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Case Profile for Isabella Stone
Isabella Stone, played by guest star Melora Hardin, is a woman scorned. Or so WE think. On a revenge quest to make the people suffer that caused her husband to be jailed and eventually murdered, she now has her sights set on Red. She lures Red out into the open by going after one of Red’s long time assets Sorantos which once again has those closest to Red being put in the cross hairs. Dembe and Baz should watch their backs. Meanwhile we get closer to “The Blacklist: Redemption” as we learn of Tom’s father Howard Hargrave potentially dying in a plane crash. This sets Tom off on a mission to find out what happened to him the night of his disappearance as a child, and has us asking if there is more to this story than meets the eye.
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Isabella Stone In Pictures
Here are a just a few of our favorite scenes from this week.
Red’s Rhetoric
Welcome to Red’s Rhetoric that part of the show where we take two clips from this week’s episode and you get to vote down bellow in the weekly poll. Last week you all felt that death was slouching in on you from every corner of the room as Read Death won with 75% of the vote. This week’s first clip comes when Red’s car is stolen?
The second clip clip comes when Red gives Liz a parenting lesson. Which was your favorite? If you wave at a person when stealing their car vote #RedCar or If time moves entirely to fast vote #RedCuckoo.
Which scene from Red was your favorite this week?
- #RedCuckoo (71%, 12 Votes)
- #RedCar (29%, 5 Votes)
Total Voters: 17
The Music of Isabella Stone
There is no better way to start out an episode with a little AC/DC as the appropriately titled “Shake a Leg” is heard over the car crash in Paris as Stone’s goons remove the contents from inside the drives prosthetic leg. Later in the episode as Red gives Liz a cuckoo clock for Agnes and while ponytail intercepts Isabella Stone, we hear Marika Hackman’s “Before I Sleep”. Why this gift? Why now? Is there a camera in that clock?
You can hear these songs via the official Blacklist playlist on Spotify or the same playlist recreated by us on Apple Music.
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A special thanks to Veruca Crews for creating our podcast cover art. If you love it, be sure to check out the rest of her Blacklist and other artwork on her tumblr page.
Thanks for listening! We’ll talk to you soon. In the meantime, be sure to keep yourself off, The Blacklist.
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While I’m glad that Ressler actually got to say some lines this episode and even — bonus! — display some emotions, has he never heard of family leave? For such a rules guy, he made a severe lapse in judgment by not going to Cooper right away and telling him he needed time off. His head was not in the game and that’s how people get killed on missions. I respect that Samar respected his privacy, but, technically, she should have outed him to Cooper. Ressler using Red as an excuse was just that, an excuse. Even if the assignment had been rescuing a burning building full of nuns, puppies and adorable orphans, he still should have been at the hospital with his family. He works for the FBI, not a South Asian sweatshop.
It felt like a Ressler was just using Red, has he not forgot who saved his life before. I loved this episode, it was so good. Red was excellent. Liz was good and she was nice to Red. I love Samar and Aramaic together. Loved it.
This is one of the better episodes this season.
1) It was a great balance of good vs. gray vs. bad guys and the situational ethics they inflict on one another.
2) Reesler played the ‘iron anchor in the septic tank’ role that Samar usually plays, and the deal with his missing a ‘family’ surgery was well below his station in life, unless he works part-time as an anesthesiologist. I fully expect him to be issued his FBI-standard feminine hygiene products before the end of the 2016-17 season.
3) I am confused by my one of my podcasters. He referred to Morocco several times and I was under the opinion (visual = booze and gambling in a Muslim country) that the high-brow casino with the upscale French speaking staff and local cops was, in fact, Monaco (not Morocco). Rookie mistake. Shake it off. Take a knee. Hit the showers. We’ll see if we can work you in next game as a 2nd-string co-host. [the long shot of Monaco/Monte Carlo was a dead give-away]
— DocH
Loved the show this week and loved the commentary!!
Loved the show and loved blacklist exposed!!