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This episode begins in the woods, a man pulled a paper tissue out of his nose. The man drugged a man in a café he died instantly. Liz has a live video connection with Kirk and Agnes. Red has a new blacklister for Liz, the Eco Terrorist Gaia. Gaia killed a man at a gas station, he poisoned him because he is bad for the eco system. Samar and Ressler are chasing Gaia, he got away. Red needs Glen his help to get Gaia's adress. Red, Dembe and Liz arrived at Gaia his yellow bus. Mr Kaplan wakes up in a house, a man saved her from dying. Tom is on a mission to rescue Agnes, he goes inside Kirk his house with a team. Gaia escaped in a helicopter, he wants to create a radioactive atom explosion. Aram is turning off Gaia's propellers, the helicopter crashed and explodes Gaia died instantly. Red has a meeting with Maya, Gaia's wife he wants to know the name of his son's doctor that's also Kirk's doc. Red ubducted Doctor Reifler to find out where Kirk is to find Agnes. Dissapointing episode but still a 7/10 for a little bit action and drama this episode, James Spader makes this show for 80% and the rest of the actors play around him, he is the key star on this show.

My favorite all time action show -- Banshee -- voluntarily took itself off the air because the creators believed the story arc had run its course.

It was an unusual action.

But if you are, or were, a fan of Blacklist and you watched this episode, and you have even an ounce of common sense, you are painfully aware that taking a show off the air is a better choice than banging it into a mountain and alienating millions of viewers who used to love it.

I honestly don't know where to start? The horrific "they stole my baby and want to vivisect it" arc which never should have been greenlighted in the first place? It is as close to torture porn as I ever seen, and involving an infant to boot.

Or the brutally savage arc where Red (who used to be a likable character) kills his loyal employee and leaves her to rot in a field because she acted against his wishes? Only to survive the event and be nursed back to health in a lonely cabin like that character in the old Stephen King novel?

Or the hard-core spirit of pure MEANNESS that now permeates every episode:

* Liz tells her husband NOT to trace the signal, he agrees, she thanks him, but he ignores her anyway..?

* after spurning the attentions of her co-worker for years, Agent Navabi is now mad at him for finding a girlfriend...?

I could go on but you see the point. I wanted to actually turn off the episode halfway but this is like watching an old friend get in a horrible car accident -- you just can't look away.

Used to be a great show. Now it is just rubbernecking at the scene of a horrible tragedy.

The Blacklist show can waffle around at times, and it is often rife with typical Hollywood liberal political hysteria, but this episode jumps all the sharks.

First, they present environmental fallacies and conspiracy theories as if they are accepted fact. All the characters stand around and nod as if it is the same as saying humans require air to survive when it is simply fantasy. Hollywood is all about creating compelling fantasies. We are all willing to suspend disbelief in order to enjoy the stories. But, that doesn't give Hollywood the right to foster propaganda and to promote political agendas that are brutally and painfully absurd. To further the stupidity, the characters sympathize with the bad guy, making it seem his brutal acts are justified, that he's almost a hero, even though he's a murderer. This kind of tripe is standard for Hollywood. I guess we should just expect it and accept it. But there's something about ethics and responsibility that is so lacking with these people that it is monumentally aggravating.

The next thing that made this episode horrible was the whole scene with the helicopter. There is no way, in any real world where anybody could remotely access helicopter systems and do anything, let alone "shut down the rotor". The whole idea is so painfully stupid, that whoever wrote that scene, and whoever vetted it should be fired immediately and laughed right out of the business. This is the level of research these people do. This ties back into the first point. They produce shows with massive problems because they have no idea whatsoever of what they are presenting. Helicopters rotors are driven by engines. You can shut the engines down, but not remotely. If the engine shuts down, then the helicopter can still be flow, it will just be forced down. The pilot is still in control. I know. I have done it hundreds of time during my training.

It is not uncommon for Hollywood to get it wrong. But to so willfully and ignorantly produce something that is so incredibly wrong, it must be either intentional because they think we are so stupid we won't notice, or it is pure negligence. Either way, the people involved should be fired.