"there was a job opening advertised for someone to teach makeup at the RB,B&B Circus clown school in Florida."
I forgot you did makeup :-)  I was a very amateur make-up artist in high school. The director let me buy whatever I wanted. My first task was to make a very skinny tall kid look like a fat, rich, sultan. We could do the costuming, but I learned a lot about creating volume with shading really fast! I loved it!

Honey West and Tatiana - please say you keep journals of all your adventures!

Given TBL's lower ratings and how much darker season 4 has been, I've been worried that we wouldn't get a season 5.  But tonight there was a commercial for an NBC show airing Sunday - celebrating how long NBC had been on TV. The commercial flashed the titles of its best, most famous shows over the years. One of the titles was The Blacklist. I'm thinking (OK, fingers crossed and praying) that TBL wouldn't be included if NBC planned on cancelling it. It'd be like NBC saying "Here's one of our best shows but its getting the ax."

I wasn't sure where to put this, but thought here was okay, rather than the Architect discussion page.

So things look pretty dire for Red next week. But I couldn't help but wonder if the poisoning might not be Red's own doing. It might be sort of an extreme way to flush out who's been after him. And test the loyalties of his closest remaining associates. He looked pretty mystified at the end of tonight's episode. Would he go that far, though? Probably not the case at all, but it was sort of a random idea that popped into my head.

Exciting update on AlyBlacklist:

Leon Rippy - Hunter is going to be on!!! Does that mean Mr. Kaplan shows as well? Or in his quest to discover why he's being pursued, does Red go back to the place he 'killed' Kaplan and find Hunter??? I wonder because....Glen is back! Did Red contact Glen to track Mr. Kaplan/Hunter?

And Episode 4:17 will have Nikos, Young Alexander Kirk, and someone named Jason. Wow! This is getting exciting :-D

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Tatiana - those are really exciting pieces of news!  Also, I see that Leon Rippy has a "stunt double".  So either he sees some action or some action comes to him....my guesses are that 1) Red starts to wonder, when he is confounded by who could be after him, did Kaplan actually survive....he not only never went back to check, he did not even turn around....and so he and Dembe go back, find she isn't there and find the woodsman.....2) the woodsman was a wolf in sheep's clothing all along.....he's either a former blacklister or enemy of Red who fell off the grid to hide, or one of Red's contacts....I can still swear that i saw a computer modem blinking in the darkness in his cabin.....

And Nikos.....wonder if that is where Kaplan went.  I think maybe she wasn't far.  Little Nikos was based somewhere in Texas.  I remember looking into the type of government land that Red spoke of (I now forget the exact term for it)...and I seem to recall most of it being in or just north or west of Texas....I hope I am not misremembering that....!  Anyone remember whether a pick up truck was parked outside the bail bondsman's?  

Anyway I agree I think all of this means that Kaplan will return.....but not tis after the winter finale.  Exciting!

The flashbacks we are going to get sound exciting too!  I wonder if they will also shed some light on what Red said to Kirk????

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Honey West - you know, I was looking for the electricity in the woodsman's cabin when I re-watched Mato the other week.  That last scene, with the woodsman at the table, with the single candle (another repeating symbol, LOL), there actually is a lamp that is on....I guess he has some kind of generator?  

I think Little Nikos did survive - didn't Kate go back into the room to see him afterwards?  To say sorry or something like that?  I got the impression that it was extremely grueling, but Nikos survived it.....

Hi Tatiana, as far as I know, TBL resumes on april 20 with a two hour episode.  I'm not sure if that will be a 2 hour 4.16, or a double bill of 4.16 followed by 4.17.  The last I heard was that they were filming 4.17 late last week or early this week.  I think that's the episode with the kirk/katerina flashback, or what we think will be that.  But I haven't seen anything released re title/synopsis as yet.  I'm wondering if they want to build some more tension with the winter finale and then there is 2 months of Redemption.

We were told that another large piece of the puzzle will be revealed before the season finale....I guess we'll see!

(And I"m with you on Redemption.  I'll watch it to see what it's like, but I doubt I will obsess over it!  LOL I'm not sure I would have time for another obsession other than TBL anyway!  haha)

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The NBC site has the official photos up. Couple of things I noticed. One is that David Levine is standing next to the canvas, so I wonder if this is another one that picks right up where last week ended and the other is that the guy who one assumes is The Apothecary has his wife (?) in a wheelchair and they are in a room that is a nursery, judging by the wallpaper which has baby bottles and other baby-related art on it. Plus I think I see a crib rail off to one side. So I had thought maybe he is experimenting with snake venom to treat something his wife has going on (she is obviously ill with something debilitating) or now I wonder if there is a baby who is also ill that he is working to save or treat. Anyway, he seems to work at a place called Hightower Serpentarium, so maybe he is a snake venom expert and that will make it easier to find him. Obviously he is using the venom for some sort of research.

I did see where someone else finally posted the idea that maybe Red is doing this himself in order to disappear. I think it might be more likely that if he is behind it then it is to convince a specific person or group that he is dead. That's if it goes that far. Then the question would be who would he be trying to convince - friends or enemies? Or is it to teach Liz a lesson about faking one's own death? Or maybe it's just a straightforward someone-trying-to-take-out-Red story and nothing more. But then, this IS The Blacklist. Where nothing is as it first appears.

Tatiana, I believe that Red's makeshift hospital room is in a back room area of the gym. Ooh, I didn't see the American flag. Good catch!

And in one photo, it looks like he has left the ICU - the bed is empt but the bedsheets moved?  maybe