Elizabeth Keen quotes from The Blacklist

Elizabeth Keen

[screaming at Red] We're not a team! You're not my partner! my partner is TOM not you

Elizabeth Keen

[to Judge Denner] I'm sorry. You're right. You're absolutely right. I should have known that when my husband and I were planning family that he was, in fact, a traitor who had installed surveillance cameras in my bedroom! Of course I should have been aware that the number four on the FBI's most wanted list would turn himself in and demand to speak only to me! God, what a horrible profiler I must be to have missed the fact that I am central to the discovery of a blackmail file that will tilt the balance of power in, let me phrase this right, the entire world! Wow! I suck!

Elizabeth Keen

When I was a little girl, I used to imagine that my mother was a prima ballerina who danced for kings and queens in London and Paris. And she only left me with Sam until she could come home again and sweep me away.

Elizabeth Keen

Why involve me? I'm nobody. It's my first day. Nothing special about me.

Oh. I think you're very special.

Elizabeth Keen

And I'm supposed to believe you?

Of course not! I'm a criminal. Criminals are notorious liars. Everything about me is a lie. But, if anyone will give me a second chance it's you. The two of us have overcome so much.

Elizabeth Keen

[just before going undercover] Before we do this, let me be clear. I'm not here to socialize, I have no interest in having dinner with you, nor do we have the time. We meet your contact, we get the name of The Freelancer's next victim and we go. Are we understood?

I agree with you completely, but it is a restaurant and it is dinner time...

Elizabeth Keen

[about Wujing] He's a myth.

That's what they said about Deep Throat... and the G-spot.

Elizabeth Keen

I'm sorry, you're decoding CIA messages on behalf of the Chinese...

[nods at Elizabeth reassuringly] Now you see? You make it sound like treason, so black and white. It's not, it's green.

What's the question?

Elizabeth Keen

Why me?

Because of your father.

Elizabeth Keen

A man's life is at stake!

A man's life is always at stake. And tragically low stakes at that. I should remind you that I did not offer you my services to help you round up your run of the mill drug lord or what have you. You all seem to be doing a perfectly mediocre job of that on your own. I'm after the big game Lizzie. The ones that matter.

Are you a mother?

Elizabeth Keen

No.

That's good... I was asked to make you suffer.

Elizabeth Keen

Why are you doing this?! You don't take life. You clean up death.

Everything changes. Everything evolves. This is my evolution.

Elizabeth Keen

You know what I think? I think this idea of you vanishing people to aid nature is a lie. I think you're trying to dissolve something else. Your past, maybe? Whatever the horrible thing was that twisted you up inside and made you into the freak that you are!

Have you ever wondered how criminals who know they can't trust one another are still able to conduct business with each other?

Elizabeth Keen

They replace trust with fear and the threat of violence.

The next target on the Blacklist is the physical embodiment of both. He's known as the Courier, and his involvement in a transaction virtually guarantees its success. Once he's hired to make a delivery, he can't be bribed, he can't be stopped. If either party attempts to double cross the other, he kills them both. The perfect middleman for an imperfect world.

Elizabeth Keen

You're not telling us everything.

Let me put your mind at ease. I'm never telling you everything.

Lady, you don't understand Tommy.

Elizabeth Keen

I know his condition prevents him from feel-

No, I mean you don't understand him. Our old man knocked us around when he needed to, which didn't bother Tommy. But dad hated that. Felt like he couldn't control his own son, and he couldn't. So when he was 11, dad started hosting these dogfights. Not with two dogs, but with a dog and Tommy. Well, we had this barn. People would come from miles around. They'd get drunk and make bets. What it did to him over time...Tommy's broken. Somewhere in his head, a switch flipped. I wish I could help you, but you know how it goes. You're here because somebody screwed up. The deal went sideways. And now the buyer and seller have targets on their head, if they're not dead already.