The Blacklist

The Blacklist Season 2 Episode 4 Recap: What's Behind Door #1?

We kicked off The Blacklist Season 2 Episode 4 with a woman being denied her loan at the bank - and also with a man we later learn is Dr. Linus Creel taking notes while watching the woman go into her car.

She gets a gun from there and takes out numerous people at the bank.

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Cut to Red and Naomi are fighting because he wants her to stay in hiding and she desires to go back to the family she made after leaving Red.

She talk about keeping her past a secret and how she's amazed Red has arranged to work with Liz and how her new husband has sacrificed so much for her. Red says he can put them both into hiding.

Liz then phones Red and says she wants to interrogate Naomi, but Red changes the subject to the bank killer and other seemingly innocent people who went nuts; he believes it’s all part of a mind control experiment being conducted by government agents.

Okay, he's got our attention now.

Aram then determined Maddie and the other people who have committed random homicides of late all appear to have a genetic defect that makes them more prone to violence.

We also learn that Maddie's life pretty much sucked before she shot up that bank.

Back over to the not-so-good doctor, who pulls out hair from his own head and calls up Senator Sheridan.

Liz enters Cooper’s office and he informs her that these mind-control experiments are real because he witnessed some during his military days. He refers to it as Sub Project 7.

So it's off to Sheridan's office for Liz and Ressler because he's in charge of  black budget programs. He denies any existence of Sub Project 7, but as our heroes depart, yup.... Dr. Linus comes in.

Thanks to the work of a code-breaker, Dr. Creel is eventually identified in a photo from documents taken from Sheridan.

So Liz goes undercover and pretends to be someone in need of psychiatric help in order to get close to Linus. She tells him a story about her husband leaving her and how she sometimes want to kill him and that his name is “Tom.”

We have a feeling there wasn't much fiction involved in this story.

A lot of chaos then ensues during an anti-gun rally, as Linus has programmed another person to kill. But just as Linus holds a gun to Liz’s head, he’s shot dead… by the guy from the same hotel as Liz last week! 

Red later admits to Liz that he has hired this sniper to follow her around and if she wants him gone, then she must be hiding something. (Like a tied-up Tom, perhaps?). Liz hears this and leaves.

The episode concludes with Liz sitting down and looking at a locked door. She has keys in her hands and keeps staring at the door. Tom HAS to be in there, don't you think?

Finally, Red convinces Frank and Naomi to go into hiding by blackmailing the former over an affair he's been having.

A lot went down during this episode of The Blacklist. A whole lot. Do you agree that Liz must have Tom captive? Watch The Blacklist online via TV Fanatic and sound off now!