A letter written by Liz's mother "for when the time was right to know the truth." Liz exclaims that the time has surely come, but Red tells her there's one thing she has to do before she can read the letter: "Take my life… literally and metaphorically." He seems genuinely nervous when he tells her that the conversation he's been trying to have with her for days - the one about who he is and why Katarina arranged for him to watch over her - ultimately ends with a letter. But when Red gives Liz the same news, it comes with quite a few more caveats. Then he heads to the Post Office to tell Cooper what's been hinted at all season long: Raymond Reddington is dying. As soon as they're back, Reddington surprises Liz with Agnes (who calls him "Pinky" instead of "Red," which is extremely adorable). Indeed, the next time we see them, everyone is aboard a jet back to D.C., including a doctor who's giving Liz a mostly clean bill of health. Red, Dembe, and Liz emerge from the bunker-within-a-bunker that protected them from the blast and confirm that Townsend is dead, which Liz tells Red means she's not just feeling good enough to walk she's ready to fly. But it's just the ash settling from Reddington blowing up an entire Cold War-era bunker. I love the opening shot of this episode where it seems like we might still exist in the black-and-white memory limbo that most of the last episode took place in. Not-Chekhov's-letter explaining in great deal who Raymond Reddington is to Elizabeth Keen went unopened just like we knew it would when it arrived in the first act - you learn a thing or two after watching a show for eight seasons… But couldn't she have gotten some answers on the way out? Couldn't she have learned the truth about Raymond Reddington? And I don't know, depending on how you saw the final moments of her life flashing before her eyes, maybe she did. I understand that Megan Boone's fully reasonable desire to have season 8 be her last on The Blacklist necessitated an end to our journey with Elizabeth Keen. I'll tell you right now, I did not want this ending I did not want this konets. But about the time Liz started calling everyone on her speed dial and telling them how much she loved them, we probably also realized that who lived and who died in this episode was never destined to go according to plan.
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And all along, we knew that Reddington's full life was scheduled to end tonight, at his own insistence. In the end, the season 8 finale was a retrospective of lives - well, maybe not lives well-lived in the most moral sense of the word, but certainly lives lived fully. It wasn't arthouse Blacklist or high octane Blacklist… it was The Blacklist boiled down to its most component parts: Raymond Reddington, Elizabeth Keen, and what they mean to each other.
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I didn't expect a quick recovery followed by sun-dappled strolls in Central Park, silly helium voices, a series of sweet phone calls to family and friends, and a fairly simple plan for how to move forward after spending an entire season at odds. I expected more flashbacks, more black-and-white memories, more unraveling of the mysterious Blacklist mythology, and maybe even Liz dying a slow death after her bullet wound in Latvia. With their bookend titles, I expected the tone of this "Konets" installment of the season 8 Blacklist finale to match the "Nachalo" installment that came before it.
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