The Blacklist S1E1: How It All Got Started


Starting with the pilot episode, Raymond Reddington heads to the FBI building in New York City (One Federal Plaza), to “surrender” to them, including Assistant Director, Harold Cooper, who arrives, meeting with Agent Donald Ressler. Reddington offers an incomparable deal, starting with the name of a notorious criminal, who was believed dead. The one caveat, Reddington will only speak to Elizabeth Keen.

A new agent, and profiler, Liz gets yanked out of her world, with a loving, adorable husband, and soon to be family, and is taken to the Post Office to meet with Cooper and starts to be manipulated by this man.

Reddington tells Agent about her background and that Beth Ryker, the daughter of general Daniel Ryker, is going to be kidnapped by Ranko Zamani in under an hour. An armed team led by Liz and Ressler rush to meet the General and find the location of his daughter. Liz and the team then head to a ballet school where Beth is taken out of her class.

The little girl, Beth is in a minivan with Liz in an FBI convoy and Liz talks to her to keep Beth calm. The convoy is stopped on a bridge over the river by HAZMAT, advising them of chemical spill ahead. while the vehicles are turning around, a semi crash into the one with Liz and Beth, they are ambushed, and Beth is taken after a gunfight in which Ressler saves Liz's life. Liz promises to rescue her.

When Liz returns home, she finds some balloons and a card stating, “it's a girl”. She is so excited thinking it’s about her adoption, she pours herself a glass of wine. When she turns around, she sees that Tom is tied to the floor, gagged and has been tortured. Zamani appears from the shadows and asks her what she knows about his plan with the General's daughter. She tells him all she knows, and he thanks her, and then stabs Tom in the leg and the stomach, telling Liz that she can save many Americans by stopping him now or let Zamani go and just one, her husband. Liz tries to stop Tom's bleeding and calls 911.




Once she has seen Tom to the hospital, she storms into Red's hotel room and questions him about Zamani's visit. Red is not forthcoming with information. Exasperated Liz stabs Red in the neck with a pen and he passes out.

After Red is taken to hospital, Liz arrives at his room door and even though she is on suspension is allowed into his room where she discovers that he has escaped.

Red meets with Zamani and, during the conversation, it's made clear that Red is behind Zamani's attack on Tom. Meanwhile the FBI have instituted a manhunt for Red led by Ressler. Red calls Liz and she realizes that the target for Zamani's bomb is the Washington Zoo.

Ressler follows Red's chip signal and corners his man on the roof. When he turns round it's Zamani, and as he withdraws something from his pocket Ressler shoots him and he falls to his death. The item he was withdrawing from his pocket turns out to be a pill bottle containing Red's tracking chip.

At the zoo, Liz finds Beth sitting on a bench wearing a backpack containing a bomb. Red calls her and says that the bomb squad won't get there in time and he's sent someone to help. A Ukrainian man arrives, defuses the bomb, then runs away with it. Red walks up and is recaptured.

When Liz arrives home, she starts to rip up the carpet. Under the carpet she finds a storage area containing a wooden box. In it, she finds a large amount of money, several passports in different names with Tom's picture and a gun.


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