Mr. Gregory Devry

After a shooter kills Mr. Kaplan's crew to send a message to Red (James Spader), Red tells Liz (Megan Boone) about an annual meeting of a criminal syndicate called the Shell Island Retreat, and urges her to track down one of the members in order to find the rest of the group. He gives her select details on one Shell Island attendee and the task force locates him. The catch? He claims he's Raymond Reddington. The task force is skeptical of the man who calls himself Raymond, but he knows all about the Blacklisters and thus ought to be taken seriously - despite the fact that he insists Red is a poser, using Liz for his own benefit.

Raymond offers the location of the upcoming retreat in exchange for his freedom, so the team puts a wire on him. When he arrives, Red promptly accuses him of being an imposter, saying Shell Island leader Marcus Caliguiri hired Raymond to pretend to be Red and turn himself in to the FBI. To prove it, Red points out that Raymond is wearing a wire. Once he admits the ruse, Red kills Raymond and Caliguiri. However, Red eventually reveals to Liz that he knew the imposter all along; he was Gregory Devry, a master con man and a dear friend of Red's who suffered from terminal stomach cancer and wanted to be euthanized. So Red had him pose as a doppelgänger to clear his own reputation, at the same time granting his friend a final favor.

Meanwhile, Tom (Ryan Eggold) proposes to Liz, but she's reluctant, though they still share heated moments of passion. Red instructs Tom that he's not to marry Liz - he married her over Red's objections once, and it won't happen again. Liz faces difficulty adjusting to post-fugitive life, and a man in a parking lot assaults her for being a "traitor." She winds up in the hospital, where a doctor tells her she has broken ribs... but her baby will be fine.

summary: A man claiming to be Red flummoxes the FBI; Liz gets life-altering news. Jake Weber guest stars.

New York Times media reporter, columnist David Carr dies at age 58

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2011, file photo, New York Times journalist David Carr poses for a photograph as he arrives for the French premiere of the documentary 'Page One: A Year Inside The New York Times' in Paris. Carr collapsed at the office and died in a hospital Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. He was 58. Carr wrote the Media Equation column for the Times, focusing on issues of media in relation to business and culture. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

David Carr, a prominent media reporter and columnist for the New York Times, died suddenly Thursday evening at the age of 58.

New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet said in an e-mail to Times employees that Carr collapsed in the paper's newsroom. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Hours earlier, Carr had moderated a conversation with NSA leaker Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras, the director of the Oscar-nominated documentary "Citizenfour."

"He was the finest media reporter of his generation," Baquet said, "a remarkable and funny man who was one of the leaders of our newsroom. He was our biggest champion, and his unending passion for journalism and for truth will be missed by his family at The Times, by his readers around the world, and by people who love journalism."

Carr wrote the Media Equation column for The Times, focusing on issues of media in relation to business and culture. It ran every Monday in the paper's business section.

A Minnesota native, Carr joined the Times in 2002 as a business reporter, covering magazine publishing. He lived in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife and their daughter.

In 2008, Simon & Schuster published Carr's memoir about addiction and recovery, "The Night of the Gun."

Carr said he wrote up a book proposal "on a dare to myself" in two days. After an agent sold the idea, Carr ended up interviewing about 60 people and working on the book for three years. He took the transcribed interviews, numerous documents and pictures to his family's cabin in the Adirondacks, where he wrote the book.

Comedian and actor Tom Arnold, who started his standup career in Minneapolis, was pals with Carr on the city's party circuit in the 1980s and is featured in the book. In a 2008 interview, Arnold called Carr's story redemptive.

"He did some outrageous things, and he did some horrible things, and yet that's not who he is. ... But that's what drugs will do to you," Arnold said. "He survived, and people can survive."

In the book, Carr describes his multiple arrests (including one for punching a taxi driver), his trips to rehab (five times) and his bout with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system.

Before joining the Times, Carr was a contributing writer for The Atlantic Monthly and New York magazine. He also was a media writer for news website Inside.com.

Carr also was editor of the Washington City Paper, an alternative weekly in Washington, D.C. He also was editor of a Minneapolis-based alternative weekly called Twin Cities Reader.

Last year, Carr began teaching a Boston University class that explored the creative business models to support digital journalism. It was among the first professorships dedicated to evaluating how media organizations can sustain themselves financially as readers and advertisers migrate to digital platforms, a crisis that has doomed some news organizations and threatens the viability of others.

Carr had written about the issue extensively.

"I think a lot of journalism education that is going on is broadly not preparing kids for the world that they are stepping into," Carr told The Boston Globe.

The dean of the College of Community at Boston University, Thomas Fiedler, told the Globe he was saddened by Carr's death, which he called "a terrible blow."

"What an extraordinary talent and a remarkable human being," Fiedler said. "He was generous, kind, smart, funny, and we have felt so fortunate that he had decided to start what we hoped would be a long association with Boston University."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

summary: David Carr, a prominent media reporter and columnist for the New York Times, died suddenly Thursday evening at the age of 58.

Ellen DeGeneres Helps Terminally Ill Comedian Quincy Jones Land HBO Special

03/21/2016 AT 12:30 PM EDT

Ready for one of the most heartwarming things you'll see all day?

Aspiring comedian Quincy Jones, 32, was diagnosed with stage 4 mesothelioma cancer in July and told he has one year to live. Last week, he

to help him realize his dream of starring in a stand-up special caught the attention of the host.

On Monday's episode of the talk show, the host will give the stand-up comic the surprise of a lifetime – his own HBO special!

"Here's the thing that you mentioned last time, you want to do a comedy special," DeGeneres, 58, told Jones. "So what you don't know [is that] we called the head of HBO. And your people didn't even tell you this, but HBO is going to air your special."

Quincy Jones and Ellen DeGeneres

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As the audience erupted with cheers, Jones couldn't believe his ears.

"You're lying. Are you serious? Are you?" he said before clapping his hands together excitedly.

"All the negotiations have been happening, your people know that, but they kept it from you because we wanted to surprise you," DeGeneres explained.

"Oh my God. That's the best surprise," Jones said. "Thank you so much."

"Yeah, it's great. HBO was like, 'Yes, of course we'll air it!' " DeGeneres replied.

Jones' special will be taped in Los Angeles in April to air on HBO in the spring, and

airs weekdays (check local listings).

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Stand-up comic Quincy Jones was diagnosed with stage 4 mesothelioma cancer in July