Although Red turns himself in to the FBI to protect Elizabeth in Season 8 of The Blacklist, things don’t quite go as planned. (Do things ever go as planned?) Red first asks Liz to kill him and spare him from his illness so that she’ll look “untouchable” to the rest of the blacklist. To convince Liz, Red says he’ll give her a letter from her mother Katrina.

But when it comes down to killing Red, Liz realizes she can’t pull the trigger. Instead, one of Townsend’s henchmen kills Liz, shooting her in the back. She dies in Red’s arms as he whispers something to her — a whisper of which we still don’t know the contents.

At first, fans thought Liz might not really be dead, since The Blacklist loves its fakeouts, but after a two-year time jump, we can be confident she really died. So why did Megan Boone leave The Blacklist?