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: Living the Silicon Valley dream (or nightmare) with a cybersecurity startup called Flagify.

The Phoenix and the Pirate: A New Era for The Blacklist For eight years, The Blacklist was defined by the singular, often toxic, gravitational pull between Raymond Reddington and Elizabeth Keen. When Keen was gunned down in the Season 8 finale, the show faced a literal and figurative identity crisis. Season 9, Episode 1, "The Skinner," serves as a bold, if divisive, "soft reboot". By jumping two years into the future, the premiere successfully sheds the weight of Liz’s convoluted past to explore a world where the "Task Force" is no longer a job, but a trauma-bonded family forced back into the light. A World Scattered The SkinnerThe Blacklist : Season 9 Episode 1

The most compelling aspect of "The Skinner" is the "where are they now" reveal of the disbanded Task Force. The episode finds the characters in starkly different, often surprising, states of life: : Living the Silicon Valley dream (or nightmare)

: In perhaps the most drastic shift, he is a bearded auto-mechanic in Detroit, still deeply haunted by Liz's death. The Blacklist Season 9 Episode 1 Review: The Skinner Season 9, Episode 1, "The Skinner," serves as

: Now a retired guardian to Liz’s daughter, Agnes.

: A field agent turned domestic trainer, hiding her past from a new husband.