That needle - gross!

Dembe playing with Agnes!   Awww

interesting.  so the missing funds and lost accountant done by another person......a Person of Interest.   (ha BBB)

Other than a handful of Red's lines this might have been the weakest TBL in years, maybe worst ever. Writing was horrid. I did like the guy who played Malik and the title character girl was surprisingly strong and committed to an idiotic role. Thought James Corden was gonna pop out of the woodwork and get everyone in an episode of "Karaoke Kab".
Really miss Liz having a stronger story-line and the absence of Mr. Kaplan is showing.
Red's encounter with the other super-criminal was rather loose, shall we say!

Great close to the episode. Remind me - "Who's Isabella Stone?"

So Isabella Stone is a character assassin. And her next victim is Raymond Reddington.

Isabella is a derivation/form of Elizabeth. They must love that name, huh?

How did that $200M get diverted and to where? Did Isabella do it?

And where is Mr. Kaplan? Somehow and somewhere she is getting better and she's digging her way back. My husband and I still think she is far too important in Red's life to not make a significant come back somehow. He's really lost without here.

Tatiana - yes, another character named Elizabeth!  

For me its not clear yet whether Isabella Stone actually diverted the funds and/or stole them, or whether she just got Natalie to kill Red's accountant.  I'm still trying to work out what all the dialogue about Smoll's "missus" was about in the last episode.  A codeword/phrase perhaps.  

I think Kaplan is going to come back at the very end in a grand fashion.  Just my thought.

I need to re-watch Red's speech at the end, with the Japan reference (a tie in also to Mako Tanida, and his words to Donald?).  Did anyone notice that the music that was playing during that speech sounded like the music that played in Cape May, I think when he was in the car being driven to Cape May.....?

Also interesting choice of piano music for the serious scenes for the ill-fated lovers, including the death scene.  Was appropriate, but it was, or sounded like, solo piano playing....

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But I must say I am intrigued by who Isabella Stone is or how Red knows her.  He was upset enough at the news that she was behind Smoll's death, that he could not stand up.....

Post episode thoughts:
I found it interesting Tom was willing to play the Edgar Legatt part for Reddington. He likes going undercover.

It was fun to see the CDC Irish woman again. That takes us right back to Season 1 when she appeared in two different episodes.

Samar is such a sucker for romance. I enjoyed her scenes with Aram, especially the last one.

I wonder if Isabella Stone is one of Red's old girlfriends. He was so thunderstruck by the news she had been behind the accountant's death he needed some time to process it. I think she will be the parallel for Madeleine Pratt,