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"Abraham Stern" is the eleventh episode of Season 5 of The Blacklist and the hundredth episode overall.

Synopsis

Press Release

When Red goes on the hunt for a legendary treasure, he draws the attention of Abraham Stern, a cunning manipulator who has devoted his life - and the lives of many innocents - to recovering the fortune that is his birthright. Meanwhile, Liz's quest sends her down a dark path, leading her to study the methods of one of the Blacklist's most dangerous criminals.

Number on The Blacklist

  • 100

Unanswered Questions

  1. The episode was a reference to Abraham Lincoln and the 1943 steel cent. Abraham Lincoln is on the United States penny.
  2. Elizabeth Keen
    1. Why did Keen not wear gloves when using the evidence room keypad?
    2. Why did Keen not bury Robert Navarro’s body?
    3. Why did Keen not go to Red for help with Robert Navarro?
    4. What did Keen do with the broken glass and wood?
    5. Why did Keen open the false eye with dirty gloves?
    6. Why did Keen place the bloody rag/towel in the sink drain?
    7. Why did Keen not leave Robert Navarro’s body in the apartment? It could be blamed on another criminal.
    8. What would Keen have done if Robert Navarro’s apartment lacked the needed cleaning supplies?
  3. Raymond Reddington
    1. Red’s refusal to learn about modern technology can prove a liability.
    2. How can Red spend the banknotes? Since the denomination is 100,000 dollars, that limits where he can use them.
    3. How many of the 100,000 dollar banknotes did Red steal?
    4. Was Red serious about buying the castle in Trieste?
    5. Why did Red trade the penny for Winston Churchill’s hat?
    6. How did Red contact Stern?
    7. Red’s plan for the vacuum relied on a razor thin margin of success for the timing.
    8. What would Red have done if Stern had not double-crossed him?
    9. Why did Red need all his cash reserves to convince the Denver Mint that the delivery was real?
  4. Abraham J. Stern
    1. Why did Stern kill the Frank Dobbs? He trusted the Fine Time Dry Cleaning & Laundry Service truck owner to stay silent.
    2. Will Stern implicate Red in the robbery of the Denver Mint?
    3. Stern’s plan for the closed-circuit television relied on a razor thin margin of success for the timing.
    4. How did Stern plan to escape? The treasury workers could have identified him and Stern still needed to escape the nation-state.
    5. Why was Stern obsessed with the treasure? He was not living a precarious existence and/or at the risk of poverty.
    6. Why did Stern need the Fine Time Dry Cleaning & Laundry Service truck? Why not steal a truck?
    7. How did Stern know where to ambush Red?
    8. Why did the antiques dealer tell Stern about Red?
    9. How did Stern plan to steal the penny from the Gabor Museum if the police had not arrived?
    10. Stern’s comment about the “falling apple and the tree” applies to Red and Liz.
  5. Abraham J. Stern’s father
    1. How did Stern’s father expect Abraham to retrieve the 100,000 dollar banknotes from the Denver mint?
    2. Why was Stern’s father unable to remove the 100,000 dollar banknotes from the Denver Mint?
    3. Why did Stern’s father continue to steal the 100,000 dollar banknotes after he learned that he could not remove them from the Denver Mint?
    4. Why did Stern’s father not inform Abraham of the coin map in his will or have the executor deliver the coins and the letter at the same time?
  6. Harold Cooper
    1. Cooper’s decision to send Samar Navabi and Donald Ressler to the Denver Mint is unusual due to the travel time.
    2. Why was Cooper unable to override the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia? He could have stated that the penny was part of a federal investigation.
    3. Why did Cooper give the penny to Red?
  7. Dembe Zuma
    1. Why did Dembe not see the Fine Time Dry Cleaning & Laundry Service truck ambush?
  8. Singleton
    1. Did Singleton tell Keen about the bloody rag/towel to provoke a reaction?
    2. How did Singleton know that Robert Navarro’s apartment was too clean?
    3. How would linking Keen to Robert Navarro’s apartment have helped? Keen removed the body.
    4. Will Singleton learn anything from the phone Liz gave him?
    5. When did the police learn that the penny and bloody rag/towel had been stolen? Since the evidence was for separate cases, they had no reason to search the entire evidence room.
    6. Singleton resembles the storyline of Martin Wilcox.
  9. United States Department of the Treasury
    1. Where did the 100,000 dollar banknotes Red used as an example in his briefing come from?
    2. Why did the electricity still work in an abandoned section of the mint?
    3. Why did the vault door close?
    4. Why did the Department of the Treasury deny that the 100,000 dollar banknotes had been printed?
    5. Even if the Department of the Treasury denies the existence of the 100,000 dollar banknotes, they have a stronger incentive to find the banknotes Red stole.

Slanders on the FBI, MPDC, United States Treasury

  1. Why did the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia investigation team not check the sink drain before turning on the disposal?
  2. Why did the Department of the Treasury fail to search the boiler room before the renovations?

Cast

Main star

Guest star

Co-star

Gallery

External Links


Season 5 Episodes
 · Smokey Putnum  · Greyson Blaise  · Miss Rebecca Thrall  · The Endling  · Ilyas Surkov  · The Travel Agency  · The Kilgannon Corporation  · Ian Garvey  · Ruin  · The Informant  · Abraham Stern  · The Cook  · The Invisible Hand  · Mr. Raleigh Sinclair III  · Pattie Sue Edwards  · The Capricorn Killer  · Anna-Gracia Duerte  · Zarak Mosadek  · Ian Garvey: Conclusion  · Nicholas T. Moore  · Lawrence Dane Devlin  · Sutton Ross  ·