This is a thing, however, that is going to be something problematic for Cooper if he’s not careful. (And I think Liz knows this, too, because she keeps contacting Ressler or the FBI pretty much every episode.) Strange as it may be, the only way for Ressler to protect Liz is to hunt her down and try to bring her in. Related Debris Review: Earthshine (Season 1 Episode 5) Without the FBI’s resources at his disposal and his position of power to use them, Liz is a goner. In order for her to have her best shot at surviving all of this, Ressler needs to stay where he is and stay on a righteous path in order to help. Remember at the diner? Had it not been for Ressler’s orders, the hostage extraction team might have seriously harmed Liz. He’s been able so far to use his position of power to save her. Here’s why Ressler didn’t accept help from Tom last episode: Ressler needs to do everything by the book and keep his position in the FBI in order to protect, not harm, Liz. By the time “The Djinn” concludes, he’s fully aboard #TeamSaveLiz, even if the episode preview quotes him saying the contrary. Samar coldly tells him that it’s not his job to save her and he needs to stop trying because she doomed herself when she shot the Attorney General.īut Ressler, for all of his faults, is not going to ever stop trying to protect Liz. And by the end of the episode, Ressler is concerned that whatever Red is searching for will wind up getting Liz killed. They’re searching for something and it’s something more than just leverage to exonerate Liz with.
Because as Samar notes, Red and Liz are fugitives, but they’re not running and hiding. And I, like Samar, am also wondering what Red’s endgame is in all of this fugitive stuff. While “The Djinn” is ultimately disappointing in the sense that I know the show is capable (and has proven it is) of creating more compelling, less case-of-the-week dependent episodes, this particular episode still had some really intriguing elements to it.
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It seems far too generic and cookie-cutter, but the way that Red looks at her during this scene makes me think that maybe that’s his fantasy for her: to be able to see Liz live a normal life, free of pain and suffering and actually, genuinely happy for once. She tells Red in this episode that her deepest fantasy is to walk through a park with her husband and a little daughter, but I’m not sure I buy that, either. I honestly am interested to know what it is that Liz craves more than anything else in the world, since it’s not revenge on the Cabal. In their defense, though, this episode is still far better executed than seasons one and two. Mostly because The Blacklisthas now decided to do that thing I hated in the first two seasons –– ask more questions and not deliver answers, while leaving plot threads dangling in the wind.
Until the final few minutes of the episode, I really wasn’t entirely invested. This week, the case felt more serialized and was complete with yet another escape executed by Red and Liz (man, the FBI is REALLY bad at their timing these days).
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It feels like now, the series is reaching back into its stale hat of tricks, rifling around for something to use again. This week’s “The Djinn” and last week’s episode are a bit of a letdown after the stellar first few two episodes of the series (see, I shouldn’t have said anything because I jinxed it). Vargas found his way into captivity alongside Dembe. More stuff about corn and corn fields happened, too. Then Liz shot an agent and then immediately felt remorse so they rushed him to the hospital. Lots of boring stuff about GMOs and corn (yeah, CORN) was the focus of “Eli Matchett.” And Ressler and Samar nearly caught up with Liz and Red like, three times.
Tom ended up teaming up with Cooper to find Karakurt as a way to exonerate Liz.
Before we talk about “The Djinn,” let’s recap what happened while I was out of town during last week’s episode of T he Blacklist : Tom wanted to help Ressler find Liz Ressler refused.