Red gets held hostage and the Task Force attempts a rescue.
It’s a robbery, she and I and you all think simultaneously, and we are all correct.
This criminal is so screwed.
Harry Lennix as Harold Cooper.Will Hart/NBC
The video that was being livestreamed goes viral as news teams cover the robbery-turned-hostage situation.
Hilariously, Cooper first asks why Red (James Spader) is robbing a store.
He’s not anticipating a fun convo with the boss.
Royce Johnson as Sergeant McGinley, Diego Klattenhoff as Donald Ressler.Will Hart/NBC
These quick rentals are one of the ways Red has been traveling lately.
Presumably, that would be the end of the Task Force.
“The crazy man is dead!”
James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington.SONY PICTURES TELEVISION
The influencer wrestled with him and the gun went off.
The older man in the fedora is there too, but it’s definitely not Red.
So maybe Red wasn’t ever there at all?
Ressler thinks they can just leave now, but Dembe is slightly better at their job today.
It’s Red’s gun.
Red was definitely there.
They gather the hostages together, and we get a flashback of what happened as they’re interviewing folks.
Maybe the witness didn’t actually see a person, just the hat.
Yes, Red was in the store.
The influencer explains Red left from the back door heading to the bus stop a couple of blocks away.
Dembe is surprised Red would threaten normal people but rationalizes that he must have felt trapped.
The bus that Red must have taken after he left the store is heading to D.C.
It was a bus out of Philadelphia; there had to be at least one.
So where is Red??
We cut to a bar where the hostages are gathering.
Chuck arrives with giant duffle bags full of cash, like a fully-armed Santa.
We finally see what really happened.
He could threaten them, he points out, but he’d rather make them “jackpot rich.
Dreams come true rich.”
These people are not suckers, and they’ve had a rough day!
Back at the store, the police have shut down the crime scene for the night.
Once again: Task Force 0, Red 1.
Red knows he missed their meeting but wants to chat.
Panabaker, sounding exhausted, says she can’t cover for his “casual disregard for humanity” anymore.
and that her career will be over, but she’s telling the Attorney General everything in the morning.
Red pulls out his recording of Panabaker’s crimes and tosses it on the table.
Wujing was his mess to clean up, he says, and walks away.
Panabaker cancels the meeting with the Attorney General.
The Blacklist will continue.
