How much awareness have you guys had about that theory this season, or in seasons past? Did you want to drop some clues that the theory might be true, before revealing that Katarina is really alive?īOKENKAMP | I love reading all of the fan stuff, the theories and what’s on Twitter. TVLINE | One of the leading theories that I’ve seen from readers - which perhaps you’ve seen from fans, as well - is the suspicion that Red’s real identity is Katarina Rostova, and he’s been Liz’s mother this whole time. She embodies that enigma, and looking ahead, that’s going to be a big part of what we want to talk about in Season 7. Laila Robins is a great embodiment of both the danger and the specter and the formidability. The specter of Katarina snapping into focus is a satisfying ending to the season, I hope, because it’s the introduction of the present-day version of Katarina Rostova. We saw that she walked out of the water, and we’d been setting up the idea that she’s out there.
There’s more questions about Katarina Rostova, and hopefully we answered in a satisfying way in Episode 19, where we really told a full hour about who this woman was and why what we’ve been led to believe - that she had killed herself - was not true. It’s been something we’ve been platforming all season. JON BOKENKAMP | If you look back at the season, it’s probably more obvious where we were going. TVLINE | How long had you been planning to bring Katarina back into the mix as a present-day character? Was this something you had in mind all season long, or perhaps earlier?
Liz, meanwhile, finally welcomed daughter Agnes home - blissfully unaware, of course, of the ill-fated reunion that Red was about to have with her own mother.īelow, executive producers Jon Bokenkamp and John Eisendrath break down the finale’s Katarina cliffhanger (and what it means for Season 7), as well as those unresolved questions about who Red truly is. In the end, the plan was intercepted: President Diaz resigned (and will be formally investigated by the FBI in the months ahead), his wife survived, and Anna McMahon was killed at the hands of Dembe, who returned to Red’s life (yay!) at the best possible time.
His wife had wanted him to come clean about the incident during the next presidential debate, but he intended to have her killed at the event instead. During a vacation weekend at his lake house a few years back, President Diaz got very drunk and accidentally killed two people. A car then pulled up next to Katarina, some men got out and pulled Red’s limp body into the vehicle, and they drove off.Įlsewhere in the hour, the task force finally foiled Anna McMahon’s plan, which was to have President Diaz’s wife assassinated, seeing as the First Lady was about to go public with some damning evidence about POTUS. Red knew that meeting with Katarina wasn’t safe, and he told her as much, but they greeted each other with a passionate kiss anyway - that is, until Katarina stabbed Red with a syringe (!), rendering him unconscious within moments. May Sweeps Scorecard 2019: Deaths, Breakups, Weddings, Firings, Sex, Unthinkable Crossovers and More!