The Blacklist Season 10 Episode 8 The Troll Farmer (II)
The task force investigates a series of social media conspiracies that simulate dangerous public attacks. When a top-secret government program is stolen, the team works to uncover the Troll Farmer’s involvement.
We open on a gender stereotype — I mean, we open on an inept Dad making a school-banned peanut butter sandwich for his son because Mom is working the overnight shift at the hospital. Say hello to Graham Flynn (Colin Moss), congressional aide and unwitting patsy.
Flynn finds out from friends and social media that the hospital is on lockdown, so he rushes over. His wife lets him know that not only is she fine, but there was never any real danger. The entire event was staged on social media. “Who would do this?” she asks.
We know exactly who, and not only because it’s the name of the episode.
Take a trip with me, folks, back to the season 3 premiere. Elizabeth and Red (James Spader) were on the run after she killed the Attorney General; Dembe’s (Hisham Tawfiq) granddaughter was kidnapped over the Fulcrum; Cooper (Harry Lennix) was being held for helping Elizabeth; and, worst of all, Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff) was in charge. It was dark times!
In the middle of all that was a Blacklister named the Troll Farmer, aka Bo Chang (Aaron Yoo), whose team creates fake chaos events on social media to cover up crime. Red turned him into Ressler in exchange for getting Elizabeth some consideration.
Now, a newly released Chang is working for Wujing (Chin Han). We see him at the hospital breaking into Flynn’s car to steal his congressional badge.
Chang and his team use the badge to infiltrate the location of a highly secret meeting between Flynn, the congressperson he works for, and NSA agents.
There, Agent Rod Thieman (Donnie Keshawarz) is demonstrating a multi-billion-dollar project called HexRoot, an advanced malware system deployed from a single briefcase that can infiltrate any cyber security in the world. I have no idea if HexRoot is spelled that way, all smooshed together, but it totally is, right?
Setting off a Troll Farm attack, Chang forces the meeting to evacuate and efficiently steals HexRoot. He would have gotten away with it, too, if not for a meddling observer at the hospital who told the Task Force about somebody breaking into a car.
Putting Red’s information about the Troll Farmer working with Wujing together with the car theft, the Task Force is hot on Chang’s trail. They arrive at the meeting only moments too late.
The Blacklist
Season Number: 10
Episode Number: 8
Episode Title: The Troll Farmer (II)
Air Date: Apr 16, 2023
Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
Source: The.Blacklist.S10E08.1080p.WEB.H264-GGWP
