It’s Aram’s time to shine with a trippy episode of The Blacklist.
I’m going to be honest I’m a little disappointed with this episode.
Not that I thought it was bad; it was a very good episode.
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It’s about time we had our tech genius-turned-boss tackle this major life change.
Let’s begin the recap.
He is put under at the office.
Mozhan Marnò as Samar Navabi.Will Hart/NBC
We next see Aram riding his bike to work feeling more upbeat.
Inside the box are account statements folded into airplanes.
Ressler interrupts Aram to tell him that Red is on the way to the Post Office.
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Just then, the office alarm goes off.
The Post Office is under attack.
There are multiple teams attacking their agents.
A man in a 3D-printed symmetrical bear mask arrives and shoots the camera feed the team is watching.
Dembe (Hisham Tawfiq) tries to call for back up, but the lines are cut.
Aram tells them there’s a phone that isn’t connected to their communications system on a different level.
Ressler and Aram head to the phone.
Everyone else prepares to defend themselves.
Park is shot in the chest and dies in Aram’s arms.
Just then, the elevator opens.
Aram finds himself back where he was that morning.
It was all a dream.
We find out that Aram is still passed out in a dream-like state at the doctor’s office.
Just then, Ressler enters to tell him Red is on his way.
Aram realizes what’s about to happen but he’s too late to stop it.
They rush down the stairwell, but are attacked.
Ressler is shot, but the team fights off the gunmen.
They get to the exit door, but the code to leave doesn’t work.
Aram is confused because the security system is military grade.
The only way to hack into that system… is through GreyLock.
Aram arrives back at the beginning of the day, exits the elevator and sees Park spill her coffee.
He brings the team together and warns them of the pending attack.
Remembering where the gunmen shot from, Aram takes them down.
They arrive at the exit point with Park, Dembe, and Ressler safely getting out.
Aram sees the masked man again and tells him, “sorry, Bear Face.
Not this time.”
Again, Aram arrives back where he started exiting the elevator with Park spilling her coffee.
He thought he got everyone out and it would be over.
Aram suddenly hears Red’s voice and turns to see a bloodied Park working at her desk.
Suddenly, he sees Agnes as a little girl playing with paper airplanes.
He flashes to Dr. Idigbe explaining the drugs.
Then he flashes to Liz coming out of the elevator to hug Agnes.
Suddenly Aram is holding Dr. Idigbe’s fishbowl and sees his friends gunned down.
Aram tells himself this isn’t real.
He opens his eyes to find himself back at the Post Office in the dark.
He draws out his gun and opens the door to find himself in his apartment with the masked man.
The masked man shoots Aram and reveals himself to be Aram.
Just when Evil Aram is about to shoot, he’s shot by Samar.
She tells him none of what happened to Samar, Liz, Agnes, and GreyLock is his fault.
Aram breaks down in tears.
She tells him he’s always been enough, and Aram wakes up.
Aram arrives at the Post Office to find Park drinking her coffee without spilling it.
He asks Park to slap him, which she does without hesitating.
Aram smiles, realizing it’s real.
Aram tells Cooper about his psychedelic experience and how it connected to his guilt about Samar and Liz.
Aram returns home and puts everything in order the Aram OCD way.
As he sits in his dining room, he imagines Evil Aram and Samar next to him.
I don’t think this will be the last time we see Evil Aram and Samar.
I feel like they’re going to act like the angel and devil on Aram’s shoulders.
Also, it was honestly justnice to see Marno again.
She cannot confirm with Red if it was Kaplan that she saw.
Red tells her to rest and then meets with Cooper, who has a report from forensics.
Red wants to have his people examine the body.
Red visits the morgue where “Kaplan’s” body is.
He’s able to talk his way into getting access to it.
Red brings Weecha to rest at the trailer.
Mierce (Karina Arroyave) arrives to take care of her sister.
Red leaves the trailer to give Weecha and Mierce some space.
Mierce tells her she’s not angry with Red, she’s just sad for him.
Ressler tells Cooper what he found on LaCroix.
LaCroix has several shell companies and a small fortune from his blackmailing business with Cole.
They believe LaCroix’s wife may know more than she’s letting on.
Ressler and Cooper go to her office, but find her dead in her car.
They’re able to catch the culprit and take him in.
Cooper brings the account information to Red to see if he can identify the account information.
Red does it’s his own bank account.
I’m so confused.
I need to know why Maureen was pretending to be Mr. Kaplan.
Could Mr. Kaplan be alive and have used her sister to get Red?
It doesn’t make sense.
Only Mr. Kaplan had access to Red’s accounts.
She knows everything about him.
This whole thing is throwing me into a loop fortunately, though, not a loop like Aram’s.
