"Bad Things Happen to Good People:" The Blacklist "Eli Matchett"

Is Liz a good person? That's only one of the questions being asked in this episode.

Liz and Red take a detour back to the states and travel to Iowa. There word of a company Verdant was bombed and was stolen of highly important papers that were stolen by a group of farmers who lost their farming land due to business. One of them is run by this week's blacklister Eli Matchett.

Even though Red and Liz are a step ahead of Ressler and the team, doesn't mean that there was some on the edge scenes of them almost meeting one another. Like when Red and Liz were in Costas' apartment and found a hidden box in the vent. Soon Ressler and Samar comes in, making Liz and Red escaping out with the skin of their teeth.

But has much as Liz is a good person and trying to talk with reason, she calls Ressler to back off from searching for them. Ressler knows that he's close and close they have come as I said. They came close when Reddington and Liz were trying to download the files from the computer of the virus that Matchett wants to use to destroy every food source around the world.

At one point after Red and Liz escaped Ressler and Samar, they stopped at a bar where they come into trouble with an undercover cop. Liz shoots him but feels terrible and tries to save the guy's life. They drop him off at the hospital and she freezes with shock of what she has done.

With the virus in Matchett's hands, Ressler and Samar get to him in time. I have to say that fighting scene was amazing. Loved when Donald has to take down someone, who can also beat the crap out of him too. But even though it wasn't all of Matchett's plan, it was Susan Hanover, the lady that also works with the Cabal. And boy did Red give her a nice chat and a message for The Director.

Near the end as Liz and Red are on the road, Liz ask if she;s a good person. Red tells her that bad things happen to good people. That is true but I think that she's a good person but when it comes to survival like she's trying to do with Red, sometimes you have to be bad and play the game that is in front of you.

Also to note: Glen was back and help try to track down Dembe. We know that Dembe has been taken by Mr. Solomon who is hunting down Red. Also to he's not the only one that he's torching, another one of Red's guys, Mr. Vargas is captured too and tells Dembe that they're going to die in there. Also to note that Tom is back and he's hoping that Liz would call for him at their restaurant but not one call. But gets a nice visit from Cooper who is given him a job, probably to help track Liz.

I enjoyed this episode to death. I was on the edge of my seat when Ressler and Samar were this close of catching Red and Liz. I highly enjoyed Red's "Mugs" story. Probably one of his best so far. The guy had such an ugly face that they called him Mugs but his mother called him Picasso. Hilarious!!!

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

Here's a promo for next week's episode.

You can catch The Blacklist Thursday nights at 9/8c on NBC.