I know the writers' room for The Blacklist didn't contain any biologists, but I do kind of wonder if that played into how ignorant they make every character. Liz is like a Ph. D. I think, and it takes her how long to realize that the plot was to infect her with the virus so in the course of saving the Senator she'd infect him? Like, seriously a 5 year-old would have been yelling at the screen for the first half of this episode, it's that simple a mystery.
Liz actually demands her blood sample's chain of evidence, like she's thinking she isn't the one infected, or that her being infected shows her guilt somehow. She's literally dumb. It's a virus spread by touch and the Cabal can do anything, in a world where you brush pass somebody and can steal their wallet, badge, weapon, literally anybody swipes hands on the street and she's infected. And she's too dumb to comprehend it... and they try to make a big deal of the Union Station event! And he uses some dry ice inhaler thing to shove up her nose and give her the virus. She just killed somebody by touching them!
And then when they confront Connolly, he's all like "I am the Senate!" and says no government organization will look into their evidence, nor will any judge consider it, but of course it could just be on NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox that night. What would they do then? And of course any of them could have recorded Connolly or the CIA Director for that matter because they discuss their crimes constantly.
It was all quite funny, typical for this show, just especially silly because they had so much "plot" to get through. Also Ressler is like, "I'll hunt you down," but he's just an agent, he wouldn't get to decide to what cases he gets to do, or the right to repurpose the task force, and they never show he gets permission for that, he just decides. Which also made me laugh.
Liz actually demands her blood sample's chain of evidence, like she's thinking she isn't the one infected, or that her being infected shows her guilt somehow. She's literally dumb. It's a virus spread by touch and the Cabal can do anything, in a world where you brush pass somebody and can steal their wallet, badge, weapon, literally anybody swipes hands on the street and she's infected. And she's too dumb to comprehend it... and they try to make a big deal of the Union Station event! And he uses some dry ice inhaler thing to shove up her nose and give her the virus. She just killed somebody by touching them!
And then when they confront Connolly, he's all like "I am the Senate!" and says no government organization will look into their evidence, nor will any judge consider it, but of course it could just be on NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox that night. What would they do then? And of course any of them could have recorded Connolly or the CIA Director for that matter because they discuss their crimes constantly.
It was all quite funny, typical for this show, just especially silly because they had so much "plot" to get through. Also Ressler is like, "I'll hunt you down," but he's just an agent, he wouldn't get to decide to what cases he gets to do, or the right to repurpose the task force, and they never show he gets permission for that, he just decides. Which also made me laugh.