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WARNING: Only spoilers from the current season (Season 8) are whited out.
Other Characters
Aleko
Samuel Aleko A.K.A. The Samoan
Played By: Dante Nero
A former confidential informant of Meera Malik, later employed by Elizabeth to hold Tom Keen prisoner.
Jolene
Jolene Parker/Lucy Brooks
Played By: Rachel Brosnahan
A mysterious woman who claims to be a substitute teacher and has been attempting to seduce Tom, but definitely has an ulterior agenda. Her real name is Lucy Brooks, and she has been spying on Red. She works for whoever Tom does, and was sent to make sure he remembers he only married Elizabeth because she is his target.
- Ambiguously Evil: While she definitely isn't who she claims to be, it's not clear on whose side she is on. It's looking increasingly like the bad guys, though.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: It's clear from the start that her intentions towards Tom and Liz are far from benign. Turns out, she was sent to make sure he was still evil.
- Character Death: Killed by Tom by suffocating her with a blanket.
- Chekhov's Gunman: We have actually seen her way before her debut; she was the girl whose body the Stewmaker supposedly got rid of, the one whose photo Red stole at the end of that episode. Later, Red runs her name through ViCAP.
- Consummate Liar: The audience knows from the start that she isn't who she claims to be, but she puts on a good act.
- Even Evil Has Standards: She is visibly disturbed by how ruthless Tom is. Ironic, since she was sent to make sure he was still evil in the first place.
- Faking the Dead: According to Red, her real name is Lucy Brooks and she faked her death to elude him.
- Manipulative Bitch: She's quite adept at manipulating people, as seen in how she worms her way into Tom's life.
- Punny Name: A Cover Version of the Dolly Parton song "Jolene" plays over her and Tom at one point; since it's established that Jolene is a fake name, she might well have chosen it for that very reason.
- Too Dumb to Live: Cowboy warned her that Tom would kill her; despite already being freaked out by his ruthless behavior, she didn't listen. She paid for it.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed off one episode after we find out what she was after in the first place. We barely saw the "real" her, just her Jolene Parker alias.
Shur
Levi Shur
Played By: Oded Fehr
A high-ranking Mossad agent now working in the USA.
- Brutal Honesty: Because Mossad and the FBI officially share intel, Levi has no problem admitting to the things he's done. Later, he doesn't bother hiding the fact that he voted in favour of a token, a state-sanctioned hit, on Samar.
- The Confidant: Approaches Aram specifically to be this, as he suspected Samar of lying on her polygraph test and correctly guesses that Aram would know why.
- Distressed Dude: He unknowingly brought Zal Bin Hasaan's men into his safehouse, they end up shooting his staff and holding him at gunpoint, although he remains resilient enough to remain a Badass in Distress. In his last appearance, he gets captured by Reddington.
- Forced to Watch: When Hasaan started shooting the staff at the Mossad safehouse, it comes with the We Have Ways of Making You Talk territory as Hasaan was after a list of Mossad informants.
- Good Is Not Nice: Levi is introduced working with the protagonists, but he's a darker shade of grey when it comes to morality.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: First he's introduced as a Mossad agent willing to work with the FBI. In his next appearance he's running an illegal operation in America. Later he risks national security when he tries to make an exchange for Samar's safety. A few more episodes later, he votes to have her killed.
- Hitman with a Heart: He's Mossad and clearly a Professional Killer, but he warmly greets Samar and had the best intentions trying to save the American hostages. Later he also tries to help the men Zal Bin Hasaan had kept imprisoned, although this backfires on him.
- It's Personal: He and Samar were once part of a special team Mossad assembled to hunt down notorious terrorist Zal Bin Hasaan. When Reddington gives the FBI a lead, she asks them to bring in Mossad, and Levi arrives.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Samar's memory is failing her, even if she doesn't want to, Levi and his superiors believe it's only a matter of time before she forgets how to keep national secrets and betray them.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: From working with the FBI to ordering a hit on one of their own.
- My Country, Right or Wrong: All his nastier deeds are done in the name of his country or his superiors, he even lampshades this with his decision to get the Osterman Umbrella Company involved when he points out he was Just Following Orders. Reddington argues that this is actually just Blind Obedience.
- Nice Guy: Considering the amount of illegal and morally questionable things he’s done, Levi is a surprisingly friendly and overall decent person. Unfortunately by the end, Reddington sees his lack of remorse and Nothing Personal as reason enough to make him an Asshole Victim, and suffocates him.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: After Levi and his superiors at Tel Aviv refuse to call off the hit on Samar, Cooper allows Reddington to kidnap Levi. When the DC Mossad head furiously demand Cooper return their agent, Cooper parrots their own words about no involvement, and Reddington takes care of the rest.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Ressler has him cornered, has torn into him for not only conducting illegal operations in America but getting another FBI agent involved, and demanded Levi hand over the missile guidance system. Levi, having received a ransom demand from Samar's captors, takes the system and makes the exchange.
- To Be Lawful or Good: After the Osterman Umbrella Company get involved, this is how the FBI and Reddington try to get to him.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Ultimately, Levi's goals all seem to be because he believes it would help Mossad or Israel.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The New Martyrs Brigade, an Islamic terrorist organization based in Libya, describes the Mossad agents they are fighting as this.
