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Tonight’s premiere showed us that this season is playing not games just like season 1. Although we’re shifting into a new time slot and day (Wednesday’s @ 8PM) we aren’t lacking on action and exciting reveals. ‘In Night So Ransomed Rogued’ proved just that. The teasers for the season weren’t catching my attention at first. I thought this season was going to be trash, but I guess not! It’s definitely going to be a wild primetime ride. Let's talk about it.
When the show started, it had been three months since Jane was taken into custody by the CIA. They were torturing her daily at a black site in Oregon. Obviously, we knew she wouldn’t be in there much longer after the start of the show. But the question was, how was she going to get out of there? Was someone going to help her? We saw flashbacks of Oscar training her to not be broken by the abuse she would face in the future had she ever been captured. So in typical Jane fashion, she came up with a plan and got herself out. The plan, of course, included her kicking some butt after being injected for trying to drown herself and keeping the needle lodged into her arm so she could use it later to escape.
After Jane’s escape, we come upon the team still in action chasing down girls on dirt bikes…yeah, it had to be as boring as it sounds. It was only a matter of time until Zapata shared with Kurt that they were tired of the boring cases and missed chasing the tattoos. And with the mention of the word, not much later does the team receive a visit from a member of an NSA subdivision called Zero Division named Nas Kamal (Archie Panjabi). Of course, she doesn’t show up empty handed and unloads new information on the team. Mainly, information about a group named Sandstorm who was responsible for terrorist like attacks that they made look like they were committed by a “lone wolf”. An incident of theirs that was brought to the attention of Zero Division had to do with a duffle bag with a woman in it left in the middle of Times Square. Sound familiar?! So, of course, Nas wants Jane back because she could essentially help her team track down Sandstorm since they were the ones who brought her into play in the first place.
The team finds out that Jane is laying low in Camden, New Jersey working as an under the table housekeeper. In the span of three months, Kurt had to have forgotten who Jane was when he attempted to sneak up on her to bring her in. That resulted in them fighting in the Motel hallway and the FBI bringing Jane back in. Nas had her hooked up to an illegal lie detector that involved Jane being injected with some kind of serum a la Divergent that could detect the smallest chance of her telling a lie. Nas starts questioning Jane, and she tells her everything she wants to know. She was kidnapped by Carter and saved by Oscar who killed him, she wasn’t fully aware of what Oscar was planning in having her frame Mayfair, and Mayfair was killed by Oscar who Jane killed after.
The team obviously doesn’t know how to feel about Jane now that they know Mayfair truly is dead, but Nas needs her help to infiltrate Sandstorm, so they’ll have to deal with her for now. Kurt, Jane, and Nas devise a plan that involves Jane calling Joey’s Pizza for help as an into the organization. What was Jane supposed to even say as her cover for being gone for three months? Nas had that part figured out already. Kaid would be brought back into the mix as being the one who was holding her captive and doing all of the torturings and she was just able to get away. Obviously, not without some kind of battle scars. Jane proceeded to egg Kurt on so that he’d be able to shoot her, but Zapata did so instead. Sidebar: What I found funny about the situation was how Zapata got all high and mighty and decided Jane deserved everything that she got when she was doing things behind Mayfair’s back as well. Hypocrisy doesn’t look good on you girl.
The plan worked seeing as Jane met with “some guy” named Roman at the meeting spot who was going to help her out and take her to meet Shepard per her request. But since this is Blindspot and not your average action show, Roman turns out to be some crazy guy who turns into a black ops fighter once he and Jane reach a police stop and he’s asked to step out of the car. Later, he gets to the hospital and runs inside, you would think he’s just bringing out a wheelchair to take her in or some nurses, but nope! He brings out the wheelchair dressed as a nurse and completes all of the nurse-like activities once they get inside of the hospital. He also hooks Jane up to a blood bag since they have the same blood type…weird.
Back at the FBI headquarters is when the team starts to take a look at the files on the hard drive that Mayfair left for Patterson. The Orion files can’t be opened since they’re encrypted so Nas shares that she’ll give Patterson access to NSA’s technology in hopes of changing that. There’s also the mysterious M7G677 file that contains a single photo of a black hole, what’s that all about?
This is where things started to get good, quick. After the hospital antics, Roman takes Jane to meet Shepard. There’s only one problem, Nas placed the second tracker on Jane because she knew she’d get rid of the first one, this scanner didn’t activate until after a certain time frame so it was active as they were pulling up to Shepard’s car. If this was a normal show, she would’ve been scanned for wires and killed on the spot, but since it isn’t, Patterson came through like always and turned it off right as Jane was being approached by a woman…. who just so happened to be Shepard who just so happens to be Jane’s mother! What????!!! *cue dramatic music* At that moment, I didn’t know what was going on because that was surely a bomb of information.
Shepard isn’t her birth mother but her adoptive mother which we find out after she decided to drop even more bombs. The craziest part is that Jane whose real name is Alice Kruger was born in South Africa (which explains the isotope info from season 1) to anti-apartheid parents who were later killed by apartheid soldiers. She was then brought to an orphanage where they trained child soldiers, in which she was one of the exceptional ones. But she wasn’t trained there alone, yes there were other kids, but one, in particular, was also there – her brother Roman was also present! Honestly, at that moment I was done, I couldn’t take any more information. After sharing Jane/Alice’s backstory, Shepard shared hers. She was in the military specifically freeing child soldiers and she decided to take care of her and Roman once she found them also letting them choose different names hence Roman and Jane’s other name Remy.
How does Jane even feel after all of that? I know I’d be super confused, but there isn’t time for confusion as Shepard sends Jane back to the FBI so that she could finish her mission there. Later, we see Roman and Shepard in some kind of laboratory like building making their way to a hidden missile. Along the way, Shepard shares that something is off with Jane, and she’s not sure what it is but she might want to activate the mole that she has in the FBI!!
That was the nail in my coffin. Who do you think the potential mole is? How do you think the show will do on its new day and time slot? Sound off below!
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