Rakitin

"Rakitin"
Season 8, Episode 12
Episode Information
Air date	April 2, 2021
Directed by	Mahesh Pailoor
Written by	Lukas Reiter
Episode Chronology
Previous	“Captain Kidd”
Next	“Anne”

“Rakitin” is the Twelfth episode of season 8 of The Blacklist and the hundred and sixty-fourth overall.

Press Release

The Task Force’s determination to identify a Russian asset in the U.S. government puts Cooper and Reddington in increasingly treacherous positions.

Number on The Blacklist

• 28

Unanswered Questions

1. The Post Office task force is enforcing double standards for themselves and others.
2. Raymond Reddington
   1. Red is being placed in a lose-lose situation.
   2. What is Red’s project?
3. Harold Cooper
   1. Cooper is losing his allies and self-control.
   2. Why did Cooper pour a low amount of the alcohol drink into the glasses?
      1. A: Whiskey is a highly concentrated liquor with an alcohol by volume level around 40 percent.
4. Donald Ressler
   1. When did Ressler obtain Skip Hadley’s telephone number?
      1. A: Liz gave Ressler a number before she left.
5. Alina Park
   1. Where did Red get the video of Alina?
      1. A: The criminal that Alina assaulted was already recording when she approached him, and the camera kept on running. When Alina was done pummeling him, she was in shock by what she had done and neglected to do any cleaning, instead merely calling on Red to do it for her. Red was able to recover the footage from the video phone that was left at the scene of the crime.
   2. Alina has been showing double standards.
6. Cynthia Panabaker
   1. Panabaker may decide to remove Cooper from command.
   2. Why was Panabaker shocked at Red’s arrogance?
   3. Panabaker has been showing double standards.

Cast

Main star

• James Spader as Raymond Reddington
• Megan Boone as Elizabeth Keen
• 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

• Deirdre Lovejoy as Cynthia Panabaker
• Seth Numrich as Andrew Patterson
• Patrick Breen as Congressman Russell Friedenberg
• Drew Gehling as Skip Hadley
• David E. Harrison as Ivan Stepanov
• Robert Emmet Lunney as Geoffrey Hill

External Links

• NBC.com
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