Blindspot - 'Eight Slim Grins'

The FBI know how to show a girl a good time.

We open with Jane confronted by the bearded mastermind behind this whole thing, who is then shot to death by a mystery sniper, so I guess he's either not the mastermind at all, has a weird plan involving his own death, or is some sort of death cheating wizard. The latter option is supported by the fact that the mastermind appears to have kidnapped Kurt's childhood best friend, framed daddy Weller for murder, raised young Taylor as a ninja then erased her memory and sent her back to Kurt, now an FBI agent, in order to lead him through a complex pattern of crimes of which he has apparently precise, date specific information and/or has assessed the precise pattern in which they can be triggered by the agents themselves.

For the bulk of the episode, the team pursues a bank heist crew, one of whom has a SEAL tattoo matching Jane's. It's pretty by the numbers and yields just one word of a clue: Orion. The team spend much of the episode snarling over the way all their leads peter out, but that actually doesn't make it any less irritating to the viewer. The confirmation of Taylor Shaw's identity is a small thing given how many more questions it raises. There is some business about Jane's place in the team, but that's really just marking time.

The real twist of the week comes when Patterson uncovers a tattoo identifying a heavily redacted FBI case file related to AD Mayfair. Mayfair blanks the connection rather, but later hooks up with an old colleague and warns him that whoever sent Jane knows about 'Daylight', which is something secret enough that his immediate response is pretty much 'and you haven't killed everyone and set fire to the office because...'

Blindspot is definitely a flawed work, but not uninteresting. Jaime Alexander is a bright spot in a slightly underwhelming cast, and the sheer unlikeliness of the premise deserves a full on craziness that the show holds back from.