“ haven’t given me any indication one way or the other,” Klattenhoff shares.
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“To tell me how much she needed me - going forward, having that in my mind and knowing those words, we’ll see where that takes us, professionally and personally,” he teases, though he says he doesn’t know if there are plans to pair up Liz and Ressler romantically down the road. Per Klattenhoff, this episode will impact Ressler “in many different ways” moving forward, particularly now that he knows Liz’s motivations to help him. “And if that weren’t there, I would be swept out to sea,” she said. (Her exact words? She sees Ressler as a “tiny island of calm” in her “monsoon” of a life. Ressler quickly deduced that Liz was behind the body’s disappearance, and she confirmed his suspicions - but she also made it clear that she saved Ressler for her own benefit, not his. Just as two cops checked the trunk of Robby’s car, where Tommy’s body had been stashed, they found it empty and completely clean. In the end, though, the brothers did not get in trouble with the law, due to Liz’s interference in the situation. Thus, Ressler and Robby paid a visit to that field in the middle of the night and dug up Tommy’s body themselves - and, after getting sidetracked by some trouble with the Albanian mafia along the way, they agreed the best course of action was to turn themselves in for their adolescent actions. Meanwhile, in the present day, the brothers learned that the field where Tommy had been buried was about to be transformed into an outdoor mall once the construction crew broke ground, they’d inevitably find Tommy’s corpse on their own.
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In an effort to protect his younger brother from what he’d just done, Robby volunteered to dispose of the body… but just before Robby could dump Tommy in a ditch, Tommy regained consciousness, leaving Robby to kill him for good and bury the body. Via flashbacks, we watched as a teenage Ressler realized that Tommy was responsible for his dad’s demise, prompting Ressler to break into Tommy’s house one night and shoot him in the side. “I was psyched.”Īs we learned in Friday’s episode, Ressler’s father - who was also a cop - had been shot and killed in the line of duty, but his death was orchestrated by a corrupt colleague named Tommy Markin. “I was shocked nobody had told me and given me a heads-up,” he continues with a laugh. “And I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’ They said, ‘It’s all you and your brother, it’s crazy.'” In fact, “a few of the crew members and one of the producers were telling me, ‘Man, we got the best episode ,'” Klattenhoff recalls. It wasn’t until the current seventh season that a Ressler-heavy hour finally came to be - but even after the script was written, Klattenhoff wasn’t aware the episode was happening.
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Season Finale Shake-Ups: New Dates for Flash, Blue Bloods, S.W.A.T. I was a little disappointed that this really good backstory - this very complicated, big, dark secret - had disappeared… As an actor, it does still sit with you and resonate.”Īsk Ausiello: Scoop on The Blacklist, Dead to Me, Station 19, Conners, Flash, Outlander, Insecure, Batwoman and More “And then that got cannibalized along the way, in Season 2 or 3. They teased me with this great, juicy tale,” Klattenhoff tells TVLine. “Years ago, had mentioned my backstory and what made Ressler Ressler. The nontraditional hour, titled “Brothers,” didn’t involve a usual Case of the Week rather, it explored Ressler’s relationship with his estranged brother, Robby (played by Brat Pack member Anthony Michael Hall), as they were forced to confront a life-changing experience from their childhoods.īut according to Diego Klattenhoff, who plays the FBI agent, this Ressler-centric episode has been in the works for a long, long time. Friday’s episode of The Blacklist threatened to unearth Agent Ressler’s deepest, darkest secret - but thanks to Liz, it will stay buried a while longer.