Dialog between Ilya and Katarina.   


 I, Katarina.  I thought you were dead.

 K, I am dead. 
 
 I, What are we doing here? 

 K, Making sure I stay that way.  

 I, I cannot believe you're alive.
  The papers, How did How did they get it wrong?
 
 K, They didn't. I went into the ocean to end my life.
 
 I,  Yeah, but you came back.

 
 K, I told you my plan.
 
 I, Yeah, well, we need a new plan, one that has even
 a remote chance of success.
 
 K, The KGB knows I betrayed them.
  The Cabal knows I had an affair with a man who has information
 that could destroy them. I am marked, and so is
 everybody I care about guilt by association.
  I won't stand still for that.
 
 I, That is what I hate about you.
 
 K, Don't say that.
 
 I, Well, don't take it personally.
  It's how, uh, all moral relativists feel about righteousness
 in the face of impossible odds.
  On the plus side, I'll have nothing but love for you if we succeed,
  which we won't.
 
  K, We? 

 I, Well, we pledged our lives to each other. 

K, When we were 6. 

I, And a promise is a promise. 

 K, Okay. For this to work, we'd need passports,cash, access, time.
 
  I, Okay, well, which of those do we have? 

 K, None.
 
  I, What, not even time?  I don't understand.
 The world thinks you're dead. 

K, There was an incident at the shelter a man with a gun.
  Velov will hear about it.
  The news of my death would fool most. It won't fool Velov.
 
  K, We did the right thing, right? 

  I, What thing? 

 K, Pulling him from the fire, trying to save his life?
  I can't stop thinking about those firefighters,
  what might have happened if we'd left him there
  if they found him, maybe they could've gotten him help,
  saved Raymond's life. 

I, He would've burned to death.
  We did everything we could, and we got him out. 

K, And yet, he died. 

I, Look here. Glasses. Good luck, Anna Croft.  



After she sees her mom. 



I, She's safe.
 
  K, And out of my life. 

  I, Yeah, for now.
 
  K, Forever.
 
  I, You don't know that.  We got to her first, before Velov.
  Maybe we were wrong about him. Maybe he's not as close as we think.
   Maybe he's not … 
 
  K, Don't stop. It's him. Brown coat.  it's Velov.
 
  I, How? 

K, The man I killed at the shelter.  I used his credit card to pay for the room. 

I, There's nothing in the room that would tell them where we're going. 

K, If he knows I'm alive, he already knows where we're going next. 
 
K, I have to see him. 

I, Velov's men are here to arrest you. 

K, They can't arrest what they can't see. 

I, We have to go in together. 

K, I'll be fine. 


After Ilya kills Velov's  men at Dom's. 


  D, Ilya. 

  I, Sir. It's been too long.
 
  K, We have to get rid of the bodies.
 
  D, You're on her side, too?
 
  I, At that moment, I'd say we are all on the same side, sir. 

  K, They'll destroy him.
 
  I, We did everything we could. We warned him to get out. 
 
  K, Not Papa. Raymond.
 
  I, Reddington's dead.
 
  K, You and I know that, but the Cabal think he's on the run, a liability.
  They'll discredit him to undermine his proof of their existence.
 
  I, Okay, so, you destroy the reputation of a dead man.
 
  K, He had a wife and a daughter.
  She's nearly the same age as Masha.  Jennifer's her name.
  They'll be told that he was a criminal and a traitor, 

 I, And they won't believe it.
 
  K, Don't you understand?  He was my asset.
  I'd been siphoning intel off of him for years.
  You don't think we had plans in place to destroy him if he ever found out that
 he was sleeping with the enemy?
 
 I, Of course they did. 

 K, Money in secret accounts. Paper trails of payoffs.
  Passports in safety-deposit boxes evidence that I
 didn't steal his secrets, but that he shared them with me. 

 I, Alternate history. 

 K, They will destroy him  and they will destroy us, and they won't stop until they do.  



Out on the balcony. 


 I, Katarina!  Stop! Katarina, stop!
 
  K, You said we'd figure a way out of this, and I have.
  You tracked me down here. We fought. I went over the edge.
  You'll be a hero. You'll get your life back.
 
  I, Katarina, please, I have a way to get your life back,
  a way for me to get my life back, a way to escape the Cabal,
  the KGB, the Americans, and no one has to die.
  The world doesn't know what happened
  to Raymond Reddington, Katarina.
  It is a mystery, right?
  So, we give them the answer.
 
  K, What does that mean?
 
  I, Will you let me explain? Let me explain.
 
  K, No. 

 I,  Please, let me explain.
    
  K,  It's clever. But it's absurd.
 
 I, No one knows that Reddington's dead.
 
 K, It would never work.
 
  I, In time, they will think he is on the run, 
  a fugitive and traitor to his country.
 
 K, Because I framed him.
 
 I, Yes, and if the fugitive Raymond Reddington
  can disappear without a trace, then why wouldn't it stand to reason
  that the money you framed him with could disappear, as well?
 
 K. Ilya, it's not that simple.
 
 I, I think it is.
 
  K, Raymond is the only one who can access those accounts.
 
  I, How much? 

  K, I mean, those banks are known to bend the rules.
  They work with criminals, but still, that doesn't
 
  I,Just humor me. How much?
 
  K, $40 million.
   
  I, That is more than we would ever need to stay two steps ahead
  of the the KGB, the Cabal, the Americans.
 
  K, It was easy to get those funds wired in,
  but Raymond would have to show up in person to access that money.
  And since he died in my arms, he won't be able to.
 
  I, I don't think you're entirely grasping what I'm suggesting.
  
  K, What are you suggesting?
 
  I, Becoming Reddington.
 
  K, That would be impossible.
 
  I, What if it's not?
  What if Raymond Reddington were alive
  and able to walk into those banks?
  Of course, we couldn't pull it off alone.
  We'd need help.
 
  I, We need personal details about who Raymond was
  his family life, his work life.
 
  I, And who better to provide those details
  than the woman who spied on him
  who loved him, the woman who invented him?
 
 K, Stop. I hear you. It's a desperate, if not bold, plan.
 
  K, But there's still one thing that doesn't make any sense.
   Why would you do that?
  
  I, To protect you.
 
  K, They'll hunt you.  You'll never be able to stop running. 

  I, Isn't that what we've been doing? Running.
  Besides, why do I have to keep reminding you?  We pledged our lives.
 
  K, Promise me one thing.
 
  I, Anything.
 
 K, If they get to me, if they take me, take care of Masha.
 
 I, Like she was my own.