And then, after Liz gets what she needs from Tom and gives him passports to start over, she kisses him. Liz so brilliantly tells him that if he’s not honest about everything, he’s not being honest. Tom’s been an actor – a charade, really – for so long that he’s been unable to really be a person who is truthful. Liz’s response is pretty great, actually, because she notes that what Tom needs in order to secure that new life? He needs to focus on being honest. Like, really start over and make a life for himself or if he’s doomed to be the way that he is forever. Tom, I guess, has started to develop inklings of empathy and he genuinely asks Liz whether or not she believes he can start over again. It’s clear from “Vanessa Cruz” that Liz doesn’t trust Tom, doesn’t want him in her life, and is using him just like he used her. Related TV News Wrap-Up: George Clooney Producing 'Buck Rogers,' WWE to Peacock, 'The Blacklist' Renewed While the team works a case about a woman who murders extremely wealthy men (the 1%) and frames them for crimes, they realize that she’s an extremely intelligent woman who delicately plans jobs down to samples of saliva and blood (eI was apprehensive about the whole Tom-of-it-all, really, and his relationship with Liz. In the same vein, “Vanessa Cruz,” this week’s episode of The Blacklist, focuses on the two men in Liz’s life who are toxic in their own ways: Red and Tom. Because that moment is special, and she knows it - even if she can’t properly vocalize it. Everyone wants something from Liz, and the moment Ressler shares his time and a meal with her is when Liz decides to share the wine that she and Sam made when they were younger. Just honestly, truly cares about her without an agenda attached, apart from Ressler (and yes, Cooper and Aram too to a lesser degree). No one cares about her in her life right now. So, he brings them take-out disguised as a box of case files (be cuter, Ressler, I dare you) and Liz is floored. He knows she would feel like having a pity party and being alone and wallowing - and he refuses to allow her the opportunity to do that. etc.īut what is so wonderful about “The Longevity Initiative” is that Ressler knows Liz. Liz didn’t want to celebrate her birthday, because she didn’t believe she had anything worth celebrating – no children, a marriage that was a sham, nearly escaping prison, etc. Whether or not you ship these two romantically or platonically, it’s difficult to argue that there’s a better partner for her to have at the moment. Last week, on The Blacklist, we learned that one of the only men in Lizzie’s life who she’s close to that isn’t a pathological liar is Donald Ressler.

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