The Blacklist

Previously on the blacklist...

I'm gonna spend some time at home. Be with the baby.

If you have any doubts about your husband

You can't go through with this adoption.

If there is even one shred of doubt.

I can't do it. You're not ready.

You leaked classified data in the name of improving security.

I was authorized to stop the bidding process.

Authorized by whom?

What the hell are you doing in my house?

You're the dirty rat, diane.

We came into the post office to make a point.

You talk too much.

I didn't know anything about the safe deposit box

Until I saw the will.

I've had all the necessary paperwork certified.

The trust and the death certificate.

The paperwork is in order.

But to access your husband's box, you will need the key.

Is there anything else?

No, thank you.

I'm terribly sorry for your loss, mrs. Reddington.

The box in istanbul. It's been cleared out. Mmm?

This was left behind.

I was just starting to feel the endorphins vibrating in my spleen.

The key.

How did you get it?

Macau. Last winter.

I've always hated macau.

No, thank you.

The documents in the box are worth over 10 million.

You stood me up in florence.

I had to get your attention somehow.

I have a proposition.

In that case perhaps we should move to your room.

I'll take the check.

Right. No.

Okay, sure. Yeah, I'll talk to you soon.

Right.

That was brian. He and katie say hi.

Did you tell him?

Why would I tell him?

I thought he'd ask.

I just... I told him it's taking longer than we expected.

I know this is hard.

We spent six months talking about adoption.

We spent another year going through the process.

I know. I'm sorry.

Yeah, I'm sorry, too.

Katie's pregnant.

That's great.

Mmm-hmm.

We should get them something,

Have them over for dinner.

Wait, tom, don't just walk away while we're talking.

She's breathtakingly unattractive,

But she's worth over $40 million.

The only vermeer in private hands.

That's considered a masterpiece?

Last night, I got up for a scoop of orange sherbet and she caught my eye.

I just stood here in the dark squinting at her.

Poor thing ruined my appetite.

Even after I went back to bed,

All I could hear was the hideous music she must be playing.

Didn't sleep a wink.

Why did you buy it?

Oh, my god, no, she's nof mine!

She belongs to some hedge-fund manager who lives here.

I thought you lived here.

Well, for now. The owner has been on vacation

Ever since the sec started its investigation.

I've never met the man, but his housekeeper is an old friend.

Please.

Do you have any idea how much the u.S. Government has spent

On signals intelligence in the past year?

No.

Your country has become a nation of eavesdroppers.

Frequency domains, triangulation, satellites, crypt-o-whatever.

You've forgotten that what matters most is human intelligence.

Alliances, relationships, seduction.

Madeline pratt is a master at...

Madeline pratt?

Madeline pratt... Is a thief.

And a woman of

Singular talents.

And now you want something of hers

And you expect the fbi to help you get it.

It was the right decision.

Not to have the baby.

What did she take from you?

I'm sorry for your suffering.

Madeline pratt. How do we find her?

Finding her is easy.

Catching her is difficult.

Luckily, she has asked me to help her plan a heist.

To steal what?

The effigy of astarte.

The effigy was thought to be lost.

Disappeared from the british museum in 1983.

Two months ago, it pops up at an estate sale in henderson, kentucky.

The feds raided the auction and repatriated it back to the syrians.

Ah, here it is. The effigy.

Novak, I have friends who are looking for this funny little statue,

And they're not the least bit interested in antiquities.

What is the real story?

The kungur six.

It's said that when the cold war was ending,

Its owner hid a list inside the effigy,

A list of soviet spies.

Why is that relevant today?

The kungur six are still active

And are said to be responsible

For some of the most damaging intelligence breaches in the past 30 years.

Find the effigy and you find them.

Finding them would be the holy grail of u.S. Counter-intelligence.

You allowed him to vet everyone that works here?

I made no promises.

But I understand it was a pre-condition of his return,

That aside from security and principal staff,

Everyone else has to be off site.

I agreed to his terms to get him in here.

Where we go from here is up to me.

Excuse me.

That's great.

Harold! Look at you.

Sit down.

No, no, no, I'm fine, thank you.

I was just looking at the pictures of charlene and the kids.

How old are they now? The kids, not charlene.

Diane fowler. Where is she?

I have no idea.

And frankly, I'm flummoxed as to why you would even care.

You expect me to believe that you walk in here,

After she vanishes, and there's no connection?

Has diane gone missing?

Perhaps you should ask agent malik.

She works for the woman, doesn't she?

I've had no contact.

Well, there you go.

You made it clear, you thought we had a mole,

And you wouldn't set foot inside this facility

Until that mole was captured or dead.

Who decided on this paneling?

You told us you wouldn't come in until the mole had been caught.

I said nothing of the kind.

You said our house wasn't clean. Is it?

I suppose you'll have to ask diane fowler when you find her.

When we find out what's happened to her, and we will find out,

If you had anything to do with it,

You're gonna spend the rest of your life in a box. Understood?

You smell nice. Something new?

Did you hear me?

Madeline pratt.

What about her?

This is the madeline pratt you all know and love.

Politically active. Influential. A good citizen.

What you don't know is the madeline pratt I love.

Six million in diamonds stolen from a de beers outpost in the congo.

Security fibers used in printing the czech koruna taken from a mint in prague

And used to produce counterfeit banknotes.

The madeline pratt you know

Fosters relationships with incredibly powerful people.

The one you don't, exploits those relationships

In ways that impact national security.

We can't just arrest her, we have no evidence.

What you do have is an opportunity.

Which brings us back to the effigy of astarte.

Madeline feels her profile is too high right now to steal it herself.

So she's asked for my help.

Where is the effigy?

Secure wing in the syrian embassy. For now.

But it will likely be repatriated at any moment,

Which means maddie is rushed and vulnerable.

She's trying to make a grab that would normally take months to plan.

Do the syrians know what's inside the effigy?

If they did, it would be in damascus by now.

I can only assume, harold, that madeline has a russian patron,

Since it's the russians who want to protect the identities of the kungur six.

I'm not sanctioning an op in support of you going in to steal anything,

Let alone something that may affect national security.

I'm flattered that you think I'm up to it,

But thieving is not my strongest suit.

Luckily, we have an ace of spades among us.

Isn't that right, agent keen?

What's he talking about?

There something you wanna tell us?

No, sir.

Your father's criminal record didn't show up on your background report.

Maybe yours is missing, too.

I don't have a criminal record.

Because you never committed a crime,

Or because you were never caught?

Yes.

I believe my work speaks for itself.

Sir, I can do this.

All right. We take the case.

But understand, if you do this, you're gonna be on foreign soil.

If something goes wrong, we can't protect you.

I need to know about you.

How you respond under pressure.