I wonder if this is the episode where Red and Liz travel to Paris. It sounds interesting. I'm looking forward to finding out what "unexpected event" sends Tom looking for info about his past.

Article from EW just now on the actress who will be playing Isabella Stone in two week's time.....

http://ew.com/tv/2017/01/24/blacklist-melora-hardin/

Last edited by lara1 (1/24/2017 11:04 pm)

So great that Melora Hardin will be on TBL!

Harry's recent post asked us who we'd like to see guest star on TBL.  I mentioned anyone who was on Monk (I'm a huge fan). Tony Shalhoub (who played Monk) already played Alistair Pitt on TBL. Hardin played Monk's wife and although it wasn't a big role, the entire series hinged on her character.

She also played on The Office, but I don't think it was at the same time as Spader. Does anyone know for sure?

Thanks Lara1! 

2 interesting sneak peeks and a clip about tonights episode

one is Red talking to Liz (extended version from promo)

one is about Red's conversation with Tom

Interestingly Tom's father comes up in both.  Two things:

an "unexpected event" will happen
"Isabella Stone" is an alias.  

I'm thinking again why Red is so worried.  I have two ideas:

1.  she is more of a threat to Liz than to Red
2.  She knows secrets about, or is otherwise connected in a meaningful way to Red.  And what if, in the mommy theory, she knows enough about both Katarina and Red to suss out that maybe Red is K?  or she is otherwise able to grab into some secret from his past.....

Tom/Red:http://www.eonline.com/news/827825/what-is-up-with-tom-s-family-on-the-blacklist-red-gives-him-a-harsh-warning-in-this-sneak-peek

Liz/Red:http://www.tv.com/news/the-blacklist-sneak-peek-red-warns-liz-about-isabella-stone-14866542130053852/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

thanks again to Aly for finding and posting these!

Edited to include third idea:  unlike the other criminals Red deals with, she doesn't have a code of like mutual respect etc.  So she will go after anyone and everyone.  The question still is though, why is she after Red?  I don't think she is Kaplan's sister or anyone like that.  But she seems pretty ticked off with our Red.  It doesn't sound like she is out to take over his business empire, more like she is just after him for more personal reasons.  But who knows, and could be both!
 

Last edited by lara1 (2/09/2017 12:44 pm)

That's an interesting idea, Tatiana. That Red may have had something to do with Tom's disappearance. 30 years ago would have been 1987 or so. Red was probably starting to think about rescuing Liz and Katarina (trying to persuade her to leave per her journal entry) from what was becoming a dangerous situation for them. Maybe Tom's father was also involved in whatever Red was doing officially, since Red was still working in his official capacity and Red had the chance to help him get the boy away from a potentially bad situation of his own? Obviously, Red knows a lot more about the whole situation than he's willing to tell Tom. So i wonder if it may somehow be tied to his own problems at that time? If he tells Tom, then it opens up whatever he doesn't want Liz to know about, besides who he really is to her, because I think it's deeper than that.

Yes, lara1, that's something that has been kind of in the back of my mind for some time. I haven't sat down and figured out how it would work or anything, so it's not really a theory or anything yet. But for me it goes back to the MKUltra and warrior gene stories. We have talked before about what it might be that makes Liz "special". Aside from Red now admitting, under duress, that she is his daughter. Actually it was kind of anticlimactic for him to finally say it, since many of us sort of thought that was the case from the beginning. And a lot of other people seem to know it, too. The big question is why can't he tell her? Of course now it's more complicated because he tells her he never lies to her. He's told her that her father is dead and so he can't exactly come out and say, oh by the way, I'm your father, which means I lied to you. Then there's the thing that Liz/Masha was hidden for years, even Kirk never came looking for her. Whatever her "specialness" is, it isn't related to him, and neither is she, of course. I think the "special" one is Red himself. That was confirmed to me by Cape May, where he has that conversation with himself about killing people and he tells "Katarina" that you learn to recognize "it" because there aren't many of us. So was Red a product of some program looking to create a super warrior or super agent of some sort? He obviously has the warrior gene. Were his parents a part of this program? We know almost nothing about his family, so anything is possible as far as that goes. He seems to have a lot of qualities that they might be looking for. Anyway, my current thinking is, and has been for some time, that Red and Katarina didn't accidentally meet and have that child. And I keep wondering if the scandalous part of that might be that they were fairly closely related. They had no idea, of course. But somebody knew or knows. Maybe that's why Red can't bring himself to tell Liz. And maybe that was what he whispered to Kirk. Kirk sat down like "what?", but something like that might put such a new light on the situation that he could decide that letting Red live with it was worse than killing him.

Anyway, those were some thoughts I had about why they might have "network issues" about the subject and why doesn't Red just tell her I had an affair with your mother and we had you.

Also, regarding Tom, Red seems to know an awful lot about him and how he can never change who and what he is and shouldn't marry Liz and raise a child, etc. Maybe he sees parallels with his own situation and he knows enough about Tom's origins to know he is just not a good idea.

In any case, it will be interesting to see how the story plays out. I am not married to these ideas, by any means! And they are probably totally off the wall! But so many things just don't make sense.