A 1000 TIMES BETTER THAN LAST WEEK!!! AND ALL BECAUSE OF [size=200]REDDINGTON!!![/size]

Last edited by RedIsMyCoPilot (4/02/2021 8:19 pm)

It was what I expected from a Lukas Reiter penned episode. He seems to specialize in the spy stuff stories. I didn’t catch who directed, but I can check that later.

I was glad they got the Cooper abduction stuff out of the way near the beginning. Rakitin was an unpleasant enough character that I really didn’t mind that the only way to deal with him in the end was to kill him. He thought he was important enough that he was fairly safe.

So Sikorsky is another one of Reds longtime friends as well as a coconspirator. Didn’t stop Red from smacking him down, though. And who is really in charge of the endgame? I think Red made that perfectly clear, although I had been getting the impression that Sikorsky might be in charge.

Don’t mess with Cooper! Red went to great lengths and sacrificed Rakitin to save him. Just what is Cooper’s importance to Red? Is this just because of Reds respect for him? Gotta be more to it?

So I guess Reds endgame is The End.

Is it next week that they are repeating 8.04? I suppose we will see Liz fairly soon. She was almost there tonight.

Good episode.

We always said that, whatever his methods, Red has a moral compass. It's interesting to see who and what he prioritizes as he moves towards his endgame. It's taken 30 years and I would imagine he's had to make a lot of those types of decisions. Obviously Rakitin was a very important asset, but replaceable as far as what he provided. Katarina was dispensable. She might have been important in the past and she was important to Liz, but Red made the decision that it was more important to eliminate her in spite of knowing how it might affect Liz. She was actually more of a liability to his plan by the end. Cooper is obviously more important than even someone like Rakitin. I just keep thinking that no matter how much Red likes somebody, if they get in the way of his plan, they are disposable. So that is why I think Cooper might have a larger role to play in Red's plan, and that Cooper himself probably has no idea. But perhaps Cooper's future role may be Liz's "spiritual advisor". Maybe?

Did anyone catch the name at the end of the episode - In Memory?

Tuxie400 wrote:

Until this episode I thought Sikorsky was at the top of the food chain until Red punched him.  At least that was clarified in this episode. It was funny how they were trying to hook us again with all that talk about endgames and "the end." Like Ressler, I still miss Liz.

 
It was nice to have something clarified.

HW, Mahesh Pailoor was the director. 

I guess Rakitin was going to cave easier than I would have thought. After seeing the episode of Chemical Mary using poison on an object to kill someone, i knew something was up with the blank letter.  Good thing Park didn't open it! 


IowaWatcher,  I'm craving carrot cake now! Lol

IowaWatcher wrote:

I have chocolate cake tonight, Eastcoast. It's a re-run, isn't it? No matter. I have about half a glass of red wine to go with the cake.

Re-Run El Vino . . . ! ! !