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Credits to : @minnie-edits-dr for the amazing sprite edit!

“...pretty sure honesty is the best policy...” ; NO MORE SECRETS, PLZ! 🥺

You can see in Ressler’s expressions (which DK executed beautifully😍) that he doesn’t feel good about not being completely open with Liz, especially at a moment that she has found “happiness”, but he made a promise to Red, and urged Red to be open to boot. What’s a loyal guy to do? Personally I think he compromised admirably here; he is both secret-keeper and truth-teller. 🤷‍♀️

Once I got past the Aramodie cringe factor, I had a closer look at the classic 80s song by The Thompson Twins, HOLD ME NOW. I like to think that it was actually intended for Keenler. The song begins when Red and Ressler are talking about Liz and Ressler is probably thinking how he doesn’t want to have to lie to her 💔.

Ar any rate, here are the lyrics. I found they fit remarkably well with the Keenler narrative, especially in light of this tenuous situation they are forced into anew (I added my own thoughts and observations in parentheses):

I have a picture

Pinned to my wall

An image of you and of me and we're laughing and loving it all (kind of like their flirting in this ep is that picture.. a hope, a dream...)

Look at our life now, tattered and torn

We fuss and we fight and delight in the tears that we cry until dawn

Hold me now, warm my heart

Stay with me, let loving start (YEP!!!!)

You say I'm a dreamer, we're two of a kind

Both of us searching for some perfrct world we know we'll never find (Tom was Liz’s perfect world that never really existed)

So perhaps I should leave here, yeah yeah go far away

But you know that there's no where that I'd rather be than with you here

Today

Hold me now, warm my heart

Stay with me, let loving start (let loving start)

You ask if I love you, well what can I say?

You know that I do and if this is just one of those games that we play

So I'll sing you a new song, please don't cry anymore (Ressler says it’s nice to see her happy... 🥰)

And then I'll ask your forgiveness, though I don't know just what I'm

Asking it for

Hold me now, warm my heart

Was bored so I made this family tree thingamajig.