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Roman takes Jane to a lake that's been polluted and tells Jane that Sandstorm and Shepherd aren't attacking this country, they're defending it, and tells her that he needs her to get angry. Jane tries asking again about what exactly Shepherd is planning but Roman doesn't give her an answer. Also, Weller tells Allie that he's in regarding the baby. Yay Daddy Kurt!
Meanwhile, the FBI turn to their next tattoo case, having to do with the honeycomb pattern on Jane's hand. Patterson's interpretation of the tattoo leads them to the numbers corresponding to a Homeland Security employee ID for infrastructure protection analyst Bo Kaier and the word Shdwcat. "Shdwcat" is the online handle for a hacker on the dark web who's breached highly secure infrastructure, including the Pentagon and White House.
The FBI team head to Kaier's house to find Kaier destroying his hard drives and armed. Reade ends up tackling Kaier as he tries to flee and punching him multiple times until Weller manages to stop him. The team takes the salvaged hard drives back to the FBI where Patterson was able to pull some information off Shdwcat's database. Shdwcat's been creating games that simulate heists in highly secure buildings, such at the CDC, which was robbed of many ebola vaccines the year prior, thanks to Shdwcat's game. Shdwcat's drive also shows lots of other "mods" located in different cities for heists that have yet to be pulled off.
Patterson and Zapata crack some of the mods and Nas advises Weller that Reade should sit out as he went overboard with Kaier and something's clearly up with him but Weller refuses. Patterson then cracks the latest mod Shdwcat created, which takes place in the Aebly Museum of Art in New York, but the team's unsure what will be taken in the heist, only knowing it'll take place in two days during a fundraising gala.
Two days later, the team (including Nas and Patterson) prepares to go undercover at the gala, getting dressed up to blend in. While at the fundraiser, Jane meets the man throwing it, Oliver Kind, who gives her his card after some somewhat flirty conversation, which Weller looked none too happy about. Shortly after arriving at the gala, Patterson receives more important info about the mod, which included the basement in the simulation, meaning those pulling off the heist may be after something in storage. Patterson arrives in the basement before Weller and is attacked and almost garroted by a masked person, who flees when Weller shows up. Weller gives chase, but the thief, who's a woman, races back to the gala, unmasking on the way, so she can blend back in.
Meanwhile, the FBI turn to their next tattoo case, having to do with the honeycomb pattern on Jane's hand. Patterson's interpretation of the tattoo leads them to the numbers corresponding to a Homeland Security employee ID for infrastructure protection analyst Bo Kaier and the word Shdwcat. "Shdwcat" is the online handle for a hacker on the dark web who's breached highly secure infrastructure, including the Pentagon and White House.
The FBI team head to Kaier's house to find Kaier destroying his hard drives and armed. Reade ends up tackling Kaier as he tries to flee and punching him multiple times until Weller manages to stop him. The team takes the salvaged hard drives back to the FBI where Patterson was able to pull some information off Shdwcat's database. Shdwcat's been creating games that simulate heists in highly secure buildings, such at the CDC, which was robbed of many ebola vaccines the year prior, thanks to Shdwcat's game. Shdwcat's drive also shows lots of other "mods" located in different cities for heists that have yet to be pulled off.
Patterson and Zapata crack some of the mods and Nas advises Weller that Reade should sit out as he went overboard with Kaier and something's clearly up with him but Weller refuses. Patterson then cracks the latest mod Shdwcat created, which takes place in the Aebly Museum of Art in New York, but the team's unsure what will be taken in the heist, only knowing it'll take place in two days during a fundraising gala.
Two days later, the team (including Nas and Patterson) prepares to go undercover at the gala, getting dressed up to blend in. While at the fundraiser, Jane meets the man throwing it, Oliver Kind, who gives her his card after some somewhat flirty conversation, which Weller looked none too happy about. Shortly after arriving at the gala, Patterson receives more important info about the mod, which included the basement in the simulation, meaning those pulling off the heist may be after something in storage. Patterson arrives in the basement before Weller and is attacked and almost garroted by a masked person, who flees when Weller shows up. Weller gives chase, but the thief, who's a woman, races back to the gala, unmasking on the way, so she can blend back in.
The team split up to find her and Jane finds a body, but the woman is using a scrambler on the cameras. Zapata and Reade think they've found the woman and her accomplice but the real thief just planted the scrambler on them to throw off the FBI. Nas stumbles across another body, and Weller manages to finally almost catch the woman but she escapes to another wing using a dumbwaiter. Jane's the first to arrive to the wing, and she and the woman fight, and just when it looks like Jane'll win, the woman pulls out a flash bang which temporarily stuns Jane, allowing the woman to get away, for real this time.
The team return to the FBI, where they realize that the two people killed at the gala have ties to East Africa, making them think that the woman wasn't actually there to pull off a heist, but instead to carry out a hit, and the team may have interrupted her before she could finish. Weller tells Reade to talk to Borden before going back in the field, sidelining Reade for the moment. Reade talks to Borden, telling him about Jones and the gaps in his memory, and Borden suggests these gaps are what's behind Reade's recent bouts of anger. Borden offers to help Reade try to remember, but warns that Reade may never remember the traumatic events.
Meanwhile, Roman drives up to Sandstorm's headquarters in an armored truck with lots of C4 in the back, which is only half of what they need, so Shepherd is upset that the supplier couldn't get all that they asked for. Roman also advises Shepherd to tell Jane everything so she'll have something to want to come back to and fight for since she doesn't really remember either of them or what they're fighting for.
The FBI identify the woman, Elizabeth Gubara, a Sudanese who has ties to a terror group, as well as another target, Charles Kessler, who was also at the gala, and who works for the State Department organizing relief efforts in Africa. The team catch Elizabeth as she breaks into Kessler's home, but when they ask about her terror cell, she tells them that she's CIA. Twist!
Back at the FBI, Elizabeth tells Weller and Jane that she's been deep cover for three years, with Charles being the one who set up her cover and acting as her handler. The two people Elizabeth killed were supposed to be helping but instead were corrupt, and Elizabeth was burned last year by Charles, her identity completely wiped from their systems. When Elizabeth tried to reach out for help, her husband and daughter, Meridia, were killed. After being held captive for nine months, Elizabeth went after those to blame.
While they can't confirm Elizabeth was CIA, Patterson can confirm that Charles, Bridget, and Michael (the two people killed at the gala), all were spies, and Zapata realizes Charles doesn't have a daughter, even though there was a picture at his house of him with a young black girl -- who, it turns out, is Elizabeth's daughter! She's alive! But Elizabeth's daughter is actually also Charles' daughter since the two had an affair, explaining why Charles didn't actually kill her but instead took her in after burning her mother, and gave her a new identity. The team track down Charles as he's trying to flee the country, having hired a jet to Mexico City for him and his daughter. Charles and the team exchange fire, and Weller shoots and kills him. Meridia then picks up a gun and shoots at the team, but Jane's able to talk her down, promising to take her to her mom.
Roman and Jane meet back up in a house, where Shepherd tells Jane that her family used to practically live at the polluted lake, with Shepherd's mother, father, brother all dying from sicknesses caused by the lake. Shepherd didn't escape the lake's contamination either, as she had to have her ovaries removed at 17, which was why she was so happy to have found Roman and Jane in Africa and adopted them. Shepherd tells Jane that while she thought at first Jane should only know what was needed for the mission, now she realizes it's important for Jane to know her family -- Roman and Shepherd -- so she knows where they came from and where she came from.
Zapata shows up at Reade's and chases Freddy off, who Reade said could stay with him for a bit, before calling Reade. Reade rejects the call, as he's sitting in his car in front of Coach Jones' house. Zapata then heads to Kaier's hospital room, telling him she's got an off-the-books job for Shdwcat. Also, Weller and Nas semi-bond over Scotch, before Nas tells him that their operative inside Sandstorm, before going dark, revealed that Weller is a major part of what Sandstorm is planning, having been watching Weller for over 20 years. Dun, Dun, Dun.
The team return to the FBI, where they realize that the two people killed at the gala have ties to East Africa, making them think that the woman wasn't actually there to pull off a heist, but instead to carry out a hit, and the team may have interrupted her before she could finish. Weller tells Reade to talk to Borden before going back in the field, sidelining Reade for the moment. Reade talks to Borden, telling him about Jones and the gaps in his memory, and Borden suggests these gaps are what's behind Reade's recent bouts of anger. Borden offers to help Reade try to remember, but warns that Reade may never remember the traumatic events.
Meanwhile, Roman drives up to Sandstorm's headquarters in an armored truck with lots of C4 in the back, which is only half of what they need, so Shepherd is upset that the supplier couldn't get all that they asked for. Roman also advises Shepherd to tell Jane everything so she'll have something to want to come back to and fight for since she doesn't really remember either of them or what they're fighting for.
The FBI identify the woman, Elizabeth Gubara, a Sudanese who has ties to a terror group, as well as another target, Charles Kessler, who was also at the gala, and who works for the State Department organizing relief efforts in Africa. The team catch Elizabeth as she breaks into Kessler's home, but when they ask about her terror cell, she tells them that she's CIA. Twist!
Back at the FBI, Elizabeth tells Weller and Jane that she's been deep cover for three years, with Charles being the one who set up her cover and acting as her handler. The two people Elizabeth killed were supposed to be helping but instead were corrupt, and Elizabeth was burned last year by Charles, her identity completely wiped from their systems. When Elizabeth tried to reach out for help, her husband and daughter, Meridia, were killed. After being held captive for nine months, Elizabeth went after those to blame.
While they can't confirm Elizabeth was CIA, Patterson can confirm that Charles, Bridget, and Michael (the two people killed at the gala), all were spies, and Zapata realizes Charles doesn't have a daughter, even though there was a picture at his house of him with a young black girl -- who, it turns out, is Elizabeth's daughter! She's alive! But Elizabeth's daughter is actually also Charles' daughter since the two had an affair, explaining why Charles didn't actually kill her but instead took her in after burning her mother, and gave her a new identity. The team track down Charles as he's trying to flee the country, having hired a jet to Mexico City for him and his daughter. Charles and the team exchange fire, and Weller shoots and kills him. Meridia then picks up a gun and shoots at the team, but Jane's able to talk her down, promising to take her to her mom.
Roman and Jane meet back up in a house, where Shepherd tells Jane that her family used to practically live at the polluted lake, with Shepherd's mother, father, brother all dying from sicknesses caused by the lake. Shepherd didn't escape the lake's contamination either, as she had to have her ovaries removed at 17, which was why she was so happy to have found Roman and Jane in Africa and adopted them. Shepherd tells Jane that while she thought at first Jane should only know what was needed for the mission, now she realizes it's important for Jane to know her family -- Roman and Shepherd -- so she knows where they came from and where she came from.
Zapata shows up at Reade's and chases Freddy off, who Reade said could stay with him for a bit, before calling Reade. Reade rejects the call, as he's sitting in his car in front of Coach Jones' house. Zapata then heads to Kaier's hospital room, telling him she's got an off-the-books job for Shdwcat. Also, Weller and Nas semi-bond over Scotch, before Nas tells him that their operative inside Sandstorm, before going dark, revealed that Weller is a major part of what Sandstorm is planning, having been watching Weller for over 20 years. Dun, Dun, Dun.
So how does Kurt play into Sandstorm's plans? Is Reade planning to confront Coach Jones? What's the job Zapata has for Shdwcat? And who will end up the victor in the fight for Jane's loyalty and trust -- the FBI or Shepherd and Roman, and thereby Sandstorm? We've got even more questions to add to the fast-growing list of mysteries.
Badass of the week: Jane.
Quote of the week: Nas to Weller as she enters his office: "Can I come in?" Weller: "Not if you're going to say something that's going to stop me from enjoying this Scotch."
Badass of the week: Jane.
Quote of the week: Nas to Weller as she enters his office: "Can I come in?" Weller: "Not if you're going to say something that's going to stop me from enjoying this Scotch."
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