During an interview in May, Megan Boone actually said that when “The Blacklist” comes back in September, it is going to be the same characters but altogether a different show and a different dynamic. And that is precisely because Liz Keen became a fugitive and her rights and privileges as an FBI profiler already revoked.
Based on the synopsis of the first episode of Season 3, titled “The Troll Farmer,” a desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.
With no clear protagonist to start Season 3, the heroic actions of the new character are quite timely because someone really needs to pick up the good guy slack in “The Blacklist.”
As she is now on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, Liz is actually embracing the unknown. But Megan Boone is not at all worried about the shift in her character’s dynamics and focus.
She believes that whatever the shakeup to the series will be, the new darker action is where the show needs to go. While she understands that the show needs to have some sort of formula for its 22 episodes for every season, Season 3 certainly breaks open a lot of the structure of the show for a good purpose.