OH MY GOD! That's was just my first thought after watching "Cape May." This was by far the best written and acting (from Spader) of the year.
With the exhausting and damaged Reddington leaves a Chinese restaurant after spending what I assume days after killing the doctor that tried to save Liz. He leaves and looks lost but until he stops a taxi in the middle of the street, he gets in and ask for a trip to Cape May and pays the driver.
As they drive towards Cape May, Red reflects the events of the death of Liz of those final moments and his discussion with Tom about that Red will never be near the child. As soon as they get there, Red takes the driver's cab, takes it and drives towards a diner for breakfast. He spots a woman sitting and leaves her seat when a man comes towards the diner. He comes in and looks for her, but no luck.
As Red gets to the beach shack, he walks around and takes a beach chair and heads towards the beach. Red looks at the ocean and soon spots the same young woman barring something in the sand and than runs towards the ocean. Red yells at first but than runs towards her to save her.
He brings her out of the ocean and later brings her in the beach house. The fire place is set and Red covers the lady with a blanket. He tries to cuddle with her to keep her warm and she speaks out that something that seems to be the reason for her suicide attempt.
Red wakes up, chilly, and looks around for the woman. Finds her upstairs and she sees that someone is out there. Red goes out and as he looks what looks like someone from behind him as he takes a swing and we learn that it was a kite.
The two look around the kitchen and had dinner. And the two talk, Red talks about the decision that he had to make to save one life or lose two. The way it Red tells it looks like he's trying to find peace with it by talking to her. She sees that he had to make that decision and soon gets interrupted by a cop.
Red and the lady go back upstairs to check the bathwater. She gets in while he sits in the other room. As they have a chat, she asked him if he ever killed anyone, he admitted that he has killed those that deserve it.
Soon, someone breaks in the house, Red checks and looks around, goes back up to the bathroom. As he looks at the tub, the lady tells Red that he's behind him and we see them fight but it was the lady that finished the job killing the guy. They take care of the body but soon more will come and they get ready for more of them.
They set up traps like that in Home Alone. As they get ready, Red tells her that he isn't leaving without her and tries to convince her that suicide is a mess. The one chilling point from that scene was when he ask her for her name, that he still doesn't know but apparently she knows his name as she calls him "Raymond." Creepy and chilling, right?
After the two had one hell of a battle, Red goes out to get the car but as he does everything looks different from what he had seen it. There was no body, the tire of the jeep is flat. He rushes back and sees that there were no dead bodies and as he looks out of the window, he sees her again running towards the ocean.
He rushes out there but was too late. He spots a treasure hunter and asked if he had seen a woman. The man replied that he has not and that the only person that he had seen for the past two weeks was Red. Hold the freakin' phone. He thinks back to what happen last night that everything he went through was him and his imagination.
If it was all in his head, than who was that woman that he was talking to that happen to know his name? As Red sees the guy finding a necklace in the sand, he asked for it and takes it to the ocean to wash the sand out. He sees the name Katarina Rostova, Liz's mother. He tells her that he keep her live in that child and calms him down with her hand on his face.
As Red looks around and at the beach, he answers the man's question if he's alright. Red replies that he has someone to see.
What a great episode this turned out to be. It had that Gone Girl sense. James Spader give his best performance ever since, well the pilot, and draws every emotion that he can put on Reddington as he tries to deal with the lost of Liz.
Just give Spader every acting award from Emmy to Golden Globe. Also give credit to the writer, Daniel Knauf, who wrote the episode. I literally didn't know until Red read the name of the necklace that he was hallucinating.
Overall I give this episode a perfect 10/10.
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