Following his well-publicized arrest in Hong Kong, Red disappears into a remote black site prison known as the Factory. Knowing there's about to be trouble, he alerts the warden to a plot being hatched by prisoner Luther Braxton. However, after an audacious escape reunites Braxton with a handpicked team of inmates, it's too late for Red to stop them. When Cooper learns that Red is being held at the Factory, the Director of Clandestine Services and his assistant, Kat Goodson, say they know all about Red's relationship with the FBI and his arrest. After Goodson authorizes the Task Force to extract him, Red realizes they're headed into an ambush. But when he fails to stop them, Ressler and Samar are caught in the crossfire and taken hostage, leaving Liz to try and free them and Red. Taking control of the prison's nerve center, Braxton demands the access codes to the CIA's computer networks and kills the warden to show he means business. With Ressler and Samar next to die, Cooper gives up the codes, allowing Braxton's men to infiltrate the intelligence service's network in search of the Fulcrum, a top secret file. Finding Liz lurking in the shadows, Red leads her to where he and some imprisoned associates are planning to retake the Factory. Meanwhile, knowing the trouble that releasing the Fulcrum would cause, Goodson reluctantly calls in an airstrike to destroy the Factory along with everything – and everyone – inside it. Navigating her way through the air ducts, Liz gains access to a boiler room adjacent to where Braxton's team is working. Unaware that fighter jets have been scrambled, Liz and Red reprogram the boiler to explode and take out the servers with it. Pressed about the Fulcrum, Red says that the only reason he's still alive is because the powers that be think he has it. Coming under fire from Braxton's men, the boiler explodes and Liz is captured while Red is left for dead. However, with the aid of a friend on the inside, Red is rescued and heads to

Conclusion. FBI boss Cooper tries to rescue his team in the wake of chaos at a detention facility. Elsewhere, thief Luther Braxton (Ron Perlman) attempts to attain confidential information.

After giving the Fulcrum to Aram for analysis, Liz learns that a CIA spy in Uzbekistan has been kidnapped. She warily resists helping until Red says that Uzbek separatist leader Ruslan Denisov is holding Agent Burke and several corporate executives for ransom. While the CIA tries to deny Burke's existence, Liz and Ressler arrive in Tashkent where the Uzbek military's Counterinsurgency Commander Kushan warns them not to pursue their own investigation. After being followed to their hotel where they find Red with a group of foreign businessmen, Liz and Ressler are abducted from the elevator and taken through a secret passageway to Denisov's lair. Telling them about a faulty Anecca Oil pipeline that’s killed hundreds, Denisov then frees a disfigured executive from a tank of polluted water and says that Burke's release will be negotiated. Meanwhile, an investigation into the disappearance of Harbormaster Eugene Ames leads the police to inquire about Liz. Though Anecca VP Dean Walker says he’s just arrived to help, Ressler gets him to admit he's been there for weeks trying to negotiate with Denisov, whom he accuses of sabotage. When Kushan orders them confined to their hotel, Liz and Ressler are again taken from the elevator and delivered to Denisov and his negotiator – Red. Pretending not to know them, Red waits until Denisov leaves before offering to take Liz and Ressler to a village to see the toxic leak and broker Burke's release. Though they've promised Cooper they would wait, the CIA is preparing a strike on the separatists when Kushan's men swoop in and kill Denisov's team without finding any hostages. Meanwhile, when reached in Uzbekistan, Liz refuses to discuss her connection to Ames. With Cooper certain the CIA ordered the attack and the negotiations at a standstill, Red talks Denisov out of killing Burke, who says the agency is covering up former Soviet Cabinet Minister Leonid Zhabin’s deal with Anecca for a secret pipeline that's the source of the toxi

The team investigates the vanishing of a polygamous cult leader with dangerous shipping containers buried on his property. Meanwhile, Red seeks a hidden safe.

As Liz is lecturing in a graduate seminar about the case, the serial killer known as the Deer Hunter is carrying out another ritual murder. While Liz believes the Deer Hunter is a man obsessed with dominating his victims, a student who found that the last six murders are different from the first six suggests the recent killings are the work of a copycat. After the mysterious caller whose number was found in the St. Petersburg apartment warns him that something is happening, Red offers to help find the Deer Hunter if Liz tells him what she knows about the Fulcrum, and piques her interest when he also says the killer is a woman. Meanwhile, when the police make a deal with Samuel Aleko – the Samoan – Liz worries she'll be arrested for the harbormaster's murder. To keep her out of jail, Red bribes Aleko with a heart transplant for his ailing brother if he'll exonerate Liz. As Aram confirms the copycat hypothesis, another killing leads Samar to discover that the recent victims were either husbands or boyfriends of women who sought help for domestic abuse from WhiteHaven Shelters. Seeing Liz and Ressler questioning a co-worker, WhiteHaven employee Tracy Solobotkin worries she’s about to get caught and warns her latest victim's wife, Mary Denning, against exposing her as her avenging angel. Seeing the FBI at the door, Tracy knocks Mary unconscious and flees with Liz close behind. Catching Liz by surprise, Tracy knocks her out and drags her into her garage to kill her. Going on the offensive, Liz challenges her to do it. Unnerved, Tracy admits that the original Deer Hunter was her abusive husband, whom she killed and then mimicked his crime spree in order to help other women. Provoking her into losing her cool, Liz gets her legs wrapped around Tracy's neck and squeezes until Ressler arrives to make an arrest. When Liz says she's going to confess to her role in the harbormaster's murder, Tom insists she not martyr herself for a crime she didn’t commit. So after Aleko

Red gets entangled in a dangerous game with a wealthy family whose fortune was illegally amassed. Meanwhile, Tom delves into a new mission.

Facing a grand jury subpoena, Cooper orders Liz to come clean about her involvement in Harbormaster Eugene Ames' murder. While refusing to go into detail, she does say she didn't kill him. But when Deputy Attorney General Reven Wright files a motion to quash the subpoena and keep the task force a secret, Judge Richard Denner orders Liz to testify why a trial would threaten national security. Meanwhile, Red says the only way to save Liz is to find the Major, a Blacklister who transforms sociopathic teenagers into a dangerous cadre of adult criminals. To get him, Red needs to get to Malaysia’s Deputy Minister to the U.N. So after convincing the FBI to kidnap him, Red threatens to give up the diplomat to a ruthless drug cartel if he doesn't turn the Major over. In chambers, Liz recounts her rapid rise from rookie profiler to member of a secret task force working with the FBI's most wanted criminal, Raymond Reddington. When Judge Denner questions why Red only works with her, Liz insists she's telling the truth. Explaining that her husband, Tom Keen, was spying on her because of her connection to Red, Liz claims she killed him in self defense months before Ames was murdered. When Denning continues to have doubts and suggests her allegiance is with Red, she lashes out at him for questioning her loyalty. However, after re-interviewing the Samoan guard who was there when Ames died, Detective Martin Wilcox orders the ship searched for evidence placing Liz's gun at the scene. Meanwhile, in Dresden, Tom looks to create an opening for himself by killing a shady arms dealer who's in league with his new neo-Nazi friends. After defending the task force's success in bringing down criminals, Liz goes on to talk about Red's connection with her father and how his interest in the Blacklist is linked to a file containing the names of a secret organization operating inside the government – the Fulcrum. Though Denner continues to suspect Liz and Tom of the murder, when called to t

As evidence mounts against Liz in the case of the murdered DC Harbormaster, a federal judge makes it clear to her that she will face severe criminal charges. Red and Ressler jump into high gear to exonerate Liz but the only solution is to find the recently vanished Tom Keen.

The task force tracks a scientist who abducts disabled patients to conduct experiments on immortality. Now back in Washington, DC, Tom scrambles to save himself from new enemies.

The force pursues a provocative female frame-up artist targeting the moneyed elite. Elsewhere, Tom desperately seeks Liz's help, and Red puts pressure on Liz for the Fulcrum.

Red fights for his life while the task force races to track down a mysterious figure from his past. Also: Tom provides help in an unexpected way.

After decoding the information that is embedded in The Fulcrum, Red is determined to stop an imminent threat. Meanwhile, the task force discovers that deceased bodies of Chinese-American women are being smuggled out of the country under false identities. Liz continues to search for answers about her past after discovering a picture hidden in Red’s secret flat.

Following intel from Red, the FBI find themselves one-step behind the most dangerous Russian Assassin, Karakurt, an enemy on U.S. soil. To avoid catastrophe, Liz and Ressler meet with Russian Counter-Intelligence who offer insight not only on Karakurt, but also on the identity of Liz’s mother. Cooper finds himself in a compromising position.

Liz discovers she's being framed by the Cabal, prompting Red to tap into his connections to clear her name, in the Season 2 finale. Cooper receives stunning news and the task force is plagued by trust issues.