In addition to his dislike for rich and privileged people, Ressler has made it crystal clear throughout his arc on The Blacklist that he has no tolerance for people who disobey the law. He is passionate about justice in all forms and is obsessed with finding the most “just” outcome.
So The Blacklis t fans are back to square one when it comes to the truth of Red's identity and his relationship to Liz. The prevailing theory is that he IS the real Reddington, who survived his apparent death and burning.
When Liz is confronted about her source, Ressler lies to their superiors for her, saying it is Reddington. Ressler is seen with the other FBI agents, trying to find the location of Reddington. Ressler flies with Liz and Agent Navabi to get Reddington back.
All of the blacklisters are connected to the wars since Reddington needs to continue giving up names to the FBI to stay under their protection. However some blacklisters are more involved in the conflicts than others. Ivan (No. 88) - Reddington went after him for 5,000,000 dollars he owed him.
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Liz's Father Is The Real Raymond Reddington The Blacklist season 6 seemingly revealed the truth, revealing that yes, Raymond Reddington IS Liz's father — but the man Liz knows isn't Reddington.
Jennifer Reddington is the daughter of Raymond Reddington and Naomi Hyland. She is the half-sister of Elizabeth Keen.
Rostov is a businessman and the legal father of Elizabeth Keen, whom he truly believed to be his biological child. He was married to Katarina Rostova at the time of Masha Rostova/Elizabeth Keen's birth, which makes him the legal father, despite not being the biological father.
Red later revealed that he was actually a KGB spy named Ilya Koslov, who assumed the identity of the real Red after he was murdered.
Red's identity may never be revealed “With the intention of protecting Liz and that the woman that she knew as Katarina was the real Katarina Rostova. The real Katarina Rostova is still alive somewhere. This is our answer, I believe we won't know his identity until the very end of The Blacklist or not at all.”
Yes, Liz and Raymond are father and daughter, but the man she thought to be Red wasn't her father at all. The actual Red had been in a relationship with Liz's mother, Katarina Rostova (Laila Robins), a KGB agent sent to seduce him and begin a romance with him.
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The real Raymond Reddington was Liz's father and was killed by his daughter's hand as a child when she shot him. Katarina went into hiding at this point and Liz was sent off to live with her adoptive father, Sam.
Red is a relative or friend of Katarina. He seems to love her and he is ridden by guilt for not being able to help her. Most probably I believe that he is her brother, which would justify his love for his only sister and for her child (once he failed the mother). Red was never in love with Katarina.
Katarina RostovaKatarina Rostova is a former KGB intelligence officer and the mother of Elizabeth Keen. Trained by her father, Katarina was assigned with the mission of seducing and spying on Raymond Reddington.
Tom Keen (No. 7) - an agent of the Major that was hired by Reddington and later betrayed him to work for Berlin to spy on Elizabeth. Betrayed everyone to protect Elizabeth and even killed a cop to make sure he didn't incriminate her.
After Reddington won his war with the Cabal however, the blacklisters start being connected to various people connected to Elizabeth's past as Masha Rostova. This page is meant to show how the blacklisters are connected to Reddington’s war against the Cabal and various other players.
The Caretaker (No. 78) - Reddington wanted his ledger in order to locate a secret that he gave to the Caretaker. He wanted to destroy the secret before Elizabeth or the FBI could find it. Nirah Ahmad A.K.A. The Endling (No. 44) - Reddington gave the FBI the case because even he considered her crimes reprehensible.
Reddington also took a hard drive containing the program for the new 100 dollar banknote design from Wolff to give to a counterfeiter of his to enhance his syndicate’s power. Reddington also had printing plates made, which he gave to the Venezuelan Foreign Minister in exchange for his help in clearing Elizabeth's name.
Ivan (No. 88) - Reddington went after him for 5,000,000 dollars he owed him. By getting his money back plus 3,000,000 dollars interest, Reddington could grow his syndicate’s power to fight his enemies.
It is revealed that actors killed him so they could inherit his fortune through his son, Timothy Peterson. Dembe recruited Timothy into Reddington's syndicate, enabling him to maintain his syndicate while in prison.
Initially wanted to burn down Critter Cabin because it was being audited by the IRS but instead had Fagen burn down the IRS field office where the records were kept.
Alban Veseli A.K.A. The Freelancer (No. 145) - hired by Reddington to kill Floriana Campo, the head of the Eberhardt Cartel who bought Dembe from the Mombassa Cartel, and then abused him, before leaving him to die of starvation or dehydration.
The Blacklist is an NBC thriller that opens with notorious wanted criminal Raymond Reddington (James Spader) handing himself into the FBI. Red offers to help them track down other wanted criminals that he's compiled on his own "blacklist.".
This latter series focused on Liz's spy husband Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) and his mother Scottie (Famke Janssen), a private contractor.
The real Raymond Reddington was in a relationship with Liz's mother Katarina Rostova, who was really a KGB agent sent to seduce and enter into a relationship with him. When Liz was only four she shot Reddington while he was attacking Katarina. The Blacklist then revealed Katarina's friend and sometime lover Ilya Koslov - a KGB agent - took Raymond ...
The prevailing theory is that he IS the real Reddington, who survived his apparent death and burning. He also doesn't consider himself to be the old Raymond, and hence doesn't see himself as Liz's true father. If the show ever does reveal the truth about his identity, it probably won't be until it's coming to an end.
Aram and Samar have acknowledged something between them with the kiss, Ressler is left a blacklister to basically clean up the mess of Laurel Hitchin’s death, so he’s not in a good place , and Cooper is the one who knows the secret. I think they’ll all react in different ways and it’ll be incredibly complex.
Odds are the bones belong to Liz’s presumed dead mother Katarina (Lotte Verbeek), but Bokenkamp doesn’t balk at the suggestion they could belong to, say, the real Red, and that this Red is someone else entirely. “This imposter theory is one that’s alive among our fan base,” Bokenkamp says.
The Blacklist fans have been waiting a long time, but they finally know the real identity of the man impersonating Raymond Reddington. The big twist came at the end of Friday's two-hour special outing for the series, which also saw Liz (Megan Boone) confess to Red (James Spader) that she was the one who turned him into the police at ...
During the 8 p.m. episode, Liz finally admitted her betrayal to the man pretending to be her biological father, leading to an emotional scene which gave Spader to show off his acting skills as Red did not know how to react to the news.
The heavy security in the bank where Red is holding the money creates a problem, though Ilya is not concerned, as he decides to become Red in order to achieve their mission, with the fact that the real Red was already dead at the time making the scheme so much easier.
The second hour followed with Liz visiting her grandfather, to beg him into sharing the real identity of the man she knows as Red, and he surprisingly comes clean. The flashback-heavy hour saw Katarina Rostova seek to establish a new life and identity after avoiding drowning in the ocean.
Reddington later sends Tanida’s head in a box to Ressler to show that “justice” has been served. 3. He developed a drug addiction. Ressler developed an addiction to pain medication in the wake of Audrey’s death and the death of Meera Malik, a CIA field agent whom Ressler often worked with.
However, he eventually aligns himself with Reddington, probably due to his prevalent desire to prevent terrible criminal events and to stop the worst blacklisters (terrorists, mass murderers, and ruthless criminals) from winning. Though his views don’t completely align with Reddington’s, the end justifies the means. 1.
8. He absolutely hates crime. In addition to his dislike for rich and privileged people, Ressler has made it crystal clear throughout his arc on The Blacklist that he has no tolerance for people who disobey the law. He is passionate about justice in all forms and is obsessed with finding the most “just” outcome.
No justice was found after his death, as the police department did not want a trial and did not want to admit their organization was corrupt. This traumatic event incited Ressler’s rampage for fairness and justice in his own work. 5. He used to obsessively pursue Reddington.
Previously he was involved in a failed FBI assassination attempt towards Reddington in Brussels, Belgium.
Despite Ressler’s methodical approach to problem-solving and obsession towards his goal of capturing Reddington, Ressler always found himself a step behind the clever conman. 4. He used to be engaged. Once upon a time, Ressler was happily engaged to a woman named Audrey Bidwell.
Canadian actor Diego Klattenhoff has had a versatile and impressive career as an actor. He first gained fame playing the notable Shane Oman in Tina Fey’s Mean Girls in 2004. He went on to earn a handful of roles on TV after that, including on shows like Smallville, Pysch, Supernatural, and Mercy. His first major television role came in 2011 when he was cast in Homeland as Mike Faber. He was nominated for a Screen Actor Guild award along with the rest of his castmates for “Best Cast”, and twice for a PAAFTJ Television Award for “Best Cast in a Drama Series”. He’s also starred in films with famed directors such as J.J. Abrams’ Anatomy of Hope, Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, and M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth. He joined the cast of The Blacklist in March 2013.
Actor (s) Diego Klattenhoff. Donald Ressler is a protagonist on The Blacklist. A Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he was the lead agent on Raymond Reddington case until Elizabeth Keen was specifically requested by Reddington during the process of cooperating with Assistant Director Harold Cooper .
As case agent, he was in charge of Raymond Reddington after his surrender until his superior, Harold Cooper, arrived. When Red told them about the impending abduction of Beth Ryker he was reluctant to proceed but eventually acquiesced. During the abduction he saved Elizabeth's life when he killed one of the abductors.
As a precaution, Ressler decides that he will go to court that afternoon with Liz, to keep an eye on her. At court, after the juror has a seizure, he tells Liz that the seizure was chemical and both rush to check the witness.
According to Mako Tanida, the pair were considered “collateral damage” during Ressler's pursuit of Reddington, later staging the events of revenge killing after Aiko's unexplained disappearance. He was once engaged to a woman named Audrey Bidwell, but his obsession with Reddington caused them to break up.
At the meeting, Red tells Lorca that he is an FBI agent and one of Lorca's men holds a knife to his throat. He disarms the man and tells Lorca that he is the person that procured the false identity using FBI resources.
He was involved in a failed FBI plot to assassinate Reddington in Brussels, Belgium, and later arrested a suspected ally of Reddington's in Japan, Mako and Aiko Tanida.
Red exits the box, leaving Ressler's gun by his head. Just as Garrick's men are preparing to kill Harold Cooper, Meera Malik, Aram Mojtabai, Dembe Zuma, and the other FBI personnel, Ressler shoots them. In the hospital, he is visited by his former fiance, Audrey Bidwell, who was still listed as his emergency contact.