Watch The Kingmaker (No. 42)

When a prominent Czech politician is arrested after waking up in a room with a dead male escort, Red suspects the work of Malcolm Royce – aka the Kingmaker – a Blacklist target who's spent years identifying young political prospects and then doing whatever it takes – even committing murder – to ensure their rise to power. Warned by billionaire Nico Demarkis that the Czech senator's problems are part of a plot aimed at undermining their mutual business interests in Prague, Red tells Liz of the Kingmaker's impending arrival in the U.S. and asks that he be arrested. Yet as the FBI struggles to find him, the Kingmaker engineers a car accident that allows Patrick Chandler, a first-term New York state assemblyman he's grooming for higher office, to be a hero by saving his daughter from drowning even as the wreck kills his wife. Meanwhile, after Liz's examination of Tom's safe deposit box reveals that Red was at the hospital when her father died, Aram finds clues suggesting he may have actual