I like Elodie. I do! But Aram needed to stop at “I wanna to break up” and go. Liz (played by Megan Boone) was right when she told Aram that Elodie needs to have a life too, and that his relationship with her wasn’t a suggestion that either of them are bad people.

Regardless, they’re not right for each other. Or rather, she’s not right for him.

Nobody on The Blacklist deserves love more than Aram (Amir Arison). But with his kind heart, giving nature, and ability to be led astray by the wrong woman, he needs someone with an equally kind heart and giving nature, and qualities that won’t call for her to lead him astray. And most of all, he needs someone without baggage.

Sure, everyone has baggage, but Elodie’s (Elizabeth Bogush) is too heavy to pick up and move aside, even temporarily. And with the way Aram was eying her unconscious husband (Rich Mollo) while Elodie slept beside him, we’re worried that Aram is tempted to make her baggage more problematic in an attempt to make it go away.

Surely sweet, sweet Aram would only allow it as a passing thought, but even knowing he has the thought is enough to let us know that Elodie is unintentionally corrupting the morals he’s been grounded by since the show began. He refused to let Samar’s (Mozhan Marnò) glitches slide, at one point cancelling their date because of the secrets surrounding her brother and the Mossad, and at another point all but telling her to “go to hell” because she had a hard time forgiving Liz for faking her death. I’d hardly think Elodie surpasses Samar as someone to consider veering off track for.

Then again, Aram is rebounding, and that can do a guy in. Hopefully tonight we’ll get more juicy tidbits on their peculiar relationship!