The Osterman Umbrella Company

"The Osterman Umbrella Company"
Season 6, Episode 14
Episode Information
Air date	March 29, 2019
Directed by	Bill Roe
Written by	Sean Hennen
Episode Chronology
Previous	“[[Robert Vesco ]]”
Next	“[[Olivia Olson ]]”

"The Osterman Umbrella Company" is the Fourteenth episode of Season 6 of The Blacklist and the hundred and twentieth-Fifth episode overall.

Press Release

Red directs Liz to investigate a secret organization of assassins hired by global intelligence agencies to eliminate former agents, a case with ramifications that will change the Task Force forever.

Number on The Blacklist

• 6

Unanswered Questions

1. The name is a reference to Jon Osterman.
2. The token used in Singapore, 242, is a reference to tetraphobia.
3. Raymond Reddington
   1. What does Red need from Spalding Stark?
   2. Why did Red not shoot Levi, he used the same execution method he used for Newton Phillips.
      1. A: He seems to use this method for more personal executions.
4. Osterman Umbrella Company
   1. Why did the Osterman Umbrella Company use poisoned rings as a first resort weapon?
      1. They likely felt it to be a less trackable weapon than shooting their targets and is far more subtle, such as how the woman was assassinated in the middle of a crowd at the beginning of the episode.
   2. Will the Osterman Umbrella Company suffer since they have been exposed?
5. Samar Navabi
   1. How did Samar know that the woman was from the Osterman Umbrella Company?
   2. Would Samar have been targeted if Aram Mojtabai had not told Levi about her vascular dementia?
6. Harold Cooper
   1. Will Cooper be able to retaliate against Mossad?
   2. Where did Cooper get new passports that Mossad could not track?
   3. Why had Cooper not heard of the Osterman Umbrella Company? It had been operating since the Cold War.

Cast

Main star

• James Spader as Raymond Reddington
• Megan Boone as Elizabeth Keen
• Diego Klattenhoff as Donald Ressler
• Harry Lennix as Harold Cooper
• Amir Arison as Aram Mojtabai
• Mozhan Marnò as Samar Navabi
• Hisham Tawfiq as Dembe Zuma

Guest star

• Oded Fehr as Levi Shur

External Links

• NBC.com
• NBC.com