James Spader credited as playing...
Raymond 'Red' Reddington
- Donald Ressler: We are not going to live through this...
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: I think we will.
- Donald Ressler: How?
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: Have you ever sailed across an ocean, Donald...
- Donald Ressler: No.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: ...on a sailboat, surrounded by sea with no land in sight, without even the possibility of sighting land for days to come? To stand at the helm of your destiny. I want that, one more time. I want to be in the Piazza del Campo in Siena. To feel the surge as 10 racehorses go thundering by. I want another meal in Paris, at L'Ambroisie, at the Place des Vosges. I want another bottle of wine. And then another. I want the warmth of a woman and a cool set of sheets. One more night of jazz at the Vanguard. I want to stand on the summits and smoke Cubans and feel the sun on my face for as long as I can. Walk on the Wall again. Climb the Tower. Ride the River. Stare at the Frescos. I want to sit in the garden and read one more good book. Most of all I want to sleep. I want to sleep like I slept when I was a boy. Give me that, just one time. That's why I won't allow that punk out there to get the best of me, let alone the last of me.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: You can't judge a book by its cover. But you can by its first few chapters, and certainly by its last.
- Donald Ressler: [bleeding out from a gunshot wound] Why save me?
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: Because that's what you do when someone's dying in front of you.
- Donald Ressler: Are you really gonna do Field Transfusion?
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: Oh Come now Donald, think how much smarter you'll be afterward.