- A former paramour involves Reddington in a deadly game with a wealthy and powerful family dynasty whose ill-begotten fortune was amassed from an underground auction of human and material contraband. Meanwhile, Tom takes on a new mission.
- "The Blacklist" - "T. Earl King VI (No. 94)"- March 5, 2015
We open in the past, two years ago to be precise, on "Jekyll Island."
We close in on a huge mansion. Inside and an old man in wheelchair greets three men, two his sons and one named Mr. Valmont. The clock strickes midnight and the old man asks for a tally. Mr. Valmont says the current totals are Tyler King 67 million, 800 thousand, all bids paid, Francis King, 67 million, 400 thousand with one account pending at over a million dollars. Mr. Valmont places a gun on the table. Francis says he hasn't lost yet.. But when it's clear that million isn't coming in by the deadline, Francis "loses." His dad says "get on with it." Francis takes the gun, points it at his head, pulls the trigger and the chamber is empty. This man is making his two sons plays Russian Roulette. Yikes, and you thought your dad was strict. Francis turns to Tyler and says menacingly "Next time."
We come back to New York in the present. Tom is meeting a man named Bud in a bare apartment and says he wants to "go back in." Bud says since he is a prime operative he doesn't want to put Tom on any old con. Tom says he doesn't care about money and says he can play anything. Bud says if Tom is looking for a power-cleansing he has a job for him depending on how good his German is.
Red and Dembe come to see Liz in the motel. He says Madeline Pratt has been abducted. Liz wonders why he cares since she almost got them killed. He says they have a complicated relationship and the world is a more interesting place with her in it. He explains her kidnappers are the dapper but dysfunctional family we met at the open, crazy bazillionaires who made their family fortune over decades of nefarious behavior--including forcing "undesirables" into indentured servitude-- patriarch T. Earl, the man in the wheelchair, and sons Tyler and Francis. He says the FBI should be interested in taking down the dynasty and it would be their chance to solve a century of disappearances, murders, art thefts, weapons sales, and other major crimes since they kept a ledger that documents it all.
She takes it to the Post Office and runs down the evil auctions of the Kings for the gang. They all scatter to dig up info on a potential kidnapper. Cooper calls the attorney general-- the friend who got him into the clinical trial-- to get intel. The attorney general reminds him of getting him into that trial when he asks Harold to do a favor for another friend- one about to go to jail who wants to set up a blind trust for his kids before his assets are seized. He wants Harold to tip him off. It's sleazy and gross but Harold likely doesn't have a choice.
They get a tip on where the potential abductor is and Liz and Ressler head out. As do Dembe and Red. When the latter pair arrive, the guy is already dead. Francis arrives with Madeline and a bunch of goons. Turns out Madeline sold him out, she was used as bait to get him, the Kings want to auction him off. They take Red prisoner, take his picture and put it in the ledger. Francis is very excited to have him knowing he will draw top dollar.
Liz and Ressler take this info back to the Post Office. They need to figure out where the next auction is so they can save Red.
Red is being fitted for a suit while he is held captive in a plexiglass cube. Tyler comes in and is happy to see Red. Red taunts him and of course, enjoys it. Francis gloats to Tyler about snaring Red.
The Post Office gang works on people who may be attending the auction as a way to figure out where it is. They interrogate one woman who is in town in order to bid for a bad guy. They get her information about what she is supposed to do at the auction. Liz offers to go undercover in the woman's place.
Tom gives Liz a buzz to let her know he's going away for awhile on a new job. He seems like he really wanted to talk to her and she seems to actually want to talk back even though she claims she doesn't. He gives her advice about going undercover.
Liz goes to the hotel and follows the instructions the woman told her to in order to discern the auction location. Ressler also checks in and he and Samar watch from the lobby. She heads to her room. She is asked to give up her phone, purse, and jewelry by the elevator operator and they head elsewhere. Samar tries to follow. Liz is led to the parking garage and goes to the room number on her card which is actually a car service. Samar and Ressler arrive and the car is gone.
In the car, Liz is given a drink. It knocks her out immediately.
Tom arrives in a bare apartment with some cash, fake passports and a dossier on a bearded man. He shaves his head. He gets several Nazi-ish tattooes. He smokes.
Meanwhile, Red is getting a nice close shave. Earl comes to visit and explains Red inadvertently put him in the wheelchair during an encounter in Bolivia. He tells Red this is just business, not personal. Earl tells Red that he taught him a valuable lesson that dispassion is a businessman's best friend and you have to listen to the market and he says the market has a high demand for Red.
Liz wakes up in a lush room in a mansion in her underwear. Earl enters in his wheelchair. He offers her some fancy jewelry and says they want her to feel beautiful and kisses her hand.
She also gets a fancy party dress and heads to the auction, which is being held at the mansion on Jekyll island. The auction items are placed throughout the room. Earl, Francis, Tyler welcome the guests to the party. Liz cases the room. The guests will have 30 minutes to peruse the lots up for auction and then the bidding will begin.
Liz notices a young boy, he's the son of a mobster about to squeal. Tyler approaches her as she looks at the Van Gogh. He peppers her with questions and she takes Tom advice to sneeze when she doesn't know her answers. Red also saves her. They pretend to know each other and she says she's probably out of her price range anyway. The warlord from Africa whose village he destroyed notes he's not out of his price range.
Samar and Ressler interrogate the hotel employee who led Liz to the car. He claims not to know anything. They get the bad news that Liz's cover may have been blown by the real woman who was allowed to call her lawyer, accidentally.
"The Concierge of Crime" Red goes up for bid. Liz jumps in on the bidding and Tyler gets upset because she's supposed to be bidding on the Van Gogh that he got. The Kings get word that Liz is an impostor. She notes the activity with security and correctly surmises it's about her and Red starts bidding on himself to provide a distraction. The warlord wins him for $18 million.
They continue to work on the hotel employee at the Post Office. Cooper himself comes in and turns off the video camera. He puts his gun on the table. The man is starting to look frightened now. He explains that even though he thinks he knows he has rights in custody but what he doesn't know is that Harold is about to die, soon, and he has sworn that no one under his watch will die while he is still alive so he has nothing to lose. He asks one more time where Liz is.
Currently she is in the basement of the mansion trying to elude security. She encounters one guy who hasn't gotten the memo and saves the little boy. She tries to save Red too but can't open his box. Red tells her to run with the boy and it's time to go. She grabs a gun from the guard she disable and runs. Francis and the warlord come down and Red asks him what's in it for him. Francis says his legacy and the King family fortune. They pull him out to give him to the warlord while Francis monologues. Then they head off to find the kid.
Liz sends the kid off and tells him to run fast and far. She heads back just as Red is trying to bribe the warlord. He admits that he was there for someone else, a leader in Johannesburg put a $40 million bounty on his head. Literally, on his head. The warlord shows him the bag he plans to carry Red's head back in.
The King's have a confab near midnight. Tyler and Francis bicker in front of their father. Francis is confident he will win thanks to the high bid for Red. Tyler is mad since Liz is an impostor and didn't buy the Van Gogh like she was supposed to.
Outside the kid runs right into the arriving police.
The warlord takes Red to a room to shoot him and tells him it's just business. As he cocks the gun Red says "Lizzy." And like magic she appears and shoots the warlord.
It's Russian Roulette time in the King office. Tyler takes the gun and before he can pull the trigger, Red and Liz appear, guns drawn. Red shoots Earl with the gun, Tyler would've died. Red and Liz leave and Red asks for his clothes back and gives them prison tips and grabs the ledger. The police raid the auction and save the prisoners and arrest the Kings.
Harold reports to the director that they have the ledger. She says she's glad he had a good day since the fraud case she was working on, the guy fled. The guy that Harold tipped off. Oops. She tells him to congratulate his team.
Liz gets in a car with Red and he tells her to never do that again, never come back and save him again. She says he's so damaged that he can't accept help from anyone. She wonders if anyone has ever helped him and if that's why he can't be vulnerable. She says she risked her life for him because she cares about him and tells him to deal with it. And she adds, when someone does something nice, you're supposed to say thank you. He does. She says you're welcome. He tells her again to never do it again.
We cut to a rough, gritty club in Dresden, Germany. Tom bumps some guy and of course it escalates into a fight. The guy is much bigger but he wins anyway, gaining the respect of others in the club. He finds the bearded man from the dossier and that man offers to buy him a drink. He claims his name is Christof Mannheim.
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