Eighth Question

[potentiality_26]

(Oh boy did I ever have a "fuck, how do you spell 'eighth'" moment there.  I did it right, right?  Spellcheck has ruined me and for some reason LJ isn't doing it for me anymore)

Also from verdande_mi: Do you have any theories as to what the fulcrum is/contains and why it means to much to Red?

I won't see the latest episode until tomorrow, and for all I know this will be explained, although it's way more likely that it won't be until the finale, if that, so I need to get myself together and take a stab at this.  But I want to say, before I do, that when theorizing about the Blacklist, I rarely want to be right.  I always want the answer to be some mindblowing thing I've never thought of.

Anyway.  I think it's basically a blackmail file.  It has something to do with the big secret international organization, but I'm not sure if it's information about them, or information that they had about other people.  On the one hand, it seems pretty clear to me that whatever it contains would, if made public, also reveal them to the world at large.  But on the other hand, it seems to me that they want the fulcrum back as much because it contains information that they want as because they don't want Red- or whoever they believe has it at the moment- to have it.  So maybe it's both?

But what it actually technically is?  No idea.  It could be information on really powerful government officials, who allow this organization to exist because that information cannot get out (that seems plausible to me), but I'm really not sure, and it could be something else entirely.  The main thing is that these people, whoever they actually are, need to either have it or know for sure who does.

*shrugs*  That's about all I've got.  It's a very interesting concept, though, and I can't wait to learn more.
   

Comments

[verdande-mi.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the latest episode yet either, so I don't know what happens - don't happen.

I'm very much in the same boat as you re wanting not to be right - I too love being taken by surprise by this show and it has proven again and again that they have a few twits up their sleeves!

But, yes, everything we have seen and learned so far leads me to think blackmail and very dark secrets too, but I also keep thinking there most be something more than that too. At least I think for Red, he needs a more personal reason to be after the fulcrum than saving his own hide from the people who wants him dead...

Time will tell!

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

I think you're right that it's at least partially personal, and another interesting thing (brought up by the first person to comment on this post), is the question of what information that fulrcum might contain that is still relevant 20 years later.

Can't wait to find out more!