After a holiday hiatus we are back! Sorry for the delay on this one folks I was down and out with that super cold flu that’s been going around last week.

Looks like our blacklister this week is the kid from Home Alone 3, at least that’s what the setup looks like… or is it a creepy uncle twist? Apparently she got abducted by the crime doctor.

Hipster Husband applied for a job in Lincoln, Lizzy holds something against Nebraska.

The whole team is getting cross examined in the middle of trying to investigate the crime doctor the Good Samaritan. Don pretends to be a human for a change and chats with the kid, cut to Spader looking into a coffin. Maybe he is on the hunt for draculas.

Spader is being low-key by buying vending machine water and looking like an extra from deadliest catch. Ah, he is on the path of figured out who snagged him and took his chip out. Might be time for some payback. Wow. Yeah, damn. He pulled a straight up Capone.

Lizzy gets a call from Spader, looks like he is done with his revenge scheme. Lizzy claims that the FBI will find Spader but really their track record in this show is pretty abysmal. With a tip from Spader Lizzy is off to the races on the case.

The team is a bit whiney that Spader hit up Lizzy’s digits and didn’t give them a ring and complain they should tell daddy. Torture CIA agent is cleared from being suspected as a mole, other peeps are doubtful though.

Spader walks in and orders up a lead sandwich for the restaurant, Spader found his money man and decides on a little torture but it ends with a shot to the heart. Spader gives love a bad name.

So it turns out our Blacklister of the week is a Dante Alighieriphile, punishment fits the crime deal. Maybe a bit of the Norman Bates going on as well.

Spader confronts “The Bank”. Lucky for this chump he has dinner plans otherwise he would endure the wrath of a Spader scorned. Spader gives a hacker the time it takes him to dissemble and reassemble a gun and put a bullet in his brain before he makes an untraceable five million dollar money transfer. This is why he is 10 tens the FBI in this universe.

Back to our Blacklister and yeah he is pretty much crazy as an anthill covered in honey.

Guess who’s coming to dinner? Spader. Spader puts baby in the closet. Man is stone cold badass this episode. Spader gets his name, Newton Phillips.

Blacklister wheels his mom into watch him go to work on his latest victim. Lizzy and Don smoothly interrogate the wife of the victim by asking an abrasive question up front. FBI 101.

Lizzy and Don manage to do some basic police work and figure out that the Blacklister abducted someone again, meanwhile the guy is getting a hammer poked in his name. Not to say he didn’t have that coming.

Lizzy tells the Blacklister to “drop the hammer” I was really hoping for a “very poor choice of words” response. Oh well, c’est la vie. Lizzy shoots the Blacklister dead and I guess she feels pretty great about it and then threatens the victim in the same way that he was going to get killed. Great morality/storytelling there.

Skinny Pete was the one who turned on Spader. Dammit man, you live through Heisenberg but you can’t get past Spader!

Turns out Hawkeye is a boss/equal to Mrs. Klaus the plot thickens.

Spader turns up at Lizzy’s for a visit and brought her the next time on The Blacklist as a gift. Yay.