Aram enters the church to attempt to jam the signal to the explosives. There they learn of the group’s plans to plant bombs and steal the head of John the Baptist. Ressler and Dembe (Hisham Tawfiq) find the SPK’s hidden meeting spot. Stacey Keach as Vesco (Giovanni) in ‘The Blacklist’ Season 9 | Sony Pictures Television In the meantime, the SPK plot to blow up a church with IEDs. Vesco explains that he conned the group into criminal activity, making them believe that he burns the artifacts as an offering at the altar. Vesco is Red’s former mentor who stole quite a bit of money from him. The leader is revealed to be a man named Giovanni, aka Robert Vesco (Stacey Keach). Red attends an auction and bids $5 million on the belt to arrange a meeting with the leader of the SPK. A familiar face returns in ‘The Blacklist’ Season 9 Episode 3 In the hospital, his wife reveals to Ressler and Park that the SPK is a cult that her husband became tangled up in. The man ends up lighting himself on fire in an attempt to escape. Cooper briefs the task force and they head out to investigate.Īlina Park (Laura Sohn) and Donald Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff) confront a man suspected of wiring money to the criminals. Red tells Harold Cooper (Harry Lennix) that this group is known as the Supremo Priori Knighthood (SPK), a criminal group that steals and auctions off religious artifacts. They kill a security guard in the process. The episode opens in Prato Cathedral in Italy with a group of religious extremists stealing a belt worn by the Virgin Mary.
Stacey Keach as Vesco (Giovanni), James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington, and Diany Rodriguez as Weecha in ‘The Blacklist’ Season 9 | Sony Pictures Television Red helps the FBI track down a group of religious extremists