Tonight on NBC their hit drama The Blacklist starring James Spader airs with an all-new time-slow Sunday, April 30, 2023, episode and we have your The Blacklist recap below. On tonight’s The Blacklist Season 10, Episode 10 called, “The Postman” as per the NBC synopsis, “After an inmate opens fire at a high-security prison, the Task Force investigates a contraband smuggler known as The Postman. Cooper revisits his past ties to the suspect.”
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Tonight’s The Blacklist episode begins with a prison scene, men are eating in the cafeteria when three prisoners, one with a knife comes behind a man named Lou, and little did they know that he had a small machine gun and fills the three men and many more beside them full of holes.
Ressler is meeting with someone who he is sponsoring, the man says he is doing well and didn’t realize how busted he was before. Ressler says there are going be tough days ahead, prepare.
At home, Coper is doing the dishes, Red is sitting at the table with Agnes while she is paling a game on her tablet. A horn beeps and Cooper tells her that her ride is there. Red tells Cooper that he knows he is angry, Cooper reminds him that e killed Wujing and Zhang Wei. Angry doesn’t begin to cover it, Red says he would do it all over again.
Cooper reminds him that the FBI is not a hit squad, it won’t end here, an official investigation hasn’t come down yet and he has to explain why this task force should exist. Red says the danger that Marvin Gerard unleashed is gone. They are chasing course again, it is what it is. Cooper says he can’t tell congress and Panabaker that. Red says they can worry about it tomorrow. Today, there was a horrific shooting in a prison, the prisoner had a glock, automatic.
Cooper doesn’t understand how the prisoner got a gun, Red says he thinks it is the work of the Postman, a smuggler of prisoner contraband. Cooper wants to know the angle, Red says he is rising fast and spreading fast. His brith name is Lawrence Nelson and Red thinks they can still do good work together, starting with this case.
Thirty years ago – the verdict of the State of Maryland vs. Lawrence Nelson, it’s been a long trial and the jury is deliberating. They have 11 votes for guilty and 1 vote for not-guilty. The man who voted for not-guilty is Harold Cooper.
Fast forward to the present, Cooper explains the case to the task force, Lawrence served twenty five years starting at 18 years old and was released five years ago on good behaviour, then he vanished. Nobody has seen him. He killed his manager, that is what he went down for. The task force is questioning why they should listen to Red, Cooper tells them to listen to him, he knows The Postman is dangerous, he makes lives in prison more dangerous and he is going to spread that to the outside world. Just then, Herbie messages in on live video, he is late for his first morning. Cooper says Malik and Ressler are going to roll out to Sussex Prison and Dembe will get Herbie up to speed as to why.
At the prison, Ressler asks the shooter, Lou, how he got the weapon inside, Malik asks him how he communicated with the postman. Lou is not going to speak and wishes them the best of luck.
Eugene, a man in prison, makes call and says the compound is not pure enough, he needs more product.
Ressler made more interviews but nobody will talk. Malik says Lou has people working outside for him, they checked his log of visitors and it turns out Lou Fernan’s brother moved $10,000 just before the attack. The money went to a shell company and they are not speaking either.
Cooper asks Red if he knows anybody at Acordia Bank, Lawrence Nelson may an account there.
Back to thirty years ago, the rest of the jurors were not happy that Cooper wanted to vote not-guilty – they talk about, they had DNA. Cooper blames everyone else for rushing through the case because they want to go home. Cooper says he will not destroy the kids life because they are in a hurry.
Red Goes to see Benny at the bank, he tells him that he is looking for information about Lawrence Nelson. Red reveals that he knows a lot about Benny’s personal life and bribes him. The guy doesn’t get it, so Red pulls out his gun and asks for Nelson’s records or he is going to blow out his knee cap.
Dembe stops by to see Herbie who has been doing some look into the security footage outside Lou’s prison cell. Tuesday night, his cell was searched and they found nothing. The audio shows that a drone brought the gun into the prison cell and the one the Postman is using is really quiet, very hard to detect. And, he would bet a road beef sandwich that Lou’s windows have been tampered with.
Ressler has Gina in an interrogation room, he asks her about Lawrence Nelson, the 10k was moved from Lawrence Nelson’s bank account into hers. Malik walks in and says they have Nelson in custody and he says she runs the operation and calls herself the Postman. She says she does business with Nelson, but she never met him.
She buys stuff, he tells her and she buys. Drugs, weapons, high-ted toys, she doesn’t ask. He sends her various contraband requests and she doesn’t ask questions. He has been ordering chemistry equipment and chemicals lately, things she has to go to labs to get. She can’t pronounce half of it, but she can show them.
Cooper goes to see the warden who says Lawrence Nelson was bright and earned a degree in electrical engineering while he was there. He was inspired by a cell mate, a chemist who is still there by the name of Larry.
Herbie went over the stuff that Gina got for Nelson, he noticed rosaries, these ones are rare, made of the seeds from the Abrus precatorius vine from the Philippines. One of the most dangerous toxins on the planet comes from the peas, it is called abrum. It is lethal and rare. Nelson is helping a prisoner make a deadly toxin.
Cooper tells the warden to put Larry Campos under lockdown, the chemist who was Nelson’s cell mate. Cooper goes into his cell and sees one of the windows out, it is too late, what he made for Nelson is gone. They were wrong, Nelson smuggled materials in so he could get the finished materials out. Campos refuses to give any information on what Nelson plans to use the chemicals for. The question is, where is this deadly toxin headed.
Cooper calls Red and tells him about Abrin and Nelson probably plans on selling it. Red knew this whole time that Cooper served on Nelson’s jury.
Back to the jury, Cooper is still arguing that Nelson could be not guilty. An argument breaks out, the other jurors just don’t agree with Cooper.
Cooper goes over the case files, finds a cabin that Nelson used to go to, its a long shot, but he tells Ressler to check it out, he and Malik are on it.
Elsewhere, Nelson has his chemical weapon and loads it in a mask, he texts someone that he is ready.
Ressler and Malik storm into the cabin, this is indeed the place where Nelson was working but he is gone. There is a map of a building on a board, looks like he plans on taking out the whole building, problem is that it only says Baltimore, Maryland, they have no other information to find out which building it is.
Cooper and the other jurors take a break, he is given advice from one of the women who tells him that he knows that he wants to do right by Nelson, but what about the victim, he has to consider all the facts and do the best he can. He wants to save him, but he can’t save Nelson from what he did, you can’t save them all. They take another vote and this time, Cooper agrees that Nelson is guilty.
Herbie tells Cooper that Nelson is targeting a government building in Baltimore, but they don’t know which one. Cooper is going over Nelson’s file and finds something, he thinks it is the Attorney General’s office that he is going after. Its revenge, a man there was involved in his case. Cooper believes the star witness in his case was compromised and Christoper Jay let it happen.
If Nelson knows this, he has a reason to go after Jay and the people who work for him. Cooper tells them to pray that they are not too late. Cooper then calls Red and tells him he is right, they have a mad man in the city with a bio weapon.
We see Nelson, he is in a wooden container of sorts and has a gas mask on. The container opens, and the task force got him, he is in federal custody, Cooper tells Nelson they have met before.
Red made a call, found out who was delivering the crate Nelson was in and got it moved over to the task force.
Cooper gives Nelson a file, it is a transcript of his old girlfriends first conversation with the police on the night of Carrie Baker’s murder. Same conversation that made her the star witness in court. That transcript should have been given to his counsel, it wasn’t. She doesn’t mention Nelson at all. Cooper thinks it was a deal that his ex-girlfriend made with the prosecution, orchestrated by the prosecutor, Christopher Jay, he has political ambitions back then.
Cooper tells him that he was on his jury, he vote to convict because the evidence was overwhelmingly against him. He was reluctant, Nelson says he was innocent, he was telling the truth. Cooper says they have hold him accountable for his new crimes, but he is going to do everything he can to have the original crime expunged from his record and have Christopher Jay accountable too. Nelson asks what difference it makes. Cooper says it makes all the difference.
Ressler meets the man he is sponsoring again, he tells him that it hasn’t been good. He feels like people are watching him, expecting him to mess up. His dealer called, he blocked his number but he got a new phone. Hearing his voice brought back memories, he hands Ressler a bottle of pills. Ressler dumps them in the coffee, he tells him they are going to wait there until the meeting tonight.
Agnes is at home when she gets a video call from Red, he tells her that he sent her a gift, she goes to get it, opens it and she fins a chess set. He says he wants to teach her how to play. Cooper walks in and tells her that playing against Red will make her smarter, and this could be considered math homework.
THE END!
