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

Hero Fears Imminent Rot picks up a short while after Heave Fiery Knot. Jane wakes up in a strange room, remembers Roman drugged her, and begins looking for an escape. Before she can find it, two guys enter, and take Jane to Roman and Shepherd. She’s at Sandstorm’s headquarters. Roman only drugged her because they couldn’t have Jane knowing where they were located.

Shepherd has questions about Jane’s captivity. See, she had heard from an associate that Cade had made his way to Venezuela a month ago. If that’s the case, how was Jane tortured by him? Jane points out how convenient it is for Cade to have gone to a known associates of Shepherd. She points out he could have done it to throw Shepherd off his trail. It’s a good cover up for now, but Shepherd knows Jane is different. She needs to know she can trust her, so Shepherd gives Jane an assignment.

An asset named Jeffrey Cantor missed a scheduled drop. He worked for Bradley Dynamics and was supposed to clone a microchip for Sandstorm. He never showed and now he can’t be trusted. Jane recruited him, and now Jane had to deal with him. She’s ordered to kill him and prove her loyalty to Sandstorm.

Roman accompanies her to Jeffrey’s home, and Jane remembers being there. She also remembers Jeffrey’s boss. Roman tells her she killed him, so Jeffrey could take his place, and get higher security clearance. Jane is troubled by this. They go in, Jeffrey sees them, and he runs to his panic room. Who has an actual panic room?

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Jeffrey knows they’re there to kill him, but after dispatching security, Jane coaxes him out of the room, promising everything would be ok. He comes out, and Roman knocks him out. When he comes to, he’s tied up and on his knees outside. Jane has the gun on him, and at the last second, she tries to reason with Roman to spare his life, by saying they still need the microchip. Roman agrees they need the chip, but he kills Jeffrey, because that’s what the mission is. Jane just failed her test. Roman drops her off somewhere, hands her a pager, and instructs her where to go if the pager goes off. Jane wants to know what he’s going to tell Shepherd. He doesn’t reply. Jane leaves, thinking she’s burnt.

Meanwhile, as that is happening, bombs have been going off in New York. First, a cab is blown up in the Brooklyn Navy Yards. Then another one goes off in front of a USO office in Midtown, Manhattan, and the team is left scrambling, because it appears as though more bombs will be going off soon.

Patterson figures out this is a tattoo case. The bombs used were DIME bombs, and Jane has a tattoo of the emblem of the US Dime. A little more digging and they think the tattoo and the case  are related to the Navy testing weapons on the island of Vieques, just off of Puerto Rico. Many people on the island became sick due to the testing. They think the bombers might be relatives or victims.

Around this time, Jane comes back from her mission and fills in Weller and Nas. She is definitely shaken by the experience, but Patterson interrupts with intel before much can be done.

The bombers were sending out preloaded tweets regarding the bombs, so Patterson hacked the account and was able to see the rest of them. She determines Prospect Park is the next place. Weller wants Jane to stay behind, but she and Nas insist.

Once at Prospect Park, the team splits up. Reade and Zapata find the bomb, and get the area cleared. Jane spots one of the bombers, and against Weller’s instructions, she follows the suspect and moves to engage him. Between watching the suspect and being distracted by Jeffrey’s death and Roman killing him, Jane doesn’t see the second bomber pull a gun on her. Weller gets there just in time to shoot him. Jane loses the other suspect.

As for the bomb, the bomb squad is too far away, so Reade and Zapata take care of it. Basically, they take a chance and shoot the bomb into pieces. It works. They head back to the FBI.

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Patterson is able to locate the second bomber. He’s at a Navy Recruitment Center in Queens and livestreaming on Periscope. He has a suicide vest and 8 hostages. Weller insists Jane stay behind and get herself together.

Once on site, Weller establishes contact with the bomber. He’s pissed to find out the livestream has been shut off. Weller decides to be the hero and goes in, unarmed, to talk to the guy. After Weller is forced to put on the suicide vest, the bomber explains he and his partner were doing this for their families. His partner lost his daughter and he lost his sister. They want a public apology and for the people behind the testing to pay for what they did.

Weller tries to talk him down, and it looks like he’s getting through, but a few shots ring out, and the bomber is killed. Nas was the shooter. Weller is furious, but there’s nothing he can do. Nas insists she did it to protect her team.

They go back to the FBI. Patterson interrupts Nas listening to Jane’s most recent session with Dr. Borden. She believes she has an idea why Jeffrey Cantor was important. She thinks he was worked in aeronauts, and worked on designing smart bombs. What this all means? We’ll find out.

Weller sees Jane in the locker room. She doesn’t like being torn in so many directions. He tells her one thing, Nas says the other, not to mention Shepherd. Weller agrees and asks what she needs. Before she can tell him, her pager goes off. She goes to the pick up spot.

After being forced into a trunk, Jane arrives at Sandstorm. Roman covered for her. As of now, Shepherd believes she is Remy again. She’s there to have a memorial for Oscar with everyone else. She gives a lovely eulogy, and goes to talk to Roman, alone.

Earlier, Roman had told Jane a story of when they were little. It was how they raised rabbits, and one day, their caretakers told them to kill the rabbits. Jane killed hers faster than everyone else. That evening, Roman told her about his rabbit and how he couldn’t kill his, so the caretakers gutted the rabbit and let it bleed out. He told this story to Jane to make sure she understood that if she couldn’t figure out how to get back to being Remy on her own, he was going to find her rabbit and gut it. The end.

Other points of interest

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~ Tensions between Nas and Weller are running high. Weller is trying to protect Jane and Nas is trying to get her to do her job.

~ Jane asks Dr. Borden about ‘killer” instincts. She worries she is genetically predisposed or brainwashed into thinking like a killer. He points out while that may be the case, she hasn’t been acting on those instincts. She needs to trust herself.

~ Speaking of trusting herself, when Jeffrey Cantor was talking about how he can’t stand to live a double life anymore, and that’s why he missed the drop, Jane explains he’s not leading a double life, he’s living the life he was supposed to and being the person he’s supposed to be. It’s a great moment. I can think of someone else it applies to.

~ Zapata knows something is wrong with Reade. He won’t tell her at first, but by the end of the episode, he confesses he doesn’t remember the time he spent at camp with Coach Jones. He’s afraid he might have repressed memories and how he’s going to handle them.

~ Weller hasn’t forgotten about Ali’s news. When he was trying to talk to the bomber about the hostages’ families, he was also thinking about what Ali said and how he could be a part of his child’ life.

~ Patterson spazzes on Dr. Borden. She cancels her dinner plans with him, but later, after talking to Zapata, she changes her mind. She sees him with the dinner he had ordered for them, realizes how sweet he is, and kisses him. Definitely sending mixed signals. Both she and Dr. Borden are very awkward and silly and adorable, and this all ends with them smooching some more.

~ While Jane was at Oscar’s memorial, the team also got together to have their own memorial for Mayfair.

And there you have it. Is anyone else a little creeped out by Roman? He’s going to be the loose cannon of the season. It’ll be fun to see what he does.

It’s sad to see Mayfair’s legacy brought down. The removing of her picture from the FBI was sad, but Jane’s eulogy for Oscar, but juxtaposed over the team’s memorial for Mayfair, and that felt like a much more fitting way to say goodbye to Mayfair. What do you think?

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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].