Super cleaner 2.9. Critic Consensus: Though The Blacklist flirts with narrative overload, it's held together by James Spader's. Air date: Oct 13, 2014. Show More Episodes. FBI fugitive, Raymond “Red” Reddington (Spader), joined the FBI in an effort to work together to bring criminals and terrorists. After their initial success, the list of.

Raymond 'Red' Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this 'The Blacklist'. Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.