Ian Garvey was a member of The Blacklist.
Background[]
Ian Garvey was a corrupt and high ranking US Marshal who used his position to conceal his involvement in the Nash Syndicate, a powerful drug cartel that he controlled and shielded from law enforcement. As a US Marshal, Garvey met Raymond Reddington's family and grew fond of his daughter Jennifer Reddington, who became his surrogate daughter.
Season 5[]
“The Kilgannon Corporation”[]
Ian Garvey sends men to capture Pete McGee but finds Tom Keen and Lena Mercer instead. He holds them hostage and after further deliberation kills Pete and Lena, leaving Tom alive so he can contact Raymond Reddington.
“Ian Garvey”[]
Garvey kills Tom Keen and critically injures Liz. Garvey recovers the bones.
“The Informant”[]
“The Cook”[]
“The Invisible Hand”[]
“Mr. Raleigh Sinclair III”[]
“Pattie Sue Edwards”[]
Liz and Detective Norman Singleton, who is a part of a task force trying to take down the Nash Syndicate along with Garvey, set a trap for Garvey that allows Singleton to identify Garvey as Tom's killer. Catching Singleton in the act, Garvey threatens his family, stabs Singleton to death, and frames it as a robbery. While investigating Singleton's death with Harold Cooper, Liz spots Garvey nearby giving instructions to police officers and recognizes him as Tom's killer.
“The Capricorn Killer”[]
Liz runs surveillance on Garvey who now faces an investigation from the Marshall's Office of Internal Affairs following Liz's identification of him as Tom's killer. Garvey unsuccessfully attempts to take control of a witness who saw him murder Singleton. Using the bones as leverage, Red is forced to abduct the witness. Even though Red succeeds, he tells Garvey that if he tries to use Liz as leverage, he will kill him.
“Anna-Gracia Duerte”[]
Garvey attempts to take Liz hostage after trying to locate the witness. The attempt fails due to Red's finding out about his plans and having Dembe and his men rescue them. Reddington realizes that by threatening Garvey, he revealed how important Liz is to him, prompting Garvey to target her. However, the Task Force recovers a ledger of drug routes which Reddington states is the key to taking Garvey down. Reddington later warns Garvey that he has something valuable of his and promises to be in touch.
“Zarak Mosadek”[]
The Internal Affairs investigation into Garvey is closed when it's determined that the evidence against him is mostly circumstantial. However, the agent reveals that there were other complaints into Garvey. Liz and Aram later steal the confidential files on the investigations into Garvey. The files reveal that Internal Affairs audited Garvey's bank accounts, had backgrounds on his friends and family, and had a revolving tail on him for weeks, but they came up empty. However, Liz finds out that Garvey goes to Pete's Tavern every Friday at 12:30 PM which is a bar in Baltimore over 50 miles away from his office.
Liz and Aram surveil Garvey at the bar where he sits and has a beer for 45 minutes without meeting or calling anyone. However, as Garvey leaves, he kisses goodbye one of the employees, Lillian Roth, who has nothing in her background to suggest why Garvey would be interested in driving an hour away to see her.
At the same time, Garvey faces trouble with his supplier Zarak Mosadek who was identified by the recovered ledger. The Task Force and Reddington capture Zarak whose son Mateen has been kidnapped by the Taliban. Reddington makes a deal with Zarak where he will rescue Mateen in exchange for Zarak cutting Garvey's drug supply and taking his power away from him. After Mateen's rescue, Reddington instructs Zarak to set up a meeting with Garvey.
Later, Garvey is visited by his drug contact, who tells him that Zarak wants to meet with him and is coming to American for it.
Liz brings Lillian home and shows her the investigation board into Garvey to try to get her cooperation. Lillian reveals that Garvey put her into Witness Protection to keep her father away from her, spending 20 years there while waiting for the day when he is finally brought to justice to face his crimes. During that time, Garvey became like a father to her. Lillian is actually Reddington's daughter Jennifer Reddington.
“Ian Garvey: Conclusion”[]
Garvey is shot multiple times by Keen and Dembe after he tries to kill Red. Keen treats Garvey's wounds and calls for an ambulance, as she doesn't want Garvey to die without revealing the truth about the bones to her. Though Garvey is rushed to the hospital, his wounds are severe, possibly even fatal. His attempt to tell Keen the truth fails as the bleeding becomes critical. As he's wheeled down the corridor, the doctors state that they are losing his pulse.
“Nicholas T. Moore”[]
In a conversation between Red and Liz, it is confirmed that Garvey died of his injuries. Liz is unhappy that Garvey's knowledge of what was in the duffel bag died with him.
“Lawrence Dane Devlin”[]
Garvey is shown giving Sutton Ross the skeleton.
After discovering Sutton Ross to be alive, Red theorizes that Garvey used his power to put the man into witness protection, since Red had believed Ross to be dead.
“Sutton Ross”[]
Sutton Ross tells Liz that Garvey didn't give him the bag of bones, because Ross hates Reddington. Garvey wanted Ross to reveal the truth to the person Garvey cared about most: Jennifer Reddington. Garvey, like Tom Keen before him, had learned the truth from the DNA test that Nik Korpal had run which was still in the duffle bag with the bones: the bones belong to the real Raymond Reddington and the current Reddington is an imposter who has been posing as Reddington for 30 years.
Garvey later appears in a flashback to his murder of Tom as Liz tells a hallucination of her husband what she has learned about the secret that Reddington was willing to kill so many people to keep.
Unanswered Questions[]
- How did Garvey know about the skeleton?
- Why does Garvey need Red's confession concerning the skeleton? He has the documents of the DNA test to prove who the remains belong to.
- He knows that they belong to the real Raymond Reddington and wants to force the imposter to reveal the truth.
- Why did Garvey place Jennifer in Witness Protection for 20 years?
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