A character in The Blacklist
Played by Megan Boone
The Blacklist · 118 quotes
Most-quoted character in The Blacklist: in 27 of its 118 quotes
Most scenes with: Tom Keen (2)
Elizabeth KeenI know what you think you have in that needle.
Yes, my son's future.
Elizabeth KeenYour cure is experimental. It could just as easily kill him.
If I do nothing, he dies anyway.
I take it from the coroner's van that Barnes is no longer with us. Pity.
Elizabeth KeenTell that to the families of the people he murdered.
Every cause has more than one effect. Say what you will about Frederick but someone who's willing to burn the world down to protect the one person they care about, that's a man I understand.
Elizabeth KeenIs that meant to be directed at me?
Aren't you presumptuous?
Elizabeth KeenStep away from him!
Why should I? Do you have any idea what this man has done? This man is a monster!
Elizabeth KeenThat may be, but killing him isn't gonna solve anything.
Tell that to his wife. We don't have the luxury of your simple morality. Talk to me when you've been a victim.
There you are. What the hell happened to you? You just leave me stranded with that awful Algerian! He's been hitting on me for 20 minutes.
Sir, this is a secure area.
[to guard] Well, not secure enough if you ask me, sister. You know what? Why don't ask Rasil? We wouldn't even be here if it weren't for that troublemaker. Always an agenda with him. Cultural attache. Culture, my ass. [Points at Lizzy] The things I do for this one. [to Lizzy] Raymond 'Red' Reddington: Gallivanting around the globe for you little assignations with you know, hmm-hmm. [to guard] Carrying her furs and bikinis as if I wouldn't rather be back in Dutchess County my shelties. [to Lizzy] Hey, don't take anything for granted. Everything you have was bought and paid for by your boyfriend. [to guard] Raymond 'Red' Reddington: Do you have any idea who's horn this tramp is blowing? Let's just say it starts with Bashiar, and ends with Assad, gassing you faster than a Sunni. So let's get her out of the hot seat and into a limo. Good God, crumbs up!
What?
Your cummerbund. Pleats up. You look like Bob Yashimura in eighth grade swing choir. It's upside down.
[Red punches out the security guard]
Oh god, that hurts!
Elizabeth KeenWhat the hell was that?
I don't know, it just felt so right in the moment.
This paint. What color is it?
Elizabeth KeenIt's called Chicago Skyline.
Nice.
Elizabeth KeenIf you're looking for sympathy, you might want to start with honesty. Here's an example of honesty, Tom. You've been making me pancakes for two years. I hate pancakes.
You want honest? Here's one. If you're gonna handcuff somebody, don't break their thumb.
People love to decry big brother the NSA, the government listening in on their most private lives, yet they all willingly go online and hand over the most intimate details of those lives - to big data.
Elizabeth KeenMost people don't care that Google knows their search history.
They know more than that. They know your habits, the banks you use, the pills you pop, the men or women you sleep with. Every piece of information is worth something to somebody. And in the hands of the wrong person, that could be deadly.
Elizabeth KeenYou have a lead.
Lord Baltimore is in town.
Elizabeth KeenLord Baltimore?
He's a tracker by trade, but his methods are thoroughly modern. He's made an art of combing through cyberspace, finding the status updates, financial records, and location blips that virtually everyone leaves behind in the modern age.
Elizabeth KeenAnd he has a new target?
Yes. Me.
Have you ever heard of Bruno Ashmanskis? The most skilled cat burglar I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Bruno mostly did jobs on commission, but he always wanted to do something for himself, something special, so he got it into his head that he was gonna break into the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to steal an imperial vase from the Qing Dynasty worth millions-- the single biggest trophy of his career.
Elizabeth KeenWhat happened?
I never heard from him again. I'd always assumed he'd succeeded, that he was sipping some umbrella-clad cocktail on a beach in Tahiti, until five years later during a remodel of the Fitzwilliam, they removed a wall. There was poor Bruno-- what was left of him, anyway-- stuck inside a heating duct, still clutching that vase. I prefer to think of old Bruno on that beach in Tahiti.
I'm a sin eater. I absorb the misdeeds of others, darkening my soul to keep theirs pure. That is what I'm capable of.
Elizabeth KeenWhat sin of mine could you possibly have absorbed?
Elizabeth KeenI shot him. That's why you blocked my memory-- not to protect yourself. To protect me.
Yeah.
Elizabeth KeenYou're my sin eater.
Tried to be. But I failed. I never wanted you to be...
Elizabeth KeenWhat?
[beat] Like me.
Elizabeth KeenI don't know what happened. I used to consider myself lucky. I had a husband I loved, a job I always wanted. I was the kind of person good things happen to.
Have you ever heard of Mugs Kalinowski? Lovely guy. Ugliest man I ever laid eyes on. That's why everyone called him Mugs. Except his dear mother. She was an art professor at Bard. Lovingly referred to him as Picasso.
Elizabeth KeenThat's kind of sweet, actually.
Well, it was an apt nickname. His face was all over the place. But perhaps as a result of that nickname, Mugs grew up with a great appreciation for art. He fenced some of the most extravagant pieces in the world. He only had one rule. Out of respect for dear mom, he'd never lift a Picasso. Felt it was bad luck. Then one day, he got a tip from a source about a piece sitting in a huge loft in Soho. So one evening, Mugs shimmied up the drain pipe, broke in, and lo and behold, there hung on the wall, Les Femmes D'Alger. A spectacular Picasso. One of a series of 15 and astronomically valuable.
Elizabeth KeenDid he take it?
No. And Mugs was convinced that was the single biggest stroke of bad luck he'd ever suffered. Well, what he didn't know was the source who'd given him the tip was working with the feds. The painting had a tracking device on it. Sometimes, bad luck is the best luck you'll ever have.
Elizabeth Keen[to Tom's ghost] I know now that those bones in that bag are Raymond Reddington's. The real Raymond Reddington. My father. I know that this man is an imposter. Why he came into my life. Why he took your life. Why he spent the last 30 years pretending to be Raymond Reddington I'm going to figure all that out and then I'm going to destroy him.
Be careful, Liz. This man, whoever he is, he's dangerous.
Elizabeth KeenI know he is, but I'm not alone. I have help.
You ready?
Elizabeth KeenOh, yeah. I'm ready.
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