NOTE: May be minor "Blindspot" season 1 spoilers ahead!
Dropped off in a duffel bag in times square, Jane Doe is discovered with no recollection of who she is or why she is covered from head to toe in tattoos that will soon uncover hidden secrets to not only her life but the FBI. With the first half of the season of “Blindspot” coming to an end, fans are itching to know what happens next to Jane Doe and the FBI team.
In this new NBC drama, we are taken on a whirlwind of adventures, from decoding tattoos to uncovering the dirty secrets of the FBI and their former cases. We are first introduced to Jane Doe (played by Jaimie Alexander) when she is “randomly” dropped off on the street in New York's Times Square. At first it is believed to be an explosive within in the duffel bag, until the unthinkable happens and Jane crawls out. Uncertain of who to call, NYPD discovers a tattoo on her back that read “Kurt Weller,” one of the FBI’s lead agents. That is when we are introduced to Kurt Weller (played by Sullivan Stapleton) and his team that consists of special agents Reade and Zapata, alongside Patterson the FBI’s tech analysis. The team now takes Jane Doe's case and sets out on a mission to identify each tattoo piece by piece until the solve this mind-curdling mystery.
Episode by episode, we come closer to figuring out the truth behind why Jane was dropped off in Times Square, and at the same time, fall in love with the characters before us. Even realizing that the FBI has some hidden secrets of their own. With absolutely no idea who she is, Kurt Weller decides to ask the director Mayfair if Jane can become a temporary part of the team due to the fact that she knows more than she may think. We discover that Jane knows how to speak multiple languages, kick ass, and that she may have been a former navy seal. With memories of her past flashing before her eyes in certain actualizing events, Jane remembers how she lost her memory. It was an administered experimental drug, PKM-zeta inhibitor, that wiped her memory clean and sent her into a chemically-induced amnesia.
With Kurt Weller's back story being introduced to us viewers, we find out that his past is clouded by the loss of his childhood friend and neighbor Taylor Shaw. His father was accused of kidnapping and killing Taylor, leading to his mother leaving. With having spent the past 25 years thinking his father was a murder, he comes to shock to think that Jane Doe may be Taylor. What brought him to this rather random conclusion was a scar located on Jane’s back of her neck, a similar if not exact scar to the one Taylor got when her and Weller were playing outside before she got kidnapped. Informing Jane of this was rather shocking to her as well, she was warned that Patterson was running a DNA test to confirm. Later on, it is confirmed Jane Doe is Taylor Shaw.
Without giving much else away of this first half of the season, we saw the team come in contact with CIA deputy director Tom Carter, who has become quite an issue when it comes to the proceedings of their case. Simply because he wants one thing: Jane. He will do anything to get a leg up, even if it means bribing agent Zapata to bug Jane’s safehouse for more info, offering her $40,000. This season debuts the CIA vs FBI. It showcases the inner struggle in some of the agents and where their loyalties may lie within the bureau.
"Blindspot" beautifully tells the story of Jane rediscovering herself, how she struggles with accepting who she was. With half of the season left to go, what we were left to think about until the series returns in February was an image of Carter kidnapping Jane and taking her to a warehouse where he waterboards her for information he believes she knows. Just when it looks like it’s the end of Jane, a man bursts in, killing Carter. His name is Oscar. The final thing we see is Oscar showing Jane a video on a cellphone of herself explaining it all; the tattoos, her memory loss due to PKM-zeta, and why she was sent to Weller, only to find out this was all Jane’s idea. That the plan is under way.
Overall, this new series showcases the amazing and sharp acting skills of Jaimie Alexander and Sullivan Stapleton, among the others. With more than half of the season left to premiere, I am excited to see the truth behind past Jane’s motive for all of the madness. It has also be confirmed by the network that "Blindspot" will in fact return for a season 2. With average ratings of 7.8 out of 10 stars (IMDB), there's so much hope for this amazing new NBC drama/mystery.
