- The Pavlovich brothers specialize in abductions of high value targets and according to Red, they are planning their next hit. While the team tries to protect the next target, Red has a job of his own for the Pavlovich Brothers. Elsewhere, Liz patiently tries to uncover the truth about Tom.—Jiilo_Kim
- "The Blacklist" - "The Pavlovich Brothers" - April 21, 2014
We open on a labor camp in China, in the middle of its vaccination program. One nurse surreptitiously switches needles and injects a woman who promptly falls over and seizes. The nurse insists they take her to a hospital. Again she does something funky with needles in the ambulance.
The authorities back at the labor camp discover the needle switch on surveillance and stop the ambulance at the gates. Authorities open the door and the ambulance is empty.
A different vehicle, a dry cleaning van speeds away. In that van they give the woman a shot of adrenaline and she comes back to life. They tell her she will be in Washington, D.C.by the morning.
Thuggish looking men in Serbia get a call to track the woman down and say they will take care of it. One man says Hezbollah will have to wait because they're going back to Washington.
Tom and Liz talk about the Jolene Parker case. Tom is confused that it's become an investigation. She says there was blood and they have a person of interest. He says she's used to this stuff but it scares him and he asks her to be as careful as she says she is at work. She plants a tracker in his keys and he says they should try the new thai place for dinner.
Liz tells Red that she can tell that Tom feels like something is up. Red says he's just nervous and he's behaving. Liz theorizes Tom killed Jolene. Red confirms this. He says he thinks they worked for the same organization and he was either ordered to kill her or is out of control, paranoid and reactionary and is scrambling for a foothold and this is their opportunity to wait and watch.
But he says he has come not to the Post Office to talk about Tom but the Pavlovich Brothers, number 119-122. They were the extraction team that kidnapped the general's daughter earlier in the season. They worked protective detail for Milosevic during the ethnic cleansing of the Yugoslav wars. Ressler remembers them from the bridge and that they killed six of their men. Liz says they are not politically affiliated, strictly mercenary snatch-and-grabs of political dissidents. They are after the woman from the Chinese labor camp, a Dr. Li who specializes in immunology. She was extracted by the agency because she had signaled a willingness to talk about a secret Chinese bio-weapons program and then was detained. She is landing in D.C. in an hour for a debriefing. Cooper say to re-route her to the Post Office.
She arrives. Liz and Ressler arrive just as she is being ambushed. The Pavlovich Brothers make off with Dr. Li in a helicopter while shooting at Liz and Ressler.
Meera, Ressler, and Liz go back to HQ and here the P Bros dumped the helicopter and Liz is worried they're going to sneak her back out. Meera tells Cooper it's such a big deal because if Dr. Li told the U.S. about their germ warfare program it would be a huge intelligence breach so they need her back but can't make a big deal about it publicly.
Red calls Liz and tells her Tom is not at school. Liz tells the gang she's going to talk to Red about the case but she's going to see him to stakeout Tom. They watch him read on a park bench. She says it's hard sitting there when all she really wants is to choke him. Tom leaves. A woman Red hired, follws him with a stroller as does a skate punk kid. And a guy on a cell phone. Liz notices them. Red says they all work for her. She jumps out of the car and runs across the street and follows as Tom goes into the National Archives. She shows her badge and keeps a tail on him. She sees him and he's about to exchange bags with a man but he notices video cameras and tells the guy, "not now." They get pics of the guy leaving.
The P Bros roughly handle Dr. Li into a dank basement space. The inject her wrist with something and she passes out on a dirty mattress but manages to write something on the wall first.
Liz comes home and Tom found her music box. She says her dad gave it to her. He wonders why he hasn't seen it before. She notices his pot is boiling over and thought they were going out for Thai. He says he thought it would be nice to stay home. He mentions stopping by the National Archives to book a field trip for the kids and says he could've sworn he saw her there. She says she was cooped up in the office all day. He says he loves her and leaves to walk the dog, but then doesn't take the dog.
He's out, he breaks his cell phone into pieces. He calls into the home office from a payphone saying "Mockingbird knows, requesting immediate evac." He stomps on his keys.
Liz goes to Red and tells him her husband is gone. He says her husband never existed. He says he knows this is emotional for her but for Tom it was just business. She notes they had sex the other night and she feels filthy. Red says she's chest deep in filth and she needs to get used to it. She can't believe that the man she was excited about sharing her life with was a lie and she can't believe she couldn't see it. Red tells her she needs time. She tells him not to tell her to be patient. The office calls, she sighs she needs a lead on the P Bros. She says it's time to go after the chopper they stole.
Red goes to talk to a limo driver who picked up the guy from the National Archives and asks where he dropped the guy.
Red goes to see the guy Jeff Seavers. The package he was going to give to Tom was a Calculus textbook. There is some kind of code written in the book. The man says he knows nothing, he's merely a messenger. He says this was his 4th drop. Red wants all the addresses of the drops. He tells him to return the package to whoever gave it to him and that's it, but they've photocopied all of his IDs. As well as the book.
Aram reports that the chopper did have a wealth of forensic information and find the P Bros staging site.
Red tracks down Tom to one of the drop sites. Dembe wonders how he's going to get him out since Red's normal extraction guy is out of the country.
Liz touches base on Dr. Li. He tries to tell her about Tom but she says they disagree on how to proceed and she's going to do it her way. He wants to talk her out of it, but he can't.
The P. Bros get Dr. Li ready for transport, hooked up to oxygen into a wooden shipping box. After they load he into the van, Red shows up and introduces himself. (He's decided to hire the best extraction team apparently.)
Liz, Ressler and the team arrive but the P. Bros and Dr. Li-- and Red-- are already gone. Ressler notices the writing on the wall. They're not sure what it says.
A man, posing as a vagrant busts open the door to where Tom is hiding and kills a bunch of people guarding where he and his extraction team are. They begin shooting up the building it is the P. Bros, doing a little side job for Red. Tom busts out in a car while the P Bros shoot at him. They try to run him off the road. Instead they box him in and capture him. He gets out with his hands up.
Back at the Post Office they try to decode Dr. Li's message and Liz can't get ahold of Red. Ressler doesn't think it's a coincidence. He thinks Red put them on to it to get to Dr. Li himself for financial gain.
Liz calls Red as she heads home. There she discovers: The P. Bros. They say they have a gift for her from Red. Tom is bound and gagged. They leave the couple alone.
She rails at him for the two wasted years of her life. She wonders if he cares what he's done to her life. She asks what it's done to him. He doesn't talk. She tells him that no prison sentence will make up to her what he did. He says he was doing his job. She yells at him to shut up about that and demands that he say something to his wife, who is dying in front of him, wracked with pain over how he used her. He tells her that it was on their fourth date he knew she was falling in love and from that moment on felt sorry for her. He says part of him didn't want it to work but it did. She's speechless.
Aram decodes the message. It's Archimedes' formula, which tells them that the P. Bros are taking her out of the country by boat.
Ressler calls Liz and tells her that Red used them and he wants her there when they take down the P. Bros.
Liz calls Red to find Dr. Li. He doesn't know where she is but says it's not a cargo operation it's smuggling and has a contact that should help them. Tom taunts her about her relationship with Red and asks if "Daddy" is going to make him talk. Nope, says Liz, she is.
Ressler and Meera go to Red's contact.
Liz tries to get Tom to talk. She threatens to cut off his thumb. He says she doesn't have it in her. She promptly breaks his thumb.
Ressler and Meera rescue Dr. Li and take out the P. Bros.
Tom points out t's a tactical error to break the thumb of a person in handcuffs. He slips his chains and they brawl. He forces her to cuff herself to the bannister at gunpoint. Tom says he's one of the good guys and that it is Red that she can't trust and that he is not who she thinks she is. She says she will find him. He tells her to take the key she found in the lamp to a bank and she will find out everything in a safety deposit box. He says goodbye. (Apparently, none of the neighbors called the police.)
Dembe and Red watch him leave and Red says not to stop him. Red has people tail them instead.
Cooper asks Ressler where Keen was today. He wonders if it's Reddington. Ressler says she's having troubles at home.
Red goes into her wrecked apartment, where Liz has busted free from the handcuffs. She tells him she lost him. She is sad that he's gone. Red says no. She realizes Red's people are still following him. She asks him how it's all going to end. Red says this is an end. And then something new will begin. He tells her she deserves the best in life. He says he knows that sounds odd coming from a man who has brought her the worst but he says that's why Tom had to work so hard to pretend to be the best because that's what she deserves and he says it will come.
She goes to the safety deposit box. There is a single orange envelope inside with a single piece of paper. She looks at it and raises her eyebrows.
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