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Blindspot

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Blindspot	comment	Blindspot is an action-thriller starring Sullivan Stapleton and Jaimie Alexander. It began airing on NBC during the 2015-2016 TV season.A duffel bag is left behind in Times Square, and inside is a naked woman (Alexander) whose body is almost completely covered with tattoos. She is quickly brought into custody and found to have amnesia, and her fingerprints, DNA, and photos are not in any database. One tattoo names FBI agent Kurt Weller (Stapleton), but upon meeting, he and the woman do not recognize each other. Weller and his team find that the tattoos form hidden messages, which when deciphered indicate dates and addresses for future crimes.The woman, named Jane Doe until her true identity can be found, discovers that she has many skills she cannot remember how she got, including the ability to read and speak several foreign languages and advanced martial art and marksmanship skills. Weller reluctantly allows her to work with his team in solving these crimes until the mystery of her identity and who did this to her can be solved.The show ran for five seasons, with its final and 100th episode airing on July 23rd, 2020.Martin Gero said in recent interviews that he's open to the idea of a spin-off sequel with Zapata as the main character taking on cases as a PI after leaving the FBI.
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Blindspot / int_118a2d16	type	Hanlon's Razor
Blindspot / int_118a2d16	comment	Hanlon's Razor: Inverted. In the show every bad thing is the result of a malicious conspiracy on the part of agents of the government.
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Blindspot / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Blindspot / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The advertisements for the next half of season 1 give away the twist of Jane being the one behind giving herself the tattoos and wiping her memory.
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Blindspot / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Blindspot / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The main plot of "Persecute Envoys" deals with two NYPD officers being executed in broad daylight presumably because they assisted another officer in shooting an unarmed black man who was running away from them.
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Blindspot / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Blindspot / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Employed fairly regularly. Daylight is revealed to be an operation utilising the data collected by the NSA on the US population, which was thrown into turmoil when the information was leaked and Mayfair having to fabricate evidence to cover the trail. In "Persecute Envoys", references are made to the Ferguson and Baltimore riots, as the episode focuses on presumed revenge killings of NYPD officers involved in the shooting of an unarmed black man. Other episodes focus around such topical themes as killer drones, ebola and other plagues, and paramilitary right-wing groups.
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Blindspot / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Blindspot / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: The scene of Mayfair's murder is cleaned down with bleach, yet Patterson is somehow able to swab a sample and run a DNA analysis on it. While it's not unrealistic that traces of blood remain behind, the bleach should have rendered it completely useless for any forensic analysis. When you have a split personality, there's no conceivable way to keep track of "how many neurons are occupied by one personality and the other", down to one tenth of a percent and showing in different color each personality, as they do in episode 4.09 "Check your Ed".
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Blindspot / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
Blindspot / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: The real Taylor Shaw.
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Blindspot / int_1e989916	type	Smuggling with Dolls
Blindspot / int_1e989916	comment	Smuggling with Dolls: The team discusses this when they seize a bunch of dolls from the hideout of a notorious smuggler. They run tests on the dolls to determine if there is anything hidden inside and then start testing the material the dolls are made off. Unfortunately, it turns out that the dolls contain a deadly bioweapon that kills the person doing the testing.
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Blindspot / int_222446a4	type	Headache of Doom
Blindspot / int_222446a4	comment	Headache of Doom: In season 2, after Patterson has been tortured by Shepherd, headaches are one of the signs that something is wrong about her. After a few episodes, it turns out that the headaches are caused by the radio signal of a bug embedded in her tooth.
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Blindspot / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Blindspot / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Early in "Screech, Thwack, Pow", Rich is using a computer application that can generate video of any person convincingly saying anything he wants, just to be an immature troll. Later on, the FBI uses the same application to send a fake message to Remi, from Roman, who has been deceased for weeks.
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Blindspot / int_244e413	type	Bolivian Army Cliffhanger
Blindspot / int_244e413	comment	Bolivian Army Cliffhanger: In the Season 4 finale, the team is taking refuge in a cabin out in the middle of nowhere. While Jane is outside, the Big Bad locates them and blows up the cabin with a drone-launched missile, leaving everyone else's fate uncertain.
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Blindspot / int_27f10418	type	Impersonating an Officer
Blindspot / int_27f10418	comment	Impersonating an Officer: In the pilot, Chao is able to sneak into the Statue of Liberty by disguising himself as a US Park Ranger.
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Blindspot / int_2c7f645b	type	Gas Leak Cover-Up
Blindspot / int_2c7f645b	comment	Gas Leak Cover Up: The USAF covers the existence of the domestic anti-terror drone program by claiming that accidental explosions were the cause of the "accidents" that killed personnel involved in the operation.
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Blindspot / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
Blindspot / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Happens a few times but none as effective as in the season 4 finale as the team realize too late that everything that's been happening that season has all been part of Madeline's epic job to frame them all for murdering innocent people and being behind a terrorist cyber-attack, making the team fugitives.
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Blindspot / int_30a52f16	type	Shadow Government
Blindspot / int_30a52f16	comment	Shadow Government: It's revealed that a COG plan is at the core of Shepherd and Sandstorm entire agenda. Namely in the event of the destruction of the US government, the Truman Protocol will be activated in which the senior members of several Federal organizations (CIA, FBI, DHS etc.) will form an emergency government and be granted absolute powers to ensure the continuation of the United States. All the cases the team have been investigating exposing corruption has solely been to pave the way up the ranks for individuals Shepherd has judged as honest and dedicated enough to be able to properly fix the country once their in power. In a twist, the actual members chosen are completely unaware of this fact until an actual emergency situation is put into place, specifically to avoid any of them attempting to activate it prematurely.
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Blindspot / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Blindspot / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: The most notable members of the FBI are framed as terrorists in Season 4 finale and they have to live as fugitives as a result.
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Blindspot / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Blindspot / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: The second season premier shows a CIA "black site" in Oregon, even though the CIA is forbidden by law from operating on U.S. soil. It also shows them using torture as an interrogation tactic, even though that is also now forbidden by law. It also would be impossible for the CIA to grab up a domestic terrorism suspect since counter-terrorism is the province of DHS and handled by the FBI. Traditionally, when the CIA needed to interrogate someone captured in the U.S. they would have to fly them outside the country first; this is the origin of the controversy over "rendition" flights. Of course, a Central Theme of Blindspot is that abuses just as grotesque as this are rampant in American government, but attempting to expose them usually leads to being made subject to them.
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Blindspot / int_33affa42	type	Government Agency of Fiction
Blindspot / int_33affa42	comment	Government Agency of Fiction: In "Bone May Rot", the CDC logo shows it is part of the fictitious 'Department of Health', instead of the real life longer 'Department of Health and Human Services'.
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Blindspot / int_35850a4f	type	The Fellowship Has Ended
Blindspot / int_35850a4f	comment	The Fellowship Has Ended: At the beginning Season 3, the team dissolves for a while to live a calmer life, but they have to rejoin. On the Grand Finale, the team is no longer allowed to belong to the FBI or another governmental organization despite their names being cleared. They move on to live their own lives. Though if the ending isn't a Dying Dream then the team still keep in regular contact and consider each other family.
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Blindspot / int_36db2fba	type	Friend in the Press
Blindspot / int_36db2fba	comment	Friend in the Press: Played With. Megan Butani is a highly dedicated investigative journalist who works for the New York Post, as well as being FBI agent Edgar Reade's fiancÃ© throughout season three but whilst close to him and civil with his team and they often express interest in each other's investigations, for the most part, the two keep their professional lives separate from their relationship. It's played straight in season 5, when the team contact Megan and uses her connections to finally expose Madeline Burke's numerous crimes to the public, leading to her swift downfall.
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Blindspot / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Blindspot / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Ashley Johnson has gotten to make several Critical Role jokes on the show. At first they were just her goofing off, but after the showrunners became fans they started adding them in, including a segment where Patterson point blank admits to playing D&D, even going so far as to say she's a gnome cleric, the same as Johnson's character in the show's first campaign.
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Blindspot / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Blindspot / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: On the season 4 finale, the FBI team gets to interrupt Project Helios, but Madeline takes over the FBI and is seeking to damage it. The team is now living as fugitives, if most of them are still alive at all. In the Season 5 Finale, Kurt and his team are granted immunity for the crimes Madeline framed them of, but they can no longer belong to the FBI or to other governmental organizations. Megan Butani successfully cleared their names by exposing Madeline's crimes. The team successfully averts the plans Ivy had to infect everyone with ZIP as a last mission. The ending leaves it ambiguous if Jane was cured from the ZIP dose or if she actually died.
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Blindspot / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Blindspot / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: A major one for the series as the finale has Jane stopping the ZIP bomb from exploding. She and the team are forced to leave the FBI but gather for a big dinner...during which, Jane has flashes of her dying in Times Square of a ZIP overdose. It's unclear whether she's merely imagining what could have happened... or if this "happy ending" is her Dying Dream.
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Blindspot / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
Blindspot / int_46f3f271	comment	"The Regiment" made up of militiamen led by an ex-Green Beret commando.
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Blindspot / int_4df919c9	type	Repressed Memories
Blindspot / int_4df919c9	comment	Repressed Memories: Reade's old friend indicates that Reade himself was a victim of his coach's sexual abuse but Reade has no memory of this. He later claims that his recollections of that period of his childhood are vague and incomplete.
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Blindspot / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Blindspot / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: At the end of the pilot, we see that one of Jane's tattoos is of a heavily redacted case file number pertaining to Assistant Director Mayfair—and the file contains the words "murder" and "embezzlement" as the few words still exposed.
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Blindspot / int_50f17484	type	Fake-Out Opening
Blindspot / int_50f17484	comment	Fake-Out Opening: A memory of Jane's has her recalling cold-bloodedly assassinating a nun with a pistol shot to the back of her head and Jane spends most of the episode worried that she really was a horrible person for murdering an innocent. She later recalls more of the memory and the "nun" was a uniformed, armed soldier in disguise.
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Blindspot / int_52db461d	type	Significant Anagram
Blindspot / int_52db461d	comment	"Evil Handmade Instrument" definitely lives up to its Significant Anagram ("And unveil the mastermind"). Turns out, the mastermind behind sending Jane to Kurt is Jane herself.
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Blindspot / int_54c6b2b6	type	Revisiting the Cold Case
Blindspot / int_54c6b2b6	comment	Revisiting the Cold Case: The appearance of Jane Doe reopens an old case with a personal connection to Weller. Taylor Shaw was a childhood friend of Weller's and her disappearance wrecked his life. When Jane shows up, DNA evidence shows that she is a grown up Taylor Shaw which causes everyone to question what really happened when she disappeared all those years ago. The evidence was faked; Taylor Shaw was murdered at the time of her disappearance.
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Blindspot / int_56863152	type	Operation: [Blank]
Blindspot / int_56863152	comment	Operation: [Blank]: The mysterious Operation Daylight, which elements of both the CIA and the FBI are interested in keeping secret. It is later revealed to be a Ripped from the Headlines operation where the NSA supplied illegally obtained information to government officials to blackmail opponents, the CIA for intelligence, and the FBI for criminal activity. Mayfair's part was to come up with fake sources for the information that was being provided to her to pass to law enforcement under the guise it had been obtained legally.
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Blindspot / int_57c004fc	type	Threat Backfire
Blindspot / int_57c004fc	comment	Threat Backfire: In the third season, it's revealed that Borden survived his seeming death in an explosion. Captured, a CIA operative presses him to help them with information or he gets solitary confinement and maybe the death penalty. Borden snorts that he endured two days peeling burnt flesh off a third of his own body and spent a year in utter agony so prison would be a vacation.
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Blindspot / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Blindspot / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: The cover-up around Operation Daylight is a small-scale one—apparently, only four people (including Mayfair) know what it is. We've met two of them, and a third is dead. In "Persecute Envoys" it's revealed who the others are: the President's chief of staff, and one of his political aides (who happens to be Mayfair's lesbian lover). The latter killed herself when it appeared Daylight would be exposed and she realized they'd crossed the Moral Event Horizon with the operation. It's noted in "Split the Law" that, except for the planned terrorist attack in "Pilot" (which was staged specifically to demonstrate Jane's abilities and role), Jane's tattoos have thus far led them to cases of government corruption, illegal activity, or individuals using government resources to carry out their own crimes.
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Blindspot / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Blindspot / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Mayfair's reason for not having Jane killed is not just to avoid a Revealing Cover-Up, but because allowing her to continue the investigation into who she is and who tattooed her may lead to the people who are aware of Operation Daylight.
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Blindspot / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Blindspot / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The second season finale has Jane and Weller finally getting together. It then jumps two years into the future with Jane climbing a mountain. She enters a hut to find Weller waiting for her and still wearing an engagement ring. He tells her the rest of the team has vanished and needs Jane's help as she's able to open a mysterious box up.
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Blindspot / int_608bf5a0	type	Shoot the Hostage
Blindspot / int_608bf5a0	comment	Shoot the Hostage: One episode in season two has Rich Dotcom held hostage and forced to unlock a container of nuclear material. When Weller rushes into the room he's being held, the hostage taker grabs him and uses him as a human shield. Weller opts to shoot Rich in the leg to get the hostage taker to drop him.
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Blindspot / int_61066d95	type	Fictional Counterpart
Blindspot / int_61066d95	comment	Fictional Counterpart: Douglas Winter for Edward Snowden. Notably, he's just a patsy; Sandstorm broke into his house, downloaded all those files onto his laptop, emailed them to the New York Times in his name, then told him he could either stick around and get executed for treason, or take a Briefcase Full of Money and run to whatever government would give him sanctuary. He ran, but he was wearing A/V glasses at the time, thus leaving a record on its built-in flash drive. LaMont Green for Freddie Gray/Eric Garner/Walter Scott.
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Blindspot / int_61375e57	type	BigDamnKiss
Blindspot / int_61375e57	comment	Big Damn Kiss: Between Reade and Tasha at the end of "Defection." Finally.
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Blindspot / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Blindspot / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: "The Quantico Affair" takes place almost entirely in the FBI office, mostly from Patteron's point of view as the tech team pushes buttons on their magic computers. In an apparent Lampshade Hanging, Weller, Jane, and Reade are involved in ridiculous escapades offscreen, including being covered in paintball spatter at the start of the episode and refusing to explain why.
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Blindspot / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Blindspot / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: In the finale, there are possible plots for spinoffs with the main characters: Rich and Patterson will search for hidden treasures and Tasha will be a private investigator.
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Blindspot / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Blindspot / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: At the end of the series finale, as the team leaves the FBI office for the last time, they see the director giving instructions to a small group with physical attributes remarkably similar to Kurt, Jane, Patterson, Zapata, Reade, and Rich. We can only imagine how amazing it would have been to have the two teams meet face-to-face.
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Blindspot / int_68069489	type	Nipple and Dimed
Blindspot / int_68069489	comment	Nipple and Dimed: Jane spends a good portion of the pilot nude, but she's positioned, lit, and framed very carefully to show as much skin as possible while keeping things broadcast safe.
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Blindspot / int_68c3842b	type	Labcoat of Science and Medicine
Blindspot / int_68c3842b	comment	Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Patterson always wears one at work, even though her main tools are computers.
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Blindspot / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Blindspot / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: A villainous example. One of the perps from "Eight Slim Grins", with the help of three others, tries to break his brother out of the hospital. The brother, a fellow criminal, was in police custody after getting shot during a robbery. Not only does his plan fail, it gets him killed and causes his brother to succumb to his injuries.
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Blindspot / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Blindspot / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: A massive one in "Why Let Cooler Pasture Deform": Borden has been Sandstorm's mole the entire time. In fact, he and his wife were the ones who saved and helped a wounded Jane during her initial mission and when his wife was killed, was recruited to help Jane with her mission.
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Blindspot / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Blindspot / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Sofia Varma, Mayfair and Carter's co-conspirator, took her own life when it appeared that Operation Daylight would be exposed. Subverted as she's revealed to have faked her suicide.
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Blindspot / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
Blindspot / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: The first half of Season 1 sets up Carter as the main antagonist, due to his obsessive need to eliminate Jane in order to cover up Daylight. However, at the end of "Evil Handmade Instrument", he is unceremoniously gunned down by Jane's handler, Oscar.
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Blindspot / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Blindspot / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: The U.S. Navy SEALs do not directly recruit civilians into their program, much less convicted felons straight out of prison. Nor do their recruitment methods include targeting people with sociopathic tendencies. In point of fact, all Special Operations branches include extensive psychological testing to ensure that their recruits have maximum psychological stability, precisely for the reason that you don't turn likely criminals into lethal weapons.
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Blindspot / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Blindspot / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Rich Dotcom's original name, Gord Enver, comes from a film where its actor Ennis Esmer previously interpreted a character named Gord. Patterson's father, played by Bill Nye is not only an accomplished scientist (like Nye himself), but he also mentions an old rival named Rodney McKay (Nye appeared in one episode of Stargate Atlantis). When Zapata makes fun of Patterson's tabletop gaming habit and calls her an elf, Patterson retorts with "Actually, I'm a gnome cleric" to Zapata. Patterson's actress, Ashley Johnson, played a gnome cleric on the first campaign of Critical Role named Pike Trickfoot.
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Blindspot / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
Blindspot / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: After the Sandstorm mystery is solved at the end of Season 2, we get a timeskip to Kurt telling Jane the team has been kidnapped, and discovering an entire new set of tattoos on her...
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Blindspot / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Blindspot / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: The Government vs Sandstorm shows signs of this. The FBI is full of good-minded, if flawed, people who uphold the law to the best of their ability, but the investigations Jane leads them on expose unforgivable corruption which they often accept as business as usual... and upon exposure, they blithely accept orders from higher-up not to investigate further — one particularly intense case is Jane being held and tortured in a CIA "black site" in direct violation of both American laws against torture and the CIA's mandate against operating domestically. Kurt and Jane actually meet the man in charge of the site several months later, and Kurt basically makes Jane suck it up. Sandstorm is a group of Western Terrorists who commit unspeakable acts and do lots of collateral damage, but they are fighting that corruption tooth and nail. It goes straight into "Not So Different" Remark territory as both sides consider individual lives to be expendable. Jane even Lampshades this in â€�Heave Fiery Knot";
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Blindspot / int_7921ad77	type	Actually, I Am Him
Blindspot / int_7921ad77	comment	Actually, I Am Him: The reveal of the mastermind behind Sandstorm goes like this.
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Blindspot / int_797d994f	type	Dirty Bomb
Blindspot / int_797d994f	comment	Dirty Bomb: "Split the Law" features not only a radiological bomb, but a bomb-maker as well. (His accomplices are shown to be dying of radiation poisoning, and the FBI agents tasked with tracking down the bomb are given radiation monitors and told about the risks of extended exposure to radiation.)
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Blindspot / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Blindspot / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: The antagonist of "A Stray Howl" is a former Air Force pilot who became unhinged after a mission gone wrong resulted in the deaths of many innocent civilians. Or at least that's the cover story the Air Force uses to justify grounding, then discharging him. He was actually transferred to an illegal domestic drone program, then kicked out when he tried to blow the whistle on it.
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Blindspot / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Blindspot / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Subverted in "A Stray Howl". When the issue is raised that Gibson was set off by the FBI's visit to him, Weller points out Gibson already had the drone control and override built, so while they might have unintentionally caused him to launch his plan early, it was one he was intending to carry out anyway.
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Blindspot / int_801c7e4a	type	Quest for Identity
Blindspot / int_801c7e4a	comment	Quest for Identity: Jane's motivation in helping Weller's team—every case related to her tattoos might contain another clue about her past.
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Blindspot / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
Blindspot / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: A heated one between the FBI and CIA at the end of "Split the Law", regarding who takes custody over a captured bombmaker.
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Blindspot / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Blindspot / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: On a mission, Zapata runs into Madeline's son, Greg and lays out how his mother is part of a vast conspiracy out for power for herself and even had Greg's father killed to help it. Naturally, Greg doesn't believe it although he covers for Zapata escaping. Later, Greg meets with Madeline to thank her for helping his "vaccines" get through. He's first struck when she mentions she's in the running for the Vice Presidency. Then when Greg presses on his dad's death, Madeline shuts him down and it hits Greg that his beloved mother is a monster. And then she seals the deal by having her own son locked up and his memory erased to keep him quiet.
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Blindspot / int_869e787c	type	Creepy Gym Coach
Blindspot / int_869e787c	comment	Creepy Gym Coach: Revealed to be the crux of "In the Comet of Us", Coach Mike Jones seemingly a caring and supportive figure at Agent Reed's Alma Matar is secretly a sexual predator who has been preying on his students for decades. However, because his football program brought the school millions, the corrupt board covered up his crimes and silenced his victims. This causes two of them to snap and go on a shooting spree. As Edgar realises whilst trying to build a case against him in season two, Jones also abused him and he'd been suppressing the memory all these years. In the end, one of Jones former victims kills him, and Reed helps him escape.
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Blindspot / int_86d4f985	type	Doing In the Wizard
Blindspot / int_86d4f985	comment	Doing In the Wizard: At one point in "Persecute Envoys" Jane wonders aloud how it is remotely possible whoever tattooed her would be able to predict the murder of two cops weeks or months in advance, which would seem to indicate precognition or time travel. The tattoo didn't predict the murders: what looked like a gunsight was actually meant to be a camera lens, and the tattoo was leading them to an extortion racket using police bodycam footage.
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Blindspot / int_87646020	type	Memory Gambit
Blindspot / int_87646020	comment	Memory Gambit: This series is built on Remi / Jane erasing her memories through ZIP in order to carry over Sandstorm's plans. The problem is that this ends up giving her redeeming qualities.
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Blindspot / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Blindspot / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Mayfair tells Weller about the existence of "Operation Daylight" at the end of "Sent on Tour", and in "Persecute Envoys", we learn the details of it. "Evil Handmade Instrument" definitely lives up to its Significant Anagram ("And unveil the mastermind"). Turns out, the mastermind behind sending Jane to Kurt is Jane herself. "Of Whose Uneasy Route" has many of the tasks that Oscar sent Jane on come together to implicate Mayfair in Tom Carter, Saul Guerrero and now her new girlfriend's death. "If Love A Rebel Death Will Render": Mayfair discovers Jane set her up and is killed by Oscar, Weller is made head of the New York office and the Jane Doe project shut down, and Weller's father confesses on his death bed that he really did kill Taylor Shaw and where he buried her body. "Why Let Cooler Pasture Deform": Shepherd and Roman use their knowledge of Jane's triple-agent status to lure the FBI into a trap. In the hospital, Reade confesses to Zapata that he didn't kill his abuser, but did let him die. Shepherd orders Roman to kill Jane...but he can't, turning against her. They shoot each other, but he can't bring himself to kill Shepherd either; after he and Jane escape and she treats his wound, she injects him with the drug that wiped her own memory, intending to give him a second chance. Doctor Borden is the traitor. Patterson figures it out, goes to arrest him, and one shoots the other. "Hot Burning Flames": Jane's daughter, Avery Drabkin aka Avery Briggs is found to be alive and held captive somewhere in Germany after being presumed dead. "Im Memory: " Roman dies. Zapata apparently takes over as the new leader of an evil organization. Jane collapses from an influx of ZIP that has reverted her back to her old Remi persona.
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Blindspot / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Blindspot / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: Martin Gero made sure to bring back as many old characters as possible for the finale.
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Blindspot / int_95ff52c7	type	Guns Do Not Work That Way
Blindspot / int_95ff52c7	comment	Guns Do Not Work That Way: The villain in the pilot rapidly fires multiple shots from a Liberator pistol, a 3D printed plastic gun. While this particular design can actually fire a bullet, it can only fire a single round due to the pressure and heat from the shot damaging and warping the plastic. This may be an example of And Some Other Stuff; the cops would probably like it if some moron ended up with a useless gun after one shot.
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Blindspot / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Blindspot / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Roman Briggs and Hank Crawford in the third season. Madeline Burke and Ivy Sands in the fifth season.
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Blindspot / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Blindspot / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: One reason why Assistant Director Mayfair argues that Jane should not be killed. Whatever information about Operation Daylight that is on her has already been scanned and is in the database, so killing her serves no purpose and would draw even more attention to her case.
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Blindspot / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Blindspot / int_a1b141f4	comment	The cover-up around Operation Daylight is a small-scale one—apparently, only four people (including Mayfair) know what it is. We've met two of them, and a third is dead. In "Persecute Envoys" it's revealed who the others are: the President's chief of staff, and one of his political aides (who happens to be Mayfair's lesbian lover). The latter killed herself when it appeared Daylight would be exposed and she realized they'd crossed the Moral Event Horizon with the operation.
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Blindspot / int_a2836be5	type	Identity Amnesia
Blindspot / int_a2836be5	comment	Identity Amnesia: The show's central concept. Drugs were used to try and completely wipe out Jane's narrative memory, leaving her with no idea who she is and where she comes from. Her procedural memory, on the other hand, is fully intact, meaning that she can function like most other adults while demonstrating new skills as the plot requires.
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Blindspot / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Blindspot / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: It's revealed that Patterson's father is famous scientist Bill Nye the Science Guy, played by the man himself. Everyone else is in awe at this, except Jane who doesn't know who he is.
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Blindspot / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Blindspot / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: All episode titles in Season 1 are Significant Anagrams. Once decoded, the first ten form a non-rhyming poem regarding the plot of the series. On top of that, the anagrams form a coherent, intriguing paragraph; Who is Jane Doe? Taylor Shaw, the missing girl, or maybe not. The past will cloud our eyes. Suspect everyone. Lift the curtain, and unveil the mastermind. In case of emergency, follow these instructions; stay where you are. Find a secure line to contact your handler. Find what you need in almost the last place you look. To begin the sequence, focus on the time, then wait for the address to your new safehouse. The final order will be revealed when it's filed away. The creators have stated prior to season two that the episode names of future seasons would also have hidden messages, possibly encoded in other ways. "Woe Has Joined" (alternate title for the pilot): "Who is Jane Doe?" "A Stray Howl": "Taylor Shaw" "Eight Slim Grins": "The missing girl" "Bone May Rot": "Or maybe not" "Split the Law": "Will the past" or "The past will" "Cede Your Soul": "Cloud our eyes" "Sent on Tour": "Trust no one" "Persecute Envoys": "Suspect everyone" "Authentic Flirt": "Lift the curtain" "Evil Handmade Instrument": "And unveil the mastermind" "Cease Forcing Enemy": "In case of emergency" "Scientists Hollow Fortune": "Follow these instructions" "Erase Weary Youth": "Stay Where You Are" "Rules in Defiance": "Find a secure line" "Older Cutthroat Canyon": "To contact your handler" "Any Wounded Thief": "Find what you need" "Man's Telepathic Loyal Lookouts": "In Almost the Last Place You Look" "One Begets Technique": "To Begin The Sequence" "In the Comet of Us: "Focus On The Time" "Swift Hardhearted Stone "Then Wait For The Address" "Of Whose Uneasy Route "To Your New Safe House" "If Love a Rebel, Death Will Render "The Final Order Will Be Revealed" "Why Await Life's End "When It's Filed Away" Season 2 continues the theme naming with; "In Night So Ransomed Rogue" "Nothing Is More Dangerousâ€� "Heave Fiery Knot" "They Invoke Fearâ€� "Hero Fears Imminent Rot" "For Their Moment is Nearâ€� â€�If Beth" "The FBIâ€� "Condone Untidiest Thefts" "Defends The Constitutionâ€� "Her Spy's Harmed" "Shepherd's Armyâ€� "Resolves Eleven Myths" "Only Serve Themselvesâ€� "We Fight Deaths on Thick Lone Waters" "When The Soldiers Attack, We Fight Onâ€� "Why Let Cooler Pasture Deform "We Shall Protect Your Freedom" The winter break upgraded them to palindromes. The center letter in the palindromes, read in episode order, spell out "Kurt Weller SOS". "Nor I, Nigel, AKA Leg in Iron" "Droll Autumn, Unmutual Lord" "Devil Never Even Lived" "Name Not One Man" "Borrow or Rob" "Draw O Caesar, Erase a Coward" "Evil Did I Dwell, Lewd I Did Live" "Solos" "Senile Lines" "Regard a Mere Mad Rager" "In Words, Drown I" "Mom" "Lepers Repel" Season 3 changed the code again. In each title, there is exactly one letter that is found immediately between two instances of a different letter. For example, the title of episode 1, "Back to the Grind", has the letter "o" between two "t"'s. Those center letters, in episode order, spell "One of us will give our life". In Season 4, each episode title is a homage to a classic TV show. The first letter of each show spells "IS THIS THE DEATH OF THE FBI" .
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Blindspot / int_ad5d1f12	type	Far-East Asian Terrorists
Blindspot / int_ad5d1f12	comment	Far East Asian Terrorists: "Pilot" has a Chinese national studying in New York with plans to bomb the Statue of Liberty because Washington didn't lift a finger to help his mom when she was held in a Chinese prison camp. But just before the bearded man kills him, it's revealed that he was actually blackmailed into playing out the scheme, including drawing in Jane Doe and the FBI, to save his sister.
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Blindspot / int_b532f68b	type	Everybody Has Lots of Sex
Blindspot / int_b532f68b	comment	Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Borden and Patterson agree to go on a date, though it takes a little while for them to actually manage it. At the opening of the very next episode, they're shown brushing their teeth together in an obvious "morning after" situation.
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Blindspot / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Blindspot / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Madeline Burke wants to destroy the FBI just because her father apparently died of despair after a meeting with J. Edgar Hoover fifty years ago, ignoring the good the Bureau does on a wider scale (to say nothing of the question of whether or not her father did what he was accused of in the first place).
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Blindspot / int_c1408ad1	type	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement
Blindspot / int_c1408ad1	comment	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement: 'Rules in Defiance' presents multiple ICE Agents as on the payroll of Maxwell Tate, with them selecting suitable women from those who are about to be deported, and then allowing Tate's thugs to abduct them during transport for his forced prostitution operation, whilst falsifying the records to claim the deportations took place. Being responsible for literally hundreds of women having been taken. There is a single honest agent who attempted to help Ronnie Vargas after Tate framed him for murder, however, he was quickly silenced by his co-workers framing him for sexual harassment on Tate's orders.
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Blindspot / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Blindspot / int_c145f69b	comment	Subverted as she's revealed to have faked her suicide.
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Blindspot / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Blindspot / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: Weller's team has to assault a rickety old house where a man is holding many women hostage. Worried about taking the stairs, Weller orders breaching charges be placed directly under the hostage taker. Cue the floor giving way and the man falling into the FBI's lap.
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Blindspot / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
Blindspot / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: Done 2-handed by Shepherd to an Asian man in "Regard a Mere Mad Rager" after escaping prison. Done in "Mom" by a Sandstorm agent to a security guard.
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Blindspot / int_c74c35f4	type	Monochrome Past
Blindspot / int_c74c35f4	comment	Monochrome Past: Every time Jane recalls another memory fragment from her past, the flashback is in black & white. Whenever flashbacks occur other than Jane's memories, they have a heavy blue tint to them, almost to the point of washing out all other colors.
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Blindspot / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Blindspot / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: This turns out to be Madeline's entire reason for going after the FBI. Her father was a rising politician who had one meeting with J. Edgar Hoover and was forced to revoke his career and then killed himself. Madeline blames the FBI so much for one man's actions that she wants to destroy the entire agency, ignoring all the good the FBI does because she thinks they're also incredibly corrupt.
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Blindspot / int_c9aea8c8	type	Armies Are Evil
Blindspot / int_c9aea8c8	comment	Armies Are Evil: In "A Stray Howl" it is revealed the US military is operating and carrying out drone-strikes on civilian targets over U.S. soil without regard to casualties. They are also said to have directly recruited convicted felons into the SEALs, and nobody even blinks twice at the idea that a woman might be kidnapped, trained and then have her memory wiped for a black op. In Season 2, Orion is revealed to be a very deep black-ops SEAL Team that's been running around the world carrying out terrorist attacks that have been blamed on others, including assassinating the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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Blindspot / int_cafdaf4e	type	Trust Password
Blindspot / int_cafdaf4e	comment	Trust Password: When Patterson has to contact her father for aid in the fifth season, she tells a childhood story about how he told her to use the word "Exosphere" when she was in danger.
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Blindspot / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Blindspot / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In "A Stray Howl", a ex-Air Force pilot named Gibson attempts to blow up all the military personnel connected to a top-secret drone program. Gibson used to be part of that program and hated it. When it was discovered that he planned to expose the drones flying over the United States, the high-ups kicked him out and ruined his life.
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Blindspot / int_d280a296	type	Teen Genius
Blindspot / int_d280a296	comment	Teen Genius: Deconstructed in "Cede Your Soul". The team encounters a brilliant 17-year-old hacker named Anna. Because of her youth and naivety, she was easily manipulated into creating software that tracked government vehicles, resulting in several assassinations. She thought she was working for the government and is horrified to learn the truth.
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Blindspot / int_d49f90ea	type	Western Terrorists
Blindspot / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: The anti-government militiamen protecting an arms dealer/informant in "Sent on Tour". "The Regiment" made up of militiamen led by an ex-Green Beret commando. Season 2's "Sandstorm" appears to have worldwide connections, but the only definitive non-Americans are Nigel Thornton (English) and Jane and Roman (South Africans played by white Americans).
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Blindspot / int_d609b01a	type	Carnival of Killers
Blindspot / int_d609b01a	comment	Carnival of Killers: In the Season 3 episode "Clamorous Night", Roman puts a hit on the FBI team. The only specifically unique assassin in the group is one who likes using poisons; the rest stick to good old-fashioned guns and knives.
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Blindspot / int_d78ea160	comment	A Lighter Shade of Gray: The FBI are doing their best to save as many people as possible, and put an end to the corruption. But due to how deep it goes, they do have to sometimes look the other way or resort to dirty tactics to get things done. Many times they are forced to play the game just so they can keep going, and accept lesser victories. Nevertheless, they are good people, who do everything they are capable of to prevent injustice and save as many lives as possible. While Sandstorm, despite being an extremist group, wants to expose all the corruption and abuse of power that is going on, and is fighting tooth and nail to bring it all down. However their solutions often involve massive amounts of bloodshed, the groupâ€™s philosophy is very much â€œthe ends justify the meansâ€� making them incredibly callous towards causing civilian casualties, they are willing to murder innocent people for simply not getting with the program, and their members are mostly borderline fanatics who unquestionably follow a cold, ruthless, manipulative leader. Their final plan would have led to the entire Eastern sea board being made radioactive, killing untold millions, and the country being thrown into martial law for who knows how long.
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Blindspot / int_d79f4a9e	comment	Heinousness Retcon: In his first appearance, whilst still goofy and fun loving, Rich Dotcom is presented as a falsely charming, somewhat creepy criminal mastermind who casually executes one of his own loyal henchmen on the spot for an apparent failure, and is even described by Patterson as one of the most dangerous men alive. Come all subsequent appearances (before his Heelâ€“Face Turn) and he's presented as a genuinely friendly wise-cracking hedonist whose crimes are centered in cerebral trickery and avoids violence at all costs, with no one ever remarking on this change. No doubt his unexpected popularity (leading to his drastically increased role) led to this softer characterization.
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Blindspot / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Jane and Kurt become a couple and get married. Both have gone to the field and fought together multiple times before and after entering in a relationship.
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Blindspot / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: Mayfair appears to have no trouble withdrawing nearly $50,000 cash from her bank account in "In the Comet of Us". In the real world, she would need to fill out an IRS form to explain the purpose of the withdrawal (to give to her presumed-dead girlfriend?), and no single bank branch carries so much cash on hand without advance notice. She's smart enough to know the right words to say to the IRS, and maybe she waited for the bank to get the cash, but it sure doesn't look that way as shown.
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Blindspot / int_e23fac54	comment	Invisible Writing: Jane Doe's body is already covered in tattoos that contain hidden meanings but in the "Bone May Rot" episode, it is discovered that she also has tattoos that are only appear under the exact frequency of UV light that is used for decontamination at the CDC.
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Blindspot / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Zapata gives Carter all of the FBI's information on Jane in exchange for enough money to pay off her gambling debts. Afterwards, he's able to use her acceptance of said money in order to extort her into continuing to spy on Jane for him. The season 2 premiere has Jane acting as one for Sandstorm. At the end, it's revealed they also have a mole in the FBI.
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Blindspot / int_e7ae07f5	comment	Douglas Winter for Edward Snowden. Notably, he's just a patsy; Sandstorm broke into his house, downloaded all those files onto his laptop, emailed them to the New York Times in his name, then told him he could either stick around and get executed for treason, or take a Briefcase Full of Money and run to whatever government would give him sanctuary. He ran, but he was wearing A/V glasses at the time, thus leaving a record on its built-in flash drive.
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Blindspot / int_ea382fea	type	Wait Here
Blindspot / int_ea382fea	comment	Wait Here: Weller attempts to do this to Jane in the pilot, but she insists on coming along. And in the second episode. And in the third. They eventually give up and decide to just add her to the team.
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Blindspot / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: NYPD officers Costello, Johnson and their captain, who were using stolen police bodycam footage to extort and blackmail various wealthy individuals for their own personal gain.
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Blindspot / int_ee75b5ab	comment	Relocating the Explosion: In the pilot episode, a terrorist plants a plastic explosive on a subway train. Since Kurt Weller doesn't know how to disarm it, he instead scrapes as much of the plastic explosive off the detonator as he can, then throws the detonator down the tunnel as hard as he can. It works.
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Blindspot / int_f12c6fb1	comment	Surprisingly Sudden Death: Patterson's civilian boyfriend David gets so caught up in solving the clues that he trails someone connected with a cipher that he and Patterson discovered. The person he's trailing kills him.
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Blindspot / int_f2c895f	type	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
Blindspot / int_f2c895f	comment	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The conflict between the FBI and Sandstorm in the first two seasons. To the law and the heroes Sandstorm are bunch of fanatical Western Terrorists who are happy to murder countless civilians in the pursuit of their goals. To Sandstorm, theyâ€™re a bunch of heroic patriots who are fighting tooth and nail to put an end to the corruption in politics and business that has invested America, with the majority of the members being former Special Forces operators who have suffered first hand from it. While Sandstorm certain does have a point about the corruption, the sheer extremism of their actions and the fact their overall plan would have irradiated the entire Eastern Sea board, does put a few holes in their claims.
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Blindspot / int_f3b5d559	comment	SWAT Team: The Hostage Rescue Team gets mobilized to help the rest of the FBI whenever a situation is about to get worse.
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Blindspot / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: In regards to Jane, Carter repeatedly pushes this idea on Mayfair in order to prevent the secret of Operation Daylight from being exposed. Mayfair then repeatedly shoots down this plan because of the very high chance it will attract more attention, given the relatively high profile of Jane's case, not to mention that Jane remembers nothing herself and is likely a smaller piece of the tattoo mystery. The tattoos are fully scanned into the FBI's database and killing her would not prevent them from being used as clues.
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Blindspot / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: Whoever is responsible for Jane's mysterious appearance in Time Square appears to have a complicated long-term plot in mind. Lampshaded when Weller wonders out loud why someone would tattoo an FBI agent's name and information about a terrorist attack on Jane's body rather than simply call the FBI and tell them about the attack.
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Blindspot / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Chinese viewers were pleasantly surprised to find that Jane Doe is fluent in a dialect of Mandarin Chinese called Wenzhouhua, which is infamously difficult to understand. Even other Mandarin Chinese speakers struggle with it.
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