The Motherboard (The Blacklist x Scorpion)

09. Lorraine Merton

The Garage, 09.25

"You should've rest your head. You just came back from coma 2 days ago." Everyone is worry about Morgan working on a project when she's jot fully recovered. "I'm fine. Anyway, where is he? But anyway he can't just run away after I found out he's my dad, I'm gonna find him. Asshole."
"Woah, language." Toby giggles, "She's... she's fully recovered Walt. Look at that attitude."
"Oh I'm sorry, should I be polite when a father who abandoned you as a kid came back to your life just to abandoned you again? I don't think so. Also, I know when someone is hiding something from me. I know Walter know something. Something that he's not telling me. But I'm not gonna ask. I'm just gonna find it myself. He's not the biggest brain in here."
"Hey, keep your attitude for yourself. Don't blame him for what your dad did."
"Happy, that's enough. She's right, I know something. But I can't tell her. He made me promise that."
"Hear that Ms. Quinn?" Morgan drawn her eyes to her project again.

"Anyway, what are you working on?" Sylverster saw her injecting something to her hand."I.... modified my Credit Card tapper."
"Your what?"
"The technology to get your credit card and your finger print details via handshake. I modified it to get your DNA details and gives an electric shock to my cells. I'm gonna try it to Reddington. Just to make sure. After the incident, this thing about him being my dad is weird, but I need to know, nonetheless."
"But how? He's not here.."
"I just got a text from Anthony. I suspect he would pay my friend a visit after the incident, so I told him to text me if he saw Red enter his apartment. My guess? He needs Anthony to be on his side. After the attack he would need Anthony's skill in emergency."

Clover Park Apartments, 09.15

"Anthony."
"What are you doing here?" Reddington get inside his apartment and sit on his couch. "Christopher is dead. Somebody killed him inside police custody. I need you to help me find the mastermind by telling me everything about Miranda's research of that virus. Christopher was her assistant, so whoever killed Miranda and Christopher are the same person. And I can't find that person if you're dead."
"Dead, what do you mean?"
"They can't find my body, so they assume I make it somehow. They didn't know about Morgan, so that's a good thing. But they will get you to get the answer. They're coming for you." Anthony get his stuff and backing up all his research data on his computer.

09.35

After all set, they're about to leaving but then see a familiar face in front of the door. "Oh hey there."
"Morgan. You should not be here."
"Yeah? Give me your hand."
She grab his hand and get a shock from it. "Great it works. Now I can be sure you're my dad."

Anthony almost drop his jaw. "Wait, Dad? How?"
"Long story. The point is, now that I know my tech is working. Now I can find my mom too."
"Morgan. You did a mistake by coming in here." Before Reddington could finish that, a bullet comes in and hit his arm. "Gun!" Anthony gives her one of his guns and close the door.

"Lorraine, I know it was you." Still bleeding, Reddington takes his energy to talk to whoever outside that room. "Oh Red. I'm coming for that doctor. Why you always get on my way?"
"Let them go. You want me." Morgan makes a deal with the woman Reddington called Lorraine. "No! I'm not gonna let you." Reddington tries to open the door and offer himself instead. Morgan disagree and put a handcuff on him. "You're not going anywhere until I got answer."

"I always hate you Raymond. If you didn't take my daughter to the campfire, we might still together."
"I had no choice. They were after her. Your people."
"Not my people Red! You think I'm crazy enough to kidnap my daughter?"
"What does that mean?" Morgan looks at Reddington, waiting for answer. "Morgan..."
"Tell me, or I'm gonna step outside that door and you'll never see me again."
"I can't..."
"For fuck sake!" She walks to the door and open it. Facing a gun pointed to her face.

"You can take me."
"Stefensson. I didn't expect you to be here. You cause a lot of trouble for my people."
"Yes. Now you can take me."
"No, Lorraine, you came for me."
"Well, I can just kill her and take you with me."
"She's your daughter!" His words stops both Morgan's and Lorraine's action. "No, our daughter is dead."
"You don't believe me? Gives her your hand.... and Morgan, takes her hand. Tell me what you got." She takes Lorraine hand with precautions, and as she expected, she got a shock.

"DNA match."
"What? Am I supposed to believe your words based on her testimony? You told me Alice was dead Raymond..."
"I just found out. Somebody is trying to drives us apart." Reddington gets up and reach out to Lorraine. "No... impossible."
"Lorraine, you know very well In not gonna lie about Alice. Never." Lorraine looks at her  eyes, find a familiar gaze and tries to take her hand. But Morgan refuse.
"No, I won't accept you as my mom. Not after I found out who you are. You took everything from me. You took David. I don't want to be a part of this crazy family."
"Raymond, tell me she's not Alice."
"She is, Lorraine. She is Alice."
"At a brief moment, since I got a fugitive as my dad, I wish I got a normal mom. God I was wrong." Lorraine tries to reach Morgan but she backed up. "No. I'm not Alice. My name...is Morgan Stefensson. A wife from a man named David Stefensson. A man that died because he tries to safe a fugitive man and because he received a deadly assignment from a wicked lady. Both of you needs to stay away from me." She walks out but takes the time to whisper something to Dembe. "Take care of him for me. I have to go away for awhile, something is bothering me. Oh... And tell him I'll blow my head if he's looking after me."
"I will." She then looks at them before step outside.

"Morgan..."
"Raymond, don't. She said she will kill yourself if either of you dare to follow her. Even put a tail on her."
"Dembe, I can't..."
"It's for the better Raymond. It also applied on you, Lorraine. Morgan needs times for herself. It's too much."

Outside the building, Morgan get her cellphone, "Yes, get me the parachute. We need to meet, you know the place." She throws her phone to the trash can before get into a bus.

The Garage, 15.00

His eyes are nailed on that table, minds out of the place. Toby can't get Walter out of that rabbit hole. "It must be him. Reddington must do something that trigger her to do that."
"Walter, we don't know what was happening in that apartment."

Just like speak of the devil, Reddington comes in with a rather cold face. "What did you do? Did you tell her to stay away from you? Because you always saying about protecting her. I think you're just protecting yourself."
"I can't tell you that."
"Stop saying that. It must pissed her off badly that she decided to never come back. You know we just getting start to know her. We got so much to work on ahead of us. It has something to do with you." Walter's eyes turned red and his face is shaky.

"Walter, just take a deep breath and..."
"No, Toby. Call Cabe and tell him we don't accept Raymond Reddington again around here. He'll get it."
"O'Brien. I didn't expect you to understand. But what she did and what caused that..."
"Family business. Right. Which she never had since the beginning. Why bother? You know what I hate about you? I almost believe you when you said that you'll never abandoned her unless it's necessary. But then I realized, no, it's always about you. Just like any other parents, a genius kid like her is always a lot of work....." He takes a deep breath before continue speaking.

"We didn't expect you to understand, Mr. Reddington. We never get along with our parents. Why should you be any different?"