Blindspot

What is this place?

Why'd you bring me here?

40 years ago you had to make a pretty decent living

to afford a place on this lake.

But then people started getting sick.

Cancer, sterility, birth defects.

Turns out a chemical plant up river had been leaking for years.

They'd known about it the whole time, of course,

but it was cheaper to up their campaign contributions

than to repair the damage.

So the people elected to protect us

looked the other way as...

thousand of families were destroyed.

I don't...

Lake Aurora should mean something.

But betrayals like these are so common now,

they don't even make the news.

I brought you here because I need you to get angry again.

I know our methods might seem barbaric, but this...

this is what we're fighting against.

We're not attacking this country.

We're defending it.

What, exactly, is Shepherd planning?

You're gonna make people very nervous with questions like that.

We should get back.

Do you have any idea how many children Jones could have hurt

over the past two decades?

We're having trouble getting victims to come in and testify.

We'll get him. I promise.

What do you mean you're not bringing the case?

Jones's lawyers would tear him apart.

You don't remember.

Remember what, Freddy?

You were there.

Sorry, I, uh,

I didn't realize you couldn't have coffee.

- Kurt... - I've got some decaf.

Kurt, forget about the coffee.

Come on, what's up?

Sorry, I, um...

I don't think I've been handling this very well.

That's because you haven't.

Every time I think about it, I...

I get, like, a pit in my stomach.

You get a pit in your stomach?

I have someone growing inside me.

And they're gonna keep growing.

They're probably gonna be bigger than me one day,

and they're gonna listen to horrible music.

And they're never gonna listen to me when I tell them

not to sleep with their science teacher because what do I know?

I couldn't even figure out birth control.

Allie... I'm in.

Huh?

I'm in.

Okay.

Okay, that's, um...

This... this is good. Come here.

Freddy... hey.

Sorry to just show up like this.

My phone's still...

No, no, that's why I gave you my address.

Everything okay?

I hate to ask this, but, uh,

you think I could crash here for a bit?

- What's going on? - Nothing.

Just had a few... drinks.

Girlfriend freaked out.

I mean, if it's too much trouble...

No, no, of course, man. Come on in.

This place is nice, man.

You need me to get you some help?

- Call somebody? Your girlfriend? - I'm gonna go to a meeting.

I just...

All this Coach Jones stuff has got me all...

I'm gonna go to a meeting. I promise.

And I appreciate the help.

You're a good friend, man.

I don't buy it.

Buy what? Roman's motives seem pretty clear to me.

What, he hauls Jane halfway to Canada because he wants her to get angry?

Yeah, why not?

Visual propaganda is an extremely powerful tool.

If he wants to show her a polluted lake,

there's some a lot closer to Manhattan.

From Sandstorm's point of view,

Jane's been brainwashed by her exposure to the FBI.

You guys know I'm standing in this room with you right now, right?

I looked up what happened there. Roman was telling the truth.

A poison lake that tore apart hundreds of families,

while the government watched and did nothing,

is not "visual propaganda."

It's an outrage.

I'm just saying none of this is your fault.

You don't owe him anything.

He needed a couch, I got a couch.

What's a day gonna hurt? What?

It's not gonna be a day, and you know it.

So, we all know that the honeycomb pattern on Jane's right hand

is made up of two subtly different shades of ink.

Last night I was teaching my Girls Who Code students

when I started to think about what these two shades

would look like to a computer.

- Ones and zeroes. - Yes, Girl Who Codes.

When you follow the pattern of each shade,

it snakes its way around the tattoo.

If you count every left turn as a one and every right turn as a zero,

it translates into two correlating messages.

And the first one translates to...

3216-219.

So the numbers translate into more numbers.

That's not just any number.

That's a Homeland Security employee ID.

For analyst Bo Kaier, to be exact.

Office of Infrastructure Protection.

You said two correlating messages.

Yeah, well, if you follow the second line

on the honeycomb pattern, it translates to "Shadowcat."

Wait, this Kaier guy is the Shadowcat?

Somebody wanna fill me in?

Online handle for a hacker on the Dark Web.

He reached the White House servers, naval intelligence,

even the Pentagon's internal networks.

So someone responsible for protecting our infrastructure

was using their position to undermine it.

- Let's bring him in. - I'll get you an expedited warrant.

Reade, go around the back.

On it!

I found the servers.

He's using thermite to destroy the hard drives.

Suspect is armed.

Coming to you, Reade. Save those hard drives!

- Copy. - Copy.

Uhh!

Reade. Reade!

- Reade! - Uhh!

Reade, enough of that! Enough!

Enough!

Turn over. Turn over!

Put your hands behind your back.

Bo Kaier, you're under arrest.

Get on your knees and stand up.

Walk.

Thanks to Jane and Zapata,

these hard drives were more singed than slagged.

I was able to access a good portion of Shadowcat's main database.

What's this? His video game collection?

Yes and no.

Kaier has modified commercial video games

to simulate some of the most secure buildings in the country.

The "objective" in each mod is to heist something.

Ebola vaccines, nuclear materials, weapon prototypes.

This is the CDC in Atlanta.

There was a robbery there last year.

Thousands of Ebola vaccines were stolen.

So Kaier's recreating heists.

No, this file was created before the crime happened.

So the game is a training simulator for robberies.

Exactly... Kaier's using his classified access

to obtain security measures,

then selling off these foolproof plans disguised as playable mods.

But how much can a video game really teach you?

I mean, that's actually a very controversial question.

'Cause a lot of people would argue that video games are actually...

The mods are insanely detailed.

Number of guards and their weapons,

security cameras, locked doors,

police response and procedures.

Right. So that's why none of the teams were ever caught.

The body counts might have had something to do with it, too.

Yeah, four dead at the CDC. Three at a gallery in Miami.

Six at Monera-Gen.

So Kaier's got a lot of blood on his hands.

And he could have a lot more.

We found some new mods, too, all located in different cities.

Heists that haven't happened yet.

Dozens of 'em.

We don't know when or where.

We're still uncovering the data from the damaged drives.

We better find out.

Otherwise, the body count's gonna be a lot higher.

Patterson and Zapata have cracked a couple of the mods.

But, can we quickly talk about Reade, please?

The guy had a gun.

Reade did what he had to do to make the arrest.

He broke a suspect's orbital bone.

Something is going on with your agent.

He should sit this one out.

No. He shouldn't.

That is my team, and that is my call to make.

So make it.

Let's go and see what Patterson's got.

We're still recovering fragments from Kaier's hard drives,

but I was able to extract the last plan Shadowcat sold.

Looks like a heist plan for New York.

Judging from the partial maps and antiquities appearing in the game,

I'm pretty sure it's the Aebly Museum of Art.

Any idea what they're targeting?

Unclear, but we've narrowed down the when.

The game showcases wait staff serving drinks.