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?!"