Directed by Donald E Thorin Jr
Written by Lukas Reiter, JR Orci, Amanda Kate Shuman, Brandon Margolis, & Brandon Sonnier
The Longevity Intiative (No. 97) provides examples of:
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Roger Hobbs is the owner of a tech company called Sadovo Solutions. He also funds an unethical medical research team that murders and experiments on people. Not to mention that he's a member of the Cabal.
- Driven to Suicide: Dr. Powell shoots himself while with Reddington. Probably out of the realization that he can't do anything for his wife.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Reddington is against human experimentation comparing Hobbs' rhetoric with Mengele's.
- Immortality Seeker:
- The original point of the Longevity Initiative is to find a path to immortality. Of course its founder Roger Hobbs has the same wish. The actual scientist working on it...not so much.
- Averted with Reddington. He's against the idea that humans should ever develop immortality.
Reddington: Humans as a species are untrustworthy creatures. We don't deserve to live forever. - Mad Doctor: Played With. Dr. Powell's work is experimental and done on live humans but his goal isn't really scientific advancement, it's to find a cure for his sick wife.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Dr. Julian Powell experiments on humans without oversight, but he genuinely wants to find a way to repair brain damage and wants to use that method to help his wife.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
- Roger Hobbs asks Reddington to kill Dr. Powell so that his knowledge of the Longevity Initiative's “progress” doesn't get out. It becomes redundant as Powell commits suicide.
- The Major picks up Tom under the pretense that he was going to get him out of the country but actually intended to kill him. Tom only survives because he got kidnapped by Neo-Nazis who let him go because of his relationship to an FBI agent.
