- Liz refuses to work with Red after discovering the truth about the death of her father. Seeking to make amends and force Liz to see him, Red brings the FBI a case they can't ignore. Meanwhile, Liz reveals what she knows about Tom's secret life to the FBI.—Jiilo_Kim
- "The Blacklist" - "Berlin" - May 5, 2014
A man coughs incessantly and sees blood come out. He puts off his wife who wants to kiss him goodbye. He says he doesn't want her to catch what he has.
He's an armored truck worker and as he heads to work continues coughing up blood. He looks at a syringe in his jacket. He enters a bank to do his rounds but collapses. He calls 911, asks if the call is being recorded, and sends a message to his wife. He then dies. The people in the bank are freaking. But when it's determined what he had may have been contagious everyone is put on quarantine lockdown.
We learn that we are after "Berlin" which/who is number 8.
Liz brings Ressler to her house and tells the story and she says she's going to find him and take him apart piece by piece and find out what happened. He says he'll help, but first she has to tell the FBI.
She does and is questioned, explaining everything she knows from the day she met him and saying she doesn't know where he is. They comb through her apartment and her storage facility HQ where Cooper looks at the charred paper reading "Berlin." She says she believes that he was inserted into her life to get to Red and his mission was gathering intelligence. She says two of his three known associates are dead and she discovers, during the questioning, that the third, a woman named Gina, busted out of prison two weeks ago.
Tom runs down the guy that Red has tailing him and has him phone Red telling him he lost the tail. The guy tries to bargain his way out of death by saying he could work for the people Tom works for but Tom says "You don't choose Berlin, Berlin chooses you." He kills the guy, and for good measure, cuts off the man's distinctive spider tattoo.
Liz tries to hand in her resignation to Cooper -- refusing to speak to Red who is in Cooper's office. Cooper tries to argue her out of it and says he trusts she had nothing to do with Tom but the Bureau might not but they do know how valuable she is because she's willing to speak to Red and that's no longer the case. Red keeps trying to tell her he has a case and it's related to Tom and an attack is imminent but she doesn't care and tells Cooper that Red killed her dad. Red asks if she will really put her own anger above the lives of innocent people in danger. She agrees to work this case but then wants a transfer.
The case basically is: there is a grand conspiracy to bring down Red and the task force. It starts with the armored car worker, who Red says is but a pawn in a biological attack and fear is a good weapon for control. The man died of a very rare and incredibly contagious virus that could cause a global pandemic. It's so bad that scientists have been ordered to no longer work on it and the only known research strains are under lock and key.
As Red explains the elaborate plan, we see a man in a lab don gloves and fill syringes with an amber liquid like the armored car guy had.
A CDC researcher at the scene of the bank quarantine tells Liz and Ressler that this strain of the virus was intentionally mutated to contain itself in its host, which is incredibly advanced science and anyone doing it is doing it in isolation and for no good purpose.
On the plane ride to see the foremost expert in this virus Red tries to convince Liz to stay on the task force. He also gives her a copy of Tom's codebook which doesn't have much about Red in it but plenty about Liz and their cases. She takes it from him and gets up and asks Dembe to trade seats with her so she doesn't have to sit with Red.
Ressler and the Post Office gang learn that the syringe had a heretofore unknown antidote to the virus in it and learn that the armored car guy was being blackmailed by someone to do a job on the 30th, which is the next day. They realize the guy chose to die instead of following orders so it must be big and they know Berlin will need a replacement. We cut to the other armored car truck driver who is now sick. He gets home and a note on his computer says to play a video. On it a man tells him he has been infected by the virus, he also has been given enough of the antidote in a syringe to stay upright to finish whatever the job is. Once he does that and if he's still alive he will get enough to cure him.
Red and Liz meet with Dr. Sanders an old acquaintance of Red's. It turns out that he's in the loony bin. But that doesn't mean he still isn't a genius. When he starts babbling about "Space Agent UD-4126" though Liz has heard enough and thinks that Red has wasted their time and he just wanted to get her alone to change her mind. She wonders if he's ever had a selfless moment in his life. She leaves and says she's flying home coach.
Cooper meets with the big boss and says if Liz walks Red's deal is off and Red will likely be thrown in a hole forever. As for Liz he thinks they've been overly indulgent. Cooper sticks up for Liz and the boss notes that Cooper's job is also in jeopardy.
Turns out there was information in that babble. Back at the Post Office Ressler and Meera ask about Liz's transfer. She apologizes but they both say they support her. They tell her about the antidote and it was Dr. Sanders who created and must be working with someone on the outside with a lab.
So Liz has to go ask Red for help. He shows her the ripped off neck tattoo that Tom sent him.
They go to see Dr. Sanders again and he gets agitated. But she notices the nurse's badge and gets a lightbulb: UD-4126 must be an ID badge number.
They run it through the system and turn up a Dr. from CDC, a Dr. Vogel. They bust into his house, find his lab, and nab him. They bring him in and he won't talk, until Liz infects him with his own virus in his drinking water and holds the antidote out as bait to get him to talk. They want the names of the people he infected and what the job is. She tells him to let her know when he's ready to talk.
While she waits, back at home, Liz looks over all the cases they've done with Red and Tom's code book and sees connections between them and realizes that they all somehow trace back to Berlin, who she realizes is not a place but a person and Red used them not to expand his empire but help protect him. She says that person is coming for him today.
As she says this we see a man in a hood escorted by some other men through a building to the outside.
The evil doctor gives them the names of the five people infected. The gang connects the dots to an airport.
Liz realizes the boss has already made a decision and runs off to warn Red and get him to safety before the FBI can grab him.
Onboard a plane, the hooded figure is about to touch down in D.C.-- thanks to the five infected people who smoothed his passage including a pilot and an air traffic controller-- when the gang roars up guns blazing and blows it. The plane is warned by people on the ground to abort and before it touches down flies off again, Berlin onboard.
Military jets are scrambled from an aircraft carrier and they shoot at the plane, hitting it.
The FBI is closing in on Red and Liz in the park but he refuses to make a run for it and instead calmly sits and asks her to explain her change of heart. She refuses to give him the satisfaction of telling him he's right but tries to convince him to go. He asks what they're going to do to him? Kill him? He says none of this is worse than losing her. He tells her to go. She says she won't be tricked into forgiving him for killing her dad and he has ruined her life and she wants to kill him but she needs answers from him. He says he needs things from her too. She says they are stuck with each other. He monologues about a near death experience and then he surrenders. The now smoking plane flies over their heads in the park on its way to crashing. Red says "Now it begins."
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