Blindspot 2x03 "Hero Fears Imminent Rot" Recap

This week's episode of Blindspot hit the ground running, with explosions, bombings, killings, and more mysteries -- so let's get down to it. Here's your recap of "Hero Fears Imminent Rot."

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Jane wakes up at an unknown location and meets with Roman and Shepherd, who arranged for her kidnapping so they could question her about Cade, who was apparently in Venezuela during Jane's captivity and tortue. Jane is able to -- seemingly -- convince them that Cade really was the one to hold her captive and it appears they may buy her story. Rather than letting Jane get back to the FBI though, Shepherd tells her that she has a different task for Jane -- and it's a doozy. Jeffrey Kantor is a mechanical engineer that Jane recruited for Sandstorm and he was supposed to copy a crucial microchip for the organization -- but he missed his drop. Kantor always liked Jane so Roman and Jane head out to find Kantor so Jane can prove her loyalty to Sandstorm; which means she's going to have to kill him so Shepherd will start trusting her again.

Meanwhile, the FBI team is focused on finding the two men who have set off bombs around the city. There's a connection to one of Jane's tattoos, which allows Patterson to figure out that the bombs are DIME bombs, which are often used in Navy testing, which typically and secretly occurs on the island of Vieques.

The bombs going off around New York have been at somewhat military locations, so the team deduces they're connected to the testing in Vieques. They find the bombers' Twitter account which have tweets dedicating the bombings to those who were victims of the Navy's testing. Since the tweets are pre-written, Nas and Patterson are able to hack into the accounts so they can inform the team of the bombers' next target.

Once Jane and Roman get to Kantor's house, he locks himself in his panic room, knowing what Sandstorm does to those they no longer trust. Jane is able to talk him out of the room after she and Roman knock out the security that Kantor alerts, but even though it seems Jane is able to get Kantor back on Sandstorm's team, Roman still hands Jane a gun and tells her to kill him. Jane argues that Sandstorm still needs the microchip and this is the wrong move, so Roman shoots Kantor (multiple times) and kills him, telling Jane she failed the test. Uh-oh.

Nas and Patterson have discovered that Prospect Park is the next target so the team and Jane (who has returned but doesn't have her head on straight) race there. They split up, with Reade and Zapata going one way and Weller and Jane headed the opposite. Reade finds the bomb and he and Zapata are able to shoot it to disarm it (um, ok?) and Jane spots one of the bombers. She takes off after him, not realizing the second one is about to shoot her, when Weller saves her and kills the bomber, only to have the other one escape. 

The escaped bomber makes his way to a Navy recruitment center and takes a bunch of people hostage with a suicide vest. The team head there, minus Jane, who Weller says to stay behind and talk to Borden. Once on the scene, Weller walks into the center and the bomber makes him don the suicide vest, but Weller is able to start talking down the bomber. Just when it seems Weller's really connecting, Nas uses a sniper rifle to kill the bomber -- so no one is hurt but Weller and Nas have words.

Jane meets up with Sandstorm again and it appears Roman covered for her and told Shepherd that she killed Kantor, so she's back in mama's good graces for now. However, Roman warns her that he won't be able to have her back in the future and that she needs to find her way back to being Remy or the consequences won't be good.

Borden and Patterson were supposed to go on their date, but Patterson cancels since she's not good at those type of things. After some urging from Zapata, she decides to go to Borden's office to tell him the date's back on, and they end up making out. Hooray!

Also back at the FBI, Reade tells Zapata about what Freddy said and questions whether he even wants to know what happened at football camp.

Not a whole lot of questions were answered this week -- instead, we're left with more. Why did Roman cover for Jane? Is Weller going to be involved in his kid's life? Will Reade pursue his repressed memories? Is Borden speaking Arabic supposed to point us towards him being the mole or is he a red herring? Hopefully, some answers are will be in the upcoming episode.

Badass of the week: Weller.
Quote of the week: Reade to Zapata as they stand over a bomb in Prospect Parl: "We're going to diffuse a bomb by shooting it to pieces." Zapata: "What?!"

This Is Us 1x02 "The Big Three" Recap

After that surprise twist in the pilot, where we learn that Jack and Rebecca are the parents of Kevin, Kate, and Randall, the second episode of "This Is Us" continued to follow their stories -- both past and present. Here's your recap for "The Big Three."

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Kate's trying very seriously to lose her unwanted excess weight but is frustrated that she's yet to see any change while Toby's managed to lose some pounds. After blowing up at some other members of their fat support group, Kate tells Toby she's stressed about finding something to wear to the Hollywood party her twin Kevin invited her to tonight. After hearing about the party, Toby invites himself along and turns the outing into a date, one in which he hopes they can forget about their weight problems. They get drunk at the party and Kate tells Toby that it'll always be about the weight for her as it's been a battle since she was little. Thanks to flashbacks to 1998, we see mom Rebecca giving Kate fruit for breakfast while we see brothers Kevin and Randall get sugary cereal.

Besides gaining insight into Kate's relationship with food, we also see Kevin and Randall's relationship as kids, which wasn't great. The two brothers fought a lot and Kevin worried about what others thought of him so he wouldn't stick up for Randall when mean kids called him "Webster," choosing popularity over his brother. Their childhood has affected their relationship today as the brothers aren't close.

Even though he's been warned that quitting "The Manny" will have repercussions for his career, Kevin is surprised when he meets with his agent (Katey Sagal) and is told he's contractually obligated for two more years. At the party, he meets with the network head (Brad Garrett) who tells him that unless he returns to "The Manny," his career will be Nagasaki-ed and Kevin won't be able to work in show business. 

After Kevin hears that, he calls his brother Randall, and they have a touching, if stilted, conversation, where Randall advises Kevin that their mom and dad didn't raise any whores. After reciting the "Big Three" chant their dad used to have them do in the mornings, along with a drunk Kate, Kevin decides he's not going back to "The Manny" and will instead move to New York and do theater. Since New York is where Randall lives with his family, we'll hopefully be seeing the two brothers together and working on their relationship.

Meanwhile, Randall's biological father William has been staying with his family, and Beth isn't sold on him. So Beth wakes up Randall for a late-night interrogation in the kitchen, asking him where he goes every day all day, if he's using drugs, and whether he's really sick. After Randall walks into the kitchen, William admits he's been going back to Philadelphia each day to feed his cat, making Beth feel bad about questioning him, but also relieved that William's not using drugs.

In 1998, we see Jack and Rebecca struggling as a couple, since Rebecca feels like she's taking on the bulk of responsibilities with the kids, while Jack's out drinking, causing tension between the two. While Rebecca is tucking in each kid, Jack is slinging back bourbon at the bar alongside friend Miguel (Jon Huertas), who tells him he should appreciate what he has in Rebecca and not screw it up with her or their great family whom he's kind of jealous of. Jack heads back home and after receiving a serious tongue-lashing from Rebecca and sleeping outside their bedroom in the hall, vows to stop drinking and be a better husband and parent. He then gives her a gold moon necklace which she promises to never take off, they make out, and are soon piled on by their kids as they wake up.

We return to the present day at Randall and Beth's house, where the doorbell rings. Their two daughters rush to answer it, only to announce that Grandma and Grandpa are here -- and when we see who's at the door, in a surprise twist, we don't see Rebecca and Jack. Instead, it's Rebecca (still wearing the moon necklace) and her husband, (gasp!) Miguel.

This surprise twist begets lots of questions -- did Jack die? Did someone cheat? WHAT HAPPENED?

Hopefully these questions will be answered sooner rather than later, but NBC just ordered a full season of "This Is Us" consisting of 18 episodes yesterday, so we may have longer to wait and much more to anticipate in the season ahead.

Blindspot 2x02 "Heave Fiery Knot" Recap

Missiles, mysteries, and bickering dominated the second episode of Blindspot's second season -- so without further ado, here's your episode recap for "Heave Fiery Knot."

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Last week, we saw a photo of Jane lying in the desert in full camouflage military gear -- and this week's episode saw Jane reliving that memory and the story behind it. Jane and other Orion members were on a mission in Afghanistan in 2013, with orders to take out a hostile target. After their helicopter lands, they move to secure a small house when a woman runs out. The rest of the team except Jane go into the house to clear it when it explodes, followed by the helicopter as Jane and the woman run towards it. Jane is the only surviving member of the Orion team -- though Shepherd keeps it a secret.

Orion, a super-secret CIA group that was sent on illegal and off-the-books missions -- like assassinations, and the like -- was basically being shut down by the government and so the government then had to get rid of all the evidence of the program having existed; meaning, all the Orion operatives had to be killed. Jane is living evidence then (her memories and tattoos combined a dangerous combination), thus her existence being kept secret by Shepherd and Sandstorm.

After having met with Shepherd, Jane goes back to the FBI to report in and tells them that Shepherd wants them to pursue a specific tattoo case: the one that looks like a Coliseum. She tells them they have to solve the case today, which leads the other team members to question if it's a trap and to overall discuss how they don't trust Jane, which Jane of course overhears. Poor Jane is getting the short end of the stick from her "mom" Shepherd, who's keeping her in the dark on much of Sandstorm's going-ons, and from her FBI team who treat her with mistrust and don't hide their displeasure in working with her.

After they crack the tattoo, they realize the Juarez cartel and DEA are somehow in cahoots as weapons that are meant to act as bait by the DEA (through an act called "gun waltzing") are actually being sold and handed over to the cartel, though the DEA agent in charge is claiming they've been lost. They trace the "lost weapons"to DEA agent Valentine Baker, who they track down to a bank where she's basically emptying her accounts and grabbing her passport. They see Juarez cartel members outside the bank and the FBI team thinks they're there to protect Baker but they're actually there to kill her. Shooting commences, Jane ends up saving Reade's life (though that doesn't earn her much favor with the team), and Baker's taken into the FBI for questioning.

There, it's discovered that Baker isn't actually behind these lost weapons ending up in the hands of the Juarez cartel but her mentor, Robert Kingston, is the dirty agent -- and the Juarez cartel is about to get their hands on some missiles unless they can stop him. The team splits up to find Kingston at a storage unit, with Baker covering the exit, and she sees Kingston going to leave and tries to stop him -- only to end up shot. (Don't worry -- she doesn't die, though she will never walk again, Nas tells Weller later.) Now they have to trace Kingston's delivery truck through traffic cams, which they do, in a place that's underneath lots of airplane traffic and has the whole Eastern Manhattan within missile distance. The team's not sure what the target is at first, but Patterson quickly deduces it's a plane carrying Mexican politicians and law enforcement officials about to be within shooting distance now.

Luckily, the FBI team manage to subdue or kill the cartel members before the plane can be blown up, though one man is able to shoot off a missile, which Jane safely steers into the water using the remote control. All's well that ends well, I guess.

In the midst of all this serious stuff, FBI psychiatrist Borden adorably asks out Patterson after giving her a floppy disc version of the game Oregon Trail. After some fumbling, Borden manages to ask Patterson if they could grab dinner together some time, and Patterson agrees. Yay!

Meanwhile, Reade meets up with an old friend, Freddy, who attended football camp with him -- the same football camp run by Coach Jones, who used to sexually abuse boys. Reade wants Freddy to testify and tells him to call the DA so Jones will go to jail, but the DA deems Freddy a bad witness since he's had problems holding down a job and with substance abuse. Reade then has to tell Freddy that Jones isn't going to pay for what he's done and goes to meet Freddy in-person to deliver the bad news, only to find him drinking as the DA already called him. Before leaving, Reade is asked by Freddy why he isn't testifying, and Reade asks him about what, seeming to have forgotten that maybe he was also a victim (or at least witnessed abuse) while at Jones' football camp. (Poor Reade -- to be continued...?)

Besides all that, we learn that Keith Manning, an official in the Department of Justice, was behind Sandstorm's information on the gun-waltzing practices, so they've turned over a card in the mystery of Sandstorm's members, but Nas tells Jane that they still can't see the whole picture and there's more to be done. Also, Roman and Shepherd receive work that Cade (who Jane told them abducted and tortured her when it was really the CIA) has been spotted. Additionally, Weller's ex Allie (Trieste Kelly Dun) shows up to his apartment and tells him that she's pregnant and open to Kurt being as involved as he wants to be in the kid's life.

Lastly, the episode ends with Jane visiting the Orion memorial she went to with Shepherd and Roman, only to have Roman come up behind her and inject her with something and kidnap her. Yikes! That family's got issues.

Hopefully, we'll get some more answers next week -- though I'm sure even more questions will keep popping up!

Badass of the week: Roman.
Quote of the week: Nas to Jane after Jane complaining that the team doesn't trust her and that Nas can't possibly understand what it's like to be looked at with such hatred and suspicion: "I'm a Pakistani-born woman who's busted my ass climbing to the top of the National Security Agency. You think I haven't dealt with my share of aggression and mistrust?"

This Is Us "Pilot" Review & Recap

The new dramedy "This Is Us" premiered last night and it looks like NBC's got a major hit on their hands. Both funny and poignant, the show will have viewers hooked after that first episode and eagerly awaiting more. Here's a recap of the "This Is Us" pilot.

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To start, the show has a fact on the screen, which is that according to Wikipedia, each person, on average, shares their birthday with more than 18 million other people, but there's no proven behavioral link between those people. Unless, of course, they're the people in "This Is Us." The episode then introduces pregnant couple Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca (Mandy Moore), who are celebrating Jack's 36th birthday when Rebecca's water breaks, so they rush to the hospital since they're expecting triplets and they're early.

Successful businessman Randall (Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown) is turning 36 when he gets an email from a private investigator telling him that the father who left him at the door of a fire station when he was a baby has been located. He decides to go meet his father, William Hill (Ron Cephas Jones), mostly because he wants to tell him off. After making a big speech on his biological father's doorstep, about how he turned out pretty okay even though he was abandoned, his father invites him inside. Randall doesn't want to hear any excuses and William doesn't make any, and after Randall tells him off and storms out, he comes back inside and invites William to his home to meet his wife Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson) and two granddaughters. (Yeah, I don't really get that either, but I went with it). After Randall puts his daughters to sleep, he comes downstairs in his home to see William looking at a photo of his adoptive parents, though viewers don't see who's in the picture. We learn a firefighter found Randall and took him to the hospital, where his adoptive parents were and he was with them from day one. William tells Randall that he's dying, and then William is seen in Randall and Beth's guest room as they've invited him to stay over.

Handsome actor Kevin (Justin Hartley) is questioning his life and choices as he turns 36, as he's the star on a not-so-great sitcom called "The Manny," a shallow role in which he is rarely allowed to don a shirt or really show emotion. After he acts in a particularly moving scene and is told to redo it without his shirt and in a lighter way, he goes on a rant in front of a live studio audience about how everything is fake and then quits. We learn early on that Kevin has a sister named Kate (Chrissy Metz) who is struggling to lose weight and is also pretty dissatisfied with her life.

Kate decides she's really going to lose her excess weight and attends a sort of overweight people support group where she meets Toby (Chris Sullivan). They go on a date and then back to Kate's apartment, where they are interrupted pre-kiss by Kevin, who's freaking out about the state of his life now that he's quit "The Manny."

We then return to Jack and Rebecca in the hospital, where we learn one of the triplets was stillborn and the other two babies are a healthy boy and girl. As Jack sits in the hallway, their doctor tells him about his life, and how he and his wife lost their first baby and that's why he now delivers babies, and then says something along the lines of taking the sourest lemon life gives you and still managing to turn it into something resembling lemonade.

In a surprise twist, we see a firefighter standing next to Jack as he looks at his twins in the nursery, and he tells Jack he brought in a baby that was left on the steps of the fire station. That baby is next to Jack and Rebecca's in the nursery, and then the camera pans out so we realize that Jack and Rebecca's story isn't taking place in present day. Back to Kevin and Kate who are commiserating in Kate's apartment on her couch who are remembering that their dad used to tell them about no lemon being so sour you couldn't make something like lemonade and the pieces are starting to fall together. Yes, Jack and Rebecca are Kate and Kevin's parents and Randall is their adopted son, so they did end up going home from the hospital with three babies, and Jack and Rebecca's story is occurring in 1979.

With a great premise, an all-star cast, and what looks to be an interesting and emotional season ahead, NBC's "This Is Us" has set itself apart from the other shows on TV right now and is definitely off to a promising start.

New Fall TV Shows Premiering This Week That Look Promising

Fall is here, and for TV-lovers, that means one thing: shows are premiering and returning from summer hiatuses. This week, a number of new fall TV shows are kicking off, which means it's time to decide what new shows you'll be adding to your TV watchlists this season. Here are the shows that'll be kicking off on non-Cable channels this week that you may want to consider watching.

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1. "The Good Place," NBC. Premiering Monday, September 19, this comedy stars Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, and was created by Michael Schur ("The Office" producer and co-creator of "Parks and Recreation" and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"), so it promises laughs. The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop (Bell) who is killed and surprisingly finds herself in "the good place," having been mistaken for someone else as she hasn't exactly been a good person. Her presence in heaven upsets the balance, leading designer of The Good Place Michael (Danson) to try to figure out what's behind all the weird occurrences. "The Good Place" also stars William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, and Manny Jacinto.

2. "Bull," CBS. This drama kicks off Tuesday, September 20, and sees Michael Weatherly return to TV as Dr. Jason Bull, the founder of a successful trial consulting firm called Trial Analysis Corporation. He and his team use a variety of different methods to understand jurors, lawyers, witnesses, and defendants, so they can create the best narrative to help their clients win their cases. Bull was actually inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, who is an executive producer on the show. Besides Weatherly, "Bull" stars Freddy Rodriguez, Geneva Carr, Jaime Lee Kirchner, and Annabelle Attanasio.

3. "This Is Us," NBC. The first trailer for this dramedy was watched more than 51 million times through Facebook in its first week online and looks like it may be this fall's breakout hit. The show debuts Tuesday, September 20, and tells the stories of a group of people who were all born on the same day and whose lives will intersect in unexpected and interesting ways. With an amazing cast consisting of Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Justin Hartley, Chrissy Metz, Sterling K. Brown, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Sullvian, and Ron Cephas Jones, "This Is Us" promises laughs and tears, and will be the show everyone's talking about the next day.

4. "Speechless," ABC. This ABC comedy premieres Wednesday, September 21, and follows the DiMeos, a family with a special-needs teenage son (Micah Fowler), who has cerebral palsy, which makes mobility and communication challenging. While the show deals with serious issues and may seem like it embraces some cliche comedy tropes, the show is funny and allows each character room to grow. Fowler has cerebral palsy in real life, making the show's casting decision noteworthy and heartening. "Speechless" stars Minnie Driver, John Ross Bowie, Kyla Kenedy, Mason Cook, Micah Fowler, and Cedric Yarbrough.

5. "Designated Survivor," ABC. This political drama sees Kiefer Sutherland ("24") make his triumphant return to TV. Premiering Wednesday, September 21, "Designated Survivor" follows low-level Cabinet member Tom Kirkman, who suddenly finds himself being appointed president after an attack during the State of the Union kills the President and all the other members of Cabinet. The show operates on three levels, focusing on the Kirkman family, who are thrust into the White House under extraordinary circumstances, Tom's uncertainty about his ability to be President and his grappling with decisions, and the attack itself and conspiracy behind it, with the suspicion that the attacks aren't over. The show also stars Natasha McElhone, Maggie Q, Kal Penn, Italia Ricci, Adan Canto, and LaMonica Garrett.

6. "Notorious," ABC. This ABC drama premieres Thursday, September 22, follows news producer Julia George (Piper Parabo) and criminal defense attorney Jake Gregorian (Daniel Sunjata) and shows how powerful the media is when it comes to influencing the public and framing a story. The show was inspired by the real stories of infamous criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and cable news producer Wendy Walker, who serve as executive producers. "Notorious" also stars Kate Jennings Grant, Aimee Teegarden, J. August Richards, Sepideh Moafi, Ryan Guzman, and Kevin Zegers.

7. "Pitch," Fox. Debuting on Thursday, September 22, this drama follows Ginny Baker, a young female pitcher who has a talent for throwing screwball pitches, and who becomes the first woman to play in Major League Baseball when she's chosen by the San Diego Padres. The show looks like it'll be inspirational and ask hard questions and deeply examine the male-dominated world of baseball. Besides being the first female MLB player, Ginny is also black, which invites the show to not only discuss gender and sexism, but race and other social issues as well. "Pitch" stars Kylie Bunbury, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Ali Larter, Mo McRae, Mark Consuelos, Dan Lauria, Meagan Holder, and Tim Jo.

Mark your calendars, TV fanatics -- this week is going to be jam-packed with both series and season premieres of new and returning shows, so make sure you've got your DVRs ready.

Blindspot 2x01 "In Night So Ransomed Rogue" Recap

Last night, "Blindspot" returned to NBC for its second season premiere, and things got off to a fast start with lots of action and questions being answered during the hour-long episode, as well as more questions and mysteries popping up. Here's a recap of what went down in 2x01 "In Night So Ransomed Rogue."

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Jane has been held at a CIA blacksite in Oregon for three months, being tortured daily but never breaking. We see her brilliantly execute an escape plan when she purposefully opens her mouth while being held underwater so that her captors will be forced to inject her in order to resuscitate her. Right after the needle slides into her arm, Jane lashes out and attacks her torturers, only to be put back in her cell, with -- dum da da dum -- the needle still in her arm. She uses it to pick open her handcuffs, again fight and this time defeat the men holding her, and escape the site.

Two weeks later, we see the FBI team of Weller, Zapata, and Reade chasing after a counterfeiter, which ends with a dirt bike chase, and missing the thrill of Jane's tattoo cases. After they arrest the counterfeiter, a helicopter lands nearby and out comes new player Nas Kamal ("The Good Wife" Emmy Award Winner Archie Panjabi), the director of a secret branch of the NSA called Zero Division. Zero Division has been tracking seemingly lone wolf terror attacks for the last six years though they've all been linked to a group that Nas is calling Sandstorm, which they believe Jane to be an operative of.

Basically, Nas wants to find Jane and use her as a triple agent for Sandstorm since they're a major threat. So the team tracks down Jane to where she's working as a motel maid in Camden, NJ, knowing she won't be happy to see them -- which leads to an awesome Jane vs. Weller fight in the motel hallway. Jane's brought back into the FBI, where she tells Nas (and her former team behind a one-way window) after being hooked up to a not-so-legal MRI/lie detector machine all that transpired last season, from doing secret seemingly harmless missions for Oscar, to Oscar killing Carter and then Mayfair and Jane killing Oscar.

Jane agrees to help the FBI and Nas infiltrate Sandstorm and while she looks beat up, after calling her cover number at "Joey's Pizza" and setting up a meet, she tells them they need to shoot her so Sandstorm will believe her cover story, which is that Cade has been holding her captive. Zapata gladly shoots Jane in the side when Weller waffles and then Jane's off to meet her Sandstorm handler.

A guy named Roman, who we saw in Jane's flashbacks as the man who helped condition and train her to withstand torture, meets Jane and they head to a hospital, running into a DUI checkpoint along the way which necessitates Roman getting out of the car and beating up and shooting a bunch of cops. Roman and Jane get to the hospital, Roman patches Jane up, and they head to meet the mysterious Shepherd, the head of Sandstorm, or at least in charge of their next mission.

Meanwhile, back at the FBI, Patterson shows Nas the USB drive Mayfair left to the team which has three files on it -- one called "Daylight," which has info about an op the NSA's already aware of, another called "M7G677," which only has a picture of a black hole in it, and the third named "Orion" which contains pixelated data Patterson's been trying to un-fragment. The team asks Nas for permission to use the NSA's quantum computer farm, so Patterson's finally able to open the photos hidden in the Orion file, which are mostly pictures of soldiers, explosions, and the like. One picture catches Weller's eye -- a photo of Jane, dressed in camouflage military gear, lying unconscious in some desert. Interesting...

Back to Jane and Roman, who are finally meeting Shepherd, who reveals, after scanning Jane for tracking devices, that she's Jane's mother. WHAT?! Ok, so then she goes on to say that Jane was born in South Africa as Alice Kruger and her real parents were anti-apartheid and killed when Jane was young. Jane/Alice was then brought to an orphanage which trained children to be soldiers, along with her brother, Roman. Shepherd was part of a US military team sent in to free the child soldiers, and while the other children were placed with families, Shepherd says she decided to keep Roman and Alice since they were so dangerous and hard to handle. In her care, Alice and Roman chose new names -- so Jane's brother became "Roman" and Jane/Alice picked the name "Remy."

After giving Jane/Alice/Remy some major insight into her past, and finally telling Jane her real name(s), Shepherd and Roman instruct Jane to get back into the FBI and tell them Cade's been holding her captive. After Jane leaves, Shepherd tells Roman that something seemed off with Jane, to which Roman replies that if she doesn't believe Jane, she should activate Sandstorm's mole in the FBI and they'll tell her Jane's on the up-and-up. Say what now?! Shepherd opts not to do so, as she wants to wait to use the mole in the FBI until later as it's their ace in the hole. While they talk, Roman and Shepherd are seen standing in front of a giant missile that's sure to be a part of Sandstorm's upcoming attack.

And so ends the first episode of the second season of "Blindspot," and while we finally know a bit more about who Jane is, we're still left with lots of questions, like, for instance, who's the mole? Starting next week, "Blindspot" will air at its new time, 8/7c on NBC. Wednesday can't get here soon enough.

Badass of the week: Jane (duh.)
Quote of the week: Patterson to Weller as she works to remotely turn off Jane's unknown tracker so Sandstorm doesn't think she's a spy. "Stop yelling! It's not helping me code!"