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Cooper and Alina got on a plane, joined by a surprise Ressler while Aram chased down his investor. Red convinced Vincent that it was in both of their best interests for him to reveal the Skinner’s current identity, and got the name of a guy who just checked into a hotel in New York.
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Red eventually agreed to help the team by tracking down the Skinner’s predecessor, Vincent, who Red kidnapped with some acting work from Cooper, Aram and Alina. While Red wasn’t exactly interested in joining Cooper’s little meetings with his recreated team, he was interested in the fact that Cooper is taking care of Liz’s daughter, Agnes, though Cooper didn’t think it was the best idea for Red to see her. He’s “more myth than man,” Red said, but they had to find the man who personifies the myth. Once Cooper was suitably rubbed down with an egg (don’t ask), he got to have a chat with his old friend and learned quite a bit about a man known as the Skinner, who might be a 700 year-old pirate but is also the leader of a group of criminals who burn people alive, and his identity changes over time in a line of succession. That meant Cooper had to be drugged in a bar, then taken to some strange place where Red was being guarded and cared for by a shaman. How in the world can it not Entering the finale, you probably know at this point that Megan Boone is leaving the show. Red, of course, was the only person who could help identify this villainous tattoo, so Cooper had to track the man down in Havana. The Blacklist JThere are inevitably all sorts of questions we’re left to wonder entering The Blacklist season 8 finale, but one of the biggest ones revolves around Liz’s fate.