The Blacklist Declassified

🔴 Script 7:10 Katarina Rostova (№ 3)

 
NBC’s series The Blacklist starring James Spader and Megan Boone
Series created by: Jon Bokenkamp
Program air date: 12/13/2019 in the US (7pm Central/Chicago Time)
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STATUS: ⭕ Pending ⭕ Rough ⭕ Preliminary 🔴 FINAL
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Last updated: 10/15/2019 at 3:10am 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:
 
Mechanic – Josh Alscher
Morgan – Genson Blimline
Berdy Chernov – Peter Bradbury
Prison Guard – Omar Bustamante
Victor Skovic – Michael Cerveris
Ilya Koslov (“The Stranger”) – Brett Cullen
Dominic Wilkinson – Brian Dennehy
Uniformed Officer – Manny Galan
Shopkeeper – Sharon Gee
Chuck – Jonathan Holtzman
Garage Manager – Todd Horman
Pasha Kazanjian – David Kallaway
Agnes Keen – Sarah/Katherine Kell
Agent Rapione – Ryan Kessler
Nshan Kazanjian – Bruce Louis
Tongji – Les Mau
Agent King – Khalil McMillan
Officer in Charge (Dan Lynch) – Tony Roach
Katarina Rostova – Laila Robins
Dr Bogdan Krilov – Rade Serbedzija
Agent Alina Park – Laura Sohn
Heddie Hawkins – Aida Turturro

🔴 Script 7:10 Katarina Rostova (№ 3)

Brief (Where we’re at):

Liz: [ Pointing gun ] 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. And it should be reason enough. — I’m your mother.

So Liz finally “met” her mother. Or, more precisely, she found out that “Maddy” (Madeline Tolliver), the woman she had trusted to be Agnes’s nanny, is actually her mother, the infamous Katarina Rostova. The real Madeline Tolliver is dead, killed by Orion Relocation Services (Blacklister #159) so that Katarina could replace her and move in next to Liz.

But Katarina’s goal has never been to reconnect with her daughter, but rather to use her to get to Red, Dom and Ilya Koslov, Red’s friend and Dom’s one-time protégé. In fact, she now has Ilya imprisoned in her apartment, guarded by her assistant, Berdy Chertov (aka Gregory Flynn) and being subjected to Memory Recovery Therapy (RMT) by the mysterious Victor Skovic.

But, wait – can Katarina be all bad or is she too a product of desperation and fear born of betrayal by those closest to her? What emerged from the RMT sessions was a story of terror in which in 1991 her own father, Dom, aided by Ilya and possibly Reddington, planned to kill Katarina by sending her on an errand and blowing up her car. Dom’s reasoning was that the Townsend Directive (a contract on her life) meant Katarina was doomed anyway and that killing her themselves would at least spare Masha (Liz). But the plan went awry. The explosion killed Katarina’s husband Pyotr, but Katarina herself escaped. She disappeared to end up in Paris, living quietly until Liz and Ressler’s search into Katarina’s past revived the Townsend Directive.

Now Katarina desperately wants to know how to escape her hunters. And she wants answers: including an answer as to whose identity was changed under the skillful hands of Dr Hans Koehler to become Raymond Reddington.

 
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[ Liz’s kitchen. Pointing her gun, Liz confronts her mother, Katarina Rostova ]
Katarina: … I’m your mother.
Liz: A mother protects her children.
Katarina: I did protect you.
Liz: By leaving me?
Katarina: By hiding you. I was being hunted, and I didn’t want you to be hunted, too.
Liz: And how about moving in next door and not telling me who you really are? I suppose you did that to protect me, too.
Katarina: And to get to know you – without our history getting in the way. And we did get to know each other, didn’t we? To like each other.
Liz: Why are you here?
Katarina: I’ll tell you if you put the gun down. Please? You shot your father. Do you really want to shoot your mother, too?
[ Liz lowers her gun ]
[ Katarina picks up Agnes’s Barbie, the one with the mike in it ]
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[ In a nearby room, her assistant, Berdy Chernov listens in on the conversation ]
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Liz: Tell me. After all this time, why are you here?
Katarina: You know what I wish? [ CHUCKLES I wish someone would come in here right now and see us together.
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[ Berdy gets up from his chair ]
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Liz: Why now?
Katarina: Because they found me. The Townsend Directive. Dominic and Raymond could stop them. I tried to make them. You can be angry at me for that, but I just wanted them to do what was right. They refused.
Liz: So you came here? Why? Did you think I could stop them?
Katarina: No, but I needed your help finding the one other person who can – Ilya Koslov.
[ Liz aims her gun at Katarina again ]
Liz: I want the truth.
Katarina: That is the truth.
Liz: I know who Ilya Koslov is and that you didn’t need my help to find him.
Katarina: That is the reason – that and to get to know you so that we could be family again.
[ Berdy comes up behind Liz and slugs⚡️her ]
[ LIZ GRUNTS ] [ Liz falls, landing on the coffee table and⚡️smashing⚡️it. She lies on the floor unconscious ]
Katarina: [ BREATHES DEEPLY ]

 
[ The Post Office. Red and the Task Force are searching for the file on Katarina Rostova from Orion Relocation Services. They don’t know that Liz took it and went by herself to confront Katarina, who had been masquerading as “Maddy Tolliver” and had become Agnes’s de facto nanny ]
Aram: Mr. Reddington, we’ve been through every file four times now.
Red: Are you sure this is everything you confiscated from Orion?
Cooper: Yes. This is every file.
Dembe: Elizabeth still isn’t answering.
Agent Alina Park: Perhaps if you told us the name of the woman who abducted you in Paris, we could help you find her.
Red: She doesn’t have a name. She’s a ghost. Think of a name, any name, and that could be it.
Ressler: We know she used the alias Constance Drucker. And we also know she’s close.
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[ Katarina is driving a car with Agnes ]
Agnes: Why didn’t she say goodbye?
Katarina: You were sleeping, sweetie, and she had an emergency at work, but she asked me to give you a big hug and tell you how much she loves you.
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Cooper: And she has someone you care about in her custody?
Red: She does.
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[ LINE RINGING ]
Katarina: [ On phone ] Hey. How’s our houseguest?
[ Liz is sitting on a chair, still stunned, handcuffed to a pipe ]
Berdy: She’ll be fine. Who you should be worried about are the feds sitting on the apartment. They saw Keen come in. They’re gonna wonder why she’s not coming out.
Katarina: Then handle them. I’ll be there as soon as I can.
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Agent Park: Can you tell us what it is that she wants?
Red: She’s on the run. People are after her, and she wants to know how to stop them.
Ressler: Do you think he’s still alive, this friend of yours she has? She did try to kill you, remember? Hung you up like a Holstein.
Red: Killing me wasn’t her plan. She wants answers, so she tried to con me first. When that didn’t work, she tried advanced interrogation. That didn’t work, either. So, yes, I think my friend is still alive, but I think she’ll employ any means necessary to get what she wants, to get inside his head to—
[ Red stops mid-sentence. The others look at him ]
Red: Krilov. Krilov.
Ressler: The whack job who scrambled my brain like an egg?
Park: What does that mean?
Ressler: It means he scrambled my brain like an egg.
Red: Dr. Bogdan Krilov is the underworld’s foremost expert in accessing the subconscious. The man can get anyone to talk.
Cooper: Krilov’s in prison.
Red: Which means she’d have to hire a protégé.
Cooper: You really think this woman’s using recovered-memory therapy to get inside your friend’s head?
Red: Maybe, but if she is, Krilov would know with whom and how. I need to see him, Harold.
Ressler: No, that’s not possible. He’s at ADX Florence. He’s in lockdown 23 hours a day.
Red: I’m sure you could get him out for a quick visit.
Ressler: He’s a significant security threat.
Red: If I’ve learned anything in this life, it’s that anything is possible.
Aram: Uh, guys, I think we’re missing a file here – 46-J.
Park: That’s the stack Agent Keen was cataloguing last night.
Aram: You don’t think she took the file?
Dembe: She still isn’t answering.
Red: I’m gonna check on Elizabeth. Harold, see if you can round up Dr. Krilov. Donald and I have some catching up to do with the dreamweaver.

 
[ Parked outside, two FBI agents are in a car, monitoring Liz’s apartment ] [ A white van parks in front of their vehicle ] [ VEHICLE REVERSE SIGNAL BEEPING ]
[ BRAKES HISS, BEEPING STOPS, ENGINE SHUTS OFF ]
[ Berdy gets out and approaches the FBI vehicle. He’s wearing glasses and a knit hat ]
Agent Rapione: Who’s this guy?
Berdy: All right. We’re finished. She’s live.
Agent King: Who’s live? And who are you?
Berdy: What, are you kidding? SSG. We got the apartment mic’d up.
Agent King: Command never called us about SSG.
Berdy: Well, then take it up with command. I’m not gonna stand here and debate it in the street. Now, you want the TRF receivers or not?
[ CAR DOOR ALARM CHIMING ]
Agent Rapione: [ SIGHS ]
[ Agent Rapione gets out of the vehicle and follows Berdy ]
Berdy: They’re in the corner.
[ DOOR ALARM CHIMING ]
[ Agent Rapione climbs into the truck. Berdy shoots him ] [ SILENCED GUNSHOT (💥) ]
[ Agent King gets out of the FBI vehicle ]
Agent King: You know, Cooper never notified us of a surveillance pack. I’ll be damned if this is coming back on us.
[ He walks toward the back of the truck. Berdy shoots him, too ] [ SILENCED GUNSHOTS (💥💥) ]
Agent King: Aah!
[ Berdy breaks Agent King’s fall, pushes him into the truck and closes the door ]

 
[ ADX Supermax Prison, Florence CO ] [ A Prison Guard leads Ressler to Dr Bogdan Krilov’s cell ]
Prison Guard: You understand Krilov is not just in solitary. He’s in control. With the worst of the worst. Alone 23 hours a day, and he seems to like it like that. Guy doesn’t even come outside when he’s allowed. He speaks to no one, by choice, so he’s certainly not gonna voluntarily talk with some FBI agent.
Ressler: I don’t want to talk to the guy any more than he wants to talk to me.
[ KNOCK ON CELL DOOR ]
Prison Guard: Krilov. Visitor.
Dr Krilov: Agent Ressler. I’ve been dreaming about this day.
Ressler: Well, that makes one of us. [ To the guard ] Open the door!
[ LATCHES UNLOCK ]

 
[ Red and Dembe arrive at Liz’s apartment ]
[ KNOCKS ON DOOR ] [ When no one opens, Dembe kicks ⚡️ the door open ]
Red: Elizabeth.
Dembe: Nobody.
[ They see the crushed coffee table ]
[ CELLPHONE SPEED-DIALING ] [ LINE RINGING ]
Cooper: [ Answering phone ] Cooper.
Red: Harold. We have a problem.
Cooper: What’s going on? Any word from Agent Keen?
Red: No. The apartment’s empty, with clear signs of an altercation. This falls on us, Harold. We shouldn’t have let her go alone.
Cooper: Have Dembe check in with the agents stationed outside. Maybe they saw something. I’ll call them and let them know he’s on the way.
Red: Yep.

 
[ Outside, Dembe and Red find the FBI vehicle empty ]
Red: What is it? Where are they?
[ There is blood on the pavement ]
Dembe: Raymond. Blood.
[ CELLPHONE RINGING inside the vehicle ] [ RINGING CONTINUES ]
[ Red retrieves the phone; CELLPHONE BEEPS ]
Red: [ On phone ] No need to notify your men, Harold. They won’t be taking any phone calls.

 
[ Outside Liz’s apartment ] [ POLICE RADIO CHATTER ] [ Police set up perimeter tape ] [ Katarina walks past and enters to building ]
[ SIREN WAILS ] [ HORN HONKS ] [ SIREN WAILS ]

 
[ Agent Alina Park is canvassing Liz’s neighbors ]
Berdy: Oh, I wish I could help, but I didn’t see anything.
Agent Park: Thank you. Mister?
Berdy: Uh, Gregory Flynn. Two N’s.
[ Katarina appears ]
Katarina: What’s going on?
Park: Agent Park, FBI. And you are?
Katarina: Maddy Tolliver. Is there something wrong?
Berdy: Well, apparently, there’s been some kind of crime.
Katarina: A crime? What happened?
Park: Did you see or hear anything unusual in the past hour?
Katarina: No, I was– Does this have anything to do with Elizabeth?
Park: You know Agent Keen?
Katarina: Of course. She’s my neighbor. Please. Tell me she’s okay.
Park: We’re checking on it.
[ Agent Park gives Katarina a card ]
Park: Um, if you think of anything give me a call.

 
[ Katarina’s apartment ]
[ DOOR OPENS to the room where Victor Skovic has been trying to extract Ilya Koslov’s memories from the night Dom and Ilya tried to kill Katarina ] [ MONITOR BEEPING ]
Katarina: Did he talk?
Skovic: I’m done. There are police everywhere, FBI.
Katarina: So he didn’t talk.
Skovic: That’s why they’re here? Because you have another hostage?
Katarina: Did he talk?!
Skovic: No.
Katarina: Then you’re not done.
Skovic: [ SCOFFS ] Like hell I’m not.
[ He tries to leave but Berdy points a gun at him ]
Katarina: Let me know when Ilya’s ready for another session. If you won’t ask him questions – I will.

 
[ In a separate room, Liz is still handcuffed to the pipe, a cloth gag now in her mouth ]
[ TELEVISION PLAYING LOUDLY ] [ Katarina enters and turns off the tv ] [ CLICK ]
Katarina: What Berdy did was not okay, but if I let you go, it’ll stop me from getting the answers I need. What I’d like to do is take this gag off so we can talk. I don’t want to put it back on, but if you scream, I’ll have to. So can we talk?
[ Liz nods. Katarina removes the gag ]
Liz: Where’s Agnes?
Katarina: I took her to Shelly’s for a sleepover. I told her something came up and you had to go to work.
[ CELLPHONE UNLOCKS, BEEP, SPEED-DIALING ] [ Katarina holds the phone to Liz’s ear ]
Katarina: See for yourself.
[ LINE RINGING ]
Liz: Hi, Beth. It’s me. Can I talk to Agnes for a sec?
Katarina: I would never hurt her.
Liz: [ SIGHS ] Hi, honey. How are you? — Chocolate-chip pancakes? Well, I wouldn’t want to interrupt that. I just wanted to say I love you. Okay? — Bye.
[ CELLPHONE BEEPS ]
Katarina: So let’s talk.

 
[ Dembe and Red are parked in a garage. Two black SUVs drive in ]
[ CELLPHONE BEEPS ] [ Dembe receives a text message ]
Dembe: Harold still hasn’t located Elizabeth. No one in her building has seen her, and they can’t get a signal off her phone.
Red: First Ilya. Now she’s got Elizabeth. She thinks she’s staying ahead of us. I fear she might be getting a little ahead of herself.
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[ Ressler and Agent Park get out of one vehicle. Guards get out of the other with Dr Krilov. The guards sit Krilov down on a chair ]
Dr Krilov: As I’m the last person you want to see, I assume I’m the only person who can do what you need. Which gives me the leverage to set my terms – time served, a new identity and, um – glass of chocolate milk.
Ressler: [ SCOFFS ]
Red: Make it two. Hershey’s or Nesquik? Or maybe you’re a Bosco man.
Dr Krilov: What do you want?
Red: To kill you. For working with Mr. Kaplan. For betraying my trust. For hurting Donald in an attempt to hurt me.
Ressler: Well, that’s what we want. And if you’re smart, you’re gonna give us what we need.
Red: A name of a protégé or colleague.
Dr Krilov: I work alone.
Red: Mm. A competitor then? A rival, someone’s chipping away at your business while you’re in prison.
Ressler: And if you play nice, well, maybe we’ll kill him instead of you.
Dr Krilov: [ CHUCKLES ] And you are an FBI agent?
Ressler: Yes, I am. And I work with Raymond Reddington. So you do the math.
Dr Krilov: Yeah. Okay. Victor Skovic.
Park: Where can we find him?
Dr Krilov: Tongji.
Park: Where’s that?
Red: It’s not a where. It’s a who. Tongji is supposed to be some kind of a Chinese miracle worker. He’s rumored to provide a place where people go to find unfindable things, to forget the unforgettable things – a back-alley bazaar where he brokers whatever you need to ease your pain or dull your mind. As far as I know, Tongji only exists as a myth.
Dr Krilov: [ CHUCKLES ] He’s not a myth. [ CHUCKLES ] He’s very real. And he brokers jobs for Skovic.
Ressler: Then it looks like we’re taking you on a little field trip to meet Mr. Tongji.

 
Katarina: After all these years, after what I’m sure everyone had told you about me, I didn’t think there was any way you would give me the benefit of the doubt, that I was actually here to put an end to it – to the running, the hiding, the living in fear.
Liz: I don’t believe you’re afraid of anything.
Katarina: I lost you once. I’m terrified of losing you again.
Liz: You say you need me to find Ilya Koslov, but I know that that’s not true. You had him in Paris.
Katarina: In Paris?
Liz: I know who Reddington really is. He told me.
Katarina: He told you?
Liz: He’s the real Koslov, and he turned into Reddington 30 years ago to help you escape.
Katarina: He told you that?
Liz: Well, Dom did, and Reddington, he confirmed it. He saved your life. And you repaid him by torturing him within an inch of his.
Katarina: You don’t understand.
Liz: No. You don’t understand. He may not be my father, but Reddington, this Reddington, has watched over me my entire life. You say you want to get to know each other– To be a family? Well, he’s a part of that family. And if you can’t be on his side, I can’t be on yours.
Katarina: What if I can prove he’s not on your side?
Liz: I don’t think there’s anything you can say that would convince me of that.
Katarina: That’s why I’m not going to say anything. I’m going to show you.

 
[ DOOR OPENS, MONITOR BEEPING ]
[ Katarina and Liz enter the room where Ilya is being held ]
Berdy: I don’t think this is a good idea. She shouldn’t be in here.
[ Liz sees Ilya, who is sleeping or unconscious ]
Liz: This man, I’ve met him before. He’s friends with Reddington. F-F-Frank –
Katarina: Elizabeth. His name isn’t Frank.
[ Katarina show Liz her file of Ilya Koslov ]
Katarina: His name is Ilya Koslov.

 
[ Liz and Katarina are in Katarina’s living room ]
Katarina: [ To Berdy ] I’ll be there in five minutes. Make sure Skovic has him ready.
[ Berdy leaves the room ]
Liz: That file doesn’t prove anything. Why should I trust you?
Katarina: You have absolutely no reason to. But I think you know it’s the truth.
Liz: If Reddington isn’t Koslov, then who is he?
Katarina: [ CHUCKLES ] That’s just one of the mysteries I intend to pull from Ilya’s head.
Liz: How could you not know? Ilya’s your friend.
Katarina: He was my best friend, until he conspired with your grandfather to have me killed, blown up in a car bomb.
Liz: That isn’t what Dom told me.
Katarina: No. Dom told you Reddington was Koslov. He lied to you to hide the truth, that he tried to assassinate his own daughter.
Liz: Why would he do that?
Katarina: Because if the people hunting me saw me die, then the person he really cared about would be safe.
Liz: You’re his child. Who could he care about more than you? — No. [ SCOFFS ] That can’t be true.
Katarina: I’m a mortal threat to you, a mother whose very existence puts her daughter’s life at risk.
Liz: My grandfather tried to kill you to protect me.
Katarina: And in the process, he killed the man I loved. I disappeared after that. To heal. I started over and was content.
Liz: Until they found you again. The Townsend Directive.
Katarina: They took away my life once. Now they’ve done it again.
Liz: No, they didn’t. I did. I’m the reason they’re after you again. I went looking for you. They found out. They followed my lead.
Katarina: You were looking for me?
Liz: [ Crying ] Of course I was. You’re my mother.

 
[ MONITOR BEEPING ] [ Katarina enters the room with Ilya and Skovic ]
Skovic: This is a waste of time. I couldn’t get anything out of him. I’d like to go now.
Katarina: [ SCOFFS ] Where? Out the door and into the arms of the police?
Skovic: I have no interest in dying here.
Katarina: You’re not going to die, Victor. Not if, from now on, you do exactly as I tell you.
Sit down and keep your mouth shut!
[ Berdy enters ]
Berdy: I just got a call. The Kazanjian brothers pulled into town.
Katarina: We need to step up our timeline before it’s too late. [ To Ilya ] Good news, Ilya. Dr. Skovic’s done with you.
[ Ilya is still out of it, unresponsive ]
Katarina: The bad news is – I’m just getting started.
[ MONITOR BEEPING ]

 
[ An auto repair shop ] [ A man is welding ]
Garage Manager: Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go! Keep these vehicles moving! I need open spaces here!
[ DOOR OPENS ] [ The Kazanjian brothers, Pasha and Nshan, enter ]
Manager: Hey! Wrong garage! Take a walk!
Pasha: We need vehicle.
Manager: You just picked the wrong garage. You hear me?
[ The Manager reaches for a gun ] [ Nshan shoots him 💥 ]
Manager: Aah!
[ Another man tries to flee. Nshan shoots 💥 him, too ]
Pasha: [ To the remaining mechanic ] Fortify the bumper on that Chevy. You have 30 minutes.

 
[ Chinatown ] [ HORN BLARES ] [ Ressler is in a parked vehicle with Agent Park. They watch as Red, Dembe and Krilov enter a store ]
Park: So, you and Krilov have a history. What exactly did he do?
Ressler: He got inside my head, planted a false memory, tried to convince me I killed a national-security advisor.
Park: And now we’re working with him?
Ressler: It’s been a slippery slope.
Park: You think?

 
[ SOFT MUSIC PLAYING ] [ Inside the shop ]
Red: [ To Krilov ] Have a seat right there. [ To the Shopkeeper ] I’m here to see Tongji.
Shopkeeper: [ Thick Chinese accent ] You have appointment?
Red: I do not.
Shopkeeper: You got to have an appointment.
Red: Tell him it’s Raymond Reddington.
Shopkeeper: Mr. Reddington, you no appointment, you no see Tongji. [ SPEAKS CANTONESE ] Come back when you have the appointment!
Red: I have a gun. Does that count as an appointment? And I have a friend with a gun – two appointments.
Shopkeeper: He’s not reachable.
Dr Krilov: Why don’t you tell Tongji that Bogdan Krilov wants to see him?
Shopkeeper: Dr. Krilov! Of course, sir. Dr. Krilov. [ SPEAKING CANTONESE ]

 
[ DOOR CLOSES ]
[ They walk back though a hazy, third world setting. Men are reclining, almost naked, receiving some kind of treatment. Chickens are in cages and scurrying around, being slaughtered, meat being cut up. ]
Shopkeeper: No smoking! [ SPEAKING CANTONESE ]
[ CHICKEN SQUAWKING ]
[ They come to a back room lined with jars of herbs and acupuncture charts ]
[ Tongji is on the phone ] [ SPEAKING CANTONESE ANGRILY ] [ SCOFFS ] [ CELLPHONE SLAMS SHUT ]
[ Tongji sees Krilov ]
Tongji: My God.
Dr Krilov: Hello, my friend.
[ Hug, cheek kisses ] [ CHUCKLES ]
Tongji: They said you were in prison. They said you would die there.
Dr Krilov: They were wrong.
Tongji: Are you okay? Do you need help?
Dr Krilov: Listen. I’m looking for someone, the man who took my place.
Tongji: Victor Skovic.
Red: Do you know how to find him?
Tongji: I may. But I’m not telling you.
Dr Krilov: Tongji. This is important.
Tongji: Skovic’s gone. He’s under contract.
Dr Krilov: With whom?
Tongji: Some woman. Uh, I don’t know her name. Uh, she had a handler. Berdy Chernov.

 
[ Red’s plane. Dr Krilov is drinking chocolate milk. A few seats away, Red calls Cooper who share the call with Aram on speakerphone ]
Red: The man we’re looking for is Victor Skovic.
Cooper: What do you know about him?
Red: I know that, as we speak, he’s sucking whatever he can from the depths of my friend’s cerebral cortex. Berdy Chernov is the man who brokered the contract.
Cooper: Are you familiar with him?
Red: I am not.
Aram: I am.
Cooper: You are?
Aram: Chernov. I know I know I’ve heard that name.
Cooper: From work? A case? An article you read?
Aram: The wedding. A wedding. A few weeks ago, Elodie and I crashed this wedding. Well, she actually she stole these name tags, which is quite easy to do, by the way, because they just leave them right out there in the open.
Cooper: Aram.
Aram: Yeah?
Cooper: Berdy Chernov.
Aram: Right. Okay. So, I’m standing there wearing this name tag, and this guy comes over to me, thinking that I am Frank Bloom.
Red: The wedding. Was it at the Fremont?
Aram: Yeah. Why? Were you invited?
Red: Frank Bloom is an alias for my friend. He went to that wedding to meet a contact and get the name of a man involved in my abduction in Paris.
Cooper: But he gave it to you instead because you stole his name tag.
Aram: Like I said, they just leave them out in the open.
Cooper: Chernov. What can you tell us about him?
Aram: I can tell you that is not the name he goes by.
Red: Can you tell us what name he does go by?
Aram: No. But I can get it. I can get it. [ He runs out ] I can get it.
[ Ressler walks up to Red ]
Ressler: When we land, Krilov comes with me.
Red: Revenge doesn’t suit you, Donald.
Ressler: [ CHUCKLES ] I’m taking him back to prison.
Red: Are you? I wonder.

 
[ In a drawer in Aram’s desk, he finds the slip of paper he got from the man at the wedding and returns to Cooper’s office ]
Aram: Okay. So, the guy who thought I was Frank Bloom gave me this.
Cooper: [ To Red, on phone ] Chernov’s alias is Gregory Flynn. Mean anything to you?
Red: No.
Cooper: Okay, we’re on it. I’ll let you know as soon as we have a lead.
[ Call ends ]
Cooper: [ To Aram ] You crashed a wedding?
Aram: I know. But, uh, I got to say – it was pretty awesome.
Cooper: Gregory Flynn. Find him. Now.
Aram: Yep.
[ Aram runs out ]

 
Liz: [ SIGHS ]
[ DOOR CLOSES ] [ Katarina enters ]
Liz: What is it? The Townsend Directive?
Katarina: A bounty, an incentive to kill me.
Liz: Can it be called off?
Katarina: I’m betting my life on it. I’m still looking for the answers I need, but I don’t think you’re gonna stop me from getting them, are you?

 
[ Red’s car. Dembe drives ]
Red: [ Pensively ] I’ve always lived my life very much in the moment. But what does one do when the moment is filled with anxiety and dread?
Agent Park: I assume that was a rhetorical question.
Red: Agent Park, how long have you been here?
Park: Uh, the whole time.
Red: Dembe, has Harold texted you any new information on Gregory Flynn?
Dembe: No.
Park: Who?
Red: Are we giving you a lift somewhere?
Agent Park: D-Did you say Gregory Flynn?
Red: Yes. If we can find him, we can find my friend.
Park: And Agent Keen.
Red: Possibly.
Park: Definitely. He lives in her building. After the protective detail went missing, I canvassed the neighbors. One of them was Gregory Flynn. He lives across the hall from her.
Red: Dembe, pull over. Agent Park, you are a treasure. I hope you don’t mind, but, please, get out.
Park: Wait. What? Are you serious?
Red: There’s another rhetorical question.
[ Agent Park gets out ]
[ CELLPHONE DIALING ]
Red: I’ll call Chuck and Morgan. You call Heddie. We’re gonna need them very fast.
[ LINE RINGING ]

 
[ Ressler gets off the elevator at the Post Office ]
Aram: Oh, hey. Just in time.
Ressler: I’ve been dealing with Krilov. What’s going on?
Aram: The name you got, Berdy Chernov, he and the woman from Paris live across the hall from Agent Keen. We’re heading there now.
Ressler: Have you heard from her?
Aram: Yeah, thank God. I just patched her through to Mr. Cooper.
Ressler: Well, is she okay?

 
[ Cooper’s office. Cooper is talking to Liz, who is still at Katarina’s ]
Liz: I’m fine.
Cooper: Where have you been?
Liz: I had an issue with Agnes, but it’s fine now. I-I found something while I was out. Thought it was a lead, so I chased after it.
Cooper: You found a lead after you left the office?
Liz: Yeah, but it didn’t go anywhere. Now I’m stuck in traffic, on the way back from–
Cooper: Agnes. Where is she?
Liz: Uh, at a friend’s. Why?
Cooper: There was an altercation in your apartment. The woman from Paris, she lives across the hall from you.
Liz: What? Maddy Tolliver? Are you sure?
Cooper: We got her, Elizabeth. She won’t get away this time.
Liz: Have you sent a team?
Cooper: We’re on the way. Get there as soon as you can.
[ Cooper’s CELLPHONE BEEPS ]
[ Liz’s CELLPHONE BEEPS ]
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Katarina: They know. If they know, Reddington knows.
Liz: They’re on their way. They’ve probably already set a perimeter.
Katarina: I can’t leave without getting the answers I’m looking for.
Liz: If you stay and try to find them, you will be caught.
Katarina: And killed. Elizabeth. Please. You still have time. Go. You don’t need to be a part of this.
Liz: What are you gonna do?
Katarina: I don’t know. But I don’t want you to get hurt. Please. Go.
[ Liz begins to leave, but stops in the doorway. She struggles with a decision ]
Katarina: What is it? Elizabeth, please. Talk to me.
Liz: [ Turns around, SIGHS ] What if I can get you out?

 
[ At the auto repair garage, the mechanic finishes up work on the car for the Kazanjian brothers. He looks at them nervously. Nshan reaches into his pocket and pulls out – a wad of bills, which he gives to the mechanic ]
Mechanic: [ EXHALES SHARPLY ]

 
[ Dozens of police officers and techs swarm the street in front of Liz’s apartment around the abandoned police car. Ressler and Aram are on their way in an FBI vehicle ]
Aram: [ On phone ] Agents Ressler and Mojtabai, FBI. We need a perimeter on that building – Evergreen to First and Dove Hill Road to Brighton.
Officer in Charge (Dan Lynch): Copy. Any details on the suspects?
Aram: White female, late 50s, possibly accompanied by a white male, both likely armed and dangerous. Nobody goes in or out of that building until we’re on site.
Officer Lynch: We’ll lock it down.
[ CELLPHONE BEEPS ]
 
[ Katarina looks out of the window ] [ POLICE RADIO CHATTER on the street below ]
Katarina: They’re everywhere. We’re not getting out.
Liz: I’ll get you out.
Berdy: Your friend’s in no shape to walk.
Skovic: What on Earth did you do to him?
Liz: You got to leave Ilya.
Katarina: Not before I get answers.
Liz: If you want me to get you out of here alive, you’ve got to leave him. And we got to go now.

 
[ Django Django’s ♫ “Wor” plays (instrumental only) ]
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[ TIRES SCREECH ] [ Red and Dembe watch the police action from a distance in their car ] [ Red is wearing an earphone ]
Dembe: This isn’t going to work.
Red: Sure it will. It’ll work.
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[ Red’s guys, Morgan and Chuck, wearing FBI uniforms, approach Dan Lynch, the Metro PD Officer in Charge ]
Morgan: Agents Ressler and Mojtabai, FBI. Who’s running point?
Officer Lynch: I am. Dan Lynch, MPD. We spoke on the phone.
Chuck: What do we know?
Officer Lynch: Perimeter’s secure. No sign of the suspects. Nobody in or out.
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What if Agent Ressler personally knows one of those officers?
Red: It’s unlikely. District has more than 4,000 sworn officers. We’d have better odds of being killed by a vending machine.
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Morgan: Ready your men. We breach on my go.
Officer Lynch: Whoa. Breach? We’re just gonna storm in? What about HRT?
Morgan: I got an agent in there. I’m not waiting on anyone to make contact with. We go in fast. You and your men secure the perimeter. Nobody answers unless you hear gunshots.
[ Morgan and Chuck walk past him ]
Officer Lynch: Yes, sir. It’s your death warrant.
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Red: Here we go.
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[ Morgan and Chuck force the door of Katarina’s apartment. At first, no one appears to be home ]

 
[ Liz leads Katarina, Berdy and Skovic through a series of tunnels ]
Liz: My husband, Tom, and I specifically chose this apartment because you can access the service corridor from the parking structure.
Skovic: How far does it run?
Liz: Only to the back of the building, but – and don’t tell the super – I may have opened a small access to the city’s underground utility chase. That runs for blocks.

 
[ Morgan and Chuck find Ilya, who is bleeding badly from the nose and mouth ]
Morgan: [ On comms ] Boss. Hey. He’s here.
Red: And Elizabeth?
Morgan: No sign of her or anyone else. But your friend, he’s in bad shape.
Red: Get him out of there.

 
[ Chuck and Morgan, supporting Ilya, walk him out of the front of the building ]
Morgan: I got an injury! Need a paramedic!
[ An ambulance is parked near the front of the building. It is being driven by Red’s associate Heddie Hawkins ]
Heddie: What do you got?
Morgan: He took a beating. His breathing isn’t right.
Heddie: Let’s get him in the back.
[ SIREN CHIRPING ] [ Ressler and Aram’s vehicle arrives ]
Red: Heddie. You’re out of time.
[ Morgan and Chuck help Ilya onto the cot inside the ambulance. Heddie closes the door ]
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[ Ressler and Aram walk up to Officer Lynch ]
Ressler: Agents Ressler and Mojtabai, FBI. Who’s running point?
Officer Lynch: Dan Lynch, MPD. What’s going on?
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[ Heddie gets into the driver’s seat of the ambulance ]
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Ressler: What do you mean they’re on site?!
Aram: We just got here.
Ressler: And what about our suspects?
[ Aram and Ressler run into the building ] [ The ambulance pulls away ]
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Dembe: Do you want me to follow?
Red: No, we stay put until we see her.

 
[ In the tunnels leading away from Liz’s apartment building ]
Katarina: You two. Head that way. There’s a service ladder just past the fire riser 50, maybe 60 yards.
Berdy: Hold on. We’re not splitting up.
Liz: All of us together? That’s too conspicuous. This way, if we get caught, only two of us get busted.
Berdy: [To Katarina ] No, I am not leaving you with her.
Katarina: Berdy, listen to the woman. She’s trying to help. I trust her.
Berdy: [ SIGHS ]
Liz: Go. Now. Go. This door leads to the street. You get a car. I’m gonna double back, try and stall them.
Katarina: Elizabeth. I am gonna make this up to you. I promise.
Liz: [ SOFTLY ] Go.

 
[ POLICE RADIO CHATTER ] [ On the street, Katarina finds a car, a light-colored sedan. Obscuring her action with her coat, Katarina uses a pointed object to break the window. She unlocks the door, gets in, sticks a tool in the ignition and twists it ] [ ENGINE STARTS ]
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[ Nearby ]
Dembe: Raymond, we have to go. They’ll be closing down the street soon. You can’t be here.
Red: She slipped through our fingers again.
[ The car with Katarina drives slowly by. Red recognizes her ]
Red: I’ll be damned.
[ Dembe starts the car to follow Katarina ]
Red: Keep your distance. We want to do this very quietly.

 
[ Katarina’s apartment ] [ POLICE RADIO CHATTER from below ]
Aram: [ To an tech ] Okay. Thank you.
[ Liz walks over. Aram sees her ]
Aram: Agent Keen. Thank God you’re okay. Come on. We were so worried.
Liz: I came here as fast as I could. What’d you find?
Ressler: Just the equipment.
Liz: Wait. Reddington’s friend?
Ressler: Gone.
Aram: MPD finished a sweep of the building. We were too late.
Ressler: But you can ID her, right? Your neighbor?
Liz: Yeah, of course. We’ll send out a description, put out a BOLO.
Ressler: What’s her name, by the way?
Liz: Her name?
Ressler: Yeah, the woman from Paris. All we have is her alias.
Liz: Yeah.
Ressler: What was her real name?
Liz: Maddy. Maddy Tolliver.

 
[ Red and Dembe are following Katarina’s car at a distance ]
Dembe: Now?
Red: Soon. When we’re a little further away from surveillance cameras and prying eyes.
[ They follow until they have left the cityscape behind ]
[ Suddenly, at an crossroads, a large black SUV plows into Katarina’s sedan ]
[ TIRES SCREECH ] [ TIRES SCREECHING ] [ ⚡️‼️Crash ‼️⚡️]
[ Katarina GASPING ] [ SEAT BELT CLICKS ] [ VEHICLE DOOR OPENS ]
[ Katarina stumbles out ]
[ The Kazanjian brothers get out of the SUV with assault weapons ]
[ Red reaches for his gun and is ready to get out ]
Dembe: Raymond. The Kazanjian brothers will kill you, too.
[ Katarina tries to run away ]
[ The two brothers shoot Katarina ] [ Automatic 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 GUNFIRE 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 ]
[ Katarina falls ]
Red: Death must be so beautiful. To lie on soft brown earth with the grasses waving over one’s head. To be at peace. I welcome that one day.
[ Red and Dembe watch as the Kazanjian brothers grab Katarina by the upper arms and drag her to the SUV ]
[ VEHICLE DOORS CLOSE ]

 
[ A parking garage ] [ Police have arrested Victor Skovic ]
Ressler: Well, you didn’t get far, now, did you?
Uniformed Officer: Picked him up on 39th. He was traveling with another man, but we lost him.
Ressler: I’ll take it from here.
Skovic: Who are you?
Ressler: I’m the guy you’re gonna help.

 
[ Liz is in her office. She looks at the file she kept of Katarina and the real Madeline Tolliver ]
[ KNOCKS ON DOOR ] [ Liz closes the file ] [ Cooper enters ]
Cooper: I want you to know how relieved I am that you and your family are safe. I also want to apologize. I told you I’d protect you, and I didn’t.
Liz: You have nothing to apologize for.
Cooper: I believe I do. As it happens, I believe you do, too. You told me you got a lead after you left the office. We both know that’s not true.
Liz: No, it’s not.
Cooper: I know that you took a file, that you didn’t want us to know what you saw in it, who you saw in it. I also know that you’d only do that if it was something very personal. The photo in the file. Was it her?
Liz: Yes.
Cooper: The woman from Paris who abducted Reddington, the woman we’ve been looking for is – your mother?
Liz: She isn’t who I thought she was. The reason she moved in next to me – she’s looking for answers that could save her life.
Cooper: Has she found them?
Liz: No, but I hope she does.
Cooper: I don’t envy you, being caught in the middle between two ruthless outlaws, trying to pick a side. Personally, I sympathize, but professionally, there is only one side to be on.
Liz: Reddington’s.
Cooper: We have a deal with him. We give to get. And he doesn’t kill FBI agents. The men stationed at your building are missing.
Liz: That’s indefensible. And if she did it, I’ll walk her into prison myself. But I’m not on Reddington’s side or her side. I’m on the side of the truth. And right now Reddington’s hiding that from me, and my mother isn’t.

 
[ Morgan has been caring for Ilya in the ambulance. Red arrives ]
Red: Thank you, Morgan.
[ Morgan leaves. Red sits down ]
Red: [ EXHALES SHARPLY ] Medical team will be here in 10 minutes.
Ilya: [ BREATHING HEAVILY ] I didn’t tell her. Did you hear me? She doesn’t know.
[ Red rubs Ilya’s shoulder ]
Red: You need to rest. We don’t need to worry about her anymore.
Ilya: [ SIGHS ]

 
[ Ressler has brought Skovic to Katarina’s apartment ]
Agent Park: What exactly are you planning on doing here?
Ressler: The right thing.
[ DOOR OPENS ] [ They enter the room where Ilya’s memories were mined. Dr Krilov is there now, strapped to the chair ]
Dr Krilov: Whatever he’s paying you, I’ll double it.
Ressler: Money can’t buy him a reduced sentence. Erasing your memories can.
[ HANDCUFFS CLICKING ]
Skovic: I am terribly sorry, Mr. Krilov.
Ressler: Don’t worry, I’m still bringing you back to prison. But, first, we have some unfinished business. You scrambled my brain, and I’m here to make sure that you never do that to anyone else.

 
[ Liz visits Dom, who is still in a coma ] [ MONITOR BEEPING, MACHINE WHIRRING ]
Liz: I met my mother.
[ Michael Kiwanuka’s ♫ “Piano Joint” plays ]
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Liz: I know you didn’t want me to. But I did. She told me you lied to me about who Reddington really is. I don’t understand why you did that or why you’d try to have her killed to protect me.

♪ Looking out for something new, it’s the right

Liz: You tried to kill your own child.

♪ The right time to lose
To begin again

Liz: What kind of person would do something like that?

♪ Maybe win again

[ DOOR CLOSES ] [ Red enters with Dembe ]

♪ All I want is to talk to you

Liz: [ Quietly ] I can’t figure it out. But maybe she can. Maybe she can find out everything you’re trying to hide from me.

♪ Although I’ve been used
I won’t leave again

[ Red walks over ]
Red: It’s over.
Liz: What is?
Red: The woman.

♪ All I know is my oh my

Red: Aram told me she’d been living in your building, feigning kindness, watching Agnes. But it’s over. She’s dead.
Liz: W-What?

♪ Don’t let the pressure get to me

Liz: How?
Red: Gunned down in the street less than an hour ago.

♪ My oh my

Liz: How do you know?
Red: I saw it happen. Two heavily armed assets. They took her body because they came for a bounty. She’s dead.
Liz: She is.

♪ from my enemies

Red: Elizabeth, go get Agnes. Take her home.

♪ pressure get to me

Red: I’ve been reading to Dom. We’re halfway through “Beowulf.” Grendel’s mother, now, there’s a woman to be reckoned with.
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[ Liz steps away from Dom’s bed as Red sits down. She tearfully finds a darkened alcove to mourn quietly alone ]

♪ I thought I could break away

[ Liz’s CELLPHONE BUZZES ]

♪ I hope I fall in love today

Liz: [ SNIFFLES ]
[ Liz gathers herself together and answers ]
Liz: Hello?
Katarina: Did he believe it?
Liz: Katarina?
Katarina: Does he think I’m dead?
Liz: What happened? What’s going on?
Katarina: I bought us time to find the answers we’re looking for. At least I tried. Did it work?
Liz: [ LAUGHS SOFTLY ] Like a charm.
Katarina: This is our secret. No one can know. I need to know you can keep it a secret.
Liz: Of course I can. I’m a Rostova.
Katarina: I need to disappear for a stretch, let things cool down. But when the time is right, when I have the answers, I will find you. Might be a week or a month, but I will find you. We will end this.

♪ Sadness and fury is all I know

Katarina: I love you, Masha.
Liz: Be safe.
[ CELLPHONE BEEPS ]
[ Katarina walks along the sidewalk, disappearing into the crowd ]

 
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Turn me onto something true
I can’t be with another
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My oh my, it’s bad enough
Could you stay with me
Don’t let me go
Sadness and fury is all I know

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I still let the pressure get to me

♪ I thought I could break away
I hope I fall in love today
No more heartbreak and trouble
I know I’ve been bruised
Let me in again
I could use a friend

♪ All I know is my oh my, this kind of love
It’s taken me from my enemies
Don’t let the pressure get to me
My oh my, it’s bad enough
Could you stay with me
Don’t let me go
Sadness and fury is all I know

♪ You’ve taken me from my enemies
I still let the pressure get to me

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