The Blacklist "Monarch Douglas Bank" review

When it comes to "The Blacklist" never assume something that is all ready there. I've been watching since day one and it still gets me to this day with it's storyline. It's "The Blacklist," anything can happen left, right, up or down. So never assume what is there, just get a big picture of it.

Last week, we learned that Berlin wants to get Red back, just as he thinks that Red did to his daughter, to cut up piece by piece of his wife. That Ressler is having trouble dealing with what had happen at the end of the season. And Cooper is back.

The Monarch Douglas Bank is being robbed in Warsaw, Poland, buy robbers, who were in gas suits, didn't want take the money, they took what is known as "The Formula."

Meanwhile, we see Red and his cleanup crew come in and help cleans things up as he killed two or should it comes down to one and had to re shoot one guy because he was still alive. Red's doing this to get answers about where his wife is, he seems to be in rage. Then gets a phone call about a robbery at the Monarch Douglas Bank.

Liz comes in to Red's room with a file of someone they are looking for to protect but can't find. But Red gives her another assignment about the robbery. Noting that even though the robbers didn't take anything like money still means that they took something. Which is one of the best metaphors to use in this episode.

As this was going down, Berlin was trying to get his next piece of Red's wife to send to him. Of course, it turns out to be a tooth. Later on Berlin gets a phone call from the bank which turns out to be the same bank in Poland that just lost "The Formula." Angry about it, the manager had to flew over and talk to him face to face.

Both Liz and a distracted Ressler are heading to Poland to investigate. They met the lead officer, but when Liz and Ressler sees a surveillance camera, they call Aram and get the footage. Seeing that five people walked in and six people came out with the fourth person being a woman.

They track down the robbers when they saw their track in smoke and a jam on the seat that got Red to checkout a local donut shop that he came by in the past. He talks to the owner about the costumers who robbed the bank and of course she

told him. Having Liz and Ressler coming inand rescuing the woman who was trying to escape.

As the meeting with the manager about the bank was perfect distraction for Red's wife to make an escape. She takes a piece of chicken bone and get's the guard angry for throwing her shoe.

But then tell him that she needs to go to the bathroom and as soon she is free she jams that piece of chicken bone in his face. She tries escaping but was fooled and caught by Berlin.

One of many interesting scenes in the episode was when Ressler was talking to the woman who turns out to be known as "The Formula." She can remember anything, down to the last detail. She can remember account numbers. As that was going down Liz and the lead officer talks and all of the sudden a sworn of cops coming up.

With that, this led to a fight between them that made it very funny and very cool. She fights and calling for Ressler but doesn't hear her until she shoots the glass breaking it and yelling. It took like 20 seconds for him to react.

As they were chasing the officer, he gets knocked out by a person who's been following both Liz and Ressler from the beginning. Her name is Samar Navabi.

She was sent to help, thinking that it was Red's idea. They make a run for it getting in a taxi, the Formula is shot but Ressler tries to stop the bleeding by using her tampon.
They're chase by the cops there, no place to go, Red has someone to help distract them and meets them on a train. Red takes "The Formula" away to get her medical attention and to do some unfinished business.

 That would be to take Berlin's money and when Red got the what we assume is his wife's tooth and gave a reaction that he was about to cry. He then later calls and tells Berlin that they should met.

Berlin and Red meet at Coney Island. They talk with each one getting upset. Then he tells Red to call and set up the switch. This was another best scene in the episode, calling it the goosebumps moment of the episode as they finally met and talked.

That's where soon Liz figured it out what Red was doing, she told him that she stopped and switched the routing numbers making Red's deal to Berlin not good. But then, as soon as Red give Berlin the transactions of his money, a success .

Then came his wife who was blind folded, as soon as she walks towards Red there was a moment that those two had, and even if they didn't see each other literally, there was a moment mentally that look like they still had feelings.

At the end, Liz comes to see Red and he tells her that he thinks that she had someone help with the transactions, fooling him about it which he would like to know how that happen.

We later see Red's wife in the car driving back home until she looks back. Seems that she might have feelings for Red again.

As Liz leaves and Red gets a phone call from who turns out to be Samar, who tells him that she is in the FBI. Apparently, Red is sneaking in another person into the FBI for protection. Then he picks up a bottle of Jack and the show goes black.


Who is Samar? What's going to happen to Red and his wife now, even after this emotional event? This episode continuing to arc of Berlin. What was Red going to do when he walked a couple of steps towards Berlin?

Thinking that next week's episode will be something away from the Berlin storyline just a bit as they are on a hunt for a doctor, who is operating on people and stealing their organs.

You can catch "The Blacklist" Monday nights 10/9c on NBC.