The Blacklist
The Blacklist is an American crime thriller
television series that premiered on NBC on September 23, 2013. Raymond
"Red" Reddington (James Spader), a former U.S. Navy officer turned
high-profile criminal, voluntarily surrenders to the FBI after eluding capture
for decades. He tells the FBI that he has a list of the most dangerous
criminals in the world that he has compiled over the years and is willing to
inform on their operations in exchange for immunity from prosecution. However,
he insists on working exclusively with a rookie FBI profiler by the name of
Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone).
Raymond "Red"
Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI
Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same
interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two
decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but
the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this
"The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will
speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
Actors
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James
Spader
as
Raymond "Red" Reddington
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Megan
Boone
as
Elizabeth Keen
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Harry
Lennix
as
Harold Cooper
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Diego
Klattenhoff
as
Donald Ressler
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Mozhan
Marnò
as
Samar Navabi
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Hisham
Tawfiq
as
Dembe
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Amir
Arison
as Aram
Mojtabai
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Parminder Nagra
as Meera Malik
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premise
Raymond "Red"
Reddington, a former US Naval Intelligence officer who had disappeared
twenty years earlier to become one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, surrenders himself to FBI
Assistant Director Harold Cooper at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. Taken to an FBI
"black site," Reddington
claims he wishes to help the FBI track down and apprehend the criminals and
terrorists he spent the last twenty years associating with; individuals that
are so dangerous and devious that the United States government is unaware of
their very existence.
He offers Cooper his knowledge
and assistance on two conditions: immunity from prosecution, and that he wants
to work exclusively with Elizabeth Keen, a rookie profiler newly assigned to
Cooper. Keen and Cooper are suspicious of Reddington's interest in her, but he
will only say that she is "very special." After Cooper tests
Reddington's offer in locating and killing a terrorist in the first episode,
Reddington reveals that this man was only the first on his
"blacklist" of global criminals, which he has compiled over his
criminal career, and states that he and the FBI have a mutual interest in
eliminating them. The mysteries of Reddington's and Liz's lives, and his
interest in her, are gradually revealed as the series progresses. Each episode
features one of the global criminals, Reddington assisting the team tracking
and apprehending them.
One of the ongoing themes of
the series is the effect that working with Reddington seemingly has on the
characters of the FBI task force, as some of them start to compromise their own
professional integrity, and do expedient or unprofessional things that they
would never have considered at the outset of the series.
The rank of the featured
criminal on the list is displayed at the start of every episode. The only
exception to this rule is the sixty-third episode of the series, titled
"Cape May."
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