I think Red did not answer the questions until the right question was asked.
Liz asked him" Are you my father?"
Kirk asked him: "Are you her father?"
Red kept telling him that it did not matter, because Kirk had acted as a father, and had loved Liz as a daughter, so the actual biological paternity was irrelevant. Then Sam Milhoan raised her.
Sam would always be her father, because it was Sam who raised her.
Not until Kirk asked the right question: "Is Masha your daughter" because Rostov knew Liz as Masha, that Red is finally able to answer: "Yes, Elizabeth is my daughter."
To most people is the same, but to a man who avoids the truth without lying is not. a father is the man who raises a child, while the child will always be the daughter of that man, but also of the biblical father, even if this man never raised her.
So it is a question of asking the right question. And a question of honoring a promise made on a deathbed of a dear friend: that Sam will always be her father. So for Red, Rostov was a father to Liz, and Sam was a father to Liz, but Liz will always be his daughter.
If Katarina was a honeytrap who seduced men for information, and went as far as faking a DNA test and having a diary, she probably did the same to others. In fact Red confirms that he also was a target. And following the OREA agent who thought she was an amalgamation of 6 different unknown soviet agents, then it follows she had at least 6 names, 6 identities: "Katarina Rostova, one of her many names"
What do you think was in the KGB file? the names of her targets.
And what information could Liz still remember that she acquired as a 4 year old? the names of those targets. the names of the men she call father.
It's all just pieces of a much larger puzzle, and until all the pieces are laying in front of you...
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