* Katarina was the one to have Liz’s memory erased, seeing as the night of the fire was deeply traumatic for Liz on multiple levels. (And, as we saw at the very end of Season 1, Red has burn scars across his back.) The flames spread fast, the smoke,” she says, to which Liz replies, “ You were burned.” “We both were,” Katarina says. Young Katarina shares that she followed Liz back into the house, “but we got turned around. * On the night of the fire when Liz was a child, Liz ran back into the burning beach house to retrieve her stuffed bunny. Throughout the story, she’s joined by Liz’s visions of the real Raymond Reddington (meaning, Liz’s biological father), as well as the present-day versions of Katarina, Dom and Ilya, all of whom add more detail to Young Katarina’s tale and try to untangle some of the lies Liz has been told in recent years. And Liz turns to see a younger version of her mother, Katarina (played once again by Lotte Verbeek), who embarks on a long story of her own career as a spy, the circumstances that led Katarina to leave Liz in Sam’s care, and the lengths she’s gone to in order to protect Liz for years. All of the activity around her in the Latvian building seems to freeze.
(Liz will apparently inherit this operation, but she claims to have no interest.)īut just as Red begins to tell Liz some of the truths she’s been seeking, Liz starts to hear a second, female voice.
As Red explains to Liz, the building is a hub for intel that comes from 17 outposts around the world - information that gets boiled down and sent to Reddington, which he then uses to make all of his business decisions. But the penultimate Season 8 episode teased more than ever that Red is really Katarina, even though those suspicions were never outright confirmed.ĭuring the hour, Red brings Liz to a building in Latvia from which his widespread intelligence empire operates, buzzing with employees as they print, annotate, scan, shred and analyze piles and piles of documents. It sounds a bit ridiculous to say (or type) aloud, but this theory has prevailed among Blacklist fans since the show’s inception, and hints have been dropped in the past that suggest its accuracy. NBC Fall Schedule: This Is Us' Last Hurrah Pushed to 2022, All-L&O Thursdays and More The Blacklist Shocker: Megan Boone Exiting After Season 8 (Report) Wednesday’s episode, though, got tantalizingly close to revealing the actual, serious, no-really-guys-this-time-we-mean-it answer to the question of Red’s true persona, and unless the show is intentionally stretching out the misdirect of all misdirects, then the answer essentially was given to us without explicitly being said aloud: Red could very well be Katarina Rostova, Liz’s biological mother, who presumably went under the knife to transform into the man who’s been protecting and/or terrorizing Liz for the last eight years.
THE BLACKLIST SEASON 5 EPISODE 8 RECAP SERIES
As The Blacklist nears its Season 8 finale, the most pressing questions might be coming from behind the scenes, following the news that Megan Boone will exit the series after Season 8.īut there is an on-screen mystery that has needed solving since the NBC drama debuted in 2013: Who is Raymond Reddington, really? We know the real Red died 30 years ago at Liz’s own hand, and the story that KGB officer Ilya Koslov later assumed Red’s identity turned out to be just that - a story.
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