The Father and Gone Girl: The Blacklist "Cape May"

OH MY GOD! That 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 exhaustion and damage, Reddington leaves a Chinese restaurant after spending what I assume days after killing the doctor who 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 asks for a trip to Cape May and pays the driver.

As they drive towards Cape May, Red reflects on the events of the death of Liz in those final moments and his discussion with Tom about how 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 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 then runs towards the ocean. Red yells at first but then runs towards her to save her.

He brings her out of the ocean and later brings her to the beach house. The fireplace 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 at what looks like someone from behind him, he takes a swing, and we learn that it is a kite.

The two looked 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 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 had a chat, she asked him if he had ever killed anyone, and he admitted that he had killed those who deserved it.

Soon, someone breaks into the house; Red checks looks around, and 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 is the lady who 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 is when he asks her for her name, which 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. There was nobody, and the tire of the jeep was flat. He rushes back and sees that there are no dead bodies, and as he looks out of the window, he sees her again running towards the ocean.

He rushes out there, but it is too late. He spots a treasure hunter and asks if he has seen a woman. The man replied that he had 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 happened last night and that everything he went through was him and his imagination.

If it was all in his head, then who was that woman that he was talking to that happened to know his name? As Red sees the guy finding a necklace in the sand, he asks 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 keeps her life 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 loss 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.

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