Raymond"Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person in FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.. He asserts that the FBI have exactly the very same interests: attracting dangerous terrorists and criminals. From the past 2 decades, he's made a set of terrorists and criminals that the most but the FBI cannot find because it can not know they exist. Reddington predicts this"The Blacklist". Reddington will cooperate, however, insists that he will speak simply a rookie FBI profiler, to Elizabeth Keen.