That probably won’t be an issue. My theory is that Reddington is terminally ill (perhaps with whatever was killing his frenemy last week) and the blacklist is actually a sort of redemptive bucket list, where he uses the FBI to wipe out the clients he found the most reprehensible or just regrets helping over the years. I’m betting Lizzie isn’t his daughter, but he is trying to make up for some wrong he did her that she isn’t aware of yet.
I think that’s the point. They are incompetent.
Just explain the husband thing please.
What happened with Reddington? He was the Navy’s fair-haired boy, happily married with his first child and inexplicably went off the rails, abandoning his career, country, wife and child. No one seems to care why, but something must have happened.
What’s happening with Keene? The FBI’s fair-haired girl, happily married and about to adopt a child when inexplicably Reddington intervenes in her life, cautioning her that she shouldn’t start a family and exposing her husband as a spy.
He’s been in her shoes. Remember that he was said to have started by selling secrets about the US - maybe he was set up by his spouse in that first instance and once he had the name, he played the game. But he never found out who his wife worked for, why he was targeted.
Suppose he got wind something similar was happening to Keene. He’s already set to do the thing with the blacklist and throw the worst of his clients under the bus during his fit of conscience, so he drags Keene in where he can keep an eye on her and monitor the situation up close while pursuing his other agenda. It fits because he’s a two birds with one stone kinda guy, like exposing the cartel by targeting the leader using the Freelancer, whose methods he despised.
This would explain his keen interest in Keene despite no apparent personal connection. Since no one knows what happened to him, they don’t see the parallels.
Eh, what do I know? Just a theory…
Just a BRILLIANT theory…
Yeah, that’s a very good point - why did Reddington not become the admiral he was being groomed to become? Was he just amoral and brilliant all along, or did something happen to fundamentally change his worldview?
I liked this episode much better. Reddington is finally setup as a double agent and the character makes more sense. The profiler lady still bugs me, but they showed she could think quickly on her feet in that bunker with the Chinese. I hope the series continues in this direction.
I’m mostly annoyed right now with the distracting side story of her husband. The bugging of their home and intercepting all her FBI activities. This lady certainly has fallen into a nest of vipers. I’m not sure who is more untrustworthy, the FBI or Reddington.
I can’t help but wonder how long Reddington’s double agent status will last. The bad guys will eventually notice that anyone dealing with Reddington either dies or gets arrested.
I enjoyed the episode once again. Starting to wonder if the husband is innocent. We haven’t seen him actually do anything more creepy/suspicious than watch his wife leave through the window. We know there’s a box hidden in their home with multiple passports with his picture on them, a large sum of cash, and a gun apparently used in a very important killing. If he was some super secret agent, would the first terrorist have taken him out so easily? Could the FBI, or the CIA, or some unknown third party have planted the box in the house?
And who exactly is bugging the house. FBI? CIA? Someone else?
Of course, profiler girl now has her prints all over the hidden gun. Seems kinda sloppy, and could bite her in the ass sometime…
Apple eating guy. Maybe he is her Papa? Maybe, it transpired that Reddington had an affair with Mrs Apple Eating guy producing Keene, and that is why Papa left. Maybe Mrs Apple Eating Guy went to live with Reddington.
Her husband could well be some super secret spy, who got blindsided in a place he never expected to be vulnerable. I would love it, if it turned out that hubby was i) an agent and ii) had nothing to do with anything.
As long as the baddies don’t communicate with each other, and they don’t seem to do so as far as I can tell, they probably just think he’s still one of them and just hasn’t been caught yet.
So what did we learn yesterday - Reddington is involved with Keene because of her father (and we still don’t know if he is indeed her father - they were very careful about his wording).
We know that the gun in the box was used in a serious spy-murder.
Someone is spying on Keene the Profiler.
Reddington really is a serious bad-ass.
ETA: The show still isn’t getting as good as I hoped it would. The red-headed FBI agent’s only role seems to be to spout exposition in a loud, angry tone. And the FBI are still being put forth as very, very incompetent.
Wow…had to dig this thread up from near the bottom of the second page of this forum.
Once again, I liked the episode. Bad guy was creepy as hell. Starting to think there’s an anti-Red mole type in the FBI/CIA that’s feeding info to the bad guys. Way too many incidents where a coordinated attack is pulled off to grab a hostage and/or free a prisoner where the bad guys pretty much have to have access to inside information to pull it off.
Any guesses on who the girl in the picture Red stole from the book might be?
Thinking we may learn more about Lizzie’s husband soon. Angel Station Hotel, indeed…
I liked the Stewmaker episode. That was one creepy bad guy. The surprise twist at the end with Reddington holding that picture was a nice touch. He was getting revenge for somebody he had lost.
Next week should be interesting. I’m starting to get drawn into the husband’s story. I want to learn more about Angel Station Hotel.
What was with the marks on the stewmakers body about?
I think he said something about being allergic to clothes.
Some eagle eyed posters on another board said that photo was dated 2/90. Others remembered in the pilot they said Red left his Admiral career path and disappeared in 1990.
Are the events connected? It seems very likely we just got a clue about Red’s past.
You try dissolving a corpse while naked and not getting any on you. 
Just caught the most recent episode. Is Angel Station Hotel supposed to mean something? Have we seen that hotel before?
When she went into the file room to get info on the crime committed with her husbands gun the box was labeled Angel Station (date). When her husband saw her doodling the date he said she must have been thinking of the best day in the world - they went away together for the weekend and so when he made arrangements for them to go again he set them up at the same hotel.
I would like to say however that if it is the same hotel they stayed at less than a year ago she’s officially got the worst memory ever to have not made the connection without the brochure.
I’m surprised they are pushing the backstory of Liz’s husband along so fast. I guess after next week there won’t be any pretending that he’s just a regular guy married to an FBI agent.
I’m still enjoying the thriller stories. The middleman was terrifying. Slicing himself up and hiding objects like keys, data media and no telling what else. The coroner will need several days of work just finding everything and cutting it out.
I wish the writing was better. But I can’t see it improving anytime soon. That scene at the end with Liz and Red sharing a drink was powerful. Interesting that she turned to him after reading the file on the Angel Station shooting.
I wish the writing was better, too; at one point last night, I turned to my husband and said, “They’re not seriously having that discussion, are they? Has this show met a cliché it didn’t like?”
On the other hand, James Spader is so good, and his character is so interesting. Make the rest of them match, dammit!