Friends and frenemies return with a Twist.
Cooper corrals the senator behind a pillar, and the agents follow quickly.
It also doesn’t help that one of them has been shot.
Ken King as Ives, Deirdre Lovejoy as Cynthia Panabaker.David Giesbrecht/NBC
Panabaker speaks for all of us as she blurts out “Harold, what the hell just happened?”
Let’s find out!
(Tenement housing in the early 20th century often neglected to have plumbing, making bathhouses vital.)
James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington.Scott Gries/NBC
Red knows the culprits, of course.
The pickpockets are called the Four Guns, a name as deceptive as their tactics.
And you know what an attempted assassin does?
It’s right there in the name.
“Has the cheese slid all the way off your cracker?”
she asks (I will immediately be adopting that phrase as my new go-to response).
Red blackmailed her, she reminds, and she’s not interested in using his help now.
We then get to spend some time with our actual assassin.
She offers $1.2 million, but Red wants a trade.
From her private collection.
The collection includes Victorian books that were practically doused in arsenic, making them very pretty and pretty deadly.
Each has a slipcover to protect the reader.
So who is Red gifting this to?
And will it be sans cover?
That would be Robert Vesco (Stacy Keach).
Cruelty, thy name is Reddington.
Red takes over nanny duty, and Herbie gets to work.
The Task Force goes over his criminal bio and finds his weakness he likesveryexpensive watches.
Luckily, there’s a watch auction happening.
Dodd demonstrates his observation skills at Red’s request.
Dodd wisely caves and gives up an address.
It’s enough to identify him as Lucas Roth (Neal Huff), former Secret Service.
That’s going to be put to test because Roth has just arrived.
In a basement room of the theater, Roth calls Agent Will Strickland by name.
In another twist, it’s not the senator he’s after, it’s his former colleague.
Strickland planted the bug in Panabaker’s office and was feeding information to her opponent to sway the election.
