The Mombasa Cartel

"The Mombasa Cartel"
	The Blacklist episode
Episode no.	Season 2; Episode 6
Directed by	David Platt
Written by	Daniel Knauf
Production code	206
Original air date	October 27, 2014
Guest appearance(s)
	Hisham Tawfiq as Dembe Zuma; Phyllis Somerville as Skye Kincaid; Carel Struycken as Matthew Kincaid; Hal Ozsan as Ezra; David Aaron Baker as Peter Kincaid; Scottie Thompson as Zoe D'Antonio; James Chen as Lee Chung; Tom Kemp as Anchorage Sheriff; Peter Fonda as Geoff Perl;

"The Mombasa Cartel" is the sixth episode of the second season of the American crime drama The Blacklist. The episode premiered in the United States on NBC on October 27, 2014.

Plot

In the mid-1980s, a young African boy witnesses his family get massacred by a group of human traffickers before getting kidnapped by the same group in Sierra Leone. In the present day, one of the human traffickers gets kidnapped and sedated. His skinned body is stranded at a remote location in Kamchatka, Russia. Reddington identifies the group of human traffickers as the Mombasa Cartel, responsible for a large number of poachings of endangered wildlife. After getting a lead from a technology-based businessman, the Task Force arrests one of the Mombasa Cartel's business partners for further information to no avail. When attempted surveillance on the business partner has failed, a drug-addicted Ressler heads to a remote cabin in Anchorage, Alaska after getting a lead from the Task Force, only for him to be held prisoner by a small family responsible for kidnapping and preserving the bodies of the Mombasa Cartel members. While Liz and Samar lead a Hostage Rescue Team to rescue Ressler and apprehend the suspects, Reddington confronts the mastermind, Geoff Perl (Peter Fonda), in a remote hotel. Reddington reveals that the young boy was Dembe and recovers the full list of the Mombasa Cartel members before killing the mastermind. During the aftermath, Reddington makes an interaction with Jennifer, and it is revealed that Liz has held Tom prisoner in a remote cell for an undisclosed amount of time.

Reception

Ratings

"The Mombasa Cartel" premiered on NBC on October 27, 2014 in the 10–11 p.m. time slot.[1] The episode garnered a 2.5/7 Nielsen rating with 9.57 million viewers, making it the highest-rated show in its timeslot[2] and the sixteenth highest-rated television show of the week.[3]

Reviews

Jason Evans of The Wall Street Journal gave a mixed review of the episode, stating: "The big reveal behind the door wasn’t a surprise to most of us, but it was still fun to finally see Lizzie’s secret. I am sorta disappointed that the show didn’t do more with Peter Fonda as Geoff Pearl. It feels like they could have gotten just about anyone to play that role."[4]

Jodi Walker of Entertainment Weekly gave a positive review of the episode, noting that "the creep factor was high".[5] She went on to say: "As a Very Special Halloween Episode of The Blacklist, “The Mombasa Cartel” worked quite well."[5]

gollark: What *sort* of challenge?

gollark: Have each person provide a few sentences or paragraphs.

gollark: Why not cut out the middleman and directly crowdsource the book?

gollark: I read 1 and 2, and don't really like them either to be honest. The writing is kind of clunky, and it does a lot of "oh look, a problem appeared! The protagonist just solves it with [weird interaction of various items, used once then forgotten about]".

gollark: They should obviously specify distance in metres to 10 significant figures.

References

"Episode Title: (#206) "THE MOMBASA CARTEL"". The Futon Critic. 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
Bibel, Sara (2014-10-28). "Monday Final Ratings: 'The Voice' & 'Scorpion' Adjusted Up; 'Dancing With the Stars', 'Castle', 'The Millers' & 'The Blacklist' Adjusted Down". TV by the Numbers. Tribune Digital Ventures. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
Kondology, Amanda (2014-11-04). "TV Ratings Broadcast Top 25: 'Sunday Night Football' Tops Week 6 With Adults 18-49, While World Series Tops Total Viewers". TV by the Numbers. Tribune Digital Ventures. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
Evans, Jason (2014-10-27). "'The Blacklist' Recap: Season 2, Episode 6, 'The Mombasa Cartel'". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
Walker, Jodi (2014-10-28). "The Blacklist recap: 'The Mombasa Cartel'". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved 2015-06-06.

External links

"The Mombasa Cartel" on IMDb
"The Mombasa Cartel" at TV.com

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[1] "Episode Title: (#206) "THE MOMBASA CARTEL"". The Futon Critic. 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2015-06-06.

[2] Bibel, Sara (2014-10-28). "Monday Final Ratings: 'The Voice' & 'Scorpion' Adjusted Up; 'Dancing With the Stars', 'Castle', 'The Millers' & 'The Blacklist' Adjusted Down". TV by the Numbers. Tribune Digital Ventures. Retrieved 2015-06-06.

[3] Kondology, Amanda (2014-11-04). "TV Ratings Broadcast Top 25: 'Sunday Night Football' Tops Week 6 With Adults 18-49, While World Series Tops Total Viewers". TV by the Numbers. Tribune Digital Ventures. Retrieved 2015-06-06.

[The_Wall_Street_Journal_Review-4] Evans, Jason (2014-10-27). "'The Blacklist' Recap: Season 2, Episode 6, 'The Mombasa Cartel'". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. Retrieved 2015-06-06.

[Entertainment_Weekly_Review-5] Walker, Jodi (2014-10-28). "The Blacklist recap: 'The Mombasa Cartel'". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved 2015-06-06.