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(FILTER'S "HEY MAN, NICE SHOT" PLAYING)

♪ I wish I would've met you ♪

♪ But now it's a little late ♪

♪ What you could've taught me ♪

♪ I could've saved some face ♪

♪ They think that your early ending ♪

♪ Was all wrong ♪

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(CAR HORN HONKS)

♪ A man ♪

♪ Has gun ♪

♪ Hey, man ♪ ♪

(♪♪♪)

(COMPUTER BEEPS)

MAN: (OVER PHONE) The plan failed. We can't decode the message.

Call Raymond Reddington.

(♪♪♪)

(♪♪♪)

(TRUCK BEEPING)

(MUFFLED GUNSHOT)

(♪♪♪)

(♪♪♪)

From Wujing. Good God, not here.

The gentleman I usually contract with is unavailable.

Stung by a manta ray off the barrier reef in Belize. Heh.

I have another tech in mind.

This needs to be done quickly. Today?

Speak with Luli about the replacement I'm offering.

Conduct your due diligence.

If things are in order, we can proceed as discussed.

I prefer to play with myself in private.

TOM: Hey, you okay? Yeah, I'm sorry.

I'm just a little distracted.

No, it's all right.

I'm sitting here talking about what happened to me,

like it only happened to me, but it happened to us both.

It's just a little weird to be home, because...

Lizzy, a man came into our home. I know. I'm sorry.

I wish I could tell you more.

I wanna tell you more. I... So tell me something. Who was he?

He's gone. He was killed.

So it's over? Yes.

Look, I love you.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

That's Ellie.

I just hate that there are things you have to hide from me.

Good morning. Hope you're hungry. I'm making breakfast.

LIZ: Oh, you don't have to do that.

Are you kidding? A good omelet has healing powers.

Bruce and Melissa are bringing over dinner tonight.

That's cool of you. ELLIE: Hey.

Friends don't let friends starve when they've been stabbed by psychopaths.

How's he doing? I'm right here.

I'm not asking you.

You'll say fine. That's what you do.

You're a good actor. Karen's covering my classes.

We're gonna eat and then head over to physical therapy.

I gotta run. Ellie,

we owe you. So true.

I wouldn't go if I didn't have to.

Whatever they pulled you into, the sooner you get it over with,

the sooner we get our life back. Okay.

Bye.

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Slug and casing from a 9 mm.

Can you run these and see if they match any crimes in our system?

An opportunity has come our way.

Yesterday the Chinese killed a CIA agent

in Shanghai.

They took his computer,

which they thought could decode a message they intercepted.

It couldn't. They've asked me to help.

Oh, Rodrick is a dear old friend.

I'm sorry.

You're decoding CIA messages on behalf of the Chinese?

See, you make it sound like treason. So black-and-white. it's not. it's green.

The fact is, American secrets are for sale,

by an assortment of reputable vendors, myself included.

If I don't do this, someone else will.

The man who's paying me is called Wujing.

Perhaps you've heard of him.

He worked for the Ministry of State Security.

He's not officially sanctioned by the Chinese.

But unofficially, he's contracted to take out rival agents.

American, British.

The message likely contains the name of another agent.

You expect me to believe that? A secret meeting with Wujing?

Intriguing, isn't it? He's a myth.

That's what they said about Deep Throat.

And the G-spot.

I assure you, Wujing is quite real, and he's hired me.

Now you have the chance to catch him.

I've already forwarded them your cover. What? What cover?

Carolyn Givins, PhD in applied physics from MIT.

I told them you're my new encryption specialist.

You're asking me to betray the life of an American agent.

This is a guy who the intelligence community

has been talking about for decades

as if he were a figment.

You don't even know if he's real or not.

Well, he is real. Very.

And I'm giving you the opportunity to grab him.

The good news is, he's not even in China.

He's right in your own backyard.

We play our cards right, I can still make Lisbon by breakfast.

Rodrick, both.

MEERA: Michael Alvarado, Kevin Wyatt, Bryce Jensen.

Three agents based in China, three covers blown.

According to Reddington, all were murdered by Wujing.

Who is Wujing?

MEERA: China has a one-child policy. They say Wujing was a second child.

They gave him away, denied he was born. He was invisible to his family.

Wujing made a life working in a business where invisibility was an asset.

Reddington told you he can find this guy?

He claims Wujing hired him

to decode a message the Chinese have intercepted from the CIA.

He believes it might contain the identity of another asset in China.

I think we should move on this.

I'm not prepared to do this.

COOPER: I understand you have reservations.

Reservations?

You're asking me to spy on a notorious spy killer,

while pretending to be an expert in cryptography, which I know nothing about.

Reddington insists on you.

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I'm sorry.

Look at those pictures.

If there is a name in that message, there's gonna be another face in that file.

That'll be on you.

(UNDERWORLD'S "BIRD 1" PLAYING)

♪ There is one bird in my house ♪

♪ She said you woke up From a dream ♪

♪ He heard Mama Cass He felt better ♪

♪ He found enormous things ♪ ♪

ELLIE: I'll be back in a second. I just need to grab my purse.

I thought it was on the counter.

(♪♪♪)

Hello?

TOM: Hey, did you find it?

Oh, yeah. Sorry. I'm coming.

Okay, say I do this. What's in it for me?

Look at you, camel-trading like a Bedouin.

If I'm gonna help you, I want something in return.

Such as? The truth. Just once.

I wanna know why you chose me.

Well, then we need to move quickly. Things are already in play.

WDCJ, a small radio station five miles from here.

The building was purchased six years ago

by a corporation fronting for the Chinese government.

RESSLER: I'm sorry. Wait.

You're telling us that Wujing is running a spy ring

out of a radio station?

(RAYMOND LAUGHS)

We'll meet Wujing.

You'll decode the message and transmit it to your team.

If I decode the message, that means the Chinese get it too.

Exactly. Both you and the Chinese will know the name of the agent

for which the message was intended, and the race begins.

We try to save him, the Chinese try to kill him.

We could give them a false message. No.

Send them in the wrong direction.

I said, no.

The Chinese may not know what the message is, but they certainly know

what it isn't.

We do it for real, or we don't do it at all.

Great plan, except as I've said, I know nothing about encryption.

You're a very quick study.

I have a guy who can help you with that.

(SPEAKING IN MANDARIN)

The Chinese will give you an intercepted message on one of these.

Insert it, and it'll prompt you to connect a data locker.

Shun Lee say it's like a magic box. A magic box?

(SPEAKING IN MANDARIN)

MEERA: The data locker applies a key to the message.

It'll take a moment, but the message will appear on your laptop.

How do I get the message out? You don't. The computer does it for you.

All you need is satellite connection.

(SPEAKING IN MANDARIN)

MEERA: if you don't have a connection, use this. It's a remote mirroring program.

It'll give our tech on the outside control of the system. it's gonna be okay.

(SPEAKS IN MANDARIN)

Great. You're rocking the Mandarin.

(SPEAKS IN MANDARIN)

(♪♪♪)

Three minutes to the meeting, sir.

Where is Reddington? He's late.

He's gonna blow this whole thing. Do you smoke?

No. Well, you do now.

Or at least you're trying to quit.

This is CIA equipment. it's brand-new.

It looks like a nicotine patch, but it's a very sensitive transmitter.

It has a range of 300 yards,

and it's a plastic polymer.

It won't show up if it gets wanded. And if you're wrong?

I'm not wrong.

Where the hell is he? He was supposed to be here...

RAYMOND: What are we waiting for?

Surveillance 1, are you in position?

Roger that. In position.

Satellite feed up and running.

(♪♪♪)

Right this way.

Here we go.

Sorry, sir. Protocol.

Miss. Please.

Thank you. Sir?

(SENSOR BEEPS)

DARPA tracking chip. Eight-millimeter tag.

I was taken by Somali pirates last March.

Spent three weeks in a shipping container.

The first two were a nightmare.

The third one was actually quite pleasant.

Even so, that won't happen again.

If you have a clean razor blade and some morphine, I'll remove it.

That won't be necessary.

But I'm going to need a biometric-print scan from your associate.

She's with me. MAN: Understood.

But my orders are to scan any new visitors.

What database

is this being run against? All of them.

RESSLER: What's happening?

They're running her prints.

Can you intercept them?

So you went with the gray.

Okay.

Bam.

(♪♪♪)

Follow me.

As you can see, we've made some improvements.

Oh, yeah, DARPA chip won't work where you're going.

Wujing will explain when you get there.

Get where?

What the hell just happened? ARAM: We lost them.

What happened to our signal?

They seem to be descending, which doesn't make sense. The blueprints don't show

any underground space. Get that signal back.

How far down do you think we're going?

Far enough.

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(♪♪♪)

My friend.

Don't be cheeky, Wujing.

You don't have any friends.

My associate.

Ms. Givins.

Professor Robins only works with the best.

Oh, he was an amazing teacher.

I was so sorry to hear that he passed away.

RAYMOND: You've made some changes. We had to increase security.

RAYMOND: I can imagine.

Four American agents killed in the past year and a half.

You've been busy. I presume nothing gets in or out.

No radio or satellite transmissions.

Nothing but trust.

Please don't take offense. I can't risk American surveillance.

Only our systems are hardwired to the outside world.

RAYMOND: Let's get to work.

I once had a bad experience in a deep hole in the ground.

WUJING: Jin Sun, my new senior cryptographer.

We expected standard RSA encryption, but this was something stronger.

The government's been experimenting with better factoring algorithms.

It's only a matter of time before RSA's obsolete.

You're right. it is.

LIZ: I'll just need a few moments

to set up my equipment.

This way.

MEERA: We're trying, but nothing.

The Chinese are scrambling our signals, or Liz and Red are out of range.

I thought your equipment had a range of 300 yards.

Maybe they've built a bunker that deep under the building.

We're getting played. That signal went dark because Red and Liz wanted it to.

It's not likely. How long can we wait?

It is possible they could be in danger?

Another reason not to wait.

Keep all insertion teams on standby.

If we don't hear from Agent Keen in five minutes, we're going in.

We ready yet?

Do you get home much, Jin Sun? Not for two years.

Oh, that must be hard.

It certainly would be for me. I don't even have a phone.

I insist on delivering all of my messages in person.

What province are you from? Yunnan.

Beautiful part of the country.

I spent a month in silent meditation at a monastery just outside of Kunming.

It was a wonderful escape from the distractions

of everyday life. I can't imagine the distractions

one might encounter down here.

Can you?

No, I can't.

Excellent.

I think we're almost ready.

This should be fun.

(♪♪♪)

What the hell is that?

I swear, if I run into the same trouble I had with you in Hong Kong...

In all the years you and I have known each other,

I've never put you in a position like this.

You know how I conduct my business. I don't need this kind of crap.

You assured me this place was secure.

It is. Then what the hell is that?

That van. it was there when we arrived, and it's still there.

That is the FBI.

With all the scans and wands,

and this elevator you've built that goes down to middle-earth,

you don't even sweep the street around your building?

This is nonsense. Calm down.

You're under surveillance. WUJING: if the FBI was outside,

it's because you led them here.

I've been moving comfortably through the world

for the past 20 years without a trace, and now some two-bit spy killer

is gonna put my life and business in jeopardy?

(WUJING SPEAKING IN MANDARIN)

We have activity. Everybody, heads up.

We're made. Your 2 o'clock. Break it down, 15 seconds.

We gotta go. Pack it up. You.

(SPEAKS IN SPANISH)

(SCOFFS)

They know we're here.

Maybe the van's been there too long, and they're being careful.

I don't like it. We're going in on my signal.

(♪♪♪)

Unbelievable.

You see? Nothing.

Now, can we continue?

You should be ashamed of yourself.

To put Ms. Givins and I at risk, it's unprofessional.

I've reached my limit... Enough.

What?

Okay. Okay. You know, I'm sorry.

I've had a rough day.

Unbelievable.

Shall we do this?

Let's roll. ETA, one minute.

The message.

Don't you miss the good old days with the payphones

and the brush passes?

AGENT: Thirty seconds out. Wait, I've got something.

She's using the remote mirroring program Meera's contact gave her.

Uh, hang on, this isn't her computer.

It looks like one of the Chinese systems.

Can you see the CIA message?

ARAM: Yes, sir, and a lot more than that.

Downloading now. AGENT: Ten seconds out.

All units, stand down. I repeat, stand down.

I repeat, all units, stand down. AGENT: Standing down.

(♪♪♪)

There's your next target.

Kill Number 5, Henry Cho.

(♪♪♪)

We have the message. The target is Henry Cho.

The clock is ticking. I want everything we can find on this guy.

This was sent from a CIA server to a server at the Nanjing Grand Hotel.

So, Mr. Cho, why is the CIA sending you secret messages at your hotel?

RESSLER: Hold on. This guy's not an agent.

He's Chinese-American. An architect.

An architect?

Then why the hell is he talking to the CIA?

Because we asked for his help.

JIN: Henry Cho works for Zhongku Construction.

Not in China, here in D.C.

Zhongku, a huge construction company. They design buildings all over the world.

He's been to company headquarters six times in the last 10 months.

MEERA: That's why the CIA reached out to him.

Zhongku's designing a government building in Shanghai.

We asked Henry to use his access to get us the plans.

Thanks to him, our ops bugged the city military commission.

Let me get this straight.

This guy's not a trained operative?

He's just a contractor?

A civilian.

Where is he now? ARAM: Here.

Immigration says he left China three days ago.

A return flight to Dulles Airport.

Thank you, Aram. You're welcome.

Go get them.

WOMAN: (ON PHONE) Zhongku Construction.

WUJING: Henry Cho, please.

It's very important that I speak to him immediately.

His brother, Xiaoping, has been in a car accident.

He's at our Fairiew property with his son.

I can try to call him...

(SPEAKING IN MANDARIN)

MEERA: There's no answer on his cell.

RESSLER: Call the company. Find out where he is.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

WUJING: My friend,

I can't thank you enough. This is all the thanks I require.

Get your things. it's time to go.

Leave it.

(ALARM BEEPING)

WUJING: Lock it down.

Stop.

You were right.

Maybe that was the FBI outside.

In fact, maybe they're not just outside.

Maybe they're right here in this room.

Think hard before you accuse anybody of anything.

A few minutes ago, contact was made from this room to an FBI server.

A message I worked so hard

to intercept was sent to the Americans.

Well, all my instincts

said it was her.

I trust my instincts.

You're smart.

The one responsible was smart.

But our systems are smarter.

Any contact with a government server is flagged for review.

So I know who betrayed us.

You son of a bitch.

He's not at the office.

He's at Fairview and Wallace. Try him again.

So over here, there are gonna be some windows.

And out here,

there's gonna be a balcony that runs the length...

You said we were gonna get ice cream.

Okay. Let me just show you something else first.

(PHONE BUZZING)

WUJING: Get him up.

WUJING: I thought you were loyal to us. I don't understand.

The message was sent from your system, Jin Sun.

That's not possible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, hey.

That's not possible. It is.

And not just one message.

You gave them everything. Files we've worked on for months.

Nobody else had access.

We have to do something. Quiet.

(COUGHING)

We can't just let them do this.

(WUJING SPEAKING IN MANDARIN)

You...

As entertaining as all this has been, we really do need to leave now.

The next sound you hear is gonna be the FBI knocking on your door.

And I, for one, am not gonna be here.

Wujing. Look at me.

You killed one of my people.

Now I have to kill one of yours.

(♪♪♪)

The moment he sent that message, he became worthless to you.

You would've beaten him for another 20 minutes

and then killed him yourself.

But if I let you kill a contractor of mine,

I'll lose the trust of all my others.

And that's just bad business.

So if you kill her, you better kill me.

Or I'm going to kill you.

You hired me to do a job. it's done.

Now let's get out of here.

Follow me. I have another way out.

Let's go get you some ice cream. Okay.

(PHONE BUZZING)

Hello? This is Agent Meera Malik of the CIA.

CIA? You're not supposed to be calling me on this line.

MEERA: Listen to me. You are in danger.

The Chinese have your name. There are men on their way.

CHO: We're on the 12th floor. MEERA: Stay where you are.

Stay hidden. We're just minutes out.

(♪♪♪)

BOY: Dad?

Come here. Come here. Let's go.

WUJING: I've been building this place for three years.

And now my operation is burned. So build another.

ARAM: Sir, I've got them.

The microchip in Red's neck came online

and the bug we put on Agent Keen.

They're out of the building, moving west on Danforth.

Where the hell are they going? Just send agents to intercept them.

(♪♪♪)

(MEN SHOUTING IN MANDARIN)

Get underneath. Get underneath.

Listen. Listen. Don't move, all right?

Just don't move. No, put your hand in. Don't move. Shh, shh.

(MAN SPEAKING IN MANDARIN)

(GRUNTING)

Ow!

No! Stop! Dad! Dad! Dad!

Dad! Dad!

Hey, hey, hey. Let go. Let my son go.

Please. Please, just let my son go. Please.

It's gonna be okay. it's gonna be okay. I'll do anything.

Let him go. it's gonna be all right.

It's gonna be all right, I promise.

BOY: Dad!

MEERA: Ressler, clear!

Ressler, clear?

I'm good, thanks.

Thank you. Thank you for all you've done for us.

(♪♪♪)

I can get us out of the country.

That's very kind, but I'm sure we can muddle through on our own.

Anywhere in the shade up here would be fine.

I fear I've disappointed you.

The deal was for us to actually catch the criminals on the Blacklist.

Now Wujing is as good as halfway to Beijing.

I don't think so.

Is everything okay? We're fine.

(POLICE SIRENS BLARING)

SWAT 1: Get out. Move.

Get out. SWAT 2: Move, move.

SWAT 1: Let me see your hands. SWAT 2: Get out. Get out. Get out.

MAN: (OVER RADIO) Package is secure. Suspect in custody now.

Luli can stay with me. Dembe will take you

wherever you need to go.

You didn't have to kill him.

I believe I will always do whatever I feel I have to do

to keep you alive.

I held up my end of the deal. Now it's your turn.

You owe me an answer.

What's the question? Why me?

Because of your father.

What does that mean?

Did you know my father?

Have the two of you met somehow?

I wish the answer were as simple as the question seems.

But the truth is, the question isn't simple either.

I share your frustration.

You act like we're the same. You're wrong.

I have a life, people who care about me.

But you...

This is all you have.

I have you.

(♪♪♪)

You okay? I'll live.

Look, I just wanted to say, uh...

Maybe I've had some doubts about you.

Maybe I haven't done the best job of keeping them to myself.

But what you did today was good work.

Thanks.

If you didn't get that message out when you did, Henry Cho wouldn't be alive.

Whatever else went down in there,

you should feel good about that.

(SUSIE SUH & ROBOT KOCH'S "HERE WITH ME" PLAYING)

♪ Caught in the riptide ♪

♪ I was searching for the truth ♪

♪ There was a reason ♪

♪ I collided into you ♪

♪ Calling your name In the midnight hour ♪

♪ Reaching for you From the endless dream ♪

♪ So many miles between us now ♪

♪ But you are always Here with me ♪

You were right. Liz Keen is hiding something.

I put a flag on her. Any tests,

reports or files, anything she requests, gets sent to us first.

She put a bullet and a shell casing into Ballistics.

At her level, the results were classified, but that's the full report.

COOPER: This isn't just classified.

Any briefings on this homicide include the secretary of Homeland Security.

Who else knows about this?

♪ Calling your name In the midnight hour ♪

♪ Reaching for you From the endless dream ♪

♪ So many miles between us now ♪

♪ But you are always Here with me ♪

♪ With me ♪ ♪

Hey. How are you?

Good. Great.

Let me take this for you. Everybody wanted to be here for Tom.

Hey. Hey.

Everything go okay? Fine.

Thank you.

Hey, can we, um, talk for a second, pre-lasagna?

I just wanted to apologize for this morning.

It's okay. No, I was wrong.

It's your job.

And I understand that there are certain secrets

that you have to keep right now, and that's okay.

Because... Because we'll survive, like always.

I just want you to...

I... I love you. I gotta see a man about some lasagna.

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