This episode begins with Samar who woke up in Devlin's van. Liz, Cooper and Ressler are hearing members of the Moore group to got the name of Samar's abductor. Moore tells Aram that a man called Feltmeyer ubducted Samar but that's a fake name. Samar escaped from the van she puts firework in the van. Devlin chased Samar and took her with him. Red pays Julius a visit to find out the real name of Samar's abductor. Liz discovered that Feltmeyer his real name is Lawrence Devlin. Samar stabbed Devlin with a wooden stick. Moore poisoned himself with a pill. Devlin crashed the car into a tree. Red and Dembe are on a auction in Costa Rica to get the bones. Moore died after he poisoned himself. Devlin leaves the van. A bear attacked Devlin he died of his injuries. The bear pushed the van into the water Samar is in real danger. Aram found the van in the water, he saved Samar from drowning. Aram reanimated Samar. Red has the name of the next and last blacklister for this season: Sutton Ross, he has the bones Red is looking for. Samar has been brought to the hospital. Aram asks Samar who still is unconscious to marry him, Aram puts the ring on Samar's finger. Really solid episode of The Blacklist Season 5, this episode was exciting and full of action and many mystery.
8 Reviews
Really?
drnikic29 May 2021
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A bear? A bear that sounds like Chewbacca. Quite apart from the fact that the only bears in the east coast of the USA are black bears, the most timid of the bears, the likelihood it would knock over a ban is slim to nought.
As for Liz, she is seriously getting on my wick. Hopefully the next episode, being the last in this season means no more damn duffel bag.
Not one of my favourite Blacklist episodes. As usual, it's James Spader's charisma that saves it.
As for Liz, she is seriously getting on my wick. Hopefully the next episode, being the last in this season means no more damn duffel bag.
Not one of my favourite Blacklist episodes. As usual, it's James Spader's charisma that saves it.
Oh come on...
stoerat12 March 2021
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Am I the only one flabbergasted that Navar, a well-trained Mossad operatist, can't outrun this guy or do something else than stab him? Like come on... She should not have gotten taken in the first place, but this episode keeps insulting the viewers even more.
And then Elizabeth. She has become so unbearable, so irritating. Thank god Spader is in here, would have stopped watching if he wouldn't be so great. Only thing keeping this show running in my opnion. Hope they will return to greatness, which was season 1 and 2.
It's mostly downhill from here
TheBS100024 June 2021
In this episode, we see what happens when writers make plot a priority over characters. Basically, characters in this episode do not behave the way they normally do because the writers wanted certain plotpoints to happen and the only way to make them happen was to quite suddenly change everything about certain characters without doing any groundwork. To speak a little less vaguely, this episode takes a character shown time and time again over several seasons to be a bad@$$ who is fully capable of taking care of herself and inexplicably turns her into a damsel in distress. It's not because she's finally met her match, though. She's only going up against some un-athletic backwoods criminal who is far lower on the totem pole than many of the foes she's faced off with in the past. The reason this situation is too much for her is because this highly trained field agent has seemingly forgotten all her prior training and experience. The real reason she's suddenly a damsel in distress in this episode, though, is because the writers wanted to give a hero moment to another character -- one who's been presented as barely more than the wimpy tech guy since the show began.
I wish I could say this episode is the one lowpoint of the series, but I'm writing this review retroactively from several seasons down the road. The reason I'm back on this episode so many years later is because this episode is when I first noticed that the quality of writing for the series had taken a turn for the worst. I can't say it's all bad from here on out, but most of it is.
I wish I could say this episode is the one lowpoint of the series, but I'm writing this review retroactively from several seasons down the road. The reason I'm back on this episode so many years later is because this episode is when I first noticed that the quality of writing for the series had taken a turn for the worst. I can't say it's all bad from here on out, but most of it is.
I Really Like This Show/Don't Insult Me
Hitchcoc28 November 2022
So Shamar ends up in the back of a van where the screwball Lawrence Dane Devlin explains how he is going to kill her. Using a flare, she attacks him and she takes off. Anyway, he is chased and shoves a stick up his gut. But back to the van. Eventually, a magical bear comes along, kills the guy, and pushes the van into a lake. Shamar is drowning. She is pulled out but now is in the hospital, having never regained consciousness. Oh, in a big change, the duffle bag full of bones is on its way to Costa Rica. And Liz is screwing things up again. Will this ever end? One other criticism, how has this special unit lasted when no one follows orders?
Unrealistic, from a usually reliable show
benfordholland25 April 2024
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I like this show, but this episode played like fanfiction written on a dare. Physics don't work like real life, super unrealistic circumstances, completely unlikely wounds and wound reactions. One person gets a gut stab wound and passes out from blood loss. Another character gets a worse gut stab wound and keeps going like superman. When the bad guy is going to get away, the writers have him get attacked BY A BLACK BEAR. Then, the bear rolls the van down a hill, you know, throwing away hard fought for food, like they do (not). Were there no anvils or grand pianos in the treetops to drop on him? An F episode in a B+ series.
Totally the worst episode so far
david_w_gibson7 August 2023
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Who writes this stuff? Do they have ANY real life experience? Have they ever held a tire iron in their hand? As another critic has said, they take a proven capable Mossad agent, Samar, and turn her into a damsel in distress, who is smart enough to get out of her restraints, but not smart nor skilled enough to take down the overweight fat guy who restrained her. Instead of kicking his ass when he opens the van doors, she just kicks him down and runs, and can't even seem to run fast enough to get away from him. Then, when he crashes the van, she gets impaled by a tire iron that magically appears(because if it had been there earlier, there's no chance she wouldn't have used it on him) because he passes out from her puncturing him with a stick, all of a sudden he wakes up and with full vigor escapes the overturned van. Then, after a bear gets him, the bear magically has the strength to push the van over and down a hill into the water. Then the magical tire iron breaks in half as she tries to use it to escape the cage in the van. That's a trick I'd like to see in person, a 130lbs woman putting enough pressure on a tire iron to not break the lock, but to break the tire iron in half(just to give the writers out there a clue, tire irons don't break in half, a super strong person might bend one, but even superman would only bend it). Then, when the van is almost submerged, she's trying to escape via the part that's fully submerged instead of the part that has an air pocket.
No wonder the studios want to use AI to write more scripts after watching this crap. My 4 rating is generous.
No wonder the studios want to use AI to write more scripts after watching this crap. My 4 rating is generous.
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