Lawrence Dane Devlin

"Lawrence Dane Devlin"
Season 5, Episode 21
Episode Information
Air date	May 9, 2018
Directed by	Bethany Rooney
Written by	Carla Kettner Sean Hennen
Episode Chronology
Previous	“Nicholas T. Moore”
Next	“Sutton Ross”

“Lawrence Dane Devlin” is the twenty-first episode of Season 5 of The Blacklist and the hundred and tenth episode overall.

Press Release

When Samar lands in the crosshairs of an unconventional Blacklister, Aram and the Task Force spring into action to find her before it's too late. Meanwhile, Red journeys to Costa Rica to prevent the duffel bag of bones from being sold to the highest bidder at an underground auction.

Number on The Blacklist

• 26

Unanswered Questions

1. Elizabeth Keen
   1. How did Keen find the auction?
2. Raymond Reddington
   1. Why does Red know Sutton Ross?
   2. What will Red do with the Assyrian relief?
   3. Why did Red raise the price on the Assyrian relief?
      1. A: Attract the attention of the auction manager.
   4. Why is the skeleton so important? Ian Garvey and Sutton Ross have not gone public with the truth.
      1. A: They contain what truly happened in Liz's past and how Katarina died.
      2. A: In “Sutton Ross”, it's revealed that the bones belonged to the real Raymond Reddington and that the imposter has been posing as him for 30 years.
3. Lawrence Dane Devlin
   1. Why did nobody find the bodies on the Devlin property?
      1. A: Unknown. Even Liz asked that. Perhaps because it is so remote, no one would think to look.
   2. Will the FBI locate Devlin’s corpse?
      1. A: Most likely. The FBI knows where he was hiding the bodies, so his corpse would also be found eventually.
4. Nicholas Tyler Moore
   1. Why did Moore have a cyanide pill in his bible?
      1. A: He planned to commit suicide by ingesting it.
      2. Q: Why place the pill in the bible?
      3. A: It was implied that Moore had placed the pill there long before he was arrested.
5. Samar Navabi
   1. Why was Samar not able to overpower Devlin?
      1. A: Devlin has more body mass, making him harder to take down. He also has a gun and she had no weapons, leaving her at a disadvantage.
   2. Why did Samar, a trained operative, go into panic mode instead of using the tire iron sooner?
   3. Will Samar ever recover?
      1. A: According to Ressler, Samar would survive, but may have to rely on life support for the rest of her life due to how long she was deprived of oxygen and possible brain damage as a result.
      2. A: In “Sutton Ross”, Samar regains consciousness and no longer needs life support.
      3. A: She does, but she suffers permanent side-effects afterward.
6. Aram Mojtabai
   1. What will be the aftermath of Aram helping Moore commit suicide?
      1. A: He will most likely get yelled at by Cooper and get some form of punishment, but nothing too major. His mistake did yield results that saved Samar in the end. Any later and she could have died.
   2. Why did nobody care about the interrogation room video camera being deactivated?
      1. A: That obviously went along with Aram giving him the bible with the cyanide pill to kill himself, so anything that Aram dealt with for giving him the bible also involved him turning off the cameras. They may not have known about it if they never had a reason to watch the feed.

Cast

Main star

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

Guest star

• Pruitt Taylor Vince as Lawrence Dane Devlin
• Bob Gunton as Nicholas Tyler Moore
• Michael Aronov as Joe Putnum
• José Zúñiga as Gonzalez
• Caroline Lagerfelt as Vera
• Teddy Coluca as Teddy Brimley
• Jeffrey Bean as Julius Hannelore
• Jonny Coyne as Ian Garvey (uncredited)
• Julian Sands as Sutton Ross (uncredited)

Co-star

• Nathan Wallace as Isaiah Hull
• Jeremy Gram Weaver as Kit
• Gillian Glasco as Agent Miller
• Steve Lord as Armed Guard #1
• Nicholas B.A. Nicholson as Auctioneer
• Brett Azar as Armed Guard #2

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External Links

• NBC.com
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