- As Liz (Megan Boone) heads up an investigation that exposes an adoption agency's shocking secret, Red's (James Spader) pursuit of the FBI mole identifies a surprising new suspect.
- A woman wanders the streets, barefoot and wrapped in a blanket. She babbles that someone took her baby. She finds a cop and starts trying to ask for help, but then a man comes up and tells the cop she's his sister and she's confused. The cop turns to radio for help but the man comes up behind him and shoots him in the back, then he shoots the woman.
The Cyprus Agency, No. 64
At home, Liz and Tom look at a 3-D ultrasound of Julia's baby. She tells Tom she wants to stay home for a little while when the baby comes.
Later, Liz meets with Red in the church. He tells her the next name on the Blacklist: The Cyprus Adoption Agency. She doesn't think it's a coincidence he's choosing this target when she's about to adopt, but he assures her life is full of little ironies.
At the Agency, a couple is allowed to select all the genetic and hereditary traits of their child. Mr. Mallory, the CEO, introduce Ted Caldwell, their lawyer.
Red tells Liz the Agency doesn't adopt babies, they steal them. They use a forger, one of Red's best.
Liz meets with the soon-to-be parents of the most recently "adopted" boy, David and Wendy Rolland. Liz breaks the news that the baby they're expecting to bring home in the next two weeks won't be theirs. They offer to help.
Later, the Rollands meet with Ted Caldwell, as Liz and Ressler stake out the coffee shop. David Dolland nervously asks for more information about the child. Caldwell tells them to talk to an adoption consultant with the agency. Caldwell steps outside to make a call, saying he thinks something is wrong.
Liz and Ressler interrupt and identify themselves. Caldwell immediately gets spooked. When Liz mentions real parents, Caldwell says she has no idea. Caldwell backs into traffic, scared, and is quickly flattened by a bus.
Red checks in with Ted Grimley, who's been with Meera, trying to get answers. Grimley reports that Meera is telling the truth.
She tells him she was ordered by someone to open bidding for building improvements, leaking confidential building design info (the burned scrap of paper Red's nerds found), but she doesn't know by whom. She suggests he let her go so she can find out who gave the order, because they both want the same thing.
At the agency, Mallory assures Liz and Ressler that they've done nothing wrong and suggests if there was an issue it was by their overseas partners. He volunteers any help he can offer.
Back at the office, Liz reports Cyprus had 27 infant adoptions last year, which is a lot. But she can't find any records of the birth parents. They start DNA tests on the children and begin searching international missing children files.
Liz wants to talk to Cooper about maternity leave, but is interrupted when Meera shows up late. She says she was up all night with her daughter, which prompts Cooper to remind her the job is more important. Liz doesn't ask him for time off.
Liz, Ressler and Meera go get DNA swabs from the kids, many of whom are toddlers.
Liz meets with Red and tells him this is her last case for awhile. None of the DNA matched to missing children. "You're so linear," Red says.
He asks her to think who wouldn't report a child missing -- criminals. He suggests she run the DNA again and match it against relatives of criminal. Red tells Liz she's reaching a "point of no return" with Tom if she goes through with the adoption and she should stop if she has any doubts. She doesn't.
Back at the office, they get five DNA hits and five mothers of 12 of the 27 children. The women themselves are missing. They were all in college when they disappeared, all are well educated.
At the others work the case, Meera looks through Cooper's briefcase and takes his badge.
They realize three of the women gave birth after they were abducted.
Meera takes Cooper's badge and uses it to access classified files.
Aram goes through Ted Caldwell's computer and finds a dossier on a woman named Charlotte Patterson, a sophomore at Georgetown.
In a parking garage, the killer from the opening flips through the file on Charlotte and closes in on her car.
Ressler and Liz race to the school to get to Charlotte before she leaves campus.
The killer pulls up alongside Charlotte's car and waits. He jumps out and grabs her, yanking her into his van just before Liz and Ressler arrive. He knocks over Ressler with his van and pulls away as Liz shoots at him.
The killer meets with Mallory, who is angry that he went ahead with the abduction. The kidnapper insists he had orders from Caldwell. Charlotte is sedated in the back of his van. Mallory shoots the kidnapper.
Back at the office, they have no paper trail linking Caldwell or Mallory to anything.
Back at the office, Mallory meets with a doctor, who assures him there's no link to his clinic.
Out in the woods, a man finds Kate Ellison's body. The coroner tells Liz and Ressler that Kate was in an induced coma for all the time she was missing. She has no muscle tone and was fed through a tube, and she's given birth several times. She was given prenatal care despite being sedated.
Aram calls Liz, he discovered that Owen Mallory was an alias. Liz and Ressler go talk to the Lassiters, he was posing as their son. But the Lassiters tell them Mallory was their son, by the name of Michael Shaw. They adopted him out of foster care when he was seven-years-old. He was with them for 16 months, but had severe attachment disorder. He began threatening to hurt himself and them and the doctors put him back in foster care.
Mrs. Lassiter tells Liz they blame themselves, their marriage was troubled and they weren't "equipped for a child."
Meera meets with Red covertly, bringing him files bearing someone's signature. He looks it over then tells her their business is done.
Red takes Liz to a nice mansion on a cul-de-sac. She wants help tracking the sedative used on the women. Red tells her the house isn't what it seems and she's about to meet one of the nicest drug dealers east of Cleveland.
Inside, there's a house party going on. Red introduces Liz to a college-aged kid named Russell, who knows all about the sedative hydroxapam, but says no one uses it anymore because it's too powerful.
He shows Red that only three pharmacies nearby carry it and of those, only eight doctors wrote prescriptions for it -- seven sleep therapists and one fertility doctor.
Liz and Ressler head to Dr. Hadley's Galatea Fertility Clinic. Mallory is there with him and cautions the receptionist to just get rid of them.
Instead, when Liz and Ressler don't leave, the man at the desk pulls a gun. Ressler disarms and cuffs him then goes looking for Hadley. He finds him in a lab reaching for a gun, and Ressler shoots him several times.
Liz enters a restricted area with plastic sheeting draped everywhere and finds women lying in beds, sedated and pregnant. There are more than a dozen of them.
Liz is taking in the disturbing scene with Mallory sneaks up behind her and knocks her over with a hospital bed. He knocks her down and knocks her gun away. He dumps one of the sedated women from her bed onto Liz and gets to her gun. He's about to fire when Ressler arrives and shoots Mallory in the arm.
Later, Cooper and a team are on the scene. There were 22 women, all unhurt. There is an in vitro clinic on site and the women's eggs were harvested.
In interrogation, Liz links Owen Mallory to Michael Shaw, his childhood name. Mallory says the Lassiters "returned" him as a child because they didn't want a child, they wanted an accessory. "My legacy is complete, and there's nothing you can do to change that," he says.
Liz realizes he's the father of all the children. "A part of me is thriving in every home that has my child," he says.
Liz comes home to see the ultrasound. She wipes away tears and takes Tom's hands. "I can't do it," she tells him. "It's us. I don't know what's wrong, I don't understand it, but something his not right," she says. She admits to having doubts that they might be "broken."
Red sneaks into Diane's house in the middle of the night and tells her he knows. "You signed a directive ordering a mandatory security upgrade of the Post Office. That's how you got the blueprints into enemy hands. You're the dirty rat, Diane," he says.
She tells him she signed the directive for his protection. She tells him they came into the Post Office to make a point, but he'll never get away with hurting her.
She's threatening him when he shoots her in the stomach. "You can't shoot me!" she says. Red tells her he has an agreement with Fitch, but not with her. She tells him she knows the truth about that night, about what happened to his family. He desperately wants to know, but says if she knows the truth, then somebody else does, too. He shoots her several more times, killing her.
Liz sits alone at home and cries.
Tom goes out with Jolene, the substitute.
At the office, Cooper tells Meera he hates working with Red, but they never would have caught all these people without him. He tells her to go home.
At Diane's house, Red welcomes his cleaner to fix the scene.
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