- After Tom confronts Liz about the box - he claims he's innocent and insists that they turn it into the FBI so his name can be cleared. Elsewhere, Red informs Liz and the FBI that the next name on the Blacklist is beautiful and deadly corporate terrorist, Gina Zanetakos.—NBC Publicity
- 'The Blacklist" - "Gina Zanetakos" - Oct. 28, 2013
In Germany a bombmaker creates and detonates a car bomb that's so ingenious that the bomb is the car. A woman tells him she will need one within 36 hours.
Tom confronts Liz about the box and goes on the offense. She is confused by this. But he swears he knows nothing of it or of the murder of any Russian double agent and that all bad things that have happened to them have been because of her job not his. He volunteers to go with her to the FBI with the box and have them figure out what's going on.
Of course they separate them when they're there and Tom is interrogated and Liz is put on leave.
That leave doesn't last long when Red says he needs to work with Liz to track own a corporate terrorist Gina Zanetakos, number 152 on the Blacklist. He threatens to uncover something, at the very least unflattering about Harold Cooper, to get him to let Liz on the case. It turns out that not only is the nefarious Ms. Zanetakos planning to set off a dirty bomb somewhere but, Red claims, she is Tom's lover.
So while the team heads off to figure out Gina, Meera interrogates Tom.
He explains that he was in Boston for a job interview at a prestigious school in Cambridge and met with the headmaster at the hotel where the agent was shot, which explains why he was photographed coming out of the hotel. Meera goes to speak to the headmaster but it turns out that who Tom met was not the headmaster of the school. And when Liz notices that Gina Zanetakos is in fact also in that picture she believes Tom is being set up.
Through a series of machinations, the team tracks down Gina under an alias at a hotel. She meets with a Turkish diplomat, pretends to be hot for him, gets some vital info from him and then kills him, making it look like a suicide. She leaves moments before Liz and Ressler arrive. Ressler tracks her down in the elevator and then fight. She gets the best of him and gets away.
They manage to determine Gina's address and bust into her house where they find a box similar to Tom's filled with passports, money, and a gun. They also find a picture of the Russian man Tom is accused of killing in the box along with many other pictures of now deceased people and realize she is an assassin and she killed the Russian. But, then they find a picture of Tom in a book in her bedroom.
Liz goes to Red in tears confused, saying she doesn't know what's real or who to trust. He says she can trust him and he holds her hand.
They trace a call that alerts them to the fact that the bomb is set to go off in the Central Time Zone. Red figures he knows the bomb maker and heads off to Germany,gets him drunk, and gets Gina's whereabouts out of him.
They track Gina to a park and chase her down, and Ressler shoots her. Liz is livid since she knows where the bomb is and can clear Tom's name but now she's in surgery.
They discover the bomb is set to go off at the port in Houston and potential spread radiations for a five mile radius. They head to Houston, discover the car in a container, and realize they have no time to figure out how to defuse it so Ressler drives it off the pier and it detonates underwater, which helps contain the contamination.
When Gina wakes up in the hospital they interrogate her. She admits to killing the Russian. She was told it was to keep him from spilling secrets about the route Chechen guerillas were using to move supplies. The guy who hired her was making millions providing those supplies. That guy? Red himself. She claims she does not know who Tom is and knows nothing of the picture they found in her apartment.
When Tom is finally freed at episode's end, he and Liz have a long hug. As he looks over his shoulder at the evidence wall he notices a photo of a man. This, he says, is the man who presented himself as the headmaster. It is a picture of Red's minion.
Liz goes to Red and tells him they are done. She has no idea why he is messing with her and her husband but that they're arrangement is over.
When Liz and Tom head home the surveillance guys are watching. A younger guy is spelled by the apple eater-- who we discover is British. They don't think he's innocent. They wonder who Tom is working for, since it's clear now that he's not working for Red.
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