I went back to see what parallels we found in 4.01, Esteban. It was Tatiana who got us started looking for these in the first episode of the season. She noted the similarities in the T-boning of Red's car and the car carrying Beth and Liz in the pilot.

Other parallels in that episode:

Red goes to Manny Soto in Season 1 and this episode asking for his help.

Liz is confronted by a stranger both in the pilot (Red) and this episode (Kirk) who seem to know to know details about her past and want to get to know her better. 

Another parallel with the pilot and this episode is a blacklister who faked his death,.In both episodes, the FBI database says the blacklister is dead (Esteban and Zamani).

Additionally both the pilot and Esteban have kidnappers who are dying. Both Zamani and Rostov were extremely dangerous because, with their terminal illnesses, they have nothing to lose.

Both Zamani and Rostov wanted Tom dead. But, as we know, that smooth operator has at least nine lives. At my last count, he's used six of those.

Both Zamani and Constantin wanted revenge for the loss of their families. (So did Berlin, and does Red?)

At the two-way mirror, Dembe and Liz's dialog trying to get Red to leave is similar to lines they both said to him in Berlin Pt. 1 when the FBI was coming to Arrest him.

The severed head is a callback to Mako Tanida's head in the box which Red sent to Ressler.
 

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Mato 4.02 parallels we identified:

The pink bracelet of Katarina's that is put in the time capsule, mirrors the bracelet Beth gave Liz in the pilot.
The blue dollhouse in the Summer Palace mirrors the Takoma Park house that Red blew up in the Frederick Barnes episode.

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That's a good photo compilation, Tatiana #6. I remember when Liz shot Connolly thinking how much like her fire memories that was, even to the man's body position on the floor. Her expressions and now we see even the angles they used to shoot both Lizzies.

Miles McGrath  parallels with Season 1:

Liz discovers Katarina was assigned to be in Red's life the way Tom was assigned to be in hers.

The Ribowski virus may be a parallel of the dangerous Cullen virus.

Gaia Episode 4.04

Red's story of attack by a bull shark when diving and then being saved by a lighthouse keeper mirrors the story he told Liz in Berlin Part 1 of being stung by a lionfish and then saved by a landless Mokan sea gypsy.

Gaia's helicopter crashing over the heads of children playing soccer is reminiscent of the opening of General Ludd when a boy and his father are playing football in a park and airplane parts and body parts start falling from the sky.

The Lindquist Concern 4.05

Red is squatting in a church, similar to a couple of episodes following Anslo Garrick.

Red says, "I usually have a devil of a time getting to sleep, but here (the church) I sleep like a babe in a manger. This provokes a callback to Anslo Garrick Pt. I and the One More Time speech when he says he want to sleep like he slept when he was a boy, one more time.

The Thrushes 4.06

Alexander Kirk is placed in the red box just like Reddington was in the pilot.

Dr. Adrian Shaw

Dr. Adrian Shaw is doing illegal and unethical medical experiments like Frederick Barnes in Season 1 and James Covington in Season 2.

We get yet another lionfish story from Red, which is a callback to the lionfish story in Berlin and the eco terrorism from Season 2. The Front.

On Dr. Shaw's ship, Samar almost gets her throat cut, mirroring Meera's death in Season 1 Berlin Pt. 2, but luckily Ressler saves Samar.

I thought the end of this episode had the same feeling and similar dialog to Berlin Pt. 1. It's revealed that a group of men are undercover and taking over a facility. In Berlin the facility was the airport and the air traffic controller, in Adrian Shaw it's the hospital.

When Red is trying to get Liz to leave the hospital and the end, she doesn't believe she's in danger. "What's he gonna do?" she asks. Red tells her, "all of Kirk's resources will be brought to bear." Armed men are seen assembling.Tell Harold and then you get out of that hospital."  In Berlin, Liz tells Red "the full force of the FBI is coming for you." An armed FBI tactical unit is seen assembling nearby. 

Of course in Adrian Shaw Pt. II, we have Red being tortured similar to Anslo Garrick Part II, which others have already pointed out. And in both of those episodes, Liz and company arrive too late to save Red. He's gone without a trace in both episodes.









 

Thanks Tuxie400.  And some of those are kind of like mirror images also.  I just wish I could figure out why!  LOL

Tatiana - Red's respiratory distress really does mirror Liz's from last year. Could that be intentional on the part of the attacker?

 

It just occurred to me that I may not always have ascribed authorship to clips or pix I've shared. I know AlyBlacklist blogged about this recently. I don't actually remember where I got that photo sequence of Elizabeth as a child and as an adult with Director Connelly and her 'father'.

If any of you should come upon the original, please let me know so I can document it accordingly. I thought I had been doing this when I copy from someone else's blogs/posts.

 

Tuxie400 #32 - good observation!  I can't remember exactly who the person who was buried was, but wasn't he a computer specialist who had gov access, something like that?  And Red, in return for his role in having saved him, wanted access to some gov system?  And is that how Red got Jolene's VIDEC number which he later ran in the database later on?  All the reasons why I never knew, other than to try to see what she was up to.

At the time, Mr. Grey quizzes Red as to why, with anything Red could have looked for with that access, why he chose what he did.  And Red replies something cryptic, like, the girl - its more complicated than I thought.  I'm in this for the long game, the future, something like that.  cryptic comment.  Then Grey says, here comes your future, as Liz comes in.  always struck me as odd.

And unknown to Red at the time,  Grey had already betrayed him as Anslo Garrick was about to happen.

I wonder if any connection between these separate events/comments....and more recent events...

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Tuxie400 wrote:

Tatiana - Red's respiratory distress really does mirror Liz's from last year. Could that be intentional on the part of the attacker?

 

Tuxie400 - very interesting idea.  though that was part of Kaplan and Liz's plan, not something Red did.  Still, the parallel is something to think about.

Getting back to the idea that the person coming after Red is someone who is upset that he broke his agreement to stay out of her life with the result that she was headline news, remember the Director sucked the oxygen out of the box when Liz was in it and she nearly died except for Aram's action.  One could argue if Liz had not been revealed to the Cabal, that would not have happened.

Then, we have the oxygen being sucked out of the room in Redemption.  Lots of oxygen deprivation!

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lara1 wrote:

Hmmm another thing just occurred to me.  there's been an NSA thread.  Seth was an Nsa analyst, Elise/Janet is now working for the NSA, in The Thrushes,  Cooper says that the Post Office systems are tied to the NSA and CIA.  there may be others, very recently.   hmmm

Don't forget that Fitch was an assistant deputy director of national intelligence. That office is the head of the entire intelligence community, including ONI, CIA, FBI, NSA, DEA, etc. 16 agencies in total. Mucho powerful!