Had you not had the opportunity to go so deep into Tom’s background with the “Redemption” spinoff is this a character that could have stuck around longer on “Blacklist?”Įisendrath: One doesn’t have anything to do with the other. Not only because Tom is gone, but because of what it might do to Liz. It does sort of change the show in a way. It’s going to be really seismic for her to grapple with. How she deals with this, how she can overcome it, how Liz tries to resist any of the dark impulses that might be within her are all important things to look at as we move ahead. His passing is going to change the dynamic of who Liz is, how she behaves, and what her relationship is with Red in ways that are a huge new engine for her going forward in the show.īokenkamp: The “why now” is almost why you need to come back in the winter to see where the show goes.
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Ultimately in the end the short answer is that, when the series ends, whenever it ends, it’s ultimately a parent-child story and Tom was the most important person in Liz, ‘the child’s’ life. We feel like we had given the character of Tom just so many different avenues to pursue: opportunities with Liz to love, to hate, to fight, to get divorced, to annul their marriage, to get remarried. Yes, he was supposed to die in the pilot.
Tom Keen was a character that was supposed to die in the pilot why kill him now?Įisendrath: There’s not any one particular answer. In the wake of the pivotal episode, Variety caught up with executive producers Jon Bokenkamp and John Eisendrath - along with departing star Eggold - to break down Tom’s final moments, why the character’s time had come, and how this particular death changes the tone of the show when it returns for its back half in January. She had been unconscious for ten months, and as Red informed her, Tom died at the hospital. It all culminated in a tranquil finish as Liz awoke from a coma to Red reading to her. By the time Red and his sidekick Dembe (Hisham Tawfiq) arrived on the scene both Liz and Tom were in precarious conditions, and Garvey had long escaped. The Keene residence became a crimson crime screen for Garvey and his goons as the leader repeatedly stabbed Tom and his men delivered a potentially fatal blow to Liz’s head. Unfortunately by the time Tom snuck off with the bones and made plans to tell Liz everything that had happened, Garvey had caught up with them both.
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