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!