Claire Siebers

Martin and Rachel are tucking in their ten-year-old son, Jonah when the boy refuses their hugs or kisses. Humoring their kid and thinking it's just a phase or a way of "testing" them, the parents give Jonah some space, instead lavishing their affection on their younger boy, Lester. But from that night forward, Jonah seems to have changed his personality. Previously affectionate and childlike, he's now formal, cold and disdainful of affection -- he's become a grown-up in temperament, though at school and with his brother, he still seems very much like a child. The change in Jonah's behavior towards his parents vexes Martin, and it also exposes the chasms between him and his wife. Despite professional intervention (which finds no signs of mental illness in Jonah), Martin is bewildered at Jonah's rejection of his love and must come to terms with the uniqueness of his child and perhaps his own emotional needs.

Raymond « Red » Reddington, l’un des fugitifs les plus recherchés par le FBI, se rend en personne au quartier général du FBI à Washington. Il affirme avoir les mêmes intérêts que le FBI : faire tomber des criminels dangereux et des terroristes. Reddington coopérera, mais insiste pour ne parler qu’à Elizabeth Keen, une profileuse inexpérimentée du FBI. Keen s’interroge sur l’intérêt soudain que Reddington lui porte, bien qu’il soutienne que Keen est très spéciale. Après que le FBI a fait tomber un terroriste sur lequel il a fourni des informations, Reddington révèle que ce terroriste n’est que le premier de beaucoup d’autres à venir : durant les deux dernières décennies, il a fait une liste des criminels et terroristes qu'il croit introuvable par le FBI parce que ce dernier ignorait leur existence et que ce sont les plus importants. Reddington l’appelle « La Liste noire » (« The Blacklist »).