Ruth Kipling

Ruth Kipling
Biographical Information
aka	Number 57 The Judge
Status	Template:I Incarcerated
Career Information
Job	Vigilante Founder of The Amnesty Collective
Out-of-Universe Information
First Seen	“[[The Judge ]]”
Last Seen	“[[The Judge ]]”
Season(s)	1
Actor(s)	Dianne Wiest

Ruth Kipling, aka "The Judge, was the founder of the Amnesty Collective.

Background

Ruth Suzanne Kipling was the founder of the Amnesty Collective. After her father was wrongfully convicted, she began to imprison or execute court and police officials who had wrongfully convicted others. Known as "The Judge", she ran a secret prison yard network where she reviewed prisoner's appeals. Even Raymond Reddington believed her to be a myth.

"The Judge"

After Max Hastings, a federal prosecutor who has been missing for twelve years, suddenly turns up traumatized and ragged, Red believes this to be the work of the Judge, a person who decides on the prisoners' appeals for justice to those who wrongfully convicted them and, if she agrees with their appeal, gives those prosecutors the same punishment they gave the prisoners.

Kipling has contact with Rifkin, the latest prisoner to contact her, by working as his spiritual advisor upon the closing in of his death sentence. After Rifkin dies, she kidnaps Connolly and Cooper, who had beaten Rifkin's confession out of him. As she is about to execute Cooper with a makeshift electric chair, Reddington enters her prison, bringing new information on Rifkin's case. He reveals with a Pentagon file that Rifkin was indeed guilty of slaughtering a village with the Taliban, and convinces Kipling to turn surrender to the FBI squads outside.

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