The Blacklist (TV Series)

Marvin Gerard (No. 80): Conclusion Pt. 1 (2022)

James Spader: Raymond 'Red' Reddington

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• Raymond 'Red' Reddington : I own a hunting lodge up in Owego. Up on the Susquehanna River. I bought it for Marvin years ago, a surprise for his 50th birthday. I never gave it to him. It would've been in poor taste.

  Dembe Zuma : Why? Because he doesn't know how to shoot a gun?

  Raymond 'Red' Reddington : No. I found out his girlfriend was vegan. I gave him three weeks at a yoga retreat in Tulum instead. We'll fly up tonight.

• Raymond 'Red' Reddington : Have you heard of the Trembling Giant? If you're hiking through Utah's Fishlake Forest, you'll wander into the most glorious grove of quaking, quivering aspens. 50,000 spread over 100 acres. What a sight. In autumn, you look up, every leaf a flaming torch dancer. What you don't see is that the entire grove is one plant, interconnected by an enormous underground root system that forms the largest living organism on Earth. Harold, my criminal empire is the Trembling Giant, and Marvin is one of those trees with my roots.

• Harold Cooper : I couldn't let you do it to Agnes.

  Raymond 'Red' Reddington : Well, you just did it to you, and you just did it to Agnes, because we've lost him Elizabeth's killer and your blackmailer.

• Marvin Gerard : If it wasn't fair, why did you do it? Why did you force my hand, Raymond?

  Raymond 'Red' Reddington : Because I know something about you that you don't. Something I saw in your eyes 30 years ago, the day I interviewed you to serve as my personal solicitor.

  Marvin Gerard : What's that?

  Raymond 'Red' Reddington : The void inside you. And my power to fill it. From that day forward, I knew that I would be your older brother, your teacher, your Pagan idol, your hope and dread and rapture. I knew that you were mine. You aren't a leader, and you never will be. You were destined to serve.