
He drives Red away from the Forrester home. He is surprised when Liz walks past the car when Red is on the way to Cuba. He remains while Red briefs Liz and Ressler on Frederick Barnes. He is with Red at his tailors when Red calls the tip-line regarding the subway attack. He accompanies Red while he makes a new deal with Max Ruddiger, possibly to intimidate Max, as during the negotiations he stands behind Max. He is with Red when Liz arrives to ask Red about Max Ruddiger. He drives Liz and Red to the location where Seth Nelson is buried. Kornish's cabin after stopping to buy meat. He answers the phone in Haiti when Liz calls to advise Red that Lorca's trial has been abandoned. He is with Red when he meets with Liz to tell her that Hector Lorca has contacted him about a new identity. He and Luli Zeng pick up Elizabeth Keen and Raymond Reddington, after Wujing drops them off, in Red's limousine. Back at the Post Office, while Dembe is changing Donald Ressler sees the mark of the Eberhardt Cartel on his shoulder. He follows her inside and watches while Campo dies. When Liz visits Floriana Campo's room after being told Red had hired the Freelancer, it is Dembe who is on guard outside the door. Other reports place him and Red in Murmansk and Belfast.ĭembe claimed that there are 3 people he cares about in the whole world, his daughter Isabella, his granddaughter Elle, and Raymond.ĭembe is among the very few who know that Raymond is not the real Raymond Reddington, but an imposter who took over his identity over 30 years ago.Īlong with Luli Zeng, he was “the least offensive” to Harold Cooper and Diane Fowler for service in Red's security detail. There are confirmed reports that Dembe was with Red in Sierra Leone and Brussels, Belgium. Dembe eventually earned a Bachelor's degree in English Literature, learned to speak 4 languages fluently and learned 6 others well enough to get by. Reddington took care of him, nursed him back to health, and made sure he got an education. He spent 8 years in the world of human trafficking and was enslaved until the age of 14, when Reddington found him half-dead and chained to a pipe in the basement of a brothel in Nairobi.

At some point, he was being held by the Eberhardt Cartel. When Samwel reported a number of low-ranking operatives of the Mombasa Cartel, a poaching organization, to the authorities, the cartel killed Dembe's father, mother, and siblings, and sold Dembe to human traffickers.
In “ The Mombasa Cartel” it is revealed that he was born the youngest son of a farmer named Samwel Zuma.

It was assumed that he was Raymond Reddington's bodyguard. Dembe is introduced as a former freedom fighter from South Sudan.
