I don't think they're fooling anybody. I don't like the character and wish was truly gone but I don't believe it.

People who watch that sort of thing, I don't, say there are always farewell tweets when a cast member leaves a show and none for The Blacklist.

I haven't watched this one yet

I hope I was vague enough, didn't spoil it.

I think you are good

I love this show. So much happened but I think I figured out what happened to you know who and she is not gone!

The producers are trying to sell NBC a spinoff with Tom as the main character so something has to happen to make him leave Elizabeth.

She'll be back, probably see a glimpse of her a minute before the season ends, then 2 or 3 episodes will go by in the new season with nothing. I think they like to tease us like that. I really wish they would tell us once & for all: is Red really her father or not.

I've never believed he was. He said early on he wouldn't lie to her and he's told her more than once her father is dead. Same with her mother. Now he could be mistaken about either but I don't think so. We know Elizabeth's childhood memories were erased. I think by Red because I think Elizabeth when she was just a child shot her father and Red doesn't want her to remember that.

Here's my theory. I don't think she's dead. I think Red's "cleaner" lady, when she went in to talk to Liz, gave her a way out by faking her death with a drug. Liz did not want Red involved with her child so this would be the only way out.

Sad news. Megan Boone has signed on for another 3 years. I knew her character's demise was too good to be true. It was just away to give the pregnant in reality actress some time off. She had a daughter BTW. After having such a good actress this week how can they saddle Spader with Boone again?

Maybe my theory is right!

Had its season finale. And sadly Tom's fate is unknown. May depend on whether NBC picks up his spinoff series or not.

I got it right Liz is alive!

Season finale is coming up. The Blacklist future is unknown at this time. No announcement either way so far.

I like this series and all the actors.

I posted too soon. The renewal announcement was today.

The spinoff Blacklist Redemption on the other hand is not expected to return.

I like the original, not so much the spin off.

If the finale claims Red is Elizabeth's father, I'm done. I wont care about the next season.

Watched the season finale last night. There is still more to be revealed! A suitcase with a "secret" and Liz's husband working for who at the end?

I DVRed. Haven't watched yet.

Let me know what you think Guy. I didn't want to say much for fear I'd give something away.

I think its interesting who "Mr Kaplan's" associate was. But I also think Yawn.

Guybrush I think there may be more to it then that - at least I hope so!

I didn't realize the new season was on until I went to watch Homicide Hunter and discovered DVR had also recorded two episodes of the Blacklist. I still two things he said are true: one from the very first episode: "Everything about me is a lie" and "You're father is dead". And I don't think he meant that in a Anakin Skywalker vs Darth Vader kind of way.

The craziest theory I've read is that Raymond told her the truth when he said he was not her father, that her father is dead. Because he's actually her mother, after a sex change operation. But wouldn't have Harold Cooper said the DNA proved that?

My theory is Raymond Reddington doesn't actually exist. This person is just using that name. Now whether its a totally fictional identity or whether there once was an actual Raymond Reddington who is now dead (thus his telling the FBI agent "Your father is dead"). I'm not certain. In the first episode he said "everything about me is a lie". So that means the story that Raymond Reddington is a former US Navy intelligence officer who went rogue, becoming a professional criminal is in fact not true.