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Cats & Dogs

The theme of cats and dogs in this show.  Pt. 1 of 2, with random images.

Red likes both cats and dogs, but I believe he prefers cats. He has a cat in his second-story flat. 

Liz likes both cats and dogs, but I believe she prefers cats. 

Ressler in 2x17:  "At least you’ve got a dog. That’s one up on me."

Liz hasn’t had Hudson since she was framed and went on the run. 

She gets to meet Red’s cat in Leonard Caul. 

Liz in 2x19: “Hey, sweetheart. Hi, kitty.”

Aram gives us a cat video in 4x13.

Carla is a dog person, as is Jennifer. In 2x1, we see a dog drawing behind Frank, but also a picture of a cat by her kitchen door, and she has a subscription to CatFanatic. "I had a life, you know? My daughter had a life with a house and a dog. And then I woke up one day."  In 2x4, she ends up with Monica’s dog. 

I believe Kirk is a dog person. 

There’s a childrens book about a dog in the Summer Palace. 

Cats, Dogs, and Dialogues. 

Red in 1x2: “Italian dog born with two heads." Red in 1x4: "Dogs are not our whole life, but they do make some lives whole."

The Stewmaker has a dog.

The Courier's father started putting him in dog fights when he was 11.  

Red in 1x7: "The second, vaporized by a drone in Quetta, courtesy of your colleagues in the five-sided foxhole."

In 1x8: Nathaniel Wolff.

Garrick in 1x9: Tabletop to blue wolf. Send a short chalk back to the armory.

In 1x12- Liz: Tassels? Is that her dog? Ressler: No, it’s the guy. He’s a hedge-fund guy. Pink shirt, loafers with those tassels.

In 1x13, Flounder the dog finds Kate Ellison's body.

In 1x15, Connolly speaks to Liz: "Harold’s been telling me what a great agent you are. Dog with a bone."

In 1x17, Red speaks of Kate: "Your ability to locate a crime scene never ceases to amaze. You’re like a human bloodhound."

Red in 1x19: "I had a water pump go out in Pagosa Springs. Bitch of a mountain Wolf Creek Pass."

Red in 1x22: "Oh, my goodness, no. I’m not a monster. You really think I’d harm a dog?"

Red of Samar in 2x1: "Effectively turning every earth-toned Zegna tie into a homing device. Brilliant. Just like a bloodhound."

Red in 2x5: "You’re the most gifted tracker I know, Glen, but your mouth runs like a scalded dog."

In 2x6, Red is watching a program on tv about tigers in India.

Red speaking of Berlin in 2x8: "Well, now your dog is tracking a new scent."

The F-22 pilot in 2x9: "Paper-Dog, we are 10-zero minutes from primary target."

Ressler in 2x11: "She’s having room service. What, are you in the doghouse?"

Judge Denner in 2x15: So indicated. That said, I fail to understand how a routine grand jury investigation into a local homicide justifies a dog-and-pony show of such dramatic proportions.

Liz in 2x15: "I had a very simple life. A husband I loved, a dog."

Judge Denner speaking of Connolly in 2x16: "Well, well, well. Reven Wright said that Main Justice would be sending an attack dog."

Red in 3x2: "Becky from the old firm? The paralegal. Oh, my God. You old dog."

Caul in 3x4: "Had to dig out my Agency rolodex to find someone who recognized him. Name’s Matias Solomon - a real lone wolf."

Ressler in 3x6: "The Director gave his attack dogs the real address so they could get Halmi and kill Reddington and Keen."

The Director of Red in 3x9: "Follows you around like a faithful bloodhound. But you still don’t know?"

In 3x11. Janet Macnamara has dogs: "First thing tomorrow, you will inform your superiors that the trauma of today’s experience was such that you have re-ordered your priorities and wish to spend more time with Bob, Tyler, and the dogs."

Red in 3x12: "My, God. Gerald, burying your business in the dirt like a dog. How the mighty have fallen."

In 3x13 & 3x14. Alistair Pitt loves his two dogs. They end up with Glen.

Ressler in 3x13: "I hate magicians. That and lap dogs. I mean, I really hate lap dogs."

Aram in 3x17: "I was gonna lose a few pounds to fit in my new slim-fit suit, which is houndstooth, by the way..."

Red in 3x21: "Laurel’s as crooked as a dog’s hind leg."

Red in 3x23: "Agent Ressler. Aren’t you the dog on a scent?"

The Hunter has a dog. When he first saves Kate, he keeps her chained up like a dog. 

Aram in 4x5: "And in addition to two PTA presidents and an amazing doggy daycare-"

Red in 4x7: "Willie Adair. Back home they call him “Barking Mad Willie.” He has this pack of absolutely voracious wolf hounds."

In 4x7, one of Dr. Adrian Shaw's victims is named Mr. Fox

Wendy in 4x9: "You wanna help? Come and fold some laundry. I gotta go. Lazy Bones just barfed in the kitchen."

Red in 4x9: "It’s up to you, Robert. Would you prefer to be in the White House or the doghouse?"

In 4x11- Emma: Well, this should help. Hair of the dog. Liz: Oh, that wasn’t a dog. That was a wooly mammoth.

Red's story of Kate's sister in 4x11: “They didn’t count on Dodger’s call to nature. So Maureen had a choice between remaining silent or doing the right thing. She chose to testify. And while she helped to bring Alexei Lagunov to justice, she also forfeited the rest of her life in doing so. She’s on that list.”

Sam has a dog named Gordo in 4x17.

Annie in 4x17: “Hope you don’t mind. I need saving from the wolves. If I had a hose, I’d spray ’em down.”

Ex-Con in 4x17. Spoke of Mato: "There’s no reason for Nikos to send his dog Mato after me. That psychopath just broke my brother’s jaw lookin’ for me."

Kate in 4x17: "I kept my word to you. When you hired me, you told me to choose Elizabeth over you. And so I tried to help her disappear to a safe place with her newborn daughter. And for that, you put me down like a mad dog."

Gale in 4x18: "There was no unaccounted-for DNA anywhere. It all belonged to Fowler and to Teacup, her uh, her dog. Watch out. Pomeranians have tiny bladders."

Red in 4x19: "I must admit, I’ve always been somewhat seduced by the idea. Bill Miner, the old gray fox."

Kate in 4x19: "Oh, Raymond. You may have bitten the hand that feeds you this time, dearie. Every one of Werner’s allies will be out hunting to put you down. Are you going to cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war, Raymond?"

Red in 4x21: "Incentive - the currency of politicians, dog trainers, and criminals."

In Soundtracks that I know of-

In 4x12, Heartbeats by José González gives a wolf reference.

In 4x17, Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover by Sadie B Hawkins gives a dog reference.

In 2x9, Blood on My Name by The Brothers Bright references hounds of hell.

Tom’s dog references will be posted in pt 2, since there are so many. 

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Tom & Dogs

The theme of dogs in this show. Pt. 2 of 2.

Hudson. 

I believe Hudson was more Tom’s dog than Liz’s. 

In 1x1-

Liz: Is this pee? I’m standing in pee, babe. Tom: He’s your dog, too. Liz: Yeah, thanks a lot. I’m gonna smell like a urinary tract infection on my first day!

In 1x5-

Tom: Get her, Hudson! Get her!

Liz had Hudson up until she was framed. Ressler mentioned her dog in 2x17. Liz went on the run, Tom took off on his boat. 

Tom is the one who brought Hudson back in 3x12, and as far as I know, he hasn’t been seen since.

Tom: If you don’t want to do it for us, then do it for our kid. Liz: Our– our kid? Tom: Mm-hmm. Come here, buddy! Hey, there he is, Hudson!

If I were to guess, I’d say Ellie has him. 

Wile E. Coyote.

Garrick in 1x9: "Do you remember that Road Runner cartoon where the Coyote makes the mountain of TNT and gunpowder barrels?"

Road Runner is a cuckoo bird. This brings me to cuckoo clocks. 

Red in 4x2: “After I shoot you, sir, you will be locked in an airtight, concrete crypt, unless you tell me what I need to know before those figures stop dancing.”

Red in 4x13:  “You’ll find your time with her goes by too quickly. That’s why cuckoo clocks are perfect. I don’t really care what time it is. I just want to hear the birds sing.”

Wile E. Coyote is also an enemy of Bugs Bunny.

Agnes in 4x2, wearing a bunny outfit. 

Agnes’ crib mobile in 4x7.

The Hen House.

The Major in 2x17: “My uncle was a farmer. He had a beautiful border collie- smart, well-trained, loyal as hell- but one summer, that dog, he got into the hen house, killed half the chickens. My uncle loved that dog, but he knew he had to be put down.”

Agnes would more likely be considered a chick, and Liz, a hen. In 1x18, “Craig Keen” refers to Liz as a chick: “This chick is smart.”

A deleted scene from S3 gives us a dog drawing above Agnes’ bassinet. 

Soundtrack for 1x11: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash.  “Then the father hen will call his chickens home.”

Dog-Eat-Dog World.

In 2A, Tom is chained up like a dog, kept prisoner on a ship by Liz. 

Tom in 3x5: "Human dog fighting. People die.You don’t want to bet on that."

Tom and Asher chained up like dogs in 3x6.

In 3x8, Tom puts Karakurt’s tracking chip in the collar of a man’s dog. 

Gina in 3x13: “This is Mr. Fox, our inside man.”

This one feeds to Dr. Adrian Shaw’s episode. One of her victims is named Mr. Fox. 

Tom feeding a dog donuts in 3x23.

Tom in 4x3: “Time for our feeding?”

Red’s response: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. He’s here for your protection.

This one feeds to Kate in 4x19: “Oh, Raymond. You may have bitten the hand that feeds you this time, dearie.”

I believe this is a deleted scene from 4x11.

In 4x12, Tom gives this guy a wolf whistle. 

This feeds to my whistlers theory post, which can be found here.

Soundtrack from 4x12: Heartbeats by José González “And you, kept us awake with wolf teeth.”

Red in 4x17: “As I feared would happen, elements from Katarina’s past are circling Elizabeth like a pack of wolves in the night. I put Tom Keen in her life to keep an eye on her, and he married her.”