- Red (James Spader) takes Liz (Megan Boone) on an undercover assignment to bring down a freelance Chinese spy who's targeting CIA agents.
- "The Blacklist" - "Wujing" - Oct. 7, 2013
This week's list item is a baddie named Wujing, he's number 84 on the Blacklist.
In the open we watch a man leave a Shanghai bank and head to a Range Rover with a briefcase. He's descended upon, shot, the thugs take the briefcase and his hand for good measure. It turns out they need it to scan a fingerprint to get into a computer. Unfortunately, the decryption fails and Wujing says to call Red.
While Tom sleeps, Liz looks through the box in the floor. She takes the gun, a bucket, and phone books out into the backyard. She fills it with water and shoots the gun in the bucket. She pockets the bullet and casings and asks ballistics to run a check against any crimes.
Liz and Tom talk about his experience and how it's weird for him to be home. She explains she can't tell him more about Zamani. He says it's over and he hates that there are things she has to hide. Their friend Ellie comes over to care for Tom while Liz goes back to work. They have a dinner party planned with other friends later that night. As Liz leaves, she catches Tom watching her.
She finds Red in a hat store and he explains about Wujing. He says he's trying to decode messages from the CIA for a hit on an agent. He thinks they should do it because someone else will given how much he's willing to pay. Red has told him she's an MIT decryption expert and they'll get inside posing as helpers and send out the info as they decrypt it and then it will be a race to protect the agent from Wujing.
She's hesitant to do it but Ressler points out that Wujing has already killed four agents and Liz doesn't want it to be five.
A surveillance team descends on Tom and Liz's house when Ellie takes Tom for a walk. The team is led by a man whose face we don't see fully, but enjoys apples.
Red and Liz, trailed by a special ops team go to a small radio station where Wujing is holed up. Liz gets a crash course in decryption from Meera and a specialist. Meera also gives her nicotine patch that is a transmitter.
Unfortunately, when they get to Wujing's front operation they descend to his HQ and it's so far underground they lose their connection to FBI and have to improvise. With a little distraction from Red, Liz is able to attach the mirroring device to decode the message and get the info to the FBI. But Wujing's high tech headquarters uncover the treachery. Fortunately for Liz, Wujing thinks it's one of his own men. When the accused man spies the flash drive that Liz used and is about to out her, Red shoots him, reasoning Wujing was going to kill him anyway.
They hustle on out of there and catch a ride with Wujing while Ressler and Meera head to save the target, a civilian architect working for the CIA. He's at a construction site with his son. Wujing's thugs get there first but Ressler and Meera make handy work of them and save Cho and his son.
As Wujing drops them off Liz has the wherewithal to put the fake nicotine patch on the car and the FBI nabs him.
Liz and Red argue about whether he had to kill the guy and he said he had to to keep her alive. She asks him why he picked her to be his conduit. He says because of her father. She asks if they met. He says he wishes the answer was as simple as the question seems. She tells him that they're not the same, that she has people who care about her and notes that this, his list, the FBI, is all he has. He says he has her. She leaves.
Ressler and Liz debrief. He apologizes for having doubts and praises her good work. He says she should feel good no matter what else happened.
She gets her ballistics report and the test results are completely redacted.
Ressler gets the report and brings it to Cooper, unredacted. Cooper says the gun was used in a homicide involving the secretary of Homeland Security. Cooper wonders who else knows.
Liz heads home to her friends and dinner. Tom tells her he loves her and understands she needs to keep secrets for her job and that they'll survive as always. She looks around her full house. Across the street the man with the apple watches the surveillance. . Red eats alone. He opens the envelope Wujing gave him. It's a code: 042983.
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