Within the post-Tom Eager (Ryan Eggold) period of The Blacklist, the present has sometimes hinted at a will they/will not they between FBI colleagues Liz Eager (Megan Boone) and Donald Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff), and Friday’s 17th episode of Season 7, “Brothers,” teased that tantalizing risk once more.
Within the episode, Ressler went to his hometown of Detroit to assist his brother Robby (Anthony Michael Hall) take care of a brand new growth in a revenge-fueled homicide they dedicated after they had been youngsters. The Ressler brothers in the end determined to show themselves in as a result of they could not reside with the darkish secret anymore. First, although, Ressler informed Liz what occurred the evening he shot the crooked cop who killed his father and enlisted her assist in capturing a neighborhood gangster who was holding the killer’s stays for ransom. Nonetheless, she did not need him to show himself in,, and when he tried to, the physique was gone, and the Resslers went free.
Ressler went to Liz’s condominium and requested her why she did it, and he or she informed him that she wants him an excessive amount of to let him go away her. Her life is just too insane to deal with on her personal, and he is her rock — the one particular person she will actually belief and depend on. Moreover, this one dangerous factor he did when he was a child rerouted his life and made him the person he’s as we speak, and the great he does as an FBI agent now outweighs the crime he dedicated then. It was a traditional little bit of Blacklist ethical relativism. They embraced and went on to battle one other day.
The Blacklist‘s Diego Klattenhoff Previews the Ressler Episode That’s Been Years in The Making
TV Information requested Klattenhoff if he wish to see a extra romantic storyline develop between Ressler and Liz, and he was diplomatic. “It is a type of issues that you simply simply by no means know, and you may by no means get your hopes up somehow,” he stated. “If it occurs, it occurs, terrific. If it does not, so be it.”
He remembers folks clamoring for Ressler and Liz to get collectively again in Season 1, and it by no means occurred, and now 150 episodes later it is within the air once more. “As an actor, and personally, I simply gotta roll with it.”
“I am certain the followers would like it,” he added. “So we’ll see. We’ll see what occurs for Season 8.”
The Blacklist has two episodes left in Season 7, the 150th episode subsequent week, and the finale after that, which is able to function a send-off for the late Brian Dennehy‘s Dominic Wilkinson. The final episode wasn’t imagined to be the finale, however the shutdown as a result of coronavirus made it must be, so The Blacklist Season 7 misplaced three episodes. Klattenhoff stated that in the event that they hadn’t shut down, they might have wrapped filming for the season final Friday. They had been midway by filming Episode 19 when the shutdown order got here, and the present’s producers scrambled to complete the season with what that they had.
“It isn’t a super state of affairs, however I feel they did a very nice job wrapping up the season and getting it teed up for Season 8,” Klattenhoff stated.
The Blacklist airs Fridays at 8/7c on NBC.
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