(Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Season 9 premiere of “The Blacklist.”)
“The Blacklist” began its ninth season Thursday with an episode that flashed two years into the future following the death of Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone). The NBC drama wasted no time in revealing to viewers what’s become of the Task Force since Keen’s tragic passing, but it did take a while to get to the whereabouts of Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader) — and it definitely didn’t answer the questions that Liz died asking: Who is Red, really? And how exactly is he connected to her mother?
During “The Blacklist” Season 9 premiere, we learned that the Task Force has split up, with Aram Mojtabai (Amir Arison) trying to get a tech startup going, Alina Park (Laura Sohn) moving out of the field at the FBI and into a training role and getting married to Peter, Donald Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff) becoming an auto-mechanic in Detroit, and Harold Cooper (Harry Lennix) retiring as head of the FBI and focusing on raising Liz’s young daughter, Agnes, whom Liz made him the guardian of before she died.