List of The Blacklist episodes

The Blacklist is an American crime drama series created by Jon Bokenkamp that premiered on NBC on September 23, 2013. It stars James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold, Parminder Nagra and Harry Lennix. Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader), one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have similar interests in getting rid of dangerous criminals and terrorists. Reddington will cooperate only with Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone), a rookie FBI profiler. Keen questions Reddington's sudden interest in her, but Reddington will only reveal that she is very special. After the FBI uses Reddington's information to locate a terrorist, Reddington reveals that this terrorist is only the first of many criminals that he will help them neutralize. Over the course of his own criminal career, he has made a list of global criminals who he believes are truly dangerous to society, most of whom are unknown to the FBI. He calls it "The Blacklist". Executive producers for the series include Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, and John Davis for Sony Pictures Television and Davis Entertainment.

As of May 12, 2014, 22 episodes of The Blacklist have aired, concluding the first season.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired		DVD and Blu-ray release dates
			Season premiere	Season finale	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
	1	22	September 23, 2013 (2013-09-23)	May 12, 2014 (2014-05-12)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	2	22	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Episodes

Season 1 (2013–14)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Pilot"	Joe Carnahan	Jon Bokenkamp	September 23, 2013 (2013-09-23)	12.58
Wanted fugitive Raymond "Red" Reddington (Spader) turns himself in to the FBI, and offers to help them find Ranko Zamani (Jamie Jackson), a terrorist, on the condition he talks only to new profiler Elizabeth Keen (Boone). After being informed that Zamani intends to kidnap the daughter of General Daniel Ryker (Chance Kelly), Elizabeth picks her up, only for her convoy to be ambushed and the girl taken. Furthermore, Zamani breaks into Elizabeth's house and stabs her husband Tom (Eggold). As he recovers, Red meets with Zamani, leading the FBI to him, where Zamani is killed by Agent Donald Ressler (Klattenhoff). Elizabeth realises that Zamani intends to detonate a chemical bomb strapped to Ryker's daughter. She finds her in a zoo and Red sends an associate to disarm the device. Red then reveals that he has intelligence to help the FBI find unknown threats he had gathered over the years. Later, as Elizabeth cleans her apartment, she finds a box with money, a gun and several fake passports, all with Tom's photograph.
2	2	"The Freelancer (No. 145)"	Jace Alexander	Jon Bokenkamp	September 30, 2013 (2013-09-30)	11.35
Following a train derailment, Red believes this to be the work of an assassin known as "The Freelancer", and later he and Elizabeth learn of the assassin's next target: Floriana Campo (Isabella Rossellini), a humanitarian working to end sex slavery by cartel gangs. The two attend one of Campo's charity events where Red identifies the Freelancer, who is apprehended by Ressler. The Freelancer confesses that Red hired him to poison Campo. It is revealed that Red knew Campo is a fraud; she is actually running her sex slavery ring and uses the charity to eliminate the competition. Meanwhile, as part of Red's immunity agreement, CIA agent Meera Malik (Nagra) is assigned as his security detail. Tom is released from hospital, and Elizabeth places his box back under the floorboards where she found it, and later views a recording of Tom speaking of his love for her during an adoption hearing.
3	3	"Wujing (No. 84)"	Michael Watkins	Lukas Reiter	October 7, 2013 (2013-10-07)	11.18
High-profile Chinese criminal Wujing (Chin Han) asks Red for help in decrypting a message from a CIA agent who was murdered in Shanghai. Red appoints Elizabeth to go undercover as a master decrypter, and they arrive at Wujing's underground base in the States. With help from a CIA provided device, Elizabeth decrypts the message of Wujing's target, architect and CIA asset Henry Cho, who is currently located in Washington, D.C. As Red and Elizabeth join Wujing's gang to escape from the FBI, Ressler and Malik race to save Cho and his son from Wujing's assassins. Elizabeth plants her tracker on Wujing's car, leading to his arrest. Red reveals that he chose Elizabeth to work with him because of her father. Meanwhile, Elizabeth requests a ballistics report on the gun from Tom's box. The results are classified as it was involved with a high-profile homicide. An unknown party sets up surveillance in Elizabeth's house, characterized by their leader who eats an apple every time. Red opens the letter with the Chinese's payment - it's just a sheet with the number 042983 on it.
4	4	"The Stewmaker (No. 161)"	Vince Misiano	Patrick Massett & John Zinman	October 14, 2013 (2013-10-14)	10.93
Elizabeth testifies against drug lord Hector Lorca (Clifton Collins, Jr.) when a vital witness is kidnapped. Red believes the witness was taken by "The Stewmaker" (Tom Noonan), a chemical expert who uses chemicals to dissolve his victims. He is also believed to have been responsible for countless disappearances. Elizabeth appeals to Lorca to help capture the Stewmaker, only to be captured by him. Red and Ressler are forced to work together, the latter of which poses as an inside man when they meet with Lorca to get him into contact with the Stewmaker, real name Stanley Cornish. Red finds Cornish's hideout, saves Elizabeth, and kills him by pushing him into a bath of his own chemicals, while stealing a photograph from the picture album of all his victims. Elizabeth tries to find out something about the homicide that was done with her husband's hidden weapon and finds out when and where it was - in Boston, while she was there with him because he said he had a job meeting.
5	5	"The Courier (No. 85)"	Nick Gomez	John C. Kelley	October 21, 2013 (2013-10-21)	10.44
A courier is scheduled to deliver a valuable shipment to an Iranian spy. Following a car chase, Elizabeth and Malik manage to arrest the courier, who tells her that he has imprisoned Seth Nelson, an NSA analyst. He is buried and only has a limited amount of air left. While the FBI search for him, the Courier escapes, but is eventually tracked by Malik and Ressler, who kill him. Elizabeth and Red meanwhile, find and save Seth. As an act of gratitude, Seth gives Red documents regarding the high-profile murder Elizabeth suspected Tom was involved in and Seth sends them to her. At the same time at home, Tom discovers the box and wants to talk to Elizabeth about it. Unknowingly, their house is bugged with cameras and more and they're watched.
6	6	"Gina Zanetakos (No. 152)"	Adam Arkin	Wendy West	October 28, 2013 (2013-10-28)	10.51
After Tom confronts Liz about the box and she produces the photo of him in Boston where the murder took place, he claims he is innocent and insists that they turn it into the FBI so his name can be cleared. Elsewhere, Red informs Liz and the FBI that the next name on the Blacklist is a beautiful and deadly corporate terrorist, Gina Zanetakos (Margarita Levieva). Elsewhere, Tom maintains his innocence while being interrogated. Soon Liz realizes there is more than meets the eye when she discovers the passports containing Tom's face are forged and he's possibly been set up. When Zanetakos says Red was behind the Boston incident, Liz tells him the two of them are "done". The men watching Liz and Tom don't know whether Tom is innocent or not, but they are "sure he doesn't work for Reddington".
7	7	"Frederick Barnes (No. 47)"	Michael Watkins	J. R. Orci	November 4, 2013 (2013-11-04)	10.34
After a chemical attack on a subway, Liz and the FBI search for the man responsible. Liz reluctantly calls on Red for his help after she finds her search for the next person on the blacklist, brilliant scientist Frederick Barnes (guest star Robert Sean Leonard). He weaponized a deadly, but very rare disease in order to spread it such that the pharmaceutical industry would fund its research or that he could find someone immune to produce an antidote for his son. Meanwhile, Liz wants nothing to do with Red, outside of work, after he again implicates Tom. She tries to stop him intruding into her personal life. Red shows overreaching interest in a house which is for sale. He buys it, tells his bodyguards that he raised his family in it, and in order to “forget what happened here”, he blows it up in the end.
8	8	"General Ludd (No. 109)"	Stephen Surjik	Amanda Kate Shuman	November 11, 2013 (2013-11-11)	10.69
Liz uncovers an elaborate plot to destroy the country's financial system when a new name on the blacklist, General Ludd, is revealed by Red. Red demands access to the ViCAP database in return for his help. Meanwhile, Tom informs Liz that her adoptive father Sam's cancer has returned. Due to the terror caused by General Ludd's group, Liz is unable to fly to her adoptive father's hospital. Meanwhile, Red goes to the hospital and talks to Sam (William Sadler), who says he wants to tell Liz the truth about her family. Red tells Sam that Liz must never know the truth, and then smothers Sam with a pillow after the latter expresses the wish that he not die a slow death from his disease. General Ludd is able to steal a hard drive containing the blueprints for newly minted U.S. currency. However, Red is able to capture him and steal the hard drive before turning Ludd over to the FBI. Liz finds out that her father has died. Red uses his new access to ViCAP to look up a the number the Chinese gave him (in episode 3), it's about a woman named Lucy Brooks. Red comforts Liz on her mourning.
9	9	"Anslo Garrick (No. 16)"	Joe Carnahan	Story by: Joe Carnahan & Jason George Teleplay by: Joe Carnahan	November 25, 2013 (2013-11-25)	10.96
Anslo Garrick (Ritchie Coster) initiates an attack in an effort to assassinate Red. During the raid, Donald is severely wounded from a shotgun blast to the leg. Red carries him to a bulletproof holding cell and the two remain locked inside, as Red attends to Donald's wound. Liz gets stuck in an elevator but frees herself. She works her way through the facility, taking out Garrick's men along the way, until one of them knocks her unconscious. A code is needed to free Red from the cell and without it, Garrick starts killing people. Harold is the only one who knows the code, but refuses to give it to Garrick. Red is forced to watch as Garrick kills Luli. He begs Harold to open the cell to no avail. With Garrick now with a gun to his head, Dembe tells Red that he's not afraid to die and that they'll meet again. The two say goodbye to each other by reciting a verse from the Quran. A gunshot is heard as the episode cuts to black.
10	10	"Anslo Garrick (No. 16) Conclusion"	Michael Watkins	Lukas Reiter & J. R. Orci	December 2, 2013 (2013-12-02)	11.67
Liz infiltrates the blacksite and disarms the signal jammers with Aram to call in backup but they are captured by Garrick. In an effort to save Liz, Red blackmails Ressler into giving up the password, and surrenders to Garrick. Liz escapes captivity during the getaway, and utilizing a contact Reddington named prior to her escape, a woman named "Mr. Kaplan", Liz learns of an unidentified party providing surveillance on everyone in the task force. A discovery made by Aram leads Liz to the surveillance team stationed in the building across the street from her place. While in captivity, Red resists torture and is evasive with talking to a former colleague (special guest star Alan Alda), who hired Garrick to capture him. He later manages to kill Garrick with a pair of surgical scissors and escapes before an FBI rescue team led by Liz enters the scene. A hospitalized Ressler is visited by a former fiancee he alluded to in the previous episode, Audrey Bidwell; Reddington is wanted for capture by the task force; the Keens move to Red's safehouse. Red makes another phone call to Liz stating that he will be there for her when needed. Liz asks Red if he is her real father, but Red denies it, and gives another warning about Tom before disappearing.
11	11	"The Good Samaritan (No. 106)"	Dan Lerner	Brandon Margolis & Brandon Sonnier	January 13, 2014 (2014-01-13)	9.35
Red remains missing and conducts his own investigation to hunt down those who betrayed him during the Anslo Garrick incident. The entire FBI team is under investigation as internal affairs tries to find the mole. Aram is initially suspected, but Red is able to prove he was set up. Meanwhile, a serial killer from Liz's past, "The Good Samaritan" (guest star Frank Whaley), strikes again. Liz is allowed to join the hunt for the killer, as Cooper knows Red will likely realize how much this unsolved case means to Liz and reach out to help her. Soon Liz discovers the victims are all linked through abusing a family member, and that the killer was likely an abuse victim himself. Though she kills the man responsible, she gives the man's final near-victim (guest star Frank Pando) a warning to treat his wife better or she'll make him regret hurting her. Red confronts a financier named Grey for betraying him and shoots him, forcing the wounded Grey to give up the name Newton Phillips. Red later confronts Phillips for leaking his location to Garrick and kills him via suffocation even though he asked him to make it look like an accident. Red then visits Liz to tell her that "his house is clean" now, but hers isn't, explaining that Philipps couldn't have pulled this off by himself and that there's another mole inside the unit.
12	12	"The Alchemist (No. 101)"	Vince Misiano	Anthony Sparks	January 20, 2014 (2014-01-20)	8.83
Red informs the team that "The Alchemist" (guest star Ryan O'Nan), a man who relies upon science to transform a person's DNA and their appearance into someone else's, has been contracted to protect a well-known mob informant and his wife. As the team goes undercover to catch him, Liz finds herself on the hunt for an unlikely couple. Meanwhile Liz and Tom find themselves at another bump in their relationship and Ressler debates whether or not he should give his ex-girlfriend his blessing. Meanwhile, Red continued conducting more investigations of his own and discovers the identity of the FBI double agent: Meera. He later pays Meera a visit at her house with a loaded gun to interrogate her. Also, the woman Red was looking for in ViCAP is shown with files about Liz and Tom, and she infiltrates the Keen's babyshower party, introducing herself as Jolene, a substitute teacher. She flirts with Tom and in the end, they visit an art exhibit together because Liz is late from work.
13	13	"The Cyprus Agency (No. 64)"	Michael Watkins	Lukas Reiter	January 27, 2014 (2014-01-27)	10.17
After a recent spate of abductions of babies from their mothers, Red informs Liz that the "Cyprus Agency" is the illegal adoption organization responsible. More or less coincidentally, Liz and Tom contemplate adoption of their own which fuels Liz to track down the organization's CEO, Owen Mallory (Campbell Scott). Meanwhile, Meera willingly aids Red in his investigation for the mole. Covertly using Cooper's badge, Meera's intelligence leads Red to Diane Fowler as the ringleader of the leak, prompting him to kill Fowler in her own home. She tells him that she knows about "that day", about what happened to his family. But Red still kills her, responding that he wants to know it more than anything in the world, but he'll find someone else who knows. He then calls Mr. Kaplan to clean up. In the end, Liz finds herself unable to adopt a child as long as her marriage to Tom continues to suffer emotional strain. She is shown frustrated at home sitting in between baby stuff, while Tom goes to see Jolene, the woman who was flirting with him.
14	14	"Madeline Pratt (No. 73)"	Michael Zinberg	Jim Campolongo	February 24, 2014 (2014-02-24)	11.18
Madeline Pratt (Jennifer Ehle), a former professional and personal interest of Red's, enlists Red's help in stealing a statue called the Effigy of Atargatis in the Syrian embassy. The statue secretly contains coordinates for Soviet nuclear detonation codes, which has the interest of the Russian Mob. Red enlists Liz's aid in the operation, only for the pair to be double-crossed by Pratt. Faking their capture, Red succeeds in getting the location of the Effigy and the coordinates from Pratt. The statue is secured and one of Pratt's allies is arrested. Pratt is able to free herself and steals a precious painting from Red. Meanwhile, Cooper's investigation into Diane Fowler's disappearance is effectively stonewalled by Special Agent Walter Gary Martin of the D.C. Bureau, who says the orders "came from the top."
15	15	"The Judge (No. 57)"	Peter Werner	Jonathan Shapiro & Lukas Reiter	March 3, 2014 (2014-03-03)	11.01
When a former Assistant U.S. Attorney is found bedraggled and walking the street after being missing for 12 years, Red suspects he was a victim of "The Judge", a mysterious person that runs an underground operation dispensing "eye for an eye" justice on officials who have wrongly convicted people. Red gets Liz going on that case, then tackles his own agenda in finding out why a woman named Lucy Brooks has been following him. Lucy, as it turns out, is Jolene, the woman seducing Tom at a teacher conference in Orlando. As Liz works the case of The Judge (revealed to be a woman named Ruth Kipling, played by Dianne Wiest), a man named Alan Ray Rifkin is about to be executed for treason, and it is discovered that Cooper is the Federal agent who put him away. Cooper becomes The Judge's next target and is nearly electrocuted, until Red arrives with proof that Rifkin really did commit the crimes for which he was executed. Cooper is released, The Judge is apprehended, and later sent to prison. When Cooper suggests Red brought this case to gain leverage on him, Red replies that "a war is coming", and he may need Cooper's help. Back in Orlando, Tom declines "Jolene's" offer of an affair, proclaiming his love for Liz. Jolene/Lucy then gets Tom to admit that Liz isn't just his wife -- she's also his target.
16	16	"Mako Tanida (No. 83)"	Michael Watkins	Story by: Joe Carnahan Teleplay by: John Eisendrath & Jon Bokenkamp & Patrick Massett & John Zinman	March 17, 2014 (2014-03-17)	10.97
Mako Tanida (Hoon Lee), escapes a Japanese prison and kills an FBI agent, claiming revenge for "collateral damage" caused by the FBI when they were after Red. After another FBI agent turns up dead in America, Ressler fears he may be next, as he was part of the team searching for Red back then. He grabs Audrey and attempts to take her somewhere safe, but his car is rammed by Mako's driver. In the ensuing melee, Mako shoots and kills Audrey. Ressler vows to take out Mako, despite warnings from Cooper and Red to let other agents take it from here. Collaborating with an old FBI buddy named Bobby Jonica, Ressler tracks down Mako, but later learns that Bobby is the mysterious "Aiko" -- the man who took over Mako's crime operation while the latter was in prison. Just then, Liz shows up and Ressler resists killing his old buddy, though Bobby commits suicide anyway, while Ressler later receives Tanida's decapitated head from Reddington. Meanwhile, Lucy/Jolene announces plans to move in next to Tom and Liz, but Tom later meets Lucy in a hideout and the two converse about mutual though possibly conflicting plans to get to Red. Tom assures Lucy he has done everything he could to maintain the ruse of his devotion to Liz, but complications arose when he was knifed by the men sent for Red, causing Liz to find his fake passports and cash. Later, the man named "Cowboy", a bounty hunter hired by Red, tracks down Tom and Lucy, but he is captured and killed by Tom, moments after Tom had also killed Lucy.
17	17	"Ivan (No. 88)"	Randy Zisk	J. R. Orci & Amanda Kate Shuman	March 24, 2014 (2014-03-24)	10.80
A programmer for the N.S.A. is supposedly killed in a car crash, but further inspection has revealed that his car was hacked. When investigating the programmer's death, the task force learns that the N.S.A. was working on a prototype device called the "Skeleton Key," capable of hacking into the entire American electronics infrastructure. Reddington initially believes an elusive Russian hacker named Ivan was responsible for the theft, but a personal meeting with him reveals that Ivan never had any problems with the United States, and instead is solely focused on the Russian government. Ivan claims that someone else has been masquerading as him. Further investigation into Ivan's claims leads the task force to high school student Harrison Lee, who was responsible for the theft of the Skeleton Key. Lee stole the key and used it for his own ends in order to enter a romantic relationship with the daughter of one of the Skeleton Key scientists. Meanwhile, Liz investigates the disappearance of Jolene/Lucy after being approached by Lucy's former parole officer. Liz discovers Tom's makeshift headquarters after Aram is able to trace the origin of Lucy's last voice message, but Tom has just torn down and burned all photos of Red and Liz. He performs a sneak-attack on Liz at the hideout, and flees before she can recognize him. During the aftermath of the Skeleton Key crisis, Liz receives an email containing gathered evidence from the parole officer. In a photo of some trash taken in Tom's hideout, she sees an educational toy that she had given to Tom the morning of the investigation. Finally understanding Red's repeated warnings about Tom and upset by the recent revelation, Liz turns to Red for emotional support.
18	18	"Milton Bobbit (No. 135)"	Steven A. Adelson	Daniel Voll	March 31, 2014 (2014-03-31)	11.39
A series of seemingly unconnected murder-suicides are attributed by Red to a life insurance claims adjuster named Milton Bobbit, who is able to convince terminally ill people to carry out the acts in exchange for financial rewards for their surviving family members. The targets of the murders are ultimately discovered to all be part of a clinical drug trial for Type 2 Diabetes that caused people to die, and Bobbit himself is found to be terminal. Liz, Ressler and the team must catch up with Bobbit before he himself takes out the next victim: the doctor who headed up the trial. Meanwhile, Tom proposes that he and Liz renew their marriage vows, given all they've been through, and has his brother Craig officiate the ceremony. Craig pulls Tom aside and says he's certain Liz knows the truth about him, but Tom isn't convinced. In their new safe house, Liz demands answers from Red regarding Tom as well as Red's interest in her, but all Red will say is that he's watched her closely ever since Tom came into her life. After Red gets some DNA results on Tom, he determines that Craig (real name "Christopher") is not Tom's brother. Liz traps Chris in his hotel room and tries to get answers. Tom calls Chris while Liz, Red and Dembe are in the room, and mentions "Berlin". Red demands to know what's in Berlin, but a frightened-looking Chris says he cannot say anything. After Red threatens that he'll find a way to make him talk, Chris hurls himself through the hotel room's window, falling to his death, after which Tom attempts to convince Liz that Craig had to fly home.
19	19	"The Pavlovich Brothers (No. 119–122)"	Paul Edwards	Elizabeth Benjamin	April 21, 2014 (2014-04-21)	11.24
A woman named Xao Ping Li, involved in a chemical weapons project known as White Fog, is drugged at an immunization center in China and whisked to Washington, D.C. The Pavlovich brothers specialize in abductions of high value targets, including General Ryker's daughter (see episode 1). According to Red, they are in town planning their next hit, which turns out to be Li. Meanwhile, Tom discovers that Liz knows his secret, and informs his people. While the team tries to locate the Pavlovich Brothers' target, Red makes a deal with the Brothers to abduct and deliver Tom to Liz. Liz tries to torture Tom into revealing his bosses, but he quickly turns the tables and corners her. After explaining his job never included hurting her, he claims to be "one of the good guys" and tells Liz that Red isn't at all who he seems to be. Before fleeing, Tom tells Liz about a safe deposit box. With Tom in their view, Red instructs Dembe not to capture him again, but rather follow his tail. The next day, Liz finds the deposit box and is shocked by what she discovers inside.
20	20	"The Kingmaker (No. 42)"	Karen Gaviola	J. R. Orci & Lukas Reiter	April 28, 2014 (2014-04-28)	10.85
After a politician in Prague is framed for a murder, Red suspects it's the work of The Kingmaker (guest star Linus Roache) -- a strategist behind the rise of some of the world's most powerful politicians. Red is seen meeting with an ally about the Prague matter, and the man tells him that the recent news of a siege on Red's interests is causing several key people to start distancing themselves. Liz views the photos that Tom had led her to, which show Red at the hospital where her adoptive father Sam had died. She confronts Red about it, but he steers her toward the more urgent matter of The Kingmaker being in the U.S. Liz and the team are able to uncover a plot by The Kingmaker to run the car of a New York Congressman off a bridge, attempting to make him look like a hero by saving his family. This puts him in the best position to win a special election for a Senate seat, which The Kingmaker vacates by killing the Senator. Alarms go off in the home where the murder is committed, with Ressler and Liz entering the home. The Kingmaker attacks Liz and applies a choke hold, before being fatally shot by Ressler. Red meets with Fitch, telling him his businesses are under attack and suggesting it's a mutual problem. Fitch meets with members of his global alliance, then tells Red they have chosen to pull out of any association with him, despite Red's threats to expose them. Liz phones Red to inform him about The Kingmaker. Red says he wants 10 minutes with the man to find out who ordered the Prague incident, but Liz has to tell him that The Kingmaker is dead. Liz then visits Red about her adoptive father, with Red finally admitting he hastened Sam's death. Liz calls Red a "monster", and says the two of them are through.
21	21	"Berlin (No. 8)"	Michael Zinberg	John Eisendrath & Jon Bokenkamp	May 5, 2014 (2014-05-05)	10.47
Liz tells Ressler, and then the FBI, her story about Tom. In the midst of a virus outbreak inside a bank, Liz refuses to work with Red and sends Cooper her resignation, informing him that Red killed her father. Red tries to explain to her that the attack is connected to Tom, and ask if her anger towards Red is above putting lives at risk. Liz agrees to work the case, but declares it her last. Red is certain that the Cullen virus is part of a plan to kill him, as well as being capable of creating a widespread epidemic. Red and Liz meet with Dr. Sanders (John Glover), an expert on the virus, who is also a mental patient. The conversation gets loony when Dr. Sanders speaks of Space Agent UD-4126 and omens of the Cullen virus leading to the apocalypse. Liz storms out, accusing Red of using the visit as a diversion to change her mind about quitting. Meanwhile, Cooper is given an ultimatum by his superiors: if Liz walks, Red no longer as immunity and the task force is no more. Liz learns that Dr. Sanders had created an antidote for the virus and the team suspects that he was working with another doctor from outside the mental institution. Liz pays Dr. Sanders another visit and notices that the nurse's ID badge number is UD-4126. The number leads to a Dr. Vogel. Once he's arrested, he refuses to talk to Liz, except with the warning of Berlin's coming. Liz had injected the virus he created into his drinking water, and uses the antidote to blackmail him into talking. Using Tom's code book--which Red had given to her earlier as an “olive branch”--Liz discovers connections among several members of Red's Blacklist, deciphering that he knew someone was targeting his interests, but not specifically who it is. He's been using his relationship with the FBI task force to systematically eliminate his enemies. Dr. Vogel gives up the names of 5 people involved in a prison plane transport, all airport employees infected with Cullen. Liz begins to have a change of heart about leaving, but Cooper tells her it's too late. She finds Red and warns him about the FBI's pursuit of him, and that his immunity is gone. She begs him to run, but he refuses, wanting to know about her sudden change of heart. She goes on to tell him how much she wants to kill him for ruining her life, but she also needs answers from him. He tells her that he needs things from her also, and proclaims that they are stuck with each other. As Red surrenders to the FBI, the transport plane files overhead and crashes.
22	22	"Berlin (No. 8) Conclusion"	Michael Watkins	Story by: Richard D'ovidio Teleplay by: John Eisendrath & Jon Bokenkamp & Lukas Reiter & J. R. Orci	May 12, 2014 (2014-05-12)	10.44
It is revealed that some passengers on the plane were killed, some are in the hospital, and a few are at large. Members of the task force start being targeted. Agent Malik is killed, and Cooper is strangled and placed into a coma. A captured passenger is questioned and tells a story of a man in prison whose enemy sends him parts of his dead daughter, one by one. Liz and Red continue to try to hunt down Berlin. Red encounters a man believed to be Berlin and tortures him for information. Tom, who is revealed to be working for Berlin, drags Liz into the room with a gun pointed to her head, imploring Red to give himself up. Red inches closer to Tom; Tom shoots Red in the shoulder, prompting Liz to break free. Liz and Tom scuffle and he is shot by her. With his dying breath, Tom whispers something to Liz. Red realizes the man he had just tortured and killed is not Berlin, who is instead revealed to be an injured passenger the FBI questioned in the hospital. As Cooper recovers under Ressler's watch, Liz and Ressler discover that Berlin escaped his room and is at large. When agents investigate the room where the bodies of Tom and the fake Berlin should be, Tom's body is gone. Liz meets with Red and says that Tom told her that her father is alive. Red assures Liz that he saw her father perish in a fire, and that he is deceased. Berlin walks the streets carrying a pocket watch with the picture of a little girl. As Red treats his bullet wound, we see that he has the same picture. The season closes with Red removing his shirt and revealing scars on his back, presumably from being burned.

Season 2 (2014–15)

The 22-episode second season of The Blacklist will premiere in September 2014. On February 5, 2015, the show will move from Mondays at 10pm to Thursdays at 9pm.

Ratings

Season 1 (2013–14)

No.	Title	Air date	Ratings/Share (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	Viewers Rank (Week)	DVR 18–49	DVR Viewers (millions)	Total 18–49	Total Viewers (millions)
1	"Pilot"	September 23, 2013 (2013-09-23)	3.8/10	12.58	11	1.7	5.696	5.5	18.279
2	"The Freelancer (No. 145)"	September 30, 2013 (2013-09-30)	3.3/9	11.35	15	2.2	6.504	5.5	17.858
3	"Wujing (No. 84)"	October 7, 2013 (2013-10-07)	3.1/9	11.18	11	1.9	5.720	5.0	16.904
4	"The Stewmaker (No. 161)"	October 14, 2013 (2013-10-14)	3.0/8	10.93	15	2.0	5.524	5.0	16.452
5	"The Courier (No. 85)"	October 21, 2013 (2013-10-21)	3.0/8	10.44	19	2.0	6.204	5.0	16.641
6	"Gina Zanetakos (No. 152)"	October 28, 2013 (2013-10-28)	3.1/8	10.51	15	2.0	6.098	5.1	16.609
7	"Frederick Barnes (No. 47)"	November 4, 2013 (2013-11-04)	2.9/8	10.34	16	2.3	6.589	5.2	16.925
8	"General Ludd (No. 109)"	November 11, 2013 (2013-11-11)	3.0/8	10.69	16	2.1	6.326	5.1	17.014
9	"Anslo Garrick (No. 16)"	November 25, 2013 (2013-11-25)	3.0/8	10.96	13	2.1	6.375	5.1	17.339
10	"Anslo Garrick (No. 16 – Conclusion)"	December 2, 2013 (2013-12-02)	3.2/9	11.67	9	2.0	5.856	5.2	17.540
11	"The Good Samaritan (No. 106)"	January 13, 2014 (2014-01-13)	2.5/7	9.35	15	2.0	6.060	4.5	15.407
12	"The Alchemist (No. 101)"	January 20, 2014 (2014-01-20)	2.3/6	8.83	18	1.9	6.622	4.2	15.454
13	"The Cyprus Agency (No. 64)"	January 27, 2014 (2014-01-27)	2.5/7	10.17	16	2.1	6.668	4.6	16.839
14	"Madeline Pratt (No. 73)"	February 24, 2014 (2014-02-24)	3.1/9	11.18	11	1.9	6.353	5.0	17.532
15	"The Judge (No. 57)"	March 3, 2014 (2014-03-03)	2.7/8	11.01	10	1.9	5.879	4.6	16.891
16	"Mako Tanida (No. 83)"	March 17, 2014 (2014-03-17)	2.7/8	10.97	7	1.9	5.911	4.6	16.880
17	"Ivan (No. 88)"	March 24, 2014 (2014-03-24)	2.8/8	10.80	9	2.2	6.519	5.0	17.318
18	"Milton Bobbit (No. 135)"	March 31, 2014 (2014-03-31)	2.8/8	11.39	11	2.0	5.868	4.8	17.257
19	"The Pavlovich Brothers (No. 119–122)"	April 21, 2014 (2014-04-21)	2.8/8	11.24	4	2.1	6.510	4.9	17.753
20	"The Kingmaker (No. 42)"	April 28, 2014 (2014-04-28)	2.7/8	10.85	9	1.9	5.656	4.5	16.447
21	"Berlin (No. 8)"	May 5, 2014 (2014-05-05)	2.7/8	10.47	10
22	"Berlin (No. 8 – Conclusion)"	May 12, 2014 (2014-05-12)	2.6/7	10.44	11

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