The tables turned on Liz in The Blacklist season 2 finale when the FBI profiler became a name on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. NBC crime drama The Blacklist revolves around Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader) and Liz Keen (Megan Boone). The former is a wanted criminal who surrenders himself to the FBI and offers to help them track down dangerous criminals he’s crossed paths with and placed on the titular “Blacklist.” The latter is a rookie FBI profiler with a mysterious past who Red insists on working with and may or may not be his daughter.
In The Blacklist’s second season the big bad was the Cabal – a shadowy organization whose influential members had infiltrated the upper echelons of government and included newly appointed U.S. Attorney General Tom Connolly (Reed Birney). Alongside dealing with this Illuminati-like organization, Liz discovered her parents were KGB agents which Connolly and the Cabal use to frame her for a terrorist bomb attack and the assassination of an anti-Russian senator in The Blacklist’s penultimate season 2 episode.
Things didn’t get any better for Liz in The Blacklist season 2 finale. The episode started with her under arrest and being questioned about the crimes she’d been framed for before escaping custody with a little help from Red and FBI boss Cooper (Harry Lennix), who Connolly had suspended. While on the lam, Liz hunted down evidence that proved she didn’t commit the bombing or assassination and also discovered Cooper – who’d been led to believe he had an inoperable brain tumor – wasn’t ill at all. It was all an elaborate ruse concocted by Connolly and the Cabal to gain leverage over Cooper.
Armed with proof, Liz and Cooper went to confront the corrupt attorney general and demand he exonerate the former and reinstate the latter. Connolly scoffed at their demands and got shot dead for his troubles after Liz whipped out a gun. With tons of witnesses to the shooting and the blood of a very important politician on her hands, Liz fled the scene but not before the incident triggered some unpleasant repressed memories from her childhood where she seemingly shot her own father dead.
After fleeing Liz met up with Red and the two took off to god knows where. The Blacklist season 2 finale ended with Liz’s now-former FBI colleagues tacking up a picture of her on a bulletin board of their ten most wanted fugitives. With Liz on the run and her fate hanging in the air, the question was what would season 3 of The Blacklist have in store for her?
