She does know it was from Kaplan.  Red told her Kaplan unearthed something she shouldn’t when he admitted that the thing Tom was investigating was his secret.

Brittany - I had forgotten that part of it. If she knows Kaplan "unearthed" the secret, she might very well be thinking it's a body. Kaplan had a track record of unearthing bodies.

Brittany - It was unearthed. Red told Liz in The Cook, "It was an item Mr. Kaplan unearthed that I wished to keep hidden."

Welcome Dizzy! What you wrote goes along with one of my theories about Red being an imposter in the form of Katarina with the real RR's bones in the duffel bag. I agree that it fits Garvey knowing the bones are RR, and wanting to know the whole story - who Red really is. That's definitely one of my three theories, and it's not even the wildest. There are so many variables in the show, I don't limit myself to just one theory. 

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I think she is going to put Kaplan, unearthed and the fact that Tom got Nik to help together as soon as she finds out her badge was swiped.  We have been saying for a while that we do not know why this has not come up?  
​Could it be that Cooper saw it?  Some of us have been saying for a while he knows more than he says. 
The previews next week show Copper saying 'it's time the truth came out'.  I think he knows what Red's secret is. 



 

Brittany wrote:

Perhaps Liz will be able to focus more efficiently on figuring out the secret now that Garvey is dead. She was so focused on him it detracted from the bag to a degree. Perhaps she will start connecting dots.

I think you're right about her focus on Garvey. Now her focus will be the secret.
 

I'm always torn on if Cooper knows more than he lets on or not.  They haven't really developed his character much over the last couple of seasons....he just gives orders for the most part.  He and Red have history, as they showed in the beginning of the series and Cooper told Liz in season 4, but they haven't brought it up much.  

IowaWatcher wrote:

I think the show runners are leaving their options open to some extent. They have Plan A if the show is renewed for Season 6 and Plan B is it isn't. Didn't someone post here about there being two sets of scenes being filed for the finale? I might be confusing that with something else I read!

I'm not sure if you are referring to something I've considered in the past, but I wondered if they had an alternate ending for season 4 because the renewal didn't come in until right before the finale aired.  In the deleted scenes for that episode, there is this alternate scene with Liz and Kaplan where Kaplan is in the attic of that barn (it looks like Kaplan is wearing the clothes she had one when she digs up the suitcase) and she and Liz are more combative versus that tenderness with that scene between them by the water that we see.  I don't know if we were meant to see both and it was cut for time or if they had it set up so that if they didn't get renewed they could end things differently.  But I also have wondered if they had their options open for the ID of the bones for renewal or cancellation status for this season. 

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The blackmail thing is what puts me in the Cooper doesn’t know anything camp.   His letter to Ressler made me wonder again if he did know more, but there could have been any number of things he confessed to in there that we already know.

Big Badd Bazzer wrote:

The Ass Crack of Dawn - Stubby Kaye - Cat Ballou - and then walks Anthony!

Sensational, sizzling writing to set up a dramatic situation!

 
BBB - thanks for listing the names bc I didn't get a chance to write them down    Now Cat Ballou is another title for The Blacklist must watch movie list. Cat Ballou had two characters played by one actor, the characters were brothers (one good and one bad), a daughter became an outlaw to avenge her father's death, and the daughter's uncle disguised himself as a drunken preacher to save her.

A lot of parallels to TBL in general and to this particular episode. I forget the episode, but I thought about Red acting as a preacher with the IRS agent.

And welcome Dizzy!