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So I just finished Anslo Garrick: Conclusion. This is the episode that hooked.me on the show back in the day.

First of all, Ritchie Coster as Anslo? TDK's Chechen, the rival trainer in Creed? Fan-fucking-tastic. But ALAN ALDA as a significant storyline villain, at least for this season? And Coster, Alda and Spader all interact? How much did this episode cost for those names alone?

Second, this episode is a significant ramp-up. I'm assuming if the show didn't do well, this would have been the grand finale - like how HIMYM would have ended halfway through season one with Vanessa or whatever being the titular mother. But the Anslo Garrick two-parter is genuinely like a movie. It's excellent.

And lastly, the episode ends with Liz asking Red if he's her father. His pause before he says "no" could be anything - he's lying, and it's the first time he's outright lied to her in the show for whatever reason.

But if we're looking at this through the lens of Reddington being Liz's mother who's undergone reconstructive surgery to replace the original one who died, there's a twisted kernal of truth in there. This man isn't her father - he was her mother. And in that sense, he wasn't lying to her.