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When Liz learns of a serial killer known as "The Deer Hunter" who tracks his victims down like prey, Red helps the task force search for the killer. Meanwhile, the local DC police suspect the city Harbormaster was murdered as Liz struggles to keep her secret from unraveling.

"The Blacklist" - "The Deer Hunter"- Feb. 26, 2015

Tonight we have a super gross serial killer and the cops closing in on Liz for the death of the harbormaster.

We open on a hooded figure walking down the street. The murder we are about to see this person commit is intercut with Liz explaining the nature of the serial killer to a college seminar with slides and stuff: the person they are looking for is a white male, 30-40, organized, only interested in big men, they shoot with a crossbow, mutilate the body, hoist it up for display, and then takes a bite (yuck) out of the liver. She concludes the killer, known as the Deer Hunter, is likely a slight man who was dominated by bigger men earlier in his life.

Meanwhile, in the harbormaster case, Sam is telling Det. Wilcox he expects immunity. Wilcox says he will get it once he testifies against Liz and he puts her away. He says if Sam changes so much as a comma in his story he will go to prison for a long time.

Red gets a call from the mystery man whose number was in Alan Fitch's safe. The man tells him "it is happening" and to meet him the next day at 2 p.m. He meets up with Liz and asks about the Fulcrum when she says she knows nothing about it, he says he knows she is lying. He strikes a deal, if he helps with the Deer Hunter she will tell him what she knows about the Fulcrum.

Back at the Post Office he explains that he is convinced it is a woman while Liz is sure it's a man. They both have their theories. Red makes one important note that the man or woman has been killing for over a decade which is rare.

Liz and Ressler go to see the latest victim at the morgue and bump into a man who runs a true crime blog and knows a lot about the Deer Hunter's history. At first he seems suspect, he was sneaking around taking pictures, but eventually he's just helpful. He points out that it's very likely that whoever is killing now is a copycat of the Deer Hunter as the last six victims had identical killings.

Liz gets a call from Det. Wilcox. She sticks with her story that she was working on a classified case, even after he tells her they've recovered a body and now have a witness: Sam.

We cut to a crazy cat lady, talking to her bird about how "someone has to do this!" She seems stressed. It would appear that Red's theory is the correct one and this is our Deer Hunter. She shows the bird a picture of her next potential victim.

Red gets a correctional officer to tell him when Sam is being transferred to prison so Red can make a move and help Liz. It's at the same time he's supposed to talk to the mystery man.

Liz goes to Ressler and breaks the harbormaster news and he tells her to come clean to Cooper especially since Tom is the one who killed the guy. He notes that all they care about is taking a bite of the FBI, which gives Ressler an idea about the Deer Hunter and how they always take a bite out of the liver.

The crazy cat lady goes to a woman named Mary who is being abused by her husband. She has agreed, essentially to let the crazy cat lady kill him, in order to eliminate "evil" in the world.

Ressler was right, the bite marks are different on the victims so it's a copycat.

The next morning the woman's husband is strung up from a tree and a little girl and her mother see it.

When Liz and Ressler go to the woman she seems off and Liz notices it.

By comparing all of the recent victims of the copycat the gang at the Post Office narrow down that all the victims were tied together by one tragic similarity: they were being beaten, harassed, or stalked by violent men in their lives and they all sought help through a charitable organization working with battered women, offering legal and other aid. They go to the offices of the organization to get information on the employees and the crazy cat lady is there, she is an employee and she overheard what was up.

Dembe takes the call from the mystery man and tells him they need to reschedule. The man disagrees and says it has to be Red and wherever he is, he hopes it's important.

It is, we cut to Red who stops Sam's transfer truck en route to the prison and hops in with him. He convinces him to recant his story in exchange for pushing his brother to the top of the heart transplant list.

Red asks Aram to trace the number of the call that was placed to the cell phone that Dembe answers and says it's urgent.

The crazy cat lady goes home in a panic, feeding her cats and telling them how nervous she is but convinces herself she's overreacting and the women would never betray her.

Except she does. Mary calls Liz and Ressler back but the crazy cat lady, who is named Tracy, gets to her first and when she sees Liz and Ressler arrive she whacks her in the head and takes off. Liz takes off after her and gets a shovel to the head for her trouble.

She strings Liz up in her garage and prepares to kill her. But first, of course, she has to monologue like all good villains. She explains that her husband was the original Deer Hunter, the real killer. She of course killed him when she found out and prepped him in the manner that he had his victims. Then she went about avenging other abused women. The back and forth with Liz gives Ressler and the gang time to rescue her and Tracy it turns out because Liz has her in a chokehold with her thighs when they arrive, perilously close to killing her the way that Tom killed the harbormaster, which causes her to have flashbacks.

She tells Ressler she needs to turn herself in. Ressler points out the many lives she's saved doing this job and when that doesn't work he points out that the task force will be shut down so if she won't do it for herself she should do it for her colleagues and the future victims that will die because of it. She is still not convinced which pisses him off.

Aram traced the number for Red and when he and Dembe go to the address they find a bloody crime scene and the dead man's phone but no body.

Det. Wilcox brings Sam to tell his story to the U.S. Attorney and he recants, thus Red has saved the day for Liz. Later, Liz watches from her car as Wilcox gives a homeless man enough money to rent a room for the night since it is freezing and snowing.

She later meets Red at a coffee shop and they agree that they were both half right about the Deer Hunter. She tells him she has the Fulcrum and if he tells her what it is she will tell him where to find it. He says if he does she'll be in danger. She asks what he did regarding the harbormaster but he won't say, no one was hurt and in fact one man's life was saved. She goes to walk away and he says he knows why she doesn't want to give him the Fulcrum because she's afraid that once he has it she will no longer be of use to him and he will go away.