You gotta give it to Roman; he really knows how to play the part.

Roman is the star of last night’s episode as the team find him smack in the middle of that tattoo which was erased from Jane’s body. Patterson (with little help from Roman) was able to decipher the tattoo which led them to biker gang – Viper Kings. And right there among their findings is a photo of Roman and Kings’ member Kat Jarett.

Jane who is bent on proving her brother’s usefulness and dismissing the diagnosis of Dr Sun suggests that they show Roman the picture as it may trigger a memory. Her gamble pays off and Roman remembers purchasing weapons from the Kings. The team (mostly Jane) is determined to get Shepherd by hook or crook so they resolve that Jane and Roman will go undercover and try to get the Kings to set a meeting (trap) for Shepherd.

For someone who wants a “new life” for her brother, Jane seems pretty eager to throw him right into the lion’s cage that made him the sociopath he is.

They both go into the bikers' bar “The Nest” as Roman and Remi and a couple of things go sideways.
a.       Roman remembered that he was in a relationship with Kat.
b.      Abel, the Viper’s leader {who was beating the sheet out of someone when they walked in} tells the siblings that the only thing Shepherd wants is HMX (high melting explosives) so Roman promises them the explosives.

Back at the HQ, the team is little mad at Roman for promising the HMX they didn’t have. Patterson informs the team that the only way for non-military personnel to get HMX was to steal it. To this Nas says “so we steal it” and walks out.  Kurt runs after her and is questioning her judgment when she says it’s their only way in and she will load only the top of the truck with real HMX.

But even a fraction of HMX is too much explosive and I’m a little worried that Nas is playing for the other team and wants Shepherd to get her hands on explosives. But I’ve always been suspicious of 
Nas so it might be nothing. Kurt being the softie that he is agreed to go with Nas’ risky plan.

Roman and Remi go back to the Kings and tell them of their plan to rob a truck transporting HMX. Kat and Abel are a little suspicious of the plan but they go with it anyway because of the extra dollar topping that comes with actually selling the HMX to Shepherd. They all prepare to ride their bikes and again, I’m a little worried of how confident Roman actually is. Even more confident undercover than his badass sister “Remi”.

They divert the van off course quite easily – and it's quite unnerving how in-sync Roman and Kat are. Is this muscle memory again? Because it took time for Jane to even trust her former fiance Oscar. The tiny hurdle with this fake armed robbery is that the truck was driven by Weller and Reade – and Abel wants them dead because they’re witnesses. Jane tries to talk around the issue but it proves futile so efficient Roman shoots them twice in the chest. The shock on Jane’s face would have betrayed her cover had the Kings not been eager to get out of there.

The good news is, Reade and Weller were wearing vests. The not-so-good news is - it still hurts.
While Jane is scolding her brother for taking the risk of shooting her friends, Kat and Abel come by to tell them Shepherd has agreed to the drop. But she doesn’t send the location until an hour before the meet – paranoid terrorist that she is. Jane is a little disturbed about how they will plan an ambush when they can’t get there before their target.

Kat still has feelings for Roman so it’s no surprise when the two get into a passionate lip lock. During this intense exchange of saliva, Roman remembers planning to run away with Kat but not showing up because his sister ordered him to call it off because she needed him “focused”. Safe to say it was a very unhealthy relationship between those two.

NBC/Barbara Nitke


With this FBI drama, there’s a little personal drama going on – Kurt’s baby mama (Allie) is moving to Colorado and he can’t move with her, Freddie’s ex showed up at Reade’s home looking for Freddie and Reade feels guilty that he can’t help. Also, Patterson is still hurt that she dated a terrorist and couldn’t see it because she was blinded by her feelings. In her pain, she also insinuates that Nas is terrible at her job as she failed to identify the mole even though she had a bug in the office.

Team Weller escort Roman and Remi to The Nest to meet with Abel and Kat. There, Kat pulls a gun on Roman and says she suspects he’s working with the cops because he held her hands (after they kissed) and he never used to do that”. Jane’s excuse is that Roman was shot by Shepherd and came back different after treatment but Kat is not buying it. Roman decides to go the Jane-way and tells her the truth - they work for the FBI, they are after Shepherd not her and he loves her very much.

This hogwash clearly works on Kat as she pretends to shoot them and sends her goons to get rid of the bodies. A couple of things go wrong and Kat ends up shot. Her dying words to Roman were “I love you”. Immediately she dies, Roman doesn’t even linger for an extra second which kind of convinced me that he really is incapable of emotions.

Team Weller (and a couple more unknown teams) head to the dead drop location but things aren’t quite right. The building hasn’t been used for about two years. Coupled with the fact that the van is empty – exempting Abel’s very dead body. The FBI got played – again.

Back at the HQ, everyone is convinced that someone must have gotten information to Sandstorm somehow but no one knows how. In a not-so-shocking turn of events, Nas breaks up with Kurt because they are both “clouding” each other’s “judgment” – and she looks so chill about while she’s breaking his heart. Also, Roman confessed to Jane that he felt “nothing” for Kat and is a little worried that he might truly be a sociopath. Lucky for him, he has a formerly-psychopathic sister to reassure him. On a more intimate note, Freddie’s ex showed up at Reade’s to “apologize” and they both end up getting freaky.

Jane pays a visit to Weller to keep him company and she tries to help him with work. She finds Kurt’s military yearbook and a photo of Kurt playing basketball and trying to dunk one. Right in that picture is Shepherd looking like a proud mama {throwback to Her Spy’s Harmed when I crazily theorized that Shepherd was Weller’s mum}. The unbelievable part comes when Kurt says “I know her”.

WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY! Here’s why:

After Jane met Shepherd, a sketch artist came by and produced a very close replica of Shepherd. That sketch must be everywhere around the Headquarters so are we really to believe that the sketch wasn’t good enough for Weller and sketches don’t really work? Or that Shepherd performed some kind of voodoo on Weller so he only recognizes her when he sees a real picture.  The jury is definitely out and pondering.

What did you think of this episode?