

Red piques Blaise's interest with a fake missing Rembrandt painting and "borrows" a villa in Italy to stage an elaborate party for Blaise's benefit. Reddington enlists Liz and the Task Force to track down a blacklister named Greyson Blaise, a self-made billionaire who moonlights as a high-end thief, to help Reddington with his crumbled empire. He resolves to identify the remains, whatever the cost. Also, Tom Keen returns with a mysterious briefcase with a skeleton in it. Meanwhile, Ressler is in an awkward position following Hitchin's death, as his fixer Henry Prescott is now blackmailing him.

Red offers both positions in his rebuilt organization and they accept. Red also frees his accuser and accomplice Heddie Hawkins, thus ensuring Putnum's freedom.

Red and Liz manage to avoid the killers and deliver Putnum. It is revealed that Putnum has been stealing money from a neo-Nazi drug cartel who is now trying to kill him.
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He wants to capture the next blacklister, alleged embezzler and circus hand Smokey Putnum and bring him in for trial and collect the bounty. He enlists newly discovered daughter Liz Keen to help him rebuild his empire, claiming that he can only be of use to the FBI if he's in a position of power and influence. Kaplan's death, Reddington's criminal empire is in ruins and he has set up his new base of operations in a budget hotel. See also: List of The Blacklist episodes No.įollowing Mr.

See also: List of The Blacklist characters Main cast She later discovers the existence of one person ( Fiona Dourif) who has an unexpected connection to Reddington, leading to the unsettling discovery at the end of the season. Elizabeth questions the relationship with Raymond about whether he is her biological father or not as was hinted at the end of Season 4. Marshall and drug kingpin who wants the suitcase to undermine Raymond's criminal empire, putting a danger to Raymond's allies, especially to Elizabeth Keen. During the search, they are faced by a new adversary Ian Garvey ( Jonny Coyne), a corrupt U. Kaplan in the previous season, Raymond's greatest secret - in the form of a suitcase containing an unidentified human skeleton - has been missing and Raymond and Dembe Zuma desperately search for it. Following the war between Raymond Reddington and Mr.
