Effectively, that took a flip.
Viewers stated goodbye to Megan Boone’s Elizabeth Eager on The Blacklist Season 8 Episode 22.
A cushty retirement in a non-extradition nation simply wasn’t within the playing cards for Liz. That would not be a really Blacklist type of departure anyway.
Nope, together with her future almost assured, Liz as a substitute appeared to go down the exhausting means.
I say appeared as a result of regardless that she appeared to be bleeding out on the finish, characters do not at all times keep useless on The Blacklist.
Until there’s an open-casket funeral to open The Blacklist Season 9, nothing is ready in stone.
The very best half about Liz’s last (for now) episode was that viewers obtained again the Elizabeth Eager who was likable, not the ingrate Liz who was enthralled by the pretend Katarina and turned towards Raymond for the previous couple of seasons.
No less than the Purple-Liz dynamic was restored if just for an episode. And Liz obtained most, if not all, of her questions answered ultimately.
I assume we’re to consider that within the distant previous Katarina grew to become the ersatz Raymond Reddington. Having that Reddington fortune would make all that surgical procedure attainable.
That is what the montage on the finish was to show: a mom’s love, whether or not it was Liz for Agnes or Katarina for Liz.
Or possibly I simply learn an excessive amount of into it.
As he had stated all through the collection, Purple was able to die to guard Liz on this episode. He simply took that sentiment to an excessive.
Irrespective of how exhausting she resisted, he additionally at all times advised her that his empire would at some point be hers. Raymond is unquestionably going to should rethink that succession plan now.
There was a sure moroseness hanging over the night. Viewers knew weeks in the past that Liz leaving so it simply got here right down to how.
The announcement about Boone’s departure gave context to the whackadoo storyline of The Blacklist Season 8, with Liz hellbent on killing her longtime benefactor.
The storyline was equally a downer. The terminally in poor health crime boss needed his inheritor to carry out a mercy killing whereas establishing her future on the similar time.
After the occasions of The Blacklist Season 8 Episode 21, all Liz needed was another reply: Who’s now Raymond Reddington?
To get the answer she sought, she was going to should cross over to the darkish aspect … for good.
No extra dabbling at being a legal, solely to be saved by the connections of Purple and/or Harold. Nope, she must take over Reddington’s empire.
After the shut name with Townsend, Raymond was a person on a mission. He was going to safe Liz’s future even when it meant he needed to die to take action.
As was made evident from the talks with Dembe, Purple had been making these plans for a very long time, even earlier than his illness threatened to take him down.
The one downside with that scheme was that Liz’s months of insanity had handed. Now that it had been made clear to her how a lot effort had gone into preserving her protected over a long time, she now not bore Raymond any in poor health will. Definitely not sufficient to homicide him, even when it was principally a mercy killing.
Liz simply needed to take her ill-gotten fortune and purchase a brand new life for herself and Agnes abroad and to place the entire Blacklist part behind her.
By no means thoughts that she was a fugitive and law-enforcement businesses across the globe have been in search of her, to not point out legal organizations that may need to use her as leverage towards Reddington.
For somebody who had not too long ago been matching wits towards each Purple and Townsend, she wasn’t considering too clearly now, was she?
It took the prospect assembly with the grown-up lady who she had rescued years earlier than to open her eyes and get her occupied with what could be the correct factor to do.
She ought to have pieced collectively why Raymond would not reveal who he actually was to her earlier than he was useless. Liz had already unintentionally killed her father so she undoubtedly would not have been prepared to deliberately kill her mom.
Thankfully, Liz had her former teammates to supply recommendation to her on this thorny difficulty, though Reddington tried to maintain them busy so they would not have an excessive amount of enter.
Harold is a big-picture man who may get on board with sliding Liz in Purple’s position as Blacklister provider, particularly if it was one of the simplest ways to maintain her alive.
It was nice Liz was in a position to sneak in and go to with Ressler for one final kiss. He was a no vote, as was Aram, the final word Boy Scout. Park did not get a vote. Then once more, she’s essentially the most misfit toy on that individual island.
It was poignant that Purple obtained his final supper earlier than he was to be killed, full with good associates and loads of wine. Ultimately, Liz cared about him an excessive amount of to drag the set off.
Regardless of her prolonged durations of being annoying, Liz can be missed.
Now, no matter does subsequent season seem like with out Liz? Is Agnes residing with Grandpa Pinky in a household affair with governess Mrs. French?
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