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BLE126 - S6E10 - #160 The Cryptobanker

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Case Profile for #160 The Cryptobanker

Could Red’s time in the clink finally be coming to an end. He seems to think so as he sets Lizzy and the task force out to find The Cryptobanker, a man who turns dirty money into digital currency for the criminal underworld. This keeps Liz at bay while Red hatches a plan with Vontae and the gang to escape from prison. He needs to because in order to protect the task force, and not bring his current informant deal into the public eye, Red pleads guilty to all charges. Now he faces the most severe punishment in the United States Arsenal, death. The Cryptobanker is important in the plan to ink a new immunity agreement with the U.S. Government but as is The Blacklist, things don’t always go according to plan.

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The Cryptobanker In Pictures

Here are a just a few of our favorite scenes from this week.

The Music of The Cryptobanker

Over a set of headphones as the payment is being made we hear “Something’s Off” by the Jacuzzi Boys. Then when Red takes out the Warden we hear Jonny Redmond’s “Leave My Cares Behind”. When Liz tells Cooper about her suspicions and checks in with Red at the prison we hear “Run Through the Jungle” from Creedence Clearwater Revival and finally as the verdict is revealed we hear “Diggin a Hole” by Mississippi Twilight.

You can hear these songs via the official Blacklist playlist on Spotify or the same playlist recreated by us on Apple Music. 

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Ohhhhhh no! Say it ain’t so! You have been my gonto gal! I understand your feeling though. They have really jumped the shark. Would not be surprised to see them pull Rederina out of the bag no matter how illogical it is 😱☹️

Unless things change by the end of season 6, this blog will be deleted in May 2019.

If the show cannot keep a straight timeline, or the premise that Red does not lie to Liz is not kept, thus making the show not a puzzle, but a regular story in which an event moves up or down at year at the drop of a fedora, this blog is a waste of time that will be deleted.

So, reblog the entries you might want to keep. 

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I’ve been at the point uare now since 4.22. It is useless to try to make sense of the timeline and facts given. ☹️ #bunchofbs

Where I am after THE tape.

this is where I am.

IF we accept that that tape has the truth, that there was nothing doctored about it, was not made at some other time after March and relayed in December 1990, AND that RR was at his desk and not in a secret mission somewhere unseen or with a bandaged head, THEN we are forced to accept one of 2 things:

A. Red has been lying to Liz. Not RedSpeak, but simple unadorned lies: That KR walked into the ocean 2 months after the fire in 1990, AND that Liz was 4 years old at the time of the fire.

B. the writers are throughly incapable of keeping a whiteboard with a single black line where all important events, especially the ones from 1981 to 1995 are kept straight.

Both options are incredibly unappealing to me. The allure of the show to me is that Red, while speaking RedSpeak, would not directly lie to Liz about things of the past (while doing so for cases), because that created the puzzle of fitting pieces seemingly impossible, into a coherent whole. And if the writers are simply throwing out entire episodes out the window.

These are things as they stand:

RR disappeared on Christmas Eve 1990

Liz was 4 years old at the time of the fire. She was born around March.

Katarina Rostova walked into the Ocean in 1990, 2 months after the fire => This makes the fire be, the latest, in October 1990.

the FBI have been tracking RR since 1995. Liz said she knew he had been dead for 5 years, that would make him dead in at the beginning of 1990, not the end.

the submarine sinks in March 1990

the tape of the call is marked as Dec 7th, 1990

Katarina arranged for Red to have surgery with Dr. Koehler on Oct 3rd, 1991

in 1992 Red is arranging the kidnapping of Hans to become the criminal the world thought he was

Sutton Ross thought Red gave him the plans for the Grayscape 17, but Red said he did not. Date unspecified.

Red’s graduation date should have been 1981, because he said he went into the Naval Academy at 17 and said he is turning 60 in 2020

Dom seems to have a long relationship with Red, defers to him, and says that Red made a decision for Katarina that led to her being “gone”. A colossal mess. Red’s island escape is in Dom’s house and Kate seemed unaware of who Katarina and Dom really were.

Red told Liz, in an episode written by JB that Carla was his wife. It was repeated 2 more times in subsequent episodes.

Lord Baltimore looks for a woman who lived in DC before 1990. Also n the same episode written by JB.

Sorry, the only theory that is left standing is the twin.

So, I think that unless something proves the assumptions made about the tape as stated above, the show had lost its luster, the appeal that it was a well made show (not perfect) and the writers were presenting us with a worthy puzzle are not warranted by the facts when an entire year vanishes from the canon, and 5 seasons are wiped out.

I will continue to watch to see if any new information appears that challenges the tape to the timeline, but until then, theorizing about it is not worth my time, it is an entertaining show I watch, much as I watch Schitt’$ Creek.

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My o my!😱

Spoilers for the upcoming two part premiere of The Blacklist!

Thanks again to @blacklist_JS on Twitter for making sure I saw this

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Boland on “The Blacklist”

You’ve seen Mike Boland in shows at seemingly every theater in Connecticut. Now you can watch him on TV.

Boland will be a recurring character on the next (sixth) season of the dark NBC thriller “The Blacklist.” The ubiquitous local actor reports that he plays “Warden Macatee, [who] runs the prison where James Spader’s character is incarcerated. So we are obviously not on friendly terms in the show. I’ve shot one episode so far. Doing another this week, and they tell me another in November.”

You might have seen Boland in the long-eared comedy “Where All Good Rabbits Go” at Ridgefield’s Thrown Stone theater this past summer, or as one of the townsfolk in “An Enemy of the People” at Yale Rep last year, or in “Unnecessary Farce” at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford in 2016. He was also in “Orphans Home Cycle” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” at Hartford Stage, “The Exonerated” at TheaterWorks, several shows during the Doug Hughes regime at Long Wharf, and two national tours (“Twelve Angry Men” and “West Side Story”) that visited The Bushnell.

http://www.ctnow.com/arts-theater/behind-the-curtain/hc-fea-connecticut-theater-news-1014-story.html

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Crying 

redtember | day seventeen - favorite sad scene 

Lizzy, there’s something I want you to understand about your father Sam. That night when he took you in– without hesitation– Sam made a difficult choice that changed the course of his life. And that’s where you find yourself now.

for anon

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Love Teesa’s analysis!

Puzzle pieces - a 2016 analysis of pieces

A series on the elements of the puzzle in late 2016

Red and Tom

Liz, her parents and grandparents

an argument for Red being married to Katarina, not having an affair with her.

Cape May

Katarina

Sam & Liz’s father,  criminal past. Did Sam had a criminal past? And who taught Liz to steal and shoot?

Red and the name Tom Keen. Was Scottie like Katarina?

Fitch, Berlin, Red, The Major, Tom & the unknown Berlin’s puppet master

Liz’s fantasy: the gauzy floral dress connection

Takoma Park, the memories, the hidden height chart.

the conundrum of the conflicting values.

Ekaterina: KGB, American agent, or a double agent?  Part 1: the questions

a miserable housewife, a lie to protect a beta male’s ego or an undercover spy agreed cover life?

which side was Liz’s mother really? Part 1: the premise; Part 2: the evidence to examine; Part 3: the context;  Part 4: the analysis .

is Jennifer to Red what Liz is to Rostov?

The diary: yes, written by Katarina but true or a fabrication destined to make Rostov see what she wanted him to see?

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Thsnks. U r great to share.

Master deleted scenes page. Seasons 1-4. [x]

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Hey, I’m with ya. What fives?

She chose him. He made her happy. Welcome to another round of heartbreak.

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Who is Red, the man who has been posing as Raymond Reddington? Part 5: Anslo Garrick to Madeline Pratt

By 1.09 we have quite a bit of information on Red.  1.09 presents a rare occasion to see Ressler pull a fast one on Red.  Without any glitch he plays on Red’s worry about Liz, by telling him she was detained and instead of answering his questions, Ressler fuels his anxiety.  Well done Donald.

What the hell do you want? Keen needs you. Then why isn’t she here? You mean why didn’t she fly to Munich on 10 minutes’ notice? You made the trip. She’s been detained. By whom? The situation’s above my security clearance. I was just given the job of locating you. No, you said she’s been detained. Is she in danger? There’s a jet on the tarmac at Munich International. My plane’s faster.

Red does not call Liz directly, proving that like with the wedding, he IS subject to emotions in his blind spot: Liz.

Now I want to draw attention to who is used to provide the false intel: Meera Malik. It is CIA intel, and while we did not know at the time about Peter, he was there.  Anslo is the other time he shot an associate in the head and missed.  Red sometimes does not learn from his mistakes.  He thinks Anslo survived because of some different ammunition, but the reality might be different.

Red tells Ressler quite a bit about him:

Allies today, enemies tomorrow. The world is a complex place, further complicated by man’s fickle nature. Years ago, I saved a man’s life under a beautiful old cedar tree in Lebanon. A month later, he tried to kill me in a hotel in Damascus. I understood. Allegiances shift. A month later I broke his neck with a shower caddy. It’s this job today, another one tomorrow. That needle in your arm becomes the one in your neck. It’s just that fast.

leaving out the poetics lines, he tells Ressler actual information:

It’s the core of your business Information. Misinformation. I don’t know how you did it, Reddington. Forsaking the flag, abandoning your country. We become who we are. We can’t judge a book by its cover. But you can by its first few chapters and, most certainly, by its last. So, what’s it all about, then, the blacklist? Revenge? Oh, revenge is too easy and over so quickly. I would hope for more than that.

he tells him: We become who we are. We can’t judge a book by its cover. But you can by its first few chapters and, most certainly, by its last.

We can’t judge a book by its cover. is a saying, but now, knowing that Red is not RR, does it not take a different meaning?  Do not judge a person by his/her “cover” identity?   So not just take it at face value, but in the case of an undercover, the face value might not even be who he/she really is.

Judge him by its first few chapters, would that be his Naval career or some other part and we will have to wait to the last.

And he talks about wanting more than revenge.   So he is not saying that he is not after a revenge, he is saying that is not all, and what is more than revenge?   Justice, and eliminating something that is wrong.  He will retake the revenge issue by citing Confucious to the Debt Collector,  and in the words to Tom in the deleted scene when he tell Tom that it is not possible to go on a scorched earth revenge mission and come back and be a father.

He hangs Luther Braxton by a tie in Peter’s house, as Braxton had hung an associate of his years back.  

This revenge business and the justice by his own hand, introduces a theme for Red.  The religious imagery and the theme of the devil and the saint, which culminates in the Endling:  [I believe] That a sinner can also be a saint.

We have had several images of Red as an avenging angel, dressed in black, down to the beanie, with Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”  as the song, in a scorched earth mission, killing all the participants in the Anslo Garrick incursion.  We have had him taking cover in Sinagogues and  Churches, using them as Sanctuaries, and we have had many references to him being the devil:

I don’t know how you do it the duplicity. How does the devil in you contend with the angel?  I would have kicked her out years ago.

Speak of the devil, It’s the devil

Manny, as always, you look like hell. Says the devil himself

You’re squatting in a church. I usually have a devil of a time getting to sleep, but here I sleep like a babe in the manger.

when the envelope came back, I was scared it would confirm the devil was my father. I didn’t look at it. Threw it away

I’m the devil on one shoulder, and you’re the angel on her other. She’s in troubled waters, Harold. Please help her to navigate them.

God doesn’t want me, and the devil isn’t finished.

and Liz references it to the physchologist, accepting that he is good and bad:

 Some of what he’s done is unimaginably bad. But some of what he’s done for me is unimaginably good. 

and we have the question and answer that sparks controversy even now, over 4 years after the fact:

One question, please. It’s about my father. Growing up, Sam, he raised me like his own. He was my whole world. But he wasn’t my father. What is the question, Lizzy? Are you my father? No.

now let me put what Red tells Sam:

You will always be her father, Sam. I can only hope to love her and protect her as you would have.

so here it is Liz, saying that good as Sam was, even describing him as her whole world, he was not her father, while Red had told Sam that Sam would always be her father.   Red’s views on paternity are clear:

It doesn’t matter. She lived at at your house as your daughter on and off for four years. Sometimes you were there, sometimes you weren’t. What difference does it make? Are you her father? Sam Milhoan raised her after that. Are you her father? It doesn’t matter.

biology should not matter to the child, it should not matter to the parent. It should not matter to Kirk, because he believed she was his daughter for 4 years, and after that Sam raised her.  If Red is her biological father or not should not matter.  

So when Liz is sayng that Sam was not her father, she is denying all that Sam did.  Red had promised Sam that he would not take his place.  How can he now say yes.  Even if Lis is not his biological child, he has been protecting her as her father would.

But Liz’s quest is about her origins, and that involves her biological parents.

Red and the Beef Stroganoff is one of the best illustrations of how Red finds pleasure in the little things.  Just because he was there for information does not mean he was not anticipating the meal, or enjoyed the smell and the company.  The theme will  be repeated many times in the show, Cynthia and the cucumber dip, Mads Eriksson and the cookies and milk, the beef in his storage units, the bellinis, etc. etc.

Red has a zest for enjoying life, a trait he shares with Katarina. But then I imagine that when so much of your life is risk, undercover, pretending, the only way to survive and be good is to enjoy the little moments.

in the Alchemist we see Red telling us he loves puzzles and we see him assembling one: who was the mole in the post office:  he had discarded Aram, the fist mole, and Meera knows he will come for her, because she signed the documents, so she knows she was a patsy too.

The next case is one of the most interesting in the show, not in itself, but in the themes and how Red describes it:

There’s nothing more profound and of lasting consequence than the decision to have a child. The exploitation and perversion of that decision is the stock and trade of a truly evil organization

moving stolen children is difficult. There’s copious amounts of paperwork.

I always felt he is talking about something else.   In that time we had no idea of the story, but now we have 2 children stolen: Liz herself, by the father, because the Cold War was too hard on him, and Tom, by people unknown for reasons unknown, and we have had Agnes stolen by a man who believed himself he was the grandfather.

Red is talking about paperwork to move a stolen child and because Liz was smuggled or brought from Canada, so unless she was not moved through a border and they took back roads, chances are she was moved with forged paperwork to the US.

But also I am intrigued by the first phrase: There’s nothing more profound and of lasting consequence than the decision to have a child. The exploitation and perversion of that decision is the stock and trade of a truly evil [X]. Could he be talking about Katarina?

When your mother was pregnant with you, it was terribly inconvenient. The Cold War was ending. Her country was falling apart. Everything she had ever known. She dreaded having a child. Almost aborted it. Not one day of her pregnancy did she ever think of you as anything but a curse. And then, from the second you were born there was never a day when she thought you were anything but a blessing

Katarina deciding to have the child, then exploiting that by making Rostov believe it was his?  Did Carla do the same to Red with Jennifer? 

Is that his shame? That he allowed Katarina to use Liz as bait for Rostov, and was Katarina, the one who was teaching, protecting and nourishing Liz:

if I nourished and protected and taught the child, she would be safe and happy.

@niteshade925 directed my attention to the 1oth clue that Red gives us, joining apples, hair, names, rabbits, dogs, Christmas, eyes, puzzles and the indication to look at all the clues together. and this clue is how to look at DNA, not just as an exact match, but looking at the relatives, which is how they find the mothers of the children, the abducted women. 

So I think it is saying look how to find people through DNA, and an exact match is not always needed, look at the relatives.  How were the bones identified in season 5, when we are told that Reddington DNA is not on file in 3.11?  Look at the relatives: Garvey had Jennifer, the alleged daughter of RR, except we know that Red is not Jennifer’s father (”I’m never going to tell you where my daughter is.”), even if there is doubt that Red was the man she thought of as being her father.

While 3.12 introduces another DNA use: create a false trail by making someone appear to be dead while they are alive. It could be a way to think of the bones, that DNA was extracted from a tooth,  and the tooth could have been planted.  Yet there are ways to tell if a tooth has been modified, and the skeleton had a set of intact teeth, so that would have required a much simpler  ID process, a teeth match, there was no DNA needed for ID.

Red also kills Diane, even after she offers him to tell him:

I know the truth, Red about that night about what happened to your family. Do you want to know the truth? More than anything in the world. 

This does not sound like Red. Nothing stopped him from taking Diane, patching her up, torture the hell out of her, get the information, then kill her.  There was no need to leave a mess there, and not get the information. He always has, even if it involves such a threat as burying a body in a cement box to a Native American scared not of death or pain, but of eternity in a box.

And to me the answer is that he already knows what happened to his family, which at the time we did not know.  But if Carla and Jennifer were in Protective custody to be hidden from the cabal, and the cabal was running surveillance on Diane too, then the worst that could happen is that Diane blabs that they are in protective custody.

He shoots her when she makes a threat:

If you come after me, if you so much as lay a finger on me–

and tells her:

You talk too much.

shooting her again when she offers to tell him about his family.

Madeline Pratt offers us a lot of information, starting with the safe deposit box in Istanbul.

I didn’t know anything about the safe deposit box until I saw the will.  I’ve had all the necessary paperwork certified– the trust and the death certificate.  The paperwork is in order. But to access your husband’s box, you will need the key.

Madeline gets to is by claiming she is Reddington’s widow and by stealing the key, to prove she could open it, with the trust and the death certificate.

Think about it. 

Reddington had a box that when a woman went with the right papers, a trust and a death certificate, and said she was the widow, she could get in, provided she had the key.  That means that in the paperwork of that box there was a Mrs. Reddington, a trust for her, if she had a key.

Remember Red giving Carla  something, unseen by Liz and Frank? I bet because his previous safety net for her was gone with Madeline.

then we have the bloody Christmas house story.   But again remember the campy performance of the gay minder, or his offering Madeline to go to Tegucigalpa, and finally when Madeline double crosses him by using him as a distraction he engineers a performance where he pretends they are kidnaped and he is taken for torture, arriving back bloody, sweaty and unable to even stand. But notice how padded he is in the street before they are “tased”.

I do believe the story has truths: Part 1 is a lovely recollection of a Christmas eve story, I think possibly the idea where this came from,

a past occurrence .

I ran out of gas. I was so excited to get home, I didn’t even bother to look. My head was just I ran out of gas. It was Christmas Eve. I pulled off to the side of the road. Seemed like it’d been snowing for days. No traffic. No cars to come help. Just me and a car full of gifts. It was more than 20 years ago. I must have walked four miles five, maybe. It was so still. Just cold and white. The whole time, all I could think about was them in our house. The warm light in the windows, the smoke from the chimney. The sound of my daughter at the piano. The smell of the tree and the fire, oyster stew on the stove. I was so upset to think that I’d ruined Christmas for them, being late, leaving the gifts in the car. But the closer I got, the more I realized how funny the whole thing was, how much they’d love the story, daddy running out of gas, how every Christmas they’d get such joy from telling that story at my expense. And then, finally I got there. I walked I walked through the door.

the second part is suspiciously  similar to Liz’s description of Zamani’s attack

And there was just blood. All I saw was blood. All there was was blood.

Uh, there was blood. There was blood everywhere.

while the third part is a memory of a young daughter.

I can I can still s-smell the nape of her neck feel her little fingers on my cheek her whisper in my ear. That’s why I didn’t show up in Florence. It’s why I haven’t shown up in a lot of places over the years. 

Since only a true monster would use a tragedy of that caliber to extract information, in the midst of a fake kidnapping and torture session.  But he cared enough to also give her an explanation.

The story of the effigy and the father who “died” the day the soldiers came is interesting. 

All I remember is opening a door and seeing him holding the statue. He slipped something inside it, a piece of paper…. But he placed the effigy in my arms and told me to run and protect it.I was 7. When the Americans found me, they took the statue as a trophy.  They let me go, but my father What happened to your father? I never saw him again. For me, that was the day he died.

But the father is not dead, the father became someone tied to an extremist group

Homeland has a person of interest tied to that mosque– a cleric named Firas Ashear. And he’s connected how? We’re not sure. But the biggest red flag is his family’s connection to The People’s Liberation Alliance. Extremist organization out of Aleppo. Apparently, the father is a local warlord - with financial ties to the group.

An interesting parallel to Liz and the fire.  And Red, who I think at the fire ceased to be who he was to become a criminal.

And I somehow think something more about the Kungur6, infiltrated in the 1970, because the age fits with Dom’s.

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Man in flames. The actor seems to be different in the Connolly version, so. Probably the role switchery. But same clothes, same position. At some point she sees this (if she’s remembering it), just not sure when. They have the audio of, ‘Daddy, no!’ put over one of these clips, but that’s another thing that might or might not actually pertain to the footage it’s edited with. 

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Fire Analysis after 5.22. Part 5: the fights Liz see

Little Liz gets out of the closet and advances down the hallway towards the window, and she sees fights at the end of it. There are two fights: one between Katarina and Blond Man and one between Blond Man and Hat Man.  She sees them in various degrees of clarity in 2.10, but this is the first discernible one without much more than a bit of sharpening: Blond Man striking someone down, pushing them down to the right of the frame. (you can always see a bit better by saving the GIF, then seeing frame by frame (time consuming but worth it))

this is a detail

and she sees Hat Man fighting with Blond Man, hitting them with his right fist upwards.  

This will be clearer later.

Keep reading

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It just gets more confusing 🤪

Fire Analysis after 5.22 - Part 1B: The persons who left in the middle.

The three men segment comes after Liz remembers someone letting go of her hand.

I had seen this many times, noting the man had gloves, because I was looking at this image:

then @irondestinypolice​ asked me if I could see in a superimposed image a woman leaving.   I tried, but could not, but the idea stuck in my mind.   I was partly wrong. This is the image:

So here is what that sequence is showing: 

it seems that Plaid Man and Blond Man are at the door already. The third person arrives. Note Middle Person has no gloves

and could be carrying a gun in the right hand. Now look at the left hand:

it is behind him/her.  Could be taking Liz out, in this moment:

Liz turning to see the man left behind, in the floor, bleeding and unable to get up.  There is a solicitousness  in the way Plaid Man and Blonde Man help this person

let the person out first:

note the whitish object/person to the right of the legs of plaid man: it could be the garment/clothLiz is wrapped in:

the third person reaches the door, and opens it

see the door opening in this fragment

The other person who could be Third Person is the man face down in the ground, being helped out, but this person had a tan coat and gloves:

very similar to the man in a hat:

then we have a cut and we see this image:

this person has a very fitted black coat.   This is not the long raincoat worn by the blond man, nor the garment worn by the person taking Liz out, because 

those have  sleeves that are roomier:

like the man seen face down

so in short, one of those figures IS Katarina, I do not know which, I think is the first one because of the deference shown by Blond and Plaid.But that

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I totally agree

The 2.10 fire recall gets very complicated because once Red arrives, we see his memories and Liz’s memories.  To me at least, it seems this way.

Once the smoke starts in the closet, and Liz is pulled out, her memories are marked for  the audience by seeing adult Liz. Adult Liz walking down the hallway, turning, getting the burn. 

So the first GIF to the left is Liz’s memories, she is turning to see something.

The next GIF to the right, showing little Liz turning as she is led out, is the corresponding image from Red’s perspective. 

And the last GIF down, is what Liz is seeing: the man face down in the floor and he is trying to get up.

Is he Red? Well for one when Red hears Liz says in 2.22 that she remembered  everything, he flashes to his own memories of the fire, and those memories include the feet sequence.

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James Spader interview with Vulture

One of the best James Spader interviews I’ve read, but a bit old - from September of 2013. Sailing is discussed as well as his new movie, The Homesman, and what appealed to James about Red.

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What are your thoughts about the flat? Red the impostor's or the real Raymond Reddington's?

Hi anon, I think it was Red’s.  As I have said in other post I am not even sure the real RR even existed.   But in theory, RR was married to Carla and was Jennifer’s father, but there are no photos of Carla or Jennifer, even though Red obviously has an emotional connection to Carla.

Some photos of Liz and Sam, Liz and Katarina and Liz graduating. None of Jennifer.  But a graduating class of naval midshipmen, two Russian paintings, an old master, a plaid blanket, and pictures of families from old ago.

And Marshal Zhukov.

We certainly have a puzzle

And this photo that I feel I should know which city it is in Europe

a lamp with a Russian cross detail

Books about art, books in Russian, and lots of records.  Katarina speaks about a Raymond, and Rostov recognizes the name but he also recognizes the voice of a man on whose mouth he once had a gun inside.   It it Red who has the relationship with Dom, and it is Red who hallucinates with Katarina calling him Raymond.  It is Red who Sam talks about having an agreement, and Raymond who Kate says mattered that both Katarina and Raymond  trusted. So I think it is safe to say that from the time Liz was born Red has been called Raymond or his name is Raymond, even if his last name is not Reddington.

And it is Red who is slapped by Carla.  So Red seems to be in a confluence of those 2 women and their daughters.   And we have a period, from the fire until the kidnapping of Hans that we have no idea what was Red doing. 

I think this is where he lived when he “disappeared”. A place with a picture of a US Air Force Lieutenant  (WWII) and a picture of Marshal Zhukov. Books in English and Russian.  I think Red has Russian origins, specifically his mother.