The Blacklist (TV Series)

Marvin Gerard (No. 80): Conclusion Pt. 2 (2022)

Fisher Stevens: Marvin Gerard

Quotes 

• Marvin Gerard : You always were a great strategist, Raymond.

  Raymond 'Red' Reddington : You were always a great consigliere.

• Harold Cooper : There's no deal coming, Marvin. We don't need your cooperation. We have Raymond, and he can tell us anything you know.

  Marvin Gerard : He can, but he won't. You're a puppet. The federal government sees 1% of the Reddington organization, the 1% he allows you to see. The rest, the full scope of what we built together, is a criminal masterpiece the likes of which you, respectfully, don't have the talent to comprehend.

• Marvin Gerard : I'm not interested in damaging Raymond Reddington. I'm interested in replacing him.

• Raymond 'Red' Reddington : What a sad end to our association, our friendship.

  Marvin Gerard : Is that what I hear in your voice, Raymond? Sadness?

  Raymond 'Red' Reddington : In part. For what it's worth, Marvin, I understand your turn of events. The betrayal is unforgivable and you'll die for it, but it's understandable. After all, my feelings for Elizabeth weren't always rational. I was often emotional rather than pragmatic, and you weren't entirely wrong to wonder if Elizabeth was capable or worthy of running things. Not entirely wrong, or even slightly. Still, however subjective my decision was, the objective truth is that it was mine to make. You voiced your objections.

  Marvin Gerard : You'd already made up your mind.

  Raymond 'Red' Reddington : And once the choice was made, it was your obligation to live with it, Marvin.

  Marvin Gerard : Even if it meant watching everything we built crumble before my eyes?

  Raymond 'Red' Reddington : Yes.

• Raymond 'Red' Reddington : Out of respect for our history, I'm going to give you what you never gave Elizabeth, a chance to leave this world in whatever way you choose, a chance to make it painless, to put your affairs in order and say goodbye to those who would grieve your passing.

  Marvin Gerard : And if I refuse?

  Marvin Gerard : Then you and I would get the answer to a question I've been asking myself since the night Elizabeth died, what will I do to the person responsible? How dark is the blackness at the center of this hole in my heart? I'm not sure I really want to know that, Marvin, but if need be, we'll find out together.

• Marvin Gerard : My offer is simple. He's out. I'm in. I get his deal, and in exchange, I continue to provide Main Justice with a steady stream of criminals you don't even know exist.

  Cynthia Panabaker : And what happens to Reddington?

  Cynthia Panabaker : That's the best part. Main Justice gets what it always wanted, arrest him. Drop him in a hole somewhere.