I will miss this TV family immensely and diligently look forward to the opportunity to embody new characters and tell new stories.. His father, Howard Hargrave, is being held in a mental hospital. But with every rewatch, it becomes more and more evident that Tom is an evil, selfish piece of shit (even more than Liz). When Liz returns home she finds Tom tied to a chair. Tom Keen Biographical Information Birth name Christopher Hargrave aka Number 7 Billy Brian Kelly Christof Mannheim Christopher Hargrave David Balthis Dieter Neumann Doug McCarty Edgar Legate Eugene Pavlenko Frank Carraro Jacob Phelps Kaya Sancar Levi Edwards Lucas Ponald Martell Matt Buckley McKay Michel Badot Mr. Lembeck Mr. Wainright Tom Keen was one of The Blacklist' s most complex characters, with the show revealing he was an undercover agent once hired by Red to spy on Liz. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day, Inside the business of TV with breaking news, expert analysis and showrunner interviews. Later, the Germans are seen torturing Tom. Howard allies himself with Tom and manipulates him into believing that Susan Hargrave tried to have him killed. #RIP#TheBlackList#TomKeen#EpicScene#Blacklist#DisturbedSoundOfSilence#SoundOfSilence#Nooo#Season5#Sad#GreatCaracter#GreatShow#GonnaMissThisCaracter#, A post shared by Flemming (@flemming1983) on Nov 24, 2017 at 1:55pm PST, Ryan Eggold was asked the same question in an interview, and hesaid, I think its a fitting ending. I also wonder who provided the clothes exchange at the station? Played byRyan Eggold, Tom was abducted by his parents, where his name was changed fromChristopher Hargrave to Jacob Phelps. He tells Liz the identity of Berlin's weapons dealer. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter, [Warning: This story contains spoilers from the midseason finale of NBCs The Blacklist.]. When she tells him that she is too, he gives her some advice on how to act. The way they go about catching the bad guys and doing their jobs, they cant arrest anyone. Why oh why would he answer the phone at the station and TELL Red what he knew. She then makes the call. He calls Liz and goes to the adoption meeting alone. Tell us what's wrong with this post? The tough upbringing, the training to be an operative. Check out the top ten Tom Keen facts every fan of, Though actor Ryan Eggolds most notable role might be his character on, , the 35-year-old actor has a long and impressive list of film and television credits behind him. It is unknown whether his corpse was removed, or he survived his injuries. Status Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. After arguing with Liz, he escapes and tells Liz that Red is using her for his own ends. If Tom is "evil" on the spectrum, there must be several characters you think deserve a seat next to satan. Still, his death was inevitable at some point in order to advance the plot forward in a meaningful way. The 7 Ian Garvey Facts Every Blacklist Fan Should Know, The Blacklist: Three Things to Know about the Katai Fellowship, Ten Naomi Hyland Facts Every Blacklist Fan Should Know. Tom then reveals that he only married Liz because the company ordered him to. In 2016, Susan Hargrave says that 3 year old Christopher went missing 28 years prior. At the beginning of the episode, where Tom Keen appears, he provides a list of the people who work for the FBI alongside Raymond Reddington to his employer after the plane crash. Major credit to Ryan Eggold. It would make sense that he would put his own son in guardianship of someone he regards so highly. It's tragic that one of the only people Liz can talk to is Tom. He believed he was all those other people he was hired to be. ( 1952-12-09) December 9, 1952 (age 70) New York City, U.S. Played by Ryan Eggold, Tom was abducted by his parents, where his name was changed from Christopher Hargrave to Jacob Phelps. Tom Keen is high on my list of favorite characters. Though Red thought Christopher/Jacob would be the perfect candidate to watch over Liz, things got complicated when Tom fell in love with her. I think one of the tragic things for his character is all the bad things he did were in service to someone else like Liz. As an adult, he was hired by Raymond Reddington to keep an eye on Elizabeth Keen, however Jacob got romantically involved with Elizabeth which led Reddington to fire him. At the hospital, Liz enters a coma while Tom flatlines. The Sound of Silence track over Aram etc running in was the only moment in the show that made me cry. It's summer in Manchester. Tom Keen photographed her meeting with Cynthia Panabaker. That said, would Eggold ever return to his Blacklist family? Elizabeth and Tom Keen - The BlacklistWe hope you enjoy this little put-together of tom and keen.#TheBlacklist #raymondreddington After he tries to save them both, Tom is being choked as Red (James Spader) and Dembe (Hisham Tawfiq) enter the scene and shoot the men. :). Later, he takes Liz hostage and tries to use her to stop Red from killing Milos Kirchoff, however, Liz disarms him and shoots him 3 times in the stomach. With the amount of blood on the floor, it is unclear if the two will make it. When Reddington calls Liz, Tom tells her not to answer and then asks her to call him Jacob; his real name. And are you pumped for next episode? Early on in this season, The Blacklist set up a big moment in the show, where Liz captured her ex-husband, tortured him. They watch the news report together and Elizabeth apologizes for Tom's loss and the questions he will never get answered about his past now that his father is dead. A: The theory is that it's a brand of some sort tied either to Berlin's organization (probably not given events in . Tom tells Elizabeth he is unbothered by the event and cares only about his present and future with his wife and daughter. He is still dead, but appeared as a figment of his wife Elizabeth Keen's (Megan Boone) imagination. Where's Tom Keen? But it wont be the same around here without Mr. Hes such a badass. So I guess heres Red telling Liz that the propensity that he and Tom both share is that he (Red) is an extremely talented covert agent, something many of us have been saying for awhile. A: To maintain his cover, he could not be sure how much Red knew and the disappearance of Zamani would have confirmed Red's suspicions. The Major wants him to hold out for something classier, where his good, clean looks will be an asset, but Tom insists. As he is being escorted through the operations room he sees a picture of Newton Phillips on the board and identifies him as the man who interviewed him for the non-existent teaching position. He's so smart, so strong, etc. He speaks to Elizabeth Keen and says that he wishes she could talk to him about her work. He later admits to Liz that he has humble aspirations to become a fisherman. Family, background, life story? She gets pregnant by him and he repeatedly asks her to marry him. Elizabeth Keen (wife, deceased)Agnes Keen (daughter)Susan Scott Hargrave (mother)Howard Hargrave (father)Frank Phelps (adoptive father)Eva Phelps (adoptive mother)Raymond Reddington (father-in-law, deceased)Katarina Rostova (mother-in-law)Constantin Rostov(stepfather-in-law)Sam Scott (adoptive father-in-law)Jennifer Reddington (half-sister-in-law, deceased) The last scene shows Tom burning his passports, then him waiting inside Liz's motel room when she returns home. And just to make it finite and certain that his character is truly gone, the episode ends with Cooper standing over Toms dead body in the morgue. And he wasnt supposed to survive Pilot. However, their marriage is not all that it appears to be on the surface. In the episode which . Also just the whole Tom's a bad . Tom applies for a job in Lincoln, Nebraska without telling Liz, until he has to go to an interview. Unassuming school teacher, cold-blooded killer, devoted family man -- Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) has played many parts on NBC's "The Blacklist." Tom has flipped the script on just about everyone. I kill people. He was once married to Susan Hargrave and is the biological father of Tom Keen. After Red learns that a tactical nuclear weapon is being targeted by thieves, it's a race against the clock as the task force struggles to stop them - and prevent an imminent nuclear disaster. He eventually challenges Liz to inform the FBI about the box. "Yes, he was supposed to die in the pilot," Eisendrath said before adding that, in hindsight of Tom surviving the pilot, the series creative team felt they'd given Tom every narrative opportunity they could conjure before taking him out. After escaping, Tom was briefly reunited with Liz at their apartment only she arrived to discover him tied up and held hostage. He also wants the car, but because Liz is late he agrees that she can have it. Red rushes both Tom and Liz to the hospital, despite Dembes concerns that Tom wont make it. He is interrogated by Meera Malik about the gun and the reason for his presence in Boston on the day of the murder. (1985). His mother mentioned it has been 28 years since his disappearance, which makes him 31 years old by the event of Susan Hargrave. Its cool to jump into something thats very different with a filmmaker that I always admired, and with a great cast and crew. As Zamani told Red: I paid him a visit like you asked. Tom was successful in getting his attention and was indentified as a fraud by him. In the 2017 fall finale of The Blacklist, Eggolds character was fatally wounded by Ian Garvey (Jonny Coyne). Tom is awoken by Elizabeth who tells him that his father, Howard Hargrave, was just killed in a plane crash. So if we want to make sense of the order of Tom and Berlin, I think we can: Berlin isn't really Red's archenemy. Why does the top of Tom's escape box have a carving of the burn scar on Liz's hand? RIP Tom Keen aka @ryaneggold from the @nbcblacklist ??. I hated that Tom had to die, but what a way to go out--protecting Liz with his last breath. It's not nice to do to loyal viewers and it's detrimental to ratings. Tom is Elizabeth Liz Keens (played by Megan Boone) husband, who hes been married to since the start of the series. Tom being 31 in 2016 puts him at either 31 or 32 at his death in 2017. The actor shared one way hed be open to it. When Liz is moping at her computer after the witness was killed, he notices the date on her pad and assumes that she is cheering herself up, since on the computer for that date 23 June 2012 is a series of pictures from a romantic break that they had taken that day. At a very young age, he was taken in by an underground spy trainer, the Major. . I find myself wishing he wasn't really dead even though I know he is. He admits to Reddington that he is bothered that he may never get answers about who he was now that his father passed. . As the Major goes to pull the trigger, another car crashes into theirs, it's the Germans. Tom ultimately dies of his injuries while Liz enters a coma. Tom Keen served in the U.S. Navy from 1982 to 2003. Biographical Information Fully in character, he goes to a bar and picks a fight with a large customer, eventually knocking him down. Whatever you think you know about Tom Keen, forget it. That surprising bit of news came from the mouth of "The Blacklist" executive producerJohn Eisendrath, who confirmed it during a 2017 interview with Variety. In Liz's dream he attacks her when she confronts him about the box, but in real life he tells her that he has booked an ultrasound scan with the mother of their child. Answer (1 of 9): Elizabeth and Tom have a complicated relationship. Occupation (s) Radio & TV personality, Television host, Editor. Afterward, Jacob assumed the identity of Thomas Vincent Keen. I wrote a long comment about this yesterday on another post but Tom was not your run-of-the-mill bad guy. With Tom you never know what you will get and you just go along with it. Sin embargo, en su ltima misin Tom lo traiciona. He tells Maly that he is accountable to Milos Kirchoff. Liz returns to the apartment to find Tom watching a video of the man arrested for allegedly murdering him, Richard Game. I hate these long breaks in seasons!! The character of Tom Keen was a blast to write, and thats only because we knew Ryan could pull off whatever we threw at him, said Bokenkamp. I found it remarkable that the showrunners gave us a scene with Tom in the morgue with toe-tag and everything. Ten months later Liz wakes up from her coma. Before he does, he tells Liz that he knows what today is and to have fun at Wing Yee for her birthday. I feel incredibly lucky to have played a role with such a uniquely dynamic evolution, Eggold said in a statement to THR. He previously thought his father was dead, due to his mother faking her husbands death earlier on. How did Garvey w friends find him so fast? We haven't seen Liz Keen's erstwhile fake husband Tom ( Ryan Eggold) since The Blacklist' s fall finale, but he will return -- if not on Thursday's all-new episode (9/8c,. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Tom's connections and jobs at similar companies. "Tom Keen" is really all about dragging things out and gigantic letdowns. The more Eggold appeared, the longer they saw Tom Keen in that world. In 2017, Tom Keen left The Blacklist to star on the spinoff program, The Blacklist: Redemption. Red is basically trying to stop Lizzies life for launching into full blown chaos by letting her run off with the special ops solider of fortune type throwing her life away. He became the best part of the show for me. #TheBlacklist #TomKeen #TeamTomKeen #RyanEggold #LizKeen #ElizabethKeen #AramMojtabai #SamarNavabi #MeganBoone #AmirArison #MozhanMarno #Keen2 #KEEN2FOREVER, A post shared by Arison Boone Eggold (@amir_megan_ryan) on Dec 20, 2017 at 2:01pm PST. Or is he just lonely and trying to have some fun? After a faked death in an earlier season, the 5th season was officially his last. There was an incessant stir and murmur of conversation. Tom was a chameleon who was trained to immerse himself in his job. 2023 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. 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