The Task Force investigates the strange case of a child seemingly from a different time while Reddington seeks to learn from his long-lost daughter about the location of her mother.
This episode shows examples of...
- Based on a Great Big Lie: The community of New Haven, sans the elders, believe that the world was overtaken by a pandemic that turned everyone into infected called the "Ollo" with the small community being the only ones unaffected.
- Batman Gambit: The team realizes towards the end that Reddington deliberately misled them into believing that Moore had something to due with Ian Garvey as a distraction while he continued his search for the duffle-bag.
- Bus Crash: Naomi Hyman, Reddington's ex-wife not seen since going into hiding back in Season 2 is revealed to have been killed in the intervening years. According to Jennifer, she was one day simply walking out of her apartment when someone walked up and shot her twice and she didn't know about her mother's death until a year later.
- Cliffhanger: Moore is arrested but his fixer who kidnaped Maybelle and Samar from the hospital is still loose with the latter still his prisoner.
- Cult: New Haven has a number of hallmarks of this especially their ritual of burning alive anyone who strays from the isolation of the village to prevent the "infection" from spreading. There is even a stand-off between the FBI and Moore's people where the leader, Moore, turns violent when things start to spiral of his control.
- Evil Old Folks: The Elders of New Haven are the only ones in the know that their beliefs about the end of the world and the Ollo are lies based on Moore's book. Maybelle's grandmother is arguably the worst of them as she was going to allow her own granddaughter to be burned to death to maintain the Masquerade.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Nonviolent, gender inverted variant with Aram going nuts with worry when Samar goes missing along with Maybelle. He channels it into finding her, locating New Haven all on his own by speed-reading Moore's book for clues along with maps and tax records. When a standoff takes place, he quickly loses patience, grabs the book and risks getting shot to tell the residents how Moore lied and manipulated them out of fear Samar may be hurt.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To The Village (2004) with an isolated community where everyone but its leaders are deceived into believing a story created by said leaders. The villagers are kept from exploring far from New Haven thanks to monsters that live in the outside world and Maybelle fills the role of Ivy in her leaving the community.
