Unanswered Questions

● Who is the little ballet dancer? (see note #1) ● Who is the girl Red remembers at his house & in his movies? Who was her mother? ● What is Jennifer’s relationship to Red? Daughter, step-daughter? ● Was “Bloody Christmas Eve” real? What happened? (see note #2) ● How/why did Red lose/abandon his family? Was the family he lost (above) different from the one he abandoned on 12/24/1990 (assumed to be Carla/Naomi & Jennifer)? ● Who saved Liz from the fire? Who were the other people there? Why was Red there? ● If Red “never lies to Liz,” why did he say “yes” when she said her only memory of her father was of him pulling her from the fire? (see note #3) ● Who was the man with the red signet ring? ● Why does the version of the argument when Liz shoots her father differ from the argument from Braxton2? (see note #4) ● How did Liz and Red get their scars? Was Liz “branded”? (see note #5) ● Why does the shape of Liz’s scar resemble that on the two “go” boxes and bank envelope? ● Why did Liz tell Red she got the scar from a fire when she was 14 and not 4? ● Who was Liz’s father and what was his relationship to Red? Why would knowing his identity put Liz’s life “in grave danger”? Has the danger passed? ● More about Liz’s mother and her relationship to Red. Was she really a “Mata Hari”? Why did Red say she died “of weakness and shame”? (see note #6) ● Why has a DNA test never been done to see if Red is Liz’s father? ● What was Red’s relationship to Liz (if any) prior to the fire? ● What was Sam’s relationship to Red? ● What was Liz’s father’s “criminal background”? Was this Sam or her bio-dad? Why/how did he “abandon” her? ● How does The Director know what Liz’s mother looked like? ● Why does Liz’s mother wear a ring that Tom thinks looks like one Berlin wore? ● Why did Tom tell Liz “Your father is alive”? ● More about Red’s “weird little apartment” – whose was it, if not his? ● Why would Pepper have the skeleton key for the Fulcrum? ● The Presidential limo ❗ ● Is Liz even an American citizen? A Russian citizen? ● Does Liz have the ‘warrior gene’ (the rarer type)? What does this imply about her mother? ● How was the Cabal established? What is their goal (originally planned for 2017)? ● Why was Fitch in Russia? Was Red there? Is that where/when The Cabal was set up? ● Was Red framed?

● What is The Stewmaker’s backstory and is it related to Red’s own history? ● Who is Mr. Kaplan and why is she so good at cleaning up blood etc.? ● What happened with Cooper and Reddington in Kuwait where Reddington gave Cooper the only evidence on the USB drive? ● Are the Germans and/or the Major still hunting Jacob/Tom? Why aren’t the Germans dead? ● And of course: What explains Red’s fascination with Liz? ● P.S. What’s with Liz’s dog❓❗