The Blacklist Season 7 returns March 20 from its lengthy hiatus with certainly one of its occasional distantly-inspired-by-real-headlines episodes. “Victoria Fenberg” finds Crimson Reddington (James Spader) embroiled in a fancy artwork forgery scheme involving a household that vaguely resembles the Sacklers, the controversial opioid-pushing pharmaceutical magnates who fund many arts and cultural institutions. On this unique clip, Crimson will get into some bother whereas doing a little black market artwork dealing that begins this complete mess.
Within the clip, Crimson is in Ukraine to retrieve one piece of a nesting casket (consider a Russian nesting doll, however far more useful) to take to a meet-up the place a purchaser goes to offer the house owners of every of the six items an enormous windfall. Whereas there, the man Crimson employed to protect his treasure vault betrays him. So now Crimson is in a compromised place, with separatists who’re very mad at him for promoting weapons to the Russians on their manner.
“Victoria Fenberg” places the Katarina Rostova plot on the backburner for a bit, however extra shall be revealed about Liz Eager’s (Megan Boone) team-up along with her super-spy mom (Laila Robins) to uncover Reddington’s true agenda because the season progresses.
“We’ve some extremely stunning and startling and decisive issues that occur between now and the tip of the season that may actually kick it into subsequent 12 months, of which I can converse of none of it to you,” James Spader tease-promised TV Information.
The Blacklist returns Friday, March 20 at 8/7c on NBC.
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