All language subtitles for The Blacklist s07e16_English

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS)

(POLICE RADIO CHATTER)

SHERIFF: Hey, Hatcher.

Coroner's finished
with the scatter
at the tree line.

Probably got another seven
or eight down there.

So they're released?

Yep. All yours.

The feds say we're clear.
Start bringing the victims up.

Take a team
to the tree line

and start moving 'em
to the morgue.

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS)

TECH: Here's the next one,
Hatcher.

HATCHER:
Hello, Mr. Geller.

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS
IN DISTANCE)

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

Hey.
Hello.

You must be Crystal.

One and only.

You look different
than your profile picture.

You look the same.

Better.

(CHUCKLES LIGHTLY)

Please.
Why don't you come in.

I don't understand.
Over the phone,
you said...

I know what I said.
If you're a cop...

Please, I didn't ask you here
(INHALES DEEPLY) for sex.

Not like you think.

It's something different.

I'm leaving.

Angela, sit down.

How do you know
my real name?

Who are you?

I'm someone who knows
more about you

than you might want
to believe.

I know about your father.

I know about
the medical debt,

the collectors.

I said who are you?

Angela,
there is something

that I would like
to tell you.

Something very special

that might just
change your life.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS)

Would you like
to hear about it?

ESI JACKSON:
Already looked there.

There, too.

You do know
I'm a private investigator.

You were made.

Ilya obviously knew
you were watching him.

Maybe that
wouldn't have happened

if you'd been honest
about why you hired me.

I was honest.

I hired you to find Koslov
so I could question him.

Does this look like
a man who's running
from questions?

He's running
for his life.

Now, why would
he do that?

SADIQ ASMAL:
They came here
to the mosque,

said that some
of our members
are communicating

with Syrian jihadists.

The FBI came?

Counterterrorism
division.

They wouldn't tell me
what they know.

Maybe they'll tell you.

He knows about
the Task Force.

Does he?

I wouldn't be
much of a shepherd

if I didn't know the hearts
and minds of my flock.

(CELL PHONE RINGS)
REDDINGTON:
(SIGHS) Excuse me.

I'll see what I can do.
(RINGING CONTINUES)

(BEEP)

Is it done?

ESI JACKSON: My job
is to find people,

not to keep them
from being found.

Is it done?
It is.

Wherever Koslov went,
she's never gonna find him.

Good.

(BEEP)

Imam Asmal is grateful
for the help.

We both are.

Elizabeth knows
I'm not Ilya.

I wonder
what else she knows.

Perhaps you should ask her.

She's waiting in the park.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

REDDINGTON: You have a case.

From my days
in the Mobile Psych Unit.

I'd like to dig into it.

If it's important to you,
then it's important to me.

You're sure
you don't mind?

Of course not.

That's what's so nice
about us finally being

on the same
side of things,
same agenda.

No subterfuge.

What you want, I want.

And you're okay with
my involving the team.

I am. In fact, I insist.

Idle hands
and all that.

But I would like you
to look into
something for me.

Of course.

It's about Dembe's imam.

Is there
something wrong?
I don't know yet.

That's what
I need to find out.

But first,
tell me about this
cold case of yours.

They called him
the Boneyard Killer.

His first victim was found
just outside Rehoboth Beach

when local police
exhumed a body
for autopsy.

What they found
was a second body

buried
in that same grave.

A young woman

four feet below
the surface,

resting just above
a freshly buried coffin,

murdered and hidden

in the last place anyone
would ever look for her.

Since then, three women
have been discovered this way

in graveyards in Virginia
and West Virginia.

He was using
the cemeteries
as dumpsites.

Anything significant about
the graves that were chosen?

They were fresh.
Easy to dig.
And the victims?

All young women
with a history of sex work.

ARAM: Okay, this is,
uh, terrible,

but sex workers are
like 20 times more likely

to be targeted
by serial killers.

True, but none of his victims
were sexually assaulted,

no sign of defensive wounds,

no pre- or postmortem
mutilation.

But the way he killed them...

We found dirt
in their airways.

They were alive
when he buried them.

LIZ: Alive, yes.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)
And unconscious.

Pumped so full
of sodium thiopental,

they'd never wake up.
PARK: I don't understand.

He drugged them
so they'd die
in their sleep?

Why would he do that?
He didn't want
them to suffer.

LIZ: The case went cold
until a week ago,

when flash floods
hit Montgomery

and upended a few graves
at Greenfare Cemetery,

including one
unidentified body

that wasn't
supposed to be there.

Initial forensics suggest
she was sedated

and buried alive
just like the others.

Has the Bureau
reached out to you?

No, and they're
not going to.

They asked me
to leave the case.

They said my profile
wasn't...additive.

So this is
your cold case.
Yes.

What do you mean
they thought your
profile wasn't "additive"?

I don't think
he wants to kill.

I think he's mimicking
these profiles

in order to hide
some other agenda.

What, I don't know,

but I think he finds
satisfaction

in something other
than the act
of the crime itself.

Whatever his motive,

these bodies were found
by chance,

and we can't wait
for another.

Talk to the M.E.
See what he knows.

Let's hope this newest tragedy
will help you find this guy.

Uh, sir, can I ask
for another favor?

Reddington says that
counterterrorism

is sniffing around
Dembe's imam.

He wants to know
what they found.

COOPER: What were
they looking for?

LIZ: Syrian jihadists.

Some of the congregants may be
involved with Tahrir al-Sham.

But Dembe thinks
that's impossible.

I'll make a few calls.

Ilya Koslov is out there
somewhere,

and I have no idea where.

Do you know
what your mother
wanted from him?

I don't. But she said
her life depended on it.

(DOOR OPENS)
You were right.

I looked at the original
case files,

and this does appear
to be the work
of the same killer.

I have ID'd her as
one Mara Lynne James.

Now, the forensic evidence
on your previous victims

was limited,
but this woman...

The cold slowed the growth
of bacteria,

so I have a better picture
of what happened.

Suffocation?

With sodium thiopental
to sedate her beforehand.

Soil in the lungs.

Same lack of any
defensive wounds.

Was there any evidence
of sexual assault?

No, but she was
sexually active.

She had a baby.

The degree of scarring
around the incision

suggests she gave birth
no more than a month

before she was killed.

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

Okay, now one more
big push.

C'mon. You can do it.
Come on. Push.

(GASPS)

(WATER SLOSHING)

You did it.

Is everything okay?

Isn't he supposed
to cry or some...

(BABY CRIES)
Yes, she is.

It's a girl.

Rest. Please.

We have work to do.

(BABY CRIES SOFTLY)

I tried to get her off
the streets.

We both did.

We had every resource
to help her.

We apologize for coming
at such a difficult time.

We're sorry for your loss.

RESSLER: We want you to know
that we've deployed

our Child Abduction
Response team

and alerted every
law enforcement agency
in the country.

What for?

To find Mara's child.

Mara didn't have a child.

According to the M.E.,
she gave birth a month
before she passed.

A baby?

RESSLER: Did she have
a man in her life?

A man?
(SCOFFS)

You do know what she did
for a living?

Did she talk about anyone
in particular?

Yeah, she talked.
She talked all the time.

None of it was ever true.

Nancy James,
if you know something

that could help
that child...

(SIGHS)

A year ago...

Ten months maybe,

she said she met a guy,
(SCOFFS) a big fish.

Did she tell you
his name?
No.

Just that
he had a plan.

A way for her to get out.

COOPER: CTD and MPD
will be here in 20.

I can't hold them off
any longer.

Did the Bureau do this?

Has my imam
been arrested?

CTD says no,
but based on their findings,
maybe they should've.

The case file
Agent Keen asked for.

Apparently, two members
have been smuggling

shipping containers
in and out of Syria.

For Tahrir al-Sham?
Unclear.

We don't know what's being
shipped or by whom.

These members
in the file.

I've seen them
at the services.

I don't see them
as a threat.
Then where are they?

As soon as you called
about the abduction,
we put out a BOLO.

But it appears as if
they're long gone.

Along with Imam Asmal.

The Bureau
didn't do him any favors

by questioning him
here in the mosque.

Made it appear as if
he knew something
and might talk.

Can you be sure
he didn't know?

If he said he didn't know,
he didn't know.

What was the port
of origin?

Latakia, Syria. Why?

Ironically, smuggling
on a large scale

is a profitable
yet surprisingly small club.

And ever since civil war
broke out in Syria,

the margins on everything
from weapons
to medical supplies

to narcotics to food

going in and out
of the country

have been particularly
bodacious.

As such,
there's plenty of room
for all the players.

Turf has been designated.
Territory agreed upon.

Who got Latakia?

A Greek fellow from Queens.

A-And Greece.

(BABY COOING)

How's Mom?
You doing okay?

Great.

Can't stop staring at her.

She is adorable.
You're blessed.

I'm gonna run to the store,
but there was a call

while you two were asleep.
I didn't want to wake you.

An attorney.
Geoffrey Entz.

He said you would know
what it was regarding.

Such a cute baby.

I'll see you soon.

(BABY FUSSING)

(CELL PHONE RINGS)

(BEEP)

ANGELA: I talked to him.

The lawyer?
What did he say?

That he got the letter,

but he didn't want to
discuss it over the phone.

Did he ask to meet?

Yes, but I-I didn't think it
would be this soon.

I'm not prepared.
I told you, Angela.

I have it all worked out.

Like a script.

I'll coach you
through everything.

Listen, I'm not in a good
place to talk right now,

so let me call you back.

(BEEP)

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

ARAM: I think
I may have something.

As you may know,
genetic material passes

from mother to child
during pregnancy,

but what
you may not know

is it also happens
in reverse.

Fetal cells cross the placenta
and enter the mother's body,

making up as much as 10%
of the free-floating DNA

in her bloodstream.
COOPER: How does
that help us?

Well,
with the M.E.'s help,

I was able to run
the fetal DNA
from Mara James

against databases
from genetic
testing services.

And with almost
absolute certainty,

the father of her child is...

Jonathan McClaire.

The self-help guru?
The same.

Author of six books.

He runs workshops
all around the world.

COOPER: A married man
living a public life

has a child
with a prostitute?

Bring him in.
Find out what
he has to say.

Right, uh, about that.
Here's the thing.

He didn't kill her.

Well, how do you
know that?

Because he died
11 months before

Mara James was murdered.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

Kendra, what I am
offering you

is a chance to
change your life.

(SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE)

A way out.

And forget about debt
or your car payments.

This is far more
than that.

If you can imagine,

I am the last man
that you ever have
to meet in a hotel room.

Ever.

How much
are we talking about?

Tell me again
how this works.

(BANGING)
(SHOUTS IN GREEK)

REDDINGTON: Mr. Korba,
what a pleasure!

Your reputation
precedes you.

Mine may not,
so allow me
to introduce myself.

I know who you are.
You don't scare me.

(LAUGHS)

My heavens.

Is that A5 olive wagyu?

I didn't know
you did business
in Japan.

Or did these just fall off
a truck somewhere

on their circuitous journey
to Nobu Damascus?

I'm a legitimate
businessman.

Yes, I'm sure you are.

But as it happens,

I'm not necessarily
interested in your beef.

I'm really here to discuss
Jalal Abbas and his friends,

and whatever they're bringing
into the country from Syria.

I may have the face
of an angel,

but I'm not telling you
anything.

On the contrary,

I think you're going to
tell me where they are

and what they're smuggling.

You think
you're the first guy
to threaten me?

I'm not threatening you,
Costas.

I'm threatening
your livelihood.

Did you know these cows
that gave up their lives

to be here today

grew up on the island
of Shodoshima?

And let me tell you,
those cows had it good.

Frolicking over
sun-dappled hillsides,

dining on olive peels

from Japan's
oldest plantation.

I'm told one cow

can sell for $40,000,
$50,000 wholesale.

Rounding down,
I'm probably looking
at 30 quarters.

Given the average rate
of cooling,
once I kill the AC,

you've probably got,
what, 45 minutes

before your
half a million dollars

of umami-flavored goodness

will be worth less
than a shinbone.

I don't know what
they had in those
shipment containers.

I don't.

But you know
where they went.

Yes. Yes, I do.

I didn't know
the FBI investigated
car accidents.

We're not here about
your husband's death,
Mrs. McClaire.

We'd like to talk about his
relationship with Mara James.

What did she tell you?

She signed
a nondisclosure agreement.

Mara James is dead.

She was murdered.

Oh, my God.

That's awful.

You said
she signed a contract.

(SIGHS)

My husband had an affair
that resulted in a child.

Ms. James approached
our attorneys.

Jonathan had only
recently passed,
and so I settled.

We didn't find a record
of any settlement.

It was sealed.

My husband's career
was based on...

(INHALES SHAKILY)

...the appearance
of a happy marriage.

Even now,
I live off the book sales.

And sales would dry up
if anyone knew
he'd been unfaithful.

So you agreed
to a secret settlement.

Well, there was a DNA test,
so I know it was his child,

but we were so happy.

I still can't believe
he stepped outside
of our marriage.

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

What am I looking at?

The victims we found
eight years ago.

Their bodies were
so decomposed

they didn't have
C-section scars like Mara's,

but take a look at this.

Pockmarks
along the pelvic bone

caused by ligaments tearing
during childbirth.

Our victims
were all mothers.

If they all had babies,
did they all have
secret settlements?

The point of
secret settlements
is that they're secret.

It could take months to track
down the right courthouses

and secure warrants.
That's what I thought,

but it's a good thing
we know a criminal

who can cut through
the red tape.

(SNORING)
(DOOR OPENS)

(CHUCKLES)

(DRAWER OPENS)

I'll be obliged
to take a sniff
in your company.

Yes, I understand
your feeling
of obligation.

Ahh!

Mickey,
how long have you been

the file clerk
for the courthouse?

Must be going on 25 years.

Shepherding
a national database

of pleadings and motions,
suits and countersuits.

Everyone's
dirty little secrets.

(PENCIL SCRAPING)
Pearl's angina
has been acting up.

Set us back
a little more than usual.

Huh.

You're worth it
at twice the price.

And Pearl is priceless.

(LAUGHS)

Brother, you sure know
how to wet my whistle.

Yes, sir,
you most certainly do.

Mmm!

Ahh!

So, what can I do you for?

Mr. Reddington pays
for his wife's
angina medication?

Medication,
hospital visits.

I get the impression
he pays for whatever
the file clerk needs.

What have you found
in the settlements?

I'm hoping it's enough
to justify the, shall we say,

unorthodox way
in which we obtained them.

The victims we're aware of
all had children
out of wedlock

with very wealthy men,

and they all made paternity
claims against the fathers,

which were all settled.

And within weeks
of the agreements,

each of the women
were murdered.

And the children?

We haven't found
a single one.

So, what have we found?
Death certificates.

Turns out Jonathan McClaire
wasn't the only father
who died

before the mother
of his child.
They all did.

LIZ: So five mothers who died
soon after giving birth,

and five fathers who died
soon after conception.

The men died
in at least four states,

all in crazy accidents...

Helicopter crash,
a pileup on I-80.

Each event was investigated,
but cleared.

No foul play.
Nothing to connect them.

Nothing except for a name.
Nyle Hatcher.

He signed one of their death
certificates in Pennsylvania,

which I thought was
pretty odd,

considering
he's a mortician
in Bethesda.

So I kept digging.

Turns out he
ID'd another victim
in Delaware

and notified next of kin
in West Virginia.

COOPER:
Doesn't make any sense.

A mortician from Bethesda

dealing with bodies
from places

like Delaware
and West Virginia.

According to his employment
records, he used to operate

a funeral home
outside Rehoboth Beach.

Makes sense.
He had access
to the cemetery.

And no one would question
why a mortician
was hanging around.

Did you get an address?
452 Elm,

the same as the mortuary
he currently operates...

Sweet Rest Funeral Home.

Keen, Ressler, get going.

Aram, pull a warrant.

When you got the settlements
from Reddington,

did he say anything
about Dembe's imam?

He got a lead
on the smugglers,

(SIGHING) and I think
he's going to pay them
a visit.

I don't suppose it would
do any good to remind him
that's our job.

He knows.

He just doesn't care.

DONNA:
Mr. Hatcher's out today.

(PHONE LINE RINGING)
Said he won't be in
until Monday.

Said it's
a family matter.

Did he say
where he was going?
No.

(RINGING CONTINUES)
He's not answering.

LIZ: Do you have any
other way of reaching him?

Not anymore.

He used to keep
an apartment upstairs.

Now he only
has his office.

We're gonna need
his current home address.

And access
to that office.

Um, okay,
but it's private.

I'm not allowed in there.

Well, that's okay.
I am.

This is a warrant.

(DOOR OPENS)

What the hell?

This woman,
he's following her.

He's got all kinds of data.

Keen, what is it?

I'm not sure
I want to know.

Kendra. Hi.

I'm, um,
Agent Mojtabai.
(DOOR CLOSES)

You're, uh...
You're not under arrest.

Could've fooled me.
Yeah. About that...

Let me...
Let me get that for you.

(KEYS JINGLING)

If I'm not under arrest,
why am I here?

To talk about a man
named Nyle Hatcher.

In my line of work,
I meet lots of men.

Right, um... This one
runs a funeral home.

And...

He murders women.

Yeah, I know the guy.

Hatcher was in Baltimore
yesterday.

The ferry-boat accident.

Sixteen people drowned.

DMORT was deployed
to identify the victims.

RESSLER: The Disaster Mortuary
Operational Response Teams.

When there's
a mass-casualty event,

morticians are brought in
to help identify the bodies,

assess cause of death.

The country is divided
by region,

and based on where
the victims were found,

Hatcher operates
with Region III,

which includes
D.C., Virginia,

Delaware, Pennsylvania,
and Maryland.

Which is why a Bethesda
mortician gets access

to rich men at crime scenes
up and down the East Coast.

COOPER: Well, we know
how Hatcher interacted
with the dead men.

But we still have
no idea what part
he played, if any,

in the paternity cases
or the deaths of the mothers.

Actually, we do.

KENDRA: He didn't
want to hook up.

I thought he did,
but when I got there,

he knew everything about me,
family, money problems.

He said he could fix
all that.

By getting you pregnant
and suing the father
for paternity.

He said
no one would get hurt,

that a rich dude
would be a little less rich.

And the baby?

He told me about
these safe-haven laws

where you leave babies
at fire stations

and they get adopted.

Adopted.

Because the father
would already be dead.

Run that by me again.

We found sperm
in his office.

There was a thermos,
and in it, uh,
there was a sample.

Sperm from a dead man?
LIZ: The rich dead man.

The one Hatcher s-selected
from his DMORT assignment.

Did the men use
a-a donor bank?

Is that where he got
the samples?

We don't think so.

Then what exactly
do you think?

Hatcher inseminated
the women

using semen he extracted
from the corpses.

Apparently, sperm is viable
up to 36 hours postmortem.

He extracts the sperm,
impregnates the mother,

who then makes
an embarrassing
paternity claim

that's backed up by DNA.

Now, rather than
risk a scandal,

the widow hushes it up
with a secret settlement
and no one's the wiser

because dead men
tell no tales.

Even about their seed.

What about Kendra Taylor?

Is she pregnant?

You never met Roger Ashby?

No, the hookup was
supposed to be tomorrow.

Is that what Hatcher told you,
it was gonna be a hookup?

He didn't exactly say.
Why?

Because Roger Ashby
died yesterday

in a ferry-boat accident.

Like I said, all I know

is the hookup was gonna be
tomorrow, and after that,

I was supposed
to make a claim
for child support.

Once the settlement
was finalized,

Hatcher would
take the money,

and you'd end up dead.

That's the last of it.

The money for you
and your meal ticket

will be wired to the account
by end of business today.

(BABY COOING)

Her name is Lily.

We're done here.

Hey, um, guys,
so, uh...

Kendra says that
she and the target
never met.

But that Hatcher
told her she'd be
impregnated tomorrow.

By a man who died
yesterday.

So what am I missing?

The birds and the bees?
(CHUCKLES)

Lemme tell you,
there's a whole new wrinkle.

PARK: I accessed
Hatcher's hard drive.

He had a list of the fathers
and how much the widows
agreed to pay.

We know all that
from the secret settlements.

You know
almost all of it.

There was another name.
Abraham Geller.

Wealthy hedge-fund guy.

Died in a plane crash
ten months ago.

Which might mean someone just
gave birth to his child

and may have signed
a settlement offer.

Or her death warrant.

You two, find the lawyer
who handles the Geller estate.

See what he knows.

Um, the birds
and the bees?

What's the new wrinkle?

(SIGHS)

Did the transfer
go through?

Just. You did well.

The hard part's over.

Your cut's over a hundred
thousand dollars, Angela.

So drop off the child
and meet me at Cedar Wind.

I promise you, when you get
what's coming to you,

your life
will change forever.

(CELL PHONE BEEPS)

Agents Ressler
and Park, FBI.

Uh, what can
I do for you?

Was a paternity claim made
against Abraham Geller?

I don't discuss
my clients' cases.

This isn't about your client.
It's about a woman's life.

I'm sure you can
appreciate this is
privileged information.

Yes, but it's
a life-threatening
situation.

What you know could save
Angela Hendrickson's life.

Has she been here?
Yeah.

To chisel a decent family
out of a small fortune.

So she signed
a settlement agreement.
You wired the money?

I did.
Less than an hour ago.

(BABY CRYING)

Mm.

I thought you'd be alone.

I...couldn't leave her.

I know it wasn't
what we agreed to.

Oh, no, don't give it
another thought.

(SIGHS HAPPILY)
I'm glad she's here.

I think every child
should have
a loving home.

Just not yours.

(CRYING INTENSIFIES)

ARAM: I found her.
Angela Hendrickson.

Now, she's not
answering our calls,

but she received a call
outside a Rockville
Fire station 30 minutes ago,

and her cell just
pinged a tower
off county road 75.

What's the green area?

That is Cedar Wind Cemetery
in Livingston.

(LINE RINGING)
ARAM: Oh, cemetery.
That's bad.

RESSLER: (ON SPEAKER PHONE)
Ressler.
That's... That's really bad.

Ressler,
we have a location.

Keen will meet you
on-site.

(BABY COOING)

(BABY CRYING)

Aww. Hey, baby.

We're almost finished.
We'll be home soon.

Oh, my.

Angela, I am so sorry.

I never meant
for you to see this.

(CRYING CONTINUES)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS)

(BANGING ON DOOR)

(BANGING CONTINUES)

Yeah?
Jalal?

Who are you?

A friend from the mosque.

Aah! (GRUNTS)

(GUNFIRE)

JALAL: Don't shoot!
Don't shoot!

Okay, okay! Okay!
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(GRUNTS)

Go ahead.

Where is Imam Asmal?

I don't know. I don't.

I'm sorry.
DEMBE: You do.

Answer the question.

HATCHER: Hello, little girl.
We'll be home real soon.

(SIRENS WAILING)

(TIRES SCREECH)

Good heavens.
(BABY CRYING)

Hands! Put your
hands in the air!

Got a baby here.

Where is she?
(CRYING CONTINUES)

Angela Hendrickson...
Where?
I don't...

I don't know who that is.

Where is she, Nyle?

(CRYING CONTINUES)

Which grave?
I have no...

Answer me!

I have no earthly idea
what you mean!

He doesn't want her to suffer,
so she's sedated,

but she may still be alive.

We need to fan out.

We're looking
for a fresh grave.

There can't be many.

(MUFFLED COUGHING)

How do we get
to the basement?

I don't have a basement.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS)

(CREAKING, RATTLING)

Morgan.

(CREAKING, SCRAPING)

RESSLER: Hey! I got something!

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

I feel something!

(PANTING)
She's got a pulse.

Get on the radio!
Call the paramedics!

(GRUNTS)

What the hell?

(DEMBE SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE)

LIZ: The women you brutalized,
how many were there?

I try not to think
about them.

(PAPER RUSTLING)

It wasn't personal.

I needed hosts
willing to break the law,

and they did that
just by showing up
at my hotel room.

Desperate and broke...

And what...
Dispensable?

It isn't my fault that nobody
cares when a prostitute dies.

No, people care.
Families care.

This was never about
killing those women.

Agent Keen,

I have spent my life
surrounded by death,

surrounded by the pain
that comes with life's end,

the futility of it all.

It's a lonely existence.

One that I thought
money could change.

So I came up with a way
to steal money

from people
that wouldn't care
that it was missing,

the dead.

I like to think of them
as "donors."

But the donors
required hosts,

women who, sadly,

needed to die
to protect the plan...

Which is why I chose women

who needed to be freed

from their otherwise

insufferable lives.

Finally,

the plan requires a child.

What did you do
with the children?

Well, I tell
all the mothers

that I plan
to give the newborns away.

Some mother don't like that,
and some, like Angela,

even try to keep
their babies.

That upset me at first,
until I realized

that the money
those children provided me
wasn't the solution.

The children
were the solution.

What does that mean?

It means I couldn't leave them
at the fire station

like I thought.

Means I needed them.

Means I couldn't let them go,
that they needed me.

Needed you?

Forging the
adoption paperwork
wasn't cheap,

but money isn't
a problem for me.

I just didn't want
any of those kids
to grow up alone...

(LAUGHS)
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

HATCHER: ...like me,
without a family.

They needed sisters
and brothers.

RESSLER:
Where are the kids, Nyle?

HATCHER: They're home.

They have all they need.

A loving father.

Unbelievable
financial resources.

What's gonna happen
to those kids?

What are they gonna
say when they find out
what you did?

Oh, don't tell them
what I did.

They don't need to know.

They gave me
such a precious gift.

I mean, I was dead.

They brought me
back to life.

RESSLER: All that matters
are those kids' lives.

And with you in prison,

they're gonna be
a whole lot better.

Imam Asmal.

I'm telling you
I don't know.

Who are they?

Refugees seeking asylum.

Imam Asmal knows
nothing of this.

I thought the FBI
took him because
they thought he did.

And you have no ties
to Tahrir al-Sham.

Me? I'm trying to save them
from Tahrir al-Sham.

The United States
has made it illegal
for them to come here.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)
But the Prophet Muhammed
teaches us

not to obey the created

if it means disobeying
the Creator.

Harold?
COOPER: CTD traced
a cell phone

belonging to
one of the extremists.

They traced it
to a safe house
in West Adams.

Units are en route.

They're not extremists.
They're humanitarians.

Humanitarians
took the imam?

How long do we have
before the troops arrive?

You are at the safe house.

(SIGHS) It's feeling
less and less safe
with every second.

(MAZZY STAR'S INTO DUST
PLAYING)

PARK: Looks like
your cold-case theory
was right, Liz.

I confirmed it.

He set the money aside
for the children.

A guy with a conscience
who does what he did,

that's way scarier
than a straight psychopath.

We should tell
the widows their husbands
didn't cheat on them.

And the kids?
What's being done
about the kids?

Child Services is
reaching out to the
families of both parents.

Hopefully someone
will step up.

Hi.

I'm Margaret.
Mm-hmm.

I'm your grandma.

(LAUGHS)
Aren't you the sweetest?

You have your mother's eyes.

What about Angela?
Will she get to keep
her child?

She's under house arrest,
awaiting trial.

But mothers can keep their
infants with them in prison
for up to 18 months.

Falling

Breathless and on

Ah. Please tell me
you're hungry.

Tonight's special
is wagyu beef.

So this is
what it's all about.
Asylum seekers.

Counterterrorism division
is looking for extremists
that don't exist

when they should be
looking for Dembe's imam.

His kidnapping
is completely unrelated
and, as yet, unsolved.

I checked with MPD
on my way over.

They've got nothing.

No forensics.
No witnesses.

Sakiya said the same.

I told her to double-check
everything, but...

I'm afraid
it's a diminishing return.

How's he holding up?

It's hard for him.

Especially since he knows
I'm to blame.

You?

People close to me
are often in harm's way.

Dembe's imam is
not close to you.

No. But Dembe is.

I don't think whoever
did this is

interested in extremists
or clerics and refugees.

I think they're
interested in me.

Till my hands shook

At first,
I thought you screwed up,

that Koslov ran
because he knew
you were following him.

But then I realized
Ilya wasn't scared of you.

You're the one
who's scared.

Reddington got to you.

Ilya Koslov has
information that could
save my mother's life.

And you helped prevent me
from finding it.

The least you can do
is tell me why.

You have powerful enemies.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)

I had no idea
he was one of them.

The Sikorsky Archive.

What's that?

Before Reddington
warned me off,

I had a mic trained
on Ilya's apartment.

That archive,
whatever it is,
he's obsessed with it.

If Koslov has information

that could save
a woman's life,

my guess
it's in that archive.

I could feel myself

Growing colder
(DOOR OPENS)

I could feel myself

Under your fate

We have a lot
to talk about.

Who are you?

How about you let me ask
the questions?

Under

Your fate

What, you change
your number?

That's cold.

I got nothing
to say to you.
Maybe not.

But I got something
to say to you,

and, trust me,
you're gonna
want to hear it.

That's Ray Field...

Until next week,

when they break ground
on the strip mall.

Digging up Ray Field?

Yeah, baby brother.

And all the secrets
under it.

I could feel my eyes

Yes.

I'll tell him.

(BEEP)

They're at the safe house
on Vermont.

Jalal asked me
to thank you.

Happy ending for them.

For you, not so much.

(COUGHS)

Raymond.
(COUGHS)

(INHALES DEEPLY)
I'm fine.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)
(COUGHING)

I'm fine.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

I found something.

(DOOR CLOSES)

A fingerprint on the corner
of the imam's desk.

Could you identify it?

I could. But, uh...

But what?

Belongs to a man who's been
in prison for 15 years.

Arturo Ruel.

How can that be?

I don't know.
Perhaps Raymond will.

Raymond.

Raymond!

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS)