Red and an old friend go after a treasure, but a dangerous Blacklister is on their trail.
The chit-chat and the lurking and the literally pumping the hand soap?
Browning doesn’t know anything, but he gets killed regardless.
Harry Lennix as Harold Cooper, Anya Banerjee as Siya Malik.Scott Gries/NBC
At least he hadn’t tipped yet?
Alas, there’s no time, because Red is there to talk about the Hyena.
How does he know?
James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington, Stacy Keach as Robert Vesco.Scott Gries/NBC
Listen, you’re 199.2 episodes in, just trust that Red got the information from somewhere.
The Hyena’s next logical targets are Bostwick’s triplet daughters (all played by Molly Bernard).
Essentially, Bostwick was disappointed in his children and believed they were waiting for him to die.
Diego Klattenhoff as Donald Ressler, Hisham Tawfiq as Dembe Zuma.David Giesbrecht/NBC
Hoping to make them work together, he dissolved his entire fortune into a single crypto wallet.
Red has a copy of the poem because Kendall foolishly paid a cryptanalyst to look it over.
Kendall is a no-nonsense kind of oldest daughter (by 12 whole minutes, thankyouverymuch).
She does not want FBI protection, she won’t share the poem, and she wants them gone.
Ressler does a classic grimace as he complies.
Clue #1:
To find the answer that you seek you’ll need to sit with Hemingway.
To have or have not your desire, just stay until the sun’s last ray.
The Hyena kills Kendall.
When they arrive, Alex is as paranoid as Kendall was dismissive and won’t let them inside.
Vesco and Red both knew Bostwick personally (so, probably a criminal after all?)
and that means they know about his favorite Atruro Fuete Hemingway cigars, kept in his study.
They break into the mansion-slash-crime scene.
Clue #2:
you’re free to’t define its radiance.
You love it irresistibly.
So find the stone I speak of and whisper to it softly.
Red knows Bostwick didn’t care for special gemstones.
In fact, he only cared about the diamond he bought his late wife.
The treasure hunters decide to take advantage of Alex’s fears of ultra-sonic surveillance.
Three groups begin to converge.
First, Malik picks up Cordelia, the final sister.
She’s been convinced to fly back from Bolivia to enter an FBI-guarded safehouse.
Meanwhile, Dembe and Ressler are staking out Alex’s building when they spot Red and Vesco.
Red playfully thumbs his nose at the van, which Ressler takes personally.
Dembe stops him from following because the Hyena might be nearby.
He’s right there, actually, and he spots Red as he calls Cordelia.
Yup, it turns out the Hyena was hired by the middle sister to find the passcodes.
And just like Bostwick tagged his prize racehorse, the poodle has a discreet ear tattoo.
Clue #3:
Every story must reach an end, such sadness that it doth impart.
To finish mine, drop to a knee and read what’s carved upon my heart.
Cordelia has killed the two agents in her safehouse, much to her kidnapped sister’s horror.
Alex hands over the passcode from Diamond’s ear and Cordelia levels a gun at her.
We hear, but don’t see, the gunshot.
At Bostwick’s grave, Cordelia uses a mallet to break apart the facing of her father’s monument.
The passcode was inlaid on the rose quartz, she smugly tells a late-arriving Red and Vesco.
X marks the spot:
At the bathhouse, Tadashi uses the three passcodes to enter the wallet.
Despite their past treacheries, Red and Vesco easily split the money.
Three ways, rather than just two.
Back at the TFHQ, a stunned Alex watches her digital wallet grow.
Their history of betrayals, Red later tells Cooper, are over.
Maybe, maybe not.
In a parking garage, Vesco is approached by a Wujing employee who hands over a card and information.
Vesco now knows thathis arrest was orchestrated by his old friend Red.
