The Blacklist (TV Series)

Luther Braxton (No. 21) (2015)

James Spader: Raymond 'Red' Reddington

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• Raymond 'Red' Reddington : In Mexico, there are these fish that have colonized the freshwater caves along Sierra del Abra. They were lost. They found themselves living in complete darkness. But they didn't die. Instead, they thrived. They adapted. They lost their pigmentation, their sight, eventually even their eyes. With survival, they became hideous. I've rarely thought about what I once was. But I wonder if a ray of light were to make it into the cave, would I be able to see it? Or feel it? Would I gravitate to its warmth? And if I did, would I become less hideous?

• Raymond 'Red' Reddington : Well, sadly, there isn't a prison on Earth where I don't know a few guys.

• Raymond 'Red' Reddington : 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 Keen : What happened?

  Raymond 'Red' Reddington : 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.

  [pause] 

  Raymond 'Red' Reddington : I prefer to think of old Bruno on that beach in Tahiti.