While Jane and Roman go after the microchip, Nas and Weller track down Douglas Winter and Reade and Zapata are knee deep in a cover up


“Her Spy’s Harmed” picks off right where we left off – Zapata walking in on Reade standing over Coach Jones body. But Reade says he didn’t do it; he was down in the basement when he heard a noise, ran up the stairs and found him dead. Reade wants to call in the homicide but Zapata says no one will believe him – he broke into his house wearing gloves and  is literally standing over Jones’ dead body with blood on his shoes. For once, its easy to agree with Zapata.

Reade remembers that he left the tape with his name on it in the VCR and wants to go back for it but again Zapata tells him that is a bad idea. She thinks they should come back when his house becomes an official crime scene. They go to Reade’s home to wash off when Zapata noticed that one of Reade’s knives is missing (Jones had multiple stab wounds). Reade’s defense is that the knife got spoilt, he threw it out and didn’t bother to replace it because he eats take out. Its also kind of important to note that they had this conversation half naked and none of them checked out the other person – not even a little bit. Looks like we’ve got agape love going on here.

Back at the FBI, Patterson has succeeded in cracking one of Mayfair’s images that led them to Douglas Winter. The image is filled with several junk mails except that mail written in Bulgarian he sent to someone which hinted that he was in a hotel in Bulgaria. They get agents to interrogate Winter’s girlfriend but she says she hasn’t seen him in years. Nas and Weller decide to go to Bulgaria to find Winter but Jane cant go because Roman called her in. Weller believes the part of the mail which read “my fair lady” might have been addressed to Mayfair and not his girlfriend.

In Bulgaria, Nas and Weller find Winter quite easily – thanks to his telling code mail. But they’re not the only ones there – Assistant Director of the CIA (Keaton) is there too. Weller and Nas break into Winter’s room and there he tells them that he didn’t leak any classified intel; he was framed and he ran to Bulgaria for protection but now Bulgaria is keeping him hostage. Kurt asks him if that’s why he sent a code mail to Mayfair and he says yes. Weller and Nas smuggle him out of the hotel in a big bag and take him to a safe house.

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At the safe house, Winter tells the pair that he recorded the whole incident of his framing – he was attacked in his home by two masked people and information was downloaded on his computer. He gives the frame of his glass (which doubles as a recorder) to the pair and they send it to Pattterson. Weller brings up Mayfair and when Winter addresses her as a he, he realizes that he never knew her. Weller is upset by this and sulking in his room. Nas comes to him and he confides in her that Mayfair had always been the one he turned to when he wanted answers and now he has no one. Nas says he has her and then kisses him.

Nas completely takes advantage of Weller’s vulnerability and the two have sex. Note to Nas: Mayfair didn’t have to sleep with Weller to make him trust her. 

As the two are getting dressed after having miserable sex, the lights go off and they discover they are under attack. It turns into a shoot out and they discover Keaton was one of the shooters. He says the attackers are not his guys and he would very much like to have Winter. Weller says no to this and Keaton that he will get Winter and give him the Jane Doe treatment. Weller realizes that it was John who tortured Jane and would have choked him to death if Nas hadn't stopped him.

At the Headquarters, Patterson is training with Borden and the latter sweetly says he’s happy whenever they’re together. Their training gets cut short when Patterson gets and alert that Jones is dead. She calls in Reade and Zapata and asks them to go check it out. The pair arrive there and meet an NYPD agent who tells them Jones was stabbed about six times. Reade distracts him while Zapata goes to get the tape. She’s unable to return it when she hears voices coming down the stairs and chooses to hide it. Reade is displeased that she chose to take the tape out and is freaking out. After he calms down, he tells her that a private security guard saw him outside Jones house and Zapata says she will take care of it. Her idea of taking care of it? Blackmailing the security guard by threatening to have his girlfriend deported in exchange for the note he wrote Reade’s plate number. The producers have to tell us why Zapata loves Reade so much because she is risking everything for his ungrateful behind.

Zapata gets the autopsy result and discovers that Jones died by choking on his own blood and if Reade’s story is correct, he should have gotten to Jones fast enough to save him. At this, Reade gets defensive and tells Zapata he didn’t ask her to cover anything up.

 Patterson is having difficulty cleaning up the recording Weller sent and she’s worked up about it. Borden is trying to spend time with her and sweetly brings her lunch but Patterson cant spend time because she’s busy working on classified work. She gets worked up at some point and calls Borden David (her dead boyfriend) and at that Borden says he will give her space to work and leaves. Patterson later goes to Borden’s office to apologize and he says he understands and loves that she loves her work. He leaves the office and Patterson sits down on the couch exasperated when she notices the bug on the ceiling. She scans it and discovers its transmitting to Nas’ phone. She calls Weller to tell him that creepy detail.

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Meanwhile, Jane is back with Roman and they're getting ready for the big mission. They leave to go get the chip which will “put everything in place” and things go according to plan except that Roman kept wanting to kill people. Jane calls him out on that and Roman says he doesn’t like to kill and is only a sociopath because she taught him so. Roman tells Jane he’s willing to die for the mission and the chip is all that matters. Jane finds the chip while Roman goes to stall the guards. Jane is supposed to connect the chip to a copier so it transmits to Patterson when she decides against it because her brother is getting his ass kicked. She also remembered how Roman got the scar on his face – some kids held him down and ruined his pretty face by cutting him with a blade.

The two are able to fight (and blow) their way out of the place and get back to the safe house unharmed. Jane tells Roman that if she could do it all again, she will choose not to forget him. She opens the puzzle box and gives it to him and clearly its of great sentimental value because Roman starts to cry. Jane comforts him and says “I love you Ian” and she looks like she means it. I literally shed a few tears at this scene.

Jane gets back to the headquarters and Nas is a little annoyed that Jane got there late and chose to disobey orders by not copying the chip thereby destroying the entire mission because now Sandstorm has everything they need. To pacify Nas, Jane tells her that she can turn Roman. Patterson plays the clean recording and Jane recognizes the two voices as Roman and Shepherd. So they were the two who framed Winter and most likely the ones who kept him hostage in Bulgaria and tried to attack Weller and Nas at the safe house.

Weller also recognizes Roman’s voice but he can place where.

Totally outrageous but workable theories
Reade did see the killer and is covering up for him. Freddy maybe?
Shepherd is Weller’s mother but he doesn’t remember
Weller is behind Sandstorm but his memory was selectively wiped so he can play a more convincing patsy.


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