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No one died. Well, no one important.
The tenth episode (Nor I, Nigel, AKA Leg In Iron) picks off where
the mid-season finale left off – with Borden and Patterson having a little gun
tussle and one person getting shot. We had weeks to contemplate on who got shot
or ended up dead but it turns out while the former happened, the latter didn't . In simpler
words, Borden shot Patterson but she didn’t die because Borden felt remorseful
and treated her would-have-been fatal wound.
Last episode, Jane took a bold move
and decided to ZIP her brother in the hopes of giving him a second chance but
it didn’t go quite as planned. When Roman comes out of it, he doesn’t remember
who he is (predictably) but also believes it was Jane who shot him due to the very obvious gun in her lap. He ends up
jumping out of the moving car, fighting and overpowering Jane (that part was
pretty cool) and then running off with the car.
Jane goes back to the FBI
headquarters to check on her team and give them a report of events but Nas and
Zapata are still quite suspicious of her – they believe she was in league with
Sandstorm to plan the ambush on the raid team – which ended with 12 agents dead.
As usual, Weller comes to Jane's defense and the rest decide to hear her side of the tale.
Through Jane, Weller discovers that Patterson is missing and Borden was a Sandstorm mole. The team start looking for Patterson but her cell (and Borden's) is turned off and
there’s blood in Borden’s apartment -
which was confirmed to be Patterson’s.
Jane believes that they can get
Patterson back by tracking Roman down and bringing him to their side so he can
give valuable information. To this plan, Zapata has a very reasonable concern “his memory has been wiped, how is he going to be useful at all?” Jane's argument is that she remembered things "right away" - forgetting that most of her first memories were inconsequential. They end up
getting a hold of Roman by constantly redialing his number till he picks. Jane
is able to convince him to trust her and give away his current location. Weller
and Jane go to meet up with Roman at the restaurant he is.
At around the same time, Patterson
has come out of unconsciousness and tries to strangle Borden (who has his back
to her). Patterson’s murder attempt is thwarted by Shepherd who resolves to
torture Patterson for information by constantly injecting a syringe into her
eardrum. One of Shepherd’s goons interrupts to inform her that they have gotten
hold of Roman. From his conversation with Jane, Sandstorm discovers Roman’s
location and the fact that Jane zipped him. Shepherd sends her team to take
care of Roman.
At the restaurant, Roman realizes
that he is surrounded and attempts to leave the restaurant. He is stopped by
one of Sandstorm’s members who claims to have been sent by Jane. Roman gets
into a brawl with the men at the restaurant and kills nearly all before Jane
arrives. While Jane and Weller are cowering from bullets behind a shield, Roman
stabs one of the men with a fork. It appears that Jane didn’t give Roman as
much of a chance as she thought. His instinct is still to kill.
At the Headquarters, Roman is
treated as the enemy and proves to be no use at all as his answer to almost
everything is “I don’t know”. Zapata
follows a more solid lead and is able to make headway by cracking the phone of
the man Roman stabbed. They find a coded message which is in turn decoded when Nas discovers the code book. The message leads them to an auto-shop
and the auto-shop dealer in turn leads them to Sandstorm’s safehouse.
Meanwhile,
the FBI Director disbands the collaboration between the FBI and NSA due to Nas’
collosal failure.
At the Sandstorm safehouse, Shepherd has decided to kill
Patterson after coming to the frustrating conclusion that Patterson will tell
her nothing. Borden is able to convince Shepherd to let him do it so it can be
a humane death but Patterson is able to play on Borden’s emotions and stall her
death long enough for her teammates to arrive. The team’s car triggered a trip
bomb and though the car was bashed a lot, there were no deaths or accidents. Its
almost like Team Weller is made of titanium. Jane sees Borden running off into
the forest and Weller runs after him.
Surprisingly (and interestingly), Borden
is not only better in hand-to-hand combat than Weller but also has a few tricks
up his sleeve. He is somehow able to take Weller’s cuffs of him and cuff his
leg to his hand. He makes to shoot Weller but changes his mind and says “not
yet” before he runs off. Weller and Nas had figured out earlier that Sandstorm
saved Weller’s neck by sending him on a goose chase while his team walked into
a trap. The big question is "why".
Back the Headquarters, Jane and Weller
find out the FBI Director has turned Roman
over to the CIA after aggressively interrogating him. Weller is able to
negotiate Roman’s stay and Nas’ return by threatening to leave if either of
them is disposed of. The Director grudgingly agrees and tells Weller he will be solely responsible for the results.
Meanwhile, Reade is out of the
hospital and in the clear but Zapata is still fussing over him. Reade takes
that as a sign and kisses her. His explanation is that they “make sense”. Not
what any girl wants to hear Edgar. Zapata tells him that they are just “friends”
and leaves him to mull over how much he screwed up.
Weller visits Patterson at the
hospital and though she can't hear really well, she’s still working. She had
pieced two and two together and figured out Borden’s real name – Nigel Thornton.
Weller shows her the phone of Nas’ Sandstorm mole and Patterson is able to
crack the code by using her code algorithm and the code book. On the phone,
there’s a video of Jane naked in all her tattoo glory. The two discover that a cheetah
tattoo on Jane’s neck was removed.
Verdict: the episode was quite predictable and lacking. There was no “moment” to hold on to: the
brotherly/sisterly love between Roman and Jane was underplayed and there seemed to be a
lot of emotions on the surface that didn’t quite belong in the episode.
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Image: NBC/David Giesbrecht
Image: NBC/David Giesbrecht
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