I have always found it interesting that people took Kirk’s comment about hurting his own daughter to mean Red had done something to his own.  I had thought it meant one of three things: 1) that Kirk believed Red was mistakenly believing he was Liz’s father and that he had hurt her with his actions, 2) that Kirk was implying Red was the type of person who would hurt his own daughter, not that he actually had or 3) that Kirk was taking a jab at Red for hurting (by abandoning) his daughter when he chose a life of crime, which Kirk would have known since the whole world appeared to know he walked away from his family.

I was just thinking about all the ways Tom could have handled the suitcase differently that didn’t result in his death.  Even if he had done everything the same leading to the point they had to go to that empty house to get first aid and another car.  He had time to change the bones to the duffle bag and the guns to the suitcase. He could have stolen the results, since Red likely didn’t know they were in with the bones.  He could have even just read the results and put them back.  Liz would have believed him without the bones.  But then this season would have been very different and we wouldn’t have spent as much time analyzing a skeleton and every word ever uttered as we have.  Lol.  They sure do know how to keep us engaged.

Last edited by Brittany (3/18/2018 7:03 pm)

Ya know, when I heard him say those words, that he wouldn't harm his own daughter, I was thinking what do you think you have already done? 

I think it depends. I got the feeling that although she wants justice she wants to know why Tom dies over this and wants to know herself.  She wants him dead, but wants to know.

Lara, I'm waiting for them to say a name in a suitcase that may not make any sense to us. L o l
That might be part of our cliffhanger.  Making us Spend  all summer wondering how it fits. 

I have also wondered if the person could be someone we don't know, but a name Tom would recognize.  I don't think they would leave us with that question hanging over our heads all summer.  I would think we would have some information about it even if not everything.  But they could also just leave it like that to say "see, it isn't Raymond Reddington, Katarina Rostova, or Masha Rostova.  So you've got that answered". It would drive people bananas.
 

As a couple of other people have mentioned, I've found myself hitting the theory wall on the show for the moment without more clues to provide support for speculation and I've been avoiding all my blacklist stuff the last couple of days and probably won't look again until closer to Wednesday.   I did, however, have one last thought that I wanted to post about the potential suitcase/bones mystery that hit me a few minutes ago.  It is likely born out of insanity induced by the tedium of the bones mystery and it has no concrete evidence for me to back it up with.  lol

Anyhow, we've seen the sisters theme come up quite a bit in season 5.  It makes sense that it most likely was hinting at Jennifer being finally introduced, but what if it could also refer to Katarina having a sister?  In my fake dead Katarina theory, Red has somehow managed to put DNA in the CODIS system that would appear to belong to KR if run against the bones, but unchecked against her child, Liz.  But what if Katarina had an identical twin who died or was killed and that is who was buried in the suitcase?  This would also fit in with the doppleganger stuff.  She could have been intentionally used as a decoy to have as back up in case anyone came looking (perhaps she died from natural causes or was killed in an accident and her body exhumed, etc), or Red could have accidentally killed the wrong sister in the heat of the moment, only to discover the real one still alive (DRAMA!).

Like I said, probably insanity-induced and there's no evidence.  Just a thought based on the themes of the season. 

Brittany, I saw a theory somewhere a while back but cant remember where that they thought Carla could be her sister. 

Eastcoast - The person on tumblr with the Carla as sister theory is kiss-my-freckle.

Honeywest - I think she got the idea from Red's comment.

Twins . . . my brain is hurting!

Yes, that would make sense and fit in with show parallels. I could see the show runners doing something like that to us: giving the bones a name that is meaningless to the audience. Argh!