- After a series of seemingly nonviolent citizens become killers, Red tips off Liz that a dangerous social-psychological experiment may be underway. Elsewhere, Red tries to convince Naomi and her husband into accepting a complicated proposition.—Jiilo_Kim
- "The Blacklist" - "Dr. Linus Creel" - Oct. 13, 2014
We open on a seemingly normal woman on a busy city street filled with noise-- sirens, jackhammers, babies-- she seems overwhelmed. She goes into a bank and argues with a loan officer about defaulting on her mortgage. He is unsympathetic to her woes, unemloyment, etc. The woman goes back to her car, grabs a gun from her glove box and goes on a shooting spree in the bank.
A man in a car across from the bank speaks into a tape recorder saying that this has been a successful activation of the subject AR105.
Red is in the safe house with Naomi who wants to be set free. He says she can't go back to Philly. She says she can't stay in this place and can't believe he brought her there. She wants to go home with her husband. Red asks where Jennifer is. Naomi says she kept her end of the bargain and didn't say anything about him or Elizabeth. She asks if he and Liz are working together. He asks again about Jennifer and says he can protect her. She says she will never tell him where her daughter is. She's mad she has to now tell Frank about her previous life, especially since he's never kept a secret from her. Red says arrangements have been made for them to have new identities and she should talk it over with Frank. And if she loves him she should let him help her.
Liz calls Red and asks after Naomi saying they need to debrief her since she spent so much time with Berlin. He changes the subject to the bank shooting and how it's the 7th random act of violence of late and he thinks it's part of an underground government social science mind control experiment.
Liz and the Post Office gang runs down the crimes and presents Red's conspiracy theory. Ressler thinks it's a distraction from Naomi. Liz pulls Aram aside and asks him to pull Frank and Naomi's phone records from the last five years.
Liz and Ressler go to see the shooter Maddie but she's talking to her psychiatrist and they can't talk to her so they talk to her old boss and ex-boyfriend who both essentially saying she's gone crazy and had to be let go. In her conversation with her therapist she relays all of this and has an excuse for all of this. She notes the house being taken was the last straw because the house was her. The therapist is the guy from the car across from the bank. She says her life started falling apart when anonymous accusations. Samar Navabi interviewed another shooter who said the same thing. Their lives fell apart even though nothing was proved. Aram discovered that the shooters had a specific genetic abnormality, the "warrior gene," and Liz theorizes the government exploited this in experiments and turned them into killers.
We see the therapist talking into his recorder again as he watches another "subject" lead cops on a car chase. He says the activation phase is over and things are concluded. He makes a call to a Senator Sheraton and IDs himself as Dr. Linus Creel.
Liz and Cooper talk about this new having the gene and how the people are being triggered. Cooper has the scoop. He heard about experiments like this in the service. He says he loves this country but he hates crap like this and the fact that Red pulled up the carpet. It's called "Sub Project 7" and is exactly what they think it is but it's top secret.
Liz and Ressler go to see a senator who admits yes and no, they have studied mind control but they are wasting their time trying to look in the "black budget" of the US government. He does offer to hand over pertinent documents. Turns out this Senator is the same one Creel called and he is there as Liz and Ressler leave.
Frank and Naomi discuss their options and is confused at the idea that someone like Red can protect them. He is confused by everything and thinks Red is a lunatic and doesn't want to put their lives in his hands. They turn down his witness protection offer. Frank thinks they don't need it and they are going back to Philly. Red insists they do and calls Naomi by her old name Carla. She says Carla Reddington was a miserable housewife married to a miserable man and she no longer exists.
Liz, Ressler, and Samar go over the Sub Project 7 files at the Post Office with little success since it's mostly redacted. Samar says they need to find a source to unredact them. Red, of course, knows where to find this guy who is named Haskell and hates him over a gambling situation. They offer him a bunch of cash. Liz poses as a blogger wanting to write about Sub Project 7. He has translated the unredacted files. It was born out of the human genome project figuring if they could deduce who would get cancer, they could figure out who could get turned into assassins. She notices Linus Creel in a photo. He used to be a lab assistant at the beginning of the project.
She takes the info back to the Post Office and they run down Creel and his private practice. All of the killers were his patients. He's been trolling for the "warrior gene" people with a questionnaire on his website.
We see an angry woman yelling at her married lover on her phone. The man who played "Fargas" last week breaks into the woman home and says he needs to talk to her.
At the safe house Red tries to explain to Frank how he's concerned about Naomi. He seems to be doing this in a threatening manner and an SUV pulls up and a dog jumps out. Frank recognizes it as "Monica's dog." Turns out it was Frank cheating with the woman on the phone. Red says he's done with Monica, he will now be a faithful husband to Naomi, and they will take his protection and leave Philly. Frank protests. Red threatens to rip out his jugular with a stick. Red says since Frank makes Naomi happy that is the only reason hes' still here. Frank acquiesces.
Dr. Creel talks with a patient named Duncan whom he had expelled from school. He seems to be agitating him on purpose. He promises he won't let anything bad happen to Duncan, who frankly seems like a mess. He gets a call for a psyche consult in the ER. It's Liz. She's posing as a troubled woman complete with fake medical records that make her seem like a perfect candidate for Creel's experiment. She's all goth and angry and depressive. She spins this near suicide tale from college. In the van Samar bets Aram that this is a true story. Liz continues to spin her tale saying if there was no chance of getting caught she would kill her husband who just left her. She names him "Tom." But first she says she would chain him up and torture the truth out of him. She says this is terrible she knows. But he's all turned on by her story and says you can't put people in jail for who they are and her issues are "baked in" and that that's okay basically.
Red brings Frank and the dog in. Naomi loves the dog and wonders who she belongs to and if they can bring her back to Philly. Frank says they can't go back and he couldn't live with it if something happened to her. She thinks Red did this by threatening him. Frank insists it is his own concern for her that changed his mind.
Liz keeps talking and she gets to the fire and talking about her parents and the fire. Creel promises to expedite her discharge and asks her to fill out his questionnaire. She notes that the nurse ordered genetic screening when she took her blood. The doctor notes that unlike his colleagues he wants the whole picture. While he's out of the room she hacks his computer and gets a password to give Aram. She writes it on a prescription pad. Although she "gets away" with it, he confronts her and calls her a liar and a junkie just looking to get a prescription and demands the piece of paper. She rips up the sheet and apologizes. She worries he won't help her now but, on the contrary, he says he's even more interested in her questionnaire. Liz heads out to the van, she palmed the tiny piece of paper that had the password.
Duncan is at home, crying and agitated, texting with his online "girlfriend" Amber. He grabs a gun, loads it and heads out.
Aram looks at the files from Creel's laptop. There are 12 patients in one specific file, all of have killed except one: Duncan. They bust into his apartment but he's already gone. They try to figure out how to find the girl but she doesn't seem to exist. They deduce that Creel is catfishing Duncan to push him over the edge and they need to figure out where Duncan thinks this woman Amber is. They figure that Duncan thinks she's at a violence prevention forum.
Meanwhile, Creel is at this event, trying to convince the forum about his research on the warrior gene and how it's not the people's faults. He directed Duncan there so he could have a dramatic example of how these killings can be prevented with kids being tested for the gene. Senator Sheraton tries to shut Creel down and Creel complains that Sheraton never took him seriously. Duncan shows up and starts firing in the air. Creel confronts him with the truth--- he's pulling out his own hair and clearly wacko-- and apologizes and tells Duncan to kill him because he's run out of ways to get people to listen to him on this issue and if he kills him his life and research will be examined and he will be vindicated. Liz and the gang arrive and try to talk Duncan down. Duncan shoots Creel but only injures him. Liz moves in and Creel pulls a gun on her.
Ressler and Samar draw down on him. Creel whispers to Liz that he saw her test results and is about to tell her when Creel is shot in the head by an unknown sniper up above.
Later at the Post Office Samar hands Liz her test results. She looks at them and puts them down. Samar says it's probably meaningless- no doubt meaning that Liz has the gene-- and wonders aloud if Red could've known this when he gave Liz the original tip and that she would find out. Liz does not dignify this with a response.
Samar goes to Aram and pays up on the bet and says Liz was making it all up.
Aram goes to Liz about Naomi and Frank and figures out where they are thanks to calls Frank made to the mistress. Liz heads out to talk to her. She asks Naomi why Red doesn't want them to see each other. Naomi says it's a game and a manipulation and that Red wants something from her and that's why he's making her feel "speical" which is something he is expert at. Naomi says that most importantly Red is not who he is making himself out to be to her. Red arrives and overhears the end of this. He calls Liz "Agent Keen" and says he hopes she had an illuminating conversation.
As Naomi and Frank leave, Naomi tells Red that she doesn't know where Jennifer is. She knew Red would come for her one day and she disappeared. Red presses his number into her hand and says if she needs anything ever he will be there. He kisses her forehead. She says to him "You need to tell her" and walks off with Frank.
Liz asks about the sniper, assuming he works for Red. Red confirms this and says he's been having the sniper follow her since the day agent Malick died. (So this was the guy she bumped into in the motel?) She says she wants him gone. Red thinks she's hiding something. We cut to Liz sitting outside a locked door with a set of keys.
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