Directed by Nick Gomez
Written by John C Kelley
The Courier (No. 85) provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents: The Courier’s father abuse both him and his brother; which didn’t work on the courier because of his inability to feel pain. Instead, the father forced him to fight in dog fights.
- Feel No Pain: The Courier has CIPA (Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis) which prevents him from being able to feel pain and he has the scars to prove it.
- Just a Flesh Wound: The Courier whenever he's injured. Justified, since he was born with a condition that stops him from feeling physical pain. Emotional pain, on the other hand...
- The Last Straw: After a whole episode shrugging off dangerous wounds with nary a worry or care, he's shot again. He'll just keep walking like a badass, right? Nope. His wounds finally catch up to him and he dies.
- No Honor Among Thieves: The high level criminals and government agents that deal with Reddington cannot really trust each other. Thus the Courier is hired to keep the people involved from double crossing each other. If the deal is betrayed, he kills everyone on both sides of the deal, no exceptions.
- Noodle Incident: In a show chock full of them, Red gives one that really stands out.Red: "I died once in Marrakesh. Two and a half minutes. You wouldn't believe what I saw on the other side."
- Race Against the Clock: The Taskforce has to find an NSA analyst before he runs out of oxygen and suffocates to death.
- Red Baron: Tommy Phelps is known by his associates as The Courier.
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Squick: The audience gets to see that someone put cameras in Liz and Tom's bedroom. - Threatening Mediator: The Courier facilitates negotiations between parties with a very simple rule: if either party in a negotiation tries to screw the other one over, he kills both of them.
