<p>Lizzie is brilliant…she got the job as a profiler. I would imagine that most successful/ profilers are older. Book knowledge isn’t enough to understand the human mind. And considering that Red could be a former agent…and not the most savory of characters…there has to be something there.</p>
<p>" I can’t remember Lizzie doing anything brilliant that wasn’t basically listening to Redd." - or in fact going against what he says then finding he was right after all. For brilliant I think they write her character too ditzy.</p>
<p>She only got the profiler job because of Red, didn’t she? Didn’t they call her up, kind of like Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs, at his request? </p>
<p>I think Redd is Lizzy’s uncle. Tom is bad. I don’t think Tom’s new potential girlfriend is a Redd employee. I think she is most likely CIA.</p>
<p>Somehow I got the impression this week that the woman “cleaning up” after Red was his mother. </p>
<p>Not a Tom fan, either, but I do think he’s being set up. Sometimes I think he was sent in as deep cover to protect, Lizzie.</p>
<p>There’s not an episode, though, in which we’re not reminded what a bad guy Red is, so I think I can’t complain if Red turns out to be a really bad guy. Maybe Lizzie is related to whoever killed Red’s family and he’s using her to flush them out?</p>
<p>I can’t believe we have to wait a month for the next one…</p>
<p>Love James Spader - sex, lies and videotape!</p>
<p>What do we know about Alan Alda’s character? I saw him in one episode but I think I was distracted and lost track of the plot.</p>
<p>The woman who came in to “clean” is a trusted employee of Red and for some reason goes by the name Mr. Kaplan. She was introduced in at least one or two previous episodes. But with this show, she COULD be his mother, who knows 
Ok, somehow I missed this: who exactly is Fitch?</p>
<p>So far, Alan Alda (Fitch) is the Big Bad. He’s also a Senator who seems to chair the Intelligence Committee (or some top-secret subcommittee thereof). That’s about all we know. The high-body-count Anslo Garrick assault on the secret FBI (or whatever) facility turned out to be something Alda’s character paid for so that he could have a chat with Redd from a position of power. Redd assured him that Redd had not revealed anything about him or his allies, and would not. Alda said he hoped so, because he had just demonstrated that there was nowhere Redd, or Lizzie, would be safe from him. Alda said he had always sort of liked Redd . . . but in the end was clearly willing to look the other way if Garrick killed him. The clear implication was that Alda (with others) was responsible for Redd’s going underground for 20 years, and has been in touch with him regularly throughout that period. The character was great, I thought, in large part because he sounded just like Alan Alda – intelligent, friendly, empathetic – while clearly being at the hub of Evil in the world.</p>
<p>We had another thread on here somewhere about this show. I agree that they set the stage at the beginning that there really couldn’t be a father/daughter relationship. Just too easy/dumb/unrealistic considering the players. But it does seem like they are dropping hints that could lead in that direction. I hope not, because it’s just too obvious. </p>
<p>I think Fitch and Red may have been working “on the same side” when Red was underground. He may have been doing the dirty work for US in a black ops type situation where he was considered rogue to everyone, but still was doing some super dirty stuff for someone. He also was doing things for his own benefit, obviously. </p>
<p>I think there’s more to the husband also. We’ll see what plays out. </p>