It’s not fake. They’ve already stated it’s real. Tom IS dead.

It’s a television show people! It’s not like James/Red just killed Ryan/Tom and ruined Liz/Megan’s life! Were you watching last season when Tom was gone doing Redemption? Well they could have killed him there and not given them a wedding and closure for his character. You guys are mad at the writers, at Reddington (a fictional person on a fictional show) but you started watching because of the relationship between Red and Liz…THEY are the show. Don’t watch, watch, whatever but remember the show is about Red’s list of criminals and NOT supposed to be a love story between Liz and Tom!!

This show IS Reddington. Without James Spader there wouldn’t be The Blacklist. Those of you upset they killed off Tom, I agree, but he’d been gone last season for his own spin-off, which I watched but KNEW wasn’t going to be renewed. It was one dimensional, unlike The Blacklist, which is multidimensional. Tom was only one of those dimensions. Liz having to deal with his death, with missing almost a year of Agnes’ childhood, with her injuries, AND with the little bit Tom told her on the telephone before he died, she’s going to have so many issues to deal with. Megan and James will potentially have some of their greatest father/daughter moments dealing with Tom’s demise. Red will feel responsible for Liz’s pain, even if Tom’s death solves his immediate problem, he knows Liz loved Tom. He also realized how much Tom tried to protect Liz and Agnes.

I don’t understand viewers who just make statements such as, “I’m no longer watching because they killed off…” whoever it might be in the cast. Rather than see what the writers have planned, you just decide it’s not worth watching if one cast member is sacrificed for the betterment of the whole? I think that’s funny. Yes, Tom and Liz were a love story but if you live in reality, you know tragedy can happen and no one lives happily ever after so WHY would you think they should when Reddington is your father?!

I wish we knew WHO those bones and DNA were! I hate these long breaks in seasons!! It’s not nice to do to loyal viewers and it’s detrimental to ratings. During that long hiatus, viewers could drift to another show and become disenchanted with the one on hiatus. NBC seems to do it a lot and so does ABC. Maybe that’s why CBS has better overall ratings.

Same here: No Tom, NO BLACKLIST!!!!

My feeling is that the bones were ID’d as Raymond Reddington