- With the crashing of the mysterious prisoner transport plane, the city is on lock down as the authorities are on the hunt for all the escapees. Meanwhile, with Red in custody, Liz uses her power to get him out since he is their best chance at finding all the suspects. Elsewhere, their main objective is to track down Berlin, a prisoner on the plane who is somehow involved.—Jiilo_Kim
- "The Blacklist" - "Berlin: Conclusion" - May 12, 2014
We pick up at the site of the plane crash. It is a burning wreckage but some passengers managed to survive and walk away. Others were not so lucky.
Matt Lauer reports on the plane crash on the Toda sho.
Some of the survivors are rounded up by the gang and explain how they saw "a man" shoot the pilot. They say the man then cut a man's hand off. Said man collapses in a hospital, sans one hand.
Red is escorted into a cell in a black site in New York City and is told there will be no trial, he will simply disappear. The main FBI guy asks if Liz was worth all this? Red answers yes.
Cooper arrives at the Post Office and Liz asks him to help with Red. He says there's nothing they can do. They brief Cooper on the crash, survivors, and that the flight was flying undetected. They ask the survivors about Berlin. They don't know anything about that. They say a man in a hood was cuffed to another guy, a guard, and the guy in the hood was telling the pilot what to do like he was in charge. They say there were several nationalities on board: a Chechen mobster and a Colombian drug dealer, a Serbian. They say there was definitely a Russian. They say they were all kidnapped.
We cut to a man doing pull-ups watching the news about the crash. Three prisoners from the crash are still at large. There is a knock on the door and it's Tom. He's wearing a hood. He asks the pull-ups guy what happened. The guy simply asks for "the list." Tom hands him a piece of paper with the name of the entire Blacklist team on it: Liz, Ressler, Cooper, Meera, Aram. Tom asks if they're still "moving forward." The guy smiles.
Liz asks the head FBI guy to see Red. He says no. She says he can help.
The head FBI goes to Red in his cage and says he has a visitor. It is not Liz, it is Alan.
Alan says he's concerned since he's in the intelligence business and they can't a bead on anything about that plane and wonders if it's connected to Red's "adversary." Red says if he had accepted his offer of alliance before then none of this would've happened. Alan says he folks decided and he disagreed. He says he can't let Red out but he has arranged for a transfer. Red says he'll take care of the rest. Alan says every time they talk he wonders if it will be the last but he usually squeaks out. This time he's not so sure, now that his task force are all targets.
Red gets in the guarded SUV with the head of the FBI who says he hopes he's killed in the attempt. Red knocks him out and strangles the driver. The car crashes. He escapes. He calls Liz and says everyone on the task force is a target and to pull everyone back because they are all in danger. Liz wants Meera and Ressler pulled back.
Alas, Meera and Ressler are at a dance club looking for one of the suspects. Ressler tries to talk to some Russian thugs. One of them runs. Ressler chases him down. Meera follows another potential suspect and has her throat slit for her troubles. She bleeds out on the floor of the club. Liz runs in and finds her.
Dembe and Red listen to the news. Liz bursts in with the news of Meera. She asks why they're targets. He says the work the task force has done has forced Berlin out of the shadows to stop their work. He says by association he got her killed. Liz says it was Tom who gave Berlin the list and that Sam's name was also on the list and wants to know why. Red says Sam's only role in this was as her father and she needs to focus on the task at hand. Whoever crashed that plane wanted the others on it as well and she needs to find out who would've wanted that.
We go back and talk to the prisoners including the one that Ressler caught at the club. He tries to threaten it out of the Russian. He says he was caught in Venezuela and there were others on the plane already when he got there and he doesn't know anything else. They think he was being stolen back by Russia. Cooper tells Ressler to get Red involved and see if he can help. Red goes to see the Russian ambassador. He brought peaches. The ambassador is angry. Red asks about the plane. The ambassador says he knows nothing about it. Red wants the manifest of the plane and throws a knife into the man's leg. The ambassador gives up the list.
The gang looks over the list. There were 10 prisoners. Three are in custody and four confirmed dead -- one is burned unrecognizably-- so there are three at large. They figure one of them is Berlin. They go to talk to the guard whose hand was cut off.
The guard gives them no information on three men and says they don't know who they're dealing with, even he doesn't know he says, all he knows is "the story." The story is: They say he started in the Red Army and then joined the KGB and sent his enemies to Siberian work camps. Near the end of the Cold War his daughter fell in love with a dissident and she was jailed and he arranged for her to escape, and when the Kremlin found out they sent him to Siberia to be dealt with by his enemies. He prayed in prison that his daughter was safe and one day in the mail he received a pocketwatch he had given her. Inside there was a picture. And then a few months later he received her ear in the mail. And then a finger and a rib. His enemies sent his daughter back to him piece by piece. It is said he fashioned a knife out of one of her bones and escaped from prison mad with vengeance for those responsible for his daughter's death. He says the man they're looking for, was never on the manifest.
Cooper meets with the head Fed in a public park and Cooper accuses him of letting Red get away and is now confused that he wants him back. The main guy says he doesn't want him free, "people" do and to just get him back. Cooper is confused. He heads back to his car and is promptly choked by a man in the back seat. Another man on a nearby park bench scratches Cooper's name off the list.
Back to chat with the prisoners who are all claiming they had nothing to do with it and to speak to the man in the hoodie. Ressler talks to one of them and is very threatening and says he's not a boy scout anymore and he's ready to break all the rules. He starts choking the Russian by his tie.
I guess the guy talked because Red meets with Alan and has a picture and name now for Berlin: Kinsky, a Russian national and former commando and Alan looks at his file and says he makes Putin look like a Christmas elf. Alan wonders now that they know who he is, how Red pissed him off. Red basically admits he doesn't know and he thinks Alan can find out with his special "access" to surveillance. He says if Alan finds him, Red will do the rest.
Liz gets into a car with Red and says they don't know if Cooper is going to make it through the night. She again asks how Sam was involved. Red says the way that Sam told the story was that one night an old friend showed up at his door scared. He had a little girl with him. He said he was in danger and had to leave town. He said the little girl's father died in a fire and asked Sam to take care of her and never tell her who her real father was. Liz says the only memory she has of her real dad is him pulling her from the flames the night of the fire. Red says Sam was his good friend and he didn't kill him because he's evil, he killed him because his friend was in pain and wanted to die and he had to protect her from the truth. Red says it was the hardest thing he's ever done. He says after all they went through to protect her from the identity of her real father, he's not going to tell her now because it would put her in danger. She asks why. He does not tell her. Red gets a call. Alan has found him and gives him an address. Red lies to Liz and says they have to keep looking.
He goes on his own to the address and mows down a series of armed guards with a gun with a silencer. He has Berlin in his sights.
We cut to Cooper unconscious in the hospital. Ressler says is on the phone saying there was an 11th prisoner on the plane and get people to go out and look. Liz sets at his bedside fretting that this is all her fault.
Red tapes up Berlin to a chair as he regales him with tales of being great at finding people. He monologues for awhile about how great his memory is for remembering people and then says he has no idea who he is and what he's done to him and none of the people who have come after him have like Berlin did. He clearly wants to know how he found him. Berlin says after years of searching, he finally found Red's weakness: "her." On "her," Red twitches. He said it seems implausible that someone as precise as Red could be so careless so he exploited the weakness and here they are, thanks to Elizabeth Keen.
We cut to Liz in her car. She is snuck up on by Tom who gets in the car and pulls a gun on her and says "Hi, babe."
Red asks who this guy is exactly is and what Red did to him. The guy spits at hm. Red dabs his face and then shoots Berlin in the hand. Berlin screams and hisses. Red says to tell him his story because he's not leaving without one. Berlin gives him nothing. So Red shoots him in the hip. He asks him again what he did to him. He threatens to shoot him in the kneecap. Berlin says: "Beirut, 2010." Tom come in with gun trained on Liz. Tom tells Red to drop the gun and he says no. Red asks if she's hurt. She shakes her head no. Berlin yells at Tom to kill Liz and rants that Red stole his life for money, business. Red shoots Berlin dead and says that simplifies matters since it's now just the three of them. Red puts his gun down and says he is the one Tom wants, not Liz. Tom shoots Red who stumbles back. Tom and Liz fight for his gun. Liz shoots him. Red wants to make sure he's dead. Liz tells Red it's personal and she will finish it. She drops to her knees and holds his wound. He says "I'm sorry." He whispers something and dies. She looks stricken.
Matt Lauer reports all the prisoners have been captured.
We cut back to the prisoners in custody telling Ressler they know nothing and want to know how long they'll be held. Ressler says indefinitely.
Liz looks at a picture of Meera and her two kids: 8 and 5. Ressler asks for a Cooper update. She shakes her head. Aram enters and says the coroner ID'ed the John Doe and it was a guard. They say all the guards were accounted for. Aram has an epiphany. They all flash back to the prisoners saying: "He cut his hand off." He calls it a lexical ambiguity: Berlin cut his own hand off. They rush to the hospital, he is gone having killed someone along the way.
Liz goes to Red who says he knows that he didn't kill Berlin. The guy was talking about Beirut and he knows his problems with Berlin started much earlier so he just killed him. If Berlin thinks Red thinks he is dead, it gives them room to maneuver. Liz says she's sure Red will find him. Red says he wants her to understand something about her father. He says the night he took Liz in, he altered the course of his life. He says Liz is at a similar crossroads. If she turns from it, Red says he will go away or she can engage with the problem and maybe prevail and rise above it. (And work with him, goes unspoken.) She smiles a tight silent smile. He says he understands and will be on a plane tonight.
Back at her old apartment,now empty, Liz looks at old photos of her dad. She looks around the apartment one last time, bags in hand and walks out the front door.
Ressler sits by Cooper's side in the hospital. He sees Coopers hand move and gets the doctor.
Agents go into the room here fake Berlin was shot and see the place where Tom's body should be lying, based on the blood on the wall. There is no body there.
The real Berlin shaves his bushy beard. He looks at the pocket watch with his daughter's picture. His hand is bandaged.
Red and Dembe are putting his bags in the car. Liz drives up in a cab. They share a meaningful glance. She tells him that Tom told her something right before he died: your father is alive. Red says her father is dead, he died in the fire. She says Berlin is out there. Red says yes and they'll find him.
We cut to Berlin walking down a street, again looking at his pocket watch.
We see Red look at a picture, the same picture, it seems that is in Berlin's watch. He takes off his shirt and tends to his bullet wound. We see his back is covered in burn marks.
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