BLINDSPOT: Deductions Roundtable Discussion

A blast from Jane’s (and the rest of Team Tattoo’s) past returned this episode to assist the team in preventing an attack in return for immunity and being able to get back to his family after the CIA screwed him over on his original immunity deal. The resulting fallout pits the CIA against the team, with Zapata caught in the middle and links to Patterson’s “tattoo nemesis”.  Meanwhile, Roman realizes that Blake’s kidnapping isn’t as it seems but manages to use it to get closer to Crawford and Weller and Jane inform Avery about what they’ve learned about her adoptive parents and their connections to Crawford.

Join Leah, Roz, Lisa and I as we discuss this week’s episode. Feel free to contribute your thoughts in the comments!

This week we got the return of Cade. No one is gone for long on this show it seems, although it doesn’t look like he’ll be back. Do you think Jane shot him to save Zapata or more to save him from his fate?

Roz: I think after all that trauma with his family, Jane was saving him from himself. He’d never be happy without his family and the life he created with them.

Leah: Seriously…more people are “resurrected” on this show than a syfy zombie show! I vote to save Zapata.

Lisa: yeah, what Leah said! I think she shot him to save Zapata.

Cay: I’m more with Roz. When Cade asked whether the kid was even his son, it made me wonder. The team knows now that the CIA didn’t hold up its bargain with Cade the first time and Jane made the comment about what it is like to be a prisoner of the CIA. I think she took the opening to kill him to save him from that life without repercussions. As a matter of fact, I wonder if Cade grabbing Zapata was a version of suicide by cop.

We learn more and more about Avery. Her relationship with Jane and Kurt seems to be improving – do you think she can be trusted?

Roz: I want her to be trustworthy, but part of me is nervous. With her dad as he was, she’s got to know how to lie like a champion.

Leah: I still just don’t care about the Avery storyline. Meh. I definitely don’t think you can trust her though.

Lisa: I don’t trust her one bit and I’m not excited for her storyline either. I feel like there will be a shift where we will care, but it hasn’t happened yet.

Cay: It’s hard for me to believe she’s innocent based on her now known family connections. Blake seemed relatively innocent as well, but we learned recently that she’s done some relatively devious things before as well.

Zapata seems uncomfortable with the CIA’s methods, but then defends them to Reade. What do you think is up with her?

Roz: This feels like Zapata is finally seeing the bloom is off the Rose of the CIA.

Leah: I feel like sometimes she thinks she made her bed (joining the CIA) and now she has to lay in it. She didn’t think they were ever going to be back as a tattoo team.

Lisa: She definitely doesn’t want to give the impression that she has regrets about joining the CIA, so she puts up a good front.

Cay: I guess it could be even worse when it comes to Reade, because she doesn’t want to hear “I told you so” from him. I wonder how long she’ll be able to look the other way, though.

Roman and Crawford have a very interesting relationship! Did you fall for his “joke” with the poison? There’s nothing he won’t do if he’d seriously traumatize his own daughter just to form an alliance.

Leah: Crawford is the worst. Honestly! I didn’t fall for the…..joke.

Lisa: I’m embarrassed to admit I fell for his joke because of the look on Roman’s face. I couldn’t tell if it was fear or if the poison was kicking in. Color me gullible. Lol

Roz: Totally fell for the joke and was shocked that the show almost did that to Roman without any warning.

Cay: I fell for it, because it fit Crawford’s character – it was definitely the kind of thing that he’d do. OTOH, if I had thought for another second, it certainly would have been an anticlimactic death for Roman, before we’ve even figured out his master plan.

MVP?

Cay: This episode could have benefitted from a little humor infusion from Rich Dotcom…

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