Highway Rush: The Blacklist "Kings of the Highway"

It's the fall finale of The Blacklist and the one thing that we can expect is the unexpected and this had some really good ones.

As Liz and Red make a stop at the gas station to get some gas and freshen up. Liz comes out and finds that Red and the car is gone. We all know that Reddington wouldn't leave her, turns out he was kidnapped by the Kings of the Highway, a gang that kidnaps, steals and kills.

Watching Red getting cuff was entertaining at times, but heart-pounding too. How often do you see someone give it to Reddington either punching him or hitting him? Counting back it would have to be only less than 6 I think.

Liz, trying to search for Red, gets Samar to help after a night she and Ressler had and used his computer to help locate Red's location. That turned south when the phone was found in the car with blood in the backseat. But a junkyard worker told Liz that a guy picked it up and told her where he might be.

She gets the guy's attention and had a couple of moments from playing pool to kissing in his apartment until the leader of the Kings called and told him that he's got Reddington. And wonders if Liz is around and finds out that she's in his apartment. The two fight for a good minute and Liz shoots him.

She makes a call to exchange him for Reddington but the leader won't deal, until a member speaks up and kills him and arranges the deal. As Dembe gets the package, Liz picks him up and exchange it, but Red wasn't there.

He was released but by the time everything went down, cops and Ressler comes and Liz runs as Ressler was chasing her. She ran pretty far but wasn't as fast as Ressler got her and arrested her.

But that was like the third shocking moment in the episode. The others happen to be, Samar being fired, the deputy Attorney General getting killed by the Chairman, so she's working with Solomon, The Director and Cabul.

Also I can't forget the scenes with Cooper and Tom trying to escape from Solomon's men. That car chase scene was awesome and Tom, of course, having to take the tracking chip off of Kurkart chest.

This episode was a great fall finale, there was so much suspense that at times my heart was pounding.

Now that Lix is captured by Ressler, I think that things are going to be super high for her life. The tipping point is at full capacity. The one thin I do like from the promo for the next episode is that Liz is in the same box that Red was in in the beginning of the series. Gotta love that!!!

Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

You can catch The Blacklist when it returns in the new year Thursday, Jan. 7th at 9/8c on NBC.