The Blacklist Declassified

 

Brief (Where we’re at):

Searching for clues as to how Mr Kate Kaplan, long thought to be dead, could have ordered a duplicate safe to the one in which Red had placed a set of videos for Liz to be viewed after his death explaining how to run his empire, Red visited Kaplan’s sister, Maureen Rowan. From her, he learned that Kaplan had been “very close” to a woman, Clara Moore, who had become her protégé. Clara worked for one person, Laszlo Jankowics, son of Marko Jankowics (Blacklister #58). Red had Cooper put Laszlo Jankowics (also known as “Oroszlan”), an LSD trafficker, on the Blacklist (Blacklister #180) to investigate a multiple homicide in which he believes Marko was involved. Meanwhile, he tricked Laszlo into calling on the services of Clara Moore, who Red then took to see his truth-extractor Brimley. Clara told Brimley she also had thought Kaplan was dead until two days earlier when she found a note in Kaplan’s handwriting asking her to meet at a parking garage. Red went to the location with Cooper where they saw a woman who looked like Kaplan on the third floor. Red was hesitant to confront Kaplan himself, so Weecha volunteered and went up with a team. Over comms, Red suddenly heard Weecha shout, “It’s a trap‼️” Then the third floor of the building 💥🔥‼️ exploded ‼️🔥💥

When Red talked to Laszlo Jankowics, he had learned that Laszlo was expecting a shipment of the ingredients for making LSD at the port of D.C. Dembe and Park went with a SWAT team to interdict the shipment and arrest Laszlo. Park chased Laszlo but lost him when the sound of a gun going off and bright sunlight triggered one of her “headaches” (a PTSD-like flashback to when she had fallen within the event horizon of a directed energy weapon developed by Benjamin Okara, Blacklister #183). Red managed to reel in Laszlo anyway, but Park felt she needed to be honest about her disability on her performance review, which may jeopardize her ability to continue working in the field.

Cooper is nervous that the time to solve the case of who blackmailed him and who ordered Liz’s murder (now believed to be the same person) is running short. He and Ressler followed up on a lead on suspect Reginald Cole’s lawyer, Tyson LaCroix, that indicated Cole and LaCroix (both since killed in a drive-by shooting) had set up an extortion scheme that Ressler thought was “briiliiant.” Cooper snapped at Ressler and left to go home, returning later to apologize, saying:

Cooper: The point is, you were right. At the moment, nothing makes sense. Maybe this scam that LaCroix and Cole were running is meaningless, or maybe it’s the key to everything. Only way to know is to keep moving forward.

 
Unresolved from earlier episodes:

1) Red’s business is under attack. Illiquid after his two-year hiatus following Liz Keen’s murder, Red had incorporated on an underground stock exchange called the night market. Someone organized a group of investors to attempt a hostile takeover – and Red can’t figure out who.
2) In an effort to be more open with her husband Peter about the nature of her work, Park appeared ready to divulge that it has to do with Raymond Reddington. This is of course very tightly-held classified information.
3) Ressler has reached a two-month milestone in his treatment for drug addiction and the task force celebrated with him, but he remains somewhat paranoid and uncharacteristically emotional. Cooper still doesn’t know Ressler cheated on his drug test to get reinstated into the FBI.
4) Cooper began to tell Agnes ‘her story’ in a way which seemed to imply Red might be her grandfather. How much did Cooper tell Agnes? How much does Cooper even know?
5) What was in the box Red gave to Dembe?
6) What did the letter from Katarina to Liz say about Red’s true identity?
7) And what did happen in Brasilia, anyway?

 
For S9 Episode 9:19 The Bear Mask: 🎯 EW Recap ¤ 🌅 Photo Gallery ¤ 🎹 Music Videos ¤ 📒 Script link: https://wp.me/pDKwi-dBL [ “you are here” ]

 

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[ Aram is in his kitchen talking on the phone to Cooper. While Cooper is awaiting the resolution of his legal problems, Aram is temporarily in charge of the Reddington task force ]
Aram: Okay, so, Agents Park and Zuma are reviewing security footage from around the site of the explosion. Agent Ressler is looking for anything he can find on, uh, Reggie Cole or LaCroix, but I still need to, uh, look over the forensics report from the crime scene.
Cooper: I sent you my notes on the report last night. I’m discussing the findings with Reddington later this morning.
Aram: Right, sorry, I knew that. Okay, so, I’ll be in no later than 2:00. If something comes up with Mr. Reddington – call me.
Cooper: I will. But don’t worry. Everything’s under control. We’ll see you when you get in.
Aram: Okay.
[ Aram surveys his living room. It’s a mess ]
[ Siren wailing in distance 🚨] [ Car horn honks 📣 in distance ]

 
[ A hospital room ] [ Monitors beeping 🔅 🔅 🔅 ]
[ Red sits alongside Weecha, reading a book ]
Weecha: [ Weakly ] Raymond. [ Grunting ]
Red: Weecha. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Easy, easy, easy, easy, easy.
Weecha: How long have I been down?
Red: Almost four days.
Weecha: [ Sighs ] Where’s Morgan? I saw him walking into the room–
Red: Morgan didn’t make it.
[ Red kisses Weecha’s cheek, strokes her hair, which is covered with a net ]
Red: I am so sorry. Weecha, before the explosion–
Weecha: There was – the woman.
Red: Was it Kate?
Weecha: I don’t know.
Red: You should rest. We’re gonna get you home as soon as we can.
[ Monitors beeping 🔅 🔅 🔅 ]

 
[ Cooper visits Red in Red’s garage office ]
Cooper: How’s Weecha?
Red: Tenacious. I didn’t expect her to last the first night, let alone three. Something to drink?
Cooper: No, thank you.
Red: [ Groans softly ] What do you have?
Cooper: Forensics ran the DNA from the woman in the apartment against the sample you provided for Mr. Kaplan. The fire caused by the explosion degraded the samples significantly, but there is an overlap. As far as the M.E.’s concerned, it’s her.
Red: You’re not convinced.
Cooper: DNA evidence notwithstanding, something doesn’t add up. I have a hard time believing Mr. Kaplan would hire Reggie Cole to kill Doug Koster in order to blackmail me.
Red: I understand why Kate’s involvement would be difficult for you to accept, Harold. We negotiated a stay in your prosecution on the condition that you could expose a broader conspiracy. If the one person responsible died in that building–
Cooper: The only head left to serve to the Justice Department is mine.
Red: You stay on Reggie Cole and his lawyer. With any luck, you’ll find a connection to Kaplan. In the meantime, I’m gonna get a second opinion.

 
[ Aram is in the office of Dr Idigbe ]
Aram: I’ve been dealing with anxiety and OCD and depression pretty much my whole life. I’ve been able to manage with, um, support and therapy and medication, but lately, nothing helps. I haven’t been sleeping. I can hardly eat, which is not like me. I just, um – I feel like I’m barely holding it together.
Dr Idigbe: Would you like to set those down?
Aram: Yeah, sorry.
[ Aram puts his bike helmet and backpack on the table ]
Aram: I appreciate you bringing me in so early, by the way.
Dr Idigbe: Mr. Homan was a supporter of some of my earliest research. Any friend of his is welcome anytime they like.
[ Aram looks around the office ]
Aram: You know, when I, um, first heard about psychedelic therapy, I imagined something a bit more–
Dr Idigbe: Tie-dye and trance music?
Aram: Yeah.
Dr Idigbe: [ Chuckles ] We get that a lot. But the truth is, Ketamine and other psychedelic therapies are revolutionizing care for people with treatment-resistant anxiety and depression. The treatment we’re offering is experimental, but it is legal. Any questions?
Aram: What’s your fish’s name?
Dr Idigbe: What fish?
[ Aram stares at her ]
Dr Idigbe: His name is Frank. That was a joke.
Aram: [ Laughs ] Oh. [ Chuckles nervously ]
Dr Idigbe: Shall we begin?
Aram: Okay.
Dr Idigbe: The medication you will be receiving today is derived from psychoactive plants – Little stick.
Aram: Ow.
Dr Idigbe: –and is delivered alongside an imidazopyridine class agonist to induce REM states.
Aram: So I’ll be dreaming.
Dr Idigbe: In a manner of speaking. We’ll be playing music to help you relax throughout the treatment.
Aram: Thanks.
Dr Idigbe: But if you see something that upsets you, just try to be curious about it.
[ Aram looks uncertain ]
Dr Idigbe: We can always reschedule if you want more time to think about it.
Aram: No, um– I’m ready.
Dr Idigbe: Okay. See you soon.
[ Dr Idigbe injects the medicine into the IV. The exam couch reclines ]
[ Aram’s eyes droop and then close ]

 
[ Aram is riding his bike to work ] [ Car horn honks 📣 ]
[ Construction workers speaking indistinctly ]
Aram: Good morning!
Worker: Hey.
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[ The doors of the yellow elevator clang ‼️open. Aram steps out ]
[ Telephones ringing in distance ]
[ Alina Park accidentally spills her drink over the front of her desk onto the floor ]
Park: Oh! Figures! [ Sighs ]
[ Dembe grabs a tissue and bends over to wipe up the spill on the floor ]
[ Park wipes her desk ]
Park: [ Sighs ]
Dembe: How was your appointment?
Aram: Excellent. Thank you for asking.
Park: Well, at least one of us is in a good mood. Some TikToker in a 6 Series rear-ended me on my way in. His car was fine, of course.
[ Park hands Aram a folder ]
Dembe: If you need a mechanic, I know a good one. Fast, cheap, and reliable.
Park: What’s the catch?
Dembe: He used to work for the Albanian Mafia.
Park: I’ll keep him in mind.
Aram: You know what I was thinking on the way over? We should take a trip, all of us.
Park: Someone just tried to blow up Reddington, so, maybe next week?
Aram: [ Chuckles ] Yeah, obviously for the future. I just– I think we all deserve something to look forward to.
Dembe: Sounds like fun.
Aram: Great. If anyone needs me, I will be reviewing these upstairs.
[ Aram heads up to his/Cooper’s office ]
[ Woman speaking indistinctly in distance ]

 
[ Aram enters his office ] [ There is a file box tied with string on the desk ]
[ Suspenseful music playing ] [ Indistinct conversations in distance ]
[ Aram lifts the cover from the box. Inside it are sheets of office paper folded into — paper airplanes ] [✨Twinkling✨ sound ]
[ Knock on door ✽ ✽ ]
Ressler: I know, I know. No knocking. But Reddington called. He’s on his way in. Sounds important.
Aram: Okay. Um, do you, uh– Do you know who sent this?
Ressler: Beats me.
[ Alarm🚨blaring, people clamoring ] [ Ressler runs out, followed by Aram ]

 
[ The war room ] [ Lights⚡️flashing⚡️, Alarm🚨blaring ]
Aram: What? What is going on?
Dembe: Someone tripped the emergency alarm on sub-section C.
[ Surveillance feeds are shown on the overhead displays ]
Aram: What’s wrong with that feed?
Park: I don’t know, but we have bigger problems.
[ People gasping ] [ One of the feeds shows intruders, FBI guards falling ]
Aram: Oh, my God.
Dembe: We have small teams moving down multiple hallways.
Aram: Who are they? Where did they come from?
Park: I don’t know, but they’ve taken the elevator entrance.
Ressler: Cell reception’s down. We need backup now!
Dembe: This is Special Agent Dembe Zuma. We are under attack. I repeat, we are–
[ Crash❗] [ All but the emergency 🆘 power goes down ]
Ressler: Did they hear you?
Dembe: I don’t know.
Park: Look, whoever these guys are, we need a plan. Now!
Ressler: Hey, Aram!
Aram: There’s a phone, in the storage bay on sub-section E. I couldn’t integrate it into our comms system, because it’s connected to a totally, uh, different– That doesn’t matter. Okay, if Ressler and I can get there, we can call for backup.
[ A dozen or so employees have gathered around ]
Dembe: What should we do?
Aram: Uh, you two stay here. Everyone, everyone, take defensive positions! [ To Ressler ] Let’s go.

 
[ The storage bay on sub-section E ]
Ressler: Better make this quick.
[ Louis Armstrong’s ♫ “What A Wonderful World” plays, distorted ]
[ ⬇ Go to Full Lyrics ] or [ ♪ Tap square below to play ♪ ]

♪ I see trees of green ♪

[ Aram picks up the phone ]
Red: Aram, can you hear me?
Aram: Mr. Reddington?
Red: If you want it to stop, you have to get everyone out.
[ Ressler shoots 💥💥💥 at the intruders ]

♪ I see them bloom for me and you ♪

[ Gunfire 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 ]
Ressler: Aram, we’ve gotta go now!

♪ And I think to myself ♪

[ 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 Gunfight 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 ]
Aram: Mr. Reddington?
Ressler: Aram!
Aram: Okay, okay, okay.
[ 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 Gunfight 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 ]
Ressler: Let’s go!
Aram: Okay. Okay. Okay.

 
[ The intruders have breached the war room ]
[ 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 Gunfight 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 ]
Park: There!
Ressler: Dembe!
Dembe: Reloading.
Park: Eleven o’clock!
[ 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 Gunfight 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 ]
Aram: Alina!
[ Alina Park is hit; she falls ] [ Aram goes to her ]
Aram: No, no, no, no, no. No! No! No! No! No!
Park: I’m sorry.
Aram: No. No. No. Alina.
[ 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 Gunfight 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 ]
Aram: Oh, my God. No. God.
[ Park’s eyes go blank ]
Aram: No! No! No! No!
Dembe: Elevator!

 
[ The doors of the yellow elevator clang ‼️open. Aram stumbles out ]
[ Telephones ringing in distance ]
[ Stardust twinkles ✨ down on Aram. He stares ]
[ Alina Park accidentally spills her drink over the front of her desk onto the floor ]
Park: Figures! [ Sighs ]

♪ What a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself

[ The fish named Frank swims in the fishbowl in Dr Idigbe’s office. She takes notes ]
[ Aram lies on the reclined office chair, eyes closes, smiling slightly ]

♪ What a wonderful world
Oh, yeah ♪

[ Dembe helps Park wipe up the spill ]
Park: [ Sighs ]
[ Suspenseful music playing ] [ Aram approaches cautiously ]
Aram: Alina? You’re alive.
Park: So it would seem.
Aram: I don’t understand. There- There was an attack.
Dembe: An attack?
Aram: It seemed so real.
Park: Are you alright?
Aram: I’m fine. If you’ll just, um, excuse me. Just–
[ Aram walks away ]

 
[ Ressler calls Cooper on the phone )
Ressler: I pulled every piece of paper I could find on your blackmailer and his lawyer, LaCroix.
Cooper: Did you find anything connecting them to Mr. Kaplan?
Ressler: No, but I did find the shell corporations that LaCroix used to hide the profits from their blackmail operation. The guy had seven properties, a half dozen bank accounts, even a yacht. Not exactly the upstanding lawyer his wife described.
Cooper: You think she knows more than she was letting on?
Ressler: I do. I called her office. Her assistant said she got in 20 minutes ago.
Cooper: Send me that address, and I’ll meet you there. And, Donald, thank you. For everything.
Ressler: Look, whoever’s behind this, I’m keeping you out of prison. Whatever it takes.
[ Phone beeps 🔅]

 
[ The Assistant Medical Examiner is having his lunch. Red walks in and hands him a business card and introduces himself using an alias ]
Red: Ah! [ Chuckles ] Ernest Glampers. Glampers, Trout, and Pilgrim attorneys-at-law. You have the body of Ms. Kathryn Nemec, is that correct?
[ Note: Kathryn Nemec is Mr Kate Kaplan’s birth name ]
Assistant M.E.: I’m sorry, sir. You’re not actually–
Red: You see, Ms. Nemec was a Rosicrucian.
Assistant M.E.: A-A what?
Red: A Rosicrucian. A member if a small religious and cultural community whose laws demand that the bodies of the deceased are buried within 24 hours of their deaths.
Assistant M.E.: I’m sorry–
Red: You should be. This is a copy of the complaint which I am prepared to file with the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. It asserts that by denying Ms. Nemec’s family access to her body, you and your superiors have violated their civil rights. Now, Ms. Nemec’s family have instructed me to refrain from filing the suit, if you will simply allow me to perform the rite of “alure plurot.”
Assistant M.E.: You’re a “rosarian,” too?
Red: By marriage. So, if you could be so kind as to show me to Ms. Nemec’s body, you can get back to your sandwich, and we can all avoid an awful lot of unpleasantness. What do you say?
[ The Assistant M.E. nods nervously ]
Red: Please, lead the way.

 
[ Aram’s/Cooper’s office ]
Aram: [ On phone ] Yeah, hi. This is, uh, Aram Mojtabai. I was in the office earlier today, and I-I seem to be having some kind of really, really intense déjà vu, and I need to speak to Dr. Idigbe right away. Hello?
[ Aram looks at the phone ]
[ Suspenseful music playing ]
[ There is a file box on the desk tied with string ]
[ Aram lifts the top. Inside the box are avocados. He picks up several of them and sets them aside. Underneath, he finds a diamond-encrusted ring with an amethyst stone ]
[ Knock on door ✽ ✽ ]
Ressler: I know, I know. No knocking. Reddington called. He’s on his way in. Sounds important.
Aram: What did you just– Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God.
[ Aram rushes out; Ressler follows ]

 
[ The war room ]
Aram: Okay, so, uh, I know this might sound crazy, but, um, I think we’re about to be attacked.
Park: Attacked? By who?
Aram: I don’t know. That is what I am going to try to figure here.
Ressler: I’m sorry. Aram, what is going on?
[ Alarm🚨blaring ]
[ People gasping ] [ One of the feeds shows intruders, FBI guards falling ]
Ressler: How did you know that would happen?
Aram: I’ve seen it before. At first, I thought it was a dream or some kind of weird deja vu–
Dembe: We have small teams moving down multiple hallways.
Aram: On the phone, Mr. Reddington said that to make it stop, we have to get out of the Post Office.
Ressler: When did you talk to Reddington?
Park: They’ve taken the elevator entrance.
Aram: If I could just find us a clear path–
Ressler: Cell reception’s down. We need backup now!
Aram: Okay, there, there! The south-east exit! Are you guys seeing this?
[ One of the displays shows Aram talking to his former Greylock business partner, Nick Faria ]
Dembe: [ On phone ] This is Special Agent Dembe Zuma. We are under attack. I repeat, we are–
[ Crash❗] [ All but the emergency 🆘 power goes down ]
Aram: This is a dream. I’m still in the doctor’s office.
Ressler: Aram, what is going on?
Aram: I don’t know. But there is a clear path to the south-east exit right now. So, everyone!
Park: Aram!
Aram: Okay. I know this doesn’t make any sense, but– We need to get out of the Post Office. Now.
Ressler: Okay.
Park: We trust you.
Aram: Okay.

 
[ They run down a stairwell ]
Aram: We make a left out of the stairwell. Then it’s 50 yards to the exit at the end of the hall.
[ 💥💥💥 Gunfight 💥💥💥 ]
[ Ressler is hit ] [ Men grunting ] [ Ressler groaning ]
Ressler: Aram!
[ Park shoots 💥💥💥, covering Aram ]
Aram: Thank you.
[ They continue down the stairwell. Ressler is wounded in the abdomen, but can still walk ] [ Ressler grunts ]
[ At the door to the exit is a keypad ]
[ Dembe enters a code ] [ Beeping 🔅🔅🔅🔅]
Dembe: It’s not working!
[ Aram enters a code ] [ Beeping 🔅🔅🔅🔅]
Aram: That’s not possible. What? I don’t– I don’t understand. I-I wrote the security protocols myself. To access those, you’d need military-grade hacking tools or [ quietly ] Greylock.
Dembe: They used your software to hack the system?
Aram: I don’t know.
Park: I thought you destroyed it.
Aram: I did!
[ 💥💥💥 Gunfire 💥💥💥 ]
Ressler: We gotta fall back!
Aram: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We gotta get out.
Park: We don’t have a choice! Let’s go!
Aram: No! Come on, we have to get out! No. We have to get out!
[ Dembe grabs Aram and pushes him forward ]
[ Action becomes s-l-o-w m-o-t-i-o-n ]
[ Pixies’ ♫ “Where Is My Mind?” plays ]
[ ⬇ Go to Full Lyrics ] or [ ♪ Tap square below to play ♪ ]

[ 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 Gunfight continues 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 ]

♪ With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there’s nothing in it
And you’ll ask yourself

Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?

[ Above the war room on the landing, a man appears wearing a metallic Bear Mask who seems to be the one in charge ]

Way out in the water, see it swimming ♪

[ Gunshot 💥] [ Park is shot, falls ]

♪ I was swimmin’ in the Caribbean
Animals were hiding behind the rock

[ Aram takes aim at the man wearing the Bear Mask, shooting him repeatedly ]
[ 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 💥💥💥 ]
[ The man in the Bear Mask is unaffected by the gunshots ]
[ Aram looks around. Park, Dembe and Ressler are all dead ]

Except a little fish bumped into me
Swear he was trying to talk to me, coy koi

Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?

Way out in the water ♪

[ The man in the Bear Mask turns and walks toward the elevator. Aram tries to follow ]
Aram: Hey. Hey. Hey, hey! Hey, hey, hey! [ Panting ]
[ Elevator doors ❗slam shut ]
[ Aram hits the call button desperately ]
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[ The doors of the yellow elevator clang ‼️open. Aram stumbles out ]
Aram: [ Panting ]
[ Telephones ringing in distance ] [ Dramatic music plays ]
[ Alina Park accidentally spills her drink over the front of her desk onto the floor ]
Park: Figures! [ Sighs ]
[ Dembe grabs a tissue … ]
[ Aram closes his eyes ]
[ Suspenseful music plays ]

 
[ Cooper and Ressler walk together looking for the car of Tyson LaCroix’s widow, Michelle. Tyson LaCroix was the lawyer of Reginald Cole, believed to man who blackmailed Cooper. They find the car with someone inside ]
Ressler: [ Loudly ] Excuse me, Mrs. LaCroix. Donald Ressler, FBI. I need you to step out of the car. Mrs. LaCroix?
[ Ressler opens the car door. Michelle Lacroix is dead ]
Ressler: We’re gonna need a crime scene unit.
Cooper: [ On phone ] This is Harold Cooper. I need a crime scene unit sent to my location.
Ressler: She’s still warm.
[ Dramatic music playing ]
[ Cooper and Ressler draw their guns. A mirror overhead shows a man crouching behind a car. He has a gun ]
[ Ressler approaches from the front; Cooper comes around the back ]
Cooper: Don’t move. I’m FBI. Put your gun on the ground. Slowly. [ To Ressler ] Whatever you’re thinking about saying, don’t.

 
[ The war room ]
Ressler: Aram, just slow down.
Aram: Please just listen to me! Every time I get off that elevator, we have this same conversation, and then a few minutes later, all of you are dead, alright?
Ressler: This is some kind of a bad acid trip, and we’re all in it?
Aram: Yeah, and I am sorry about that, but what matters is that I heard Mr. Reddington earlier, and he told me to get everyone out. Look, I know how this must sound, but I think to make this stop, I need to get us out of the Post Office–
Dembe: Aram–
Aram: Look, I can prove it. You were in a car accident earlier this morning, right? Rear-ended by a guy in a 6 Series.
Park: How did you–
Aram: But it’s no big deal, because Dembe knows a mechanic who used to run guns for–
Aram & Dembe: The Albanians.
Aram: Look, I would love to discuss the metaphysics of all this, but any second now, they are going to come through sub-section C–
Dembe: Who’s coming through sub-section C?
Aram: I don’t know. There is, like, a guy in a bear mask with, like, a bunch of mercenaries, and it’s like we’re in a maze. And if I can’t find a way to get us out, it’s gonna start all over again. It’s– It’s a loop.
Dembe: Aram, just breathe.
Aram: [ Breathing heavily ] I can’t watch you all die again, okay?
Ressler: Listen, I know you’ve been under a lot of pressure lately. There’s nothing wrong with taking some time–
Aram: The sewer. [ Keyboard clacking ] I saw workers accessing it on my way in.
[ Alarm blaring 🚨] [ People speaking indistinctly ]
[ One of the feeds shows intruders, FBI guards falling ]
Ressler: My God.
Aram: There’s a mechanical room in sub-section C that runs alongside an old Water and Sewer service shaft.
Dembe: We have small teams moving down multiple hallways.
Park: They’ve taken the elevator entrance.
Aram: They staged in the shaft and blew through the walls. All the other exits are locked down, so the only way out is the way they came in.

 
[ Red’s camper in the woods. Red’s on-call forensic analyst Vlad Cvetko is there ]
Cvetko: I don’t understand. I thought Mr. Kaplan died years ago.
Red: So did I, but the authorities weren’t able to definitively determine whether the woman who died in the explosion was Kate or not, so I went to the morgue to collect a sample for you to analyze. I don’t want to keep you from your vacation, Vlad, but I have to know for sure.
Cvetko: I need eight hours.
Red: Edward will be waiting for you on my jet with the engines running.

 
[ Aram, Park, Dembe and Ressler descend a stairwell ]
Park: So, just assuming you’re right, and this is all a hallucination, what happens if you die? Does everything reset?
Aram: I don’t know, and honestly, I’d rather not find out.
[ One of the intruders appears ] [ Aram shoots 💥💥 ]
Man: Aah!
Ressler: How did you–
Aram: Duck.
[ Aram shoots another 💥 ]
Ressler: How many times have you done this?
Aram: Enough.
[ They come to the hole in the wall made by the intruders ]
Aram: There. There. This is how it stops. Come on. Go. Go. Go now!
[ 💥💥💥 Gunfight 💥💥💥 ]
Aram: Come on.
[ Men shouting ] [ Aram breathing heavily ]
[ After the others have exited, Aram turns to address the man in the Bear Mask ]
Aram: Sorry, Bear-face. Not this time.
[ He turns and exits through the hole in the wall ]

 
[ The doors of the yellow elevator clang ‼️open. Aram steps out ]
[ Telephones ringing in distance ]
[ Alina Park accidentally spills her drink over the front of her desk onto the floor ]
Park: Figures! [ Sighs ]
[ Dembe grabs a tissue and bends over to wipe up the spill on the floor ]
[ Park wipes her desk ]
Aram: [ Disbelieving ] I got everyone out.
[ Everything accelerates ]
[⚡️Static⚡️]
Red: [ Echoing ] Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
[⚡️Static⚡️]
[ People speaking indistinctly ]
[ Stardust twinkles ✨ down on Aram. He looks around. Everything is fuzzy ]
[ Alina Park accidentally spills her drink over the front of her desk onto the floor ]
Park: Figures! [ Sighs ]
[ Agnes Keen throws a paper airplane ]
Dr. Idigbe: The medication you will be receiving today is derived from psychoactive plants – Little stick.
Aram: [ Echoing ] Wait!
[ The elevator doors open ] [ It’s Liz ]
Agnes: Mommy!
[ Liz scoops up Agnes ]
Liz: Oh!
[ Aram’s face saddens, helooks down; the fishbowl with Frank in it is nestled into the crook of his arm ]

♪ I see trees of green, red roses, too ♪

[ The man in the Bear Mask stands directly in front of Aram ]
Aram: Please.

♪ I see them bloom ♪

[ Gunshot 💥 ] [ Park falls ]

♪ For me and you
And I think to myself ♪

[ Aram closes his eyes ]
Aram: [ Echoing ] This isn’t real. This isn’t real.

♪ What a wonderful world ♪

 
[ Aram walks with his gun ready through the darkened corridors of the Post Office, turns a corner — and is in his apartment. But the man in the Bear Mask is there, too. Aram points his gun at him ]
[ Suspenseful music playing ]
Aram: Who are you?
[ Aram’s gun disappears into thin air ]
[ The man in the Bear Mask raises his gun and shoots 💥 Aram in the abdomen ] [ Aram falls against the wall ]
Aram: Oh– [ Gasps ] Oh, no. [ Grunts ]
[ The man lifts the Bear Mask from his head. Underneath is — Aram’s visage, but with a stern, humorless and accusatorial demeanor, “Aram X” ]
Aram X: I’m you.
[ Dramatic music playing ]

 
[ The Post Office ] [ Ressler comes out of interrogation ]
Cooper: Anything?
Ressler: Nothing. Guy won’t say a word.
Dembe: Maybe he won’t have to.
Park: We found confirmation of a secure payment for $25,000 on our suspect’s phone.
Dembe: We think it was down payment for the hit on Mrs. LaCroix.
Cooper: Any idea who made the payment?
Dembe: Not yet, but it came from a numbered account which we’ve traced to the Hatem Trust Bank in Lebanon.
Park: The only problem is Hatem Trust Bank closed over three years ago.
Cooper: How was a payment made from an account at a shuttered bank?
Park: We’re not sure, but the payment was time-stamped for the morning of the bombing, so it’s possible Mr. Kaplan was the one who made the transfer.
Ressler: The timing might work, but the motive doesn’t.
Dembe: Why would Kaplan bother killing Mrs. LaCroix when the plan was to kill herself?
Park: Maybe she has co-conspirators that she wanted to protect.
Cooper: The only way to know for sure is to identify the owner of that account. Contact former bank clients and employees. We need a name.

 
[ Red is moving Weecha into the bed in the camper ]
Red: Okay.
[ Weecha grunts ]
Red: Okay. There you go.
Weecha: I’m not an invalid.
Red: No, you’re not, but you suffered a major percussive trauma and pretty severe burns, and you need to rest.
Weecha: I’m tired of rest.
Red: Remember what you told me on the Brazo Morales the night we met?
Weecha: “Be quiet. Go to sleep.”
Red: There you go, sweetheart.
Weecha: You get the sample to Cvetko?
Red: Yes, I did.
[ Vehicle approaches ]
Weecha: What is it?
[ Car door shuts ] [ Suspenseful music playing ]
[ Red draws his gun, but it’s not anyone dangerous ]
Red: Ah, Mierce.
[ Door shuts ]
Red: [ Happily ] Oh, I’m so glad you came. I wasn’t sure if–
Mierce: I came to help Weecha get better. That’s all.
Red: Okay.
Mierce: It would be bad enough if you were the only one to suffer the consequences of your decisions. But vengeance is like a virus – In time, everyone close to you becomes afflicted. And still, you won’t stop, will you?
Red: Mierce–
Mierce: Then we have nothing left to discuss. Excuse me.
[ The door to bedroom opens, closes ]

 
[ Aram looks at the blood on his hand from the wound in his abdomen ]
Aram: [ Groans ]
Aram X: [ Accusingly ] Remember junior prom? Came back from the bathroom to find Linda Beckman making out with Dominic Angelella. You should have hit him in the face.
Aram: This isn’t happening. You’re not–
Aram X: Real? Oh, I think I am. I’m part of you. And I’ve been waiting a long time for this.
[ Dramatic music playing ] [ Aram picks up a football helmet from the bookshelf, hurls it at Aram X and runs through the door, only to arrive back in the same room ]
Aram X: No point running. Can’t escape yourself.
Aram: I got ’em out–
Aram X: [ Imitates buzzer sound ] Wrong. Getting everyone out of the Post Office was a lie you made up because you can’t face the truth. And you want to know why you believed it? [ Mockingly ] ‘Because Reddington said so.’ Gotta love the comforting voice of authority when you’re too weak to trust yourself. But, hey, I don’t blame you. I wouldn’t trust you, either.
[ A video of Aram with Nick Faria pops up on a nearby computer screen ]
Aram: Nick was my friend. I didn’t know–
Aram X: [ Mockingly ] ‘I didn’t know!’ You know they thought you were the smart one, right?
Aram: [ Grunts, manages to push himself partway up ]
Aram X: Admit it, man. Deep down, when it really matters most, you’ll always be a day late and dollar short. I mean, if you weren’t, she’d still be alive.
[ Gunshot 💥 ] [ Blood flows out of the hole in Liz’s white sweater ]
[ Melancholy music playing ] [ Aram falls to the floor ]
Aram X: She was right in front of you–
[ Stardust sound twinkling ✨ Liz’s eyes imploring. Then she runs off with Agnes ]
Aram: [ Sighs ]
Aram X: –and you were too scared to stop her. But, hey, at least you managed to make Agnes Keen an orphan. And then there’s Samar.
[ Aram X kneels to look Aram in the eyes ]
[ Aram tries to unlock the gate to the back of the submerged van in which Samar is trapped ]
[ Dramatic music playing ]
Aram: Come on! [ Gasping ] [ Breathing shakily ]
[ Repeatedly Aram tries to unlock the gate but keeps dropping the keys, losing precious seconds ]
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[ Now, Aram and Aram X are at the Post Office, facing one another on their knees. Aram fingers the amethyst ring he found in the box of avocados ]
Aram X: You know, I don’t actually know what happens when you die in here. But the truth is, I don’t really care. Because in here or out there, I’ll be waiting. And it’s only a matter of time before you realize you need me.
[ Aram X rises to his feet and stands in front of the yellow elevator ]
Aram: [ Gasping ]
Aram X: You know the most amazing part about all this? I can’t do a thing in here that you don’t want me to. It would be sad, if it wasn’t so pathetic.
[ Aram X points his gun at Aram’s head ]
[ Gunshot💥 ] [ Dramatic music playing ] [ Aram X falls to the side ] [ Thud ]
[ Samar steps out of the yellow elevator, having shot Aram X ]
Samar: God, I thought he’d never shut up.
Aram: Samar?

 
Aram: [ Groaning ] This is just another hallucination.
Samar: Yes, and yet here I am.
Aram: You look incredible.
Samar: You look like hell.
Aram: Yeah. Well, it’s, um, kind of been a rough day.
Samar: Seems like it’s been a rough couple of years.
Aram: If I knew all it took to see you again was a medical-grade acid trip–
Samar: You’ve been living a lie, Aram, and I couldn’t sit back and watch it any longer.
Aram: What lie?
Samar: The one you’ve been telling yourself since I went into the water. The one you repeated when Liz died and when Nick hijacked your code. The one convincing you that you’ll fail as leader of the task force.
Aram: [ Grunts ] I don’t– I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Samar: Yes, you do. And I need you to see it. The man in the mask had your face. Why?
Aram: Why’d you leave?
Samar: Aram, please, we don’t have much time.
Aram: I would’ve taken care of you. Even if you forgot everything. I just wanted to be near you.
Samar: Why did you make yourself into a Blacklister, Aram?
Aram: Because it’s my fault. All of it. If I had just gotten to you sooner, you’d still be here with me, instead of wasting away alone on some island.
Samar: It was my choice, Aram.
Aram: [ Crying ] I was supposed to protect you, and I failed. Just like I failed Liz and I failed Agnes and I failed Greylock and– Just like I’m gonna fail the task force.
Samar: That’s what he wants you to believe. That doesn’t make it true. He wants you to believe that if you were only stronger or smarter or more ruthless, that you could have stopped everything from happening. But no one has that much control. Not Cooper, not Reddington, not you. It wasn’t your fault.
Aram: [ Crying ] Samar. Samar.
[ Hugging, she comforts him ]
Samar: For what it’s worth, the savior complex was more charming when it wasn’t completely homicidal.
Aram: [ Gasping tearfully ] Oh, God.
Samar: You’ve always been enough. It’s about time that you see it.
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[ Dr Idigbe’s office ]
Aram: [ Whimpering ]
Dr Idigbe: Welcome back, Aram.

 
[ The camper ]
[ Red has packed a light duffel bag ] [ Mierce comes out from the bedroom ]
Mierce: Where are you going?
Red: I thought I’d give you some space. You can always reach me on the usual number.
Mierce: Oh, Raymond. I don’t know what you want me to say.
Red: You don’t need to say anything. You warned me that if I continued down this path, terrible things would happen. And they did. I knew they would. They always have.
Mierce: I want so badly to be angry with you. I think you want me to be, too. But the truth is, I’m not. I’m just sad.
Red: Yes.
[ Knock on door ] [ It’s Cvetko ]
Red: Vlad. Ah, Vlad.
Cvetko: Am I interrupting?
Red: No. Mierce, this is Vladimir Cvetko. Vlad, this is Weecha’s sister, Mierce.
Mierce: Mucho gusto.
Vlad: Encantado.
Red: Vlad, you have a plane waiting. The woman in the apartment – Was she Kate or not?
Cvetko: No. After compensating for the damage caused by the fire, I found that the samples were a 50% match. This means the woman in the apartment was not Mr. Kaplan. It was–
Red: Her sister. Maureen. Thank you, Vlad.
Cvetko: Adios.
Mierce: Adios.
[ Soft music playing ]
Mierce: Raymond, go. Do what you will.
[ Door shuts ]

 
[ Dr Idigbe’s office ]
Aram: So, that’s not normal?
Dr Idigbe: It’s not uncommon for patients to encounter feelings of shame and grief or even experience radical confrontations with the self, but–
Aram: Murder loops?
Dr Idigbe: Not something I’ve heard before.
Aram: I’m not sure I’d put it in the brochure.
Dr Idigbe: How do you feel?
Aram: [ Sighs ] I don’t know. Um– It’s like I was certain that it was just a matter of time before everything fell apart, and so I fought as hard as I could to stop it, even though I knew I couldn’t. And now, for the first time that I can remember – I don’t feel like I have to fight anymore.
Dr Idigbe: I’m glad, Aram. It’s not uncommon to feel like one has a new lease on life–
Aram: But?
Dr Idigbe: This treatment isn’t a cure-all. Do you understand?
Aram: I understand about as much as anything that happened to me today. So, 50%?
Dr Idigbe: [ Chuckles ] Good enough.

 
[ Dramatic music playing ]
[ Red talks with Cooper in his office/garage ]
Red: That night, before the explosion – I was wondering what I would do if all this really was Kate’s doing. I remember knowing with absolute certainty that Elizabeth would have wanted me to show her mercy. I can still hear her voice.
Cooper: Me, too.
Red: Before the bomb went off, I thought maybe – I just might rise to the occasion.
Cooper: At least now we know Mr. Kaplan wasn’t responsible for Liz’s death.
Red: You have something new on Mrs. LaCroix?
[ Cooper hands Red an envelope ]
Cooper: Mystery, really. The assassin was paid via wire transfer from an account at a Lebanese bank. The only problem is that, according to public records, that bank has been closed for years. Trying to figure out how the payment was made now, but so far, we haven’t been able to find out anything about the account holder–
Red: And you never will. That account is part of a financial network more secure than any other bank on earth. That’s why I opened the account in the first place.
Cooper: The payment for Mrs. LaCroix’s assassin, it came from your account?
Red: It did.
[ Suspenseful music playing ]
Red: Our enemy is closer than I ever imagined, Harold.

 
[ The Post Office war room ] [ Aram steps off the yellow elevator ]
[ Telephones ringing in distance ]
Dembe: How was your appointment?
Aram: Oh, it was– [ To Park ] You weren’t in a fender bender this morning, were you?
Park: No. Why?
Aram: No reason. Uh, look, before we get started, I need you to do me a favor. This is gonna sound strange, but I need you to slap me in the face. Hard. I know that’s a weird–
[ She slaps him, hard ]
Aram: Ow. Okay. [ Clears throat ] Thank you.
Park: Happy to help.

 
[ Aram talks with Cooper ]
Aram: Ever since I got back, I’ve been wondering why now? I’ve been feeling guilty about Samar, about Liz for years, and what happened with Nick and Greylock was awful, but – Why did I choose that moment to totally fall off a cliff?
Cooper: I’m not sure you chose anything, but I’m curious if you have any ideas.
Aram: Well I can’t be sure, but I actually think it’s all your fault.
Cooper: [ Chuckles ]
Aram: I mean, with you in charge, I always had someone to rely on. To make the hard calls. Take the blame if things went wrong. I knew I wasn’t ready, but I was hoping I’d handle it a little better.
Cooper: You’re handling it fine.
Aram: I’ve been so anxious and depressed, I took an experimental hallucinogen.
Cooper: You got help. And I’m proud of you for that. This place is a crucible. Of course you were overwhelmed. You remember you were kidnapped about a month ago, right? This job demands that you recognize the things you can control and the things you can’t. You make the best choices you can, then you find a way to forgive yourself so you can move forward.
Aram: That sounds completely impossible.
Cooper: I know. But you’ll learn. And I’ll have your back while you do. We all will.

 
[ Later, at Aram’s apartment ] [ Soft music playing ]
[ Aram sits at the table to have a cup of tea. At the table with Aram are Aram X and Samar, facing one another ]

 
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Trivia: Liminality: “In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līme, meaning ‘a threshold’) is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete. During a rite’s liminal stage, participants ‘stand at the threshold’ between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community, and a new way (which completing the rite establishes).

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♫ What a Wonderful World
By Louis Armstrong

♪ I see trees of green
Red roses too
I see them bloom
For me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

♪ I see skies of blue
And clouds of white
The bright blessed day
The dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

♪ The colors of the rainbow
So pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces
Of people going by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, “How do you do?”
They’re really saying
“I love you”

♪ I hear babies cry
I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more
Than I’ll never know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

♪ Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Oh yeah

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♫ Where is My Mind?
By The Pixies

Oh – stop

♪ With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there’s nothing in it
And you’ll ask yourself

♪ Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?

♪ Way out in the water
See it swimmin’

♪ I was swimmin’ in the Caribbean
Animals were hiding behind the rock
Except a little fish bumped into me
Swear he was trying to talk to me, coy koi

♪ Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?

♪ Way out in the water
See it swimmin’

♪ With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
If there’s nothing in it
And you’ll ask yourself

♪ Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?

♪ Way out in the water
See it swimmin’

♪ Oh
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Oh
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Oh
Oh

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