Blindspot 2x05 "Condone Untidiest Thefts" Recap

Blindspot's fifth episode of the second season opens on a man loading a gun inside a big handheld camera, and the episode only picks up steam from there. Here's your recap for "Condone Untidiest Thefts."

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After that opening scene, we see Jane cutting her own hair so it's back to the choppy bob we saw her in last season -- and she's clearly still with Sandstorm since Shepherd walks in right as she finishes, telling her she could've helped Jane cut her hair. While Jane does her hair, she has a flash of memory of a female doctor wearing an intricate ring, which she thinks is from after she survived the attack in Afghanistan. Shepherd tells her that the doctor found her outside the town she was stationed in and that Jane wouldn't have have lived without her help - but that she's now dead. According to Shepherd, Jane only survived that strike because she was up in the mountains doing rehab, and that it was weeks until Jane managed to make her way back to the States, hiding away on a cargo ship. Jane tells Shepherd she doesn't remember any of that part, but Shepherd seems to dismiss that -- so is Shepherd telling the truth? Or is she hiding something about the aftermath of the Orion attack?

Last week's episode ended with us learning that Sandstorm has been watching Weller for decades, and Nas and Weller are going through documents, trying to figure out what Weller has that Sandstorm wants, as he's clearly some cog in their machine. While going through boxes, Weller finds a phone that Nas says her people at the NSA couldn't crack since the encryption isn't like anything they've seen before. Zepata walks in and tells Nas and Weller that she thinks she's figured out how to un-code the black hole photo that was on Mayfair's USB; this was the job we saw her mention to Shdwcat in "If Beth." Nas says no, but Zepata already sort of went ahead with her plan, simply showing Shdwcat the black hole photo, which led to the phrase "laminar flow." Nas explains laminar flow as when you pour your milk into coffee, it creates millions of spiraling streams -- but if you could rewind and un-swirl the milk, you could see what it looked like pre-coffee.

Meanwhile, Reade is woken up by a cop rapping on his car window -- he fell asleep outside Coach Jones's house while in his car the night before. Borden and Patterson brush their teeth together, so that romance is officially happening, and they're going to ride in to work together! If Borden turns out to be the FBI's mole, I'm protesting -- Borderson is just too cute. Weller goes with Allie to her doctor's appointment, and tries to get Allie to take a step back from her job as a US Marshal since the job's very physical and dangerous but Allie shuts down the conversation since she doesn't want to take a desk job.

Reade shows up to the FBI and tells Weller that Borden cleared him for work but he's decided to take a personal day. Yeah, that doesn't seem like a good idea, Reade. The team are in the lab where Patterson is explaining how a part of one of the first tattoos she cracked are numbers that match the server address for Snapitz, a photo app that deletes the pictures after five seconds. The rest of the numbers on the tattoo match up to five specific accounts, all of whom are associated with one of the biggest crime syndicates in the tri-state area: the O'Malley's. They've been using the app to communicate, and Patterson and her team cracked the chessboard photos they recently posted, which really contains the hidden message, "Adams Park, Wednesday noon." A political rally for immigration reform is taking place there -- and it's almost noon so the team races over.

At the park, the team splits up -- and we see the man with the gun-camera is there, and he shoots at the New York Senator and other politicians who are on the small stage. The shooter hits a few people while the team are scrambling to figure out who he is. Jane and Weller manage to chase him down and catch him, and the team return to the FBI, where Allie's been called in by Zepata to help with the case. The shooter is a known associate of the O'Malley crime family -- and Allie grew up with a bunch of the O'Malleys so Zepata thought she might be useful. It turns out the Senator who was speaking at the rally, Quinn Donahue, is cousins with Patrick O'Malley, the head of the Irish mob -- and Donahue is tough on crime and actually put away much of his own family. Patrick's little brother recently died in prison, and the O'Malleys clearly blame Donahue, hence the hit. The gun inside the camera matches one belonging to Patrick so the FBI leave to bring him in.

Reade follows Jones and confronts him, getting physical while asking Jones if he was one of the kids Jones abused. Jones doesn't answer, and before Reade walks away, he threatens Jones.

Jane decides to be proactive in finding out more about the female doctor so she goes to Patterson with a sketch of the heavy ring, telling her about her memory, and asking if Patterson can track the ring because identifying the woman feels important. Patterson assures Jane she'll see what she can do.

Once Patrick's arrested and brought in, he tells Jane and Weller that he'll only talk to Allie. When Allie walks in, Patrick tells her that he's suffering from cancer and the doctor says he has six months -- so he's now stepped back from crime. Patrick insists he didn't shoot Donahue (because obviously he wouldn't be stupid enough to use his own gun) since even though they may have had their differences, family is family. This clearly makes an impact on Jane, who's listening with Nas and Zepata on the other side of the glass. Patrick points the FBI to Donahue, since he's going to run for Governor and with the assassination attempt, he's now front-page news and somewhat of a hero as he pushed down others on the stage. Donahue being behind the hit also explains why none of the shots were lethal. Weller then questions how Donahue would've been able to get the mob to carry out the hit, and Patrick tells them that Donahue IS the mob -- because Donahue's the head of it and always has been, while Patrick was simply the face of the mob and Donahue's number two.  

While Allie and Weller argue outside the interrogation room, Jane heads in to try to appeal to Patrick, as they both struggle with loyalty to their families. But Patrick's family have left him to take the fall for the hit, knowing he's got cancer and will spend the rest of his life in prison since he won't make bail, meaning he won't get to be with his wife and daughter as he dies. Jane manages to get through to Patrick, and Patrick admits he has tapes -- hard evidence -- with everything the FBI will need to take down Donahue. Patrick agrees to hand over the tapes for a plea deal and lifetime witness protection for his wife and daughter. Good job, Jane!

Zepata gets a call from the NYPD about Reade harassing Jones that morning and leaves a message on Reade's phone telling him to call her. Zepata then tells Weller that she has something personal to take care of, so she's out the rest of the day.

Patrick's tapes are being held at his lawyer's office but they're in a safe that will only open with a retinal and fingerprint scan -- which means a field trip. Once the team arrives at the lawyer's office on the 57th floor, they see on the monitors that a bunch of masked gunmen have entered the lobby, obviously there for Patrick. Weller tries to direct Jane, Patrick, and Allie on where to go but Allie's insistent they get the tapes, so Weller implores Jane to keep them safe. Once Allie, Jane, Patrick, and his lawyer get to where the safe is, Patrick tries to scan his retina and fingerprint, but the scanner won't recognize his fingerprint since a side effect of a chemo drug is a skin condition that obscures your fingerprints. Uh-oh. Jane asks Patterson for help in going around the fingerprint scanner, and Jane's able to manually manipulate the tumblers into opening, grabbing the briefcase with the tapes inside. 

Nas and Weller take out some gunmen who show up at the 57th floor but other gunmen bypass the floor and are now loose elsewhere in the building. Weller and Nas exchange gunfire with more of the men, and Allie, Jane, Patrick, and lawyer face off with more as they try to get back to Weller and Nas. Allie and Jane take out some of the gunmen and Jane instructs Allie to uncuff Patrick if she trusts him since they'll need all the help they can get. Jane and co. manage to make it into the staircase but they're then ambushed by gunmen from below and behind them so a gunfight ensues, during which Allie is shot in the upper thigh. As Patrick tries to open a door out of the staircase and asks the lawyer for her keycard, the lawyer admits that she tipped off Donahue. Jane cuffs the lawyer to the staircase, takes her keycard and she continues on with Patrick aiding Allie through the door, with Jane shooting the keycard reader to hopefully hold off the gunmen who are coming up the stairs. 

After Jane tells Weller that Allie's been shot, Allie tells Jane that she's pregnant and it's Kurt's. While Jane searches a closet locker for supplies to help Allie, Weller tries to figure out how to get to Allie, but Patterson tells him that the safer way will be longer as he'll have to double back and going the more dangerous way using the stairs may be shorter but there are lots more gunmen there; of course, Weller decides he'll take the more dangerous route. Jane tries to stop Allie's bleeding and keep her awake until paramedics can arrive, and Nas stops Weller from charging ahead, instead making a Molotov cocktail which they throw at the gunmen and Weller shoots to make it go off since they don't have a match or lighter. Nas and Weller are then able to run to the stairs. Meanwhile, the gunmen have gotten through the doors to where Allie, Jane, and Patrick are, so Patrick takes the briefcase and runs -- but he leaves the bag full of evidence tapes behind, clearly trying to act as a distraction. Patrick confronts the gunmen with the briefcase and is able to shoot one of them before getting shot himself. Jane is carrying Allie across her shoulders, trying to get to safety, when the door in front of them opens and Nas and Weller come through -- and just in time as there are two gunmen behind Jane that Weller shoots and kills. 

In the hospital, Allie reassures Weller that she and the baby are fine, but Weller is getting his way since Allie's on desk duty because of the gunshot wound. Back at the FBI, Weller thanks Jane for what she did, and Jane congratulates Weller on going to be a father, but as Jane walks away, it's clear that she's shaken and not all that happy about the news. Patterson catches her in the hall with an update about the ring, which is a trinket sold widely in Kabul, though the one Jane drew has a slight difference in the tribal design; but beyond that, Patterson wasn't able to find any more information and get an exact match to the ring Jane drew. After all the disheartening news -- Weller and Allie expecting a baby, Patterson failing to find out any real info about the woman -- Jane reaches into her pocket for the business card that Oliver Kind gave her at the fundraising gala the team attended last episode and then leaves a rambling message for Oliver asking him to drinks. 

Shepherd tells Roman that Jane is remembering things more frequently and that Jane asked about her rescue in Afghanistan. Roman asks what Jane remembered and Shepherd tells Roman what she told Jane, which Roman confirms for us is a lie, and that if Jane finds that out, she won't trust them anymore and their plan will be doomed. Roman proposes Jane come with him on the mission tomorrow so Jane will be invested, which Shepherd begrudgingly agrees to. 

Patterson tells Nas and Weller that she's decoded the black hole image on Mayfair's USB drive, which, when un-swirled, is really a bunch of email communications. Patterson tells them that she knows where Douglas Winter is, the man who exposed the NSA and forced Carter to shut down Orion -- which means Mayfair knew where Winter was the whole time and they were working together. 

Reade is back at Jones's house, and he's breaking in through the backdoor. He gets into the house and starts going through Jones's stuff, before finding a hidden door in the wood paneling of the wall, behind which there's shelves with lots of videotapes -- and there are stickers on the tapes with names and years written on them. Reade finds his name on a tape labeled "Reade, Edgar 1996" and puts the tape into the video player of Jones's nearby TV, but struggles with hitting the "play" button. Shortly after, Zepata is able to track Reade to Jones's house and enters using the door Reade broke in through and left open. Inside, she finds Jones dead on the floor in a pool of blood and Reade standing seemingly in shock over Jones's prone body. To be continued...

So did Reade kill Jones? What's the Sandstorm mission Roman referred to? Next Wednesday can't get here soon enough!

Badass of the week: Nas.

Quote of the week: Inside the interrogation, Patrick is skirting answers when Weller's questioning him and accuses Weller of being a rookie, to which Weller replies that he's the Assistant Director of the NY Office of the FBI, though that doesn't seem to impress O'Malley. Allie then interjects, trying to give O'Malley some context for Weller.

Allie: "Patrick, this is Kurt -- my Kurt." Patrick: "Oh -- I knew there was a reason I didn't like him." Zepata (behind the one-way glass window): "This might be my favorite interrogation ever."