It’s like ‘50 First Dates’… but if the dates were murders!

Congrats are in order!

Mazel tov, indeed.

The Blacklist - Season 5

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Enter: anterograde amnesia.

Its likeGroundhogs DayifGroundhogs Daywas super murder-y!

Going off twists and turns alone, I might have given this Blacklister plot high marks.

But if Reddingtons C.I.

THE TRAVEL AGENCY, NO.

announcing its time for him to leave too.

The page reads 342, and we next see him at a P.O.

box marked 342, retrieving a red folder.

Between this andStranger Things, the 80s seem like a really wild ride.

Cooper has another matter to attend to, so he puts Ressler in charge of tracking down Dunning.

When Samar and Liz find him in Dupont Circle, hes frantically packing his car alongside his wife.

As hes exiting the D.C. courthouse, Dembe kindly invites him to join Red in his car.

Mr. Kaplan gave you a suitcase, Reddington says.

In it was a skeleton she never should have unearthed and whose identity must remain secret.

Red insists that persisting in his quest to I.D.

the bones will only put him and anyone else he involves in harms way (R.I.P.

Secretsput people in harms way, says Tom.

Family secrets always do.

I truly wonder if Tom can hear himself speak or if he has some sort of very specific self-audio-hearing-impediment.

Cue more Scooby-Doo noises, but from me this time.

Though it doesnt make up for that ill-advised cop-killer story line a few weeks ago…

Suddenly, were back in 1989.

Allkilled… except for one man.

But this time, Ressler sees the gun barrel retracting into a shockingly pristine 85 Oldsmobile.

The only thing he knows about the man is that he would drop dossiers for him in a P.O.

box in Seven Valleys, and then page him the P.O.

box number to notify him: 3-4-2.

And everything… starts clicking… into place…

For us, at least.

But the target knew he was coming.

box, the dossiers, and Mr. Dawson himself against it.

Liz approaches the pair, telling Eleanor that shes a mother too, that she understands.

Oh good, Eleanor says, then youll understand this.

Which is super romantic and all, but…

A Few Loose Ends: