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Minor Characters|Guest Stars Appreciation Thread #5: Because the guest stars are what makes our show intriguing.
Minor Characters | Guest stars
5th A P P R E C I A T I O N T H R E A D
-- TOP 5 SEASON 1 --
1. Alan Fitch
Alan Alda
Assistant Director of National Intelligence / Cabal operative
Publicly, Fitch works as an Assistant Director of National Intelligence. On the side, he is a senior member of the Cabal whose secrets Red knows. Red has arranged for those secrets to be divulged in the event of his death in order to make sure Fitch's organization stays away from him. He is the one responsible for Berlin's daughter's disappearance, having helped her escape from a gulag and faking her death. After Berlin finds out that Fitch is behind his daughter's disappearance, he orders his agents to abduct Fitch and strap a pipe bomb on him, intending to kill him. The FBI later finds Fitch with a bomb strapped around his neck. He is escorted to FBI headquarters and locked in the box. There, several bomb squad officers attempt to disable the bomb. Fitch asks Red if he has the Fulcrum. Red merely says that he cannot stop the bomb. Fitch says that his death will trigger a series of events, which will make it harder for the moderates to resist the radicals, and predicts that by 2017, conditions will get worse. Fitch names 2 members who might be willing to ally with Red. Fitch then tells Red the combination to a safe he has hidden away in St. Petersburg, but is unable to tell him the location within the city before the bomb explodes.
2. Anslo Garrick
Ritchie Coster
Anslo Garrick is a mercenary who specializes in raiding classified and well defended prison facilities and extracting high level prisoners, always using extreme levels of violence. He works almost exclusively with a unit of highly armed, countryless mercenaries known as "The Wild Bunch". At some point, he successfully raids a CIA black site in the Bering Sea to exfiltrate a man named Mahmoud al-Azok. At some point he and Red work together, though the alliance ends in 2008 when Garrick gives the FBI Red's train number and itinerary for a stop at Waterloo station in Brussels. Red realizes that Garrick has betrayed him and shoots him, damaging the right side of his face and apparently blinding his right eye. However, Garrick survives and spends 5 years in a prison described as a "black hole". To remind himself of the incident, Garrick never repairs the facial scarring with surgery. At the request of Alan Fitch, he organizes and leads a raid on the Post Office. The purpose of the attack is to capture Red, but he manages to enter a secure holding cell together with Ressler, who is shot in the leg by one of Garrick's men before Garrick and his men can catch Red. Garrick realizes from Red's reaction to seeing Liz that threatening her will probably have a better outcome than threatening Dembe. When he puts the gun to Liz's head, Red forces Ressler to reveal the box password. Garrick uses the password and Cooper's hand to open the box. Garrick and some of his men take Liz and Red to the lower level and begin to drill though the floor. When the drilling is complete they all escape through the storm drains to a waiting ambulance. In the ambulance Garrick has to drive when Liz's escape causes the death of the original driver. Red's DARPA tracker is removed and Red is taken to a deserted building for interrogation.Garrick has Red suspended by his arms and a doctor injects Red with a drug to heighten his sensitivity to pain. After Alan Fitch finishes questioning Red, Garrick asks if he can kill Red. Fitch is initially unsure, but Garrick convinces him to let him kill Red. Garrick approaches Red and taunts Red by saying that after he has killed Red he will go after Liz. Garrick then asks if Red is actually feeling something. As Red plunges the scissors into the back of Garrick's neck he replies "regret".
3. Sam Milhoan
William Sadler
Sam took Elizabeth in once her mother was killed and she was abandoned by her father. Sam became her adoptive father and cared for her, though she believes she cared for herself. Sam is diagnosed with cancer. Liz can't get to the hospital so Tom goes instead. Red also goes to pay his respects, but smothers Sam to death when Sam tries to call Lizzie and tell her a secret about her biological father. Red later states that Sam was very sick and confused otherwise he would never have tried to tell her a secret that was too dangerous and that had not been his secret to share.
4. Madeline Pratt
Jennifer Ehle
Madeline Pratt is a well-known politically active socialite. Behind the facade, she forms relationships and affiliations with powerful, influential people and then uses those connections to commit million dollar heists. She had a previous romantic connection with Red, which he broke off. Posing as Red's widow, she steals documents belonging to him worth 10 million dollars from a bank in Istanbul to gain his attention regarding the proposed theft of the Effigy of Atargatis. Madeline enlists Red's help in stealing a statue called the Effigy of Ashtart in the Syrian embassy. The statue secretly contains coordinates for Soviet nuclear detonation codes, which has the interest of the Russian Mob. Red enlists Liz's aid in the operation, only for the pair to be double-crossed by Madeline. Faking their capture, Red succeeds in getting the location of the Effigy and the coordinates from Madeline. The statue is secured and one of Pratt's allies is arrested. Madeline is able to free herself and steals a precious painting from Red.
5. Diane Fowler
Jane Alexander
United States Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division / Cabal operative
At her initial meeting with Harold Cooper regarding Raymond Reddington, she is very resistant that Red should receive special treatment. It is only at the second meeting, that she reluctantly agrees to sign off on Red's deal. She adds that she wants Meera Malik on the team as her personal representative. When Red was kidnapped by Anslo Garrick, Fowler was enraged and disbanded the task force. Part of the reason was that she knew the FBI had a double agent within the ranks. She later reactivated it when it was discovered that the people behind the raid had been conducting surveillance on the FBI. Red meets with her after learning she is the real mole. Fowler first attempts to bargain with Red and then resorts to threats, but Red knows her death will not lead to further retaliation from Alan Fitch. When she offers to tell Red what happened to his family, he merely remarks that if she knows what happened then someone else also knows it too. Red then shoots and kills her and calls Kate Kaplan to clean up and dispose of the body.
-- TOP 5 SEASON 2 --
1. Berlin
Peter Stormare
Milos Kirchoff starts out in the Red Army, rises to the rank of Colonel and later becomes a member of the KGB. Notorious for sending his enemies to the gulags in Siberia, he is a loyal servant of the Soviet Union. In 1991, near the end of the Cold War, Kirchhoff takes part in a meeting in Kursk with other Soviet officials on how to combat their more progressive countrymen who want the Soviet Union dissolved. The meeting is interrupted when a bomb goes off, killing 15 attendants and the last of the old Soviet resistance. Shortly after that, Kirchhoff's daughter is suspected of falling in love with a dissident and imprisoned. He uses his connections to help her escape, but the Kremlin found out and decided to use him as an example to the Motherland. He is put in a Siberian gulag where a lot of people he had put away were imprisoned. One day, he is sent a pocket watch he had given his daughter. Over several months, someone sends him several body parts and is led to believe that they were his daughter's and that Red is behind it. In reality, Alan Fitch sends body parts belonging to someone else and helps Kirchoff's daughter escape to the United States. Eventually, Kirchhoff sharpens one of the bones he has been sent into a weapon, kills the people holding him captive and escapes and forms his criminal syndicate under the alias "Berlin". Red meets with Kirchhoff several times. Kirchoff once more blames him for his daughter's death and intends to hurt Red by going after Zoe, whom he assumes is Red's daughter. Red reveals that Kirchhoff's daughter is actually alive and someone else in his syndicate had lied to him about her being killed. He is soon reunited with his daughter, who had been living under an assumed name as Zoe D'Antonio. After being reunited with Zoe, Kirchoff learns the truth of Red's innocence. Using Zoe to gain the access numbers to free Fitch, Red holds Kirchoff at gunpoint. Red returns to the warehouse where he is holding Kirchoff prisoner with a bottle of vodka and places 2 shot glasses in front of him.
After they reminisce about the Cold War and finish the bottle, Red kills Berlin.
2. Peter Kotsiopulos (The Director)
David Strathairn
Director of the National Clandestine Service / Cabal operative
We barely know anything about The Director. What is known is that he works for the National Clandestine Service, the CIA component that deals with covert operations. He is also a high-ranking member of the Cabal, the criminal syndicate that Alan Fitch belonged to. However, he has far less respect for Reddington than Fitch had and is certain that Reddington is bluffing about having the Fulcrum. He seems to represent the more radical side of the Cabal, one far more ruthless than the rest of the organization. The Director is the one that is trying to frame Elizabeth Keen for the murders of 14 CIA agents and the death of a US Senator and wants her dead. The Director died after being thrown out of an airplane by Red.
3. Reven Wright
Adriane Lenox
United States Deputy Attorney General of the criminal division
Reven Wright replaces the deceased Diane Fowler. She orders Ressler to work with The Director after Laurel Hitchin’s presidential commission. Reven is killed by Laurel Hitchin to conceal her connection to Matthias Solomon and The Cabal.
4. Glen Carter
Clark Middleton
In his day job, Glen is just another cog in the machinery at the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Washington D.C. However, he also has a separate line of work as a "tracker" for Raymond Reddington, presumably using his position at the DMV to access personal information needed to locate people and objects. He has successfully located Berlin's daughter and he also located Alan Fitch's safe in St. Petersburg that Fitch talked to Red about before he died.
5. Tom Connolly
Reed Birney
United Stated Attorney General / Cabal operative
Thomas "Tom" Connolly is a good friend and colleague of Cooper. They meet prior to 2003 when Cooper is leading an FBI task force in the Middle East, and Connolly is the US Attorney prosecutor that works alongside the group. Connolly becomes a prominent member of the US Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C. During the events revolving around Justin Kenyon and a bomb plot, Connolly visits Cooper at the Post Office, telling him that he is about to be confirmed as the next Attorney General of the United States. He wants Cooper to join him in the administration as Director of the FBI. Cooper declines. Connolly is revealed to be a new member of the Cabal. The Director states that betraying Cooper was the price of a seat at the table. Connolly reveals his involvement with the Cabal to Cooper and that he is part of the Cabal. He then admits that he has been gaining leverage from Cooper and the Cabal owns him. He threatens to shut down the task force since he is aware of the laws Cooper broke. Later, Connolly is appointed Attorney General. When Liz is framed for the assassination of a U.S. Senator, Connolly forces Cooper on administrative leave for keeping Liz from being questioned. Through Liz, Cooper discovers that his disease was a hoax orchestrated by the Cabal through Connolly, and angrily confronts him together with Liz. They threaten to give evidence proving his corruption to the FBI unless Liz is cleared of her charges, Karakurt is charged for the crimes, Cooper is reinstated, Charlene is released, and Red is left alone. Connolly ignores them, pointing out that he controls the FBI, he controls the Department of Justice, and no Federal judge will oppose him. Connolly tells them that the Post Office will be painted out as a rogue unit and its members prosecuted. When Liz points her gun at him, he tells her that killing him will accomplish nothing since he will only be replaced. Despite Cooper's pleas for her not to pull the trigger, Liz shoots and kills Connolly.
-- TOP 5 SEASON 3 --
1. Agnes Keen
Gabrielle & Layla Stitzer
Agnes Keen is Elizabeth and Tom Keen's daughter. Agnes is named after Sam's mother. When Liz found out she was pregnant, she wanted to give her baby up for adoption but changed her mind and decided to keep the baby and raise her with Tom. With help of Tom, Mr. Kaplan and Nik, Liz decided to fake her death so Agnes would not grow up in Red's world and they would both be safe. Alexander Kirk, Liz's alleged biological father, found out where they were hiding and kidnapped Liz. Agnes whereabouts are currently unknown but it's a possibility that Kirk has Agnes.
2. Katarina Rostova
Lotte Verbeek
Katarina Rostova was a Russian spy and the biological mother of Masha Rostova/Elizabeth Keen. Her father was named Dom. Reddington believed that she had committed suicide by drowning in order to protect Liz from unknown individuals who were pursuing her. He continued to tell Liz that her mother was dead, despite receiving a painting commissioned by someone who claimed to be Rostova. However, Liz and Tom suspected she was alive. And Liz thinks it is her mother that is after her.
3. Mathias Solomon
Edi Gathegi
Matias Solomon is a high-ranking member of the Cabal. He was a CIA asset in Ethiopia until he enlisted for the Eritrean-Ethiopian War. The CIA disavowed him after he committed horrific war crimes. Despite this, he was in charge of Operation Backslide, a CIA operation to assist Somalia against the Islamic Courts Union. Solomon works closely together with The Director. He visits The Director's office reprimanding the Director for his inability to prevent Red from releasing the Fulcrum and threatening that continued failure would mean his life. Solomon kidnaps Dembe's granddaughter and uses her to get to Dembe. Dembe goes to see Solomon and insists that Solomon brings his granddaughter back to his daughter and sacrifices himself for his granddaughter. Solomon drugs Dembe and holds him hostage. He tortures Dembe in the hopes of finding out Red and Liz's whereabouts. Dembe remains silent. Through a deception involving Mr. Vargas, who is now working for Solomon, Solomon finally tricks Dembe into revealing the information and captures Red and Liz. However, Dembe rescues them and drives Solomon off. Solomon is caught by the FBI when he follows Tom to Wing Yee's, in the hopes of ambushing Liz and Tom. He is interrogated by Ressler but The Director cuts in and tortures Solomon by forcing him to swallow fishhooks, a ruse intended to convince the FBI that the Director is not in league with him. Solomon is then released. Later, Solomon leads an assault team to kill Karakurt, who is being held by Tom, Cooper, and Ressler. He captures Tom at gunpoint and demands that Ressler hand Karakurt over. However, Cooper knocks him out from behind, and Ressler arrests him. While being transported by federal agents, Solomon is rescued by his new "boss". Now working for this new "boss" he plans to steal a nuclear weapon. This plan turns out to be a decoy to divert the FBI's attention from his real mission which is to capture Liz. He and his men surround the church where Liz and Tom are about to be married and demand that Liz come with them or they will kill everyone else and take her by force. Red, Tom, and the task force are able to fend off Solomon's men long enough for Ressler to come to the rescue, allowing Liz and Tom to escape. He chases Liz again after her escape and hunts her ambulance as Red tries to take her to the hospital to save her life. Solomon is able to disable Red's vehicle and pins him and his men down. Eventually FBI backup arrives and Solomon flees as his men are killed. However, the delay in getting to the hospital caused by Solomon's attack causes Liz to die. Solomon and Tom are forced to work together in an operation to take down Alexander Kirk who had ordered the kidnapping off Liz. During the mission, Tom and Solomon rob a pharmacy together and Tom shoots Solomon as revenge for Liz's death. Minutes later the police enter to find a pool of blood but no sign of Solomon himself.
4. Dom
Brian Dennehy
Dom is Elizabeth Keen's grandfather and Katarina Rostova's father.
5. Gina Zanetakos
Margarita Levieva
Gina Zanetakos is a deadly corporate terrorist. Using the alias Shubie Hartwell,she entered the United States. She is hired by the Hanar Group to detonate a dirty bomb in the Port of Houston. After being captured, she is allowed a plea bargain since the bomb had not devastated the port. She goes to prison but she escaped during a work furlough. She was once in a romantic relationship with Tom Keen. Gina is eventually released from prison. Tom contacts her, looking for work to provide for Liz and his unborn baby. Gina reluctantly brings him in to work on a jewelry heist. After they pull off the heist, she asks him to run away with her, and he refuses. She then double-crosses him and has him shot, but he survives. He then confronts her at gunpoint and demands that she persuade the Major to let him walk away from their organization, and she agrees. Later she is seen on the phone with an unknown person, talking about Tom. Gina and the Major ambush Tom in Liz's apartment. The Major is about to kill Tom when Gina decides to kill the Major instead and leaves Tom to bury the body.
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