<p>How does an FBI profiler get to fly around the world wielding a firearm?</p>
<p>Is Meera really the mole?</p>
<p>How does Lizzie continue to promise dinners with Tom as a chance to save their marriage, then make no attempts, ever, at all, to actually get home?</p>
<p>Tom is too nice to be true (except he hasn’t figured out that you can put uneaten food in the refrigerator instead of throwing it away). There has to be something more sinister under the surface. And when was the last time a grade school teacher got flown across the country for a job interview.</p>
<p>Another huge fan here. Snowdog, you ask alot of great questions! </p>
<p>I thought Red is definitely Lizzie’s dad–but maybe I missed something. Oh, and I agree about Tom’s off-the-charts niceness.</p>
<p>There’s plenty of less-than-credible stuff that happens in this show. However, I choose to suspend my disbelief and just enjoy the ride. LOVE James Spader in this role. Brilliant.</p>
<p>In the first show there was a conversation about Red being a former govt. agent. </p>
<p>I too thought he was Lizzie’s father, but in the episode where he visited Lizzie’s father he said something which indicated that was not the case. He also seemed to say though in their conversation that the father was not really the father. So…</p>
<p>My guesses: Tom really is a bad guy. His leaving for the job interview and not going to the interview seemed to support this in my mind. He was acting kind of secretive about it. Was he secretly meeting with the other bad guys?</p>
<p>I think Red hired Jolene to seduce Tom. He wants to expose him in a way Lizzie cannot deny. </p>
<p>The rest of the questions? Can’t wait to find out.</p>
<p>I think Red and Tom know each other somehow, clearly Red is not a fan. When Red smothered Lizzie’s father I thought he alluded to being her father. I think Tom is a bad guy too.</p>
<p>I already forget who Meera is and why anyone thinks she’s a mole.</p>
<p>Lizzie’s adopted father died, she knows she was adopted as a toddler. She seems to have no memory of her former life. When she went through her father’s boxes, she picked up a half-burned teddy bear and had a…moment.</p>
<p>Red said in the last episode that the Alchemist being with his family changes everything and makes him vulnerable. I’m inclined to think he is Lizzie’s father and he gave her away to protect her after perhaps realizing he was going to be eliminated as a CIA asset or they were going to kill his family. </p>
<p>But what is his obsession with the supposedly dead Lucy Brooks (she’s Jolene right)? All of the people on the blacklist seem to be targeted to give him some piece of information about her. He took a picture of a girl from the Stewmaker’s files, then he wanted the list of the Alchemist’s clients. (Not sure where the Good Samaritan fits into this but Red has a thing about parents and children…)</p>
<p>Eyemom - Red has been looking for who it was on the inside that helped Anslo Garrick raid the black site. That turns out to be Meera (the east Indian FBI agent on Lizzie’s team).
I love love love James Spader.</p>
<p>When this show came out, that was the most tossed around theory. Unfortunately, this would make a very smart show a complete dumb as rocks one. One would have to believe that the FBI/CIA could have run a DNA analysis on both Red and his “daughter” within a few minutes after wondering about the possible connection. </p>
<p>This said, this would not be the first time that a show that starts with a lot of promises ends up laying a giant egg. My money on the current show is that the writers have no real clue as to how it is supposed to end. The moment the ratings drop, they will close the loop and left most hanging, or forget to wrap it up. </p>
<p>But again, nothing would be dumber than for Red to be the father of the profiler. The real attraction of this show starts and ends with Spader. The story is just a bunch of … meh.</p>
<p>My theory is that someone Red loved was Lizzie’s mom, so he has watched over her from a distance. The husband gives me the creeps… not sure why.</p>
<p>Love the show. All the plot twists remind me of a show called Alias years ago.</p>
<p>DH and I re-watched a couple of the first shows to “remind” ourselves of the backgrounds. I think in the first show some one said that Red was an agent that disappeared and left behind a wife and a daughter. In the episode where he bought and burned down a house I thought it was the house he lived in with his wife and daughter. Anyone else?</p>
<p>Who is Senator Fitch? I think there is so much going on in the show that I ignore some of it.</p>
<p>I enjoy the show, I love James Spader, and I enjoy the plot. But Lizzie makes me insane, I can’t stand her. If I stop watching it will be because her character never gains any maturity or interest for me.</p>
<p>Lizzie is supposed to be young and brilliant. There is chemistry between Red and Lizzie that is not acted on. The husband…I don’t know, but he is creepy. That’s called acting and good writing. My best guess? Red was CIA, in one form or another. He had a family until they were attacked and Lizzie was the sole survivor. Red knew that they, whoever they may be, wouldn’t rest until they were all dead. Without protection from…?..he gave up his daughter to protect her. And Red turned to the dark side to seek revenge.</p>
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<li><p>The show has established over and over that Redd is a former agent who mysteriously “went bad.”</p></li>
<li><p>Redd says he isn’t Lizzie’s father, but given that he was willing to kill her de facto father to keep him from telling Lizzie who her real father was, it’s not hard to believe he might lie about this.</p></li>
<li><p>I can’t remember Lizzie doing anything brilliant that wasn’t basically listening to Redd.</p></li>
<li><p>Something has to be wrong with the husband. Redd may not always tell the truth, but he’s never mistaken. I am assuming that the husband’s new potential girlfriend is a Redd employee.</p></li>
<li><p>Give this show credit for: I can’t remember Jane Alexander dying violently on screen before. Or Alan Alda being the personification of Evil. Interesting use of prestige character actors. </p></li>
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<p>Go back and look at James Spader in Pretty In Pink. Can it really have been so long?</p>
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How much does a 4th grade teacher make??</p>