Awesome, Tuxie!

Well, it won't be long now!

Patter wrote:

Tuxie, with their twisted relationship, Red would probably applaud Liz for that plan. 

He could be disappointed and at the same time impressed  - again.
 

Even though they haves teased this like crazy, there really are a few ways it could go, even with all of the clues we've seen from the beginning.i think the most obvious one would be that Red is, indeed, an imposter. It goes right back to the Pilot with his "everything about me, is a lie." statement. If he is not an imposter, then he is really Red, but is acting the part of the criminal overlord. That is from later when he says that he became what they always said he was. But I also think that when Miles McGrath said he was the spy who never came in from the cold that that is also true about him. He looked somewhat uncomfortable and totally;brushed off the remark by saying they needed to get that book on cassette for the car. So my final pre-finale take is that Red is Red, but the criminal part is the lie. He’s a spy and always has been. I think that whatever happened between he and Katarina, that he killed her. At the very least he got her killed, maybe by accident, maybe by goofing something up. As much as I would love to have Katarina still be alive, I think those are her bones in the bag. I think they faked her death originally, and that’s what got into the newspapers. But something went wrong and she died. Red had to cover up the real death. Maybe that's where Velov comes into the story. He helped in some way to perpetuate the idea that she was still alive. Or maybe she was until just about that time. It could be that she had become a liability and after being seen that she posed a danger to Liz by being alive. maybe that was Reds Hobson’s Choice. He had to choose whether to,keep protecting Katarina or to kill her in order to protect Elizabeth.

I don’t  know, and only tonight may tell. Or maybe just tell part of it. That would be what I would expect from a story of half truths, coverups, etc.

You did very well, HW! I don't even try to type more than one sentence.

I scanned through all 21 pages in this thread. There are some really good ideas here! I hope the finale is as good as some of the ideas that members of this board have put forth! If not, they should hire us. I still believe that the hard-core fans are entitled to write one episode!

We've earned at least that much.