[Lauren Helen Graham]

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Questions & Answers

Part of what makes The Blacklist one of the most suspenseful and engaging shows on television is the complex mythology that weaves together secret backgrounds, strained alliances, and mysterious relations all of which are surrounded by questions both answered and unanswered. When almost every character we meet has multiple identities and answers often lead to more questions it's enough to make any viewer's head spin!

Unless you're keeping track!
Here we can keep a record of all the information we've learned.
Both the Questions that have been answered.
And the ones still wrapped in Mystery.

Unanswered Questions:

1. How does Red know Lizzie?
2. What is the grand design of the The Blacklist number order?
3. Who is the woman in Tom's "real" life?
4. Is the Y-pattern on Tom's box connected to Liz's scar?
5. How does Red know Berlin's daughter?
6. What did Cooper do in Kuwait that Red could threaten him with?
7. How did Red come up with his Blacklist?
8. What does Mr. Kaplan do with all those bodies?
9. Where is Jennifer?
10. What is Ressler's background?
11. Who and where is Gina Zanetakos?
12. Are Red's burn marks connected to the fire that Lizzie experienced when she was four years old?
13. What is the history between Red and Sam?
14. Why didn't Red try to get the Fulcrum before?
15. How is/was Lizzie's father connected to the Fulcrum?
16. Who put the fulcrum in Lizzie's toy bunny?
17. Who and what caused the fire in Liz' house?
18. Who's car is the official state car?
19. What's happening that the mysterious guy on the phone was indicating?
20. Does the judge have any connection to the Alliance?
21. How does the Director know Lizzie's mother?
22. What's Mr. Kaplan's task in case Red is killed/dies?
23. Whose place did Connolly get in the Alliance?
24. What does Tom know about Red that Lizzie doesn't yet?
25. What's the means of Red's secret flat?
26. Is Lizzie's mother still alive and if not, who killed her?
27. What's Red's connection to Lizzie's mother?
28. How did Charlene get the information that she leaked on behalf of Cooper?
29. Will the fact, that Lizzie shot Connolly with Tom's gun, be picked up on?
30. What is going to happen to the task force now that Liz is gone with Red?
31. How much of the night of the fire does Lizzie really remember? Everything or was her shooting her father the only thing that was triggered?
32. Why did Liz shoot Connolly?
33. Why did Red choose to be Liz's sin-eater?
34. Which passports did Tom burn? The ones he got from Liz or The Major?
35. What happened between the night of the fire (must have been at the beginning of 1989 since Liz still was 4 years old) and the Christmas Eve in 1990 when Red disappeared?

Partly Answered Questions:

1. Who are Elizabeth Keen's parents?
   >> Her mothers name was Katharina Rostova (which is one of her many names since she was working for the KGB). We don't know about the identity of her father yet.
2. Why did Red surrender to FBI and what motive does he have?
   >> For once he surrendered to the FBI to have influence on Lizzie's life after she had fallen in love with Tom and Tom had started to work for Berlin. But we know that's not the only reason and motive.
3. Who's the Cabal's target?
   >> It's been Liz so far but we think she won't be the only one.

Answered Questions:

1. Who is Tom Keen?
   >> A Berlin agent sent to keep an eye on Liz.
2. What does the key Tom hid open?
   >> A safety deposit box with photos implicating Red in Sam's death.
3. Who is Berlin?
   >> Former Red Army/KGB operative who lost his daughter and is feuled my revenge. He wants to destroy Red and employs a network of spies to do his bidding and keep an eye on his interests.
4. What happened to Red's family?
   >> They were moved into witness protection twenty years ago after which his wife took on the name Naomi Hyland and remarried.
5. Why does Berlin want to destroy Red?
   >> Because Berlin was tricked by the Decembrist (Fitch) into thinking that Red had killed his daughter.
6. Will Liz ever find out Tom killed Jolene Parker?
   >> She did in 1x19 when she was told so from Red.
7. What's the Fulcrum?
   >> It's a blackmail file , proof of the existence of an extraordinarily powerful clandestine organization.
8. Where is the Fulcrum?
   >> It's been in Lizzie's stuff bunny.
9. Why does Luther Braxton need Liz to find the Fulcrum?
   >> Because he was ordered to find it for the clandestine organization so Red couldn't blackmail them anymore and it was hidden in her stuff bunny which only she could remember.
10. What's in that safe deposit box Alan Fitch referred to?
    >> A phone number with a Russian country code on a piece of paper.
11. Which disease is Cooper suffering?
    >> An inoperable brain tumor.
12. What's the connection between Red and Tom?
    >> Red payed the Major to hire a person to keep an eye on Liz. The person that the Major chose was Tom. But at some point the Major betrayed Red because he was payed double from Berlin so from this point on Tom started to work for the Major in regards of Berlin, not Red anymore.
13. What is Tom Keen's real name?
    >> Jacob Phelps.
14. What is Tom's business in Germany?
    >> Tom was ordered to find out, which person of the German group, that he infiltrated, murdered a girl/woman called Sarah Hastings.
15. What's the key for that Red got from Pepper of The Front?
    >> It's the key for the device that is needed to access the information on the Fulcrum.
16. Who is the guy that Red called with the number of the safe?
    >> It's been Leonard Caul.
17. What's in the small case Red got out of the car?
    >> The device that is needed to access the information on the Fulcrum.
18. What happened to that mysterious guy?
    >> The cabal tried to kill him short after Red called him. He's been in hiding ever since, watching, waiting of a signal from Red that it was safe to meet until he found Lizzie in Red's secret apartment.
19. What exactly did Red hire Tom for in the first place?
    >> Red hired Tom to keep an eye on Lizzie as a friend of a friend at arm length.
20. When did Red find out that the Major, and therewith Tom, has betrayed him?
    >> It hasn't been mentioned and it might never be.
21. Who shot Red?
    >> A sniper, who was working for the cabal.
22. What does Connolly really want?
    >> He wanted a seat at the table (of the cabal) and he finally got it at the end of "Leonard Caul" - 2x19.
23. Who are the woman and the girl on the picture Lizzie found in the secret flat of Red?
    >> It's Lizzie and her mother.
24. Who was tempering with Lizzie's memories when she still was really young and why?
    >> Red was the one tempering with her memory and he did it because he wanted to protect her from the truth that she was the one killing her father.
25. Does Lizzie really have a copy of the Fulcrum?
    >> Not sure if Lizzie has a copy but Leonard Caul for sure made one because otherwise Red wouldn't have been able to show the journalists the content of it.
26. Is Lizzie's biological father really dead?
    >> Yes, she killed him in the night oft he fire when she was four years old.
27. What secret does Red know about The Alliance?
    >> Red knows everything they've ever done since he is in the possession of the Fulcrum.
28. Is it really true that the Cabal has somebody on the inside and if so, who is it?
    >> Yes, it's been Tom Connolly, newly announced Attorney General and now being dead.

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[Miranda]

TFTNT Kris! You just need to change the one to a two in the OP

I have a new question:
Who is the man Red is talking to on the phone?

[bwm30]

Tftnt!

[Lauren Helen Graham]

Miranda, I somehow missed to change the number I'm sorry.

And we already have that question on the list, look at #28.

You're welcome.

[Miranda]

That is okay. Sorry I didn't see that the question was already in the OP

[Lauren Helen Graham]

Miranda, no problem at all. It's so many questions already, I somehow have to check them all out before adding a question... This time I just recalled that I had added the question the other day because it was one of mine.

[L i N d $ @ y]

TFTNT!

There are more questions than answers obviously.

[Lauren Helen Graham]

Definitely... I've got a new one again I think.

What happened to that mysterious guy?
What's beginning?

[One Thing Remains]

I hope we learn more about that guy and what's the next big bad heading their way soon.

[Miranda]

What do you mean with this question Kris? "What's beginning?"

and we can answer question nr. 15. "What's in that safe deposit box Alan Fitch referred to?" A card with a phone number

[Lauren Helen Graham]

Wrong questions, Miranda... I meant

What is happening? because that guy on the phone told Red that it's happening and Red asks him what...

And I'll answer that question now, Miranda

[L i N d $ @ y]

Originally Posted by keroppi (View Post) I hope we learn more about that guy and what's the next big bad heading their way soon.

They might tease us a bit like they did with the guys watching the Keens in S1 but I hope they won't tease us for long. I can see his identity revealed before S2 ends.

[Miranda]

I think and hope it will be revealed who that guy is in the season finale!

Now I remember him telling Red on the phone Kris. Good question and thanks for putting the answer in the OP

[One Thing Remains]

I hope you're right Lindsay. I really want to find out who he is and how he is tied into Red/Fitch and everything. Having to wait a really long time would be so annoying. Especially since we already have so much other stuff we're waiting to find out about.

[L i N d $ @ y]

Right now I have no idea who that man is. But I'm gonna make a guess that it's a new character and is someone from Red's past.