The Blacklist Declassified

🔴 Script 7:9 Orion Relocation Services (№ 159)

 
NBC’s series The Blacklist starring James Spader and Megan Boone
Series created by: Jon Bokenkamp
Program air date: 12/6/2019 in the US (7pm Central/Chicago Time)
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Last updated: 12/8/2019 at 1:40pm CT [ Central/Chicago time ]

 
SERIES STARS:
 
Raymond ‘Red’ Reddington – James Spader
Elizabeth Keen – Megan Boone
Donald Ressler – Diego Klattenhoff
Harold Cooper – Harry Lennix
Aram Mojtabai – Amir Arison
Dembe Zuma – Hisham Tawfiq
 
GUEST STARS:
 
Madeline Tolliver – June Ballinger
Richard Potash – Ray Bokhour
Berdy Chertov – Peter Bradbury
Victor Skovic (Memory Extractor) – Michael Cerveris
Ilya Koslov/Frank Bloom (“The Stranger”) – Brett Cullen
Agent Harris Gentry – Doug Darwin
Sofia Burke – Danielle Davidson
Agnes Keen – Sarah/Katherine Kell
Chef Rasmus Ray – Ramzi Khalaf
Young Ilya Koslov – Gabriel Mann
Denise Young – Adrianna Mitchell
Pyotr – Mark Puchinsky
Gregory Flynn – Michael Quinlan
Katarina Rostova (“Maddy Tolliver”) – Laila Robins
Stella Bisset – Deborah Rush
Agent Alina Clark – Laura Sohn
Young Katarina Rostova – Lotte Verbeek
Young Dominic Wilkinson– CJ Wilson

🔴 Script 7:9 Orion Relocation Services (№ 159)

Brief (Where we’re at): Red’s friend, Ilya Koslov (aka Frank Bloom), has been abducted by Katarina Rostova, who has hired a man to extract his memories. Ilya attempted to hang himself to avoid telling Katarina what he knows. It appears to have to do with someone whose secrets he is trying to protect (Red’s?). Katarina was moved to tears after she and her assistant Berdy saved Ilya, and spoke of a past connection between herself and Ilya that had been deep and personal. Whatever happened in the past involved “Dominick” (almost certainly Dom, Liz’s grandfather) and an operation in which she said she was “led like a lamb to the slaughter.” Despite their past relationship, to access Ilya’s memories, Katarina is willing to employ the services of a man who her assistant Berdy says uses techniques based on “junk science” and leaves people “like zombies” if they survive it at all.

Red is desperate to find Ilya and has been able to locate The Hawaladar (Blacklister #162), Bhavish Ratna, who Katarina used to pay Skip Sutherland, the ex-MI6 agent Katarina hired to track down Ilya. A halawader launders money using a system of trusted brokers who operate on a cash basis, skirting the money trail of the banking system. Having saved Ratna from an FBI sting that he himself orchestrated, Red offered to loan Ratna the money he had lost – in exchange for information on another payment Katarina had made. The payment was to Orion Relocation Services, which (after a tongue-lashing from Red), tracker Glen Carter was able to trace.

Liz, meanwhile, now has reason to suspect that her new neighbor and ersatz nanny “Maddy Tolliver” may not be what she seems. In fact, “Maddy” is Katarina. After a day in the park with “Miss Tolliver,” Liz’s daughter Agnes drew a picture of a dead man. That’s because when Skip Sutherland came to park to give the information about Ilya to Katarina/Maddy, he was followed by Russian mobsters trying to cash in on the Townsend Directive, a contract on Katarina’s life. After a vicious fight, Sutherland was taken (later to be rescued by Red), but when Agnes came looking for “Miss Tolliver,” she saw the body of one of the Russians. Agnes pinky-swore not to tell her mother. She drew a picture though. When Liz questioned Katarina, she insisted that nothing was amiss, but Liz went to check out the park anyway. In the bath house, where the fight had taken place, Liz noticed a cracked mirror with blood on it.

 
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Note: This episode has Ilya, Katarina and Dom in three separate modes: in the present, in flashbacks (played by different actors) and in a third mode in which the characters are played in their present appearance but inserted into the flashbacks or otherwise in-between past and present. I used “Lucid Katarina,” “Lucid Ilya” etc to identify this altered state.

 
[ Nine weeks ago ] [ Madeline Tolliver and Gregory Flynn are moving. Men move boxes into a van marked “Monitor Moving Company.” Madeline and Gregory pose while the moving representative, Stella Bisset, takes pictures of them posing by the “Sold” sign ]
[ Jerry Garcia and David Grisman’s ♫ “Shady Grove” plays ]
[ ⬇ Go to Full Lyrics ] or [ ♪ Tap square below to play ♪ ]

Stella Bisset: Say “DC”! [ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS ]
Madeline Tolliver: How’s that one look? [ CHUCKLES ]
Gregory Flynn: Oh, I’m sure it’s fine, hon.
Madeline: Oh, you say that, and then my eyes aren’t open, or my hair’s in the–
Stella: No, it’s a keeper. Definitely one for all that new wall space.
Madeline: Ahh! Hm. I have a feeling we’re not gonna spend much time in the new place.
Stella: Greg, I thought you were retiring. Are you still going to fly?
Gregory: Well, not as a pilot. As a passenger.
Stella: Ah.
Gregory: I get a little itchy if I’m in one place for too long.
Stella: I hear you.
Madeline: Yeah. He wants to see the world, friends be damned. Yeah. As if we had any. We hardly knew the neighbors.
Stella: [ CHUCKLES ] Well, you have each other. What other friends do you need? You know, I have a few items for you to sign. Should we go inside?
Madeline: Mm-hmm.
Gregory: Yeah.

♪ I’m bound for Shady Grove

 
[ Inside, they sign the papers ]
Stella: Your things will be waiting for you safely when you arrive in DC.
Madeline: Thank you. [ CHUCKLES ] You have made this a cinch.
Gregory: Yeah, Stella. Thank you, really.
Stella: As we say at Orion, good luck–
Madeline: Oh!
Stella: wherever fate takes you.
[ LAUGHING ]
Gregory: Yes!
[ A man comes up behind Gregory and covers his face with plastic wrap ]
Gregory: Ohh!
[ The same thing happens to Madeline ]
[ MUFFLED SCREAMING ] [ Stella puts the papers into her bag ]

♪ Shady Grove, my little love
Shady Grove, my darlin’,
Shady Grove

 
[ Gregory and Madeline’s bodies are rolled inside rugs and carried by workers to the moving van ]
Stella: [ On phone ] I have secured your match. She’s retired, no family. He’s a former airline pilot. They lead very quiet lives and they are moving to DC this week.
Katarina: So, we have names.
Stella: Yes. Madeline Tolliver and Gregory Flynn.
Katarina: Madeline. Like the children’s book. How sweet.
Stella: I’ll be in touch.
Katarina: Yes. Thank you. [ CELLPHONE BEEPS ] Well, Berdy, it appears you and I are going to be neighbors with Miss Keen after all.

 
[ In the present ] [ Liz and Agnes are leaving their apartment. So is Katarina (aka “Maddy”) ]
Liz: Come on, munchkin! Hurry! The Saltmans are waiting! Again.
Katarina: Carpool drama?
Liz: [ SIGHS ]
[ DOOR CLOSES ]
Liz: Punctuality is not her strong suit yet, but she could write a book on transitional objects.
[ Agnes is carrying her blue Barbie, the one Katarina had planted a listening device into ]
Liz: I mean, she won’t go anywhere without it.
Katarina: Is that right?
Liz: I’m gonna see her off, but I’ll be back in a sec if you want to come by for coffee.

 
Berdy: The doll has the mic in it. Now how are we gonna get our intel? And [ CHUCKLES ] Please don’t say from Dr. Quakenstein.
Katarina: Skovic’s methods are unconventional, but they’re effective. He’ll get Ilya to talk, and when he does we’ll have all the intel we need.
⋘⋙
[ In an adjacent room, Red’s friend Ilya Koslov is hooked up to monitoring equipment ] [ BEEPING ]
Skovic: Are you familiar with RMT, Mr. Koslov? Recovered Memory Therapy? 🔘 [See Note]
[ Skovic SMOOCHES his thumb ] It’s quite, uh, unconventional. Some would even go so far as to call it junk science, but I believe it is the future.
[ INHALES DEEPLY ] And it is also our way into the past.
[ DOOR OPENS ] [ Katarina enters ] [ DOOR CLOSES ] [ BEEPING CONTINUES ]
Skovic: Uh, for your session, I will be using a cocktail of pharmaceuticals and hypnotherapy to place you in a lucid waking dream state.
[ Skovic SNIFFS a container of pipe tobacco ]
Skovic: Mmm.
[ LID SNAPS ]
Skovic: There are, of course risks, but that is why we will be keeping you sedated. Now, your friend would like for you to go back to 1991. Let’s go back to the day when Katarina Rostova reached out to you – let you know she was alive.
[ BEEPING CONTINUES ]

 
[ THREE KNOCKS ON DOOR ] [ Liz opens her door. She assumes it’s Katarina, but it’s Red and Dembe ]
Liz: Perfect timing!
Red: For what?
Liz: Coffee. I was, uh– Sorry. I was expecting someone else.
Red: Oh. Well, we wouldn’t want good coffee to go to waste, would we?
⋘⋙
[ In her kitchen, Liz serves coffee ]
Red: I don’t know how, but that woman stayed well ahead of me. She got to Steinhil, she’s apprehended a dear friend of mine.
Liz: You said she’s after certain information. Does he have it?
Red: He does. And she’ll do most anything to get it from him.
⋘⋙
Ilya: [ SLEEPILY ] You don’t have to do this.
Katarina: I’m afraid I do, love.
[ Skovic prepares an injection ]
⋘⋙
Red: We have very little time, but thanks to her hawaladar, we have a lead. Orion Relocation Services. She paid them to give her a new identity, a new home, new life. I don’t know where she is or who she’s pretending to be, but Orion Relocation Services, they do.
Liz: Who is she – the woman in Paris? You still haven’t told me her name.
Red: The man she’s taken, he’s like a brother to me.
Liz: I deserve to know. She’s going after the people you care about. She’s hurting your friend. If she can hurt him, she can hurt us.
Red: Did something happen? Were you threatened? I thought the FBI had you under protective surveillance.
Liz: This company – Orion Relocation Service – tell me about them.

 
[ The Post Office. Liz briefs the Task Force ]
Liz: Until now, Reddington’s heard whispers, ghost stories about the people who helped the worst of the worst disappear – assassins, traitors, the woman who abducted him in Paris.
Agent Alina Park: We find them, he finds her. How convenient for him.
Cooper: Yes, he gets what he wants, but in exchange, we get to ID criminals Orion has hidden in plain sight.
Liz: And arrest a company of murderers. Orion doesn’t just give their clients fake IDs. They kill innocent people and give their identities to their clients.
Ressler: So if Reddington already knows Orion’s name, why can’t he find them himself?
Liz: “Orion” is a DBA, a financial shell he can’t crack. What he does have is a name, one of Orion’s clients, a thief looking for a new identity – Sofia Burke.
⋘⋙
Sofia Burke: I need to escape, go where I can’t be found.
Stella Bisset: Believe me, where I’m sending you, no one will ever look.
⋘⋙
Aram: [ Typing ] All right. Burke’s a jewel thief. Milan. Hong Kong.The Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange. Now, her whereabouts are unknown, but it looks like her partner took the fall when they tried to steal the Dresden Green, the world’s largest green diamond. Appears he’s awaiting trial at the MDC in Brooklyn.
Ressler: Maybe that’s why she wants a new ID. She’s worried this partner is gonna flip on her.
Cooper: Let’s hope she’s right. Take Park to Brooklyn and find out.
⋘⋙
[ They disperse. Aram calls Liz back ]
Aram: Agent Keen. So, uh, this came for you through the Hoover Building.
[ ENVELOPE RUSTLING ] [ Liz takes out a thumb drive ]
Liz: Okay. [ SIGHS ] Agnes said she saw a dead body in the park the other day.
Aram: Oh, my God. That- That must have been terrifying.
Liz: Yeah. S-She was pretty shaken up. Her nanny didn’t see anything, but there was a birthday party in the park, and the Park Department gave me the name of the family who rented the field.
Aram: Did they see anything?
Liz: The mom did, but she was too freaked out to make a positive ID. So I’m hoping I can get one from the video of the birthday party here.
[ They watch the video ]
Aram: Hang on. Hang on. There. Go back.
[ In the distance, behind the partiers, they see two men entering the bathhouse in the park ]
Liz: He’s carrying.
Aram: Any idea who they are?
Liz: No, but I’m gonna find out.

 
[ Skovic lights his pipe and puffs at it ] [ SKOVIC BREATHES DEEPLY ] [ Katarina looks on intently ]
Skovic: Ilya I know your instinct will be to fight, but I want you to know the harder that you fight, the more relaxed you will become. The more you fight, the more you surrender. It’s as if you are floating. And as you float, all that fight escapes you. It floats, too. Floating away.
[ Skovic INHALES DEEPLY ]
Skovic: I want you to breathe in and out. In [ BEEPING ] And out. Making the image of yourself more present, more clear. Focus on that image of yourself. It’s not you today. It’s you in 1991. A young man. On the day you learned Katarina Rostova was still alive. Look at yourself as that young man. Can you see him, Ilya? He’s there. He’s you. I’m going to ask you to open your eyes, and when you do the image of that young man will become incredibly clear.

[ Flashback: ]
[ A blurred image of Ilya as a young man appears ]

[ Skovic INHALES SHARPLY ]
Skovic: You’re going to open your eyes now. Are you ready? [ ECHOING ] Three – two – one.

[ Flashback: ]
[ The image of young Ilya crystallizes. Young Ilya opens his eyes. His eyes dart around fearfully ]

 
[ Cooper’s office ] [ Liz and Cooper look at the enlarged image of the two men from the birthday party video. Their faces are very unclear ]
Cooper: Is it clear enough for facial recognition?
Liz: Aram says no. I’ve circulated the image to every FBI office worldwide to see if anyone can ID the man.
Cooper: Three operatives, a dead body, and Agnes. I wish I believed that could be a coincidence. If these guys work for the woman who abducted Reddington, then who’s the dead man? And if the dead man works for her, then who killed him?
Liz: We can’t know until we find Burke. Did her partner give us a lead?
Cooper: He gave us the name of the man who fences her jewels. Richard Potash.

 
[ SCISSORS SNIPPING ] [ Sofia Burke cuts her hair short, to match the style of the woman whose life she will be stepping into ]
⋘⋙
Sofia Burke: [ On phone ] Yes. Liquidate everything. Accounts, stocks, T-bills.

 
[ Cooper’s office ]
Cooper: Reddington knows Potash by reputation and gastronomic preference. It seems there’s an underground restaurant scene, and he frequents it. Reddington’s meeting him there.
Liz: Then so am I. If he can lead us toward anyone involved in sending those men after my kid, I want to hear it first.

 
[ Liz and Red enter the dining venue, dressed in evening wear ] [ A man is using a kitchen
torch ] [ TORCH HISSING ]
Red: Oh, my. I must say, I’m very intrigued. I bartered a long weekend at my pied-á-terre in Montmartre for the invitation plus-one. This chef, Rasmus Ray, is something of an outlier in food circles. No restaurant, no menu. Plenty of youthful innovation. Apparently he only hosts these dinners when inspiration strikes, which bodes well for our evening.
Liz: I’m only interested in finding Burke’s fence.
[ Red acknowledges someone ]
Red: Ah. Colonel. Looking dashing, as always. [ CHUCKLES ]
Liz: Who’s that?
Red: Just some colonel.
[ Red motions toward another, heavy-set, man ]
Red: I believe that that’s our fence.
⋘⋙
Red: Mr. Potash. I hear you’re the man to see about a thief.
Richard Potash: Pardon me? Do I know you?
Red: Not yet, but we’re about to make each other unholy amounts of money.
Potash: Are we, now?
Red: I don’t know how to make any other kind. Raymond Reddington.
Potash: The Raymond Reddington?
Red: And this is the Lydia Dart. A friend and client.
Liz: As well as an art lover. I understand you dabble in art yourself.
Potash: I’ve been said to have resources. What might it be that you’re looking to acquire?
Chef Rasmus Ray: [ Loudly ] Fellows, gals, non-binary pals. I’m Chef Rasmus Ray. Welcome to Comestible. Please have a seat.

 
[ The guests are now seated ]
Chef Rasmus Ray: In food, our eyes betray us. With visual cues. With predisposed expectations of color and and texture. The brain is is programmed to choose food that will give our bodies the greatest nutrients. The vibrant greens of vegetables, the rich reds of meat. To counter this, the brain rejects food it perceives as dangerous – spotted, softening fruit, strong-smelling fish, discolored meat. When you avoid something on your plate, chances are you’re avoiding it because of a past experience. But tonight we dine without prejudice. Tonight we dine on pure flavor. Tonight we dine in the dark.
[ The lights go out ] [ GUESTS MURMURING ]
Liz: Is this for real?
Red: Well, it certainly just got interesting.

 
[ Katarina’s place ] [ Ilya remains sedated, but conscious, his eyes closed ]
Skovic: Ilya? Ilya, can you hear me?
[ An image of Ilya as he looks now, but imagined (“Lucid Ilya”), appears ]
Lucid Ilya: Yes.
Skovic: Can you tell me what you see?

[ Flashback: ]
[ An image of young Katarina appears ]

[ Young Ilya and the image of Ilya as he looks now (“Lucid Ilya”) appear side-by-side ]
Lucid Ilya: I see her.
Young Ilya: With me.
Skovic: How do you feel?
[ BEEPING ]
Ilya: [ INHALES SHARPLY ] I’m relieved.
Lucid Ilya: I thought she was gone.

[ Flashback: ]
Young Katarina: I went into the ocean to end my life.

Lucid Ilya: I heard about Cape May. The drowning. Her suicide.

[ Flashback: ]
[ Images of the ocean pounding, the inn at Cape May flash by ]

Skovic: But there was no suicide.
Ilya: No. [ SIGHS, smiles slightly ] No.
Skovic: Do you remember what happened that night?
Lucid Ilya: She made contact at the embassy.

[ Flashback: ]
[ Images flash by: the crossword puzzle, the keys in the briefcase, the motel room, finding her alive ]
Young Ilya: The world thinks you’re dead.

Lucid Ilya: I thought you were dead.

[ Flashback: ]
Young Katarina: We did the right thing.
Young Ilya: I’ve nothing but love for you.
[ They embrace ]

Lucid Ilya: She was in trouble. She needed help.
Skovic: What trouble? Tell me about the trouble. You helped her, right?
Lucid Ilya: She was being hunted. By the KGB. The Cabal. The Americans. Her father helped get us out of Russia. But it wasn’t enough.
[ ECHOING ]

[ Flashback: ]
Young Katarina: I am marked.

Ilya: She needed to disappear. Needed a plan.
Skovic: Tell me about that plan.
[ BEEPING INTENSIFIES ]
Katarina: You’re losing him.
Skovic: He’s resisting the memory.
Ilya: [ GROANS ]
Katarina: Ilya? The plan. Tell me what you remember about that plan.
[ ECHOING ]

[ Flashback: ]
Young Ilya: No one knows. ⋘⋙ Impossible.
[ Typewriter slams out loudly: “R” “e” “d” ]
Young Ilya: A fugitive and traitor to his country.
Voice of Young Ilya: [ Very softly, ECHOING ] Reddington’s dead. Reddington’s –
Young Ilya: I don’t think you’re entirely grasping what I’m suggesting.
Young Katarina: What are you suggesting?
Young Ilya: Becoming Reddington. Purposefully stepping into into the shoes of a man–

Ilya: –into the shoes of a man destined to be condemned as a traitor.
Katarina: But how?

[ Flashback: ]
Young Katarina: That would be impossible.
Young Ilya: What if it’s not?

Ilya: We devised a plan to steal the money used to frame Reddington and disappear.
Katarina: But the plan, it didn’t work.

[ Flashback: ]
[ The typewriter scrolls up, as if to correct something ]

Ilya: Not like we thought.
Katarina: No. Help me to remember. The plan. Who did it involve?
Ilya: [ BREATHES SHAKILY ] It was myself – Katarina – Dr. Koehler.
Katarina: And the person under the knife – the man who walked into the banks and impersonated Reddington – tell me what you remember about him.
[ BEEPING INTENSIFIES ]
Skovic: He’s guarding the memory. Even in this state, he knows there is a secret he should not reveal.
Katarina: Who was impersonating him, Ilya?
Skovic: Stop! I need to bring him out.
Katarina: No! Not yet.
Skovic: No. His blood pressure’s through the roof! I need to push Lidocaine.
Katarina: Then stop! Let him rest. But we are not bringing him out.
[ BEEPING CONTINUES ]

 
[ The darkened dining venue. The servers wear night vision goggles ]
Red: I think dining in the dark probably does enhance the senses.
Liz: Is annoyance a sense?
Red: [ CHUCKLES ]
Chef Rasmus Ray: For the next dish – brandywine tomatoes with a Dungeness crab and a seaweed-lemon granité.
Red: I understand that Sofia Burke made a run at the Dresden Green.
Richard Potash: She tried and failed.
[ Red tastes the wine ]
Red: Mm! Château d’Yquem. My uvula is positively quivering.
Liz: We want her to try again. You can get in touch with her. We can’t.
Potash: Whether she tries again or not is not my concern.
Red: I wonder if a healthy finder’s fee would make it your concern.
Potash: I’ll need to make a call.
Chef Rasmus Ray: And after this, the pièce de résistance: the winged veal of the Russian Far East. Served extra rare.
[ WINGS FLUTTER, ANIMAL CRIES, GUESTS GASP ]
Chef Ray: That is the sound of the Blakiston fish owl, the largest, most exotic, and endangered of the owl species.
Liz: [ WHISPERING ] Endangered?
Chef Ray: Let us know if you would prefer a slice of the wing, breast, or all-seeing eye.
[ Red switches the lights on and points his gun at the chef ]
Red: Nobody touches the bird. What’s wrong with you people? There are only 400 of these little guys left in the world, and you’re gonna eat this one? You want to eat something? Eat a cow! There are millions of them wandering around. Better yet, eat a rabbit. They’re delicious! Low impact on the environment, sustainable. I mean, hell, they hump like– well, like rabbits. Uh, but our little feathered friend here [ OWL SCREECHES ] is coming with me. Chef?
[ Red motions to the owl’s keeper ] [ OWL SCREECHES ]
Red: Lydia? Smile, everyone. You just spared a magnificent creature.

 
[ A cafe/bar ]
Liz: She’s late.
Red: Somewhere you need to be?
Liz: I’m expecting a call.
Red: A personal one, I hope. I’m sure it’s been difficult since Tom. But you have Agnes now. You should be looking forward, not back.You deserve a bigger life.
[ DOOR OPENS ]
[ Sophia Burke enters ]
Red: Oh.
[ Dembe attempts a pat-down, but she brushes him off ]
Sophia Burke: In your dreams, handsome.
Red: Sofia Burke! Your reputation precedes you.
Sophia: As does yours. Which is why I’m here. I wanted to pay you the courtesy of turning you down in person. I tried stealing the Dresden once. I won’t try again.
Red: I don’t want you to.
Sophia: [ CHUCKLES ] Potash said you did.
Red: [ Gesturing ] Please.
[ She sits ]
Red: Would you care for some tea or coffee?
Sophia: No. Thank you.
Red: We’re looking for some information about Orion Relocation Services.
Sophia: Never heard of them.
Red: Perhaps this will jog your memory.
[ Dembe opens a briefcase full of money ]
Red: [ CHUCKLES ]
[ CELLPHONE VIBRATES ]
Liz: Excuse me.
[ Liz steps aside to take the call ]
Red: Tell me how it all works.
⋘⋙
Liz: [ On phone ] Hello?
Agent Harris Gentry: Agent Keen. Harris Gentry. I work in transnational organized crime out of Baltimore.
Liz: Yes, I was expecting your call. I understand you identified the man in the photo I circulated.
⋘⋙
Sophia Burke: So [ SIGHS ] they find someone who’s planning to move. Same age, ethnicity. Loners or people without family. In my case, a woman escaping from an abusive relationship who wants to disappear.
Red: So you can step into the identity of someone no one can find.
Sophia: Is that what this is about? [ CHUCKLES ] You want a new identity?
Red: [ CHUCKLES SOFTLY ] How do you contact them?
Sophia: They initiate contact, use burners. Tell me what I need to know when I need to know it.
Red: Did they tell you your new identity? I’m paying for information. So far, you’ve given me relatively little.
Sophia: Denise Young. That’s my new name. I don’t know how to reach her.
Red: It was a pleasure meeting you. Don’t spend it all in one place.
[ Sophia leaves ]
⋘⋙
Liz: [ On phone ] And this Tommy Petrov. You’re sure he’s Russian mafia?
Agent Gentry: Guy’s a brigadier in the Vory. Answered to Motya Morozov.
Liz: “Answered”?
Agent Gentry: He was hit. We don’t know why.
Liz: I was hoping you did. [ SIGHS ]
⋘⋙
Red: Denise Young. To find Ilya, we need to find her.
Dembe: Do you want me to call Glen?
Red: And risk a delay due to Taco Tuesday or a suddenly ingrown toenail? I don’t have the time. Ilya doesn’t have the time. Unfortunately, the last person I would want to find Ilya is the person I need help from to find him.
⋘⋙
[ Liz returns to join Red and Dembe ]
Red: We have a lead.
Liz: Motya Morozov. Does he work with the woman in Paris?
Red: So you have been threatened.
Liz: Was he looking for my mother?
Red: He was. Before I shot him.
Liz: [ Insistently ] The woman in Paris. If you won’t tell me her name, just tell me this. If we find her, will it end?
Red: That is our best hope.
Liz: You said you had a lead?

 
[ Katarina’s kitchen ] [ DOOR CLOSES, FOOTSTEPS APPROACH ]
[ SKOVIC EXHALES SHARPLY AND GROANS ]
Katarina: How is he?
Skovic: Sedated. His vitals are returning. Heart rate is stable. [ INHALES DEEPLY ] But I am concerned. Your friend – he has been trained to resist interrogation. I believe at the deepest, subconscious levels, he is able to avert, to resist.
Katarina: And how do we get around that?
Skovic: I would like to try a different approach. Something, uh, somewhat unorthodox. But to do this, I will need your assistance – and your unabridged trust.

 
[ MATCH STRIKES ] [ Skovic lights his pipe ]
[ BEEPING ]
[ Skovic smokes his pipe ]
Skovic: [ EXHALES DEEPLY ]
[ BEEPING ]
Skovic: Ilya.
[ PIPE CLINKING ]
Skovic: There is a memory I want you to open for me – uh, like a drawer. Can you do that? We’re going to go back. Back to the night you and Katarina’s father decided her fate. You remember that day like it was yesterday. The way it felt the way it smelled, what it looked like. Can you tell me where you are?
Lucid Ilya: In a café in Belgrade.
Skovic: What happened that night?
[ BEEPING INTENSIFIES ]
Skovic: Don’t– Don’t fight. Don’t fight. Let go. Breathe into the memory.
[ Katarina, herself now sedated, enters the scene, taking Ilya’s hand ]
Katarina: Ilya. Love.
Lucid Katarina: Please. I know you were here with Dom. I need you to tell me what happened.
[ Ilya, in lucid form, sits beside Young Ilya ]
Lucid Ilya: It wasn’t my idea. I told him.

[ Flashback: ]
Young Ilya: We can’t be meeting like this. It’s too dangerous. Even now.
Young Dom: Listen to me. Your ruse with Reddington didn’t work. All it managed to do was anger the people who want her dead.
Young Ilya: She is dead.
Young Dom: Nonsense!

Skovic: What did Dom want from you?
Lucid Dom: He was desperate. He needed help.

[ Flashback: ]
Young Dom: Do you know they’ve assembled a directive? The Russian Vory, KGB, the Americans – her enemies – have pooled their resources and put a bounty on her head. They’re calling it the Townsend Directive.
Young Ilya: Neville Townsend?
Young Dom: He’s at the top of a very long list of people who want her dead.
Young Ilya: Are you worried they’ll find you?
Young Dom: I’m worried they’ll find Masha, try and leverage her.
Young Ilya: Look, Dom, I- I can’t help you.
Young Dom: You made a promise! [ FIST SLAMS ON TABLE ] To Katarina. You told her you would look after Masha if anything happened to her.
Young Ilya: Yes, but I can’t call off Townsend. And he will not stop looking.
Young Dom: Sure, he will. He’ll stop looking. And so will the rest of them if Katarina’s dead.
Young Ilya: You want me to kill your daughter?
Young Dom: I want you to hear my plan.

 
[ Cooper’s office ]
Aram: I can’t believe the man in the park was Russian Vory.
Liz: I should move.
Cooper: And do what? Go on the run? Live in hiding?
Liz: My family’s being stalked by the Russian mob.
Ressler: Yeah, but you’re being protected by the FBI.
Cooper: Reddington’s given us a lead. We’re gonna track it down and end this threat and protect you and your family while we’re at it.
[ Agent Alina Park enters with a laptop ]
Agent Park: I got a location on Denise Young. On three Denise Youngs, actually. All the same age as Sofia Burke, all with homes listed for sale or in escrow but only one of whom has filed three restraining orders against her ex.
Ressler: The one who wants to get away and never be found.
Agent Park: 532 Riley Street. Falls Church.
Cooper: Keen, Ressler, head over there. Aram, Park, get her on the phone and warn her. If we want to find Orion, we need to keep her alive.
 

[ Flashback: ]
Young Dom: She has to die. It’s the only way to protect Masha. But to get this done, I’ll need your help. She’ll listen to you. You can get her.
Young Ilya: Dom. I- I can’t.–

Ilya: –I can’t do this.
Katarina: And yet you did
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[ Katarina and Ilya stand together, in lucid form, looking on the scene in 1991 ]
Lucid Katarina:. Early in the morning. Still dark. You’d called me. It was a simple assignment. I was to drive a couple of miles into the city.
[ Both Katarina and Ilya remain connected to monitors ]
Katarina: I was to meet Dominic at Vukov Station. Give him a package. I was to sneak out.
Skovic: So the target – she was exactly where she was supposed to be.
Lucid Ilya: I watched you sneak out of the green door. But I could hardly see you. It was so dark.
Lucid Katarina: So you were there to what? To watch me die?
Ilya: Yes.
Lucid Ilya: [ Voice-over ] I hadn’t known you’d taken a new husband. Not that I was angry to find out, certainly not as angry as he seemed to be, charging out of that room.

[ Pyotr runs out of building and confronts Katarina ]
Young Dom: Who’s this?

Katarina: I had to bring him in. Pyotr was so suspicious. He knew what my old life had cost me.
Lucid Katarina: But I couldn’t let you down. By the time Pyotr woke up, I planned to be back in bed as if nothing happened.

[ Flashback: ]
[ Pyotr argues with Katarina, then pushes her away ]

Katarina: But I was wrong. He knew if I was slipping out at 4:00 a.m. that I was back in the game. He kept screaming, “You were done! You were out!” I insisted it was my last job. An old friend had asked me for a favor. A desperate friend, someone who I trusted–
Lucid Katarina: –someone I could never turn down. But you weren’t really my friend. Were you?
Lucid Ilya: I’m so sorry.
[ BEEPING ]
Ilya: I never wanted to hurt you. But we- we didn’t think we had a choice.
Lucid Katarina: [ SCOFFS ] “We.” That’s right. You weren’t alone. The others They were all there. Even Dom was there.
Lucid Ilya: He leaked that his daughter – that you, were staying at the inn and that you carried sensitive intel. This might be the last chance to catch the infamous Russian traitor–
Skovic: –Katarina Rostova.
Katarina: He wanted to make a spectacle of my death. And to think, you facilitated it. [ VOICE BREAKING ] You watched.
Lucid Ilya: I know.
Ilya: I’m sorry.
Lucid Katarina: Pyotr insisted he accompany me. He didn’t want me out of his sight. He knew Belgrade was too dangerous. He said he’d stay in the car. I told him he was crazy to come. He wasn’t even wearing shoes. Just those stupid hotel slippers.

[ Flashback: ]
[ The car 💥🔥💥 explodes 💥🔥💥 ] [ Lucid Katarina and Lucid Ilya stand next to the car with Young Dom and Young Ilya inside, all watching the explosion ]

Katarina: [ CRYING ] He died. [ SOBS ] I loved him. And he died right before my eyes. Because of you!
Lucid Ilya: The KGB were going to kill you right then and there.
[ Young Katarina runs out of the building ] [ SHOUTS IN RUSSIAN ]
Lucid Ilya: But then everything went wrong.

[ Flashback: ]
[ SHOUTING IN RUSSIAN ]

Katarina: [ GASPS ]
[ CELLPHONE RINGING ]
Katarina: [ GROANS ]
[ RINGING CONTINUES ]
Katarina: [ On phone ] [ Shakily ] Elizabeth.
[ Liz is riding in an SUV alongside Ressler ]
Liz: Hi. Is there any chance you could look after Agnes today?
Katarina: You know I’d love to, but–
Liz: What Agnes said, there was a dead body in the park.
Katarina: I’m in a very [ SNIFFLES ] important meeting.
Liz: There were men with guns.
Katarina: I really can’t help you now.
Liz: They were there for her. To hurt her.
Katarina: Are you sure? W-Why? W-Who were they?
Liz: I can’t explain everything. I just need someone I trust to look after her until I get home.
Katarina: Of course I’ll do it. I’ll be there as soon as I can.
Liz: I’m sorry to pull you out of a meeting.
Katarina: It’s okay. We’re almost done.
Liz: Honestly, I don’t know what I’d do without you.
Katarina: I’m happy to do it. And don’t worry. She’ll be safe with me. I’m a lot tougher than I look.
 

[ Flashback: ]
[ Young Dom and Young Ilya are in a car leaving the scene of the explosion; Dom drives ]
Young Dom: I gave you instructions.
Young Ilya: How could I have not known about her husband?
Young Dom: She was to come alone. One simple job – deliver the dossier.
Young Ilya: I’ve never even heard of him.
Young Dom: And now he’s dead and she’s alive.

Skovic: Yes.

[ Flashback: ]
Young Dom: And there are witnesses. It’s a mess! The world was supposed to see Katarina Rostova die, and instead all we’ve done is confirm that she’s very much alive.

Skovic: [ Reading from notes ] Townsend.

[ Flashback: ]
Young Dom: He’ll never stop. And instead of protecting my granddaughter, we’ve put a target on her back.
Young Ilya: Oh, stop using the child as an excuse! This was about you, Dom.
Young Dom: This was about Masha!
Young Ilya: I should tell him.
Young Dom: We’re not telling him anything.
Young Ilya: Oh. I know how you feel, but Reddington deserves to know what we’ve done.

Skovic: Why? Why does Reddington deserve to know anything?
Ilya: [ Still sedated; eyes closed ] Because he’s a part of this.
Katarina: [ Awake; standing ] You’re protecting him.
Ilya: I made a promise.
Katarina: But you cared about me.
Ilya: Yes, and I do, but I c–
Katarina: I had everything taken from me that night. I can’t show my face, use my name– [ CRYING ]
Ilya: I’m so sorry.
Katarina: –I’ve been hunted like an animal!
[ BEEPING INTENSIFIES ]
Ilya: [ SOBBING, shaking ]
Skovic: We need to stop.
Katarina: And Reddington? Whoever he is, he’s still out there!
Ilya: [ GROANING ]
Katarina: The benefactor to all of this. Why?! Stop! You’re protecting him, but people are trying to kill me. They’re hunting me! [ Screaming at him ] Answer me! Why?!
[ Ilya is shaking wildly ]
Skovic: We need to stop! Get back! We need to keep his airway clear.
[ Skovic stabs Ilya with a syringe ]
Ilya: [ GROANING ]
[ BEEPING SLOWS ]
Ilya: [ MUMBLES ]
Katarina: I only want the truth.
Skovic: You won’t get it if he’s dead.
[ SYRINGE CLATTERS ]

 
[ Liz calls in from the vehicle with Ressler to the Post Office ]
Liz: [ On phone ] Did you get ahold of Denise?
Aram: She canceled her cell service or has a new account under a different name. By hiding from her abuser, she managed to hide from us.
Agent Park: I can’t get Reddington to pick up.
Liz: Why would you be calling him?
Agent Park: He insisted I give him Denise’s location as soon as we got one.
Ressler: So he could get there first. Now, did you give it to him before or after you gave it to us?
Agent Park: Before. But he was closer, and she’s in danger and [ SIGHS ] – He’s not gonna tell us what he finds out, is he?
Liz: He’s not keeping this from me.

 
[ Denise Young is finalizing her move with Stella Bisset ]
Stella: Last bit of business. Would you just initial by the X’s and sign where I highlighted it, please?
Denise: I’m so ready to get out of here.
Stella: Aww. It’s been that bad?
Denise: Look around. People usually have mementos and sentimental things. All I have are painful memories and that son of a bitch’s shotgun in case he tries to find me again.
Stella: He won’t. You know, I’ve got a very good feeling about this next chapter for you.
Denise: [ SIGHS ] I hope you’re right. I mean, it can’t get any worse, right?
[ A mover attacks Denise from behind, wrapping plastic wrap around her head ] [ MUFFLED SCREAMING ]
[ Denise sprays pepper spray or mace into the man’s face ] [ SPRAYING ] [ Denise gets away and runs ]
Mover: Aah! Aah! Ohh!
Stella: Help him, would you? I can handle the rest!
[ Stella grabs a large kitchen knife and goes after Denise ]
Stella: If you want something done right, you’ve got to do it yourself.

 
[ Red and Dembe arrive at the house ] [ At the front door, they hear a GUNSHOT 💥 ]
[ They enter and take out the moving men ] [ 💥💥💥 GUNSHOTS 💥💥💥 ] [ BULLET CASINGS CLATTER ]
[ They come upon Denise, still holding the shotgun she used to shoot Stella, who lies on the floor ]
[ DENISE BREATHING HEAVILY ]
Denise: Oh. S-She tried to kill me. I’m so sorry.
[ Red goes to Stella, holding a photo of Katarina to her face ]
Red: Hey. Hey. This woman. She was a client. You moved her. I need to know where.
[ Stella BREATHING SHALLOWLY ]
Red: Hey. Hey! Where is she?
[ But Stella dies ]

 
[ FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING RAPIDLY ] [ Liz enters ]
Red: [ SIGHS ] We were too late.
Liz: If you had gotten her location, would you have shared it with me?
Red: Eventually.
Liz: Who is she? The woman in Paris. I want a name.
Red: Shots fired in a residential neighborhood. Response time is probably 10 minutes.
Liz: Who is she?!
Red: It’s already been 5. I need to go.

 
[ Red’s place ]
Liz: We have the Orion files in the War Room.
Red: And yet you’re here.
Liz: We have the files, but you know who we’re looking for. We can’t find her without you. And with Bisset dead and the files in our possession, you can’t find her without us.
[ OWL SCREECHES ]
Liz: Are you keeping the owl?
Red: Oh, God, no. I’m terrified of the thing. [ CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY ] Her eyes – hypnotizing.
[ CHUCKLES ] But not to worry. We’ve contacted a licensed falconer to help return the lovely lady to her home range, wherever that is.
Liz: Come to the War Room. We’ll go through the files together, you ID her, and we’ll save your friend.
Red: Dembe, you heard her. To the War Room! Perhaps we’ll be greeted by the Praetorian Guard. “The War Room.” What a marvel of overstatement. Unless we’re in a war I’m unaware of. My gosh. That would be marvelous.

 
[ The Post Office ]
Cooper: I had Aram print out the Orion files. There are 792. Each one is conceivably a criminal case.Like Denise Young, these people might not be criminals, but a crime may have been committed in order for them to disappear. Somewhere in here is the woman who abducted you in Paris. [ To Red ] Your goal is to identify her. Ours is to identify the other clients and determine whether they were aware that their new lives may very well have been built on murder.
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[ Liz pages through a stack of the files. She comes to the one for Madeline Tolliver, the woman whose identity Katarina Rostova adopted before setting herself up as Liz’s new neighbor and nanny. There are photos of Madeline and Katarina side-by-side ]
Liz: My nanny.

[ Liz flashes back: ]

Katarina/“Maddy”: “I moved here to be closer to my daughter.”

Katarina/“Maddy”: “I put her through some dark times.”

Katarina/“Maddy”: “You remind me of my granddaughter!”

Katarina/“Maddy”: “Sometimes people just aren’t who they seem to be.”

Liz: [ To herself ] Of course it’s her.
Red: [ Looking up ] Is something wrong?
Liz: No. Nothing. It’s just, uh– lost track of time. My nanny has to go.
Red: Why don’t you just call her, ask her to stay?
Liz: Wouldn’t make any difference. She’s really got to go.
[ Liz grabs her coat and leaves ]

 
[ Liz’s apartment ] [ Liz enters ] [ DOOR OPENS, CLOSES ] [ KEYS JINGLE ]
[ Katarina is drinking from a large wine glass ]
Liz: [ WHISPERING ] How’s Agnes?
Katarina: Out like a light. After what you told me on the phone, I needed something to steady my nerves. The men in the park. Tell me about them.
Liz: I’ll tell you in a minute. I just want to check in on her first.
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[ Liz goes to Agnes’s bedroom. Agnes is sleeping soundly. Liz takes her pistol from her purse, affixes a silencer to it and, holding it behind her back, returns to the living room. Katarina isn’t there. Liz finds her in the kitchen ]
Katarina: The men – Why in the world would they be interested in Agnes?
Liz: They weren’t interested in her.
Katarina: Oh. [ SIGHS ] That’s a relief.
Liz: They were interested in you.
Katarina: In me?
Liz: You said you were here to reconnect with your daughter.
Katarina: That’s true.
Liz: That Agnes reminded you of your granddaughter. The men went to the park to kill you, and you killed one of them first.
Katarina: [ LAUGHS ] Me? [ LAUGHS ] You think I killed someone?
Liz: Not Maddy Tolliver. No. Maddy Tolliver was a s-sweet, unassuming woman you had murdered so you could steal her identity.
[ Liz shows Katarina the double photo of Katarina and Maddy Tolliver from the Orion files ]
Liz: Maddy Tolliver would never kill anyone. But Katarina Rostova would. Katarina Rostova’s a natural born killer. Of enemies, friends, family.
Katarina: I can explain.
[ Liz points her gun at Katarina ]
Liz: I knew it. [ CHUCKLES ] A part of me knew who you were. I just didn’t want to admit it because I knew it would have to end this way.
Katarina: With you pointing a gun at me? [ SCOFFS ]
Liz: You shot your father. You put your granddaughter in harm’s way. You lied your way into my life. You’ve caused pain and suffering for everyone I’ve ever cared about. Give me one good reason I shouldn’t end this right now.
Katarina: You already know the reason, Masha. [ SNIFFLES ] And it should be reason enough. — I’m your mother.
Liz: [ EXHALES SHARPLY ]

 
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