Blindspot episode 3 — So, the question of whether or not that image of Roman jamming a needle into Jane’s neck was a flashback or not was answered–it wasn’t. Roman apparently drugged her just so she wouldn’t see the way to the location he was taking her to.
Once she’s there, dear old Mom tells her she needs to perform a task as a loyalty test, because apparently she’s not the same old homicidal Remy they remember. Apparently, Jane was kinda nuts before the memory wipe.
They also let on that they found out Kade was supposedly in Venezuela when Jane said she was being held by him…oops. She gives a bit of emotional bluster here, and says it was likely a bluff to throw them off his scent. They kinda seem to buy it…but they’re still unsure. So they tell her that her assignment is to kill a former asset of theirs that stopped responding to them after she stopped handling him, because she was actually the one who’d recruited him and had been his handler. Jane is understandably not happy about this.
Meanwhile, back at the FBI, the team is trying to hunt down two guys setting off DIME bombs in populated areas, Tweeting afterward that the bomb was for particular people. They find out that these types of bombs were primarily used by the Navy in tests on a particular Puerto Rican island, and the bombs had contaminated that island. Patterson and Nas figure out that the Tweets are pre-planned, which means that if they can hack the account, they can find out the next few targets.
Jane and Roman catch up with the asset, who is way Not Pleased they’re there. He has a panic room, and runs right into it the minute he sees them. Roman had earlier told Jane that they had sent her to Weller because she was good at getting people to do what she wanted, so she now employs that skill to convincing the asset to come out. When he does, of course Roman pistol-whips him into unconsciousness.
They take him out to the woods, and Jane really doesn’t want to shoot the guy. Roman gets a bit testy, shoots the man himself, and tells her she failed the loyalty test. He gives her a pager and drops her off where she can go back to the FBI. Jane asks him what he’s going to do, and he gets kinda huffy and drives off. It’s pretty obvious at this point he’s going to cover for her.
Jane re-joins the team at HQ, and Weller pretty much wants to bench her. People argue, Jane ends up going with them.
Meanwhile, when she tells Weller and Nas what happened with Roman, Nas is mad that she didn’t shoot the guy. Weller is mad that Nas would even say that. Nas says Jane is a killer, Weller says she’s not. Perhaps Nas sees Remy when she looks at Jane, but Weller just sees Jane now.
Reade asks Borden about repressed memory. In the last episode, his friend had basically insinuated that Reade had also been a victim of the pedo coach in his youth, but Reade can’t remember large chunks of that time. He learns a bit about memory from Borden, but doesn’t tell Borden what’s wrong. Borden kinda seems to get the idea that Reade isn’t asking ‘for a case’, as he said he was.
Patterson kinda waffles over the whole date with Borden thing, and cancels with him. She says she’s not blowing him off, next week, she promises.
Zapata chats with her about it later, and calls her on her self denial B.S. Patterson needs to woman up and go on the date. The real reason she’s waffling is because she’s ‘bad at those things’.
The team goes to the park where the next bomb is scheduled to go off, and they try to spot the bombers. Meanwhile Reade and Zapata find the bomb, and Patterson and company decide that the easiest way to disable it is to shoot the crap out of it to destroy the circuit boards because C4 is stable enough to take the bullets? Can that actually happen? Yeesh. So they shoot the hell out of it, and the bomb doesn’t blow up. Jane spots one of the guys and goes after him. Weller shoots the other one, and follows Jane. Just in time, too. He saves her from getting shot by the bomber, but the dude gets away. Weller is pretty pissed, and benches Jane for being reckless and distracted.
Jane talks to Borden. Is there such a thing as killer instinct? She feels the old instincts kick in, wants to shoot people, but her conscience kicks in and stops her. Borden points this out and reassures her she’s ok, because she’s stopping herself.
The remaining bomber takes a bunch of people in a Navy recruitment center hostage, and Weller takes things into his own hands and goes in to negotiate. He tries to talk the guy out of killing everyone, but the bomber makes him put on a suicide vest. When it looks like Weller might be making some headway with the guy, a sniper shot breaks the glass window, and the bomber falls dead. Weller is pretty angry–Nas took the shot. She says she wasn’t going to put his life at risk for a moment more, she saw the shot and took it.
Back at HQ, they ponder why Sandstorm wanted that asset of theirs in the first place, and find that the guy worked in some fairly disturbing areas of science, and was likely part of some sort of weapons research or design.
Borden decided to bring the date to Patterson. He’s got take out from the restaurant they were supposed to go to, and Patterson is touched. She admits her fear, and that she’s ‘bad at these things’. Borden says he is too. Patterson takes a leap of faith, and finally just kisses the guy. Awwwwwwwwwww. At least someone gets to be happy here.
Jane gets paged by Roman. She goes to the pickup point, and ends up at another location with her Mother, and it becomes obvious that yes, Roman did cover for her. Can we talk about how seriously nuts Roman is, though? Yikes.
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