The implication being that Red, too, deserved a bigger life than hiding in the shadows.
But they don’t let that realization keep them down for long.
But again, this existentialBlacklistcrisis doesn’t come about until the last few minutes of the episode.
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Up until that point, we’re basically bouncing around inThe Blacklist’s version ofClue.
That’s right it’s a murder mystery party.
And youbetter believethe butler did it.
CORNELIUS RUCK, NO.
The caskets are very much still in the picture, and they just keep getting smaller.
But for now, things are all business.
Gathered inside the mansion are the other four casket holders, whom we meet in flashy character moments.
And finally, Joko: a permanently grumpy gunman.
He finds busted blood vessels under her eyelids and fingernails, which leads him to believe she was poisoned.
“I was going to,” Red tells her.
“Until I found out we took nearly $40 million from that vault, not 30.
You’re either very bad at math or very good at lying.”
Then there were two.
And given her previous lies for money, Red is no longer so trusting of Cassandra.
She swears to him that she’s not the one killing their friends but she does know who is.
Well,sort of.
But she swears she wasn’t giving up the other five casket holders.
The government was interested in something else: the caskets themselves.
“Then it went sideways,” Cassandra finishes.
“They lied to you and we won’t know why until we read that microdot.”
Apparently his dad was a lover of the lens!
Which is why this crew of mystery Turkish murderers are so eager to get their hands on it.
As Red soon realizes, they’re being led by a finder named Cornelius Ruck, a.k.a.
“Cassandra, do you realize what this means?”
Reddington asks…
“The butler did it.”
And so begins the game of cat-and-mouse where Red and Cassandra singlehandedly (doublehandedly?)
“This calls for a celebration in the south of France, perhaps,” Red proposes.
And RedbringsCassandra to the recital with him, which seems… significant.
“But you’re staying in it for love.”
A FEW LOOSE ENDS
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