'The Blacklist' Season 4 Latest Updates, News, Cast: Liz Keen, Raymond Reddington Reuniting With Real S4 Villain – Katarina Rostova?

"The Blacklist" Season 4 Episode 8 ("Dr. Adrian Shaw"), midseason finale dropped a puzzle linked to Raymond Reddington ( James Spader) and Liz Keen (Megan Boone), and a hint that reunion with Katarina Rostova (Lotte Verbeek) is coming soon. More importantly, while identities played a key role in the first half of "The Blacklist" Season 4, Katarina Rostova may soon be unveiled as the real villain of the series.

Fans would recall that Raymond Reddington received a chilling message from Katarina Rostova in "The Blacklist" Season 3. A portrait which seemed to highly suggest that Liz Keen will mourn the death of Raymond Reddington was sent to the FBI asset as a warning.

While both Alexander Kirk a.k.a Constantin Rostov (Ulrich Thomsen) and Raymond Reddington each received their fair share of fan suspicion as possible S4 villains, Katarina Rostova may, in fact, hold the darker motive. As The Wall Street Journal points out Raymond Reddington, Alexander Kirk and consequently even Liz Keen were caught in the web of lies spun by Katarina Rostova as part of her job. Fans saw Raymond Reddington and Alexander Kirk share a moment of rarity upon this realization in "The Blacklist" Season 4 midseason finale.

This Katarina dialogue between Red and Kirk crucial. Remember for the future. #TheBlacklist @NBCBlacklist

— Daniel Cerone (@DanielVCerone) November 11, 2016

Parent Herald cites an earlier report by Entertainment Weekly confirming that indeed Katarina Rostova will reunite with Liz Keen and Raymomd Reddington in the second half of "The Blacklist" Season 4. As posted by Parent Herald, Liz Keen may actually need protecting from her own mother.

"The Blacklist" writer and executive producer Daniel Cerone emphasizes on Twitter that fans should pay close attention to the dialogue between Raymond Reddington and Alexander Kirk over Katarina Rostova in "The Blacklist" Season 4 midseason finale. Similarly, "The Blacklist" Season 4 contradiction about Raymond Reddington being the father of Liz Keen is an essential puzzle that fans will need to solve. The single certainty in this puzzle being that Raymond Reddington is one character in this smoke and mirror series, who never lies.

"The Blacklist" Season 4 Episode 9, midseason premiere ("Lipet's Seafood Company") airs on NBC on Jan 5, 2017. Are you satisfied with the direction "The Blacklist" is taking in Season 4?