Blindsplot – Sous-Vide

By starrymag | November 8, 2018

By: Jessica Wolff

 

In Amsterdam, Tasha Zapata (Audrey Esparza) runs from a man chasing her, losing him by hiding in an alley. In New York, Kurt Weller (Sullivan Stapleton) finds his apartment door open and Rich Dotcom (Ennis Esmer) cooking in his kitchen, asking what he’s doing there. Rich explains that he’s solving a tattoo, and Weller questions why he needs to solve it in his kitchen. He tells him that he’s also concerned about his favorite FBI couple, and asks if that’s a crime. Weller tells him it’s breaking and entering, and Rich replies it’s not with a key.

 

Rich asks how Jane Doe (Jaimie Alexander) is doing before adding that he’s also concerned about Weller. Rich details the recipe he’s making, and Weller tells him he shouldn’t be mixing cream and lemon juice. After Rich tastes it, Weller explains that the juice curdles the cream and identifies that the recipe is for Brunswick stew with added cream. Rich selects the cream on the recipe menu which leads to a coded address.

 

Jane visits Boston Arliss Crab (Josh Dean) and tells him she’s come alone. She comments on his numerous narwhal paintings and Roman (Luke Mitchell) tells Jane it’s not too late to find someone else. Jane tells Boston that the FBI is recruiting hackers to find holes in their cyber security and asks him to join her team. Boston asks if this would help him get a job like Rich’s and is excited by the possibility. Jane explains that she wants him to grab a specific file from the server, and Boston points out that the server is impenetrable from the outside. Jane suggests approaching it from the inside and Boston gives her a special device that looks like an ethernet cable to plug into the server.

 

Zapata reports to Madeline Burke (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and Claudia Murphy (Britne Oldford) criticizes her ability to complete the mission. Madeline explains that she brought Claudia in because she is less inclined to make mistakes, and Claudia explains that the FBI has extensive files on the executives at the company they’re targeting and that she plans to use Edgar Reade (Rob Brown) to gain access. Claudia asks for a psychological profile, so she can properly torture him, and Madeline asks if that’s going to be a problem. Zapata says no and asks what they want to know.

 

Weller is surprised to see Allie Knight (Trieste Kelly Dunn) at the FBI and she reminds him that he called her about Jane, adding that’s she’s worried about him. He tells her about Jane’s meeting, but Allie isn’t concerned about it since Jane recently learned about her condition and calls him out for spying on her. Patterson (Ashley Johnson) and Rich explain that the address leads to an old psychiatric hospital. Inside, Weller, Jane, and Reade notice a recently installed door as well as a security camera watching them. They are shot at through the wall and they shoot back until the threat is neutralized. Weller forces the door open to find the dead shooter and shelves of creepy dolls.

 

As the team examines the doll, Patterson explains that the shooter was a smuggler. Reade questions if there are drugs inside the dolls and Rich tells him that there are no hidden compartments inside. Patterson introduces a chemical analyst, Laurel Chadwick (Stefanie Drummond), and Jane excuses herself after Roman encourages her to leave. Madeline and Claudia ask Zapata about Reade, and Zapata argues that torture won’t work on him. Zapata instead suggests breaking into Reade’s apartment and accessing the FBI database from his computer. Madeline agrees that being invisible is advantageous but puts Claudia in charge of the operation.

 

Jane tells Roman that she plans to put the cable into a server corridor during a general staff meeting. As Laurel begins her examination of the doll, Patterson tells Reade they should talk about Zapata. Reade tells her to let him know when she has something more concrete on her, telling her there’s nothing to discuss otherwise. Allie suggests to Weller that they and Jane should meet for dinner that night, but Weller tells her something is wrong with Jane. He shows her the photo he took, but Allie insists there’s nothing to worry about and refuses to look into it. Weller tells Allie about the needle, and admits he’s scared of Jane pulling away from him.

 

Laurel examines the doll by cutting into the plastic while Roman suggests that Jane kill the person standing at the servers. Patterson shows Reade pictures of the same dolls at sites of massive chemical outbreaks, and Rich reports that the doll’s skin contains a powder. Laurel releases the chemical and Patterson initiates lockdown, that impedes Jane’s ability to get to the server undetected. Patterson orders Laurel not to move, and Weller confirms to Allie that the FBI is under biological attack.

 

Patterson comforts a panicked Laurel as Rich approaches her with plastic and duct tape. Rich attempts a joke to calm Laurel down and is able to wrap her powder-covered hands in the plastic. As they duct tape the plastic to the table, Patterson and Rich see that Laurel’s nose is bleeding. Colonel Beck (Ross Partridge) arrives with his team FBI, and Weller explains the situation. Weller attempts to call Jane but tells Allie she’s not answering. Roman tells Jane they need to get the other people out of the room, but Jane points out they could be exposed to the pathogen if they leave. He doesn’t see an issue with it, and Jane agrees that the people can die as long as they save Shepherd.

 

Beck’s team examines Reade, Patterson, and Rich while Laurel is sealed into a makeshift plastic room. Rich calms Laurel down by a discussion that leads into the TV show Friends. Beck tells Laurel that he wants to give her a shot to slow down her symptoms and she consents to the shot. Patterson asks about the links to the previous outbreaks, and Beck tells her it’s not an epidemic and advises her not to think too much about it.

 

Jane approaches Milton (Sean Mellot), who asks why they haven’t been cleared yet. She suggests that the dolls passed through the room and Milton panics. She plants the seed that the government might be leaving them in there to die, and Weller tells Allie that the room Jane is in hasn’t been cleared yet. Allie advises him to talk to Jane about his concerns, pointing out that paranoia and distrust isn’t good for their marriage.

 

Rich reenacts scences from Friends for Laurel, and Reade asks who he’s had to comfort in the past like he has been for Laurel. Rich admits that he’s not used to being the one being asked to reveal uncomfortable truths, and Patterson reports that the powder is engineered as a bio-weapon before they turn about and realize that Laurel is dead.

 

As Laurel is taken away, Patterson tries to warn Beck’s team that they’re not dealing with a known contagion. When she is ignored, Patterson and Rich work together to retrieve bloodstained gauze out of the plastic container. Beck tells Weller that his team is special, and Weller tells him about Patterson’s theory that the chemical is man-made. Weller tells him what they know about the dolls and Beck offers to have his team look into it.

 

Milton expresses his concerns that someone in their room could be infected as Jane manipulates Shelly (Olivia Khoshatefeh) into thinking she’s infected. Rich tells Reade that he’s going about the Zapata investigation wrong, advising him to be more proactive. Patterson reports that Laurel’s blood shows that she died from a different infection than the spores, suggesting that she was exposed to it in quarantine. Reade questions how that’s possible and Weller reports that a group has broken out of a room, asking them to stop them from moving further.

 

Jane and Roman use the distraction to go to the servers, and Jane insists to him that Weller can’t die yet as they discuss her inability to kill him with the needle. Briana (Amy Margaret Wilson) walks by and Jane lies that she’s been infected. Once Briana goes to get help, Jane sticks in the cable as Rich closes the door on the escapees. Weller notices a strange pattern on Beck’s team’s uniforms and asks Patterson to look at the tattoo again. Patterson decodes the tattoo to realize that Beck is the one responsible for the dolls. They realize that Beck injected Laurel with a serum to speed up her symptoms and destroy evidence of their work. Weller asks where Beck is, as Beck injects Jane.

 

Zapata and Claudia break into Reade’s apartment, and Zapata pulls Reade’s laptop out from under his bed. They see that Reade’s login is fingerprint activated, and Zapata pulls out a kitchen knife with Reade’s fingerprints on it. Zapata asks Claudia where Madeline found her, questioning what she offers. Claudia tells her there’s no line she’ll cross and points out that Zapata left Kira’s daughter alive when Zapata argues. Zapata accuses her of making up stories, and Claudia tells her that she would be dead if Madeline knew.

 

Weller tells Patterson that they need to regain control of the building and hears Beck report Jane’s injection to his team. Allie stops Weller from leaving, questioning if he’s going to take on the whole unit singlehandedly. Weller admits he’s thinking about it, and orders Reade to call in the cavalry. Patterson reports that Jane has less than an hour, and Allie suggests that Beck might have a cure for the serum. Allie offers to go with Weller to stop Beck.

 

Weller and Allie avoid running into Beck, but Weller strangles another member of his team that walks by. Patterson warns them not to go into the infected room and Weller yells at Jane not to trust Beck from across the hall. Beck tells Jane that Weller is having trouble with reality, but Weller tells her to ask for the serum to counteract the one Beck injected. Jane grabs Beck and tells him to do what Weller asked, and Beck tells them that he didn’t intend to kill the FBI, but they were the ones who took the dolls.

 

Beck assures Jane that her death will help their research, and Weller tells Patterson to open the door. Allie argues that he shouldn’t go in without a hazmat suit, but Weller insists he has to. Patterson opens the door and Weller knocks Beck to the ground before injecting Beck with the serum and demanding that he hand over the cure. Zapata uses Reade’s fingerprint to unlock his laptop, but the computer asks for a pin. She explains that it only asks for a pin when the FBI is on lockdown, and that it could take a while for them to restore access. Claudia declares that her way has failed, and they will use her method of torture now.

 

After Jane is injected with the second serum, Weller explains it’s the cure as Beck wanted it for himself. Jane embraces Weller before he can speak and Roman looks on disapprovingly.  Reade admits to Patterson that he hasn’t slept since seeing the photo of Zapata with Blake and questions if she ever loved him. Patterson insists that Zapata didn’t turn until after Keaton fired her and insists Zapata’s feelings for him were real. Boston retrieves the file for Jane, and she tells him there’s more she wants him to do.

 

Allie tells Weller that she looked into the woman in the photo, identifying her as Violet Park and that she has a clean record. Weller thanks her and Allie admits she looked into it because she found it suspicious that Jane didn’t try to stop him from running into the contaminated room. Roman tells Jane she can’t hug Weller every time he’s suspicious, and Jane insists she can handle Weller. He points out that he’s making the same mistakes she did when she had amnesia, asking who she’s going to kill next.

 

Jane tells him that he killed himself, and that he’s dead because he’s weak. Roman tells her he’s not going to watch her screw up another mission, but Jane orders him to get out of her head and Roman disappears. Reade goes home and fights a masked attacker hiding inside. He pins her to the ground, but Zapata tells him to let her go as she points her gun at him.