Alter Ego

"Alter Ego"
Season 6, Episode 5
Episode Information
Air date	February 1, 2019
Directed by	John Terlesky
Written by	Sean Hennen Lukas Reiter
Episode Chronology
Previous	“[[The Pawnbrokers ]]”
Next	“[[The Ethicist ]]”

"Alter Ego" is the fifth episode of Season 6 of The Blacklist and the hundred and sixteenth episode overall.

Press Release

While Red argues in court to uphold the validity of his immunity agreement, Liz and the Task Force question a man whose recent inheritance seems too good to be true and Dembe offers Red some advice.

Number on The Blacklist

• 131

Unanswered Questions

1. Raymond Reddington
   1. How many clients and/or allies is Red at risk of losing?
   2. Carlo Androssani’s opposition is a symbol of Red’s others clients abandoning him in a crisis.
   3. Red seems to be losing his ability to focus. His court testimony varied between arrogance and the relevant.
   4. Red's blacklisters have been focused on himself, not on the nation-state. This parallels his decline after his arrest.
2. Alter Ego
   1. Is the will legal? The Alter Ego conspirators counterfeited the extended family connections.
3. Harris Van Ness
   1. Why did the police declare the murder an accident?
   2. Why did the murderers clean the kitchen of fingerprints? They were wearing gloves.
   3. What was the poison used for the murders?
   4. Why did the murderers use poison?
   5. What type of faction is considering abandoning Red? Since Van Ness’s son, Timothy Peterson, could vote in his place, it is unlikely to be a criminal organization.
   6. Why was the murder so dramatically staged?
4. Elizabeth Keen
   1. Will Keen attempt to destroy the police recording?
5. Samar Navabi
   1. Why is Samar unwilling to tell Aram Mojtabai of her possible aphasia?
6. Donald Ressler
   1. Why did Ressler decide to use Alter Ego?
7. Michael Sima
   1. Sima seems more concerned with his career than justice. Roberta Wilkins told him to avoid moving so fast.

Cast

Main star

• James Spader as Raymond Reddington
• Megan Boone as Elizabeth Keen
• Diego Klattenhoff as Donald Ressler
• Harry Lennix as Harold Cooper
• Amir Arison as Aram Mojtabai
• Mozhan Marnò as Samar Navabi
• Hisham Tawfiq as Dembe Zuma

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External Links

• NBC.com
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