Dowel Jones

Reddington had hair in that newspaper photo! Bad hair, but hair nonetheless. "Reddington has always been one step ahead of us." They read the forums! Weechi has great taste in getaway trucks.

"Oh, George..." is right. You inna heap of trouble, son. Betting that his girlfriend gets killed in another manner, anyway. But how did he manage to smuggle a pistol into the Russian Ambassador's residence, anyway? And he sure seems to have acquired total assassination skills in the short time he has been with the Project.

Wouldn't it be weird if Spader would break the fourth wall throughout the episode to explain to the audience all those questions that came up? "Look, I know you're wondering about the dogs. Dembe has them at home at they're well taken care of."

In spite of the AG's explanation, Hudson has no part in the investigation except as an observer. Yet, there he is, peppering each member of the A Team with questions. I would have told him to zip it, and the next word out of my mouth would be "lawyer." The ending scenes in the PO sort of reminded me of the final scenes from Parks and Recreation, with everything being boxed up and all. I wonder if anyone was eyeballing those giant monitors on the wall as, shall we say, "spoils of war." I'm surprised Reddington didn't have a couple of doppelgangers on that plane to throw the FBI off the track for at least a while. And Reddington's plane has the transponders required by the FAA? Don't make me laugh. I loved the fact that he was able to waltz right in to the AG's office monitors and yak it up with them.

It occurs to me that the Justice Department is wailing and gnashing its collective teeth because all that footage inside the Capitol would show the 1/6 Insurrectionist in HD detail, but they can't use it because its very existence, if public would blow the government out of the water.

So two Mayans get murdered, and EZ has the bodies dumped at the black MC clubhouse (forgot their name) in a false flag operation. He is definitely a schemer. Does anyone else think that Miguel is coming for Felipe? He sure is pissed. We're all agreed, then: Letty is officially Hopeless. Too soon?

DirecTV is currently in a contract dispute for a carrier of some of the local TV stations, including the NBC affiliate, so they have blocked the signal. I hope I can get it on streaming when it comes up.

There's still plenty of numbers at the bottom of the list.

Those Prospects are going to be working all night to clean up all that blood in the clubhouse!

Rest assured one of those bugging cameras is probably watching them right now. :) Imagine. A high level government official takes a laptop home with him, which contains classified critical information about National Security. Where did the writers get that idea? What was Reddington's Plan B if the team actually succeeded in grabbing the laptop? I have to wonder if Herbie is secretly thinking, "Can I get a job with Reddington when this Post Office thing collapses?" Right now he's the only member of the team that's productive. I was really hoping that he would blurt out "It's the worst scandal in the US Government since the J Edgar Hoover days of spying on everyone." But they didn't go there. On the other hand, his line about checking a Steely Dan concert was on point. You would think that someone on the Task Force would clue into the possibility/probability that, with all that spying going on, Reddington might have tapped their phones too. The Senator's rant about the FBI protecting the Most Wanted Criminal in the United States was epic. And naïve. Maybe he should google the name of Whitey Bulger. The blind guy took one of the faxes and put it in a locker, which was then taken by an unknown operative and handed to Reddington. Curious to know where that's going.

Whoa, what a body count. EZ is definitely going for his Corleone merit badge. And we have a new Adelita, while Angel gets to learn the ins and outs of single parenthood. I kind of liked how all the women in the counting room immediately looked down and averted their eyes during the robbery. "Not my circus, not my ponies."

The action and interactions are good in this show, but it suffers one glaring flaw. In the back of my mind I keep saying "None of this matters because it all resets." There's no real end game. Yes, they're trying to save the world, but every episode is basically the same.

The FBI managed to get a model of the Men in Black Ford. Push the red button....

Sounds like Back to the Future II, where Marty is running around looking at himself.

Was Reddington's proposal ever brought up? I still harbor some suspicion that he was behind Wormwood in some way. And in no way do I ever think those two families will stop fighting after a daylong truce. The wedding will be the next battleground. So finally Ressler's addiction guy is actually brought into the storyline. Siya gets into a fight with Wormwood's takedown and all Dembe does is stand there. Maybe he was impressed with her. Herbie is proving himself more useful than the rest of the team combined. I'll have to admit, the actress portraying Agnes bears a pretty good youngster resemblance to Megan Boone.

You know, if you're going to bury someone, even if it's out in the semi-desert, it's probably not a good idea to leave a mound of dirt in the shape of a grave on top of that grave. Kind of attracts attention.

I'm chiming in here at the start of the restart, having not watched it on streaming. I actually liked the writing that Elsa is voicing, however unauthentic her voice may be. It had some quite lyrical moments. The Duttons are from Tennessee. The Germans likely got off the ship somewhere around New York or perhaps the upper South. Why in the world would they end up in Fort Worth Texas, if they wanted to migrate anywhere up north? Something of an editing mistake, I think, on Dutton's facial hair. He gets it shaved down to a rough goatee in Fort Worth, but then, a few days later, his beard is full when they're out chasing cattle. Yet, he has a goatee when they arrive back in camp.

The thought occurred to me during the episode that, what happens if the world goes to shit on July 2? The team has almost no chance to change things before a reset. So George has his own agenda, eh?

Redrov (?) is correct, though. No matter what the team does, the path leads to destruction. Maybe not by nuclear warfare, but maybe by pandemic. Poor George, though, and Archie. If George had realized what was happening early on, though, he might have saved Sarah by not giving bad info to the guy who bought stock and lost his savings. Then he wouldn't have assaulted Sarah. It's a bit odd, though. You would think that Archie and her partner, knowing that Sarah would die, would have changed their approach to killing the Security Director while still saving Sarah, and then he wouldn't have had to sacrifice himself. No wonder this team drinks so much.

The 'real' mystery here is why did he name the company the Morgana Logistics Corp.? Who's Morgana? Or maybe who is Morgan? If the Congressman is hot to investigate why Dembe was hired, wait till he gets to why the FBI kept employed a Russian agent/terrorist/wife of a Blacklister/Blacklister herself? Putting aside the wooden personality, the bad wig, and the general incompetence, of course.

Was that the DEA agent that cut the guy's throat? If not, who was she? And who was he? Sorry, but once again I am getting lost in all the subplots.

Jeez, as soon as Mrs. Sutton said Regina Saint, I thought that somehow they were going to tie this show into Snowfall. Surprisingly, this was a pretty straightforward case this week. No mysteries, just a bust and everyone goes home. Ironically, if this is the case that the auditor looks at, Cooper can point to how the task force works without ever mentioning Reddington. And it's all due to Mrs. Cooper. Reddington with the shout out to Johnny Cash! I thought for a moment later on when he mentioned "the deepest, darkest, hole..." in the same breath as Calcutta that we might get a second sub-reference, but that was too much of an ask. I agree, there's something behind Dembe's anger. And, unless there's something way deep about Meera grabbing Siya during the shootout, that story has stumbled. But now there's three more people who know about the PO Annex.

My guess is that the producers said "Have we ever used a deck gun for an incident? I can't remember. Let's do it for the season finale. Forget about realism."

I kind of wonder why Hermann didn't even notice the rapidly expanding pool of blood in front of his feet before Mouch actually coded.

I'm all in favor of plot exposition, but I wish this show would lean a bit more toward realism. I was always trained "Don't touch the evidence. Let the investigators handle it." Yet, Kidd picks up a .50 cal boomer, takes it back to the station, doesn't even call anyone until she talks to Casey clear over in Portland. Too bad there's no one in the Chicago area with any expertise in terrorism. Had the episode not turned out as it did, any defense attorney would get that bullet thrown out as evidence because, who saw Kidd pick it up? I think that's the earliest forehead slap I've ever had on this show. I think Casey's return and marriage proposal was a not too subtle sign to Taylor Kinney that "Thank you for your time here, but we're going to move on with or without you." Yeah, Casey isn't under Boden's supervision anymore, but that was ridiculous that three of the 51 crew were allowed to follow him. Not one of them is trained in law enforcement and if those two clowns hadn't been blind all four of them would have been shot dead. Assuming the power company guy turned off the entire transformer, didn't that cause 80,000 people to lose their power anyway? Somebody better check on one of the highrises in the area to see if a criminal mastermind is breaking into a vault with a whole bunch of money inside.