Sandstorm finally takes the front row seat it deserves. Plus, we now know who the FBI mole is.


Episode 9 picks off minutes after we left off. Jane is with Roman and she has no clue her cover has been blown. Roman took off her blindfolds a little earlier than usual – which made Jane suspicious but he also took a more direct route. Jane asks why and he says “you’re never going back to the FBI”. When they get into the safe house, Roman asks Jane to wait in his room and leaves. Jane uses the opportunity to steal Roman’s phone which she knows is hidden in the floor boards.

Minutes later Roman comes for Jane, “Shepherd wants to see you” he says. He leads Jane to a room which suspiciously has all the details about their attack and leaves her by herself. Jane predictably calls Weller and tries to describe the route to the safe house. She also sent pictures of the layouts she found to Patterson. From the pictures, the team discovered that Sandstorm’s plan was to “blow up the power grid” and plunge the city of New York to darkness. Jane has to hang-up when she hears footsteps but she doesn’t try to hide the blueprints. When Roman asks what she’s doing, her response was that Sandstorm was her idea and she shouldn’t be on the sidelines. Shepherd agrees and says she has something to show Jane. Roman later drugs Jane with a gum from their childhood.

At the FBI, the team is gearing up to go save Jane and everywhere is a little active. Borden noticed and tried to ask his beau (with whom he just celebrated “tenth time sleeping over anniversary”) but she says she can’t talk about it – classified information. Just as the team is clearing out, Weller gets a phone call from Connor (Allie’s boyfriend). He was calling from the hospital to tell Kurt that Allie was hurt. Thanks to his baby mama’s distress, Kurt had to take a rain check on the whole saving-Jane thing.

Jane is not receiving the treatment she expected from Mommy Dearest – rather than sitting on the right hand side of Shepherd, she is strapped to a chair. Shepherd tells her they’ve known her loyalties were with the FBI for a while and she’d be dead if Roman hadn’t pleaded on Jane’s behalf. What gave Jane away? For one, when she tried to make it look like Cade murdered Oscar by spraying “For Marcus” on his car, she didn’t realize that Marcus was spelled with a ”k”. Talk about being outsed by wrong spelling. Also, there’s that issue of Sandstorm’s FBI mole which Shepherd pretty much acknowledges as Borden. Fan theorists must be feeling pretty proud of themselves right now. Jane refuses to believe that Borden was spying on her the past few months. But that’s not what she should be worried about – her entire team is about to be blown to smithereens before her very eyes (thanks to the giant TV Shepherd installed so Jane could watch her friends’ death). Jane noticed that Weller wasn’t among the FBI agents walking into the trap and when she asks Shepherd about it, she says they have “other plans” for Weller.

It turns out Shepherd wasn’t lying, Borden is the spy. While Borden was a part of Doctors Without Borders, his wife (Kris) rescued Jane after drones tried to wipe off all members of the Orion team. Borden was apprehensive about keeping Jane but his wife convinced him and they both nursed her back to health. On one of Jane and Borden’s walk therapy sessions, Borden’s house/hospital goes up in flames with his wife in it. Borden is distraught and wants to know why the US Government is firing on doctors trying to provide aid to fallen soldiers. Jane tells him about Orion and gives him hope by saying they can fight the US Government. It turns out that not only did Jane live with Borden for days but she was the one who actually recruited him to Sandstorm only for him to rat her out months later. Twists and turns.

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As the team ventures stealthily into their deaths, they wonder why the coms are down but Jane was able to make a call out. Meanwhile, on getting to the hospital, Weller discovers he was tricked and Allie is safe at home. He heads to the office and tells Patterson to get hold of the team and ask them to retreat. The coms start working (a little) when Nas, Reade and Zapata walk into the basement. Nas figured out they would only be getting a signal out if Sandstorm wants to “get a signal in”. She asks the team to retreat but the bomb(s) go off and she and Reade are stuck in the rubble.

Jane sees her team get blown up and starts to sob. She wants to know why Shepherd didn’t kill her with the rest of them and Shepherd says “because Roman is going to kill you”. To this, Roman says “what?”. No really, what? Not one for mincing words, Shepherd hands Roman a gun and says “it’s time to kill your rabbit”. But Roman is a softie underneath it all and can’t shoot his sister. Shepherd is disappointed, says she has lost both children and shoots Roman. Jane breaks out of the chair and the two start fighting with their mother. “Sociopath” Roman and badass Jane against one woman; doesn’t feel like fair odds. For them anyway as Shepherd would have buried them there if Roman hadn’t shot her in the shoulder. Roman looks like he wants to finish her off but Jane draws him away because Shepherd’s goons are coming to save their boss.

The good news is every member of Team Weller is alive. The bad news is, there’s a giant stone on Reade’s lower body and he is weaving in and out of consciousness. With a little help from Nas, Weller finds them and pulls them out just before the building blows. Reade (who is now unconscious) is rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, Zapata is crying and willing Reade to wake up. He does, says “I really love you” and makes a hospital bed confession – and its not that he really killed Jones. He says while he was at Jones’ house, he heard a noise upstairs and went to check on it. He found Jones stabbed and his former coach said “help me” but Reade chose to stand there and watch him choke on his blood. Good thing the dead cant talk.

Jane is trying to convince her brother to go to the hospital but he is adamant and would rather go to one of Sandstorm’s safe house – risky as that sounds. While they are there, Jane is trying to clean his wound and at the same time convince him to go the FBI. Roman is hurt that Jane’s true loyalty lies with the FBI. He says he’d rather die than turn himself to the FBI and he should have shot his sister when he had the chance. Jane is convinced that Roman can be a different person if he’s given a second chance –like she was. That said, she injects her brother with ZIP – the chemical that wiped her memory clean. What are the odds that she gets the desired effect from this “second chance”?

Back at the FBI, Patterson is worried about what happened with the team and she needs someone to talk to so she calls Borden. Borden doesn’t pick and she decides to go to his house. Only to find him packing and wearing the ring Jane had sketched. She puts two and two together and figures out that Borden knew Jane before. She pulls a gun and tries to arrest him but Borden has a gun too so that gets a little complicated. The two struggle and a shot is fired at close range. From the look on Borden’s face, he might have been on the receiving end of the bullet. Or not.

Blindspot returns January 4|  8/7c on NBC. While we wait, share your theories on who got shot and how ZIP might affect Roman.