By consistently leaning towards Red, the show compromises what could more powerful stories. She should triumph over Garvey in a compelling way that doesn't have to involve her father negotiating for a bag of bones and then delivering Garvey on her behalf. Given the context of this season, this should be Liz's story. On the other hand, if there's ever been a season of The Blacklist where things should be different, it's this one. His methods are an entertaining riff on typical law enforcement procedurals. No matter where a story begins or goes at the mid-way point, Liz and others eventually partner with him, bend to his will or give him what he wants. It's simply that The Blacklist's storytelling operates from the default setting that Red's way is the right, or at least most successful, way. It's not that this storytelling makes for bad television. The Blacklist: Whose Bones Are in the Bag? Even after Liz angrily confirmed Red's meddling with the witness, she went right along with his plan to get the ledger, and even passed it along so that Red could ominously threaten Garvey at the end of the episode. The procedural story - with a renegade former child bride and sexual assault victim fulfilling contract kills for other teenage girls in a similar position - functioned to procure a ledger that Red could use as a bargaining chip against Garvey. Liz pursued the Garvey investigation on mostly legal terms, while Red and Garvey circled one another in that criminal mastermind kind of way. The action in "Anna-Garcia Duerte" thus mirrored the typical Blacklist formula. On The Blacklist Season 5 Episode 9, Liz abandons her old life and seeks out a fresh start in a place where no one knows her history, or the depth of her grief. It appears that we're supposed to view Red's half-cocked honesty about his actions as a major development yet, it still promotes the status quo the show has fostered for four-plus seasons. And for the show, Red's rhetorical tap dancing is an attempt to justify further tension between he and Liz without any real change possible. The Blacklist's Ryan Eggold Snags NBC Medical Drama Pilotįor Red, this is a cop out to justify his continued undermining of Liz and the task force's investigation. He will stop at nothing to get that godforsaken bag of bones, and likely to make Garvey pay for all the awful things he's done.
Red weaseled out of any significant consequences for his actions because he previously told Liz (and us) that this is exactly what he was going to do. Of course, in that moment Red also personified The Blacklist's typical doublespeak and avoidance.
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