Neville Townsend was a character on The Blacklist.
Background[]
Neville Townsend was a drug lord and crime lord in Russia with ties to the Russian Bratva, that used his ports to move their drugs. 30 years ago, as the result of N-13's actions, his narcotics smuggling operation was exposed. Because of that, the Bratva's Vory murdered his family as a warning to not turn state's evidence against them. The tragedy left him emotionally scarred and unable to sleep with a stable pattern. Believing N-13 to be Katarina Rostova, due to his KGB sources, Townsend created the Townsend Directive, a dead-only bounty on Katarina Rostova. Townsend himself was mentioned in a flashback scene between Ilya Koslov and Dominic Wilkinson in a cafe in Belgrade, where Dom was explaining the formation of the Townsend Directive.
Season 8[]
“The Cyranoid“[]
Keen's double murders Mary Bremmer, Townsend's sister, as a loyalty test.
“Dr. Laken Perillos“[]
Laken Perillos tortures Raymond Reddington and Dembe Zuma to discover the location of the Sikorsky archive. Townsend later pummels Max Ruddiger because his failure.
“Captain Kidd“[]
Townsend contracts with the Saudi secret police to deliver a renowned human rights defender into their custody in exchange for Bitcoin payment made through an intermediary. When the job is botched with help from the Task Force, Townsend realizes William Benedict may be taken into FBI custody. Townsend arrives to kill Benedict to cover his tracks.
“Anne”[]
Townsend, with a death squad, descend on Anne’s hometown in order to extract Red.
“Misere”[]
Neville reveals his history to Elizabeth Keen.
“The Russian Knot”[]
Neville threatens Elizabeth. She later threatens him.
“Nicholas Obenrader”[]
Neville learns of Liz’s duplicity after Vandyke puts malware on Donald Ressler’s cell. Through the malware, he discovers the identity of Reddington’s friend Ivan Stepanov. While keeping Liz in the dark about what he knows, Neville moves swiftly to kidnap Ivan, and confront him about N-13 and the Sikorsky Archive. Meanwhile, Reddington places a double agent, Priya Laghari, inside Townsend’s organization with orders to assassinate him.
“Ivan Stepanov”[]
The events of the night Neville’s family was killed are shown. Neville recounts the story to Ivan while he tortures Ivan with an electric shock collar and drugs. When Ivan finally breaks down, he whispers something into Neville’s ear. This changes his focus from torturing Ivan to vowing suffering and death on Elizabeth. By this time, Reddington knows through Priya the location of Townsend and attacks the building. A firefight ensues. Eventually, the FBI arrives as well. Reddington manages to leave by then. Townsend issues a new directive targeting Elizabeth Keen, Raymond Reddington, Priya Laghari, and the Task Force, over Elizabeth’s unknown connection to the death of his family.
“The Protean”[]
Neville hires the Protean as part of his directive. While the Protean prefers to work his jobs his way, Neville persistently calls him for updates on Elizabeth’s whereabouts.
“Balthazar ‘Bino’ Baker”[]
Neville and his men are on Elizabeth’s trail. He learns she and Ressler are in the Seventh Ward. He drives out there and pays school students to locate their location. Bino finds out it’s Neville that she is hiding from, so he reports to Neville that he has Elizabeth in his custody in order to appease him, and to apologize for helping Reddington unwittingly. Neville’s team fails to capture her but they manage to seriously wound Ressler.
“Godwin Page”[]
Neville breaches Bino’s chess club, the Castle, to find Elizabeth, only finding Balthazar Baker’s corpse. Keen located the hidden door leading into Bino’s pipeline and made an escape with Reddington and Dembe. After losing her again, Neville turns his attention to sending Godwin away to safety as the FBI has authorized an arrest warrant. This turns out to be one of Reddington’s sleight of hand magick tricks and Godwin is captured. Elizabeth aids Godwin's escape in exchange for Neville killing Reddington and ending the vendetta. Elizabeth uses Godwin’s tracking chip to give Neville Red’s location, but Neville arrives too late, Red’s has taken Elizabeth away on his private jet.
”Nachalo”[]
He attacks the bunker before Liz learns the true name of Red. He reveals that he has not slept with stability in 25 years. He is killed in an explosion set by Red.
”Konets”[]
His corpse is identified. It was revealed his syndicate worked with Russian, Serbian, Italian, Chinese, American, and British mafia groups. After his death, they will come to take over his empire. He obtains his revenge when Elias VanDyke murders Keen.
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