The Blacklist Refugees » Possible Parallels

lara1 · 2/24/2018 9:02 pm

Tuxie400 - yes, that was a biggie, IMO. Not as big as Tom hiding in the closet, but still a biggie, IMO

Eastcoast · 2/25/2018 1:52 am

Tuxie, I didnt think of those. If Garvey had called her sweatheart i think i would have fell over!

lara1 · 2/28/2018 7:23 pm

So, given that we were talking about payphones on the other thread - here are some possible parallels

Red calls from a payphone when going on the run after Anslo
Kirk calls Red at a payphone early in Season 3, with the boxing poster behind it that we commented on at the time
IN Requiem KR calls Kaplan from a payphone at Cape May before disappearing
There is a payphone in the diner in Cape May episode.
There is an out of date telephone exchange on the desk in the hotel front lobby in Cape May episode (which was definitely a time warp thing)

any others?

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lara1 · 2/28/2018 7:39 pm

I added some stuff from 5.13. I need to go back and fill in eps. 5.11-5.13 for anything I missed.

lara1 · 2/28/2018 9:00 pm

Since we were talking parallels, the husband shooting the wife and grazing her upper arm in a garage is a parallel to Red shooting Scottie in the airport garage

Tuxie400 · 3/03/2018 11:05 am

I noticed when Red gave Samar the case in the Raleigh Sinclair episode, he asked her if she had ever heard about the Innocence Project, the group that helps convictions get overturned through DNA or refuting witness testimony. Last season, Tom pretended to be a representative of the Innocence Project when he talked to the mother of the man who supposedly killed Christopher Hargrave.

lara1 · 3/03/2018 3:12 pm

Thanks Tuxie, I knew I'd heard it before but couldn't remember where.

Tatiana · 3/06/2018 1:46 pm

You all probably know this, but I was just reading an interview with the Jons and they both said as the series continues on it's really hard to come up with new material for an episode. So they have been rehashing previous story lines but with a different twist. It makes a whole lot of sense to me. And it's probably why they had Liz dispose of the body a la Stewmaker-style.
a criminal from Liz's past.

3/06/2018 3:01 pm

I can’t imagine trying to come up with a unique blacklister every week for 22 episodes a year. Even with all the different writers eventually you start to run short on ideas that aren’t ridiculous tropes or too ludicrous for the show.

Eastcoast · 3/07/2018 2:13 am

Tatiana, who was that interview with?

Brittany, it is a lot even if you have a great imagination.
I guess all they can do is switch it around. But I really have had my fill of seeing people or animals burning...

Eastcoast · 3/07/2018 9:50 pm

DNA search is another parallel.

And seeking her husbands killer.

Tuxie400 · 3/12/2018 2:32 pm

Parallel with Pattie Sue Edwards and the pilot: Pattie's virus was a double stranded Nipah virus. Ranko Zamani had the Nipah virus.

Tatiana · 3/12/2018 3:41 pm

Tuxie400 wrote:
Parallel with Pattie Sue Edwards and the pilot: Pattie's virus was a double stranded Nipah virus. Ranko Zamani had the Nipah virus.

Holy Toledo, Tuxie! That was a good catch~

Tuxie400 · 3/12/2018 4:53 pm

Thanks Tatiana - I found it the other day when I read the script to make sure I understood the thing about two people's blood on Pattie Sue's husband's shirt. I just kept forgetting to post it.

Eastcoast · 3/13/2018 11:56 pm

lara, I was just reading your list. You have mirrors and glass. 4 people were in the Bullet Proof ?Glass Box.
Red, Liz, Fake Red/Fred and Kirk. 2 of her fathers and a fake father? Donald was in there for a different reason.

lara1 · 3/14/2018 11:00 am

Esatcoast - yes, and Fitch too. the plot thickens....

Eastcoast · 3/14/2018 4:01 pm

Something I was thinking about for your list that popped in my head, lol

I saw that you had Liz being chocked by Navaro, she was also choked by The King Maker.

And thinking about Madeline, did she know Red was married? I wonder what name she would have used, Madeline or Carla to get into the safe deposit box?

Tatiana · 3/15/2018 7:42 am

Another parallel which someone may have already noted. The spoiler for next episode, Maria-Gracia Duerte and the pilot, in both Keen barges in on Reddington and confronts him. Her voice, her mannerisms and even some of her words are exactly alike. I think in the pilot her voice was a slightly higher pitch, but you cannot help but see the similarity. I'm trying to find the whole clip from the pilot but I can't.

Tuxie400 · 3/15/2018 8:52 am

Tatiana - I noticed Liz's physical behavior was similar to when she put the pen in his neck in the pilot, but I didn't realize it was similar dialog.

Tatiana · 3/15/2018 10:27 am

Tuxie400 wrote:
Tatiana - I noticed Liz's physical behavior was similar to when she put the pen in his neck in the pilot, but I didn't realize it was similar dialog.

It's eery, her tone of voice is almost perfectly the same...