The Blacklist - 1x15: "THE JUDGE" Episode Discussion Thread (03/03/14 @ 10PM)

***One Thing Remains*** · 07-30-2014, 10:52 PM

1x15 | The Judge
E P I S O D E DISCUSSION T H R E A D

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episode synopsis

AN EYE FOR AN EYE - When a prominent Prosecutor is found after being missing for 12 years Red believes that this is the work of Ruth Kipling also known as "The Judge." Only a myth, the Judge runs an underground criminal appeals process in which those who have wrongly imprisoned and punished others are judged and punished themselves. Meanwhile, Red investigates the woman who tempts Tom while in Orlando at a teacher’s conference.

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 08-11-2014, 02:07 AM

Lance Reddick, a fantastic actor!
Red is asking this cowboy to find out more about Jolene. My question is Red is pursuing her because of her connection to Tom/Berlin? I think the numbered code we saw from earlier in the season is Jolene's code but who gave that code to Red?
Tbh, this SL with The Judge is not holding my interest.
Oh wow, a connection to Cooper? Of course he won't budge when Liz comes to him.
Damn, Tom & Jolene both won't crack. They are good at this. And I really hate Jolene.
The Kiplings have their own prison cell where they feed the prisoners. What?
Jolene is following Red? Berlin is also two steps ahead!
Whoah. Dianne Wiest slapping Harry Lennix!
Red saved Cooper's ass on this one. Close call for him!
I take it Red was sent in because he knew information about Ruth's past as being part of the Blacklist but I don't see why she's part of this list.
Haha, Red strikes a deal with Cooper for saving his life.
Jolene finally reveals her true colors and so did Tom. There's a ray of hope as he admits that he does love Liz.

I thought this was a filler ep. I wasn't really interested about the Kiplings and Cooper's connection to them. I was more interested with Red getting close to finding out more about Jolene and of course that ending with Jolene & Tom and her finally saying to him that Liz was his target.

Miranda · 07-27-2015, 12:11 PM

Wow this only has two posts..

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1x15 | The Judge
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AN EYE FOR AN EYE - When a prominent Prosecutor is found after being missing for 12 years Red believes that this is the work of Ruth Kipling also known as "The Judge." Only a myth, the Judge runs an underground criminal appeals process in which those who have wrongly imprisoned and punished others are judged and punished themselves. Meanwhile, Red investigates the woman who tempts Tom while in Orlando at a teacher’s conference.

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Discuss & Enjoy!

Lauren Helen Graham · 07-27-2015, 12:52 PM

Yeah, it really only has... I was kind of shocked by that, too. I hadn't even bumped it when I re-did all the OPs because there were no posters for this one anymore. Glad it's bumped now, lets give that episode some love.

But somehow that was one of the episodes that I liked the least of season 1... Nothing storyline related happened, did there? Okay, one thing did, we got introduced to Tom Connolly but that was it really...

Miranda · 07-28-2015, 12:38 PM

Yes that was the only major thing from this episode that Tom Connelly was introduced and that he and Cooper did something back when they were in the Marines or the military?

The rest of the episode was pretty boring to me. Besides the fact that Jolene revealed who she really was!

Lauren Helen Graham · 07-28-2015, 12:57 PM

I have no clue where exactly they have been before...

Wasn't it when they were in their nowadays profession already?

Was it in that episode that we found out who Jolene really is? Then it's the episode with the restroom encounter between Jolene and Tom, right?

***One Thing Remains*** · 07-28-2015, 10:14 PM

Oh wow!! I had completely forgotten that Tom Connelly was introduced in season one. I thought we didn't see him until season two.

Lauren Helen Graham · 07-31-2015, 12:20 PM

Yeah, we really did see him before and I definitely have to re-watch the episode to get to know more about him and his past with Cooper. I recalled that we had seen him before when he first re-appeared in season 2 but I couldn't recall too much anymore. It's great how they built a storyarc over two seasons

Miranda · 08-05-2015, 11:18 AM

Yes this was the episode where Tom and Jolene made out in the bathroom of the hotel the were staying at during their teacher conference. When Jolene gave Tom a key card to her room and he went there she revealed her true colors.

"Elizabeth Keen is not your wife, she's your target".

Lauren Helen Graham · 08-05-2015, 12:12 PM

Yeah, that part I somehow recall really well because I thought that was the most important about the episode... And it was for season 1. But in the bigger picture the Connolly part was even more important for season 2.

Funny, right? How easy I misjudged what's important and what is not.

Miranda · 08-07-2015, 07:43 AM

Based on this episode I never imagined that Connolly would be so important in S2. I thought he was just an old co worker of Cooper and that he only was important to the story because of what they did to some guy way back in the day.

Lauren Helen Graham · 08-08-2015, 09:00 AM

But now it really makes sense... Connolly definitely had potential, you could tell by the way he threatened Liz. That was bad and Cooper did nothing about it which was worse...

Miranda · 08-08-2015, 02:12 PM

He threatened Liz? In what way? cause I can't remember that.

Lauren Helen Graham · 08-16-2015, 06:13 AM

Liz told Cooper and him that she'd make it public that they had been involved in illegal things and Connolly told her that she should go ahead but could be sure that her career would be done if she decided to do that.

Miranda · 08-16-2015, 11:11 AM

She did? I really don't recall that. Thanks for refreshing my memory Kris.


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