May there be a rift forming between Crimson and Dembe?
Did the torture specialist Dr. Laken Perrilos really get inside Dembe’s psyche throughout their session on The Blacklist Season 8 Episode 10?
Possibly, or possibly not. Dembe has been with Raymond ceaselessly, and if he hasn’t been pushed away for good but by what Reddington does, he’ll probably by no means be.
There was even much less Liz than there had been within the final 5 episodes, which wasn’t a lot.
So what is the deal? Is Liz simply being mysterious to maintain each Crimson and the Job Pressure off steadiness? Or does Megan Boone have one thing urgent happening in her private life?
I am betting on the previous. It is rattling close to unimaginable for a star to maintain their private life out of the general public eye. So Liz making an attempt to maintain a step forward of all people makes extra sense.
With a ninth season of The Blacklist coming, it is inconceivable that Liz can be written out for the reason that sequence revolves round Crimson, then her, in that order, it doesn’t matter what viewers’ opinions of Liz could also be.
Too many reveals have hung round a season too lengthy after shedding key characters (everybody can provide you with an instance) so let’s hope that The Blacklist does not fall into that scenario.
That is why Neville Townsend has gained prominence in current episodes. He could be the large unhealthy with out Liz having to overexposed.
Additionally, he is a shadowy determine who hasn’t been crushed to dying (both figuratively or actually).
Liz is aware of she will’t convey down Reddington independently, regardless of the sources she’s stolen from him. On The Blacklist Season 8 Episode 9, she managed to persuade Townsend he was improper to pursue Katarina and that Raymond was behind his household’s dying, to offer her the ally that she desperately wants.
Briefly, Townsend can now do the heavy lifting for her of their pursuit of Crimson, so she will additional slide into the background.
It is also changing into obvious that the Sikorsky Archive is changing into this season’s Holy Grail. It is a nebulous idea hanging round for a few seasons begging to be higher outlined.
In broad strokes, Raymond and Dembe know what it’s, and Townsend and Liz do not. It will be nice to know why it is change into central to this sequence.
That was why Townsend introduced in an intriguing specialist within the type of Perrilos. It is simply too unhealthy she got here off as an mental fraud.
She talked to Dembe about how white medical doctors have tortured folks of colour within the title of medical analysis, an indeniable declare. That is undoubtedly one consider folks of colour struggling greater dying charges from Covid-19: a scarcity of religion in well being care.
However on the similar time, she was torturing a black man (Dembe) whereas within the make use of of a white man (Townsend).
She talked a great sport to Dembe, but it surely was additionally clear that she took sadistic pleasure in what she was doing.
Perillos additionally made the error of promoting Dembe quick. Sadly, he escaped too late to save lots of Raymond from his time in her torture chair.
It was pleasing to observe the often cool and calculating Reddington go off the rails to rescue Dembe. Nonetheless, whether or not he traded locations to save lots of Dembe or to save lots of himself is actually up for debate.
Additionally, nobody appeared to grasp that Crimson was the kind of man to take his secrets and techniques to the grave. With all his current well being scares, how a lot does it actually matter what finally ends up killing him?
Despite the fact that Townsend was interrogating him, Reddington appealed to Liz’s good angel, assuming that she was listening in on the transmission.
The Job Pressure was extra ineffective than common when it got here to finding Perrilos.
Raymond needed to create his personal entry to Perrilos’s lair by attacking one in every of Townsend’s cash males and forcing Townsend’s hand.
The Job Pressure additionally obtained Dembe no nearer to discovering the place Raymond was being held. He had to do this on his personal, choosing up a clue in an FBI file which led him to find Ruddiger’s betrayal of Crimson, no matter his motivations.
That, in flip, enabled him to rescue Reddington. It was pleasing to observe first them, then Ressler, use Perrilos’s personal strategies to squeeze intel out of her about Townsend, nevertheless a lot she knew.
And what was the aim of Townsend beating up Ruddiger? There isn’t any manner Raymond would ever belief him once more, so what good would he be as Townsend’s mole?
It was a satisfying scene when Harold expressed his admiration of Dembe and his skills. Dembe does deserve higher than Crimson, no matter their historical past.
On some stage, Dembe realizes that Raymond means extra to him than Raymond and that he may very well be sacrificed down the street for Crimson’s higher good.
Harold additionally cautioned Dembe {that a} showdown with Reddington was coming and that Dembe wanted to be careful for his personal pursuits when that occurs.
Might Dembe change sides or step again from the damaging life he is been dwelling? In any case that point with Crimson, he might undoubtedly afford to retire.
To unravel Liz’s plot, watch The Blacklist online.
Ought to Dembe get out whereas he can? Was Perrilos a fraud? How can Crimson get forward of Liz and Townsend?
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