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If you're fan of The Blacklist, then you'll love it's new spin off starring Ryan Eggold as Tom Keen, Famke Janssen as Susan "Scottie" Hargrave and Edi Gathegi as Mathias Solomon. Towards the end of the third season of The Blacklist, Tom met Scottie, one thing led to another and he was about to kill her when Reddington stopped him telling Tom that she's his mother but she doesn't know it. In The Blacklist: Redemption, they pick up where they left off on The Blacklist with Reddington almost dying. Tom gets a phone call from Howard Hargrave's (His supposed biological father) lawyer telling him to come to New York to discuss Howard's will. Liz tells him to go because they need the money and Tom might find out something about his biological parents. When he gets to New York, the cab driver drops him at a pay phone and it rings immediately.
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The voice on the other end of the phone tells him to pick up the book in the next booth with a picture of Christopher and Scottie Hargrave and that Tom doesn't know what's coming for him. He hangs up but calls back immediately telling Tom to meet him in Washington Square Park. There Tom sees Howard Hargrave who is supposed to be dead. Howard explains to him that his plane was sabotaged by people who want to control his company, Halcyon. He tells Tom that he never stopped looking for him and that he has to infiltrate the family's company and gain his mother's trust. He has to do this without letting Scottie know that she is his mother.
Scottie comes to Tom with an assignment, just as Howard predicted. In the beginning of the episode, Scottie tries to get a name out of a guy. The name is Leland Bray, a former CIA operative who went rogue and kidnaps one of his former CIA team member, Anna Copeland and her son. Scottie needs Tom's help getting Anna and her son back so he agrees to do this one mission, which means he has to work with Mathias Solomon (the evil man Tom previously shot in the stomach and left for dead) and two other people, Rowan (Tawny Cypress) and Dumont (Adrian Martinez).
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Solomon and Tom kidnap Bray's girlfriend, Nadia, and she unknowingly leads them to Bray and Anna after they put a lens in one of her eyes. They eventually get to the location where Bray is holding Anna and her son. Tom gets Anna out but Bray leaves with her son, but before he leaves, Rowan shoots him. Anna is taken to the hospital and she doesn't know that her son is safe, so she escapes through the window to execute the plan Bray ordered her to. Bray told her to set off the explosives in her belly or he would kill her son. She almost blows up herself and her former team but Solomon and Tom get there just in time to let her know that her son is safe. They open up her stomach and stop the bomb from detonating. Scottie knows that Howard is alive but at his funeral she spoke with so much emotions making Tom question her love for Howard. Howard takes Tom to his apartment and shows him a wall filled with information on Tom. He tells Tom that he made it his life's mission to find him and Scottie used that to push him out of his company. He says his findings led him to WHITEHALL and that Scottie is in charge of a global intelligence gathering operation and she plans to do something evil with it. Howard tells Tom to find out what his mother is up to and stop her.
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It was an okay premiere, or maybe it's because I expected too much. The Blacklist is an exceptional show and this spinoff has to live up to it. The cast is incredible and seeing more of Tom is not something I'll complain about. I'm still a little bit confused about Solomon, didn't he use to work for The Director and almost killed Tom and Liz at their wedding. I can't really remember to be honest but I'm happy with him as a major cast member. He's witty and quite delightful to watch. So does this mean Solomon isn't so evil anymore? Is Scottie good or bad? It looks like she's hitting on her son and it feels really weird. They dance in a ballroom and she guides his hand to her inner thigh to get a key card duplicate. They maintain eye contact throughout this ordeal. How motherly of you Scottie! This show is very fast paced, if you haven't seen The Blacklist you might have a few issues understanding some scenes, because it seems like almost every sentence has like two meanings. I have a feeling Scottie might actually not be the bad guy, maybe Howard is. We'll never know unless we watch. I only hope the show gets better with time because the premiere lacked the intrigue the original series has. I have high hopes for this show and I hope they just don't become another Action show, they need to do something different. I love the subplot with Tom's parents, his past has been a mystery for a really long time and I'll love to know what really happened. I guess we just have to stick around to find out.
Created by Jon Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, Lukas Reiter, J.R. Orci
Genre Crime Drama, Action
Starring Famke Janssen, Ryan Eggold, Edi Gathegi, Tawny Cypress, Adrian Martinez
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