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The Blacklist Mythology Thread: We have questions, the writers (maybe) have answers

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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. Who are Elizabeth Keen's parents?
2. How does Red know Lizzie?
3. What secret does Red know about The Alliance?
4. What is the grand design of the The Blacklist number order?
5. Who is the woman in Tom's "real" life?
6. Is the Y-pattern on Tom's box connected to Liz's scar?
7. How does Red know Berlin's daughter?
8. What did Cooper do in Kuwait that Red could threaten him with?
9. Why did Red surrender to FBI and what motive does he have?
10. How did Red come up with his Blacklist?
11. What does Mr. Kaplan do with all those bodies?
12. What's the connection between Red and Tom?
13. Which disease is Cooper suffering?
14. Where is Jennifer?
15. What's in that safe deposit box Alan Fitch referred to?
16. What is Tom Keen's real name?
17. What is Ressler's background?
18. Who and where is Gina Zanetakos?
19. What's the key for that Red got from the leaders of The Front?
20. Are Red's burn marks connected to the fire that Lizzie experienced when she was four years old?
21. What is the history between Red and Sam?
22. Why didn't Red try to get the Fulcrum before?
23. Who was tempering with Lizzie's memories when she still was really young and why?
24. Is Lizzie's biological father really dead?
25. How is/was Lizzie's father connected to the Fulcrum?
26. Who put the fulcrum in Lizzie's toy bunny?
27. Who and what caused the fire in Liz' house?

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.

Ask Questions. Provide Answers.

Thanks for opening this thread, Asya. I like this idea. :thumbs_up:

There are still many unanswered questions. Oh show! :sigh:

great idea Asya!! Thanks for starting this thread :D

No problem! Hopefully we get some more answers next season!

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Originally Posted by L i N d $ @ y (Post 76196947)

There are still many unanswered questions. Oh show! :sigh:

Oh I know. I know there are so many more I was wondering about earlier. I'm sure we'll have a few to add after the rewatch too.

Hopefully I can add some more questions (and answers) when I've done my rewatch. :)

hey that's a really good idea :) I will try to think up some questions as I watch too :nod:

I'll have to think about more questions after rewatching the Pilot. All I can think of right now is this: Why did Red surrender to FBI and what motive does he have?

it's hard for me to think up questions :lol: I am sure I will come up with some during the rewatch though :nod:

I have another one. :lol:

How did Red come up with his Blacklist? Are these the people that owe him for a crime they committed against him without their knowledge?

oohhh that's a good question :nod: I wonder if they'll ever tell us why Red chose those particular criminals for the list.

I think he's plotting some revenge of course but why these particular criminals and why so many? We're bound to see plenty more next season but at least we have a big baddie now in the person of Berlin.

I wonder if there's an even bigger picture to Red's list/plan that no one has figured out yet. I bet what Liz figured out in the finale is only the tip of the iceberg

I agree, that's only the tip of the iceberg. Red's plans are larger in extent. We still need to know if Red and Liz's father has a connection.

Yes we do :nod:

Hopefully that is a question they will not leave hanging for season 3.....

I also love that for a while Liz even asked Red if he was her father. I like that the writers addressed that as most of the fans have been asking that in the earlier part of the season. :nod: