When Red (James Spader) discovers the Russians are sending Liz (Megan Boone) to Moscow, he calls Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff). The Cabal is behind all of this; the second Liz gets on the plane she's dead. Ressler smashes into the Russian convoy, and Liz saves his life in the ensuing firefight, then sprints off to rendezvous with Red at Chui's diner. An anonymous tip is called into the FBI, and pretty soon Ressler has the diner surrounded and is taking Red's list of demands. Specifically, Red wants a consult with his lawyer Marvin Gerard (guest star Fisher Stevens), now in jail. Days away from parole and a reunion with his young fiance, Marvin is none too happy to see Red, who quickly sets him working on the contents of the Fulcrum. Once Marvin has the framework of an unspecified plan together, Red decides it's time to decamp, and he leads Marvin and Liz down a secret elevator and through Chui's hidden money-laundering operation to the street, blocks away. In return for the work he'll do with the contents of the Fulcrum to take down the Cabal, Marvin is reunited with his fiance and dispatched to Red's Tahitian banana plantation, while Red and Liz repair to a finely appointed storage container, loaded atop a transatlantic barge.
Back in the world, Reven Wright has scraped together a deal to get both Cooper (Harry Lennix) and his wife Charlene out of prison, putting him back to work as a low-level paper pusher. Eager to help his former team members, Cooper's first task on the job is to start researching Karakurt. Mr. Solomon (Edi Gathegi) strips down for his own workday, trying to beat Red's location out of Dembe (Hisham Tawfiq) with a sock filled with pool balls. And after another day of failure on the job, Ressler is surprised by a midnight visitor... Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold).
