Liz would know if she'd had an organ transplant though, she'd be on anti rejection drugs for life. 

But I agree that these bones must be someone high up...makes me question my fake dead Katarina theory (though I'm still holding on for more details!).

I would say this episode in some way parallels the story of Masha/Liz's kidnapping, and it embodies many themes we've seen before. Here a woman kidnaps her child, who is being raised by others, to save his life. Then she kills herself to save his life by providing the organ for his transplant. This woman had no problem killing others to get what she needed to save her son, much like Frederick Barnes. Again we have tranfusions and rare blood types involved in the story, reminiscent of Red transfusing Ressler in Anslo Garrick and the blood stuff involved with Kirk. With the illegal operations going on, it also reminded me of Dr. James Covington,

Tuxie400, Brittany - I also thought of the Red/Ressler rare blood type thing and the transfusion in my idea about a bone marrow transfusion or similar.  And Red jokes with  Ressler, is he somehow feeling more clever/sophisticated given he now has Red's blood.  So if there was somehow some transfusion involved between Red's daughter and Liz because of some illness or similar....the things we've seen about genetics....nature/nurture.  Though I hadn't thought of that specifically until this episode, pulling at the various threads in the episode themes.  Could all be way off base!

Well, I think we all figured Nik was living on borrowed time ever since he helped Kate. Clever use of him right before his end.  Whoever killed him looked to me like a big guy, definitely not the more slightly built Pete. If Nik saw something on the computer screen I would have thought the killer would have destroyed the computer or at least shut it down before taking off with the suitcase. I think whatever the results, they are no good if you don't also have the bones.

Overall the theme was the love of a parent for their child and what that parent wouldn't do for their child. Complete self sacrifice. Red/Liz? Katarina/Liz? Red/?? Or Katarina/??

More puzzle pieces. What is it exactly that makes Liz so "special"? Are these people the last of their kind? What kind? A warrior race of some sort? Created by Cold War era mad scientists?

HW, I agree on the borrowed time!  
As soon as the good Dr. said he was going to go check on him I knew that was it for him. If the other guy wasn't answering the phone he should have known that was not a good sign.  
So now the phone calls he made will be traced back to Tom and Red is going to find out.  


 

Tuxie, when she was having her baby she said she had her appendix out when she was 15 I think. 
​I thought she had broken her ribs a few times in the show I just cant remember which episodes. 

JackPow wrote:

Mother kills herself to save the child. Redarina!!! Sorry I can't help myself.

I thought that too. But then Red was quite flirty with Dr. Melissa, implying that they were sleeping together in the buff. There's always something for every theory. LOL!
 

Tuxie wrote:

They could never really understood why this Blacklister had to burn up a barn of racehorses. I really could have done without that. But I guess that was the only part that connected with the Endling idea.

I'm feeling like they had several stories but none of them were long enough for a complete show, so they chopped them up and then added the "side dishes" for a complete meal!

I, too, found the burning barn a little disturbing. I'm also feeling like the writers are starting to lose their way. The writing for the last two weeks has been extremely uneven. It looks like the story arc of Red's rebuilding efforts are going to be the "con of the week," which could be interesting but could also get the writers into trouble without a continuity editor.


 

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HI all

I too was upset by the horse scene at the beginning - thank goodness it was only fake!
But I do think it was another connect of Liz's story (maybe as an Ending) to that of the overall plot and the Princess.  The fire.  And someone sets a deliberate fire and someone does not survive, make it out of the barn (house).

Just to be clear - Not that I liked watching the burning barn, I'm just saying it maybe drew a parallel.

Last edited by lara1 (10/19/2017 11:05 am)

Red and the Naval Academy - For some reason, here is a thought that popped into my head.  It kind of lines up with one of my "imposter" theories - really a "manufactured identity" theory - that I mentioned on the discussion pages just now about Liz's memory wipe two years ago.

We've all been talking about Red's age when he entered/graduated the Academy and so forth.  And how it was improbable that ballerina girl (because of her age) could ilne up with someone given that timeline (i.e. have a child around 1977, be in the Naval Academy etc) 

Here's a thought - what if Red is lying, and did not enter the Academy at 17 - its part of his cover story or "manufactured identity" -what if he was older and in fact planted there as part of overall deep cover.  Full disclosure - I've always thought Red was a bit older than what he said, say around 4 years.  Four years would make him old enough to have had another family, another house , a normal life, etc prior to his Academy "assignment"

Some of us have struggled with how Red could be an imposter or other identity if he knew Richard, the Admiral.  Well maybe he did - its just that he (Red) was older when he entered the Academy as part of his undercover assignment.  Might also explain how he was then out and running fairly important undercover missions right away - (he was already experienced at that)

well just another theory for today!  
 

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