4月21日，罪恶黑名单的粉丝看到了詹姆斯·斯派德发表了一个剧情的可能走向，在雷蒙德·雷丁顿失去了他的同伴伊丽莎白·基恩---上一集中莉兹在生下女儿后死去。现在，伴随着度过了最悲伤的时期后，雷丁顿的整个团队都致力于追捕凶手…但有个更值得关注的问题是：莉兹真的已经死了吗?

　　首先一个最支持莉兹没有死的证据是莉兹的死亡会影响收视率。为什么她的死具有那么大的争议性，难道电视剧为了突出红魔这条主线而相对地牺牲了基恩这条辅线?(红魔带动主线，莉兹推动丰富了情节的发展)

　　伴随着她的离去也留下了许多观众未知的疑问…剧情直到现在依然没有告诉我们红魔和莉兹之间的关系。红魔是莉兹的父亲吗?或者是更复杂的关系?我们无法完全明白为什么两年前红魔会进入到莉兹的生活中去，而且最重要的是：莉兹如果真的离开了那么将无法再跟观众解释这些悬而未决的疑问了。

　　但是，最有利的证据支持莉兹是假死的原因，是出于她暂时的离开对故事情节的发展是无关紧要的。这一季中，编剧把梅根·布恩现实中的怀孕写入到了剧情中。因为这季黑名单有22集的集数，而梅根·布恩的预产期却是在剧情还未拍完之前，这就意味着布恩因为需要时间休产假而无法持续拍摄。至此所有的一切表明，莉兹的死亡以及未来的葬礼，一切都可能是编剧为了布恩在现实生活中照顾孩子而暂时离开拍摄所做出的合理解释。

　　最后一点当然是之前有过这样的先例：编剧为女主角提供一个合理的剧情发展，好让女主角暂时离开拍摄。如在拍X档案第二季的时候史考莉(吉莲·安德森)在现实中怀孕了，所以制作人将剧情发展成史考莉被外星人绑架了。玛莉丝卡·哈吉塔饰演的奥利维亚·本森离开SVU成为了FBI的卧底。还有就是上季中，在杰茜驾到中编剧为杰茜安排了履行陪审员义务要离开一段时间的情节，方便允许佐伊·丹斯切尔在现实生活中可以休产假。

　　黑名单甚至已经在之前做过这样伏笔：之前红魔的同伙卡普兰先生在那次绑架中让莉兹假死，并造成对红魔具有巨大打击的假象…但是，目前为止我们依然无法确定莉兹是否是真的死了，至少在布恩休完产假回来之前我们无从得知真相。

　　On April 21, Blacklist fans watched as James Spader delivered a series defining performance, as Red Reddington mourned the loss of his partner Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) -- who passed away during the birth of her daughter the episode prior. Now, with the grieving period behind them, the entire post office team is on the hunt for a killer... But one question remains: is Liz really dead?

　　The first piece of evidence that points us in the direction of a big fat "no" is that Liz died during a commercial break. Why would the death of, arguably, the show's main central character (Red is the star, Keen drives the story) be handled so relatively casually?

　　There's also the dangling questions left by her passing... To this day, we still don't fully understand Red's connection to Liz. Is he her father? Is he something else? We don't fully know why Red entered Liz's life two years ago, and there's no way the show would remove her without answering that central question, first.

　　But, the biggest evidence supporting the idea Liz's death is a fake out has nothing to do with story at all. This season, Megan Boone's real life pregnancy was written into the show. Because The Blacklist features 22-episode seasons, the birth of her child was eventually going to happen before the end of production, which means Boone was going to need time to go on maternity leave. All of this -- the death, the mourning, the coming funeral -- it could be merely story justification for Boone to not be on screen while she takes care of her real life newborn.

　　That last bit certainly has its precedents: shows have written out female characters to provide maternity leave pretty much since the dawn of television. In Season 2 of The X-Files Scully (Gillian Anderson) was abducted by aliens.Mariska Hargitay's Olivia Benson left SVU to go "undercover" with the F.B.I. And just this past season, Jess went on "jury duty" on New Girl, conveniently allowing Zooey Deschanel to go on a maternity leave back in the real world.

　　Blacklist even provided a good out in the episode: it's possible that Red's co-conspirator Mr. Kaplan (Susan Blommaert) slipped Liz a powerful knockout agent to make Liz appear dead to Red... Though we probably won't know for sure for a while; at least until Boone gets back from maternity leave.

（编辑：何莹莹）