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Legion contributor Andrea Levine is recapping and reviewing Blindspot for us this season. Follow her on Twitter @wysefyre!

Welcome back! Blindspot has returned. For a quick refresher, when we last saw the gang, Thomas Carter died, but not before Tasha handed in a resignation letter. Will she get it back? Reade was doing whatever it is Reade does. Patterson was still dealing with David’s death. Weller was reeling from the kiss he shared with Jane, and Jane was finding out that she was the mastermind behind her tattoos. Oh, and her forgotten fiancé was the one who told her. Let’s find out where we go from here.

Cease Forcing Enemy begins with Jane talking to Dr. Borden. He sees she’s a little off and is asking her what’s going on. Jane is too busy having flashbacks to really answer him. She’s remembering when Oscar killed Carter and showed Jane the recording of, well, her saying the tattoos were all her idea. Oscar frees Jane, but there’s a bit of a struggle. She remembers him, but doesn’t trust him. Oscar tells her to get the FBI to drop her security detail and then meet him on a particular rooftop. There, he will explain what he can. They go their separate ways, and we come back to Jane with Dr. Borden, who is asking if she ever got around to establishing better boundaries with Weller. Jane isn’t up for talking about it, and the session ends.

Tasha never gives in her resignation letter. She’s about to, but when she goes to Mayfair’s office, Mayfair informs her that Carter is either missing or dead, most likely dead. Tasha can suddenly breathe a little better, but something tells me this isn’t the end of it. I wouldn’t be surprised if Carter had safeguards in place in case something happens to him.

Jane and Weller talk. Weller wants to discuss their kiss, but Jane wants to discuss not following her tattoos anymore. It’s too dangerous and what if they’re being manipulated into doing someone else’s bidding? Weller tries to reassure her, but Patterson interrupts. She found something.

Jane has a tattoo of Pi on her thigh, but a few pieces of Pi are missing. Patterson works out the numbers are longitude and latitude. The location is the Black Sea Isles near Turkey. The team is going. Weller asks jane if she wants to stay back, but heck no. Jane’s going.

They get into Turkey and meet with their guide, Berat Katirci. He takes them to the Isle. There’s an airstrip that’s been there for decades, but island is pretty much uninhabited. However, when they open up the hangar, there’s a plane in it. It’s Pan-Asian Flight 921, a plane which went missing months ago, and thought to have crash-landed into the sea. What does this mean?

There’s no one around, so the team goes to investigate. All of the passengers luggage is still on the plane, but no sign of them. They begin to exit, so they can call this in, but find themselves surrounded by members of the Dabbur Zann. They’re back.

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Their leader, Hakim, kills Berat and takes the others hostage. He tortures them to find out why they are there. No one talks, but Hakim believes they don’t know anything, otherwise, there would be more agents. They are taken to the barracks, where it’s discovered that the passengers of Flight 921 are still alive. They meet NYPD Officer Mike and Dr. Susan Albright. She explains it’s her fault they are all there. She created a mini-satellite, which is easy to manufacture, and the Dabbur Zann wants to use it to take out US Military GPS. The other passengers have been working in a factory making the satellites. The Dabbur Zann plan to use a Pegasus rocket to launch them.

Mike and Susan had tried to escape. He was able to make it to the water, but there was no way to get off the isle, and Susan put together a basic sat-phone, but they needed a power source. Susan’s husband tried to smuggle a battery, but he was caught. As punishment he and the flight crew were executed. The others were promised death and more if they tried anything again. This put a kibosh on any other attempts.

But, that was before they had FBI help. Weller and Reade will go with Mike to try and get the cattle prod previously used to torture them, while Zapata will work on making sure the sat-phone is ready to go when they return. Jane is to stay with Zapata in case something goes wrong, which of course, it does.

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Weller creates a diversion and gets captured, allowing Mike and Reade to get back to the barracks. Zapata is able to send a brief morse code message out, but then she, Reade, and Jane are taken to a different room, where Weller is tied to a chair. He is to read a message to be recorded and then he’ll be killed, just like the rest of them, but he refuses. While Weller is arguing with Hakim and coming close to death, Jane manages to get free of her restraints. Jane gets ahold of a gun. Team FBI is freed and they kill everyone in that room. Then they get to the barracks, see the passengers about to be executed, and in a great show of teamwork, kill all four executioners at once, freeing the passengers.

Unfortunately, while this is going on, Susan is taken to the plane. The team tries to get to her and stop the plane, but there are too many men in the way. The plane starts to take off. Weller and Jane make a break for it. Reade and Zapata cover them, and out of nowhere, the passengers arrive, armed, and ready to take out some Dabbur Zann.

Weller and Jane, by way of its wheels, get on to the plane. They locate Susan and take out the men guarding her. She can’t stop the rocket or the plane. Everything is being controlled in the cockpit. Weller gets an idea. They go to the avionics bay to see if the transponder is still functional. It is. It was turned off when the plane was hijacked, but not damaged. The idea is to turn it on, and hope it will pop up on radar and the plane will be stopped that way.

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While this is happening, Patterson, who has been dealing with her own issues, has decoded the morse code message Zapata sent and sees Flight 921’s transponder has appeared. She gets in touch with the plane, though it isn’t really explained how she spoke only to them and not to the guys in the cockpit. Anyway, Weller fills her in and she comes up with a terrible idea on how to stop the plane.

Patterson is a crazy genius. Her idea is to cut the engines. The plane needs to reach a certain height in order to fire the rocket, and this will stop it. So, they do. Then they haul ass up to the cockpit, which opens because the bad guys need a working plane, and Weller and Jane take care of them.

Jane gets into the pilot’s seat, but the engines won’t turn back on. Patterson surmises they might have shorted the engines out when they turned them off. So, how are they not going to die Patterson to the rescue, once again. Her father was a pilot and taught her about planes. She realizes because of how the plane took off and because of the type of plane it is, Jane can glide it down. Everyone is a little freakout by this theory, but Patterson is sure, so that’s exactly what Jane does. And Patterson is right.

After that, everyone, passengers included, returns home. Mayfair is happy to see Jane until Jane asks for her detail to be removed. Jane believes she’s proven her loyalty, and Mayfair agrees as long as Jane stays at the safe house. Weller catches Jane in the locker room and wants to talk to her later tonight away from the FBI. Jane has to choose between him and Oscar.

She chooses Oscar. I can’t blame her. Dealing with your love life or dealing with your missing identity? It’s a no-brainer, though I feel bad for Weller. Oscar reiterates that this is all Jane’s doing. There is an endgame and the way things will work is he’ll give her missions to do, some big, some small, and when she does them and proves she can be trusted, he will answer her questions. She’s no sure about any of this, but Oscar gives her one important piece of information, which I think helps sway her to at least try to work with him. She IS Taylor Shaw.

During the team’s away mission, Mayfair and Patterson have to deal with Chief Inspector Jonas Fischer, played by the wonderfully uptight John Hodgman. He’s there to investigate David’s death. Mayfair doesn’t want him talking to Patterson, but he does, and she inadvertently gets Mayfair in trouble when she confesses that Mayfair didn’t know about David’s involvement at first. Fischer decides to suspend Patterson indefinitely, but Mayfair calls him out on wanting her out of the way, so he can have her job. Mayfair’s not having any of it. When Zapata’s morse code call comes in, Mayfair has Patterson work on it, over Fischer’s objections. And when Patterson is the one who saves the day, Mayfair points out that is why she will not be suspended. She is too valuable. Fischer leaves. For now. He makes it very clear that this is not over.

Other points of interest:

~ Patterson shutting Fischer down while she’s trying to deal with the plane is beautiful. Fischer proves he’s not worthy of being a leader, considering he can’t seem to understand math is done in one’s head.

~ Reade notices Jane is a little more on edge and the cracks are beginning to show. Weller tries to play it off.

~ Jane has too many flashbacks this episode. First it’s the tattoos, then it’s Oscar, then it’s Carter waterboarding her. She is a bit of a mess this time. She handles it well, but Reade is right. The cracks are beginning to show.

~ Mayfair might have lifted Jane’s detail, but Jane is tailed when she goes to meet Oscar. I don’t think the team is bad, but I do think Mayfair is still extremely shady.

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~ The tattoo flashback which opens the episode is both haunting and beautiful. Also, Jane’s tattoos were put on by a team of at least four or five tattoo artists, all at once, while Oscar and the Ruggedly Handsome Man watched.

There you have it. We’ve been given answers. We’ve been given more questions, and another set of bad guys. I doubt we’ve heard the last of the Dabbur Zann. What did you think of Cease Forcing Enemy? Until next time…

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Andrea Levine is an East Coast based geek, who has more fandoms than she cares to admit. When she isn't talking about the latest geeky news, she's obsessing over musical theater. Her dream is to successfully bring geekdom and musical theater together (I'm looking at you, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark). You can read more of her exploits as Wysefyre over at [insertgeekhere].