Here's the scene: 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.
That monologue was brilliant. But, my favorite...the one that SHOULD have won him an Emmy...was in the cell... "I ran out of gas...all I saw was blood, all there was was blood..." I can watch him do that 20 times in a row! Amazing!
I watched that scene with my fiance and we both got so emotional we immediately rewound it to watch again. After that I got up lit a cigar, got us a nice drink, relaxed, she cuddled up to me and we continued the show. It may just be a show but bits like that I believe are special, especially as it helped me remember that life is short so do the things that make moments in your life so special.
This is probably one of the most profound monologues in the series if not the most. That bit at the end 'Give me that, Just one time' and Something in Spader's delivery you just... know Reddington will sell his soul to gods and Devils and everything in between.
To see the things around the world that Raymond Reddington has, would be quite something. Walking on the Great Wall in China? Having dinner in Paris? Feeling the warmth of a beautiful woman in a cool set of sheets? I can dig it. An equally great monologue is between Gandalf & Pippin in LOTR: “PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way. GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it." PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?" GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise. PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad. GANDALF: No....No, it isn't.”
You know, if he would just get a hair transplant or something he wouldn't look way too different than he did in the 80s or 90s...he looks so much better now than he did on Boston Legal. (By universal standards, that is, not that I didn't think that he looked good a little chubby...)
+Sam French He is referring to the monologue when he and Ressler and in the box and talking about why he thinks they might make it out alive. Here is the scene: 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.
He's not incoherent, he just thinking, which most people don't do much of anymore, you can literally see him running through the question in his head, his answers are always very well thought out and it makes him so mesmerising.
