The Blacklist: Unanswered Questions Vol. 3 - Gina Kanetakos

By: Baby Z

As mentioned previously, these Unanswered Questions will be focused on each particular episode, and the questions that arise each week.  For the show’s overall unanswered questions, please see my VOL. 1 article.  

Unanswered questions arisen in “Gina Kanetakos” (S1:E6):

1. If I’m not mistaken, isn’t at the beginning of the episode, isn’t Tom doing every single thing that guilty people do, from getting angry & defensive, turning it around on the Lizzie then he tries to make jokes about it (Tom Bond), this moves on to attempting to guilt her into feeling bad for doubting him, and finally attempting to call her bluff by challenging her to call the FBI.  Being a profiler - shouldn’t she know all of this?
   
   
2. Is Gina Zanetakos really Tom’s lover  (all signs point to NO by end of episode)  Why would RR lie about this if it was a lie?
   
   
3. What is Cooper’s involvement in the “incident in Kuwait,” what is the incident and how is RR connected?
   
   
4. Is Walter Burris really a school administrator or is he assisting in Tom’s story *ANSWERED*  He was really the school administrator but not the one Tom interviewed with…
   
   
5. Wouldn’t someone of GIna’s particular “level” of crime on the totem pole have safeguards against anyone so easily obtaining her messages? 
   
   
6. Tom is dressed awfully casually in the photo of him outside Angel Station in baseball hat, khakis and a blue ¾ sleeved shirt for a job interview with a headmaster of  a private school don’t you think?
   
   
7. Having had her scar at least since she was 14, how has Lizzie not realized yet that it matches that of the secret boxes?
   
   
8. When RR’s having 2nd phone convo with Hakim about payment not having been received yet, does he sort of motion or give a look to his security guy when he says that he doesn’t care if the wedding is SATURDAY, no payment - no shipment?   *CONFIRMED - although the “look” was to Lizzie, not his security person*
   
   
9. Wonder if there was a double (or hidden) meaning to RR’s “That’s my girl” comment regarding Lizzie.
   
   
10. When searching in the shipping containers for the bomb why were they wasting their time looking in containers with just crates & boxes when they know the bomb is a CAR?
    
    
11. With the RR connection now to Gina and the Russian spy, once again we are left to wonder what is his plan in all of this ultimately and why try to set Tom up, if that is what’s happening.  If RR really cares about Lizzie, why would he want to do this?  (Hoping to turn her to life of crime with him?)
    
    
12. If Tom’s truly innocent and really who he says, why are they being surveilled, surveillance guys pointed out that they now know Tom’s not working for RR, insinuating he’s working for someone.  In episode 1, RR mentioned he had a list of 5 approved security that Cooper could choose 2 for RR.  Could the men doing the surveilling be another 2 that were on RR’s approved security and are actually working for RR?
    
    
13. Red pulled out the name of Gina from his blacklist and Gina pulled out his name as the mastermind.  Why would Red help catch Gina when there was the danger of his name popping-up? (maybe b/c he assumes he’s under an immunity agreement?)
    
    
    
    ANSWERS TO PREVIOUS VOLUMES:
    
    
    During Tom’s interrogation, he mentions that he & Lizzie didn’t STAY at the Angel Station Hotel during their time there, he only went there for the “interview” - this would answer my question about how it’s possible Lizzie had no knowledge of the murder at the time and how it was possible she didn’t remember the name of the hotel right away if they had just stayed there.  
    
    

Have a tutti fuckin frutti day,
-BZ