Raymond Reddington brings Elizabeth Keen a new Blacklister: the Bodysnatcher, an unnamed, unknown man who has turned kidnapping into an art form. But when Lizzie and the team move to intercept the Bodysnatcher, they discover that he is not their real target. Their real target is much more sinister and it will take all their strength and dedication to resist him - and to discover what Reddington is really after.

A massive fire on a bridge in West Texas: a tanker truck released its load and incinerated twenty-three cars and seventy-two people. A tragic accident, or something more sinister? Raymond Reddington reveals to Elizabeth Keen that this and many other horrific incidents in past years—seventy people killed in a warehouse fire in Turkey, a mine collapse in South Africa, 120 dead in a capsized ferry in Indonesia—were not the terrible accidents they seemed to be but were, in fact, collateral damage in a highly lucrative and deadly game known as The Dead Ring...

Raymond -Red- Reddington (James Spader), a former US Navy officer turned high-profile criminal, voluntarily surrenders to the FBI after eluding capture for decades. He tells the FBI that he has a list of the most dangerous criminals in the world called 'The Blacklist' and is willing to guide their operations in exchange for immunity. However, he insists on exclusively working with a rookie profiler by the name of Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone).