Oh, Elizabeth…sweetie.
What are you doing???
What did we get instead of answers?

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I mean, we already knew it, but tonight reached new levels of expedient familial bonding.
None of this is to suggest that the episode was a bust, though.
And now she’s got a partner who suddenly fancies herself a fellow Rostova.
KATARINA ROSTOVA, NO.
For now, she kicks things off with those three all-important words: “I’m your mother.”
But Red can’t find the woman who abducted him anywhere in the Orion Relocation files.
“I’m a mortal threat to you,” Katarina tells Liz.
“A mother whose very existence puts her daughter’s life at risk.”
But I can blame heran FBI agentfor automatically trusting everything thisstrangertells her.
But Liz is Liz, and trust she does.
She asks if Liz will be able to keep it a secret.
“Of course, I canI’m a Rostova,” Liz replies.
“I love you, Masha,” Katarina says.
“Be safe,” Liz replies.
And lying to Cooper?
See you back here in the new year!