The Blacklist season 5 finale

Yes we know who her dad is and some other new information came out as well.

Mr. Kaplan died by jumping off a bridge so Red couldn’t get her.

Red is Liz’s father.

Tom got killed by a guy named Ian Garvey and his crew.

Liz went on a rampage tracking down and killing anyone until she found who killed Tom.

Ian Garvey ended up being a U.S. Marshall.

On Liz’s quest to get answers from Ian Garvey, she comes across a girl who ends up being her half sister. Red is this girls father, but he abanded her and her mother a long time ago. Ian was protecting and watching out for this girl.

Ian, Red, Liz, and the half sister had a showdown at a bar and Red killed Ian. Before Ian died, he gave the duffel bag to a guy named Sutton Ross.

In the season 5 finale, Sutton Ross Found out the truth about the bones in the duffel bag. He told Liz everything and showed her the proof. One of the last scenes was Red saving Liz from Sutton and recovering his duffel bag. Red had no idea that it was a set up and Liz already knew what was in the duffel bag and Sutton told her everything. The bones in the duffel bag are the bones of the real Raymond Reddington. The last scene of the finale was Liz talking to the ghost of Tom at his grave and telling him how she managed to trick Red and how she vowed to find out who this guy pretending to be Red is, why he is doing it, how the real Raymond died, etc.

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Red killed Ian

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Liz killed Ian, not Red.

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What did everyone think of the reveal of what was in the duffle bag?

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I called it an episode or two back when my wife and I were watching. My guess is that some government agency like the CIA had Reddington killed and, rather than let his empire crumble and create a power vacuum, they placed their own double into his place to control things. At some point, the fake Red went rogue and felt for Reddington's family, so he set out to try and make things right by Liz. That my theory for how things play out.

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What did everyone think of the reveal of what was in the duffle bag?

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A few episodes back my wife and I guessed that would be the contents. I think initially they were trying to make everyone think it had something to do with Liz's mom.

Looking back through the seasons, there were actually a lot of clues that he was not really RR. He wasn't lying when he told Liz he was not her father.