The Blacklist

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Speaking Mandarin...

*THE BLACKLIST* Season 06 Episode 14

Episode Title: "The Osterman Umbrella Company"

Rise and shine.

You're up early.

It has been a morning.

- Two small grease fires. - In the kitchen,

One almost-disastrous

juicing mishap.

But, voilà.

Breakfast in bed.

What's on the menu?

French toast, hash browns...

All your favorites.

Those are none of my favorites,

but I love you anyway.

Well, I got the orange juice. Right, uh, fresh-squeezed.

But, um, careful...

Might be a part of my finger in there.

What's the occasion?

I thought you'd want a full stomach before our trip.

Our trip? Where we going?

The Lodge at Glenforest.

Rural Pennsylvania.

Three days, two nights.

Our own cabin in the woods.

Dinners in the main lodge,

crackling fires.

I look really, really good in flannel.

What do you think?

It sounds amazing, but

don't they need you at work?

I'm the only one retiring.

I cleared it with Mr. Cooper. The team can manage.

It's not like the world's gonna end.

Aram, we worked together, remember?

We both know the world could literally end

if you're not there.

It's a few days. Eat up. I'll pack.

He will be pleased to hear it.

- Yes. As soon as possible. - Ahh.

That was Spalding Stark.

Where is he on the clinical trials?

Blind testing.

He's almost ready to deliver.

- Elizabeth. - Dembe.

Health kick?

They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Ah! They're wrong.

Your mother loved that photograph.

Represented everything she wanted but couldn't have.

Not after she betrayed the KGB.

After that, she was a hunted woman.

Burned agents always are.

Hunted by the Osterman Umbrella Company.

Something tells me they don't sell umbrellas.

A burn notice can mean kill or capture.

When it's kill, they're the hit squad of choice.

The KGB farms out hits?

The KGB. The CIA. MI6. SID.

Over the years, most agencies have come to the conclusion

that terminating their own was bad for business.

It strained loyalties, created tension within the ranks.

Where most agencies agree on nothing else,

this, they agree on... That a neutral third party

is critical in the elimination of their own operatives.

The world's intelligence agencies

have a go-to company for contract kills?

Of their own agents, yes.

They sent killers after my mother?

They did.

Which is all the incentive I need

to put them on the Blacklist,

but as the FBI may need

a bit more bait on the hook, there is this...

typically, the Umbrella Company operates on foreign soil,

but I've been led to believe their next target

is here in the United States.

Kevin Major, Nicolai Druganin, Shirley Wei.

All agents for MI6, FSB,

and the Singapore Security and Intelligence Division,

who Reddington claims were murdered

by the Osterman Umbrella Company.

Their agencies claim they were patriots killed in action.

Reddington says they were traitors

that their agencies had terminated.

- He says the CIA's involved? - Which part?

Targeting your own agents for murder or farming out the hits?

Not only is the CIA involved,

but that the next hit's going to take place in America.

Not if we can help it, it's not.

He made it sound like this was accepted practice.

Maybe it is, but that doesn't make it right.

There's someone I can reach out to at Langley.

I'll get to the bottom of this.

How well do you know them?

I introduced him to his first wife.

Let's hope he's forgiven me.

What can you tell me about a group commissioned

to scrub rogue agents?

The Osterman Umbrella Company.

I can tell you that you shouldn't be asking about them.

I wouldn't be if they only operated abroad.

That's your turf.

But, uh, from what I hear, their next target's stateside,

and that turf's mine.

I can't confirm or deny.

An American is gonna be killed.

No trial, no due process. Killed.

I can't confirm or deny because I don't know.

You expect me to believe that? You're the C.O.O.

Maybe you got bad intel.

My intel's never bad.

If an American's being targeted,

it wasn't sanctioned by anyone I know.

So, what? This Umbrella Company is operating on its own now?

I told you I don't know. But I intend on finding out.

You better find out fast. A person's life is at risk.

It's supposed to rain today.

You got the wrong forecast.

Best to be prepared.

This is a bad idea.

Worse than murdering an American citizen?

I'd like to arrange a meeting.

My name's Harold Cooper.

I'm the Deputy Director of the FBI.

There must be some misunderstanding.

Yes, I believe there is.

You thinking you can get away with murder.

I've spoken with Lansky.

Lansky is misinformed.

Lansky wasn't informed.

I informed Lansky, and now I'm informing you.

I know about the Umbrella Company. I know what you do.

You do it here, I'll make sure you're prosecuted.

He was misinformed.

Has a contract been ordered on an American agent?

I have very powerful friends.

I have handcuffs and backup.

They'll come here in cars with sirens and lights.

Makes quite a scene.

An American agent.

Is that what you asked me before?

Is one being targeted?

At this time, the Company

has no outstanding tokens on American operatives.

Tokens.

You people are so antiseptic.

Are we through here?

For now.

- We tailed him to his office. - Global Systems Imports.

DCRA records show that it incorporated in '87.

Taxes, license fees are paid up.

Top executives are pillars of the community,

not a parking ticket among them.

Which is why we couldn't pull a search warrant.

We could sweat the executives.

They're covering for the Umbrella Company

or at least work for it.

If they're anything like Hobbs, they won't sweat easily.

They would if we turned up the heat.

And how do you propose we do that?

Jason. How are you?

Jason? My name's not Jason.

I want to know the name of the American agent

you're targeting.

And why.

Did Harold Cooper send you? Is that what this is?

- The name. - He didn't like my answers,

so he dispatches muscle to rough me up.

This would all be much more pleasant

if you'd give me a name.

I told him

no American agent is being targeted.

A lexical ambiguity.

The agent may not be American, but he is being targeted here.

Who?

No? Nothing? Hm.

Where are we going?

To visit a friend.

Was thinking this was more of a romantic getaway,

but, you know, if you feel naked without a gun,

we can role-play.

Sorry. Force of habit.

How about we start some new habits?

You're absolutely right.

New life, new habits.

Unless you want to role-play.

I think a cabin in the woods is a perfect place to start.

No phone reception. No Internet.

Meeting a stranger. No.

Maid/butler secret rendezvous.

Thank you for not letting me push you away.

Yeah, you tried pretty hard, but lucky for you, I can't take a hint.

So, hitchhiker. Interrogation.

- I have an idea. - Teacher/pupil.

Why don't we make our own fantasies?

Okay.

No. Please. Listen.