Blindspot "Heave Fiery Knot" (9/21/16) S2E2

Man I really need to rewatch last season. Toward the end it became background noise to playing Candy Crush. I watch S2E1 and S2E2 back to back and had NFC what is going on.

 

Yeah, that was dumb question to give to Jane. That's like FBI 101. I really hope this show doesn't turn cartoony like Scorpion.

 

This is the episode that finished the show for me. Couldn't finish and deleted the 1P. Maybe if there was the tiniest bit of explanation about how those that put the tattoos on her could possibly be so prescient or so clued in to every conspiracy to the place, day, etc. But no, that's probably going to wait for the end of season cliffhanger.

 

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They kind of did give an explanation of the tattoos. The group (whose name I can't even remember, that's not a good sign) has operatives in every part of the government. Now whether that's a good choice from a plot perspective in an entirely different conversation.

 

And they somehow know months (how long is it supposed to be from when she was tattooed to the current shows) in advance the exact day, time and place of a weapons sale? Or some robbery or other? It makes sense (I guess) that government moles can know some things, but the level of specificity is astoundingly ridiculous.

I guess I'm expecting a little too much sense in these shows. Maybe if the acting were better I could overlook the plot holes.

 

Yeah, at the end of this episode they explained specifically how Sandstorm had received the intel about the gun-waltzing program that led to this specific tattoo. It was through a mole at the DOJ who was the person that the female DEA agent told about her suspicions of what was happening with the guns. They said that Sandstorm had several sources throughout the government and other places that had led to all the intel in the tattoos. NSA had identified a few of them, but they want to identify all of them so they can then swoop in and apprehend them all at once. I suspect that's going to be a big focus of this season - identifying the sources for all the info that Sandstorm has.

 

In this instance, they didn't know about that specific stinger sale when they applied the tattoos. The tat was just supposed to lead them in general to the bad cop who had been trafficking in weapons regularly for some time.

They told Jane to put that tat into play because they then had more recent intel that a major sale (the stingers) was about to happen.

But yeah, the whole thing in general strains credulity.

 

Good point. Have they ever solved a tattoo only to find the relevant event had happened weeks before?

 

Not that I can recall, but that would probably be a boring episode.

 

"Geez, they were supposed to solve this one MONTHS ago! There have been seventeen arms deals! SEVENTEEN! I guess we'll have to nudge them along..."

 

Of course, they're not doing it because they care about those arms deals, but because the takedown somehow serves their interests in some Rube Goldbergian way.