Blindspot 2x06 "Her Spy's Mind" Recap

After ending last week's episode with Reade standing over Coach Jones' dead body, this episode picks up right where we left off. Here's your recap for Blindspot 2x06 "Her Spy's Mind."

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After Zepata walks in to Jones' house and sees his dead body with Reade standing next to it, she asks him what the hell happened and Reade claims he didn't do it as he was in the basement and heard a noise, only to come upstairs and find Jones. While Reade wants to call the cops, Zepata instead insists they have to leave given Reade's background with Jones and the circumstances he's now in, so they run to Zepata's car just as neighborhood watch pulls up in front of Jones' house. Before they drive away, Reade remembers he left the videotape with his name on it in the VCR but Zepata tells him it's too late to go back into the house and unfortunately, Reade didn't get a chance to watch the tape before he heard the killer upstairs. They go back to Reade's house and get rid of their clothes, and Zepata notices a knife missing from Reade's block, which Reade says broke and he never replaced. Zepata tells Reade that the way they can get the tape back in the closet is to go to Jones' house once it's officially a crime as FBI. Until then, they should just act normally and go in to work.

Back at the FBI, Patterson tells Nas, Jane, and Weller about what she learned after cracking the Black hole photo that contains emails from Douglas Winter. Before the team can take off to track down Winter in Bulgaria, Jane gets a text from Roman calling her in. At the Sandstorm compound, Jane gets a memory flash of her parents' and a coin that's all she and Roman have left of their parents. Roman explains the significance behind the coin, before moving aside a floorboard and handing Jane a puzzle box she gave to Roman before her memory wipe, and that Roman wasn't able to open. Jane's also unable to do so and before Roman leaves the room, he tells Jane that the mission tomorrow is to get the microchip that Jeffrey Kantor was supposed to get for them.

Meanwhile, Nas and Weller land in Bulgaria and quickly realize they're being followed. The man following them is CIA and named Keaton -- the new deputy director of the CIA in fact -- and is also in Bulgaria tracking down Winter. So now the FBI is competing with the CIA to get to Winter first and be the ones to bring him in. Nas and Weller get a room in the same hotel they suspect Winter's in due to the amount of security outside the hotel, right beneath the room they think Winter's in. Weller suspects the email Patterson decoded may have actually be intended for Mayfair, which would explain why the CIA want Winter as Carter must have been linked to this too.

After somewhat confirming Winter must be the man in the room, Nas and Weller go in and Winter tells them that the security outside aren't his and he's a prisoner of the Bulgarian government, and that he was framed since he never hacked the NSA or leaked any classified documents. The reason Winter ran was because he was framed for treason and needed a place that would give him amnesty. He trusted Mayfair, which is why he sent her the Black Hole file but didn't know who else he could trust since whoever framed him had to be high up in the government. One of his security guards comes in to get his food trays, so Nas and Weller hide in a closet unsuccessfully, so Weller knocks out the guard and they then climb back to their room using the balcony, where Weller tells Winter to get into a duffel bag so they can smuggle him out of the hotel and get him to the FBI safehouse nearby.

Roman and Jane show up to to the R&D lab where they have plans to steal the microchip, but the man they thought they were meeting (who had a peanut allergy) is out sick today and a woman is filling in for him, throwing a wrench in their plans to send the guy into anaphylactic shock so they could steal his access card and use it to get the microchip. Jane improvises, sending Roman out of the room to talk to the woman about sexual harassment, enabling her to knock the woman out and prevent Roman from taking more drastic measures.

As Nas and Weller get into the hotel elevator with Winter in a rolling duffel, Keaton spots them and rushes to meet the elevator in the lobby but Nas and Weller are able to get away in a taxi before he can reach them. Winter tells Nas and Weller at the safehouse about how he was framed and says he can prove it since he was recording himself on the guitar when two masked men broke into his home and told him that he could either stay in the country and be prosecuted for treason or head to a country without extradition to escape the punishment for what they were going to frame him for. Weller figures out that Winter actually had no idea who Mayfair was but Winter insists he's telling the truth about the recording. Weller confides in Nas about how Mayfair was always there for him and how he's now left with a of questions that he was hoping Winter might have some answers to and then Nas and Weller kiss. Okay, maybe Nas is the one who needs that talk about sexual harassment, Jane.

Patterson gets an alert from NYPD that Coach Jones is dead and tells Zepata and Reade, who volunteer to go check it out as the FBI had a previous investigation involving Jones, which perfectly plays into Zepata's plan to get back into Jones' house. They head to Jones' house where Zepata breaks off from Reade to head to the basement and put the tape back, but when she tries to take the tape out, it seems to be scratching and won't eject. She's finally able to get the tape out but doesn't have time to put it back in the closet before Reade and the NYPD detective in charge come downstairs, so she stuffs it in the back of her pants. Zepata then makes excuses for her and Reade to leave, giving the detective her card and instructing him to keep them posted before they go.

Back at Reade's, Zepata tells him how she still has the tape, and Reade tells her about the private security guard that knocked on his car window when he fell asleep outside Jones' house. Zepata then hunts down the guard and tells him that the guy he saw is undercover FBI and if he were to say anything about seeing Reade, it'd blow his cover, before going on to somewhat threaten the guy's pregnant girlfriend who has overstayed her visa. The guard catches Zepata's drift and says what she wants to hear, that he didn't write down Reade's license in his notebook (even though he did), and Zepata takes the notebook and leaves.

Borden and Patterson have a mini-spat while Patterson's trying to decode the modulated voices that Winter recorded and as she tells Borden that she's under a lot of stress, Patterson accidentally calls him David -- her boyfriend from last season who ended up getting killed. Awkward. Patterson apologizes to Borden and they kiss and make up. After he leaves, Patterson sits down in a chair in Borden's office, and looks up at the ceiling, where she notices what looks like a bug -- the electrical kind.

Jane and Roman are able to break into the vault where the chip is being held but have to wait 5 minutes for the vault to be opened using their decoder technology. Jane tries to learn more about Shepherd (not her real name) and Sandstorm but Roman stonewalls her before getting angry at Jane, saying he knows she thinks he's a sociopath but if he is, it's because Jane taught him how and when she left, Shepherd finished the job. Jane apologizes for taking away his sister and tells him that if she could go back, she'd do everything very differently. The alarm then goes off, and Roman and Jane see security converging on the CTV cameras, so they're out of time but the vault still isn't unlocked. Roman tells Jane to stay by the vault, get the chip when it unlocks, and then get out of here, and that he'll deal with the people coming after them.

As Nas and Weller get dressed after their dalliance, they are alerted that the safehouse has been breached, seemingly by the CIA. After trying to get them to stand down, the CIA team start shooting. Nas and Weller quickly return fire, taking out the team except Keaton, who shoots one of the last guys standing and claims they weren't CIA. Weller and Nas go to take Winter out of the safehouse when Keaton says he'll get Winter in the end and take him to an out-of-the-way spot where he can get the full "Jane Doe" treatment. After Keaton confirms he tortured Jane, Weller starts choking him before Nas is able to convince him to stop. Weller thanks Nas for stopping him from choking Keaton and they agree NOT to leave everything that happened in Bulgaria in Bulgaria, before Weller's phone rings. It's Patterson, calling to tell Weller that she found a bug in Borden's office and it's transmitting to a server in Zero Division, and she thinks Nas has been listening to them using the bug.

Once Jane is able to get the chip, she calls Patterson so the FBI can get access to the data before Sandstorm has it. Rather than killing the guards he comes across in the hallway, Roman attempts to simply subdue them, and as the chip data is slowly copied, Jane gets a memory flash of her and Roman in the orphanage and how Roman got the scar on his face when she was unable to protect him. Jane unplugs the chip, interrupting the copying, and runs to Roman's aid. After taking out a bunch of guards, she and Roman duck through a set of doors and Jane shoots the access card reader so the guards on the other side can't get through, only to have Roman tell her that that was their only way out. Oops! Luckily, they have some C4 with them but they only have one shot to blow a hole back into the hallway, and they're a little turned around. Jane tells Roman she trusts him and blows up the wall he thinks will lead back to the hallway, which is a good call as Roman was right. They're then able to escape out the front door alongside the lab employees who are being evacuated.

Back at Sandstorm, Jane is able to open the puzzle box, which contains a gum wrapper. Jane then recalls the memory of giving Roman the gum wrapper in place of the coin which the boys who gave Roman the scar on his face took, just until she could get the coin back for them. Roman is glad to see the wrapper again, and cries a few happy tears, as he thought the wrapper was lost in the orphanage, and says Jane must have gone back for it. Jane then tells Roman that she loves him and hugs him, calling him Ian (his original name). Jane's love for her brother will no doubt cause difficulties going forward.

Zepata shows up at Reade's, telling him she took care of the guard, but that she has Jones' autopsy report, which says he asphyxiated, choking to death on his own blood. So if Reade really heard a noise and went up to check it out, he would've seen the killer asphyxiating Jones, prompting Zepata to accuse Reade of lying but Reade maintains his innocence.

Jane returns to the FBI where Nas tells Jane that Patterson informed her Jane abandoned the mission and stopped the data on the chip from being uploaded. Jane tells her this was the only way for them to get out alive and for Jane to keep her cover so they could play the long game. Nas tells her that now Sandstorm has what they need and the FBI are in the dark but Jane asserts that she can turn Roman, that she broke him and is this close to being able to get him on her side. Patterson then comes in and informs the team that Winter is telling the truth and that she was able to authenticate the recording. She then plays it for the team, and Jane identifies Roman and Shepherd's voices as those who framed Winter. After playing it again, Weller tells the team that he knows Shepherd's voice, but he's not sure from where. To be continued...

So why has Sandstorm been watching Weller? Will Jane be able to turn Roman? And what will Weller do now that he knows Nas has been listening in on them? Maybe next week's episode will bring some answers!

Badass of the Week: Jane.
Quote of the Week: After Reade thanks Zepata for helping him cover up his being at Jones' house, Zepata shrugs it off, saying "What's a little accessory after the fact between friends?"

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."

Blindspot 2x04 "If Beth" Recap

In Blindspot's fourth episode of the second season, Jane struggles with who to trust, Reade makes steps towards confronting his past trauma, and the team solves another tattoo case, among other things. Here's your full recap for "If Beth."

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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. 

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.

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."

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?!"

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?"

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!"