Harold Cooper is the Assistant Director of the FBI Counterterrorism Division and head of the covert FBI task force assigned to pursue the criminals on Red's Blacklist. He had a particular interest in Reddington's past, and is willing to oblige Reddington's unusual requests due to this understanding of him. He was attacked and put into a coma by Berlin's agents. When Cooper regained consciousness, it is revealed that he has inoperable brain tumor. With the help of his friend, Attorney General Connolly, he entered an experimental drug trial. However, he has had to compromise his ethics and perform various morally dubious tasks for Connolly in order to stay in his favor and remain in the trial. After a few months Cooper discovers that he was never sick and that Tom Connolly set the whole thing up. After he witnesses Liz's murder of Connolly, he tells her to run, and later turns over his badge. Ressler interrogates him to determine his complicity in Connolly's murder, but eventually decides to release him. Cooper is told by Wright that in order for him to have the charges dropped against him, Cooper not only has to resign, but also take a desk job. Although he reluctantly does, Cooper is determined to help Liz clear her name and he teams up with Tom to find Karakurt. Later, Tom brings Karakurt to Cooper's house and they are forced to flee with Charlene when the Cabal sends a team to kill Karakurt. Charlene suggests they hide at their neighbor's cabin, admitting that she had cheated on Cooper with him. Cooper is reinstated as head of the task force after Liz is exonerated. Later, he separates from Charlene.

"None of us are the people we were before this task force started. Before Reddington."

"You didn't let him go. You put him in Reddington's debt, a place I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy."

"You've become more of a liability than an asset."

"But after what I did today, the truth is, I don't recognize myself."



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future titles ღ
"You want to play the angles? You want to leverage your friends and colleagues, at least have the decency to admit it."
"I'm out. I'm not leaking classified data, not for you, not for anybody."
"You once told me that I was the one person you completely trusted. I violated that trust. I'm sorry, Elizabeth."

past titles ღ
"I lost a dozen people today, Keen! This isn't on you, it's on me!"
"I've crossed my share of lines in this job. I've always told myself that wouldn't be one."
"Guess my principles aren't what they used to be. Neither are yours."
"I'm committed that no one under my command dies during the remainder of my watch."
"You've become more of a liability than an asset."
"The ones that let anger & emotion, prejudice & carelessness affect their behavior are every good cop's worst nightmare."
"But after what I did today, the truth is, I don't recognize myself."

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