This was extra of Elizabeth and Raymond mendacity to one another about Katarina.
This occurred round a nifty art-theft caper on The Blacklist Season 7 Episode 11.
What a well timed episode with the OxyContin-peddling Sackler household and their love of artwork so often within the information.
Think about what would occur if a type of relations went rogue as Victoria did right here!
This was a breather episode after the short-term climax of the Katarina Rostova storyline on The Blacklist Season 7 Episode 10.
Raymond is at all times at his finest when he is bought pores and skin within the sport, and that was definitely the case right here.
The caper began with a nesting casket. Who had ever heard of such a factor? Like a nesting doll, solely a lot older and rather more beneficial.
It was too unhealthy that Dembe’s celebration needed to get minimize quick to accommodate this mission.
And what a grand entrance Raymond made into Ukraine, coated up with a tarp on a horsecart!
Who would have thought that Raymond hid a few of his most beneficial treasures in a rundown warehouse in a small Ukrainian city?
However even there, he managed to get doublecrossed, though he was pretty forgiving of Vasyl, who was betraying him solely beneath duress.
Raymond definitely can suppose on his toes. Whereas the rebels have been destroying the caskets by which he was presupposed to be escaping, he and Dembe simply rode away on a pair of sturdy draft horses.
That introduced new that means to “and the horse he rode in on.”
What a intestine punch for Raymond it was to seek out out they’d gone via all that hazard for a faux.
Nothing slows Raymond down for lengthy, as he determined simply to trace down the counterfeiter as an alternative.
And, in fact, to usher in the assets of Elizabeth and the duty drive to assist him try this.
It was a reliable use of the duty drive, with all of the artwork forgeries in circulation. It simply occurred to profit Raymond personally in an enormous means.
This was a type of episodes the place you find yourself cheering on the goal of the duty drive’s investigation.
Richard Vitaris misplaced his son to medication made by the Fenbergs.
Victoria Fenberg determined to assist Richard in his lawsuit in opposition to her household by creating forgeries of the Fenburg artwork treasures, promoting the originals to assist pay for Richard’s go well with.
It could have been good to find out how Victoria grew to become such a gifted counterfeiter, however as Aram identified, it takes engineering expertise to prove nice forgeries.
No matter her motivation, her coronary heart was in the suitable place.
Elizabeth and firm slowly, methodically uncovered Richard’s involvement, then tracked him down on the Fenberg compound. He purchased Victoria sufficient time to make that yet one more huge rating to fund his go well with, although that meant him getting arrested within the course of.
Raymond largely sat again and let the duty drive do a lot of the legwork for him.
He did squeeze a reputation out of a stolen-art purchaser over a seafood tower and martinis. That was elegant.
He visited the fence and had Dembe threaten him with a waffle iron, which solely made Raymond hungry for a waffle breakfast.
What a surreal scene that should have been when she walked into her fence’s dwelling, solely to be supplied a waffle breakfast by two unusual males.
Raymond fairly loved the rip-off that Victoria had going and simply needed again his casket.
He simply needed to con an outdated girl’s favourite possession away from her. Simple peasy.
I am betting this would possibly not be the final time we see Victoria and her distinctive skillset, even when Ressler was positive that she was Richard’s confederate.
The episode largely took a break from Raymond and Elizabeth’s cat-and-mouse sport over Katarina.
When Elizabeth confronted him immediately, Raymond waffled for all he was value about who the outdated girl was residing down the corridor from Elizabeth.
Then Raymond tried to make use of the recovered casket as a part of an object lesson about seeing what you need to see. But it surely was evident that Elizabeth did not purchase that for a second.
She has the higher hand since solely she and Ressler know that Katarina is alive and in hiding.
Lastly, what to do about poor Aram?
His rebound relationship with Elodie has been a hell of a trip however he is a genuinely good man who’s so conflicted with guilt for being with a married girl.
Having the afterglow with Elodie interrupted by sirens as her husband Charles had a coronary heart assault definitely did not assist, as he admitted to Elizabeth {that a} small a part of him hoped Charles would die.
He tried, oh so onerous, to interrupt issues off with Elodie. However now that Charles is circling the drain, possibly Aram may have a clearer conscience now.
With all of the unhealthy issues he sees on the job, he wants some good, soiled pleasure in his free time. And Elodie supplies that.
Now for the large query: Will we get to see Agnes’s dance recital, as everybody was so trying ahead to it?
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Does Raymond know extra about Katarina than he is letting on?
Will Elizabeth ever get him to fess up?
What ought to Aram do about Elodie?
Remark beneath.
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