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"The Front" is the fifth episode of Season 2 of The Blacklist and the twenty seventh episode overall. It aired on October 20, 2014 on NBC.
Synopsis
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ECO-TERRORISTS PURSUE A DEADLY TREASURE– Agents Keen, Ressler, and Cooper pursue an eco-terrorist cell in search of a destructive weapon. Meanwhile, Liz tries to lose her guardian. Elsewhere, Red uses manipulation to pursue someone close to his heart.
Number on The Blacklist
- 74
Unanswered Questions
- Raymond Reddington
- Why did Red not kill Maddox Beck himself?
- A: To a fanatic, like Beck, living with failure is intolerable, hence the murder/suicide.
- Q: Beck refused to infect himself. That is not the sign of a fanatic.
- A: Trying to indiscriminately kill over 90% of humanity is the act of a fanatic.
- What is the significance of the key?
- Why has Red not had Milos Kirchoff assassinated?
- A: Because he is not ready to take over his syndicate.
- Q: Red surrendered to the FBI and Niko Demakis chose to ally with Milos Kirchoff. If the situation was/is that bad then assassination removes the primary threat. Red can/could exploit the ensuring power struggle after the leadership is paralyzed. The Irish Republican Army fractured into multiple factions over political reasons.
- A: The FBI is not hindering Red's syndicate much, and a power struggle within Milos Kirchoff's syndicate could lead to problems within Red's syndicate.
- A: Red wanted to know who started the conflict between himself and Kirchoff, once he found out the information he killed Kirchoff in "The Decembrist".
- Why did Red not kill Maddox Beck himself?
- Elizabeth Keen
- How can Liz despise Red and be jealous of his possible daughter at the same time?
- A: Human nature.
- Why has Liz's double been able to deceive Ezra?
- A: The double has been careful never to show her face to Ezra.
- What did the double write on the window?
- A: Bite me.
- Who played the role of Keen's double?
- Who does Liz meet in that boiler room, and where is she asking to "go in" to?
- A: The Samoan.
- A: Maybe she is hiding the alive "Tom Keen" in there.
- A: It was confirmed in "The Mombasa Cartel" that Tom is Liz's prisoner.
- How can Liz despise Red and be jealous of his possible daughter at the same time?
- The Apophis Strain pneumonic plague
- Why was the painting map created? The priests were sent to destroy the virus.
- A: The medieval church recorded everything, which is why most historians now dispute the occurrence of mass torture and witch burnings by Spanish Inquisition.
- Why send the priests? The virus could have been destroyed by burning it after the Byzantines and Ottomans made the truce.
- A: In the Middle Ages mind, the virus could have been created by God, and therefore should be preserved like all God's creations.
- Q: The Middle Ages also had witch-hunts and religious purges.
- A: They were driving out the devil.
- Q: A virus would be seen as an act of the devil. Destroying the virus would destroy the evil.
- A: Plagues come from God, as told in the story of Moses.
- Why was the body moved from Burial Ridge to the Holy Trinity Church?
- A: To bring the virus under the control of the church.
- Q: Then why not bury at the Holy Trinity Church to begin with? Was a "secret society" created to guard the corpse?
- A: Holy Trinity church was not built at the time of the original burial.
- Q: That means the church knew about the virus and maintained a "secret society".
- A: The whole premise of "The Da Vinci Code" is a secret church "society" hiding something, there have been numerous rumours about the secret Vatican archive for centuries.
- Why was the stone marker created?
- A: To inform those who were looking for the virus where it was currently located.
- Q: Why risk an outsider learning the truth? The priests were sent to destroy the virus. That means removing the knowledge from history.
- A: The marker could only be decoded with knowledge of the virus and the original priests mission.
- Why did the virus still work after hundreds of years?
- A: It was probably not still active, but could be re-created as indicated here.
- Why were there no samples at the first lab the FBI found?
- A: The terrorists had decontaminated the site.
- Why did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need the original strain of the virus for creating an antidote?
- A: Because the virus was mutating in the infected people.
- Q: If the disease mutates, then the antidote might not work on the new strain.
- A: Virus mutations are subsets of the original. In the 2 "Star Trek" episodes that used the polywater storyline, the cure for the mutation of the polywater intoxication was developed from the original cure.
- Why was the painting map created? The priests were sent to destroy the virus.
- Maddox Beck
- Why did Beck believe the story of the virus in the first place? Even fanatics must be skeptical of legends and myths.
- A: The hidden map gave credence to the legends.
- Why did Beck not have the visor shut on his hazmat suit when he retrieved the virus?
- A: When confronted by Liz the virus was already safely stored.
- Beck's use of the virus could easily have evolved into a strain that killed animal life.
- A: Fanatics are not known for their ability to think beyond the initial results of their actions.
- Q: Beck refused to infect himself. That is not the sign of a fanatic.
- A: He had the antidote.
- Why did Beck believe the story of the virus in the first place? Even fanatics must be skeptical of legends and myths.
- Why was Samar Navabi so harsh on Keen? Keen was ambushed from behind, she kept the gun pointed at Beck the whole time.
- A: She has read the report on the Frederick Barnes case.
- What will Harold Cooper do now that he knows that Lillian Sharpe is working for Red?
- A: Throw his arms up in despair and resolve not to ask her advice again.
- Why did Carrie Ann Beck choose to abandon the scheme?
- A: Because she was pregnant and like most pregnant women wanted her child to live.
- Q: She did not care about the millions of other children who would have died from the virus release.
- Is Zoe D'Antonio Red's real daughter? Age enhancement computer programs are not 100% reliable.
- A: I expect her to be Milos Kirchoff's actual daughter.
- A: Zoe/Jennifer is confirmed to be Milos Kirchoff's daughter in "The Scimitar".
- A: Red has found Milos Kirchoff's daughter, Jennifer, living under an assumed name as Zoe D'Antonio and brought her to him.
Slanders on the FBI
- Why did the FBI agents use hazmat suits instead of NBC suits or MOPP?
- A: The other types have all been requisitioned to deal with the Ebola problem.
- Why was the FBI and FAA unable to impose a no-fly lockdown?
- Why was Dulles airport not evacuated, a simple fire alarm would have sufficed.
- A: The carrier could have escaped in the chaos.
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Season 2 Episodes |
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· Lord Baltimore · Monarch Douglas Bank · Dr. James Covington · Dr. Linus Creel · The Front · The Mombasa Cartel · The Scimitar · The Decembrist · Luther Braxton · Luther Braxton: Conclusion · Ruslan Denisov · The Kenyon Family · The Deer Hunter · T. Earl King VI · The Major · Tom Keen · The Longevity Initiative · Vanessa Cruz · Leonard Caul · Quon Zhang · Karakurt · Tom Connolly · |