Could it melt Red a bit, once he learns the inevitable truth that Liz betrayed him?
Knowing that she ultimately fought hard to save him, and chose to just give him love when she thought it was the end?
Liz has fairly taken a lot of heat for her decisions up to this point, but there’s clearly love there on both sides.
There’s no way we really lose Red — the show wouldn’t have been renewed for Season 7 already, with James Spader attached, without Red surviving his current botched prison escape turned death row execution.