Is The Blacklist a real list?

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Friday's episode of The Blacklist, "Godwin Page."

"This is the Blacklist."

Raymond Reddington has always been a secretive figure, but his war with Elizabeth Keen has gone on for too long, and he's finally ready to give her answers. At the end of the latest episode of The Blacklist, Red [James Spader] brought the former Agent Keen [Megan Boone] to Latvia to get the truth about her mother, the Sikorsky Archive, and the fire that changed Liz's life as a child. In the closing moments, he said he'd brought her to the Blacklist itself.

Liz has been burned before by Red's promises of the truth, but this time is different. "[Red] is in a place where he knows that the only way he can protect Liz is by telling her everything, and he has every intention of doing that," executive producer Jon Bokenkamp tells EW. "The answers that were suggested by Reddington in tonight's episode are an appetizer for what's to come."

Below, Bokenkamp talks about finally getting the truth out of Red and teases the next episode of The Blacklist, which will be full of revelations.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: We're meeting the Blacklist. How will what's next shape Red and Liz's dynamic, which has basically been destroyed this season?

JON BOKENKAMP: When he says, "This is the Blacklist," that is conceptual they're not going to go in and find a list of names. That's the promise the next episode. They are entering, I would almost think of it as a brick-and-mortar operation of Reddington's that we've never seen before. He's a guy who has money and resources and intelligence, and it's all sort of a mystery. This space that we're entering is as tangible of a hold as we can get on Reddington.

Red's intent is to play fair with her and to tell her the story, "to tell her everything," I believe are the words that he says. He has taken her halfway across the world to this very secretive front operation that is basically a distribution outfit. We're going to get go into this, I will call it almost operation center, to see sort of the inner workings of his empire. Beyond the inner workings of the empire, we have the promise of Red telling Liz everything.

Red says Katarina was not "framed or killed" when talking to Liz. What does this mean for what we know about Katarina Rostova?

It means that we don't know the whole story. Red has often been very protective about his relationship and history with Katarina, and with his really his relationship about many people in his life, including Dom. What is his relationship with them both? Those are the sorts of things I know we'll [address] in the next episode.