Fangirl49

Eastern Friend: [ In disbelief ] You hit me.
Red: [ Angrily ] Let me be perfectly clear, old friend. I don’t give a damn who you work for. The next time you threaten me with the full weight of the SVR, I’ll take that thunderbolt you mentioned and crack it so far up your ass, it’ll be the last thing you see or hear. Clear enough? Nod if you understand.
[ Eastern Friend nods ]
Red: Good. Now, understand this. Rakitin’s death was your doing. I hold you responsible for what is, by any account, a catastrophic setback for all of us. You think I’m too close to Harold Cooper? Too emotionally involved with the Task Force? You better look deep inside yourself and find a way to accept it, because that, old friend, is way beyond your purview. [ Ominously ] This is my endgame. And you will not interfere with it again.

Lauren Helen Graham

Okay, now I'm confused and I have to ask again... Was the Eastern friend ever called Sikorsky by Red?

Fangirl49

I’m at a point where I’m going to say no. I don’t think so mainly because he’s not being identified in the below quotes. I may be wrong, but I think we assumed.

Cooper doesn’t mention Sikorsky In His talk with Pannabaker.

And in the below Red says he doesn’t care who Eastern friend works for. And we don’t know who that is either.

Miranda

No, but I guess we just assume that our Eastern friend is Sikorsky.

Lauren Helen Graham

I somehow thought that he was in the season 7 finale That's where we thought this guy was Sikorsky, right? That's where we saw him the first time, right? Or was it later on at the beginning of season 8? I really don't recall for sure.

Fangirl49

The comic book episode? I don’t remember that one at all!

I don’t even know how to figure out who he is or why we thought he was Sikorsky!

Lauren Helen Graham

Oh no, right! Then it was season 8, some episode in the beginning. The episode he appeared in first I was referring to.

ETA - It was episode 8x04 we saw him first and he was never referred to as Sikorsky in that conversation

Fangirl49

So what do you think? Is he Sikorsky?

Miranda

Anne: "I want to do more than help you set aside your burdens. I want to help you carry them."

Fangirl49

Anne: I’m a straight-as-an-arrow 52-year-old. I was married to one man, my high-school sweetheart, for 25 years. I’m in a book club. I go to church on Sundays. And somehow, I’m in a relationship with someone who when he says the words “output connector”– [ Inhales deeply ] –all I can think about is sex.

Lauren Helen Graham

This one is just perfection and it's what I was talking about in the episode discussion thread. She is the first one to want to carry his burdens with him!!!

Marilyn, this quote!!! I was like 'Did I hear that right?'

Fangirl49

Anne: If I’m in trouble either way, why can’t we be together?

Kris, we’ve always said that all James has to do is read a phone book.

Miranda

She is Kris. She's the only one and I love her for it.

Fangirl49

Red: ⋘⋙ I like her. I like coming home to a port. Seeing a candle burning in a window. A smiling face waiting to greet me. I– I never liked it before. I like it now. Did you know that irises are the state flower of Tennessee?
Dembe: What’s the state flower of Kansas?
Red: The sunflower. She grew up with them. She likes irises.
Dembe: I should be with you.
Red: You should be with Raymond Reddington. When I’m with Anne, that’s not who I am.
Dembe: It may not be who you want to be, but it’s always who you are.

Lauren Helen Graham

YES!!! We have Marilyn

This talk... It makes me sad because Dembe is right and he was right. He will always be Raymond Reddington because of some decision he made many many years ago.