The Kazanjian Brothers

"The Kazanjian Brothers"
Season 7, Episode 19
Episode Information
Air date	May 15, 2020
Episode Chronology
Previous	“Roy Cain”
Next	“TBA”

“The Kazanjian Brothers” is the Nineteenth episode of Season 7 of The Blacklist and the hundred and fifty-first overall.

Press Release

The Task Force investigates an accountant who works for lucrative criminals in order to find the violent and thuggish brothers hired for his protection. Meanwhile, Liz must make a momentous decision.

Number on The Blacklist

• 156, 157

Unanswered Questions

1. Kazanjian brothers
   1. Are the Kazanjian brothers dead?
2. How long will Frank Merwin be imprisoned?

Trivia

• This is the first episode to use animation. The animation style is from The Blacklist (Comic).
• Jon Bokenkamp explains the creative changes due to COVID 19 ”Some slight adjustments to the script, mostly trying to expand concepts that we otherwise wouldn’t have been able to execute on our tight production schedule. For example, there’s a scene with three characters in the back of a car, racing through the city. In live action, that would have been shot with green screen and we’d be lucky if we ever popped outside of the car. However, with animation, and working with [visual effects company] Proof, we realized we had an opportunity to open that scene up. We jump outside the car to see the vehicle careening through the streets, cars whizzing past, horns blaring. That’s the kind of thing we would never have been able to do where we shoot in New York City.”
• Another example, we had a scene between Red and Liz where he gives her the case of the week. Originally, this was to be filmed on our stages in Red’s secret apartment. But when we realized we were animating things, that we hadn’t shot that scene yet, we thought, “Why not move this scene to the National Mall in Washington, D.C.? Let’s see the Capitol Building in the background. Big, sweeping, wide shots.”
• This was Brian Dennehy's last episode due to his death.

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

External Links

• NBC.com
• NBC.com