Jane got dumped, Team Weller got served


Last time we saw Jane, she was about to get freaky with her hot beau who she just made up with. Until she got interrupted by masked men who shot tranquilizer darts at her and said hot beau. How’s that for foreplay?

Solos picks off with Jane and Oliver in bed feeling not so good. It takes Jane a second – and Oliver about a minute – to discover they’ve been taken hostage. Jane starts going on about how she has “enemies” and it’s all her fault until Oliver accidentally lets on to the fact that he knows where they are Jane pins him to the wall accusing him of being one of Shepherd’s patsies. He denies knowing any Shepherd and tells Jane that he knows they are in Vermont because his family used to come to that very house as a child. Before Oliver can say more, their kidnappers announce via speaker that Oliver reads a ransom note which was kept in the room.

The note makes it obvious that the kidnappers only wanted Oliver. He is to go online and appeal to his father (business tycoon – Magnus Steele) to “return” $200million dollars or they “execute” Oliver and Jane. Oliver confesses that he went to work for his father and found some “discrepancy” in the accounts which proved his father and partners were running a ponzi scheme on their clients. He says he threatened to go the police but his father ran – “left the country and never came back” – and he hasn’t heard from him since. He apologizes to Jane for lying to her and Jane is forgiving and “more worried about getting out” but I’m not Jane. And neither am I as forgiving.

Just how much time passed between when he confronted his father and when his father ran? Because I’m guessing his father didn’t just run out of the room and out of his life. He must have needed a night or two to wire all the money and make travel arrangements. What was Oliver doing within that period? Twiddling his thumbs and hoping his father comes clean?



At the Headquarters where everyone is early for some strange reason; Nas was able to recover some data from the hard drive of one of Sandstorm’s “fixers”. The drive contained dozens of forged passports for Shepherd. While Shepherd had a lot of fake passports, Roman had just one and it was used for a one day round trip to the Bahamas where he visited a bank and emptied $33million. Nas is convinced that money is what was used to fund Sandstorm. The two approach Roman with the file hoping to jog his memory.

Luckily, Roman remembers going to the bank (and being rather rude to the attendant). He’s also feeling rather melancholy so he assumes he killed whoever was the beneficiary to the trust then posed as that person. Kurt tries to talk Roman out of his mood but that doesn’t work out well.

Reade the Junkie

Ever since Edgar Reade found out he might have been abused by his Coach, he has been on a downward spiral of self-destruction. His girlfriend/Freddy’s ex broke up with him because he came to her house around 3am wanting to “keep partying”. And she is not comfortable with that kind of behavior because she has a cute son (who Reade met) and she only snuffs coke on her free time.
Well, she could have mentioned that before seducing a straight Fed into becoming an addict.

Reade’s day gets worse as he gets called into Weller’s office for a chat. Weller says he knows about his drug use and he advises Reade to take some time off. Now, Reade is far from sober and is probably in a mood for getting dumped so he rejects all of Weller’s help. Even goes as far as telling Weller they’re not friends and the latter is only concerned about protecting the image of his team. It’s quite clear from this scene that Weller is doing all he can not to smack Reade with suspension – or with the butt of his gun. Reade decides to be a stereotype self-destructive junkie by dramatically quitting and telling the one person who actually cares about his douchy behind (a.k.a Tasha) to “go to hell”.

Meanwhile, Jane tries to lure the kidnappers into the room by destroying the camera supposed to broadcast Oliver’s plea to his father. Like Jane suspected, the kidnappers quickly come running in but Jane is overpowered.

Jane’s little stunt worked in that they got to meet the face behind their kidnapping – a man whose daughter committed suicide because she trusted Magnus Steele with her money and went bankrupt. They force Oliver to read the message anyway and Jane gives him a reassuring pat on the shoulder. If Jane was any other person, that pat would have gone completely unnoticed but seeing as her entire body is tattooed, her FBI team notices it when the video is aired.

 Patterson also noticed a similar ransom video of the children of Edith Kadinav begging their mother to release $200million to prevent their execution. Team Weller is able to track down Edith who also appeared to have gone off the grid but quickly come back to deliver $200million. Turns out Edith knows exactly where to find Magnus – In Switzerland, six feet under the ground.
Weller asks Patterson to trace the video and quickly goes to inform Roman about his sister. Roman is shaky when he hears the news and says he doesn’t know what he will do with himself if he loses his sister. While that reaction was mature and touching, I would have totally preferred it if he had had a complete meltdown and started banging on the glass, telling them to release him so he can go find his only family. Kurt promises to keep him informed.

Third time’s the charm

Jane’s second attempt at trying to escape is thwarted but her third attempt is successful. She tells the kidnappers that Magnus Steele will never see the Youtube video because he’s off the grid but he checks his voicemail so they can leave a message there. The Chief kidnapper obliges Jane and gives Oliver the phone. Jane ends up recording the voicemail – she uses a bunch of Sandstorm words she knew would get intercepted by Shepherd and left a coded message telling them where to find the Kadinav kids – information Oliver had given her when he stumbled upon surveillance video of another house he used to stay for a vacation. Diaries of a rich kid.



The FBI easily find the kids and when their counterparts holding Jane captive hear about it, Jane and Oliver make a run for it. Oliver gets close to the door when he is stopped by one of the kidnappers and ends up accidentally impaling him with a pair of horns hung on the wall. Before the two can make their sweet escape, the Lead Kidnapper and his Right Hand Man walk in. The man-in-charge decides that he no longer wants the money, only revenge and tries to shoot Oliver at the back of the head. Jane convinces him that Magnus will never feel the pain he felt because Magnus doesn’t care about Oliver. The grieving father buys Jane’s speech and tells his right hand goon to drop them on a busy road. The latter gets angry, shoots his boss in the head and threatens to slit Jane’s throat if he doesn’t get the money he was promised. Oliver tells him he can get him $50million but he needs to go to the office and get the signature of his CFO for the transfer.  Jane uses a knife to leave a message for her team before they get whisked away.

Team Weller finally locates the house where Jane and Oliver were being held but it has been wiped. Tasha finds the message Jane left and thanks to that illegal dig into Oliver’s life, she recognizes the sign as the logo for Oliver’s charity.

At the charity, Oliver authorizes the transfer but needs the authorization of his CFO –who also showed up at the office. When the latter tries to sign in with the wrong password, Oliver uses that distraction to try and disarm the kidnapper. They get into a little tussle and Nas ends it by putting a bullet in the kidnapper. Meanwhile, Jane has everything handled on her end with nice moves and a throwing knife.

Oliver tells Jane she was impressive throughout the ordeal but tells her ‘it’s a little too much” and he doesn’t have the “emotional real-estate” to handle someone with as much baggage as him.
Back at the Headquarters, Weller convinces everyone – including Roman’s pessimist psychiatrist to put Roman on house arrest. He calls Roman an “asset” and Nas says if they keep treating him like a monster, he’ll feel like one. So they let Roman go and Jane says a very heartfelt “thank you” to Weller.



A dramatic end to a dramatic day

After a very emotional day, Roman is at Jane’s trying to figure out what to order when  he remembers that the beneficiary of the account he emptied was Alice Kruger – aka Jane. So he didn’t kill anyone to get the money. How refreshing. Meanwhile, Reade is getting beat up for trying to score some coke with guys who recognized him as a cop and Patterson is thrashing her home looking for bugs out of undiluted paranoia. Shouldn’t have quit your sessions Patterson.

Like that isn’t enough, every member of Team Weller gets served for “aiding and abetting a terrorist organization” – or as we know it, releasing Roman. Anyone suspecting that mean-eyed Psychiatrist? I wondered how she went from “you won’t get my approval on this” to “there are conditions to the deal”.


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