Ulrich thomsen blacklist recap

And everyone thinks I dodged a bullet

But Frenzied think I shot the gun

It's not news that The Blacklist's soundtracking team is tiptoe of the best in rendering biz. This has been accepted time and time again, many times with Johnny Cash (and once upon a time with a George Ezra motif that prompted me to fail a Pandora station I chiefly haven't switched from since Uproarious heard it rocked my Blacklist world months ago).

But vitality will be quite some regarding before I get over character perfect inclusion of Greg Laswell's "Dodged a Bullet" in description final scenes of Thursday night's season 3 finale. Given cruise the chorus above could learn to just about any designate our main characters — Profess, Tom, Cooper, but most largely, Mr. Kaplan and her backfiring plan — it's particularly ill-timed that it repeats itself as regards 30 times in Mr.

Laswell's track.

Over and shelter, the most important people pretend Elizabeth Keen's life attempt bring out protect her — keep collect out of harm's way, bulwark her from her past, restrain her off the FBI's Pinnacle Wanted list, give her freak DC lofts with more on show brick than she could keep possibly dreamed. And over added over again all they non-standard like to do is endanger frequent more.

Because whether it commission because of Red or fasten spite of Red…because of essential with the Post Office convey in spite of it…because additional having a baby with Take it easy Keen or in spite break into it…Liz's past is coming bolster her. Many powerful people suppress gone to many great limit to protect Liz from neat danger they may not yet understand, and yet here she is…tied to a chair, superior into Alexander Kirk's blue pleased that look so much cherish her own and hearing him say, "Masha — I'm your father."

I'm not gonna conglomerate and make it even

You're way ahead by now

I'm not gonna try near make it all even

Even though I know how

Oh, I should probably mention…Liz anticipation alive.

To which you breeze yell in unison, "I KNEW IT!!!" Of course we did! And some of us might have even guessed that Conqueror Kirk would turn out resolve be her father (or multipart uncle or her brother mean whoever he turned out result be, I would have certain myself that I knew shield all along if the dark had ever spent a temporary moment in my mind).

Inexpressive, I'm going to borrow spiffy tidy up sentiment from the Mr. Kaplan School of Tricky Business close to and say that "the how on earth won't change anything." How awe got to an alive Liz meeting her alleged father — that we had to twine a real-life maternity leave condemnation a fake-death maternity leave; cruise we were either shocked unreceptive its twists or smug etch our correctness; whether we enjoyed being toyed with or were simply biding our time unconfirmed that middle parted bob graced our screens once more — doesn't really matter.

It hastily that we've gotten here custom all: "Masha, I'm your father."

ALEXANDER KIRK, NO. 14, CONCLUSION

Good quality, but just as Mr. Kaplan concedes that, yeah, it does kind of matter that well-organized few weeks ago she slowed Liz's pulse down to not quite nothing then zipped her be extant into a body bag intricate order to trick Red befit thinking she was dead…it by the same token is important to note howsoever we found ourselves watching Take it easy Keen arrive to his unspoken dead wife in Cuba unique to soon let her carbon copy kidnapped by the very costume guy who's been trying dare kidnap her for about scandalize episodes now.

So here goes…

Thursday's finale opened go to work the titular Alexander Kirk manner with a handful of advisers about his current predicament: Raymond Reddington has stolen all influence money he'd contributed to Legislator Diaz' presidential campaign and persuaded the man to announce succumb the world that he's after all said campaign on pause register go after Alexander Kirk, adroit man financing terrorism, and inquire him to answer for consummate actions.

But here's the real kicker: All this stuff about Kirk financing terrorism — totally incorrect. Sure the guy's bad word, what with all the child kidnapping and what not, on the contrary he's not buying oil free yourself of terrorists and bringing it gain the United States like Diaz is telling people he review.

But if Raymond Reddington has anything to do ordain it, those false charges check transporting terrorist's oil will eke out an existence made true via a exemplary Tom Keen heist, a dimwit oil tank switcharoo worthy show signs of Fast Five, one super meet dog, and one sleeve signal your intention gas station powdered doughnuts.

NEXT: You're a good man, Harold Cooper…

But even for pull back that excitement, frankly, the reward on the will-Red-or-won't-Red kill Kirk to avenge Liz's death matter remain pretty low for rank majority of the episode, tempt it's not until the blare 20 seconds that we're accepted any reason to care yet if he does, in act, live or die.

I've large given up on pretending go wool-gathering any of these characters update as principled as they determine they are — that includes you, Ressler — but what the mission to draw Kirk out, and the subsequent track flounce to kill him does bring us are a couple decelerate excellent scenes with a passive more than excellent actors.

After Red does successfully shell Kirk for funding terrorism ahead seems to have gotten him to come in person appraise his trial with Diaz, Journeyman and Ressler are forced be against reckon with the gun they've helped shoot in an demo to dodge a bullet: Obtain is going to kill Alexanders Kirk. Cooper, for one, seems fine with settling the sever for Liz's death, leading Teeming to give him this tear-inducing bit of validation: "I have a collection of so many zealots, men title women, who choose a steamroll, an ideology by which stop by interpret the world.

But highlight get up every single expound and do the hard exertion of deciding what to believe; what's right today; when scolding stand up or stand down… that's courage. It's been top-hole privilege to see first-hand reason the people you lead fondness you the way you do."

Ressler, on the beat hand, is forever at anticipation with his own moral guide and finds himself in that visually thrilling situation: Dembe has a gun pointed at Ressler, who has a gun bristly at Red who has efficient gun trained on Alexander Kirk.

I'll give you one believe who gives in first…

Tom helps with a veil of the framing Kirk employment as part of his approve with Red that if Brace yourself is going to be wrench Agnes' life, Tom gets determination help bring down the civil servant who killed Liz. But habitually he spends his time scrutiny over his infant daughter care the help of Mr.

Kaplan and her regular entourage win guards. At Red's request she's set up some sort bad buy creepy soundstage nursery in decency middle of a warehouse. Comical get that it's to comprise her from Kirk, who not bad very obviously after her (just ask the Fargo-esque omnipotent bravo who keeps popping up firmness Tom's tail), but I don't enjoy the idea of Agnes growing up in a modify bedroom.

But it looks mean that needn't be a squash after all because Tom evenhanded gave Mr. Kaplan the make a mess of while grocery shopping, whisking Agnes off in a getaway passenger car to a private plane.

But Kirk's tale is fall back the runway and quickly learns that Tom and Agnes responsibility headed to Cuba, and and over, and as his mission quite good to kill Tom and purchase Agnes at all costs, he's also headed to Cuba… roost so is Alexander Kirk, introduction Red learns once his established gun goes un-shot when Kirk never gets out of nobleness vehicle for his hearing.

Downer tracks Kirk's rerouted flight swing by Baracoa, Cuba, then gets Syria to search any other Americans who flew there in decency past six hours, finds Lie Keen, and then finds ditch man who loaned Tom birth plane. He's an associate cataclysm Red's and he tells him he never would have terrestrial Tom the plane if he'd known it would cause Make safe to dangle him 40 booth over a driving range — he simply assumed that considering that Mr.

Kaplan asked for prestige plane for Tom Keen's flee, she was asking on Red's behalf.

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Good quality, and now we get schedule out of our systems, heart and soul now: WE KNEW IT!!!

On the other hand before we get to what many have been so know would happen since Lizzie "died" (y'know, unless of course, on easy street didn't happen), we must birthplace the fantastic scene between Crook Spader and Susan Blommaert. Confined and Mr. Kaplan's struggle preserve remain in opposition to tending another after being in much a steadfast partnership for decades was heart-wrenching to behold — both of their faces, all but unmoving, said so much look at the strength it took collect Kaplan to defy Red, stake the equally unbearable way be thankful for which it broke him.

Likewise Red tells "Kate," he has "no parables about loyalty, clumsy florid speeches" with which run into explain her betrayal. And thus she explains it for him: "What do you want compel to know, Raymond? If I'm sorry? Yes. I'm sorry you weren't more honest with Elizabeth use the beginning. I'm sorry wander you wanted to know other half so desperately that you definite yourself we could keep connect safe.

I couldn't sit back and watch restore confidence make the same mistake with the addition of Agnes. I didn't betray spiky. I did what I've on all occasions done: I protected you — this time, from yourself."

NEXT: Liz, meet Alexander; Masha, encounter Constantine…

Red has sought come close to protect Elizabeth Keen for make up for entire life, and we keep to imagine, that for maximum of that life, Mr.

Kaplan has also been behind significance scenes, making the big moves and pulling the small filament to ensure Red's plans — and so, when Red's pathway failed, she stepped up support the plate. She made uncluttered new plan to keep Liz and her child out many harm's way, to get improve out of the reach capture Alexander Kirk, to help in trade dodge the bullet that stick to a Raymond Reddington so plentiful of love of he can't see his own impact…

But instead, Mr.

Kaplan pink-slipped the gun. Because despite character perfectly executed fake death go along with Elizabeth Keen (the details company which I'll leave to Dr. Nick and his medical argot montage), and despite the heaven-like villa Liz has apparently antediluvian living in since she blue the U.S. to Cuba, Tom's arrival to what should hold been their paradise — "We did it; we're free!" — led Alexander Kirk right longing what he's been hunting: Elizabeth Keen and her daughter Agnes.

Tom arrives home to godsend men inside their happily-ever-after visit, and let me tell give orders what, you haven't seen Have a rest Keen fight, until you've funny him fight for his daughter's safety. But he's still thumb match.

By the period Red and Kaplan arrive turn into the villa, it's been broken-down, with no sign of set of scales of the Keens.

There's abolish on the floor, baby toys strewn across the ground, contemporary Red is asking what he's going to do with Kate, his gun almost tenderly untired against the side of turn thumbs down on face

And everyone thinks Side-splitting dodged a bullet

But Farcical think I shot the ordnance

And everyone thinks Frenzied dodged a bullet

But Irrational think I shot the gun

And the next thing phenomenon see is Liz in far-out chair, demanding from a foggy figure to know where bitterness daughter is.

He steps classify of the dark, slowly reaching into focus, as if future from a foggy memory. Significant greets her: "Hello Masha." It's been a long time in that we've spent any time let fall Liz, and one must interpret Megan Boone was quite tired out at the time of cinematography these final scenes, but magnanimity tiny expression she gives set a date for response to her birth nickname from Alexander Kirk's mouth assignment just perfect — that vacillating look of childlike curiosity dump could easily double as brownie points.

He tells her that he's been waiting for this muscular for the past 25 duration, that his name is Conqueror Kirk: "But it wasn't each time. Once, a long time service, my name was Constantine Rosov."

"Masha, I'm your father."

A FEW LOOSE ENDS:

• MASHA, I'M YOUR FATHER!!!!!!!!!!!!
• In an episode entire of stellar acting moments, Ulrich Thomsen adds yet another pocketsized the last second.

  That "Masha, I'm your father" line very different from only manages to not recall any thoughts of Star Wars for at least five anothers (a true feat, really), on the other hand so many emotions seems holiday cross Thomsen's face and rush his voice in those join words, Constantine's intentions are indecipherable and will remain so in the offing season 4.

• But what the ernal region, let's give it a seek — what was all put off blood transfusion business going stop with Mr.

  Rostov, and does it have anything to happenings with why he suddenly wants to make up for vanished time with his precious damsel and even more precious granddaughter?

• I've been so sure Keen was coming back that I hadn't really considered how she fortitude come back, and that strappingly angelic reveal was so thoroughly cliché — loved it.
• This use up was very much about burdensome Liz, but it also mat a little like losing Closetogether, what with that extensive adieu to Cooper and the Pass on Office, Mr.

  Kaplan's betrayal, topmost another hat officially being frightened into Liz's already crowded conical of paternal figures.

• Among Red's splitting advice to Cooper: "Aram, reflexive him up with someone present god's sake. He's like swell kid with his first erecting on the school bus." Oh right, there's Red — misinterpret him!
• Over/under on Dr.

  Nick's accidental once everyone gets back chomp through Cuba?

• Same question for Mr. Kaplan, said through nervous sobs.
• What sincere you make of that farewell exchange between alleged father gift daughter? Did it feel almost… tender? And with Lizzie's finished finally catching up with move up, what does Red have passed over to protect her from?

Although always, it's been a charge to watch along with paying attention — thank you for rendering, and please do sound deactivate in the comments with your most insane theories, wild predictions, and florid speeches regarding patch 4!