- When Red tips Liz off on the disappearance of Justin Kenyon, a polygamous cult leader with dangerous shipping containers buried on his property, the task force sets out to investigate. Meanwhile, Red utilizes his sources to appease Fitch's last words and travels to track down his hidden safe.
- "The Blacklist" - "The Kenyon Family" - Feb. 19, 2015
We open on a church service, in which the preacher is reading about Lot, and how his daughters had sex with him to propagate the species. Apparently, he really likes this passage and this was a preface to him marrying one of his very own daughters in order to have sex with her? YUCK.
Meanwhile, nefarious types are milling around with weapons and things in an underground bunker. Several are knocked out by an unseen assailant.
As the preacher prepare to "wed" his nervous looking bride someone throws teargas into the church. The congregants try to flee but the doors are blocked.
Harold Cooper and his wife are driving and she insists that, for whatever his diagnosis is, he needs to get himself into an experimental medical trial. She says she doesn't care if he gets fat or loses his hair, she's not losing him. He says he will make the call.
Liz meets Red at the DMV where he is meeting grumpy Glen. He tells her about the preacher Justin Kenyon, the head of a crazy polygamous cult called "The Kenyon Family," "the rebel darling of the rustic Right." Liz is resistant until Red tells her that there's more to the story than him being a militia separatist with impeccable books.
She takes his tip back to the Post Office where she explains this guy's compound conceals shipping containers with all sorts of weaponry and drugs used by terrorists, criminals, and cartels who bankroll his smiling public face. Kenyon, who is a crazy self-proclaimed prophet who thinks his followers will ascend to heaven only to rain fire on his enemies, has been kidnapped and they knows this means the criminals will be getting antsy to get to their goods.
Back at the DMV, Red is asking Glen to find the safe that Fitch spoke of with his dying words. All he has to give him to go on is that there is a safe in St. Petersburg on the second floor of somewhere, he died before he could say where.
Cooper meets with the director and says Kenyon has been missing for three days and she's worried attacking the compound could go south like Waco and Ruby Ridge and make Kenyon a martyr. Red says who cares, he's never wrong and Liz needs to make them do it.
On a highway in Alabama some highway cops stop a stolen van. They approach and the van explodes, killing them both.
The gang learns another van is on the way to DC and Cooper sends Ressler and Liz to the compound while Navabi goes after the van. He then gets the call that he didn't get into the trial.
Glen has found the safe and convinces Red, against his better judgment, to take him to St. Petersburg.
Ressler and Liz arrive at the compound and interfaces with the local police woman who tells them to tread lightly so as not to ignite a war with Kenyon's cultists. They approach the church and everyone inside is dead. The adults murdered the children kidnapped.
Liz fills Red in by phone that all the storage containers have been cleaned out including whatever he himself may have been storing there. They find a little girl in one of the containers. Red is puzzled by this.
Meanwhile, in St. Petersburg, after ransacking the wrong apartment thanks to Glen's dyslexia they find Fitch's safe and all that is inside is a phone number. Red tells Dembe to run it down.
Navabi finds the van and at the wheel, detonator in hand is a dirty little boy. She notes that since the police found him if he hits it the only people the boy will kill are Navabi and himself, not lots of people as his mission was meant to be and she gets him out.
His name is Fin. We learn, horrifically, that since Kenyon wanted all the cult's men to take three wives once they started having kids there ended up being too many boys so he would abandon some of them in the woods to die when they were reaching puberty, including his own son David. Some survived, however, and David gathered them together and made his own crazy society.
The recovered little girl is taken back to town and tells Liz and Ressler about the "watchers," the boys in the woods. The boys ambush the car and drag Ressler, Liz, and the girl back to their makeshift home.
The man who will be the next attorney general shows up at Harold's office telling him that now that he's leaving he wants Harold to take over as direct. Harold demurs on account of his illness but congratulates his friend.
Ray goes to see a woman named Ruth who is busy having a man beaten for crimes unrelated to the plot. Apparently, Ruth had some "Hellfire" missiles stored on the Kenyon compound and he asks her for the.activation codes. With those he activates the cameras in nosecones and gets the GPS coordinates of where they are and sends Navabi and her team there.
Back at the crazy lost boys compound Liz is able to get free from her bonds and grab a gun and take control of the situation just as Navabi's team busts in. David, who had been yelling at the bound body of his father, runs off. They see that Kenyon is dead, and in one of the show's grossest images ever, he has had tree branches stuffed in his eyes and throat.
Liz approaches the van in which David is sitting ready to blow up more explosives. She note his father wanted him dead and credits him with keeping the other boys alive and that he is not his father, that he is better than him. Just as she's about to talk him out, another member of the team sees a sniper with his gun trained on Liz and shoots him and David.
Red is in her office when she returns. He hands her a key to a fancy apartment he bought her and says it's time to leave the motel behind and that he knows she hasn't been happy. She declines and says she wishes he'd stop trying to make things better between them since from now on it's all just business.
Red and Dembe go to the church. Red upends the pulpit to descend into a storage container the team missed. In it is an ancient Pontiac that was apparently a presidential vehicle of some sort. He retrieves a small silver briefcase from the trunk. Back in the car Dembe tells him that the number from Fitch's safe was untraceable so they can't know who will be answering. Red calls the number. A man answers with "Yes." Red says he's calling on behalf of Fitch and the man says "The safe? You have the safe?" Red asks, "Who the hell is this?"
The Attorney General-elect returns and tells Harold he got him into the clinical trial. Harold chokes up, they drink, like men and toast to friendship.
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