The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

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Synopsis:

10/21/2013 (10:01PM - 11:00PM) (Monday) : THE NEXT TARGET ON THE BLACKLIST IS A DANGEROUS MESSENGER WHO CAN'T BE STOPPED - ROBERT KNEPPER GUEST STARS - Red (James Spader) finds out that The Courier (guest star Robert Knepper) - a middle man that no one crosses - is delivering a package worth millions of dollars to an Iranian spy. Only the Courier is a ghost no one including Red, knows what he looks like. While racing to stop the mysterious criminal transaction, Liz (Megan Boone), inadvertently finds herself thrust into a dangerous kidnapping plot. Meanwhile, Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff) must finally accept that Liz is a valuable asset to the team. Ryan Eggold, Harry Lennix and Parminder Nagra also star.


Episode 5 of 22

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

Watching it now. Only show I watch with commercials and all.

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

Same with us.

Good ep.

Nice to see Robert Knepper working again. Creepy role as usual.

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

His voice sounded so wrong though, lol.

Really, really enjoy this show. It is so inplausible and outlandish but yet it completely pulls it off and is nothing other than engrossing.

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

Another solid episode last night.

I'll share more thoughts later on, but I'm glad to see that NBC finally has a hit drama & consistent in quality each week.

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

Good episode and next week looks good too. It's nice seeing stuff with Liz's husband moving along.

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

I found Robert Knepper to be distracting, only because I loved his role on Prison Break and see him as no other character.

I also don't mind watching this show "live" each week.

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

Except they X-Rayed/MRI'd his body so how did they miss the handcuff key?

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

The same reason they left him alone in the back of the transport vehicle.... among many other plot holes. You can't nit-pick this show to death otherwise you won't enjoy it.

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

It wasn't a key. It was a small pointed object. The X-Ray did find a key somewhere in him.

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

Still not buying her whole profiler image in how she deals with these blacklisters and gets into their head so quickly with very little in the way of clues. And these blacklisters don't feel like the hardened people they are supposed to be.

All that profiling and she can't figure out her husband. :shrug: Reddington keeps me tuned in though.

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

Good episode again. The cases of the week are quite unsettling for sure!

Really interested to see who is watching across the street.

More interested to see what happens with her husband!

So did she go home and talk with her husband, have fight, and go to Red's? Or did she read file, go to Red's, then go home? I couldn't tell if the last scene was from the viewpoint of the second guy across the street "rewatching" what already happened.

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

File, Red's, home--- is my guess

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

I wasn't a fan of James Spader (in fact I really didn't like him) until his run on The Office. He's actually gotten much better with age. He's really good in this.

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

I took it as a "rewatching"...

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

Plot holes happen in every show, but they are becoming distracting in this one. Last week it was the knowledge that something bad was going to happen to the trial witness, and yet when the juror passes out, they hand off the critical witness to a couple of unknown random marshals who promptly kidnap & kill him.

This week it's one of the most dangerous people in the world who has all sorts of things implanted in his body. Let's again rely on unknown and apparently incompetent marshals to transport him alone in the back of a truck with his cuffs in front of him.

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

So did anyone not notice Skinny Pete in the beginning? Completely caught me off guard being all "proper" and everything. :lol:

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

They didn't x-ray/mri him: the doctor in the station used a metal detector and said that the Courier had several items inside of him (and couldn't tell what it was because there was scar tissue or something).

The marshals were taking the Courier to the hospital to get x-rayed/mri'd. When the team decided to recall the marshalls, one of the FBI agents even said something like "we'll mri him later" because they were going to try to give his brother a deal in exchange for the analyst.

Re: The Blacklist -- "The Courier" -- 10/21/13
 

Finally got around to watching this today. Thought it was the weakest episode of the season thus far actually. I've just grown tired of the 'time is running out or he'll suffocate' scenario I guess. I do like that things continue to progress with the husbands identity.