The Blacklist premiered on NBC on September 23, 2013.The show ran for ten seasons, and the story follows Raymond “Red” Reddington. He is a former U.S. Navy officer. He is also one of the FBI’s Most Wanted fugitives. Red suddenly surrenders to the FBI. He says he will help them catch dangerous criminals. But he will only work with rookie profiler Elizabeth Keen.Across ten seasons, the show grows into a huge story. It mixes character drama with complicated Blacklister cases. This makes it one of NBC’s most serialized and character-focused dramas.One of the important cast members of the show is Samar Navabi, played by Mozhan Marnò. She first appears in The Blacklist Season 2. She is an elite Mossad field agent who later joins the FBI task force.Samar builds strong bonds with the team. Her story takes many dramatic turns. She falls in love with Aram Mojtabai. She also has a near-fatal accident that changes her life.Because of all this, many viewers wonder what happens to her. Does Samar die in the show? Does she survive? What is her final fate? These questions became some of the biggest mysteries for fans of her character.Did Samar really die in The Blacklist?A still from The Blacklist (Image source: Netflix)In The Blacklist Season 5, Samar and her Mossad partner get kidnapped by Lawrence Dane Devlin, one of the classic Blacklister miscreants. Things go sideways when Samar ends up stuck in a van, and then the van plunges straight into a river.Samar thinks she will die. She calls Aram, her boyfriend. She cries and tells him she would have said “yes” if he had asked her to marry him. Water starts filling the van while she talks to him. Aram finally finds the van underwater. He pulls Samar out. But she has been without oxygen for several minutes. So, she is rushed to the hospital. Doctors put her on life support because she cannot breathe on her own.She survives, but the doctors warn Aram that her brain may be damaged. This leads into The Blacklist Season 6, where Samar struggles with the effects of her injury. She begins to have memory and thinking problems because of the lack of oxygen.So, did she die? The short answer is no. Samar does not die in The Blacklist. Official recaps say she survives the near-drowning. After she wakes up from her coma, Samar says yes to Aram’s proposal. She tries to rebuild her life. But her injuries cause long-term problems.In Season 6, her memory and thinking get worse. Doctors tell her she has vascular dementia. This illness will keep getting worse and will make it hard for her to work as an agent.Samar then faces a hard truth. Her condition puts her in danger. It also puts her friends in danger. Some enemies could use her weakness to get to the task force. So she chooses to leave for her own safety. Red helps her disappear. She gets on a plane to a secret place. She says goodbye to Aram, even though it breaks her heart.This is not a death. The Blacklist keeps Samar alive. Her goodbye is sad, but hopeful. She leaves the story, but she does not die.Part of the reason the story happens this way is that Mozhan Marnò decided she was done with the show and wanted to chase after some fresh gigs. She said she was exploring something new and dropped a little farewell for the fans, saying she was super grateful. Her Instagram farewell post read:“It has been an amazing experience. I have made mistakes, I have made friends, I have grown… But last summer, I decided that I was ready for my next chapter, and the producers very graciously granted my request to move on from the show.” View this post on Instagram Instagram PostThe writers did not want to kill Samar. They respected the character and the actress. So they wrote an exit where Samar lives, but faces hard challenges. This let her leave the story without erasing her from The Blacklist world.Even after she leaves in Season 6, Samar’s presence stays in the show. She appears again in The Blacklist Season 9, but only in Aram’s hallucination. This shows how much he still loves and misses her. It also shows that her absence still affects him deeply.The writers used this scene to remind viewers that Samar still matters. She is not back in the real story, but her memory is strong. What we know from the show is simple: Samar is alive. She leaves the U.S. to stay safe. She hides because her illness makes her an easy target. Her condition, vascular dementia, makes her future unsure.