The man we’ve been following for years has just beenposingas Red, who is actually very much dead.
“It goes all the way back to the very first time Elizabeth Keen met Raymond Reddington.
This trail of breadcrumbs has been five years in the making.”
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Below, Bokenkamp breaks down the clues that pointed to the ultimate truththat Raymond Reddington is an imposter.
Everything about me is a lie.'"
He answered with one word: ‘No.’
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This was the truth.
He is not her father.
Raymond Reddington is her real father."
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Who knows about the work I’ve had done?'"
To this she replied, ‘Not as different as you.’
From this we now know Naomi Hyland was married to the real Raymond Reddington.
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She knows that this is not the real Reddington.
The lingering question: Why on earth would she let him into her life?
That’s why you blocked my memory.
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Not to protect yourself.
To protect me.'
Red: ‘Yeah.’
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And that only had a passing resemblance to the man we’ve been working with.'
Cooper echoed: ‘He disappeared 25 years ago.
He could have had surgery.
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Truth is, nobody really knows what he might look like today.'"
I procured a sample and submitted it for a DNA profile.’
Of course, that blood confirmed that Raymond Reddington is Elizabeth Keen’s father.
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Red confidently boasted: ‘God, yes.
Therapy helped me become an entirely different person.'"
The Blacklistwill return in 2019.Read our full postmortem with Bokenkamp here.
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