Some are still in use.  A lot of places such as Dr. Offices are keeping the old files and putting anything new in the computer. My Dr. has a huge section of files he can refer back to. They said it will take a long time to get everything in there. 

Honeywest said,  Well, after looking at the City promo, I guess Red doesn’t know who he is. But then again, maybe he never knew who Seaduke was either. But, wow, is this the first time Red has told someone to his face "I’m gonna kill you." 

​I felt like that was a wow moment!
  I was thinking back if we ever heard him say that and I don't think we ever heard him put anything like that. He did tell Albert he was going to kill him if he didn't tell him where it was. This just felt different and I think the writers intended us to feel that when he said it.  


 

lara1 wrote:

yeah everyone I know the file cabinets are still in use.  But the ones in the series appear to be old, and crop up in interesting places.  The fire just made me think of the cabinets (a lot of which are fireproof, up to a certain temperature and duration)  - it also got me wondering if that was part of the reason why Fagan had to calculate the fire to burn as hot as he did, but probably not.  Just got me focused on the cabinets again.

 
Maybe the props Dept. Got a good deal on the file cabinets. Or else they are supposed to lend a certain feel to the overall show look. A little bit of timelessness, where Red has always seemed a little removed from the modern world at times.

BBB, i could couldnt resist that one!   

lara1 - Somewhere in here you mentioned Liz hearing Garvey's voice and identifying him reminded you of something. It reminded me of The Forecaster, where the special needs child was picking up voices on her hearing aids, and that's how Aram traced the killers.

Well, I thought we were veering into Science Fiction with this episode that had code from a biological virus that able to shut down a computer system. But apparently it's a real thing. I found an article on Wired about it:

WHEN BIOLOGISTS SYNTHESIZE DNA, they take pains not to create or spread a dangerous stretch of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin or, worse, an infectious disease. But one group of biohackers has demonstrated how DNA can carry a less expected threat—one designed to infect not humans nor animals but computers.
In new research they plan to present at the USENIX Security conference on Thursday (8/2017), a group of researchers from the University of Washington has shown for the first time that it’s possible to encode malicious software into physical strands of DNA, so that when a gene sequencer analyzes it the resulting data becomes a program that corrupts gene-sequencing software and takes control of the underlying computer. 

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Yep, kooky stuff! a la Dr. Sanders

From what I've seen much of TBL story lines have some basis in theory or actual lab testing, even if it's in a somewhat theoretical form. Like quantum physics.

Tatiana wrote:

Tuxie400 wrote:

This must have flown right over my head, but the Blacklist plotline invovled blood from two people on a shirt. Pattie Sue got the blood for the DNA search off her dead husband's uniform, just like Cooper did from RR's shirt. Her husband's blood was on it, and so was his killer's. I guess the writers were playing with us in a lot more ways than I first noticed.

You're right. And it sure seems like the writers are playing with us big time. 

Agree - its like they have a touchstone to every theory out there in the last few eps.  I wonder which one the season finale will land on?  LOL.  I hope that we'll be able to at least eliminate one....

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lara, don't forget to put the blood testing from the shirt on your list of parallels. That is very interesting that they did that.  
​It is odd that they remind us of Sanders. Sanders is brilliant just like Red. 
Sanders is a Dr.  and Red is a strategist and actuary.  

I've run out of original things to say about this episode, and I'm not rewatching it because I felt it wasn't true to the character of Red. But I have noticed some of my Internet pals talking about things that were funny.

My tumblr freind, akarensilla has dubbed the scene with Red playing preacher as the "Redexorcism."  I found that far funnier than the scene itself. And she noted how exhausting Smokey Putnam can be with his fast talk, whining and wild arm gestures. By the way, a gaffer in the circus can be a manager or a short clown gag, too brief to be considered an act. I believe Smokey gets to be both kinds of gaffer in the show. And while I sorta love him, I can only take him in small doses.

Someone on Reddit noticed  a funny line in connection with the Zig Ziglar book. 
Red: Who motivated me to quit smoking and shoot from the neck down.

Of course that's a reference to the disastrous results when he tried kill shots to the head with Anslo Garrick and Mr. Kaplan.