Blindspot - 'A Stray Howl'

"I shot a nun once. I was out hunting in upstate New York..."

The FBI continues to investigate the tattoos covering Jane's body, although many of them - and Jane herself - are beginning to wonder if they aren't some sort of elaborate trap. Patterson establishes that each tattoo may act as a key to unlock the next in a sequence. Kurt begins to suspect that he knows who Jane is, while Jane retrieves another memory: Of shooting a nun in a church*.

The second episode of Blindspot sees the series confront the second biggest problem with its own concept, that the FBI are prepared to chase after cryptic clues tattooed onto a hot commando chick by someone who is a) a nutter and b) a wizard. This week, the hint leads them to a would-be whistle-blower and tips him over the edge into kidnapping a little girl in order to use an illegal domestic drone programme to assassinate its own staff. Agent Badinage breaks cover as the entertaining sidekick to become the voice of skepticism in the face of a set of clues which seem so arranged as to not just lead to a particular sequence of crimes but to trigger them, although the fact that this requires a level of precise manipulation and prescience akin to sorcery is so far lost even on him.

We end the episode with the Beard of Fear paying a personal visit to Jane, which seems remarkably careless, and Kurt convinced that Jane is actually his former neighbour and friend Taylor, a girl that he believed his father to have kidnapped and murdered years before.

Blindspot is teetering on the edge of believability, and a lot is going to hang on the encounter with the Beard. given the intricacy of his plot, he'll need to convince as some sort of insane genius and/or soothsayer.

* Fortunately, she later realises it was just a dude dressed as a nun.