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May 19, 2017 · It was a foregone conclusion that only one person would survive the final showdown between Red Reddington (James Spader) and his former right-hand woman, Mr. Kaplan (Susan Blommaert), on The...
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Apr 19, 2021 · The Blacklist welcomes back Mr. Kaplan, played by Susan Blommaert, in Friday's episode, titled "Misère." A retrospective look at key events that led to Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) aligning...
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Kathryn Nemec had worked for Raymond Reddington for over 20 years, having officially been missing as of 1991. Known only by her alias “Mr. Kaplan”, her first name was revealed to be Kate in “Monarch Douglas Bank”. She is often seen helping Red dispose of bodies and clean up crime scenes. Kate is very proficient with firearms and seen carrying a Smi...
“Anslo Garrick: Conclusion”
Red gave Elizabeth Keencontact details for Kate while they were in the ambulance. After Liz had killed one of the men spying on her and Tom Keen, she called Kate rather than the FBI. Liz was surprised when a woman arrived, but Kate quickly took charge and arranged for the cleaning of the site and the disposal of the body. Kate then organized the raid on a possible location for Red, which is led by Baz while Dembe Zumaguards Kate and Liz.
“The Cyprus Agency”
She is called by Red to clean up the crime scene after he killed Diane Fowler. He apologized for the mess, but she said that she had been cleaning up after him for a long time.
“Ivan”
Kate meets up with Red and Dembe to show them her discovery of the deceased bodies of Lucy Brooks and the Cowboy, further proving his suspicions of Tom Keen. Red states that Kate is a “bloodhound” when it comes to locating corpses. Red tells her to cover it up the same way it was buried and he will decide the next course of action.
“Monarch Douglas Bank”
In this episode we learn Kate's first name when she arrives to clean up 3 of Red's murders. She is disturbed with him and says so which causes him to lash out at her, calling her “Kate”, telling her to do her job. He apologizes moments later knowing that she is only concerned with his recent spree of deaths she has had to clean up after.
“Dr. James Covington”
Liz asks for Kate's help in examining corpses to avoid the difficulty of obtaining legal warrants. She determines all 4 are missing their lungs and hearts while 3 are also missing livers because the fourth's was too sick to be sold on the black market. Kate states that she was sleeping with a coroner's sister from Des Moines in the past after Red remembers sharing reuben soup with the Kate and the coroner.
“The Decembrist”
Red tells Liz that Kate is helping to clean up the body of Eugene Ames.
“Arioch Cain”
Red called Kate cleanup a massacre of Cabal operatives at an airstrip perpetuated by Reddington and Dembe, including Vargas. While there, she makes it to look like Liz was killed to lure out the personwho put a bounty on her head. After she was done with the fake photo, she cleaned up and disposed the bodies.
“The Director: Conclusion”
Kate is seen at a meeting with Reddington's associates and the FBI task force members running the security measures and listening as Reddington explains his plan to take down the Cabal to exonerate Liz. She accompanies Red to the 8th floor of a building Red is renovating to look exactly like the 6th floor that Peter Kotsiopulosgoes to with his wife for marital therapy. When Kate notices a figurine on the 6th that cannot be duplicated, Reddington advises her to get a bowl of apples to replace...
“Mr. Gregory Devry”
Kate is seen running with 3 cleaners that work for her to clean up a quadruple murder when two men come in and kill her team leaving Kate. They let her live to deliver a message to her boss: “they know”. After she tells Red she leaves and warns Liz that he is in a bad mood. After Red kills the man responsible, Marcus Caligiuri, Kate thanks him and reassures him he won't lose Liz.
“Esteban”
Examining the scene, Kate determines that a blood pool on the floor belongs to one of Kirk's men and suggests going after him to find Kirk. Kate tries to appeal to Dembe for what she did, but he rebuffs her saying he is not on her side on this. They eventually track him down to a nightclub with a secret ER in the back, but arrive to find he already died of his wounds. Kate watches as Red saws off the man's head off while criticizing Kate for her sloppy plan and his distrust of her. Kate is la...
“Mato”
Tom comes on the crash site and helps Kate out of the car and she tell them she recognized Mato her time with Little Nikos. Red flew with Kate, Tom and Dembe and apologizes to Tom for what she did, but Tom says he would do again. Kate attempts to reason that she should talk to Nikos, but Red refuses, stating he will get the information through torture if he needs to. Kate pleads that Nikos helped her after Annie died and should be treated with kindness and respect, Red simply insists he talks...
“Miles McGrath”
Kate struggles to survive after being shot and drags herself to a stream for a drink of water when a dog leads a hunter to her location. Kate is last seen being dragged on a stretcher to an unknown location by the hunter.
“Greyson Blaise”
One of Kaplan's associates, Albert Dennison, is found by Tom, tied to a chair and tortured. Tom hides just as Dembe and Reddington enter, revealing they are responsible. Reddington asks where the suitcase is, only for Dennison to laugh before Reddington shoots him twice in the chest. Before he dies, he tells Tom to look for Oleander.
“The Kilgannon Corporation”
Reddington mentioned that during the war with Kaplan, she destroyed his human smuggling networks and the Kilgannonstook over his routes.
“Sutton Ross”
After discovering the truth about what is in the duffle bag of bones, Liz lists Kate as one of the people who died trying to reveal the truth to her: the bones belong to the real Raymond Reddingtonwho was truly killed by Liz when she was a kid while protecting her mother and was replaced by the man Liz has known all along as Reddington.
“16 Ounces”
Elizabeth Keenmentions the 86 corpses given to the FBI.
“Misere”
Nemec appears as a dream/vision to Keen.
“El Conejo”
Reddington’s safe maker, Heinrich Zimmerstahl, reveals a female ”Mr. Kaplan” duped him into building an identical safe, which allowed her to steal Reddington’s original safe, indirectly leading to Elizabeth Keen’s murder.
”Laszlo Jankowics”
Reddington investigates the possibility that Mr. Kaplan might actually be still alive, her body having been supposedly washed downriver and never recovered. However, he can't find any proof either way. At the end of the episode, a woman is seen that might be Mr. Kaplan.
”The Bear Mask”
After the building where the supposed Mr. Kaplan was waiting blew up, Reddington set out to determine if the body recovered from the explosion was indeed Kathryn Nemec. Reddington proceeds to obtain a sample of the body from the morgue, which he gives to Vladmir Ctevko to identify. Ctevko reveals that the DNA belonged to Kaplan's sister, Maureen Rowan, who was most likely lured to the building to draw Reddington into the open.
How many other people call Raymond Reddington“Dearie”?How long have Raymond Reddington and Kathryn Nemec known each other?What is the skill set needed to be a corpse locating “bloodhound”Is Kathryn Nemec a reference to Kateřina Němcová?May 19, 2017 · Mr. Kaplan has survived two gunshots to the head, cleaned up countless murders, and taken down the criminal empire of Raymond Reddington, but for perhaps the first time ever, here sitting with...
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Apr 29, 2022 · After Mr. Kaplan betrays Red by helping Liz fake her death, Red shoots Kaplan. However, Kaplan survives due to a metal plate in her head.
Mar 4, 2019 · So what happened to Mr Kaplan? While we were left thinking Kate might be dead after Red shot her, we learned at the start of Season 4 that a local hunter found her while she was still alive and nursed her back to health.
Apr 21, 2017 · On Thursday's midseason premiere of The Blacklist, Red ( James Spader) found out that the person who's trying to destroy him is none other than Mr. Kaplan ( Susan Blommaert ), the former...
