List of The Blacklist characters
When Liz is framed by the cabal for the assassination of Senator Hawkins, Reddington counters by gathering 11 of the world's top investigative journalists and giving them the information contained in the Fulcrum.
Red works to meet with the president-elect, to whose campaign he contributed in exchange for his help with the Alexander Kirk situation, and is eventually able to secure a presidential pardon for Liz killing Tom Connolly.
When Red tries to claim that she helped build his syndicate tight, Kaplan reminds him that she is the one who knows where the bodies of the people he had killed are buried, and that she hid them from the FBI over the years, including that of Diane Fowler.
[4] In "Rassvet", Dominic Wilkinson claims that Liz killed the real Raymond Reddington as a child, an event she had remembered in "Tom Connoly" and thought was Alexander Kirk.
He further asserts that the man she knows as Raymond Reddington is "Ilya Koslov", a childhood friend of Katarina Rostova's (Wilkinson's daughter), who believed her to be the love of his life.
Liz shot her father to protect her mother, but the Fulcrum was lost and believed to have been destroyed in the fire, while Reddington died of his wounds despite Katarina and Ilya's best efforts.
In "Raymond Reddington: Good Night", hunted by the FBI again and growing increasingly ill, Red visits a villa in Spain to perform one last personal mission before allowing a bull to maul him to death so as to go out on his own terms.
Local police investigate Ames's murder and have enough evidence to arrest Liz for her involvement, but she is saved by the intervention of Reddington, Cooper, then-assistant AG Connolly, and Tom himself.
After shooting Tom Connolly upon learning of his involvement with the faking of Cooper's cancer and the cabal's sinister intentions for the other agents on the task force, Elizabeth is now a fugitive on the FBI's most-wanted list.
The Director and Laurel Hitchin attempt to prevent this by transferring Liz to an undisclosed location due to her supposedly having terrorist connections and then nearly suffocating her when Aram changes the box's door code.
Later on, after taking her to the apartment where she lives, Liz is surprised when she learns Lillian was put in the Witness Protection Program by Garvey because of Red's past abuse of her mother Naomi and her.
In "Dr. Bogdan Krilov", Ressler follows an anonymous tip on Reven Wright's disappearance that leads to a woman living with her sister who has claimed she saw Hitchin order some men carrying a rolled carpet.
She persuades Aram to stand down, but in the process, he buys enough time for Cynthia Panabaker, the White House counsel, to arrive and transfer Liz to a federal courthouse under Ressler's direct supervision.
Portrayed by Ryan Eggold Thomas Vincent Keen, born Christopher Hargrave (Blacklister number 7), is Elizabeth's husband, an elementary school teacher who turns out to be a covert operative working for Berlin.
Apparently, Tom was recruited at the age of 14 (he was then known as Jacob Phelps) by a blacklister known as the Major (Lance Henriksen) due to the combination of sociopathy and extreme talent and spent the better part of the next 20 years as a deep-cover operative for various criminal enterprises.
Portrayed by Parminder Nagra Meera Malik is a CIA field agent assigned to Reddington's security detail at the personal request of Diane Fowler.
Portrayed by Hisham Tawfiq Dembe Zuma (Blacklister number 10), Reddington's trusted and loyal bodyguard, driver, body man and confidant, is introduced as a Muslim former freedom fighter from South Sudan.
Dembe tells Cooper that he had already decided to get out of a life where he is always in front of or behind guns and sadly reflects on the end of the Task Force, death and the adventure that they had all shared because of Red being in their lives.
He visits Peter Kotsiopulos' office as a representative of the Cabal, reprimanding the Director for his inability to prevent Reddington from releasing the Fulcrum and threatening that continued failure would mean his life.
Joanna P. Adler in flashbacks Ron Perlman Portrayed by Goran Ivanovski, Renne Gjoni, James Biberi and Stivi Paskoski The Pavlovich brothers (Blacklisters No.
His employer paid him to plant evidence that blamed the raid on Peruvian insurgent organization Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, Communist Party of Peru, Partido Comunista del Perú).
At some point, he and Raymond Reddington worked together, though the alliance ended in 2008 when Garrick gave the FBI his train number and itinerary for a stop at Waterloo station in Brussels.
In the first season, she poses as Red's widow to steal 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 (leaving the first note).
After they threatened him to kill Elizabeth if he didn't talk about his motives for his infiltration, Tom and makes a deal: in exchange for Liz would not be their target, he reveals his assignment: he's going to help them solve the murder of a woman named Sarah Hastings, who was affiliated to the Germans, which is the main reason they want revenge for her death.
He faked his own death after carrying out his very first bomb attack, adopted the pseudonym "Zal Bin Hasaan", and began a career as a feared and vicious terrorist in the service of the Iranian regime.
Using knowledge gleaned from her surveillance, she finds and kidnaps "Frank Bloom", addressing him as Ilya Koslov and torturing him for information on an attempt on her life he helped engineer years ago in Belgrade.
At the beginning of "Lawrence Devlin", Red learns from Joe that the duffel bag containing the unidentified bones that Reddington is seeking is in Costa Rica with a man who was claimed to be deceased, but is alive due to Garvey keeping him in Witness Protection.
28) is a Russian hacker and deep cover SVR double agent, codenamed Rakitin, who uses his security clearance within the U.S. government to funnel top secret intelligence to N-13 through Ivan Stepanov.
Portrayed by Lukas Hassel (Season 8) Elias VanDyke was a proud, loyal enforcer in Neville Townsend’s organization who carried out their operations and led highly trained teams on regular missions.
The Cabal is a powerful clandestine organization, a shadow government orchestrating assassinations and international conflicts, responsible for many key events in the series, from the arson at Elizabeth Keen's former house to the bombing in Kurzk for which Milos Kirchoff (Berlin) was framed.
