The Hawaladar

"The Hawaladar"
Season 7, Episode 8
Episode Information
Air date	November 22, 2019
Directed by	Paul Holahan
Written by	Jon Bokenkamp Lukas Reiter
Episode Chronology
Previous	“[[Hannah Hayes ]]”
Next	“[[Orion Relocation Services ]]”

"The Hawaladar" is the eighth episode of Season 7 of The Blacklist and the hundred and forty-first overall.

Press Release

Desperate for information about the whereabouts of a longtime friend, Red directs the Task Force to find a blacklister who specializes in untraceable money transfers. Meanwhile, Liz receives some disturbing news from her daughter Agnes.

Number on The Blacklist

• 162

Unanswered Questions

1. The title is a reference to the hawala system.
2. Bhavish Ratna
   1. How many clients will be arrested?
   2. How many restaurants will be shut down?
   3. Why did Ratna have to deliver the 3,500,000 dollars himself?
   4. Where will Ratna go? His network is destroyed and exposed.
   5. How many client names were in the notebook?
3. Raymond Reddington
   1. What would Red have done if the FBI had arrested Ratna?
   2. What would Red have done if the FBI had captured the cash?
   3. Is Ilya Red or is Red somebody else?
   4. Who are Red’s 3 executioners?

A: The three prison officials who would have given Red the three drugs used in lethal injections.

1. Katarina Rostova
   1. Why is Katarina so important to the Townsend Directive? What threat does she represent?
   2. What happened in Belgrade?
   3. Why did Katarina’s agent say that the specialist dealt in “junk science”? Bogdan Ivanovich Krilov was a reliable black market memory specialist.
2. Alina Park
   1. What is Alina’s history? She is showing a high degree of perception for the new task force member.
   2. What is a hospital “code silver”?
      1. A: Code silver: weapon or hostage situation.

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

Guest star

• Laila Robins as Katarina Rostova
• Laura Sohn
• Iqbal Theba
• Brett Cullen as Frank Bloom

External Links

• NBC.com
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