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

The penultimate episode of Blindspot’s freshman season did not hold back. Twists, turns, questions, and deaths all arose, and most of them happened in the last 12 minutes. Read on to find out more.

If Love a Rebel, Death Will Render begins with Jane yelling at Oscar about having her setup Mayfair. She is furious. Oscar swears this is how it needs to be. Mayfair has done awful things and needs to be held accountable. Jane’s okay with that; she just doesn’t want Mayfair to go to jail for something she didn’t do. Nothing Oscar says to Jane changes her mind, so Sophia Varma steps out of  the shadows to set some of the record straight. Jane recognizes her. She had approached Sophia about trying to make things right. Sophia agreed and that’s why she faked her death. Oscar reveals framing Mayfair is just phase one of their plan, and not to trust him. Jane should trust herself about everything.

We fast forward two weeks to find out Weller’s dad is doing poorly. He’s in a lot of pain. Jane stops by to visit him, and he asks her to tell him a story. Before she can, Weller is called away, leaving Jane with Bill until Sarah arrives.

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Weller goes to visit Mayfair, who has been let out on bail and placed under house arrest. She hadn’t allowed any members of the team to visit her, but she was grateful to see Weller. He begs her to let him go public with Daylight, but Mayfair will not have dozens of convictions overturned to vindicate herself. Weller promises to keep her in the loop about everything, so she’ll be up to speed when she returns, but that’s not happening. Mayfair has been ousted as Assistant Director. Weller promises to get to the bottom of all of this, and leaves. He has a meeting to get to.

It turns out Weller is the Interim Acting Assistant Director while Director Pellington is conducting interviews for Mayfair’s replacement. He is also shutting down the Jane Doe project and placing it under review. Weller is pissed about it, especially because they just caught a case.

A man left a bag under a bench near the Family Protective Services building. Inside the bag, was a baby girl with nothing to identify her except for a tattoo on her arm. The tattoo is a match for one Jane has on her arm.

Weller smuggles Jane into the FBI, and she and the team discuss this case away from prying eyes. Patterson has IDed the man who dropped off the bag. His name is Edward and he’s a former nurse. Patterson intercepts an email from Edward to his sister-in-law, arranging a meeting, and the team goes to stake it out.

They arrive at a park and settling in waiting for Edward. While they wait, Patterson calls. She’s been able to determine the paternity of the baby. Her father is Bryce Warren, a former party boy whose father is Peter Warren, a wealthy businessman turned major political candidate in the last election. Everyone is confused as to why no one has reported the baby missing, but that has to be put aside, because Edward has arrived.

Edward approaches his sister in law and Weller and the team spring into action. Before he can tell them anything, he is shot. Reade and Tasha go to look for the sniper, while Jane and Weller cover the sister-in-law and try to keep Edward alive. He dies, but before that, he tells them he thought he was doing good, he was wrong, and they needed to be stopped. Who’s they? And why is he wearing a shirt with an insignia that matches Jane’s & Baby Warren’s tattoos?

Edward can’t answer any of those question on account of him being very dead, so instead, Weller and the team go out to visit Bryce. Bryce doesn’t appear to know anything about the baby. He swears he hasn’t had an affair and has been on the strait and narrow, especially since he found god. Bryce and his wife only have one child, Mathew, and as they show the team, Matthew is not a baby, and he is exceptionally ill. Peter Warren arrives before the situation can be investigated further.

Peter Warren calls Director Pellington, who yells at the entire team. Weller is being blamed, but the others try to cover for him. Weller isn’t having it. It was his idea and he’ll be damned if he’s going to let someone stop him from finding out the truth. Pellington agrees to let him investigate Edward’s shooting, but the baby is not their case. Also, when he said he was closing the Jane Doe project, he meant Jane was included. She is not welcomed at the FBI.

Jane is beyond frustrated, because there have been cases where she needed to be on-site in order to help. What if that’s the case this time? Weller tells her to give him time to get this sorted. She leaves and heads straight for Family Services.

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While she’s scoping out Family Services, trying to figure out how to get past the guards, she spots two men with earpieces and a woman who just walks through the front without stopping when guard calls to her. Jane follows the men, who are following the woman, and we are treated to a quick elevator fight, as Jane takes on the men. While she’s busy with them, the mystery woman shoots a guard and woman in the Family Services office and takes the baby. Jane tries to follow her but the woman and baby are in the wind.

This new development and Jane’s involvement are topic for conversation over at the FBI, but they have to shelve it as Mrs. Warren arrives. Patterson discovered Mrs. Warren is the biological mother to Baby Warren, but both Warrens don’t seem to know about the baby. Mrs. Warren wants to help. She explains her son has a rare and aggressive form of leukemia, and the only way to keep him alive is through bone marrow transplants. Genetic siblings make the best donors, but the Warrens didn’t want to risk putting another child through what Matthew’s going through. However, Pater Warren told them about a company who was experimenting with printing “genetically coded organic material.” The Warrens gave genetic samples, not knowing they would be used for creating babies through surrogates instead of printing the materials. Matthew was scheduled to have an off-the-books marrow transplant in a few days, but I guess that’s off. Mrs. Warren provides Weller with the address of where the transplant was to take place, and they go off to the facility.

Which is a good thing, because Jane is also at the facility. She took one of the men from the shootout as hostage and made him tell her where it was located and how to get in. She took the man’s key fob and was able to move around the facility, until she came to the room with the babies. Surprise, there’s more than one baby. It looks as if there are at least six. The key fob doesn’t allow Jane to enter, but her tattoo does. She goes for Baby Warren but is interrupted by the arrival of Peter Warren and the mystery woman. Jane attacks the woman, and while they’re fighting Peter takes Baby Warren.

By now, Weller, Reade, and Tasha have arrived. They are fired upon, but eventually make their way into the facility. Reade and Tasha go after Peter and the baby, Weller goes to find Jane not breathing. She had used a defibrillator on the mystery woman. Both of them went down. Weller begins chest compressions and Jane is revived.

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Director Pellington is pissed at Weller for disobeying him. Weller stands his ground and says he’s not going to walk away when his gut is telling him something is wrong. Pellington understands and that’s why he’s promoting Weller. He is now the permanent Assistant Director of the NY Office of the FBI. However, he reiterates the Jane Doe project is done and Jane is no longer welcomed in the building. Taking the promotion and getting rid of Jane is the only way Weller can continue at the FBI.

Jane takes this blow hard. She feels lost, without a sense of purpose. Weller promises they’ll figure things out. And since she’s not with the FBI anymore, he can now get with the smooches. He and Jane share a long waited kiss, and are about to go meet Patterson, Reade, and Tasha for drinks when Weller gets a call from his father’s nighttime nurse. Bill is not coherent and asking for Weller and Sarah, and this is probably the end for him. Get home fast. Weller races home, and Jane decides to skip drinks with the team.

Before we get to Weller and his dad, let’s check in on Mayfair. She’s not one to just give up. Marcus White comes through and sends her a cleaned up version of the photo of Oscar driving Tom Carter’s car. Mayfair doesn’t recognize Oscar, but the photo helps get the wheels turning in her head. She realizes the bald man, who was bothering Alexandra/Donna the night they met, worked for Alexandra/Donna. She also knows there’s a connection between Alexandra/Donna and Sophia, but she doesn’t know what that is yet. She concentrates on locating the man.

In order to pursue any leads, Mayfair first needs to get out of her ankle monitor. Turns out she has keys for several different kinds of monitors and one of them works. To cover herself, she attaches the monitor to her dog and checks in with her monitors to make sure they know she’s still at home and this is just a glitch. Then she takes her spare gun and tracks down the bald man.

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The bald man admits to knowing Alexandra/Donna, doesn’t know who Oscar is, and has seen Sophia. He mentions she smoked funny cigarettes. This triggers a memory in Mayfair. There’s only one place in NYC that sells the French cigarettes Sophia loved. Mayfair follows the trail, and after exchanging a little money with the shop owner, she now possesses a phone number Sophia is using. From a payphone, Mayfair calls Reade and asks if he’ll run the number. He agrees. Tasha happened to be in the locker room when Reade took the call and wonders if they should run the number or try to get Mayfair to turn herself in. In the end, Tasha calls Mayfair back with a location for the number. The reason she called instead of Reade is because she wants Mayfair to know she can trust her. Mayfair does.

Mayfair arrives at the location is and is stunned to hear Jane arrive, saying something about being done. Jane has made a choice and she doesn’t want to be a part of this whole scheme anymore. But instead of telling that to Oscar, Mayfair is the one who confronts Jane. She realizes Jane set her up. Jane is beyond apologetic. She didn’t know what was going to happen. Mayfair feels betrayed, but before they can even attempt to sort things out, Oscar shoots Mayfair. Jane is furious and yells at Oscar to run, while she deals with Mayfair. She tries to stop the bleeding and apologizes again, and all Mayfair can say is she wishes she was there when Weller finds out the truth. And then, Mayfair is no more.

Finally, Weller races back home to his dad. His dad is refusing to take pain medication until he can talk to Weller and his sister. Sarah is on the way. Bill keeps apologizing to Weller. He says he didn’t mean to do it, and she’s buried under the fort. Who’s buried under the fort? Taylor. Bill says he killed Taylor Shaw. Before Weller has anytime to process this, Bill dies.

Other points of interest:

~ Reade and Tasha come clean with each other about what has been going on. Reade explains about being threatened and how he can’t even try to use that to help Mayfair, because these people could still go after Sarah and Sawyer. Tasha is upset for ever getting involved with Weitz. I think this helps bond them even more and will help them through the finale and into next season.

This week, we lost not one, but two important characters. Bill was important as he had answers to Weller’s past, and Mayfair was important to the team. I understand she did bad things, and like Jane, I think she should have been held accountable, but not at the cost of her life. Sophia made it sound like Mayfair was severely compromised, and I disagree. I think she was flawed and ambitious and did some morally questionable things, but I believe she did them in an attempt to do something good. I know where the road to hell leads and that’s where it’s taken Mayfair, but in the end, I think she got a raw deal. Also, I love Marianne Jean-Baptiste and hate that we’re no longer going to see her on a regular basis.

I can’t wait to see how Mayfair’s death is handled or how Weller deals with this new revelation from his dad. Was his dad even telling the truth or was that deathbed confession that of an incoherent man? I guess we’ll found during next week’s season finale, which will deal with the fallout from If Love a Rebel, Death Will Render.

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Andrea Levine

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].