What is the significance of the Blacklist numbers?
The Blacklist is
"A list I've been cultivating for over 20 years."
— Raymond Reddington, The Blacklist, S1E1 "The Pilot"
The first subject on the list that Reddington tells the FBI about, is #52, Ranko Zamani. The next ten are, in the order Reddington hands them over, #145, #84, #161, #85, #152, #47, #109, #16, #106, #101.
If there is any order to the list, why is Reddington going through his list seemingly at random?
Is there any significance to the numbers a person on the list has?
And is there any significance to the order in which Reddington reveals them?
Best Answer
From an interview with Jon Bokenkamp (Creator/Executive Producer)
I know a few who, in the mythology of the show, will end up in the top 5. But, to be quite candid – Spader said this once – there are as many Blacklisters as there are episodes that NBC will let us do. There’s no hidden algorithm or method to the Blacklist numbering. But, they are sort of weighted. The Stewmaker might be off a bit because that was one of the first few episodes we did and he might be higher if we were doing his episode today. We do think a bit about it and wonder, “where does this guy fit? How would Red rank him?” So that’s how we come up with the numbers.
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What are the numbers at the start of blacklist?
The first subject on the list that Reddington tells the FBI about, is #52, Ranko Zamani. The next ten are, in the order Reddington hands them over, #145, #84, #161, #85, #152, #47, #109, #16, #106, #101.Who is No 1 in blacklist?
Members ChartNumber on The BlacklistNameNumber RevealedNumber 1Elizabeth Keen\u201cElizabeth Keen\u201dNumber 2TBA 1\u201cTBA 3\u201dNumber 3Tatiana Petrova\u201cKatarina Rostova\u201d \u201dKatarina Rostova: Conclusion\u201cNumber 4Kathryn Nemec\u201cMr. Kaplan\u201d \u201cMr. Kaplan: Conclusion\u201d104 more rowsWhy is n13 so important in blacklist?
N-13 is not a what but a who. In Episode 2, fans learn that the N stands for the word neopoznanny, which is the Russian word for unidentified. The 13 signifies the 13 packets of intel that the operative stole from Lubyanka Square in 1990.What number is Reddington on the blacklist?
Raymond "Red" Reddington is a former government agent, presumed to be a member of the United States Navy, and number 4 on the FBI's Most Wanted List.The Blacklist : Season 1 To 9 Explained - Everything You Need To Know ( The Cine Wizard )
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Answer 2
I think the more personal the blacklister is higher the number. Keen is like 7 I think and he's like the husband. The more the person knows about Red the higher on the list he is.
The bigger threat the person poses and the more connected he is to Red or anyone close to him the higher he his.
I have a theory that number #1 will be the last episode and the name will be Reddington because only he knows all the secrets that he has and only he knows him better than anybody else. Only he knows everything about the past. You get the point, but at the moment we just don't know.
Answer 3
Red is in a quest for becoming a real threat to anyone who put Keen's life in danger and in his path he connected with real bad people, so my guess is that the list is ordered by when in his path he met that person. Take Dembe for example, he is number 10, one of his oldest allies.
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