The Blacklist: Unanswered Questions (S1:E10) Anslo Warrick Part 2

By: Baby Z

1. Was Reddington telling the truth when Lizzie asked him point blank if he was her father? If so, the question still remains who he is to her and if not, why lie about it? Because of Tom for some reason? Because it wasn’t the right way for him to tell her that? To protect her from something/someone?

2. Who is Ms. Kaplan to Reddington?

3. What is it that Red “has” that’s kept Alan Alda’s character & his cohorts from killing RR anytime they want, especially since finding out he’s working with the FBI? What is it that the FBI would discover about Mr. Fitch & his ring by Reddington’s death?

4. Who is the mole in the FBI? (My money’s on Ressler or Malik…)

5. Why did Ressler give up the code to unlock the containment chamber, being under direct orders from Cooper not to and supposedly hating RR as much as he does?

6. Is it coincidence that Ressler and Red have the same VERY RARE blood type?

7. Could Ressler’s ex-fiance Aubrey have any significance other than the obvious? What about her NEW fiance?

EDITED TO ADD:
8. Just before RR killed Anslo, Anslo referred to Keen as Lizzie, threatening to torture & kill her. That I know of, Anslo was unaware of her name, at least with regards to “Lizzie”…………..hmmmmm? Just bad writing or……..?

9. Any correlations between the “Apple Eating Man,” Ms. Kaplan (commonly known company in the education field), and Tom being a teacher?

I do not know how, when I barely had the patience to endure a 1 week break, I will contain myself over the next six weeks. January 13th cannot come soon enough.

Have a TFF day,
–BZ

The Blacklist: Unanswered Questions Vol. 4 - Frederick Barnes

By: Baby Z

I feel like every new Blacklist episode brings 73 new questions and NO FUCKING ANSWERS! ;) I love every single second of it though, truth be told.

1. This will probably be a question every week but - WHO IS RAYMOND REDDINGTON? What happened to his family? Did something happen to them before or after he turned to his life of crime?

2. Does Lizzie really trust Tom now 100%? The fact that she couldn’t tell Reddington to walk at the end of the episode leads me to believe she does not.

3. Was the little girl Reddington reminisced about at his old house Lizzie? Or could it be the girl whose picture he removed from The Stewmaker’s book?

4. Isn’t it weird that, if it’s true that Tom is really who he says he is and is completely innocent, he’s not mad as hell / hurt that his wife thought he was a murdering double agent a week ago? To the point that she turned him over to the FBI even? He’s being WAY too understanding about the whole thing and it wreaks of guilt in my opinion.

5. Where was the apple-eating surveillance dude this week? Also - when Tom removed everything from their living room to remodel/paint, how did he not come across something from the people surveilling him/them/her? A camera, a bug? Or perhaps he did and that’s why we didn’t see anything from the apple-eater this week?

6. Reddington tells Lizzie Frederick is a man he understands because of Frederick’s willingness to burn the world down for the one person he cares about. He later burns his old house down. Irony or hint?

7. How old is Lizzie Keen? At his old family home, when he removes the paneling revealing the height marker, it appears to stop at Age 3, which would make his daughter 26 currently if we factor in his disappearance in 1990. If the secret number he received from Wujing IS in fact his daughter’s birth date, she would be 30 this year. (Although, why would that number represent his daughter’s birthdate, this is a number he received as payment for his services, I’m assuming he already knows his daughter’s birthdate.) Regardless - - given the 3 years old height marker and his disappearance in 1990, this would assume his daughter was born in 1987-ish and I think this would rule Lizzie out as being his kid.

8. What happened at his old home that Reddington said he tries every day to forget? Just the fact that he once had a family or did something awful happen there?

9. I wonder if there’s any correlations between the fire that caused Lizzie’s scar and the fact that he used the “burning the world” term AND then blew his old house up?

10. Isn’t it odd that Barnes’ ex-research partner hadn’t heard about the horrific train incident that killed 37 people that morning until Lizzie brought it up? And that all the victims died from apparent symptoms similar to the rare disease HER CHILD has?

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Have a tutti fuckin frutti day,
BZ

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):

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?
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?
What is Cooper’s involvement in the “incident in Kuwait,” what is the incident and how is RR connected?
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…
Wouldn’t someone of GIna’s particular “level” of crime on the totem pole have safeguards against anyone so easily obtaining her messages?
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?
Having had her scar at least since she was 14, how has Lizzie not realized yet that it matches that of the secret boxes?
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*
Wonder if there was a double (or hidden) meaning to RR’s “That’s my girl” comment regarding Lizzie.
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?
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?)
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?
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