Last night’s season two finale of The Blacklist could have doubled as an episode of Maury as it was revealed that Raymond ‘Red’ Reddington is “NOT THE FATHER” of Elizabeth Keen. After Liz shoots Tom Connolly, it triggers a long-lost memory of her shooting her father when she was a child.

“It is confirmed that she killed her father and that Raymond Reddington is not her father,” Megan Boone told us when we caught up with the actress today in Los Angeles. But the reveal hasn’t stopped fans from believing that Red and Liz might still be father-daughter. “Even some of the fandom now wants to believe that she was mistaken, that she killed someone else, that it wasn’t her father, that her father is Red.” But it sounds like those holding out hope may be disappointed. “I think we’re going to continue to confirm that their relationship is something else and something more surprising than what you would think,” hinted Megan.

And speaking of surprises, some of the information revealed last night about Liz’s past was news to Megan as well.

“I didn’t know the specifics of the end of season two; it was as much as a surprise to me as it was to the audience!” Of note was her character’s alleged Russian birth name. “Masha Rostova? What a reveal!” she said. “As an actor you go “oh, okay.’ So somewhere in my memory is a four-year-old’s Russian vocabulary. Well now I know what I’m working on this summer!”

The episode ends with Liz, who’s been framed by The Cabal, and Red on the run with Liz resting her head on Red’s shoulder. For Megan, the scene was a touching one to shoot AND to watch. “It was my last scene that I shot with James so there was actually a lot going on under the surface for both of us,” revealed the actress. “We have so much behind us now, even off screen. And when I saw James’ face – what I didn’t get to see when we were shooting – I saw that he had the weight of everything living in him as well and for me it was a beautiful moment.”

The final scene shows an FBI 10 Most Wanted poster featuring Liz Keen being posted beside the Wanted poster of Red that we saw in the very first episode of the series. For Megan, it was a full-circle moment. “It was both the closing of a Pandora’s box and the opening of a Pandora’s box. “

But it wasn’t all bad for Liz last night. She did, after all, swing by her ex’s boat where things got a little steamy. “I think most of the female population wanted more of that scene,” laughed Megan. “I tease Ryan (Eggold) I call him 14 per cent because that’s how much our female demographic raises each time he’s on the show. Every time he’s on set I’m like, ‘hey 14 per cent, how you doing?'”

Want to watch the season finale? You can below. Enjoy!

