The Blacklist Declassified

🔴 Script: 2:20 Quon Zhang

 
Last updated: 6/21/2015 6:10 am CDT, Program air date: 4/30/2015 in the US
Script Status = FINAL (w image-linked Tweets added)
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Slideshow link: https://youtu.be/xVlAjrRDngs (8/4/2015)
Source: Raw Scripts from Springfield [UK]: http://bit.ly/1Do56Zu (dump of captioning)
NBC Episode Summary: http://bit.ly/1FCxquK
 
Blurb: Liz prevails on Red for information about the photo of the woman with the small girl she found in Red’s secret flat. Red captures a cabal member to get information on an upcoming attack and a smuggler of dead bodies reveals he’s just smuggled in one very much alive.
 
Created by: Jon Bokenkamp
Director: Karen Gaviola
Writers: J.R. Orci, Lukas Reiter

 

Tom Connolly – Reed Birney
Charlene Cooper – Valarie Pettiford
Kenneth Jasper – James A Stephens
The Director – David Strathairn
Dembe Zuma – Hisham Tawfiq
Leonard Caul – Ned Van Zandt
Dr Jeffrey Maynard – Kevin Weisman
Quon Zhang – Ron Yuan

 
Note: Below is the script from Springfield http://bit.ly/1Do56Zu (which is really just the captions) with formatting and the names of speakers added. Some descriptive information is added when necessary. Not every line has a speaker assigned. Red’s lines are bolded. I am sure there are mistakes. If there is a better source, please let me know on Twitter @BlacklistDCd.
♤ = my favorite lines

Quon Zhang (2:57 mins)

 
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🔴 Script 2:20 Quon Zhang

 
[ Two men enter cemetery. One is Chinese with severe burn scars on the back of his head: Quon Zhang ]
Quon Zhang: Plot 332. This is it.
[ Begins digging ] [ Speaking Chinese ]
[ Worker with flashlight comes across Quon Zhang ]
Worker: Hey, what’s going on here? Lose the shovel. Keep your hands where I can see them.
What are you doing here?
[ The other man approaches worker from behind. Together they disable him ]

[ Conversing in Chinese ]
Quon Zhang: Mr Liao, pleasure to see you.
Broker: What do we have today?
Quon Zhang: Marjorie Lin, 24, unmarried. She was going for her PhD.
Broker: Cause of death?
Quon Zhang: [ Hands him folder ] Heart attack. No history of illness. Or STDS. As requested.
Broker: How much?
Quon Zhang: $37,000.
Broker: I’ll take it.
[ Broker leaves ]
Quon Zhang: [ In English, to corpse ] You’re going to be so pretty.

Liz: I had the photo enhanced. It’s a rough extrapolation of features since the face was almost entirely blown out. I ran it through every FBI database from facial recognition, mug shots, surveillance feeds –
Tom: Or I could just buy this boat, and we could disappear.
Liz: Do you know how many images are in the NGI database? –
Tom: If we go away, none of that matters
Liz: – and not a single one of her.
Tom: Reddington knows who she is.
Liz: I know who she is. That girl – That’s me. And the woman I believe that may be my mother.
Tom: That mean Reddington’s your dad?
Liz: No. My father died when I was 4, in a fire. Reddington was there. I think she may have been, too.
Tom: Why don’t you just ask him?
Liz: If Reddington wanted me to know the truth, he would have told me by now. He wants to keep me from knowing, and he will bully anyone who might help me into silence.
Tom: Well, that’s his tell – The silence. Berlin had me keep tabs on him, or try to. The mere mention of his name was like I’d asked for their first born. He thinks the fear protects him, but the fear he instills – Silence can’t hide it. You can see it in their eyes. Whenever I did, I knew Reddington had been there.
Liz: What?
Tom: That stamp. The ring – I’ve seen it before.
Liz: Where?
Tom: Berlin. He wore a ring with that exact hallmark. It’s a Russian inspection stamp.
Liz: You know people who worked with Berlin. You could reach out.

Red: My apologies, Leonard. I intended to be earlier.
Leonard Caul: You had a bullet removed from your chest five days ago. It’s a wonder you’re here at all. I’ve configured an optical character recognition program to create hard copies of the data of the Fulcrum.
Red: That data’s over 25 years old. Much of it must be obsolete.
Caul: Most of the key delegations are run by the same players.
Red: The Director believes there are too many players on the board. He thinks a bipolar world is inherently more stable.
Caul: Whatever they’re planning to accomplish, it won’t commence until 2017.
Red: Well, he’s advancing the time-line. And with Hobbs gone, I’ve lost my man on the inside. We need to find Kenneth Jasper. He’s one of the Director’s closest allies. He’ll know what they’re planning. I threatened to kill him when he betrayed Roger Hobbs. More specifically, I threatened to cut out his tongue and deliver it to the Director personally. He won’t be easy to find. But he’s the best play.
Liz: [ Walking up lawn ] Swanky digs.
Red: Seeing as how you recently paid a visit to my apartment in Bethesda, you know I have a fondness for the old and somewhat decrepit.
Liz: Dembe asked me to go to get the interface for the Fulcrum.
Red: He needed you to get the Fulcrum. He wanted you to discover secrets. Did you discover any secrets, Lizzy?
Liz: [ Indicating folder on table ] What’s that?
Red; Please, help yourself.
Liz: [ Groans ] Identification documents for Lien Mah. Fake birth certificate. Fake passport. Death certificate. Proof of embalming.
Red: Everything necessary to convince the U.S. State Department that Lien Mah was a Chinese national who died while visiting the United States and to arrange for her body’s return to her homeland.
Liz: Who would ship a fictitious Chinese corpse to China?
Red: A rather clever smuggler, I imagine.
Liz: So, if Lien Mah is fake, then whose body are they shipping overseas? [ Reading ] “Marjorie Lin, 24, was laid to rest Monday afternoon. Not 10 hours later, her body was stolen in a brazen midnight grave robbery.” You think the smuggler is using Marjorie Lin’s body?
Red: Compare the photo on Lien Mah’s false passport to the photo of Marjorie Lin in the paper.
Liz: Same woman. But why this case? What’s your angle?
Red: This smuggler also has business with the Cabal.
Liz: The Cabal?
Red: The Taiwan Festival Bombing in 2011. The I.E.D. that took out the convoy headed to the Chinese Consulate in Jakarta last year. Another 17 dead. Both were engineered by the Cabal. And this same smuggler was used to transport those explosives to their final destinations.
Liz: You want to target one of their assets? I went to the Director, showed him the Fulcrum, restored the détente.
Red: The détente is over, Lizzy. What you know about the Fulcrum – What the Director now knows you know. By saving me, you revealed yourself to be a potent enemy, a target they will try to discredit or destroy. The smuggler. We need to find the smuggler.

Samar: So, we obtained a list from State of all the foreign nationals who died on U.S. soil and were repatriated back to their home countries. Of these, seven in particular stood out.
Cooper: How so?
Aram: Their passports were forged using fictitious names just like the documentation that Mr. Reddington provided on Marjorie Lin.
Ressler: And who were these women, really?
Samar: Marjorie Lin, A.K.A. Lien Mah, wasn’t the only body that was stolen. We were able to match the seven forged photographs with seven grave robberies in which the bodies were Asian females under 35 – Chinese, to be specific.
Aram: And all of them were shipped back to various cities in China.
Cooper: Do we know who received the shipments on the other end?
Samar: I contacted the Chinese authorities. They’re launching an investigation.
Ressler: I doubt they’ll come up with much. I mean, given the elaborately forged paper trails, my bet is these funeral parlors don’t even exist.
Liz: Based on this guy’s track record, there’s a good chance he was moving explosives in those caskets.
Aram: And we’ll find out. As soon as our suspect files the paperwork authorizing the transportation of Lien Mah back to China, we’ll know the flight number, and we can go seize the casket and see for ourselves.

Red: [ Sighs ] That’s enough for today.
Dembe: Just one more lap, Raymond. This is an important part of your therapy.
Red: You should have let me die, Dembe. Nobody told me about this aimless walking.♤
Caul: [ Approching ] Jasper’s gone.
Red: How gone?
Caul: Canceled all meetings and fled in his gulf-stream four days ago. Bogus flight plan. No record of any visas issued. Not as much as a passport swiped.
Red: Dembe, call Alex and Barton. Book them a flight to Key West. Jasper’s yacht is docked at the Admiral’s Club Marina A Benetti Romanza. Arrivederci Bella. Barton can pass for Jasper from a distance. Go aboard, take her out a mile or two, blow her up. Dembe will make it appear to be a death by misadventure. Tip off Frasier at The Journal and Brenda Short at Holford Capital. Stock in Jasper’s conglomerate, Century View Media, will start hemorrhaging as soon as news of his tragic disappearance goes viral.

♫ Hey, big spender hey, big spender ♫

Red: Within hours, he’ll have to hold a press conference to stem the bleeding. And then we’ll have his location, or at least a starting point.
Caul: And if he decides to ride it out?
Red: He has two viciously rapacious ex-wives, a Brazilian bull shark of a mistress, and a thoroughbred ranch south of Ocala that’s a bottomless money pit. He’ll turn up.♤

Cooper: If you’re gonna keep stopping by like this, perhaps we should consider getting you an office.
Connolly: I’m getting sworn in tomorrow, Harold.
Cooper: I’m aware. Big day.
Connolly: You’re damn right. And I’ve been getting calls from The Times, from The Post. There were witnesses. People think it was Reddington who was shot. People know it was him.
Cooper: We can deal with rumors. What’s harder to deal with is proof, and there isn’t any.
Connolly: The press believes a fugitive from the FBI’s most wanted list was here in D.C. And it looks like I don’t know anything about it. It gives the impression I’m more focused on transitioning into the job than doing the job. I want this handled.
Cooper: How do you suggest I do that?
Connolly; There’s a reporter at The Post. His name is Josh Mandell. I want you to leak him something – Anything. A redacted operational report to Reven Wright. Just enough to convey that my office and the FBI are all over the Reddington case.
Cooper: You’re asking me to fabricate and then leak a classified document.
Connolly: Yes. It’s public relations, Harold.

Aram: Lien Mah’s body was just delivered to Dulles. The casket’s scheduled to be on Flight 241 to Beijing.
Cooper: Contact airport authority. Stop that flight. Make sure the casket doesn’t make it to the cargo hold.
Ressler: Get an E.O.D. team to meet us on site.
Liz: I just heard from Reddington. Uh, he wants to meet.
Ressler: About what?
Liz: He won’t say. He’s still worried about leaks. I’ll have to catch up with you later.

Agent: Our preliminary x-rays didn’t reveal any explosive material or objects with a density common to C-4 or other incendiary plastics. We won’t know what we got for sure till we get inside. To be safe, we’re gonna let the robot crack it.
[ Monitor beeping ]
Samar: That’s definitely Marjorie Lin.
Agent: Interior looks clear.
Ressler: That’s not possible. Our intel says that something’s being smuggled out of the country in that casket.
Samar: What if what we’re looking for isn’t in the casket? What if he’s brazen enough to hide the contraband in the body itself?
Agent: We’re not gonna open that body.
Samar: No one here wants to put this woman through anything more than she’s already endured, but I’m afraid we’re going to have to insist.

Doctor: You know, when I was a, uh – When I was a kid, I wanted to race motorcycles, and my mom said, “no, Jeffrey. Go into medicine. It’s safe.” Thanks a lot, Mom.
Agent: All right. Here we go. Helmet on.
Doctor: Okay, yeah. Whew! [ Breathing rapidly ] Okay. Okay. Definitely should not have had tuna for lunch. Wish me luck. ⋘⋙ Okay. Here we go. Nice and easy. Nice and easy. All right. Okay, I’m gonna open her up by cutting along the path of the previous incision. Here we go.[ Sighs ] I’m in. All of the internal organs appear normal, post-embalming. Nothing here appears to be out of the ordinary. She’s clean. In fact, she’s immaculate. This is one of the most impeccably preserved bodies I have ever seen. We’re clear.

[ Shower running, toilet flushes ]
Tom: Did the same thing last month. It’s probably why you don’t recognize me. Konstantin. Berlin, man, he’s tough. I had to get away for a while, go to Germany, figure a few things out.
Konstantin: I come here for the peace and quiet.
Tom: Sure. Sorry. Gosh, you know, I just thought maybe you could help me.
Man: He said to piss off, pal.
Tom: Just take a minute.
Konstantin: I don’t know who that is.
Tom: I think you do. Why don’t you take another look?
[ Fight breaks out ]
⋘⋙
Attendant: We got a problem.
Liz: Let him go!
Man: Ugh!
Liz: You okay?
Tom: Yeah.
Liz: I believe he was asking for a name.
Konstantin: I can’t. I swore on my life I wouldn’t.
Liz: You swore to whom?
[ Liz looks at sign-in sheet, sees a name she knows ]
Liz: Son of a bitch.
Tom: Who’s Bill Kershaw?

Liz: [ Scrounging around Red’s secret flat ] Where is it? I know it’s here. That’s how you knew I was here, how you knew I saw the picture. It’s why you threatened people.

Jasper: [On Red’s computer screen] The important thing is for our stockholders to understand that I am alive and well.
[ Red is watching, laughs ]
Reporter: And we understand that you’ve lined up a series of interviews so that you can reassure –
Red: Call Hollenbeck in Boston. I want a surveillance team outside that station when Jasper leaves. I suppose we should find out from Dr. Rentovitch if I’m cleared to fly.
⋘⋙
Liz: [ In Red’s flat. ] Where are you? Where are you? Where are you?
Dembe: Raymond. [ Hands Red tablet computer showing Liz in apartment ]
Reporter: [ On computer screen ] … want to be assured that this company is stable.
Liz: [ Speaks into camera ] Hello, Mr. Kershaw.
Red: [ Groans ]
Liz: I saw your name on the mailbox. I know you’re listening. You know how I know? Because this is where you keep all of your secrets. And you don’t want anyone finding those out, do you? Well, unless you answer my questions, I’m gonna find every last one.
Red: Let me have your phone.
[ Liz’s cellphone vibrates ]
Red: You’ve made your point, Agent Keen. It’s time we discuss the photograph.

Red: The girl is you. And the woman is your mother.♤
Liz: What was her name?
Red: I knew her as Katarina Rostova. One of her many names. She was a KGB agent.
Liz: The girl – The night of the fire, they called her Masha.
Red: You were born in Moscow. Your parents – Uh, father and – They were both in foreign intelligence.
Liz: You said she died of weakness and shame.
Red: Yeah.
Liz: You were there that night. I need to know what happened.
Red: You want to know. There’s a difference.♤

Liz: Dr. Orchard told me someone blocked my memory of that night. Was it you?
Red: Yes.
Liz: Why?
Red: I’m not going to tell you.
Liz: You have a picture of my mother in your weird, little apartment. Why? Were you in love with her? Is that why my father died? You killed him because you were in love with my mother ♤ Tell me what happened. Please.
Red: I’m not gonna tell you what happened, Lizzy.
Liz: Then I’ll find out for myself.

[ Door opens and closes ]
Charlene: What’s on your mind?
Cooper: Tom Connolly wants me to leak intel to the press.
Charlene: What kind of intel?
Cooper: Classified. I should have said no, but I get the distinct impression that my position in this clinical trial is contingent on doing him favors.
Charlene: So, do them. I mean, don’t people leak information all the time?
Cooper: You hear what I said? He’s leveraging my health, my life.
Charlene: Harold, you’re a decent man. [Sighs] The man I fell in love with, and now you’re asked to do something indecent. But if you are telling me that your life depends on whether Tom Connolly gets what he wants, you know my opinion.
Cooper: I do. And you know mine.

Liz: Reddington said that the smugglers facilitated several terrorist incidents in the past. He had to have been transporting something in that casket.
Ressler; Well, it wasn’t drugs or explosives.
Samar: Maybe it was the stolen bodies themselves.
Aram: Guys, come here. Check this out. The photo on the left was taken by the coroner who pronounced Marjorie Lin dead five days ago. The one on the right was taken at the airport yesterday. Notice anything?
Liz: Their teeth are different.
Aram: Bingo. When she died, Marjorie Lin didn’t have veneers.
Her teeth were fixed postmortem?
Aram: That is not easy to pull off, given the time frame. Process normally takes weeks. Ms. Lin’s body was only taken two days ago. According to Danover Labs, the order was delivered to a Dr.
Henry McGlasson. Now, I dug a little deeper into this guy and contacted the Medical Board. They did have an address.

Ressler: How’d it go with Reddington? Did he have any insights?
Liz: No. But I did.

Jasper: My face is out there. I’ve done five interviews in the last four hours. The reporting has been corrected. It’ll just take time for the share price to recover.
Aide: The front desk called. The radio people are here.
Jasper: Put Theelan on it. Tell him to flog his boy from the S.E.C. and get it done!
[ Knock on door ]
Jasper: We’ll be wheels up again in two hours. I’ll do the video up-link in the air.
Red: Hello, Kenneth! Regrettably, your interview has been canceled, but don’t fret. I’m quite certain my questions will be much more provocative.

Liz: FBI. Hands where I can see them.
Aram: You’re standing in front of a ghost bride.
Ressler: Come again. A what?
Aram: It’s an outlawed folk custom. A Chinese form of ancestor worship. When a family member dies, the surviving relatives are obligated to tend to that person’s needs in the afterlife. And if they die unmarried, they’ll find themselves alone on the other side. And unhappy spirits tend to come back and haunt their living relatives.
Liz: Well, what are the paper dolls for?
Aram: The ceremony. The family crafts a doll for the deceased groom, as well. After which, the female’s remains are buried alongside the deceased male. Believe it or not, even with all the women in China, young, attractive, unmarried female corpses are rare, which would explain why our suspect was exporting bodies from the U.S.
Ressler: I’m sorry, but this guy digs up bodies in America, and then he sends them back to China to be re-buried?
Aram: Mail-order corpse brides.
Samar: Selected based on age, lineage, education, attractiveness.
Liz: And that explains the veneers.
Ressler: This one was clearly crafted to resemble Marjorie Lin. Same general features, but it begs the question – Who’s this one?
Liz: They’re gonna steal another body.

[ Cellphone ringing ]
Red: Agent Navabi, I imagine you’re knee-deep in pilfered corpses at the moment, but right now I require a woman with your particular experience and training.

Liz: What? [ Gasps ] There must be over $100,000 in this case.

Red: Heads up, Kenneth. I’m afraid I mean quite literally. I’m gonna need you to keep your head up for this next part. It’s bad news, old boy. I know. A few days ago, I offered to crown you king, and now here you sit. Well, the road not taken. This is Agent Navabi. She was trained by Mossad in enhanced interrogation techniques. I thought you two should have a little visit.
Samar: Why don’t we get started?

[ Ressler and Liz find briefcase full of money ]
Aram: I analyzed the money you found in the ceiling tile and found a couple of anomalies. Turns out the cash is worth a lot more than the 100 grand the bills represent.
How is that even possible?
Aram: All the serial numbers start with a888, and none of them include the number 4. In, uh, Cantonese and most regional Chinese dialects, the word for “four” sounds like the Chinese word for “death.”
Ressler: So, fours are unlucky. What does that have to do with the bills?
Aram: It is statistically impossible to have this many bills and not have any fours, unless, of course, the bills were printed specifically without any fours.
Ressler: So you’re saying that they’re counterfeit.
Aram: I’m saying they’re prosperity notes, worth about 5 bucks to every dollar. And there’s only one place you can buy an entire batch of currency with this sort of customized detail.
Cooper: Whoever paid the suspect bought the prosperity notes from the U.S. Treasury. If we can trace who bought the bills, we might be able to I.D. the next client.
Aram: I already contacted the Treasury. The buyer was one Mr. ChaoXiang Han. Uh, Kenda. Uh, I looked into this guy, and – Thanks so much – And we found this article published last February.
Liz.: “Mr.and Mrs. ChaoXiang Han mourn the loss of only son Jin, the heir apparent to the Han tech empire, worth billions.” Says he committed suicide after he was left at the altar by his fiancé, An Bai, after which she emigrated to D.C. to live with her father. He works at the Embassy. She’s currently attending Georgetown.
Cooper: An Bai is the next victim.
Aram: Uh, wait, but isn’t she supposed to already be dead? Isn’t that how this works?
Liz: Uh, the parents must blame her for Jin’s suicide. They’re determined to make An Bai his bride, if not in life, then in death.
Cooper: You two head to An Bai’s. Get me the security office at Georgetown.

Red: Oh, my goodness. [ Chuckles ] Remember that fantastic film from the ’70s – Marathon Man? Oh, my God, what a film. Laurence Olivier as the ex-Nazi super-bad guy/dentist.
[ Grunting ]
Red: And Dustin Hoffman as – Uh, I think he was a graduate student, wasn’t he? Anyway, that interrogation scene [ Laughing ] Oh, my gosh. Olivier drilling into Hoffman’s teeth right down into the nerve. [ Laughing ] Oh, God, I can just feel it! The screaming and writhing, the sound of the drill. And of course, Hoffman delirious with pain, saying anything, true or not, just to stop the excruciating nightmare. “Is it safe?” “Yes, it’s safe.” “Is it safe?” “No, no, it’s not safe!” [ Laughing ] You know, he’d say anything. And then that, uh, uh, guy comes in – What’s his name? The – With the great teeth and that hair – Uh Anyway, nothing much comes of it. Hoffman doesn’t know anything, but what a scene. Unfortunately, nothing quite so dramatic today. We’re gonna be a little more businesslike. That novocaine Agent Navabi just gave you should be starting to kick in right about now. So, here’s our plan. You’re gonna tell us what sort of mass-casualty event or events the Director is planning. Either you answer our questions, or we’re gonna yank out all your teeth today.
Jasper: I told you. I don’t know – The Director never spoke of his plans with me. I’m not in the loop on operational details.
Red: I don’t believe that. I offered you an opportunity to elevate your position within the Cabal, Kenneth. You declined and instead remained loyal to the Director. I assumed you had greater aspirations, but you don’t, do you, Kenneth? You rejected my offer because, as it turns out, you’re quite satisfied with your station. That’s how I know you’re one of the primary decision makers. Clearly, you are very much in the loop.
Jasper: You don’t understand my loyalty, do you? Because you have nothing in your life worth staying loyal to.
Red: William Devane! It was William Devane with those marvelous teeth and that great hair! Ohh, I love William Devane. Anyway, that said, dentistry makes me a little queasy, so I’ll leave you and my lovely associate to the business at hand.
[ Door closes ]
Samar: Look at me. Sir, we don’t have much time. We need to move quickly before he comes back. I have orders from the Director to get you out of here. Stay behind me and keep quiet. Dembe: Stop!
[ Samar shoots. Dembe falls ]
Samar: Get in the car. Go.[ Engine turns over ] [ Tires squealing ]

Aram: I’ve scrambled the local P.D. to An Bai’s house. They should get there before you do.
Were you able to reach her?
Aram: No answer on her cell. I’m gonna try her on her home line now.

Jasper: “For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”
Samar: Corinthians. ♤
Jasper: Where are we going?
Samar: I have orders to take you to the Director.
Jasper: I was aware we had someone on the inside, but I just didn’t know who.
Samar: Well, I’m not on the inside anymore. I just blew my cover to save you. It took me nine months to get Reddington and that damn task force to trust me.
Jasper: Look, the Director won’t take any chances. If he thinks I’ve divulged any information in their plans, I am done. I need you to make it clear that I didn’t break.
Samar: I wasn’t there the entire time. I don’t know what you said before Reddington brought me in.
Jasper: Nothing.
Samar: That’s why Reddington brought you in. He knows the Director is advancing the time-line.
He knows that the plan is to trigger a series of events that will bring us to the brink of another world war.
Jasper: I didn’t tell him that. It was Leonard Caul.
Samar: Reddington has the Fulcrum, which means he has a blueprint outlining our entire infrastructure. If you leaked operational details, we’re done.
Jasper: I didn’t. I don’t even have those details. I know we’re targeting a defense installation, but I don’t know which one. I’m serious! [ Scoffs ] The Director won’t finalize his choice until next week.
Samar: Then you have nothing to worry about.
Jasper: Why are we? Where are you taking me?
Samar: This isn’t In Corinthians, Satan wasn’t transformed into an angel of light. He was disguised as one.♤
Red: Don’t look so glum, Kenneth. You just spent 10 minutes being ridden hard by Agent Navabi. I’d die for five.♤

[ Telephone ringing ]
Bai: Hello?
Aram: Ms. Bai? My name is Aram Mojtabai, and I’m an agent with the FBI. We have reason to believe you’re in danger.
Bai: What are you talking about?
Aram: I’ll explain, but first, I need you to find a secure room in your house. Make sure all the doors and windows are locked. The police are on their way, and I’m gonna stay on the line until they arrive.
[ Quon Zhang emerges from shadows, grabs her ] [ Muffled screaming ] [ Screaming continues ]
Aram: Ms. Bai. Hello? Ms. Bai? Hello? Hello, are you still there? Ms. Bai?
[ Police arrive. Knock on door ] [ Doorbell rings ]
Police: We’re here at the location. Doesn’t seem to be anyone home.
[ Car bursts through garage door, tossing one policeman to side. Ressler and Liz approach in SUV ]
Ressler: Hang on.
[ Ressler Rams SUV into car, stopping it ]
Hands! Show me hands! Step out of the car.
[ Door closes ]

[ Quon Zhang is being questioned by Liz, Samar and Ressler ]
Zhang: You don’t have any idea what you’ve done, do you?
You’re the one charged with a dozen felonies, Mr. Zhang. You’re the one who almost took a woman’s life today.
Zhang: And how many lives did you take? This tradition in Chinese culture that you think is just some ghost story with no basis in the real world. But this – This is the real world.
Liz: You were in a fire?
Zhang: My older brother died when he was only 27.
I’m sorry.
Zhang: My brother – He was unmarried. And in the years to follow, he haunted my family from the grave. My father worked for the same factory for 32 years. They closed down four months after my brother’s death. And the bad luck that followed was Our home was destroyed by a catastrophic fire.nMy mother and father did not survive. I sat with my mother in the hospital the day she passed. Saw the fear in her eyes. She said, “You know why this happened. It will never stop until you appease your brother.” So that night, I stole the body of a young woman from our village, buried her alongside my brother. A wife for him, a husband for her in the next life. And from that day on, the bad luck was gone. Just like my brother haunted me, Jin Han haunts his parents now. Because of you, he’s not appeased. And now he will bring bad luck to those who have denied his happiness in the next life. That includes you and your fellow agents.
Samar: We know you don’t work exclusively as an independent operator. Your skill as an international smuggler has made you quite valuable.
Zhang: Valuable? To who?
Liz: To an organization some call the Cabal.
Zhang: I don’t know what that is.
Samar: You may not know the name, but you know who hired you to procure the weapon used in the Taiwanese Festival Bombing. Or the convoy hit in Jakarta.
Zhang: I’m listening.
Samar: There’s going to be an attack on U.S. soil next week. You were contracted to bring an item into the country, something we believe will be instrumental in that attack. We need to know what it is and when it’s coming.
Zhang: [ Chuckles ] You’re wrong.
Liz: We’re not wrong. We know you were contracted.
Zhang: Not about that. I was called to arrange a delivery. But not for an item. It was an agent – The one they call Karakurt.♤
Liz: Karakurt? Who is that?
Zhang: And he’s not arriving next week. He’s already here. You see, Agent Keen, your bad luck is already beginning.

Cooper: I need a minute. I’m out. I’m not leaking classified data, not for you, not for anybody.
Connolly: You’re out? Out of what?
Cooper: Whatever the hell kind of game it is you and I are playing. You know I’m ill. I came to you for help, as a friend. And I thought that you offered that help as a friend.
Connolly: I did.
Cooper: Enough games, Tom. You used it to leverage me, to hold it over my head as a way to guarantee my assistance whenever you decide you need it.
Connolly: You think I pulled strings trying to save your life for my own personal benefit?
Cooper: Look me in the eye and tell me I’m wrong.
Connolly: Oh, I’ll do better than that, Harold. I’ll look you in the eye and tell you you’re not even close. The situation is much, much worse than you think.♤ You’re absolutely right. I helped you to get close, to get leverage, but not for me. Buddy, come on.
Cooper: We’re done with the games.
Connolly: I’m sure a smart guy like you can guess who’s calling my plays.
Cooper: The Cabal.
Connolly: [ Chuckles ] A quaint term that no one actually involved would ever use.
Cooper: Why me? If you guys are as powerful as I’m told, what the hell do you need me for?
Connolly: All in good time, Harold. What matters now is that you realize one key thing – That you understand it and internalize it with every fiber of your being.
Cooper: And that is?
Connolly: We own you. You perjured yourself to protect Agent Keen. You broke federal law by disclosing the time-line of a pending indictment. If that weren’t enough, a classified document was leaked today to The Post.
Cooper: I told you I won’t do it.
Connolly: You’re not understanding me, Harold. It’s already done. It seems your wife doesn’t share your ethical principles. You wouldn’t do it, so Charlene made the hard decision for you. [ Sighs ] That’s how much she loves you. God knows my wife wouldn’t commit any felonies for my behalf. I’m sure you’re thinking up all of the moves you have left. Careful. The people I speak for won’t hesitate to hurt you or her if they need to.♤
Cooper: So, what now?
Connolly: Like I said, all will soon be revealed. Come on. I think they’re, uh, almost ready to start.

[ Door to The Director’s office opens ]
Aide: A package arrived for you. It was flagged by security. I think you need to see it for yourself.
[ Cellphone ringing ]
Red: I had a little chat with Jasper today. Turns out he wasn’t very good at holding his tongue, so I thought I’d give you a shot at it.♤
[ The Director opens box. A tongue is inside. ]

[ ♫ Don Brownrigg’s “How are you supposed to know?” plays ]
A picture of yourself armed with all you know

[ Montage follows ]
Connolly: “I, Thomas P. Connolly, solemnly swear”

♫ Stabbing through the dark

Connolly: I, Thomas P. Connolly, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States of America.

♫ It’s the pages, it’s the past

Connolly: of the United States of America.

♫ It’s the roots that trip that grow

[ Ringing ] [ Cellphone vibrates ]

♫ Search yourself for something
for something you’ve not done

[ Red is trying to call Liz. She sees call but will not pick up ]
Recording: You’ve reached Elizabeth Keen. Please leave your message at the tone.
[ Beep ]

♫ bothered off and living a life of your own
in the city where convenience
is the throw of a stone
how are you supposed to know
how you are supposed to go

[ Breathing ] [ Knock on door. Tom answers. It’s Liz, sobbing, wet in the rain. ]
Tom: Come in. You want to talk about it?
[ She shakes her head. They embrace in the rain ]

♫ So you take to living
living is all you’ve got
dodge the fake and fiending
and all the things you’re not

[ Workers remove top of shipping coffin. A man is inside, connected to an oxygen tank. His eyes blink open ]

Worker: [ In Russian (?) ] Welcome to America, sir.

♫ How are you supposed to know? ♫
– Don Brownrigg

A picture of yourself
Armed with all you’ll know
Stabbing through the dark
For a place to go
It’s the pages it’s the past
It’s the roots that trip that grow

Search yourself for something
For something you’ve not done
Bothered off and living
A life of your own
In the city where convenience
Is the throw of a stone

How are you supposed to know
How you are supposed to go

So you take to living
Living is all you`ve got
Dodge the fake and fiending
And all the things you’re not

All the love you’d give
But your heart’s still un-caught
How are you supposed to know
How you are supposed to go

If you’d take the time to cut once you measure twice
To find out the best things to know
A dream in rewind like you’re a man of the mice
To find out the best way to go
Wouldn’t that be nice if you could cut once you measured twice?
How are you supposed to know how you are supposed to go

Lyrics: http://bit.ly/1I4tZP2
Music: http://bit.ly/1GPcB0B

 
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For Twitter photo montage: ⋙ from:BlacklistDCd since:2015-04-30 until:2015-05-05 [2:20 ⋘
 

 

 

 
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TWEETS w Images

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GENERAL 🔷
 
🐣 💙🔴 Script: 2:20 Quon Zhang http://wp.me/pDKwi-RL #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist Status: Final w tweets w image links

🐣 💙🔴 BlacklistDCd: Updated: “Clues” (Bulletin Board) #TheBlacklist thru Ep 2:20 http://wp.me/PDKwi-i new videos, links to fanfic, lotsa stuff

🐣 💙🔴 Updated “Clues”:❗New ❗Red&Liz fanfics & Spader pics #TheBlacklist http://wp.me/PDKwi-i ✚ hilarious “Cracklist” videos by Miss Savvy 😂

🐣 💙🔴 BlacklistDCd: Highlights from #TheBlacklist Episodes 2:12 – 2:20 http://wp.me/PDKwi-FD best writing w photos @NBCBlacklist @Daniel_Knauf

 
PORTRAITS

🐣 Samar, sexy as usual [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist @mozhanistan http://pic.twitter.com/rINR1QlU6H

🐣 Obligatory photo of James Spader from days of Boston Legal [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/KMkLYtZYvu

🐣 Obligatory photo of James Spader (w Robt Downey Jr) from early days [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/QyN94kECTs

🐣 Now this is a weird photo shoot [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/3ExFMkuZq1
// in ladies room, bathroom

🐣 James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/snGeKQdmSY

🐣 The comfort zone: Liz w Red, Red again, Tom [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/2e0hOVqr9g @Daniel_Knauf oh noes!

 
EPISODE-SPECIFIC chronological order

🐣 Karakurt! [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist Boo! http://pic.twitter.com/fOMhp1BIkV @Daniel_Knauf

🐣 Tom and Liz, final scene [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/hvuYjV6OUi

🐣 Red tries to call Lizzie, but she will not pick up [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/1ByefB04UB

🐣 Tommy Connolly, a member of the Cabal, is sworn in as Attorney General of the U.S. [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/LniYEYD0xC

🐣 Quon Zhang says he has smuggled an agent named Karakurt into the U.S. [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/nw5K8uqXHk

🐣 True to his word, Red sends Jasper’s “forked tongue” to The Director [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/P4UwGfU5DE

🐣 “Don’t look so glum, Kenneth. You just spent 10 minutes being ridden hard by Agent Navabi. I’d die for five.” http://pic.twitter.com/gNp5Fn7kFn

🐣 Jasper divulges certain of the Cabal’s plans to Samar [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/untyo3RU8R

🐣 Jasper is thrilled to have escaped from Red with Samar [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/oaqoF87IUm

🐣 Samar, escaping with Jasper, shoots Dembe [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/Ps5D5AqmZr

🐣 When Red leaves room, Samar pulls knife to cut Jasper free [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/WYjbxTr6aY

🐣 Quon Zhang, the ghost bride smuggler, is arrested [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/e7jZZMqprE

🐣 Advanced interrogation technique: Dentistry! [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/Y15IzsnM2A

🐣 Red does not take kindly to Jasper telling him he doesn’t understand loyalty [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/oAPa9M3mmF

🐣 Promo photo: Red & Jasper (James A Stephens) [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/8Dbf8NqiAC

🐣 Red’s ploy works – and he wants Jasper to tell him about a planned attack in the U.S. [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/vJsqSGM7xS

🐣 More possible “ghost brides” are discovered by the Task Force [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/BVzySzEAgq

🐣 Dembe & crew blow up Jasper’s yacht to force him out of hiding [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/3xk53lAcy5

🐣 Soon-to-be-AG Connolly asks Cooper for an illegal favor [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/q5GSnviO3X

🐣 Red: “I’m not gonna tell you what happened, Lizzie” [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/zbQMha8QQ4

🐣 “You have a picture of my mother in your weird little apartment. Why?” [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/HmBpFZF9E5

🐣 Liz: ‘Were you in love with my mother? Is that why my father died?’ [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/CCXx6LeD3N

🐣 “…Katarina Rostova – one of her many names” [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/jbFNQl5vDo

🐣 “I knew her as Katarina Rostova…” [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/7BGCX1kfso

🐣 “What was her name?” [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/2xGWXzr3mO

🐣 Liz presses Red for more information on her parents [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/vV55F39Ixa

🐣 Liz’s mom’s ring w inset of Cyrillic alphabet [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/FSMIe1LIKx

🐣 Ring that Liz’s mother wears in swing photo, original & enhanced [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/DPNPvAR6uz

🐣 Katarina Rostova’s ring w Russian inspection stamp [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/Uxxsf79Yw8

🐣 “The little girl was you. And the woman is your mother” [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/0fhrmXxTZr

🐣 Photo of Liz & her mother [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist using 2 enhancement methods http://pic.twitter.com/r43l9Lk3zG

🐣 Liz finds the camera in Red’s flat: time to talk [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/TYcs4L0V7f

🐣 Chinese ghost bride [2:20 Quon Zhang] #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist http://pic.twitter.com/bpbyiZzAW0

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⋙ Liz’s mother: Katarina Rostova, KGB agent; Liz (“Masha”) born in Moscow.

🐣 Been right on all major plot points so far except the Zoë one – as the dates were impossible – as show pretty much conceded #TheBlacklist

🐣@MeganBoone It seems like each episode is better than the last — ever since The Decembrist. Love the Cold War storyline! #TheBlacklist

🐣 If you wrapped up the Cabal arc this season, please go & unwrap it – too rich in procedural potential to wrap in one season @Daniel_Knauf

🐣 @MeganBoone excellent: having Red as her mother’s lover is perfect joining of paternal & sexual dimensions of relationship #TheBlacklist

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Promo Pics from SpoilerTV

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 James Spader as Red Reddington http://pic.twitter.com/O0EFEzIp8L

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 Megan Boone & Ryan Eggold as Liz & Tom Keen http://pic.twitter.com/SepnlUSaNR

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 James Spader, Hisham Tawfiq w Ned Van Zandt http://pic.twitter.com/VNeDfvwpuC

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 Megan Boone as Elizabeth Keen http://pic.twitter.com/AYUBSah2X8

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 James Spader w James A Stephens as Jasper http://pic.twitter.com/KlIcu7TMKi

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 Diego Klattenhoff as Donald Ressler http://pic.twitter.com/nd2FOjbVY1

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 David A Stephens as Kenneth Jasper http://pic.twitter.com/ArOrg39Dzo

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 James Spader as Red, Megan Boone as Liz Keen http://pic.twitter.com/fEns2CWHtU

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 Mozhan Marnò as Agent Samar Navabi http://pic.twitter.com/kCQpbWQ4Qz

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington http://pic.twitter.com/Nz2SbaRPjp

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 James Spader as Red, Hisham Tawfiq as Dembe http://pic.twitter.com/fpPpAqKdxb

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington http://pic.twitter.com/9PpuF950nH

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 Mozhan Marnò as Agent Samar Navabi http://pic.twitter.com/p9Rp8qqidN

🐣 SpoilerTV: #TheBlacklist [2:20 Quon Zhang] bit.ly/1PaVVj9 James Spader w David A Stephens as Jasper http://pic.twitter.com/kmE56ob0UK