Why does Tom Keen leave his wife and child behind forThe Blacklistspinoff?
We may finally have our answer!
On Thursday,The Blacklistwill air at a special time (9 p.m.
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It starts almost like any pilot would.
To me, they’re sort of part of the same landscape.
They share a lot of DNA.
But it feels more like a mission.
He allegedly was murdered as a child and yet he was not.
The person who claims to have killed him we find out was paid off to say that.
So he’s left asking himself, “Why would anyone want to fake my death?”
It’s a huge question.
And “Who am I?”
and “Where do I come from?”
So, it is a mission, and I think he sees it that way.
Last season, we saw how unstable Scottie can be.
There’s a great hook at the top of the episode that draws him back.
We’ve set up Tom as a guy who can become anybody.
She’s a bit of an unreliable narrator.
Arecent promoseemed to indicate that Howard is actually alive and didn’t die in that plane crash.
Is this a case of Howard sending Tom in?
You’re very forthcoming that these are Tom’s parents.
I think that in The Blacklist, that is part of the core mythology.
Who is Raymond Reddington?
Why does he care about Elizabeth Keen?
How does he know so much about her?
Why has he inserted himself into her life?
That’s something that lives within that show.
I think with [Redemption], we felt like we wanted it to be different.
It’s different in a number of ways, but that’s one of them.
And she, in time, will find out."
That just really isn’t as important to this show and what it is.
So, yes, we do answer that and it’s not an ongoing lingering question.
At the same time, he’s her son.
As a parent, you will forgive incredible wrongs.
So there’s a lot of fun to be had in that dynamic between these two characters.
How will Tom get along with Mr. Solomon?That, I think, is a really fun relationship.
Tom hates the guy and he shot him.
There’s no love lost between those two, and yet they’re forced to work together.
That’s one of the elements of the show that I think distinguishes it from The Blacklist.
There is a little bit of a lighter tone.
