So tell me RED-heads…. Who’s up for a spinoff series of the ever popular Blacklist?
In Blacklist – Alexander Kirk (No. 14) Part 1, while Tom Keen is trying to track Lizzie’s attackers down, he meets the head of Grey Matters – a “covert mercenary organization that solves problems governments don’t dare touch”. He has the intention of killing her now that she is of no further use to him, and was indirectly responsible for Lizzie’s alleged death. Before Tom can follow through, Red (James Spader) informs him that Scottie, the “brilliant and cunning Chief” of Grey Matters, is actually his mother. Yep. That’s right. She has no idea that he is Christopher, her little boy who went missing twenty eight years ago. Which makes the scene where it looks like she wants to kiss Tom really, really awkward and just EEEW for both Tom and the viewers. Long story short, she has been suitably impressed with Tom’s very particular skill set and offers him a job as one of her operatives.
During the season finale of Blacklist, the very briefly reunited Keen family are captured by Alexander Kirk (Ulrich Thomsen), who professes to be Liz’s father. We see Liz (Megan Boone) tied to a chair and utterly gobsmacked by this revelation, but there is no sign of either Tom or baby Agnes. One would assume that Kirk has kept Agnes, seeing as how she is his grandchild, but maybe he doesn’t have Tom. I am speculating that this may only be mentioned in passing in the season opener of The Blacklist, and will physically be dealt with in the premiere of Blacklist: Redemption as Tom officially joins up with Scottie. Or maybe there will be a crossover episode. It’s a given that Tom will spend much of his time with Grey Matters on the self assigned mission of discovering more about his past, while working with Scottie and Solomon (that will continue to be an interesting dynamic!) on those cases that involve “a dangerous world of deadly criminals”.
Blacklist: Redemption will star:
Ryan Eggold as Tom Keen
Famke Janssen as Susan (Scottie) Hargrave
Tawny Cypress as Nez Rowan
Edi Gathegi as Matias Solomon
This offering from Sony TV will be written by Jon Bokenkamp and John Eisendrath, who will also executive produce along with John Fox and John Davis. All of whom are Blacklist alumni. Goodness! I’ll bet those meetings get a bit confusing, lol. Micheal Dinner (The Blacklist – Alexander Kirk) will be directing. It will air on NBC and is expected to make its debut appearance in the 2016 – 17 line-up.
The title image and all of the phrases in quotes are taken from the official Blacklist: Redemption web page at nbc.com.
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