

Once Cooper’s wife is threatened, he does as he’s told and this leads Ressler and Liz to Union Station. After that, skeevy Tom Connolley – who, you’ll recall, is working for the Cabal (you know, the people who orchestrated the act of terrorism and who Cooper knows is blackmailing him) – tells Cooper to back off the terrorist investigation and give Ressler and Liz a fake lead. Unfortunately, friendly CIA agent and all the others in that sector are blown up when an IED created by Karakurt explodes just as Liz and Ressler barely escape. She literally stops just short of telling him that her mother was a KGB agent, which would have aided her in what happens toward the end of the episode. Liz actually confides in Ressler, telling him that Reddington had a photograph of her and her mother in his apartment and she’s learned her name. Still, he promises that if she sends him the photograph, he’ll see what he can find.
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Related TV News Wrap-Up: 'Loki' Renewed, 'WandaVision' Enchants Emmy Nominations, Broadcast Network Fall Premiere Dates He says that she’s “an amalgamation of half a dozen unknown female Soviet operatives.” A really helpful, nice CIA agent tells Liz that Katarina Rastova is well-known as a myth. So when Ressler and Liz talk to the CIA about Russia and you know, a credible terrorist threat, she also happens to bring up the photograph of her mother: Katarina Rastova. Meanwhile, in all of the terrorism, Liz is still concerned with finding out who her mother was and what happened to her. Oh, and it was all orchestrated by the Cabal. Here’s the reason that the Russian was smuggled into the United States to begin with: it’ll be the perfect catalyst for a second Cold War. They bring a Russian assassin to the United States (via last week’s blacklist smuggler, if you’ll recall) and with him, a deadly virus. This episode focuses a lot on the Cabal who are… well, doing a lot of legwork to ensure that Liz is destroyed. So that brings us all the way back to “Karakurt,” where Liz is still desperate to know more about her mother and that desperation eventually causes her to become the FBI’s number one target. Red was the one to block her memory of the fire. Both of her parents were in foreign intelligence. So Liz does what she does best – demand answers. It’s her mother, but she wants a name and she enlists Tom/whatever his actual name is for help once Tom recognizes the ring on her mother’s finger as a Russian one.Īll of this leads to Tom and Liz discovering that their inquiries to Tom’s Russian connections have already been cut off at the source by Red. She finds a photograph of her in Red’s apartment, if you’ll recall, and begins to try and find answers as to who the woman in the photograph was. I knew I hated Tom for a reason, you guys.īut even more important than all of this is what Liz learns. The Cabal is anxious and Tom Connolley is on the inside for them at the FBI, threatening Cooper and his family unless he follows his instructions. “Karakurt” is the perfect penultimate episode for this season as it propels us into the finale.īefore we talk about “Karakurt,” let’s briefly recap what happened in last week’s “Quon Zhang”: In an episode filled with mythology and curses and ghosts (well, kind of), our blacklister of the week was atypical – a smuggler desperate to prevent curses from occurring by smuggling Chinese-American women from America to China to be buried back there.īut that’s not really the most important part (I mean, Quon Zhang mentions that Liz is cursed, so maybe that IS the most important part) of this episode: with Liz recently taunting her enemies by possessing the Fulcrum and all its secrets, she’s finding herself in more than a little bit of hot water with aforementioned enemies.
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As the second season of the NBC series draws to a close, however, we’re being thrown answer upon answer and the stakes have never been higher for our characters as a result. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.Remember how I’ve often said that The Blacklist provides more questions than answers with its episodes?įor every answer we get, we – as the audience – are usually left with about ten more questions to ponder. The Blacklist, Raymond Reddington, Season 5, Elizabeth Keen, Tom Keen, Jennifer Reddington, Naomi Hyland, The Duffel Bag, Masha Rostova, Katarina Rostova, Harold Cooper, Donald Ressler
