Dr. Laken Perillos

"Dr. Laken Perillos"
Season 8, Episode 10
Episode Information
Air date	March 12, 2021
Directed by	Phil Bertelsen
Written by	Aiah Samba
Episode Chronology
Previous	“The Cyranoid”
Next	“Captain Kidd”

“Dr. Laken Perillos” is the Tenth episode of season 8 of The Blacklist and the hundred and sixty-second overall.

Press Release

Red and Dembe land in peril when Townsend deploys a torture specialist who uses unorthodox methods to interrogate her victims.

Number on The Blacklist

• 70

Unanswered Questions

1. Laken Perillos
   1. How did the FBI find the room where Dembe was interrogated?
      1. A: Dembe informed the FBI about the location.
   2. What happened to Liam Bracker?
   3. Why did Red leave Laken alive for the FBI?
2. Raymond Reddington
   1. Red said that he did not want Elizabeth Keen to "Cross the Rubicon" with this action. He is ignoring the fact that his secrecy motivated her to ally with Townsend and she would have been forced to take such actions after inheriting Red's crime syndicate.
   2. What is the Sikorsky Archive?
   3. Red cannot survive if more of his syndicate is bribed or terrorized into altering sides.
   4. Who called the police during the firefight at Max’s laboratory?
3. Dembe Zuma
   1. Why did Dembe tell Ressler where to find Max?
4. Neville Townsend
   1. What is Townsend suffering from?
5. Max Ruddiger
   1. Did Max escape or did Neville take him?
   2. Why did Max know the location of the warehouse?

Cast

Main star

• James Spader as Raymond Reddington
• Megan Boone as Elizabeth Keen (credit only)
• Diego Klattenhoff as Donald Ressler
• Amir Arison as Aram Mojtabai
• Hisham Tawfiq as Dembe Zuma
• Harry Lennix as Harold Cooper
• Laura Sohn as Alina Park

Guest star

• Laverne Cox as Dr. Laken Perillos
• Reg Rogers as Neville Townsend
• Dikran Tulaine as Max Ruddiger
• Lee Zarrett as Bobby Dixon

Co-star

• Kineta Kunutu as Blake Brown

Gallery

Drug

External Links

• NBC.com
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