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!"