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Minor Characters|Guest Stars Appreciation Thread #8: "She is gone because of the choices you made for both of them. First Katarina, then Masha."
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-- 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
Katarina's father and Liz's birth grandfather who blamed Reddington. He tasked Dom in hiding a box containing a key for an island off the coast of Brunei. Red explained he was trying to avoid coming back to Dom after the first time because of both the war with Kaplan and his need to protect Dom. He tells Dom that if he doesn't return alive and Kaplan kills him, Red asks Dom to find Liz and tell the truth about him being her grandfather. After Liz questions him about his involvement as a Soviet spy, he calls Red to inform him that she is getting closer to the truth and that he needs to tell her soon.
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.
-- TOP 5 SEASON 4 --
1. Baz
Bazzel Baz
Baz is the commander of Red’s paramilitary group. Baz is in charge of a lot of operations that Red set up. Baz also watches over Liz multiple times on Red's order. Baz got killed by Mr. Kaplan when he was trying to stop her from destroying Red and his business.
2. Marvin Gerard
Fisher Stevens
Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard where, at the tender age of 31, Marvin Gerard was appointed the third youngest full professor in the institution's history. He served as a prosecutor for three years for the State of New York. Later, he joined his father-in-law's criminal defense firm as a full partner. While Gerard was being considered for a seat on the federal bench, his marriage took a bad turn. He eventually went so far as to try to kidnap his son, for which he was disbarred and sentenced to 7-10 years at the Cumberland FCI. He continued doing legal work behind bars, serving as shadow counsel to some of the biggest players in the criminal underworld. Politicians, CEOs and one Raymond Reddington. Red asked for his help while he held some people hostage in a diner and in return Red made sure that Gerard could stay out of prison and he left with his fiancee Becky Weinberg. Gerard locates the vault where Peter Kotsiopulos is keeping his embezzled money. When Red puts together a team to exonerate Liz, he calls in Gerard as part of that team. Gerard helps them plan on how to kidnap Peter Kotsiopulos. Once they have the Director, Red demands Laurel Hitchin exonerate Liz in exchange for Red not taking the Director to the Hague and sends in Gerard to discuss the terms of the deal with Laurel. Eventually Gerard manages to negotiate a deal where Liz is exonerated publicly for all but the Tom Connolly murder as Liz killed him in front of witnesses and it wasn't in self-defense. Instead, Laurel offers a plea of involuntary manslaughter with 3 years probation. Gerard privately talks to Red and convinces him to take the deal as it will keep Liz safe and out of prison and is better than Gerard expected them to get. Gerard later presents the deal to Liz who reluctantly signs it as she will no longer able to be an FBI agent though she can remain on the task force in a similar capacity to Red. Thanks to Gerard's deal, Liz is later able to walk free.
3. Laurel Hitchin
Christine Lahti
Assistant Secretary of State / National Security Advisor
Laurel Hitchin is the national security advisor to the President of the United States. She was formerly Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. During this time, she worked with Matthias Solomon, who was at the time a CIA asset. She was friendly with Reven Wright, whom she had known for many years. She chaired the government commission which investigated the OREA bombing, and, in that role, publicly questioned Donald Ressler about his beliefs regarding Liz Keen's innocence and the existence of the Cabal. She later ordered Ressler and Peter Kotsiopulos to cooperate and share all information regarding the Liz Keen case between the FBI and the CIA. After Kotsiopulos had his team secretly tap Tom Keen's phone without informing Ressler, she told him he had violated her orders to cooperate with the FBI and told him and his team to vacate the Task Force building.
Reven Wright later came to her, explaining that she had discovered Laurel's history with Matthias Solomon and wanted to know if Laurel had any information to share about him. After Laurel determined that Ressler knew nothing about Wright's investigation, she shot Wright to cover up her connection to him. When Liz Keen is arrested by the Task Force, Laurel orders the Director to eliminate Liz before she can testify about the Cabal. When Ressler informs her of Karakurt's location, she sends an assault team to kill him. However, she also tells Ressler that Wright mentioned Tommy Markham, unwittingly alerting Ressler to her involvement with the Cabal. After Aram's efforts buy time for Laurel and the Director's efforts to be thwarted, Laurel plots to have Liz assassinated. However, Red captures the Director and threatens to have the Venezuelans turn him over to the World Court to be tried for American war crimes. Red demands Liz's exoneration in exchange for not doing so, knowing that the President would force her to make a deal. Laurel reluctantly meets with Marvin Gerard and as Karakurt was turned over and exposed by Ressler on TV as the true terrorist, Laurel agreed to publicly exonerate Liz but she will have to plead to involuntary manslaughter in Connolly's murder as there were witnesses and he was well liked. Red agrees on the condition that Liz remain on the task force as an asset as he is as she cannot be restored to being an FBI agent and she agrees. Laurel publicly exonerates Liz as promised and is also forced to expose the Cabal's existence. She later meets with Red in her office, suggesting that he set everything up to become part of the Cabal.
Red and Ressler recover Wright's corpse after kidnapping one of Hitchin's cleaners, using the slug as evidence to blackmail her into freeing Aram from a grand jury trial. In the aftermath of Mr. Kaplan's death, Ressler receives his badge from Hitchin in her home; they have an altercation, and Ressler accidentally knocks her down, killing her.
4. Young Mr. Kaplan
Joanna Adler
Mr. "Kate" Kaplan is a very mysterious woman. She has worked for Raymond Reddington for many years. She is Reddington's personal "cleaner" who comes into scrub crime scenes. Kate started working for the Rostova's when Liz was a baby. Kate became Liz's nanny and she swore too Katarina that he would do everything in her power to keep Liz safe. After Katarina died, Kate moved somewhere else were she met Annie Kaplan. The love of her life. Together with Annie, she goes to Amarillo where Annie got a job working for her uncle Little Nikos. Kate finds a job as well but one night when Kate and Annie are at Annie's work, someone comes in and shoots Kate and Annie and Annie dies.
5. Alexander Kirk
Ulrich Thomsen
Alexander Kirk is a powerful billionaire businessman who made his fortune buying up Russian companies after the fall of the Soviet Union. Kirk was revealed to be the mysterious client who had hired Susan Hargrave to capture Liz. After Liz's death, he hires an assassin to kill Tom and take Agnes. Red and Hargrave steal 300 million dollars from Senator Diaz, a presidential candidate Kirk was backing, in an attempt to get Kirk to the United States, but Kirk does not take the bait. After Red frames him for selling oil to radical jihadists, Kirk is forced to appear before a congressional committee to testify. He changes his mind at the last minute when his men discover Liz is alive. He has Liz kidnapped and brought to him, where he reveals to her that he is her father, Konstantin Rostov. He is suffering from an unrevealed medical condition. Liz is in disbelief at Kirk's claims and doesn't trust him. So Kirk takes her to the house he claimed she grew up in, near Nova Scotia. When the FBI rescued her, Kirk decides to continue his revenge on Red by keeping Agnes from him. Red reveals why Kirk had kidnapped both Liz and Agnes in the first place. As the Rostov males suffered a rare form of cancer, Kirk intended to use Liz to go through the blood transfusion and hoping that in doing so, he could replenish his already low blood cells. Liz attempts to save Kirk through the transfusion he needs from her but the DNA test performed by the hospital reveals that Kirk is not her father. Angered by the fact that he lied to her and sent her falsified DNA transcripts, Liz abandons Kirk. Kirk escapes the hospital with Liz and is upset to learn he really isn't her father. Kirk trades Liz for Red though the person he sends to release Liz safely tries to kill her, saying that Kirk used to be a good man until he saw her on TV on the run from the Cabal and became obsessed with her. Liz is rescued by Ressler and Samar and with Aram's help, tracks down Kirk's location. Kirk tortures Red who confesses to being Liz's father and brings Kirk a cure. Kirk decides to kill Red rather than release him in exchange for the cure and the two men reminisce over Katarina Rostova. As Kirk goes to kill Red, Red whispers something in his ear that causes Kirk to stop. Both men disappear from Kirk's lab afterwards and later that night, Red tells Liz that Kirk is "gone". When Liz asks if Kirk is dead, all Red will say is that Kirk is gone with no further explanation.
-- TOP 5 SEASON 5 --
1. Ian Garvey
Jonny Coyne
United States Marshals Service / Member of the Nash Drug Syndicate
Ian Garvey knows about the suitcase with bones and wants to them in his possession so that he has leverage over Red. Somehow Garvey knows that Pete McGee, who is working together with Tom and Nik Korpal, ran a search through CODIS for the DNA on the bones. Nik Korpal goes to Pete’s apartment and he’s surprised that the front door is open. He enters the apartment and calls for his old classmate, then starts looking at the computer. Somebody comes up from behind him and strangles Korpal to death with a wire. As Nik’s limp body falls to the floor, we see a hooded man grab the suitcase and leave the apartment. Tom hears from Liz that Nik is dead and starts Looking for Pete. He gets help from Pete's girlfriend Lena Mercer. Ian Garvey sends men to capture Pete McGee but finds Tom and Lena instead. He holds them hostage and after further deliberation kills Pete and Lena, leaving Tom alive so he can contact Red. Garvey gets him to call Red and tell him that he “did what you hired me to do,” but Red already has his spy outside of Garvey’s hideout. Unfortunately, Red is still 20 minutes away and Tom is basically swimming in a pool of his former accomplices’ blood now. So when Garvey and most of his guards leave to go meet Red at the dummy location Tom gave him, Tom manages to use a wood-chipped scrap of Lena’s necklace to cut his zip-tie binds, take down a handful of guards, and set out into the woods. Garvey and his men follow Tom, who got in the car with Red and Dembe, to the farmhouse, ready to kill Tom and Red and take back the suitcase with the bones. Dembe runs over the guy outside, Red shoots everyone in their path out to the car, and Tom whips up a couple of Molotov cocktails to throw in their vehicles on the way out. Tom leaves Red and Deme and contacts Liz and tells her to come to the apartment. Liz rushes into their apartment, where she finds Tom tied up and bloodied, with Garvey and his men waiting to do the same to her. She puts up a solid fight but they get her subdued too. Garvey demands that Tom calls Red. Tom won't do that and Garvey stabs him in his abdomen and Liz gets punched in the face, sending her to the ground where she slams the back of her head. Once Garvey knows he won’t get anything else from them, he leaves with what he came for, the bones and tells his men to finish the Keens off and clean up. Garvey disappears with the suitcase and we don't know where he currently is and if he still has the suitcase. Later, Garvey kills Norman Singleton, who identified Garvey as Damascus. Liz identifies Garvey later at the crime scene. Garvey unsuccessfully attempts to take control of a witness, who saw him murder Singleton. Using the bones as leverage, Red is forced to abduct the witness. Even though Red succeeds, he tells Garvey that if he tries to use Liz as leverage, he will kill him. Garvey attempts to take Liz hostage after trying to locate the witness. The attempt failed due to Red finding out about his plans and had Dembe and his men rescue them. Garvey is shot multiple times by Keen and Dembe after he tries to kill Red. Keen treats Garvey's wounds and calls for an ambulance as she doesn't want Garvey to die without revealing the truth behind the bones to her. Though Garvey is rushed to the hospital, his wounds are severe, possibly even fatal. His attempt to tell Liz the truth fails as the bleeding becomes critical. Garvey died of his injuries during a conversation between Red and Liz. However, Liz is unhappy as Garvey's knowledge of what was in the duffle bag died with him.
2. Henry Prescott
James Carpinello
Henry Prescott is a cleaner hired to dispose of bodies accidentally or intentionally killed by the victims. His services was used by Red to help the Task Force get them Reven Wright's body as evidence to strengthen Ressler's case against Hitchin and forced her to help whitewash the Grand Jury to throw off Kaplan and Julian Gale. Prescott's services were later used by Ressler under the pseudonym of Frank Sturgeon to dispose of Hitchin's body after he accidentally kills her. Upon discovering Ressler's true identity, Prescott blackmails him for favors if he wants his secret to remain under wraps. He calls Ressler for a favor in relocating a package inside a car. Prescott mentions that should he refuse, he will expose Ressler's secret and he will go to jail for the murder of Laurel Hitchin. While pursuing a criminal associated Prescott calls Ressler again, warning him if he pursue his clients, he will call off the deal and Ressler will go to jail. With Red's help, Ressler discovers Prescott's real name is Mitchell Hatley and and decides to arrest him even though it means that Ressler himself will go to prison when Hatley exposes him. Hatley attempts to run, but is hit with a car door by Red. Though Hatley urges Ressler to kill him, Ressler places Hatley under arrest. While being transported in a prison van, the van is attacked by Red. Once the drivers are safely away, Reddington sets the van on fire with Hatley inside, killing him. Hatley's files are recovered and used by the FBI to arrest his various clients.
3. Detective Norman Singleton
Evan Parke
Norman Singleton is a NYPD officer. He is investigating Tom Keen's death. He has Liz investigated. After learning about her plans to track down Tom's murderers,
Singleton convinces her to let him assist her in it. Singleton is killed by Garvey after he finds out the truth that Tom was killed by Ian Garvey.
4. Joe 'Smokey' Putnum
Michael Aronov
Joe Putnam aka Smokey Putnam is the first member of Red's new team which he needs to rebuild his empire after Mr. Kaplan took everything away from him. Red is going to a bail bondsman’s office and asks him for a job as a bounty hunter. Red arranges that, in exchange for $40,000, he’ll track down a man wanted for embezzling over $2 million from a carnival company and deliver him to his court hearing in two days. That man is Smokey Putnam, and though he is not a Blacklister like the Post Office needs, he will provide what Red needs: rent money. Red and Liz go looking for Smokey in Kentucky. There they meet two carnies who speak in a secret carnie language. They say they don’t know where Smokey is now, but they think it couldn’t have just been him embezzling the money because his boss Ms. Hawkins always counted the books, and she’s the one who cut the deal to testify against Smokey. Liz spots a photo of Smokey and a woman who turns out to be his girlfriend, Tammy Lynn. Tammy Lynn’s ceiling, upon inquiry via a few of Red’s carefully shot bullets, turns out to contain Smokey Putnam. With Smokey in tow, Red and Liz begin an exciting road trip back from Kentucky to D.C. Apparently, the carnival where Smokey worked has a side hustle of laundering money for a massive drug cartel. And that was the money Smokey decided to run off with. He tells Red if they just let him go, he’ll happily write him a check for his 40 grand because if they turn him in and he’s convicted, he will most certainly be killed by the cartel in prison. Red says no dice, but since their car was rammed to smithereens, he does treat Smokey and Liz to a bus ride to the Cincinnati Amtrak station. Unfortunately, the cartel creeps are listening in to the phone call Red makes to his boss and intersect them in Cincinnati. Red knows exactly where they’ll take Smokey as, in a ploy to gain his freedom, Smokey told Red where he’d hidden the embezzled cash. Red hot-wires a car, and they intercept the cartel in a warehouse in Richmond. Red tells him if he takes his money and leaves them, then Smokey will keep the cartel’s name out of his mouth in the trial. If he doesn’t take the money and leave, Red will shoot him. The cartel takes the money. Smokey seems to have endeared himself to Liz, but with Red’s insistence and one more ill-fated escape attempt, Liz helps hand him over to the authorities for his hearing and Red’s payday. Red didn’t tell Liz that the plan all along was to pay off a guard at Ms. Hawkins’ prison to put her into a fake prison transport vehicle, delivering her to Red rather than to the courthouse to testify against Smokey. That at some point in this caper, Red came up with a plan to make Ms. Hawkins, a top-notch money launderer, and Smokey, a logistics and tactics expert of carnie proportions, the first new team members of his new criminal empire.
5. Dr. Sharon Fulton
Martha Plimpton
Dr. Sharon Fulton is a psychiatrist working for the FBI. She needs to determine if Liz is ready to return back to work after Tom's death and her coma. Dr. Fulton tells Liz that she’s holding back, and she’s afraid of admitting stuff to Fulton and to herself. She says that until Liz is ready to do a profile on herself, as she would a subject, she can’t approve of her reinstatement. When Liz is after the Capricorn killer, he gets her alone in a cabin and Dr. Fulton walks out with something she wants to share. Liz is utterly confused by this. Dr. Fulton starts explaining how she kills serial killers and wants Liz on her side. Dr. Fulton wants her to kill a man that was a part of an old case of hers that killed a kid with a pillow and in return will give her reinstatement to the FBI. Liz refuses. Quickly Ressler and Samar arrive as Dr. Fulton rushes to the woods unseen. Liz catches up with her ready to report what happened but alas decides to let Dr. Fulton escape.
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Last edited by Miranda; 09-23-2018 at 11:43 AM
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