He is strongly opposed to Park working with the Task Force and taking down criminals as he worries about it affecting their family life. Eventually, with Ressler and Cooper's help, he evades the Cabal and delivers Karakurt into federal custody. After she finds out he was an agent hired by Berlin to keep her under surveillance, she has the marriage annulled. The Artax Network (Blacklister No. He also mentions the only congratulated her out of respect for both Ressler and Cooper. Megan Boone was born in Petoskey, Michigan, USA. In "Kuwait", it is revealed that as a young soldier during the Gulf War, Cooper covered up an illicit smuggling operation run by his superiors. She is accepted but declines upon learning that Aram recommended her for the fellowship, believing he only did so out of guilt for not telling her about resuming his relationship with Janet. The latter refuses to kill her and admits his remorse for trying in the first place, but she tells him that she has arranged for an accomplice to give Liz "the truth" after her death, then she commits suicide. Gerard believes that Red will eventually succeed in killing him one day no matter what precautions are taken to protect him. Eventually, Stepanov is kidnapped by Neville Townsend and interrogated about his relationship with Reddington and Keen. Reddington deliberately sets out to disgust Alina, causing her to turn down the job. Both men disappear from Kirk's lab afterward and later that night, Red tells Liz that Kirk is "gone". In "Nachalo", Kirk appears in flashbacks as Liz learns the story behind the creation of the fake Raymond Reddington. He meets with Laurel Hitchin, who suggests he weakened the Cabal so that they would invite him to join it. As a token of gratitude, Red fixes a C key on Dom's piano and leaves. During this time, Katarina was forced to kill a Soviet agent in self-defense; Kaplan disposed of the body. In "Philomena", Gerard is kidnapped by a bounty hunter, Philomena, who works for Mr. Kaplan. In "Arioch Cain", Liz and Red fake her death after a bounty is put on her head. Apparently, Tom was recruited at the age of 14 (he was then known as Jacob Phelps) by a blacklister known as the Major (Lance Henriksen) due to the combination of sociopathy and extreme talent and spent the better part of the next 20 years as a deep-cover operative for various criminal enterprises. In season 9, Dembe has become an FBI agent. Townsend himself was mentioned in a flashback scene between Ilya Koslov and Dominic Wilkinson in a cafe in Belgrade, where Dom was explaining the formation of the Townsend Directive. She has yet to learn why, but he has told her that it has something to do with her missing father. Sadly for fans of The Blacklist, season 8 marked Megan Boone's last appearance as Elizabeth Keen. He also learns that Jonica assumed Akio's(Tanida's deceased brother) identity to continue his business, leading the latter to shoot Tanida for exposing him and Ressler slamming the brakes to stop him. In "Marvin Gerard", as Liz is being escorted to the airport, the convoy is attacked by Ressler, forcing Liz to run on foot. In "Zal Bin Hassan" Solomon traces Tom down to Wing Yee in the hopes of ambushing Liz and Tom but instead is caught by the FBI. At the end of "Ian Garvey: Conclusion", Garvey is shot several times by Liz and Dembe when he attempts to kill Red, leaving him severely wounded. After learning she was involved with Elizabeth Keen's death, Reddington attacks Hargrave's operations to force her to meet with him. Anslo Garrick (Blacklister No. Desperate, Tom hides at Elizabeth's place and pleads with her to give him his passports; in exchange, she convinces him to tell her the truth about his relationship with Reddington before revealing that she had always known that on some level, Tom's love for her and their life together was genuine. She tells Samar that she knows about her feelings for Aram and would never admit it out of fear. Hitchin subsequently returns Ressler's badge, but they get into an altercation, causing Ressler to accidentally kill her. In Season 9, Red investigates Liz's murder, trying to discover who was truly responsible despite numerous obstacles being put in his way. He is on an upwardly mobile career path in the Bureau, something that his work with Reddington occasionally threatens to derail. She keeps Tom imprisoned on an abandoned ship for several months, interrogating him. Reddington's death is left unrevealed to the world, who, due to the evidence planted against him as a contingency by Katarina, would come to view Reddington as a traitor. Reddington tells Dembe that he only wants Liz found, not necessarily caught. The explosion would have allowed the Hanar investors to profit from the re-routing of sea shipping to New Orleans. He was hired by the Director to get the Fulcrum, and captured and interrogated Liz to find it, subjecting her to therapy to help recover blocked memories from her past that related to the Fulcrum. When Frankie takes Reddington, hostage, Alina pursues her and nearly stabs her to death. While being prepped for surgery, a doctor tells her that the DNA test results between her and Kirk came back and they're not a match. Red later reveals to Cooper that he had allowed Gerard's deal to go through on the condition that Gerard take his own life after being given the chance to say goodbye and put his affairs into order. According to Ressler, Samar went a long time without oxygen and all the doctors know for sure is that she cannot currently breathe on her own and may never be able to again. After the operative is arrested, Samar comforts Aram and pleases him by admitting she rescinded on her transfer papers. Initially, he distrusts Liz Keen and her connection to Reddington but eventually comes to respect and work well with her. After capturing him, Ressler and his friend, Bobby Jonica takes him to his father's secret cabin. In "Dr. Roberta Sand, Ph.D.", Agnes tells Red a clue she was told by Liz, which she could only know having read the letter about his true identity, which encourages him to start an investigation. She helps her former partner Levi destroy important documents, but she is captured by her brother and taken to the harbor, where Reddington intercepts them, freeing Samar and capturing Shahin. She is also Tom Keen's mother though to her he's been missing for twenty-eight years and she doesn't know what happened to him. Meera Malik is a CIA field agent assigned to Reddington's security detail at the personal request of Diane Fowler. Gerard had accepted the deal, but told Red that to him the most important thing in the world was their work on the Blacklist, but it wasn't to Red. Easily move forward or backward to get to the perfect clip. Instead, Laurel offers a plea of involuntary manslaughter with 3 years' probation. In "Caelum Bank", Marvin Gerard claims that the whole trick about Kaplan was one of his plans to make Reddington step back from investigating the murder of Elizabeth. While en route to collect the duffel bag containing the mysterious remains, Garvey rams his car into a parked car and escapes while leaving Red and Dembe there. Tom then takes it with him under Kaplan's orders to deliver the suitcase. In "The Capricorn Killer", Garvey meets up with Red in a motel room with knowledge of the skeletal remains. Reddington discovers this and forces her to help him unmask the person responsible. The finale of Season 9 of The Blacklist gives many hints to what the 10th season might entail, and it's shaking out to be a thrilling one. Posing as a hustler, he befriends a wealthy socialite and infiltrates an underground street-fighting ring, where he eventually locates Karakurt. After being captured, she was allowed a plea bargain since the bomb had not devastated the port. The relationship between Dembe and Red are shown to decline throughout the season. It's also revealed that Dom did tell Liz most of the truth about the events surrounding Katarina and Ilya Koslov, but he had lied about who became the imposter Reddington. Red evades Samar's question, but only mentions he will expose the truth soon. He kills Kiryl Morozov after learning of Fitch's orders to frame Red and use Milos as a pawn. Elizabeth shoots him and stages his death but keeps him prisoner on a boat for several months to extract as much information as possible. In May 2018, the show was renewed for the sixth season with Marn leaving on March 29, 2019. Tom is later confronted by Red, who warns him to stay away from Liz, after the actions he pulled when he ignored his first warning led to this. After accepting the truce, they let Tom and the Major go. He confronts Connolly, who admits that he has been manipulating him on behalf of the Cabal. View the profiles of professionals named "Sarah Hastings`" on LinkedIn. He does give her back to Liz, which leads to his arrest. At some point, he and Raymond Reddington worked together, though the alliance ended in 2008 when Garrick gave the FBI his train number and itinerary for a stop at Waterloo station in Brussels. Sarah Hastings Psychology Professor at Saint Michael's College Colchester, VT Saint Michael's College, +6 more The University of Kansas, +2 more Sarah Hastings Finance Manager at Henkel. He recruits Tom to help investigate Karakurt. He ends his relationship with Janet for good when he discovered that she testified against him to get her criminal record expunged. Mike Houston as Heber, a respectful and honest policeman, who investigates in the murder of Doug Koster, trying to find Coopers connection to it and expose him. Only when a man talks to Red at the beach does he realize the woman he rescued was a ghost and it was she who tells him that he did save her, through channeling his grief in losing Liz. Gina is eventually released from prison. She ends up betraying the task force. Red is being called upon by Ivan Stepanov over concerns about Elizabeth Keen. The Blacklist is an American crime drama television series that premiered on NBC on September 23, 2013. LOS ANGELES (AP) A man who spent more than 38 years behind bars for a 1983 murder he did not commit was declared innocent by a judge in Los Angeles on Wednesday. He tortures Cooper, but Reddington arrives to rescue him and kill Hutton. He despises having to work with a criminal like Reddington, but he acknowledges that Reddington does get results. After a brief period in hiding, she and Ilya traveled to Moscow to warn her father, who was also her KGB handler, to leave Russia to escape the Soviet government's reprisals for her treason. She agrees, setting a trap for him. After attempting to hide it from Aram and the Task Force, she realizes she can no longer continue her duties after she becomes incapacitated while pursuing Bastien Moreau. When confronting Marvin Gerard for not being at the dinner, he learns that Dembe has left him. When he refuses to turn against Reddington, Kaplan leaves him bound to a lamppost, and he is arrested by the police. He attempts to kill First Lady Miriam Diaz to prevent her from telling the truth about President Diaz's hit and run accident but fails. He eventually went so far as to kidnap Timothy to keep him away from his mother, for which he was disbarred and sentenced to 710 years at Federal Correctional Institution, Cumberland. Eventually, she is forced to let him go in exchange for Berlin's location after he murders a harbormaster, Eugene Ames. 14), born Constantin Rostov, is a powerful billionaire businessman who made his fortune buying up Russian companies after the fall of the Soviet Union. In "The Director", Liz is locked in the task force's cell as Ressler tries to protect her until she can testify. It is shown that Aram likes Samar Navabi until they suffered a falling out in "Gaia". They stop Ressler just in time from killing Hitchin and Liz revealing he was under the influence of propofol and manipulated to kill Hitchin by Kaplan and Krilov. Robby covered up his actions and hid the body while in the present day, Robby seeks Ressler's help after the field he buried Markin in is being dug up for development purposes. Contents 1 Background 2 Season 2 2.1 "T. Earl King VI" 2.2 "The Major" 2.3 "The Longevity Initiative" 3 Season 3 3.1 "Alistair Pitt" 3.2 "Mr. Solomon" 4 Season 5 4.1 "Ian Garvey" 5 Unanswered Questions 6 Gallery 7 External Links Background In "Mr. Kaplan", Ressler informs Cooper, Liz, and Samar that Gale has gotten enough intel to demand an indictment on the Task Force involving Red, from the grand jury. Actor (s) Lance Henriksen The Major was a black market spy trainer and member of The Blacklist . Gerard is eventually arrested by Ressler, but he offers a deal to create a new Taskforce with Gerard replacing Red which the Justice Department decides to accept. Dom later convinces Red to leave and honor his word to the FBI, saying that Red has good people who count on him. Aram later joins Red's team to kidnap the Director and exonerate Liz by using his computer skills to hack an elevator's controls to make it go to the wrong floor. When Liz is framed for the assassination of Senator Hawkins, Cooper flatly refuses to cooperate with the Cabal and is placed on administrative leave by Connolly. While searching Judge Sonia Fisher's apartment, Ressler asks Samar to search the bedroom. At some point, he raided a CIA black site in the Bering Sea to exfiltrate a man named Mahmoud al-Azok. Red tries to appeal to Kaplan again at the bridge, promising he won't shoot her. Through a deception involving Mr. Vargas, Solomon finally tricks Dembe into revealing the information and captures Reddington and Liz. If he had refused, Red would've seen if he could've gone through with killing his friend. Under duress he whispers a confession to Neville that immediately sets Neville on a mission to kill Elizabeth to torture Red. Now realizing the truth, he calls Liz to come home and plans to tell her the truth about her mother along with the fact that Red killed Kopal. [6] Moreau is a terrorist with an anti-globalist, nationalist political ideology. Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "The Blacklist Season 5 Finale Recap: Whose Bones Are in That Bag? They then kidnapped a Chinese scientist who had been rescued by the CIA. Liz learns that the woman she had known as Katarina Rostova is not, in fact, her mother but is instead an asset named Tatiana Petrova who was set up by Dom and Ilya in order to fake Katarina's death, inadvertently leading to Tatiana's husband's death instead. In "Dr. Linus Creel", when he confronts Naomi about her, he discovers that Jennifer left after her marriage to Frank and hasn't tried to make contact since then. Dante Nero as Samuel Aleko a.k.a. In "The Bear Mask", Vladimir Cvetko examines the DNA of what has left from Kaplan after the explosion and reveals that her data is only half-accurate, meaning that the woman attacked was not Kaplan, but Maureen. After Reddington shoots Mr. Kaplan and leaves her for dead in "Mato", Dembe's relationship with Reddington becomes increasingly strained. Only then, Jennifer confronts Red for what he's done and the fact that Ian saved her and Naomi's life from their disappointment when they learned of his criminal career. Seeing Alina's brutality, Reddington changes his mind and agrees to give her the position. In "Alexander Kirk: Conclusion", Liz is revealed to be alive. 152) was a corporate terrorist who committed terrorist acts that resulted in corporations losing or gaining an advantage over the competition. In "Nachalo", Elizabeth is taken to the heart of Reddington's empire - an old Cold War-era Soviet bunker in Latvia - where she finally learns the truth about Reddington. Eventually, he says to Liz that he no longer recognizes Reddington, and tells her he killed Mr. Kaplan. Despite defending the Task Force and Red, he is imprisoned in the same cell that Liz was held in. Robby eventually reveals that Markin was still alive after Ressler shot him before Robby finished Markin off. Red realized that Garrick had betrayed him and shot him in the face, damaging the right side of his face and apparently blinding his right eye. At some point, he was being held by the Eberhardt Cartel. Alina accepts, on the condition that she tells Liz what happened in Anchorage. Red explains that he never wanted Liz to end up like him and was trying to prevent that. In "The Decembrist", Raymond Reddington tells Milos Kirchoff how he interrogated Kornish about a photograph of Zoe D'Antonio found on the body of one of his associates. Coming back to the Task Force, Aram realizes Samar's feelings for him and shares a kiss with her. He uses his arrangement with the FBI to pursue his own secret agenda; it is revealed that he needed their help to find Berlin, a mysterious nemesis who had been attacking his organization. Tom later meets with Reddington, and their conversation reveals a previous working relationship. She is a highly skilled interrogator. He viciously tortures Dembe for information on Reddington's location but fails to break him. He is shocked when she decides to jump to her own death. A Special Agent with the FBI whom Liz interviews for a place on the Task Force. Names on the list are criminals that the FBI does not have overwhelming evidence against, hence why they have never been caught. It first aired on March 3, 2014 on NBC. He will stop at nothing to protect her and even goes as far as to block her memories of the fire she was trapped in. It was assumed that he was Raymond Reddington's bodyguard. The Director does not believe that Reddington has the Fulcrum, a blackmail file that Reddington had used as leverage to force a stalemate with the Cabal, and wanted to end the dtente and kill Reddington. Gerard helps them plan on how to kidnap Peter Kotsiopulos. In "Konets", Reddington, who has been fighting an unidentified illness for some time, is revealed to be terminally ill and plans to have Liz kill him and take his place in exchange for a letter from her mother containing his true identity. In "Eli Matchett", Ressler refuses his help and warns him to stay out of his way. Red is confirmed as Liz's father in "Dr. Adrian Shaw: Conclusion", and in "Mr. Kaplan: Conclusion", he finally acknowledges this to Liz after she presents him with a DNA test confirming his paternity. While attempting to smuggle Xiaoping Li back to China, they were killed at McKendrick Pier. He evaded capture for many years, despite the best efforts of an elite Mossad task force dedicated to hunting him down. 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