The Wellstone Agency

"The Wellstone Agency"
Season 8, Episode 6
Episode Information
Air date	February 12, 2021
Directed by	Matthew McLoota
Written by	Kelli Johnson
Episode Chronology
Previous	“The Fribourg Confidence”
Next	“Chemical Mary”

“The Wellstone Agency” is the Sixth episode of season 8 of The Blacklist and the hundred and fifty-eighth overall.

Press Release

Red and Dembe go to great lengths to fulfill the final wishes of a dear friend. Aram goes undercover as an interpreter to a company that provides services to criminals, while Park helps a friend in trouble.

Number on The Blacklist

• 127

Unanswered Questions

1. Wellstone Agency
   1. How many employees and clients will be convicted?
   2. Where will the Colonel go?
   3. Why was only 1 client listed along with the translator? The file should have listed client 1, translator, and client 2.
   4. Why did the Colonel lack a dedicated translator?
   5. Why the did Colonel not write out the conversation? He wrote down the name of Adin Markovic, the bounty hunter.
2. Elizabeth Keen
   1. Why does Keen need Adin Markovic, a bounty hunter?
   2. Keen will have to create new aliases to avoid being traced and tracked.
3. Raymond Reddington
   1. Red’s refusal to accept the blame will backlash on him.
   2. What would Red have done if Aram had not known sign language?
   3. What occurred between Red and his translator?
   4. Why was Red unable to hire a new translator?
   5. Why was Red shocked that Glen Carter had died from West Nile fever/West Nile virus?
      1. A: According to Jon Bokenkamp "It was a total shock when we learned that Clark died from West Nile. It was just so random, strange and unexpected. We thought, “Well, that is what happened. It caught us by surprise, and maybe it should catch the characters on our show by surprise.”
   6. Why did Red insist that his file was deleted?
   7. Red cannot sustain his double game and/or triple game indefinitely.
4. Harold Cooper
   1. Did Cooper believe Alina?
   2. Cooper would have had to use outside aid if none of the Task Force was multilingual.
5. Aram Mojtabai
   1. Where did Aram learn 6/7 languages?
   2. Why did the FBI not know that Aram speaks 6/7 languages?
6. Alina Park
   1. Where did Park learn Korean?
      1. A: She's Korean, either from her family or a personal interest.
   2. Why would the banks reject giving a loan to a restaurant?
      1. A: Banks reject giving loans all of the time, especially when you are deemed unlikely to be able to pay it back.
   3. Alina’s emotional rage will destroy her if she cannot control it.
   4. Alina’s need for Red’s aid will create a debt with Red.
   5. Why did the loan shark burn the restaurant? That ensures that the loan cannot be repaid.
      1. A: They do it to cut their losses and spread fear to other clients.

Trivia

• This episode is dedicated to the memory of Clark Middleton who played Glen Carter on The Blacklist. Middleton died of complications from the West Nile virus on October 4, 2020.

Cast

Main star

• James Spader as Raymond Reddington
• Megan Boone as Elizabeth Keen (credit only)
• Diego Klattenhoff as Donald Ressler
• Amir Arison as Aram Mojtabai
• Hisham Tawfiq as Dembe Zuma
• Harry Lennix as Harold Cooper
• Laura Sohn as Alina Park

Guest star

• Huey Lewis as Himself
• Marylouise Burke as Paula Carter
• James Yaegashi as Alexander Frayne
• Olamide Candide-Johnson as Jessica
• Vince Nappo as Radley Jorgensen
• Tye Alexander as Mason Dieterle
• Bob Hiltermann as The Colonel

Gallery

Colonel

External Links

• NBC.com
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