Blindspot

I had another memory.

It was my most vivid one yet.

What was it?

It was hot.

I was high above the treetops.

- _ - We were taking out a hostile target.

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Pull back to the chopper.

Pull back to the chopper now!

How'd you remember that?

Because they wanted me to.

Shepherd and Roman took me to a memorial.

It was small.

Out of the way.

Why?

To reindoctrinate her.

The CIA formed ORION to carry out off-the-book ops.

But I though that's what SEALs were for.

Orion was for illegal, unsanctioned operations.

Assassinations. Regime change.

Missions too grisly to go through legitimate channels.

When Douglas Winter blew the whistle on the illegal NSA program

that was feeding them intel,

the CIA shut ORION down.

Tried to erase any trace.

You were the only one that survived.

They thought they killed you, too.

We chose not to correct them.

This plaque is the closest thing ORION has to a memorial.

This is what your country thought you were worth.

America needs to be saved from itself.

- How? An attack? - More than that.

It'll be a complete reset. We're gonna comp...

That's enough.

It's better if you don't know.

They might interrogate you.

We need to get her back.

There's something we need you to do today.

Something important.

Shepherd gave me something else.

What?

A tattoo case.

The coliseum pillars on my lower abdomen.

Said it needed to be solved today.

I don't like them dictating our timeline.

I'll get my analysts on it.

No, you're the one that said we need to keep chasing these tattoos.

Otherwise, Sandstorm will know something's off.

We're following this.

She's not wrong.

The last time they brought us a case,

we brought down a sex trafficking ring

and stopped an innocent man from being executed.

And how does Sandstorm expect us to buy that you cracked this on your own?

They gave me a hint.

They said to say that I was changing the dressing on my gunshot wound...

...and I saw that the spaces in between the pillars looked like bullets.

I'll get Patterson on it.

Good work, Jane.

Freddy.

It's Edgar.

Edgar Reade, Mulmur Hills Football Camp.

Eddie Reade.

Look at you!

- What's it been, 15 years? - Oh, man, yeah.

Look at that suit.

What are you, an accountant or something?

FBI, actually.

FBI? This is a friendly visit right?

Yeah, it's friendly, it's friendly.

Yo, I'm on break!

So what do I owe the pleasure, Mr. FBI man?

Been in touch with a few of our campmates,

a couple of them pointed me in your direction.

I wanted to give you a call before I came here,

but I... couldn't get a number on you.

Yeah, I'm...

kind of between providers.

Uh... hey, you heard about

Tim Scott and Levi Hart, right?

This ain't about football. Jones ruined my life.

Yeah, I heard.

Yeah, Tim and Levi, they went to that camp a long time after we did.

I've been working with an assistant DA trying to build a case.

It looks like Jones abused a lot of kids for a lot of years.

Now, we're having trouble getting victims to come in and testify.

Maybe they trying to move on with their lives, you know?

Keep the past in the past.

Why bring all that muck back up to the surface?

Because if you don't, Jones is gonna walk.

We can't change what he did.

Jones is still out there. What if he's not finished?

That man was supposed to protect us... look out for us.

Don't you think it's about time he's paid for what he's done?

Here. Please, just give the ADA a call.

Thank you.

It's really good to see you again, man.

Man, you too, man.

Hey, Freddy!

We'll get him.

I promise.

There's a box in my place.

It's pictures. Clothes.

It's the last belongings of my father.

She's under the fort, Kurt.

Who's under the fort, Dad?

I killed Taylor Shaw.

I can't throw it out. Why?

That box is the last piece you have of him.

Once it's gone, so is he.

I want him gone.

I hate him.

He was still your father, Kurt.

And you're still using the present tense.

My hate is not going anywhere.

That's because you're not dealing with it.

Can you articulate where these feelings come from?

If you can't name it, externalize it,

then you can't move past it, Kurt.

- _ - We're gonna have to call this one short.

Your father's dead, Kurt.

It's too late to confront him now,

but until you confront your feelings about him,

his shadow will follow you wherever you go.

We knew the columns on Jane's tattoo are consistent

with a particular architectural style,

but the hidden bullets, that was news to me.

From Jane's perspective,

they look almost exactly like .40 caliber rounds.

I cross-referenced the bullets with the building style, and guess what.

The same rounds were used to shoot up the wedding

of a Mexico City narcotics officer last year.

Police suspected the Juarez Cartel,

but the investigation dried up because detectives kept getting murdered.

That level of violence definitely matches the Juarez M.O.

I tracked down the serial numbers for the guns recovered at the scene.

Three months before the massacre,

they were recovered in a raid by the New York DEA.

How does a Mexican cartel steal weapons from the New York DEA?

- They don't. The DEA sold them. - What?

That was through the gun-waltzing program?

Why couldn't I find that?

'Cause you don't work for the NSA.

I thought the attorney general shut that program down.

- Apparently not. - What is gun-waltzing?

It's a bad idea.

It puts these weapons back on the streets

through agents posing as arms dealers.

Then trace the weapons back to the big players for big busts.

Only sometimes, they lose them.

Hang on a second.

This says that the D.A.'s set to release more weapons

through its program today,

including four stinger missiles.

Are you serious?

Don't weapons that size seem a little risky to use as bait?

Stingers can hit targets up to four miles away.

They're reliable and accurate.

Wait a second.

Nine Juarez Cartel associates

popped up on facial recognition at JFK yesterday.

Does that seem like a pretty big coincidence to anyone else?

That's not good... the Juarez Cartel

has been increasing its attacks inside the U.S.

Shepherd did say it was urgent,

that thousands of lives hang in the balance.

The cartel are gonna buy those missiles from the DEA.

They want to hit a target here, today.

This doesn't seem off to you?

Chasing down a Sandstorm lead like this?

The Juarez Cartel could be planning an attack in the U.S. today.

We don't have much choice.

Besides, every tattoo on Jane's body has come from Sandstorm.

The only difference now is we know who's behind the curtain.

What if it's a setup?

What if Jane's tattoo is leading us into a trap?

Jane was the trap. All right?

We already fell into it. She played us.

Look, I don't like working with her any more than you do.

I don't like being in the same room as her.

But... it's the only way to end this.

Patterson's got something.

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

We can't win... not without stronger evidence

than the testimony of a school shooter

- and a junkie drunk. - _

I really don't have time for this right now.

Look, Freddy has his struggles.

He's a victim.

He helps the case.

Substance abuse, theft.

Jones's lawyers would tear him apart.

Do you have any idea how many children

Jones could have hurt over the past two decades?

No! Because none of them will go on the record.

Freddy will! He's sober. He's gainfully employed.

Freddy's sober now. He's employed now.