Andrew Patterson was a member of The Blacklist.
Background[]
Patterson is a Russian hacker and deep cover SVR double agent, codenamed Rakitin, who uses his security clearance within the U.S. government to funnel top secret intelligence to N-13 through a mutual friend in the East.
Season 8[]
“Elizabeth Keen“[]
Patterson pays Red an impromptu visit in the backseat of Red’s car, where Patterson reveals his name has come up in a U.S. House Select Committee on Intelligence investigation. Patterson wants Red to make the problem go away, and is also concerned about staying in the good graces of a company called Scuti Global. Red is being called upon by their friend in the East over concerns about Elizabeth Keen. Later, Red and Dembe leverage a staffer in the House intel offices named Guinevere Claflin to get her to delete the Patterson investigation files from the House servers in exchange for a new identity, cash, and her tax evasion is ignored.
“The Cyranoid”[]
In the intervening episodes up to this appearance, Harold Cooper has learned that Patterson has gotten the attention of at least 1 U.S. Congressman who is aware that a double agent with sensitive security clearances has been sending classified intelligence to N-13. Red is aware of both Patterson’s exposure to the federal police and Cooper’s own investigation into the Sikorsky Archive. Cooper gets the Task Force up to speed about Patterson, who they have discovered to be an agent in the highly classified division of the U.S. intelligence community called the OIA (Office of Intelligence and Analysis). 5 agents in that office have the security clearance to be suspects are on Cooper’s watch list. Patterson stages a grisly car accident, with 1 of the other 4 agents as the victim. Playing into his ploy, the FBI finds a laptop full of the real Patterson’s intelligence files, meant to look like the dead agent was Patterson. Red calls Patterson into question during a secret meeting where Red reminds the latter that although he has been a vital part of Red’s “30 year project”, if he continues to blunder his way through covering his tracks, Red will get rid of him “permanently”.
“Captain Kidd”[]
Patterson makes a call to Red with an offer for new intelligence out of China regarding an impending cyberattack. Red, seeming interested, offers the address to his restaurant for the meeting. On his arrival to the neighborhood, Patterson discovers he is being followed. Alina Park is on his tail, barely disguising her presence. He spots her in his cell phone camera reflection, and abruptly turns to run the other way to lose her. He calls Red en route to inform him of the tail and says he will catch up later. Back at the Post Office, Aram delivers his report to Cooper, confirming Park’s suspicion that Andrew Patterson, last of the 4 surviving suspects, is the real Patterson. When Patterson finally arrives at Red’s restaurant, instead of delivering intelligence, he pressures Red about silencing Harold Cooper, a move which infuriates Red. Red lays down the law and warns Patterson to obey or things will get very hostile. Red reminds him that Cooper is his own issue to deal with, and that Patterson’s only concern should be assuring their friend in the East that the situation is under control. Red ultimately confronts Cooper at the Post Office to let the Patterson matter go, for his own good. Cooper does not relent or stand down, even in the face of the threat that Red’s “unsavory associates” will come after him. Patterson flies back to Moscow to speak to the man in the East, who is annoyed that Red will not do what he feels is necessary to protect what they have built over the decades. At the table, he provides Patterson an envelope of detailed instructions for eliminating Harold Cooper.
“Rakitin”[]
Patterson carries out the plan against Cooper using United States Congressman Russell Friedenberg as the lure. He offers the congressman a Hobson’s choice, trade his life for his daughter Allison’s life and safety, or refuse and Patterson will kill her. Friedenberg gives in, calling Cooper to arrange a fake meeting at a parking structure. Once finished, Patterson puts lethal eye drops into Friedenberg’s eyes, leaving his corpse for his daughter to ultimately find. Trusting his acquaintance, Cooper drives to the structure, and right into the trap of Patterson’s men. Cooper realizes what’s happened very quickly, but before he can escape, the men break his car windows and kidnap him. Shortly after, Cooper wakes up strapped to a table in a secluded warehouse. Red learns of the kidnapping from the man in the East, and demands he calls it off. The man refuses, telling Red it’s too late and there’s nothing anyone can do to help Cooper now. Red calls Patterson in a vain attempt to stop what’s coming next. Patterson brushes his off, claiming he has authorization from their mutual friend. Red gains Aram’s help in tracking a subsequent call to Patterson and orders them to the warehouse before Cooper ends up dead. Patterson is captured in the subsequent FBI raid and Cooper, having been nearly asphyxiated, refuses medical help on the way back to the Post Office. Cooper calls Cynthia Panabaker down the war room while he secures a confession from Patterson. Panabaker is skeptical of Harold’s methods to extract Patterson’s confession and debates the finer points of revealing Red’s involvement with the Task Force. Red, who’s in a precarious position between his loyalty to his friend and his cause, versus his relationship with Cooper and the Task Force, uses Alina Park’s debt to him in order to slip a deadly piece of paper into Patterson’s interrogation room under Cooper and Panabaker’s notice. Patterson opens the letter Park bore to him, which secretly contains a deadly nerve agent which spreads on physical contact. Patterson dies suddenly of a violent brain hemorrhage brought on by the nerve agent just as he is seated in front of a camera to deliver the truth of his relationship with both the Russian SVR and Red’s associates. In light of this, Cooper still remains steadfast in expressing his position to Panabaker that they will move forward in unearthing evidence that Red is truly N-13.
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