#Mr. Kate Kaplan

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I hope Reddington, Kate, and Dembe know that this is what they look like

[allmyandroids]

Raymond Reddington

Season 4 Episode 17 - Requiem

[magnetic-rose]

billy would never go by maximoff omfg mcu mischaracterizing my favorite character feels so bad lmao.

[katarinas-redemption]

[sunflowerphotodoesentpost]

Reddington and Mr Kaplan

[derangedbutfun]

OMG IS MR KAPLAN STILL ALIVE

[jokey05]

To come back to the Tommy post I made months ago but my ADHD brain decided to ignore, basically my HC is that the organisation who was trying to make him a weapon is related to orchis/hydra and Tommy didn't escape but was actually allowed to go with the YA as long as he gave some information back, and they also continued to give him missions. He agreed because the test were really awful and they also blackmailed him with his family and friends still inside the juvie, plus he has a sorta of toxic mentor-mentee relationship with the Main Villain Lady. Naturally the longest he stayed with the YA the longer he felt guilty, that's why he never sticks around a lot and tries to save more people possible. The only people who have suspicions are Eli Bradley (who in my HC became an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D), Cassie Lang, the Jones (HC he also babysit Danielle a lot), Rebecca Kaplan, Kate Bishop and both Pietro and Wanda,even if nobody really knows the whole truth, and they are kinda protecting him because we all know how the superhero community would treat him otherwise. Anyway right now the Main Villan Lady is dead and since everything was Top Secret , Tommy is now free to enjoy life and fix everything he did under control. But he needs to be extra careful because he was like The Top Spy, so he has everybody in the lookout for him, but he is managing. Right now he is living with Mr P (and secretly another couple of his friends he rescued) tryng to learn magic, working and tryng to escape Eli who is the only one who knows everything and has connected the dots.

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Extended credits for Museum at Tomorrow episode 5

Below the cut are all of the folks who I used (and asked to be credited) for recordings in Museum at Tomorrow episode 5- specifically, the "This is not for You" recordings.

(The list was too long for podcast episode descriptions)

These recordings were mixed into the soundscape of the show, heavily processed- so you may or may not be able to pick out your voice. Each unique recording is preserved as rhythem, timber, and shape within the episode.

Thank you for your work in creating the canvas of this piece.

Kate Bullen

K R Forsyth

Vega Jacobsen

Charlie

Rovi

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Wesley Lee Balete

Charlie Sloykowski

JC Hendry

Courtney Brothers

Arabella McDonald

Hanc Finestra

Katie H

Galacticguppy 

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GreenHeronHive

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Carley Mothersell

woaaah

cmt

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Ace

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  Bates

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Tani

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Halebop

Malia Northstar

Greg Ruddick

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Jessamy Thomison 

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Lucian

[docrotten]

XTRO (1982) – Episode 266 – Decades of Horror 1980s

“Stay in the car. …  Stay In The Car! … GET BACK IN THE CAR!!” No one ever follows directions in horror movies. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Crystal Cleveland, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out more of Lucio Fulci’s innovative deaths in Xtro (1982).

Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 266 – Xtro (1982)

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Gruesome Magazine is partnering with the WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL (https://wickedhorrortv.com/) which now includes video episodes of Decades of Horror 1980s and is available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, and its online website across all OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop.

An alien creature impregnates a woman who gives birth to a man who was abducted by aliens three years ago. The man reconnects with his wife and son for a sinister purpose.

Directed by: Harry Bromley Davenport

Writing Credits: Iain Cassie, Robert Smith; (story by) Harry Bromley Davenport, Michel Parry; Jo Ann Kaplan (additional dialogue “Americanized”)

Produced by: 

Robert Shaye (executive producer)

Mark Forstater (producer)

James Crawford (associate producer) (as James M. Crawford)

Music by: Harry Bromley Davenport

Cinematography by: John Metcalfe

Special Effects by:

Tom Harris (mechanical effects / special effects supervisor)

Francis Coates (Creature Effects)

Selected Cast:

Philip Sayer as Sam Phillips

Bernice Stegers as Rachel Phillips

Danny Brainin as Joe Daniels

Maryam d’Abo as Analise Mercier

Simon Nash as Tony Phillips

Peter Mandell as Clown

David Cardy as Michael

Anna Wing as Mrs. Goodman

Robert Fyfe as Doctor

Katherine Best as Jane

Robert Pereno as Ben

Sean Crawford as Commando (credited as Tok)

Tim Dry as Monster (credited as Tik)

Susie Silvey as Woman in Cottage

Arthur Whybrow as Mr. Knight

Anna Mottram as eacher

Robert Austin as Van Driver

Vanya Seager as Paula Phillips

Xtro (1982) is one of those movies. Either you love it… or you say, “WTF?” Or maybe both! Luckily, the 80s Grue-Crew are joined by guest host Dirk Rogers, an Xtro fan, to help sort out the mess and to point out why he likes it so much. It took a while for the crew to get the finer points, so you’ll have to check out the episode to see if any of Dirk’s teachings sink in. 

The film depicts an alien impregnating human women with a “plunger” appendage and giving an eleven-year-old boy the power to bring anything he can imagine into reality. How could one expect anything but a five-ring circus?

At the time of this writing, Xtro is available on physical media as an all-region import Blu-ray formatted disc from Second Sight Films. 

Every two weeks, Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1980s podcast will cover another horror film from the 1980s. The next episode’s film, chosen by Bill, will be Death Ship (1980)! Co-written by Jack Hill (Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told; 1967) and starring George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso, Sally Ann Howes, Kate Reid, and Victoria Burgoyne. Yo, baby!

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans – so leave them a message or comment on the Gruesome Magazine Youtube channel, on the Gruesome Magazine website, or email the Decades of Horror 1980s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com.

Check out this episode!

[allmyandroids]

[ace-of-spaders]

[katarinas-redemption]

The mystery of Red’s connection to Elizabeth Keen was solvable in Season 4. The key episodes are Mato, Adrian Shaw Conclusion, and Requiem.

The Blacklist first look: Mr. Kaplan's ties to Red revealed — first look

Source: Entertainment Weekly, Natalie Abrams

“In the episode titled ‘Requiem,’ we get to step back in time and see Reddington through the lens of what is essentially an origin story,” executive producer Jon Bokenkamp tells EW. “It’s a really compelling hour that involves Young Liz, her mother Katerina, her adopted father Sam Milan and, of course, Mr. Kaplan. In this photo, we see Mr. Kaplan putting on her ‘cleaner gloves’ for the very first time.”

The Blacklist unveils a shocking amount of backstory

Source: Entertainment Weekly, Natalie Abrams

"It turns out, Kaplan was more than just a cleaner for Red, but once acted as the caretaker for a young Masha, a.k.a. Liz Keen (Megan Boone), working for Katarina Rostova (Lotte Verbeek) and eventually uncovered that she's a Russian spy and becoming her cleaner."

In 4.02 we learned for the first time that Mr. Kaplan’s history with Red went as far back as to when Liz was just an infant. This was the episode where Red shoots Kate for betraying him. During the episode and before he shoots her which she knows is coming… Mr. Kaplan explains to Red that she only betrayed him because of an agreement they had made back when Liz was a baby for which Red insisted she always put Liz first. She mentions an incident that happened with “Annie” way back when. At one point Red tells Kate that he “was away”. All of this backstory dialogue was pretty vague and didn’t give too much insight. But in the episode Requiem, all of this is explained. We get to see Baby Liz in Kaplan’s arms. We see the promises made to keep Liz safe. We saw the incident with Annie and Kate. We learned how Mr. Kaplan got her name. We saw Katarina call Kate from Cape May to tell her she was going "away". Etc...

In short, the episode of Requiem will MOSTLY feature Katarina and Mr. Kaplan. The younger Mr. Kaplan is played by Joanna Adler. Susan Blommarert of course plays the Mr. Kaplan we all know.

Susan Blommaert 

And just like the episode of Nachalo, the story in Requiem is ABOUT RED in the flashbacks but who we see onscreen is Katarina played by Lotte Verbeek. This is because Red was formerly Katarina Rostova who took on the identity of Raymond Reddington.

The lines:

4x02 - Mr. Kaplan: Do you remember what I looked like that night? Lying in the street, my head torn open… Annie’s body in front of me. Red: You know I don’t know what you looked like. I was away.

The explanation: 1. The episode Requiem will introduce the story of Annie and how Kate met her. The episode will feature the very scene that Kate referred to. We see her lying in the street, head torn open… Annie’s body in front of her. Bonus: We finally learn how Kate got her name “Mr. Kaplan”. We are also shown the tragic scene of both Annie and Kate being shot. Annie dies. 2. Red’s line about him being away is explained by the scene where Katarina calls Kate at the motel from Cape May and tells her she is “going away”.

4x02 - Kate: Do you remember…? Red: You know I don’t know what you liked like….

When Kate said: Do you remember…? Red’s response wasn’t that he did not know her back then. Instead, he told her he was away. They knew each other. Also, there is no reason for Kate to ask Red in the first place if he remembers anything unless she knew Red during this time frame. What is important here is that the event of Annie and Kate getting shot at Little Nikkos happened BEFORE Red approached Mr. Kaplan to work for him. And yet: Kate to Red: Work for you? I don't know you. She thought he was the real RR. But anyway, the part where Red said he was away is explained by the phone call from Katarina to Kate from Cape May. She tells Kate she's going away.

4.17 Mr. Kaplan: Work for you? I don’t know you.

Red: I’m not as unknown as you might like to believe, Ms. Nemec.

Kate believes that Red is the real Raymond Reddington. That is who he is presenting himself as after all. The explanation for Red’s line that he’s not as unknown as she might like to believe means that Kate does not yet know that Red is Katarina disguised. Red is known to her. Afterall he did put Baby Liz in her arms 10 years prior.

4x02 - Kate: I’m not sorry for what I did. I betrayed you for the same reason I just betrayed Nikos– to keep Elizabeth safe, just like you asked me to all those years ago, when you first put her in my arms as a baby girl, only now she has a baby girl of her own, and your existence in their lives puts them in constant danger.

- to keep Elizabeth safe, just like you asked me to all those years ago, Requiem explains this line in the scene where Mr. Kaplan is in the nursery with the baby and Katarina walks in. 1. Note: that the song Kate is singing has the lines: You are safe, you are loved. You are wise. I think this was an intentional little nugget by the writers. 2. The scene ends with Kate telling Katarina that she would do anything to protect her baby. Kathryn: I told you. I have a pact with your daughter. I will do everything in my power to keep her safe. And her mother.

- “And her mother”: aka Red. 

- when you first put her in my arms as a baby girl, This line is explained by the same scene when Mr. Kaplan is in the nursery. Though we do not see Katarina handing the baby to Mr. Kaplan's arms and asking her to keep her safe, (that would be TOO obvious). Perhaps the show decided to do the reverse as a clever clue to cover the handling of the baby. That said, in the scene, they do show Baby Liz in Kaplan’s arms. In the scene, Mr. Kaplan even mentions “in my arms”. 

- Baby Girl, We can infer by Mr. Kaplan’s reference [“only now she has a baby girl of her one”] to Agnes being a baby that Liz was not a little girl but a baby when Red put her in Mr. Kaplan’s arms.

The timeline

30 years

Mr. Kaplan: Wrong. You have me. Raymond thinks he out maneuvered me today, but he underestimated my commitment. I’ve been his cleaner, keeper, and confessor for 30 years, and I’m prepared to tell you everything you need to know in open court.

(2017 - 30 = 1987. Liz was born in 1985 though she looks under a year old in Requiem.)

Two decades

Mr. Kaplan: For the last two decades of my life, you had me convinced I was helping keep Elizabeth safe. But in reality, I was helping you become a monster.

(2017 - 20 = This is when she started working for Red.)

This wasn't a part of Mato but the messy situation Red talked to Kate about in Requiem is about the "mess" in the kitchen. Red knows about it because he's Katarina.

Also not a part of Mato but Requiem revealed Katarina was burned on her back.

“Ultimately this is a ‘chosen one’ story. Elizabeth Keen is clearly incredibly important to Red. Why? That’s what we’re slowly revealing over time, and trust me, the answers are all there. - Jon Bokenkamp interview with EW post episode 4.08;

[thenopetrain]

OKAY WHAT ABOUT KAPLAN?!

Did they just...not tell her? Why wouldn’t Katerina, if she were Red, take Kate aside and be like “hi it’s me. stop this revenge plot. pls and thank.”

KATE ADORED KATERINA. I’m gonna lose my mind :|

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[fedoraxcrowned]

He knows she's there even before he fully comes to – can recognize the smell of her perfume and the sound of her voice ( hushed now in conversation with… Kate?.. and… Dembe? ) on a subconscious level at this point – and for one single precious moment allows himself to simply bask in the comfort of her presence… before the inextinguishable worry about her safety, fueled further by the recent events, will rise up to the forefront of his hazy mind once again.

❝ Cassie… ❞ her name is but a breath on Red's lips – pained yet intensely relieved ( there were moments the last time he was awake – with lead in his chest and copper in his mouth – when he thought that he might not get another chance to see her… and that possibility scared him more than his own death ) – as beloved features come into focus, his own expression soft and open both in the exhausted and adoring ways...

...before the moment passes and brow furrows lightly, tone going for admonishing but falling short, words coming out weary and drawn-out, ❝ You shouldn't be here. ❞

And yet, he's reaching weakly for her hand, his yearning heart in eternal conflict with rational mind.

@flyingupward​ ( Cass ) gets a random starter set during 2.19 in our verse where Red and Cass were together since mid-1st season because I kept coming back to this idea for months and finally decided to do something about it