Épisode Leonard Caul S02E19 - The Blacklist Saison 2

Nous reprenons là où le dernier épisode s’est arrêté. Red est à terre dans la rue après avoir été frappé à la poitrine par la balle d'un sniper. Dembe et Liz ripostent, tuant un homme puis font glisser Red dans sa Mercedes et partent. Liz, paniquée, appelle Cooper et lui demande une escorte vers l'hôpital le plus proche mais avant qu'elle puisse obtenir la réponse, Dembe jette son téléphone par la fenêtre. Il lui tend un téléphone  sécurisé puis la charge d'appeler le * 77. M Kaplan répond, raccroche puis rappelle ensuite en donnant une adresse où elle a convoqué une unité chirurgicale de première classe. Pendant ce temps, le directeur reçoit un mot lui annonçant que la cible est toujours en vie. Il a l’intention de tuer Reddington une fois pour toutes et envoie ses hommes pour couvrir la scène du crime et retrouver Red. Peut-être connaît-il l'homme qui a surveillé Liz pendant des mois ; Leonard Caul  est déjà sur les lieux... et monte dans son break, tape un code dans un ordinateur portable et en quelques secondes trouve l'emplacement de l'entrepôt où Red s’apprête à entrer en chirurgie. À peine capable de parler, Red saisit le poignet de Liz et tousse quelques mots :  Trouve Leonard Caul.

Ni Reven Wright, ni le procureur général Connolly ne sont heureux d'entendre que Liz et Red ont déserté. Connolly note que sa nomination n’est pas encore confirmée et demande à Cooper de faire tout ce qu'il faut pour contenir la situation. C’est à ce moment-là que Liz appelle pour faire un rapport en disant tout au groupe de travail au sujet de Leonard Caul, le Fulcrum et la Cabale qui tente de tuer Red. Elle rappelle à Aram qu’une fois il a tracé un appel à l'appartement de Caul. Ils ont besoin de l'emplacement maintenant. Cooper s’engage à envoyer une protection quand Liz raccroche, tandis que Samar localise rapidement deux doigts sectionnés, laissés à  l'hôpital local par l'homme qu'elle croit être Caul. La chirurgie de Red est en cours au moment où la protection arrive à l'entrepôt, ignorant qu'ils sont photographiés par Caul. Quand les deux gardes entrent, M. Kaplan sort son arme et les tue. Clairement ces hommes ne sont pas du FBI. Liz veut déplacer Red vers une autre planque en toute sécurité tout de suite, mais malheureusement, il y a eu des dommages collatéraux et une balle perdue a tué le chirurgien. Avec une artère ayant encore besoin de cautérisation, Liz charge une infirmière de fermer la poitrine de Red dans les 15 prochaines minutes. Puis elle appelle un ex petit ami, le chirurgien, Nik Korpal, pour demander son aide ... et déplace Red vers la planque de Tom qui ne savait pas où aller.

Avec peu de temps pour continuer, le groupe de travail suit les traces du corps jusqu'à ce que Liz appelle, refusant de divulguer son emplacement, insistant sur le fait qu'elle est protégée par l'équipe de Red. Après avoir raccroché, elle se tourne vers Tom. Elle pensait qu'il avait l'intention de quitter la ville . Il était sur le point mais il a pensé que peut être s’il restait, il aurait une vie normale. Néanmoins, Tom n’est pas trop heureux de voir Liz dans cette situation parce que si elle ne sort pas de son orbite, Red va la dévorer. Liz insiste, elle reste aux côtés de Red jusqu'à ce qu'elle obtienne des réponses sur son passé. Affirmant qu'il en sait plus sur Reddington qu'elle ne le pense, Tom propose de l'aider. Juste à ce moment, Nik sort pour faire un rapport sur l'état de Red. Son poumon a été regonflé, mais la balle est toujours logée dans sa poitrine et c’est essentiellement une bombe à retardement. Nik est parfaitement heureux de faire de la chirurgie mais pas gratuitement car il a autour de
370 000 dollars de dettes en prêts étudiants. Préparé pour toutes les éventualités, M. Kaplan ouvre une mallette remplie de 500 000 dollars non marqués sur la table alors  Nik continue son travail.

Samar trouve le vrai nom de Leonard Caul, Joseph McCray, dans la base de données du Mossad. Il faisait autrefois fait partie de l'opération Harwood, dirigée par Helen Jubal, une associée de Tom Connolly, jusqu'à ce que l'équipe du Comité du renseignement soit dissoute par le Sénat. Cooper demande une faveur à Connolly pour convoquer Jubal. Une fois qu'elle entend que quelqu'un entrave l'enquête, elle répondra à Connolly et elle acceptera de renoncer à localiser Caul  seulement si l'information est utilisée comme moyen de trouver Reddington. Pendant ce temps, Dembe demande à Liz de faire quelque chose pour Red. Liz se rend à son appartement secret de Bethesda. Bien sûr, Red ne doit jamais savoir qu'elle était là. Dans le bureau, elle doit récupérer une clé et une mallette puis revenir à la planque en toute sécurité. De retour au FBI, l'ambiance est controversée. Wright et Connolly se demandent si toute leur danse avec Red a été une manipulation. Red aurait pu choisir Liz parce qu'elle avait le Fulcrum? Partagent-ils un passé ?

Liz regarde dans l’appartement secret de Red, étonnée, particulièrement quand elle aperçoit sa photo d’obtention de diplôme, une photo d'un soldat et une photo floue d'une femme avec une petite fille qu’elle enregistre sur son téléphone. Elle trouve ce qu’elle est venue chercher puis ouvre la porte pour sortir quand elle est confrontée à Leonard Caul, arme à la main. Ils réintégrent l'appartement où Caul convainc Liz de son identité et il explique que la Cabale a essayé de le tuer pour l'éloigner de Red lors d'une réunion qu’Alan Fitch voulait. Lorsque Caul a réalisé que le FBI était à sa recherche, il a su que c’était un signal de Red pour trouver Liz. Si elle a confiance en Red, elle doit montrer à Caul ce qu'elle a ... Liz lui donne la mallette, la clé et le fulcrum. En quelques instants, Caul a tout assemblé et fait apparaître les données chiffrées sur la cabale qui ont été cachées pendant des années.

Retour à la planque de Tom où Red se réveille et dit à Dembe qu'il avait raison, qu'il aurait dû dire à Liz la vérité. Alors que Nik s’apprête à partir, Tom l'avertit de ne pas prendre l'argent de Red mais Nik ne l'écoute pas. De la façon dont il parle à Tom, c’est comme si sa propre relation romantique avec Liz a été supplantée par Tom. Et maintenant, regardez: l'opération clandestine, la mallette pleine d'argent, le tatouage SS sur le cou de Tom ... Qu’est-il arrivé au projet  de s’installer et d'adopter un enfant avec Liz ? Après que Nik soit parti, Tom a beaucoup à dire à Red. Il parle de la première fois qu'ils se sont rencontrés c'est à dire,  le jour où le père adoptif de Liz, Sam est mort. Tom était déjà parti travailler pour Berlin, il était terrifié mais il savait alors que la personne que Red blessait le plus était Liz. Tom sait qu'il a joué un rôle dans cela mais maintenant il veut que Red sache qu'il a dit Liz la vérité dans l'espoir d'arranger  les choses.

En revenant à la planque, Caul explique à Liz que Fitch a appelé lorsque le directeur, qui est en fait le directeur des services clandestins, a voulu le tuer. C’est alors que Liz aperçoit deux fourgons entourant la planque. Méfiante, elle appelle Tom pour l'avertir puis elle appelle Cooper en lui demandant d'envoyer des unités malgré la débâcle précédente. Dembe, Tom et M. Kaplan se préparent au combat mais Red insiste pour que M. Kaplan parte afin qu'elle puisse faire ce qu'elle doit faire s’il meurt. M. Kaplan donne son arme à Red et quitte discrètement les lieux. Pendant ce temps, Caul dit à Liz qu’il a intention de la conduire en lieu sûr. Une fusillade féroce commence, Liz comprend enfin ce qu'elle a à faire. Elle fait irruption dans le bureau du directeur et lui donne ensemble des données du fulcrum, un chantage dévastateur, exigeant qu'il rappelle ses hommes dès maintenant. Alors que Red est sur le point de se faire tuer, un des assassins reçoit un appel et ils partent. Retour dans le bureau du directeur qui dit à Liz, "Vous n’avez aucune idée des ennemis que vous venez de vous faire," Liz répond qu’elle le sait parfaitement. Elle est sur le point de partir quand le directeur l’interpelle : «Je n’avais jamais vu avant ... combien tu ressembles à ta mère."

Liz revient à la planque où Red est de retour sur une civière. Désespéré et vulnérable, Red explique les raisons pour lesquelles il a engagé Tom en premier lieu. Liz ne pouvait plus être protégé par son père, Sam. Red savait que sa vie finirait par compromettre Liz, donc il a engagé Tom dans un effort futile de le garder comme un ami, à distance. Lorsque Red a découvert que leur relation était devenue intime, il a viré Tom qui a fait allégeance à Berlin. C’était en partie un acte d'auto-protection et en partie un acte d'engagement inextricable à Liz. Une fois que Liz et Tom se sont mariés, Red ne pouvait pas rester à l'écart plus longtemps. Liz est dégoûtée d'apprendre que ce n’est qu'une partie de la vérité. Devant l’impasse, elle rencontre Tom dans un parc désert. Il avait raison, le monde de Red va la dévorer. Tom affirme qu'il a voulu dire qu'il dévorerait la plupart des gens mais Liz n’est pas la plupart des gens. Liz est enfin prête à accepter son aide ... alors qu'est-ce que Tom sait sur Reddington ?

Traduit et adapté du résumé du site officiel par albi2302.

Voice-over: «Previously on The Blacklist»

RED : Alan Fitch directed me to that safe. What does he want me to know?
LEONARD CAUL : It is happening.
RED : What is? What’s happening?

….

RED : Aram, I need your assistance locating the source of a call that was placed to a pay phone. I can’t stress enough the urgency of this matter.

…

RED : I don’t think you have any real comprehension of the depth and breadth of your vulnerability. But only the one who possesses the Fulcrum could possibly fathom that.
THE DIRECTOR : I don’t think you have it. Don’t think you ever did.

…

HOBBS : The Fulcrum – if you have it, if you can prove you have it, do it now. Your life depends on it.

…

LIZ : I have the Fulcrum. Tell me what it is, and I’ll tell you where to find it.

…

RED : Yes. I’m the one who hired Tom Keen to enter your life.
LIZ : Here.

Gives him the Fulcrum

LIZ : This is all you wanted.
RED : Lizzy. Lizzy!

Gunshot

LIZ : No !

DEMBE : Raymond!
LIZ : Dembe!

LOCATION UNKNOWN

Leonard Caul, a surveillance expert, is working in a red-lit room with photographs of Red, Liz and Tom which cover recent events in the series. At the same time he is listening to recordings of such recent events

«Liz: What you’re asking me to do – I appreciate that you turned yourself in. You came back for me.»
Tom: «Liz, I’m in danger. I need the passports.»
Liz: «I can’t. I just can’t.»
Tom: «Liz, please!»
Liz: «They’re not just passports. You hid them in a box under the floor in our home! They represent everything I’m trying to forget.»
Tom: «know. I wouldn’t ask you unless it was important.»
Liz: «They’re locked up in Evidence.»
Tom: «That’s exactly why they should still be clean.»
Liz: «m not gonna walk into Evidence and steal them for you – Why would I do that?»
Tom: «You want me gone? Do this, and you’ll never see me again.»
Liz: «You need to leave. Go. Now»

Beep

Sound switches to Police Chatter with Leonard Caul listening in real-time

«All units, shots fired at Euclid and Drak»
Officer: «Echo 23 en route.»
Officer #2: «Echo 28 en route.
Copy.
FBI-issued plate – 7-4-3-6-Uniform-Sierra – under fire.
Possible officer involved in shooting.
One male confirmed down.
Repeat – plate 7-4-3-6-Uniform-Sierra.
Officer under fire.»

AN EMPTY STREET

Liz and Dembe are engaged in gunfight with shooters
Gunshots

To Liz

DEMBE: Stay down!
LIZ : You have eyes?
DEMBE : Fourth floor. East side.

Gunshots continue

DEMBE : Look out! Down.

Shoots man approaching on sidewalk

Gunshots

LIZ : We got to get him out of here.

Gunshots

LIZ : Get in!

They get Red into car. He is conscious but coughing and choking on blood

LIZ : Let’s go!

RED'S CAR / FBI SPECIAL OPS DIVISION

Engine turns over. Tires squeal

On phone

LIZ : Cooper, this is Keen. Reddington is down. I repeat, he is down – shot and critical.
COOPER : Shot? Where? Where are you?
LIZ : Euclid and Drake, headed southwest.
RED : Lizzy, don’t.
LIZ : Reddington, stay still. He’s shot in the chest. I’m gonna lose him if I don’t get him to an ER.

Cooper to Aram

COOPER : Reddington’s shot – Euclid and Drake. Providence?
ARAM : No, University.

Cooper to Liz on phone

COOPER : University.
ARAM : I’m trying to ping Agent Keen’s phone now.
COOPER : Are you secure? Unfriendlies?
LIZ : Unknown, but I’m gonna need an escort and backup.

RED'S CAR

Dembe grabs her phone away, disconnecting call

LIZ : What are you doing?
COOPER : Keen? Agent Keen?

Monitor beeps – Aram’s monitor indicates call is disconnected

Dembe gives a phone to Liz

DEMBE : Dial “star, seven, seven.”
LIZ : What?
DEMBE : Star, seven, seven.

Red coughs. Liz calls the number

On phone

MR KAPLAN : What is your location?
LIZ : Who is this?
MR KAPLAN : What is your location?
LIZ : Mr Kaplan?
MR KAPLAN : What is your location?
LIZ : Capitol and M.

Mr. Kaplan hangs up

To Dembe

LIZ : I don’t know what Mr Kaplan has planned, but we need to get him to a hospital right away.
DEMBE : No hospitals.
LIZ : I’m sorry, but we don’t have a choice. I’m not gonna let him die, and it can’t wait.

Coughing, wheezing
Cellphone rings

LIZ : Mr. Kaplan?
MR KAPLAN : There’s a warehouse 5312 Mass Avenue. Say it back.
LIZ : 5312 Mass Avenue.

MR KAPLAN : Get there now. We’ll be waiting.

LIZ :Who will?

Mr. Kaplan hangs up. Red exhales sharply

LIZ : Hold on. Please. Just hold on.

LOCATIONS UNKNOWN

Doctors, nurses, techs take calls, drop what they’re doing and deploy to makeshift hospital in warehouse

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE

ASSISTANT : One of our men on Euclid is dead.
THE DIRECTOR : And the target?
ASSISTANT : Hit. Wounded. Still in play.
THE DIRECTOR : They’ll want to take our man to the ME. That cannot happen.

Man leaves

The Director on phone

THE DIRECTOR : Still alive. I want eyes on any and all medical resources he has. Get someone to the crime scene and find out how he got away and where he is hiding.

In the street where Red was hurt, Leonard Caul hacks cameras to follow his car

5312 MASS AVENUE

DEMBE : He’s shot in the chest, right side.
PARAMEDIC : Entered the intercostal in the eighth rib. Absent breath sound in the right lung.
NURSE : BP is 60 over palp.

MEDICAL VOICES :
-Pulse is thready.
-Abdomen’s distended.
-I need six units now. X-rays now.
-Give me a tube. Give me a scope.
-He dropped a lung – stat chest tube.

Red to Liz

RED : You need– you need to find Leonard Caul.
LIZ : Caul?
RED : Leonard Caul. T-t-talk to Dembe.

Groaning

RED : You need to find him, Lizzy.

Gagging, coughing

MEDICAL VOICES :
-Get that line in.
-Quick.
-Stay with us.

COOPER'S OFFICE

WRIGHT : Gone? What do you mean, gone?
COOPER : We instructed Keen to go to the ER at University. Our people cleared the floor. They never showed.
WRIGHT : There’s been an attempted assassination in broad daylight. You know Reddington was hit, – and yet he and Keen have disappeared?

Door opens. Connolly enters

CONNOLLY : Well, that was certainly trial by fire.
WRIGHT : Mr. Attorney General.
CONNOLLY : Not for another week. Not ever if the press has anything to say about it. I’m up there spinning gold about all the great things Justice will do under my leadership when I’ve got an aide whispering in my ear about–
COOPER : We just found out ourselves.
CONNOLLY : Harold, I was caught with my pants down, and as three ex-wives can attest to, it’s not a pretty sight.
WRIGHT : Keen’s gone AWOL.
CONNOLLY : Why were they meeting in the first place? Were they working a case?
COOPER : I’m not aware of the nature of the meeting.
CONNOLLY : Harold, I don’t need to tell you what’s at stake here. You need to contain this– whatever it takes, whatever you need. The full resources of my office are at your disposal.

Cellphone ringing

COOPER :Thanks, Tom. Excuse me for a moment.

FBI SPECIAL OPS DIVISION / 5312 MASS AVENUE

Ringing continues .Beep

Cooper answers

COOPER : Cooper.
LIZ : Reddington’s in surgery.
COOPER : Surgery? Where? We’ve checked every ER in the city.
LIZ : We’re in a warehouse – 5312 Mass Avenue. He has some sort of mobile crash team.
COOPER : Dispatch units now.
LIZ : Reddington gave me a name.
SAMAR : Who?
LIZ : Leonard Caul.
COOPER : Who is Leonard Caul?
LIZ : He must know something about the people who organized the hit.
RESSLER : So Reddington knows who’s behind this.
LIZ : Whoever they are came after Reddington because they thought he had this device, the Fulcrum. It’s a blackmail file on a group, this cabal. He told them he had it, and he didn’t. And they finally called his bluff and tried to kill him, and they will not stop until they do.
COOPER : Unless we find Leonard Caul.
ARAM : There’s nothing on him in the system.

LIZ : According to Dembe, before Fitch died, he told Reddington to find Caul, that he would have information about the Fulcrum, the cabal. Reddington asked Aram to trace a call to an apartment, but when they got there, Caul was gone. All they found was blood – no body.
ARAM : Well, he didn’t tell me what it was for, and I, uh, definitely didn’t ask, but I could probably still pull up the location.
COOPER : All right, Keen. We got a team on the way. Stay safe for 15 minutes, and you’re home.

5312 MASS AVENUE
Monitor beeping . Reddington is in surgery

MEDICAL VOICES :
-We need to find the tear.
-What are his vitals?
-Nurse: BP is 90 over 60, pulse 140. I’m giving pressors and more fluids. I need another unit of blood.

Monitor beeping

FBI SPECIAL OPS DIVISION

RESSLER : So, Aram traced that call to an apartment at 3130 Sheridan Road.
SAMAR : The name on the lease was an alias, but there was a police report filed by the apartment manager who found blood in the home.
RESSLER : So we pulled the admission logs at the nearby ERs.
SAMAR : Three gunshot wounds, six cases of domestic violence–
RESSLER : And one guy who comes in with his two fingers in a ziplock bag.
COOPER : Leonard Caul?
SAMAR : He didn’t leave a name. There were cops in the ER, and when he saw them, he left.
COOPER : How can you be sure it’s the man we’re looking for?
SAMAR : We can’t. But he left his fingers behind.
COOPER : I want any surveillance from that ER. Interview the doctors on call. Contact Metro PD, see if they ran the prints.

5312 MASS AVENUE

Monitor beeping

DEMBE : We’ve got company!
LIZ : Protective detail.

Camera shutter outside clicking : outside Leonard Cauls takes photos
Two men in uniform enter

UNIFORMED MAN : We’ve got units securing the perimeter and a chopper inbound to evac the patient.
LIZ : No, we’re not –

Gunshots. Mr Kaplan shoots both men dead

LIZ : What the hell?!
MR KAPLAN : The Bureau issues Glocks or Sigs. Whoever these gentlemen are, they’re not FBI.
DEMBE : There will be more.

Liz enters the makeshift operating room. The surgeon is on the floor, dead of a gunshot wound

LIZ : How long before we can– What’s his status?
NURSE : What?
LIZ : His status, what is it? Can he be moved?
NURSE : No. M-maybe. I don’t know.
LIZ : I need a definitive answer. We have to go now.
MD : Go? We can’t go. If we move him, he’ll bleed to death.
OTHER MEDICAL : We just now found the compromised artery. We still have to cauterize it before we can close him.
LIZ : So do it.
NURSE : That was his job.

Indicating dead surgeon on floor

LIZ : Does anyone here have surgical training?
NURSE : Two years, Fresno State.
LIZ : You’re up, Fresno.

Mr Kaplan enters, shows Liz screen of cell phone

LIZ : They’re coming.
MR KAPLAN : Yes, I responded to their message, but we don’t have more than 15 or 20 minutes.
NURSE : 20? No, we need at least 30 minutes to close this tear.
LIZ : You have 15.

HOSPITAL

Liz on phone

NICK : No. Absolutely not.
LIZ : Nick, please.
NICK : Liz, I haven’t heard from you for three years.
LIZ : I wouldn’t ask if I had any other choice.
NICK : Find another doctor.
LIZ : I had another doctor.
NICK : Great. Use him.
LIZ : I can’t.
NICK : Why? Did you turn down his marriage proposal, too?
LIZ : Listen to me– a man is going to die if you don’t help us. I’m begging you.
NICK : Where do you want me to go?

TOM'S SAFE HOUSE
Gun drawn, Liz enters. Gun drawn, Tom answers.

LIZ : What are you doing here?
TOM : I live here.
LIZ : I didn’t know where else to go.

Gurney with Red on it is wheeled in

TOM : Over here.
MEDICAL WOMAN : BP is 70 palp. Pulse is critical but stable.
TOM : This is for you, Liz, not for him.

FBI SPECIAL OPS DIVISION

SAMAR : The protective detail is at the warehouse. There’s no sign of Keen or Reddington.
ARAM : The shooter at the first crime scene, the EMTs who were taking him to the ME, they never showed.
SAMAR : There were three bodies found at the warehouse – two men posing as FBI and Dr. Mark Child, Chief of Surgery at Georgetown.

Cellphone rings

COOPER : Agent Keen. Are you safe?

In the safe house, gun cocks

LIZ ; Who’s with you?
COOPER : Just us – Ressler, Navabi, Mojtabai.
LIZ : And who dispatched the detail?
COOPER : The DC field office.
LIZ : That must be where the leak came from.
COOPER : Where are you?
LIZ : A safe house.
COOPER : Give me an address. We’ll send our own men now.
LIZ : Reddington’s team is here. We’re secure.
SAMAR : How is he?
LIZ : He’s– I don’t know for sure, but it’s bad.
COOPER : What do you need? Tell us, and we’ll do it.
LIZ : I need you to find Leonard Caul.

TOM'S SAFE HOUSE

Liz hangs up the phone

To Tom

LIZ : I thought you’d be gone.
TOM : That was the plan. Then I thought maybe if I stayed, I’d have a shot at a normal life. Does Nick have any idea what you’ve gotten him into?
LIZ : He’s not a part of this. He’s just a doctor.
TOM : Reddington’s a bad man, Liz. He’s bad for anyone who comes in contact with him. He’s bad for you. His world, this right here, unless you get out, this will devour you.
LIZ : It doesn’t matter if he’s bad. What matters is he has answers about me, and I’m staying until I get them.
TOM : Well, maybe I could help you get those answers.
LIZ : I doubt that.
TOM : Liz, I know a lot more about Reddington than you think.

Nick goes out of the operating room

NICK : The bullet nicked the right lung. I was able to reinflate it with a chest tube, and we’ll start him on a prophylactic antibiotic.
LIZ : What about the bullet?
NICK : That’s the problem. It has a percussion cap, which causes it to essentially explode. By some miracle, it didn’t. If I try to remove it, if I touch it the wrong way It’s like there’s a land mine inside him and you’re asking me to dig it up.
LIZ : Can you do it or not?

To Tom

NICK : We were never formally introduced. I believe the only time we met you were in her kitchen, making coffee in your underwear.
TOM : Well, if it’s any consolation, she dumped me, too.
LIZ : Can you do it?
NICK : You may not remember, but I worked my way through school– nights, weekends, and I still had to take out loans. I busted my hump, and I am still $376,422 in debt. Can I do it? Absolutely. For $376,422. I know who he is. I don’t why he’s here or what you have to do with him, but I know.

Opens suitcase to reveal

MR KAPLAN : $500,000– unmarked, untraceable. Mr. Reddington insists on being prepared for all contingencies. Shall we continue?

FBI SPECIAL OPS DIVISION

SAMAR : We checked with NCIC. The prints they ran on our eight-fingered mystery man were a dead end.
RESSLER : No criminal record, no background check.
ARAM : He wasn’t in their system.
SAMAR : But he was in Mossad’s. Leonard Caul’s real name is Joseph McCray. He’s former CIA.
ARAM : Last-known photograph dates back to 1981.
RESSLER : He was part of Operation Harwood, a covert surveillance unit run out of Managua to keep tabs on the Sandinistas.
SAMAR : The Agency knows who he is, but they won’t say. Classified.
RESSLER : We can’t find him because his job is to blend in. He’s basically eyes and ears – nothing else.
ARAM : He may as well have been a ghost.
COOPER: Harwood was run by a woman named Helen Jubal. Senate Intelligence Committee shut it down in the wake of Iran-Contra. Tom Connolly was legal counsel.
RESSLER : You think Connolly can get her to talk?
COOPER: I’ll ask him. We’ve been trading a few favors lately.

COOPER'S OFFICE

HELEN JUBAL : I could be arrested for even acknowledging Mr. McCray exists.
COOPER : As luck would have it, I know a few people in law enforcement.
JUBAL : Tommy said you were a smooth operator.
COOPER : He says you can help me find Leonard Caul, or the man you know as Mr. McCray.
JUBAL : Haven’t spoken to him in years.
COOPER : Is that a fact?
JUBAL : Well, the unit broke up. He didn’t take it well, became–
COOPER : Ms. Jubal, let’s cut to it, shall we? McCray was an agent of yours. He’s in trouble, on the run. The next Attorney General has given me carte blanche to inquire as to his whereabouts. Anyone obstructing that inquiry will have to answer to him.
JUBAL : He came to me recently, said he’d gotten himself wrapped up in some kind of business with Raymond Reddington. Hmm. That’s what this is about– your hunt for Reddington.
COOPER ; Ms. Jubal, tell me where he is.
JUBAL : He’s scared, hurt, had no place to go– I’m assuming because of Reddington. If I tell you where he is, do you promise to use that information only as a means to find Reddington?
COOPER : You have my word.

TOM'S SAFE HOUSE

Sighs. Monitor beeping. Surgical team removes bullet

DEMBE : Elizabeth. In Bethesda, there’s a small second-story flat. In the flat, you will find a desk.
The middle drawer has a false front. Remove it, and you will find a silver case along with a key.
LIZ : This is about the Fulcrum.
DEMBE : Yes. You still have it.
LIZ : I do.
DEMBE : This case, the key I need you to bring them here to Raymond, to Leonard Caul.
LIZ : That’s why Reddington wanted us to find Caul, because he can decipher the Fulcrum.

Monitors beeping

LIZ : He’s gonna be okay…?
DEMBE : This flat– Raymond can never know you were there. Do you understand, Elizabeth?– I would go if I could, but I can’t.

Lock disengages – looking ahead to scene showing Liz entering flat

DEMBE : I can’t leave him alone. Raymond must never know you were there.

BETHESDA

Liz is shown entering a modest, old-fashioned flat

COOPER'S OFFICE

CONNOLLY : Where are we with this thing?
COOPER : According to Agent Keen, Reddington is in surgery. It’s touch and go.
CONNOLLY :In surgery?
WRIGHT : Where? What’s their location?
COOPER : I’m not at liberty to say.
WRIGHT : I suggest you take the liberty.
COOPER : We have a lead on Leonard Caul. Helen Jubal tipped us to a safe house in Alexandria. My people are looking into it.
WRIGHT : That’s not what I asked. I asked for the location of Reddington.
CONNOLLY :He’s right to keep us out of the loop, Reven. You know the protocol. If there’s even the slightest suspicion of a leak, information is need-to-know.
COOPER : I trust Agent Keen.
WRIGHT : After the Harbormaster? I’m beginning to regret sweeping that under the rug. She kept this Fulcrum secret, a blackmail file on some nefarious group, and then she gave this file to Reddington?
COOPER : : I don’t know that she gave it to him.
CONNOLLY : I appreciate your loyalty to Agent Keen, Harold, but you have to admit there’s a possibility she’s being completely manipulated by Reddington. What if the reason he chose her in the first place is because he wanted to get his hands on this thing? What if that’s the real reason he turned himself in?
COOPER : I don’t believe that.
CONNOLLY : All this talk about some personal connection between Reddington and Keen, why he chose her, some shared history– What if Reddington doesn’t care about Agent Keen and it’s all been a manipulation?

BETHESDA

Liz explores flat… Cat meows. Liz gasps, then sighs, relieved

LIZ : Hey, sweetheart. Hi, kitty.

Cat meows, purring

Liz show surprise at one photo of an adult, face mostly obscured by sun glare, in a swing with a young girl, 3-5yo. Though dressed in a plaid shirt w muscular arms, the adult now appears to be a woman, shoulder-length, page-boy style hair, with a broad smile. The girl has dark hair. Liz uses her phone to capture an image of the photo, puts it back on the mantle.

TOM'S SAFE HOUSE

Camera shutter clicks outside safe house

Monitor beeping. Red awakens.

DEMBE : The doctor says you did well.
RED : Elizabeth?
DEMBE : She’s fine.
RED : You need to go to my flat.
DEMBE : I’m taking care of it.
RED : You were right, Dembe. I should’ve told her.
DEMBE : I understand why you didn’t.

Scoffs

RED : No, you don’t.

Chuckles

RED : The blessing of an honest man.
DEMBE : She still hasn’t found Caul.
RED : She won’t. But if she looks for him, he’ll find her.

BETHESDA

Liz explores flat, sees photos on mantle, some old, some newer. A photo of Liz 8-10yo and Sam that we’ve seen before is among them. A photo of a man in a military uniform, a square-faced woman smiling in a graduation gown and cap. Liz collects the things she came for and prepares to leave…

Door opens. It is the man with the photo and surveillance lab we saw earlier, Leonard Caul– the same man who has been snapping surveillance shots since Red was shot.

Leonard Caul gun drawn

LEONARD CAUL : Hello, Agent Keen. Why don’t we go back inside and have a little chat?

TOM'S SAFE HOUSE

TOM : Don’t take it. You take that money, and he’ll have his hooks in you.Trust me, it’s the last thing you want.
NICK : I’m not a criminal. I’ve never even gotten a speeding ticket.
TOM : Don’t take it.
NICK : When I heard you two were getting married, I was happy for her. People said you were okay, a teacher. Later on, they told me you were planning to adopt a child and start a family. Guess you two decided to go another route.

BETHESDA

LIZ : I won’t take you to Reddington.
CAUL : Yes, you will.
LIZ : You tried to kill him in the street today, at the warehouse.
CAUL : The cabal tried to kill him. It’s what they do – eliminate their enemies.

He shows her bandage covering wound on his neck.

LIZ : You’re Leonard Caul.
CAUL : Reddington sent you to find me.
LIZ : What’s your connection to Reddington?
CAUL : Alan Fitch. I believe he wanted us to meet. Shortly after Reddington contacted me, there was an attempt on my life. That’s when I knew I could trust him.
LIZ : When someone tried to kill you?
CAUL : Yes, the cabal – to keep us apart. I’ve been in hiding ever since, watching, waiting for a signal from Reddington that it was safe to meet. He sent word earlier today.
LIZ : He was shot earlier today.
CAUL : I know. He sent word after – through you.
LIZ : He knew you’d be watching.
CAUL : I don’t like having the FBI running my prints, accessing my covert files, talking with my former CO. When I saw that happening, I knew it meant one of two things. You either want to arrest me or talk to me. Which is it, Agent Keen?

Places his gun on the desk

LIZ : Tell me what you know about the Fulcrum.

Referring to metal impact-resistant case, the one Ted had retrieved from the Presidential limo, the one Dembe had sent her to get

CAUL : Is that the Interface? You don’t know how it works. If you trust him, Agent Keen, you will show it to me. It’s what he wants.

Latches click, Liz opens case to reveal – a complex apparatus, knobs, counters, a keyboard of sorts

CAUL : He gave you a key.

Liz hands him the key : Pepper’s key

TOM'S SAFE HOUSE

Tom to Red, who is awake but remains silent

TOM : You know, that day at the hospital, the day Sam died, I think about that day a lot. I worked for you two years– we never met. You were always this shadow, moving from place to place, talked about, but never seen. And then there you were. To see you sitting there after I’d betrayed your trust, gone to work for Berlin, I was terrified. I sat there listening to you threaten me, threaten anyone who could hurt Liz. And all I could think was you– You are the one who hurts Liz the most.She’s here in this right now because of you. And I know I played a part in that, and I’m not saying I didn’t, but– Trying to fix that. So I told her the truth about us. I’m telling you this because I don’t want you to be confused about my part in any of this– you, Liz . All of it. I’m out. I’m done.

BETHESDA

CAUL : There’s a device – it’s called a “bubble module.” It’s the size of a quarter.

Rustling
Liz hands him the small box we – and all the characters – have been calling “The Fulcrum”

LIZ : Smartest person I know couldn’t figure out how to read this.
CAUL : That’s because he didn’t have the ciphertext.

Beeping. He removes tip of key, plugs it into the “interface,” plugs “Fulcrum” unit in as well

LIZ : How did you get it?
CAUL : I didn’t get it.

Keypad clacking

CAUL : I wrote it.

Machine comes alive. It includes a projector which shines with a blue light. Liz looks on in astonishment

OUTSIDE TOM'S SAFE HOUSE

Whirring

Liz and Caul are in car; he is driving

CAUL : First time I saw it, I was speechless, too.
LIZ : Some of the names on that list, people, they’re… CEOs, Defense contractors, intelligence officers from China, India, all over the world.
CAUL : Those names you saw, those are just the beginning.
LIZ : You worked for Fitch.
CAUL : He was part of it. He’d been cut out of the loop. Director didn’t trust him. That’s why Fitch reached out to me.
LIZ : The Director?
CAUL : Yes. Clandestine Services.
LIZ : Wait– are you telling me the director of Clandestine Serv–
CAUL : Yes.

They’ve come to the safe house. Men in dark clothing are working outside.

LIZ : Keep driving.
CAUL : But we’re here.
LIZ : Keep driving.

On phone

LIZ : We’re compromised. You’re surrounded.
TOM : Where are you?
LIZ : We’re close. I don’t know how many, but they’re coming, and you need to be ready. Reddington– what’s his condition?
TOM : He’s better. But he’s gonna get us all killed.
LIZ : I’m calling for backup.

TOM'S SAFE HOUSE

BAZ : I got hostiles at Crescent to the north, more to the west.

To Red’s guy

TOM :Give me a gun. You don’t want the help, I’m happy to leave.

To Baz

DEMBE : It’s okay.

Guns cock

FBI SPECIAL OPS DIVISION

COOPER : Keen, where the hell are you? Talk to me. What’s going on?
LIZ : 3295 Thompson. Our site’s been compromised. I don’t know by who, and right now I don’t care, but Reddington’s inside, and he can’t be moved. I need you to send units now.
COOPER : Agent Ressler, notify HRT. I want Hopkins and his team only.
RESSLER : Copy that.
LIZ : We need to go back.
CAUL : You’re outnumbered.
LIZ : We have to go back and help.
CAUL : There’s nothing you can do.
LIZ : They’re going to kill Reddington. They’re gonna kill everyone. I-I can’t just walk away.
CAUL : Yes, you can, and if you know what’s good, you’re going to keep walking.
LIZ : What does that mean?
CAUL : The Director never believed that Reddington had the Fulcrum. The moment Fitch died, it was only a matter of time before the Director called his bluff.
LIZ : That’s it.
CAUL : What? Agent Keen, what are you thinking?

CIA HEADQUARTERS, LANGLEY, VA

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE

On phone

THE DIRECTOR : Make it quick. I’ve got the National Security Council waiting. How much resistance? I don’t care what it takes. I want the target eliminated.

TOM'S SAFE HOUSE

3295 THOMPSON

Monitor beeping, footsteps approach. It’s Mr Kaplan

To guard

MR KAPLAN : Go.

To Red

MR KAPLAN : We have a situation.

Mr.Kaplan stays

RED : What are you doing, Kate?
KAPLAN : Keeping you alive.

RED : There’s nothing you can do here.
MR KAPLAN : I’m not leaving you, Raymond.
RED : You need to go. Find a way out. I’ll be fine. And if I’m not, you know what to do. But you won’t be able to do it unless you leave.

Reluctantly, Mr Kaplan kisses Red sweetly on his forehead and leaves, giving him her gun

Shouts. Explosion. Groans. Gun clicking. Gunfire in distance

NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL'S MEETING

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE

MAN : President approved it, as well.
THE DIRECTOR : Yes, I-I understand that.
ASSISTANT : Excuse me. I’m sorry, but there’s an agent here to see you.
THE DIRECTOR : Oh, not now.
ASSISTANT : It’s Elizabeth Keen. She says she has information about something called the Fulcrum.
THE DIRECTOR : Thank you. We are going to have to postpone.
MAN : The President is expecting us to get back –
THE DIRECTOR : The President will have to wait. If you’ll excuse us.That will be all.

Liz enters

THE DIRECTOR : I admire your nerve, Agent Keen, barging in here like this. But I’m afraid it’s too late.
LIZ : Well, then you’re gonna have to read about this in tomorrow’s New York Times.

Device whirring

LIZ : The Fulcrum. You didn’t think Reddington had it. Well, here it is, and it tells quite a story – political assassinations, terrorism. We know who you are, what you’ve done. You called Reddington’s bluff, and you lost. Call it off.
THE DIRECTOR : I told you it’s too late.
LIZ : Pick up the phone right now and call it off.

TOM'S SAFE HOUSE

3295 THOMPSON

Red has been shooting attackers, runs out of bullets, crawls out of bed to try to get a gun from a dead guy. He’s surrounded

Red grunts, breathing heavily

Guns aimed at him, but instead of killing him, they leave, one by one. The operation has been called off

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE

Receiver clicks

THE DIRECTOR : You have no idea the enemies you just made.
LIZ : I’m afraid I do. You can keep that. We have copies.

Turns to leave

THE DIRECTOR : I never saw it before.

LIZ : Saw what ?

THE DIRECTOR : How much you look like your mother.

TOM'S SAFE HOUSE, 3295 THOMPSON

Liz arrives at Red’s bedside

RED : Lizzy.
LIZ : We’ve cleared a wing at Sibley Memorial for you and your medical team. Cooper will oversee your security personally.
RED : Lizzy. When I hired Tom Keen–
LIZ : Don’t. There’s nothing you can say.

Persisting

RED : When I hired Tom Keen, it was at a time of profound transition in your life. You’d already left behind the relative safety and innocence of youth. Sam’s care as a father had served you well, but you’d outgrown him. A-and I knew that ...

Inhales sharply

RED : ... eventually my life would jeopardize yours. So, in an admittedly presumptuous and ultimately futile effort to keep you safe, I hired Tom simply to be there as a friend of a friend to look after you from an arm’s length. When I learned that your relationship had become intimate, I fired him. I should’ve removed him, but you were already in love with him. And Tom, he shifted his allegiance to Berlin in part to protect himself from me, but also because it allowed for an inextricable intimacy and commitment to you. And so you were married. And I couldn’t stay away any longer. A confluence of peril had entered your life, and I wanted to be within reach, to have influence. I turned myself in to the FBI to point you toward a truth that inevitably you would have to discover for yourself.
LIZ : Is that all of it?
RED : Some of it.
LIZ : Why couldn’t you just have said yes? It wouldn’t kill you to lie just once to make someone feel good.

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE

THE DIRECTOR : I understand you’re conflicted. Lives were lost today. But the work we do is important.

Liquid pouring

THE DIRECTOR :We help provide peace, stability. Children can go to school, families to church without fear – or certainly with less of it because of us. And you wanted to be a part of that. It’s a solemn responsibility and, on days like today, a heavy one. And few people are capable of honoring that responsibility. You are– we know that, and we believe in you. We also know that we asked you to betray a friend. Well, you want a seat at the table. Now you have one.

The Director has been talking to soon-to-be Attorney General Tommy Connolly

ON A BENCH, NEAR THE RIVER

TOM : Came as soon as I could.

Breathes deeply

LIZ : I think you’re right.

Voice breaking

LIZ : Reddington – What happened today I think it’s gonna devour me.
TOM : What I said–

Liz sniffles

TOM: What I meant was that it would devour most people. It’s not gonna devour you.
LIZ : You said you could help me find answers.
TOM : Yeah. I think I can.
LIZ : Tell me what you know about Reddington. 

Adapté du site «The Blacklist Classified», mise en page par mnoandco