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The Apothecary is a master of deadly toxins, with a side of genetics as well. Using their unique medical makeup, The Apothecary targets his victims to the point of paralysis or even death. Unfortunately for Raymond Reddington someone has hired the Apothecary to concoct a toxin so deadly it will end Red’s escapades and life once and for all. Luckily Liz and the task force are on the case to save this criminals life only to find a shocking twist in the biggest who done it case since the movie Clue. Could Red’s assassin be within his inner circle? I guess It depends if you believe it was done by one of them, in Red’s Flat, with the scotch.

We also spend a few minutes discussing this week’s premiere of The Blacklist: Redemption. Are you excited to see Mr. Solomon back? Did you love Dumont’s little gizmos? Is Scottie Hargrave as ruthless and cunning as ever. We talk about what worked and what didn’t as we prepare for the blacklist hiatus. We will return April 15th with a mega Redemption Review on the entire season so keep your thoughts and theories coming as well discuss all things The Blacklist Redemption then.

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The team takes on a personal mission that's rescuing a United States journalist. 

 "Kevin Jensen" opens a personal mission for Scottie that dives into why she wants to get the team into rescuing Jensen. Learning that she's his aunt and that her son Christopher hung out with each other too so it also got personal for Keen too. 

  The mission seemed to go like any other mission but when Rom brings in a moving truck to the broader of the country, they spot the secret of hidden guns, Tom bails leaving the team with no guns at all. 

  Scottie gets in touch with a friend over there and after talking him to agree with a deal (agreeing to give his daughter (who can't sing) a record deal). But when Tom and the gang sees the box that was suppose to be full of guns was just a couple of automatics and handguns not enough, but Tom comes up with a plan of getting in as one of the soldiers and rescue Jensen inside. 

 Keen and Solomon goes in and after getting Jensen, things take a turn and Nez had to come in and rescue them. Hiding from the cops, they wait til they get the word of heading to the US Embassy, but Jensen needs his laptop and notes at his place, something that he's been working on so hard and while the group was talking he escapes to get his stuff.  

  Putting everyone there at risk, Keen and the gang gets Jensen back and tries to make it to the Embassy but a roadblock is in front of them and hits them. Tom, with a concussion, gets Jensen out, who's hurt pretty badly. As they get Jensen in the Embassy, Tom goes back and gets his laptop but when he comes up to Jensen, laying on the ground as CPR is performed, Jensen is dead. Not only does it hurt Tom but it puts Scottie in an emotional state that we've never seen her before. 

 Scottie and Tom meet with the Secretary of State and others and is informed that Jensen was working for the CIA as an agent pretending to be a journalist over there. And that Jensen's mother will never know what he has done, Scottie didn't even tell her about it. 

 I thought that this episode was pretty good. It did show us Scottie's personal and emotional side, for which I enjoyed watching since this lady seemed to be a cold person from the start. There were some good moments and humorist moments too, mostly from Eggold, Gathegi and Martinez. The writing was good as well. Overall I give this episode a 8/10.

Quotes From The Blacklist: Redemption Season 1 Episode 8 “Whitehall: Conclusion” Between:

Terry O'Quinn as Howard Hargrave, founder of Halcyon Aegis, and Tom Keen's father.

I've decided to combine both episodes together because I just felt it needed that and it was a two part episode too.

In the episode "Whitehall," after Scottie learns of Tom's true identity, she brings him to get information on what he knows. That's what I call a family reunion. As Solomon torches Tom for some time, beating the crap out of him, Tom escapes and meets up with Howard, who escapes as well. 

Howard and Tom work together trying to get to Whitehall. We finally learned that Whitehall isn't a blueprint at all but a person that's being held from Scottie in a undisclosed location. Tom and Howard breaks in and gets Whitehall out but is stopped by Solomon and Nez. Nez double crosses Solomon as he takes Whitehall but Howard, Tom and Nez got the suitcase and soon Howard comes out of the shadows to bring down Scottie saying that she's out of her mind on national television.

In the second episode "Whitehall: Concussion,"   Howard sets up a plan for Tom and Nez to break in the Halycon while he comes in meeting with the board members about this whole mess that he called on television. Things were going well until Solomon gets Whitehall out and Scottie during a lock down and heads off but soon Whitehall is captured by Tom and Nez while Scottie and Solomon escapes. 

As the tables turns, things become clearer and clearer that maybe we got the wrong person thinking that they're good. When Scottie looked at the project she sees that she was the one that set the project up but she knows she didn't even after looking at the paper work. Soon Tom and Nez comes in and takes her down while Solomon escapes once again. 

Scottie is taken in to custody and things were looking good until Scottie's assistant, Kat comes to find out that Scottie was telling the truth and that the guy that they have been both seeing a buffed up therapist, who was really working with Howard and his team. Making it that Howard was the guy not to trust, which makes Scottie the one who's telling the truth and we see that Howard and Whitehall were teaming together and sees their project coming together leaving at that.

I thought this was one hell of two episodes, thank god it was a separated and not made into a two hour event, for which I would have loved too. The show really tied almost everything but left things in the open that I really want a second season. PLEASE NBC RENEW THIS SERIES!!!! Terry O'Quinn was very, very good in these two episodes and really played Howard so well that I really thought he was the good guy in all of this, boy did he really play us. Even Janssen was amazing as well. The writing was so so solid and can't say enough about the acting as I just did.  But I do want to give a shout out to Theodora Miranne, who really shined in the season finale episode and that I hope if the show comes back that she'll come back. 

Overall, I give this two part season finale 8.5/10 and the season a 8/10.

"Boreals 301"

When Tom and the team face terror, they'll have to go up in the sky to capture them in the act. 

When a group of military men of thieves try to steal classified material, Tom and Solomon goes undercover to find them before it's too late and they'll have to find these men on an airplane. Things get a bit dicey for the two guys as things went south. But they didn't know that the classified would be a person, who happens to be kidnapped by someone who wants to win her back.

As Tom saves the plane from going down, Solomon jumped out with one of their men and tries to get him to speak. Just watching Solomon talk is like watching Reddington tell a story as it's just well entertained. 

Tom and the team finds Solomon and soon traced the others as well, saving the classified person. 

Meanwhile, Howard gets Tom to find one of Scottie's folder that has information of the mission of Whitehall. Tom couldn't find it at first but after the mission when he tries to talk to her, he spots a comic book and soon leaves and buys the same comic book and uses it to decoded the message left on there which proves Howard's theory that Scottie is a bad person but by the time Tom figured it out Solomon captured Howard. 

 This was a very good episode. This was a very well entertained, well written too. I couldn't get enough of Solomon and Tom scenes as they're just filled the screen with memorable moments. I'm still in the middle of who to trust now that it seems Howard is telling the truth about Scottie. I feel like a ping pong ball that hasn't gone out yet. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

"Hostages"

With a family held hostage to get someone back, Tom and the gang must save and bring the person the kidnappers want back. But that was just the tip of the ice berg here as there's more. 

A wealthy family gets kidnapped from professional kidnappers and for exchange the leader wanted one of the guys that was captured by the government. Tom and the team try to do what they do to satisfied them til they find the guy they are asking for and who they were asking for was a man who happens to be the kidnapper's brother. 

Tom find the man and tries talking to the man to come and that he'll be safe. As they make the exchange, Tom tries to follow them but after losing them, they found a better way of tracking as the kid took their cell phone. 

Tom, Nez and Solomon made they're way into the warehouse where the guy was being held up and the shocking thing was that the man that coordinated this was the family's lawyer, what a twist. They swept in and saved their guy and the man's brother helped too. 

But this episode really took off when Tom tries his best to save Howard from the hospital that Scottie. Tom breaks in and tries to get Howard out but he gets caught and soon Scottie figures out who's working with Howard and got him out that she even went to Howard and demanded answers about Tom til he tells her that Tom is her son. She freaks and tries calling off the hit from Solomon on Tom and after the third time telling Solomon he does. 

This episode was so so good, mostly because of how Scottie learns Tom is working with Howard and that he's her son. I thought that was so good and eve intense as well. Of course, it was great to see Cooper on the show, I can't wait to see him when The Blacklist returns. I thought this was Jansen's best performance on the show so far. The writing was good for that storyline. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.