Last night’s episode was a handful – shunned party guests, deeper cover-ups, declaration of friendship and the usual criminal drama.

The episode starts off in the heat of the action – the team is doing a stakeout when a van blows up near their person of interest. They run into the building and realize that Weller and Jane are missing. For the next half of the episode, we have to play catch up through the eyes of other characters. The case however is the typical Blindspot case skeleton - A is B, B is C and C is not an alphabet.

Assistant US Attorney Mathew Weitz (the man who blackmailed Zapata and was after Mayfair’s job) is back at the FBI headquarters for another pound of flesh. He orders Nas to brief him and she tells him that Weller and Jane had gone undercover as a con-artist-for-hire (along with two others) and the last time she saw them was when they were dropped off at an abandoned house  -where she and Weller shared a rather disturbing meaningful glance.

 (While Nas is catching us up, we see Patterson makes a little slip and indirectly informs Jane that everyone but her was invited to a party at Allie's. Awkward)

 Weitz is a little upset that Weller and Jane “two highly trained operatives” had turned a “peaceful diplomatic gathering into a warzone” but he ends up joining the team to question the other two con artists they had in custody: Lynn and Clive

These two tell their version of the story but none of it seems to add up. It turns out that Lynn has a deeper role than initially admitted and is working hand in hand with FBI's eigth most wanted man - Nico Marconi (the man who financed the heist). Clive on the other hand is a badass-wannabe whose version of the events paints Weller as a sputtering coward and Jane as his gooey eyed love interest who says things like “I will never forget you”.

The team goes on the hunt for their missing team mates and find just Jane. She narrates her own side of the story saying that they were really just a distraction so Emile (the man who hired them) could kidnap a woman Mingxia Chen – who the FBI later discover is the only woman who can make a “tsunami bomb”. Jane also reveals that she and Weller were both paid $1million each before Weller snuck on Emile's boat in hopes that it would lead him to Marconi.

After dissecting the three versions of events, Jane reveals she thinks Lynn and Emile have a more personal connection than she lets on. Patterson digs some more and discovers it was Lynn who set up the secure offshore accounts for Marconi. Nas threatens that if Lynn doesn’t talk, she will never see the sun again so the hacker fesses up and says  Chen is to be auctioned on the dark web. They get on the web and find out that Weller is also to be auctioned. Reade has an idea that would save both Weller and Chen - the FBI should pose as a buyer and win the bid so they can get their Assistant Director back.

But Weitz is having none of this – “The United States does not negotiate with terrorists” he says. But the team bid anyway with Marconi’s illegal money and go rescue Weller while Jane distracts Weitz. It turns out Weller doesn’t need help as not only did he discover that Emile is Marconi (a crime lord doing foot work? Shocker) but he also managed to escape from his cell before rescue came. 

Back at the headquarters, Weitz is furious that Nas disobeyed his “direct orders”. He threatens her career by saying that he will make sure Nas never works any government job again. Nas squares up and calls him out on his power trip “I’ve worked with men like you. You get off on instilling fear because it makes you feel powerful. But you have no idea what to do without real power”. She looked pretty confident when she said that but seconds after she was visibly shaking but still managed to convince the team that she only got a “slap on the wrist”.


Weller later invites Jane to the party telling her “I never thought I’d say this again but if something happened to you, I’d miss you. You’re my friend Jane”. Not exactly the declaration of love we wanted but we’d take it. Everyone was at the party – Borden and some other characters we’ve never seen. Weller initially choosing not to invite Jane to the party may be a sign that things are worst off with these two than we thought.

Zapata and Reade’s cover up
Earlier during their stakeout, Zapata confessed to Reade that she had stolen the murder weapon from the NYPD and she knows the knife belongs to Freddie. Reade wants her to get rid of it but Zapata can’t because an old friend saw her around the NYPD evidence locker. Reade wants to know why she’d go through such extent to save him and she calls him her “best friend”. He later comes up with an idea that would place them even deeper in a cover up - they would plant the knife in the car of a lab tech that is on probation. He wouldn’t risk taking it back to the department for fear of losing his job; he’d just get rid of it. Zapata later plants it and Reade is grateful that she risked everything “you thought I killed somebody and you still stuck behind me”. After the party, we see Reade giving Freddie a one way ticket out of town telling him not to come back

At the end of the day, Jane goes home and finds Roman in her apartment – only he’s not mad. If anything, he seems to love her more now that he knows for sure that she betrayed him and their cause. He says he can’t do it without her and will want her by his side when it happens. When Jane asks what happens, her brother who looks to be slightly unhinged says “Phase 2. In a few hours we’re going to change the world”

Wall of the outrageous-but-totally-possible


Anyone else thinks that Nas giving Patterson an access card is a ploy that Patterson will deeply regret much later? Maybe this way, Nas can keep tabs on Patterson’s progress.
    When Nas was told Weitz that he wouldn’t know what to do with “real power”, it kind of felt like she was insinuating she had real power – Sandstorm? I may be reaching.

      Is it possible that Freddie didn’t kill Jones but Reade did (with Freddie as a witness of sorts) and this is all just a way for Reade to cover himself?


      What would happen to the money Weller and Jane were paid? Would it be seized as “tax payers money” or do they get to keep it?


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