Blindspot recap: 'Technology Wizards' 

loves its mysterious cold opens, and the one that begins “Technology Wizards” is no different. A naked man runs through the streets of New York, all while onlookers laugh and take pictures. Eventually the man stops, out of breath, and shouts “I did what you said! Now leave me alone!” It’s a fun, promising start to the episode. The problem? It immediately goes downhill after that. The storyline involving Jane’s daughter, and the tension it’s caused between Jane and Weller, has been a troublesome one all season long. What was once intriguing is now a mess of unearned soap opera emotions that the show struggles to pull off.

After the cold open, we’re instantly transported back to where last week’s episode left off, as Jane sits in Clem’s hotel room, talking about her daughter and Weller’s betrayal. Clem is clearly hoping Jane is coming back to him, but he’s not pushing her. Instead, she goes on and on about how she can’t look at Weller anymore, and that even if killing Avery was an accident, his lying wasn’t. This from the woman who just up and left her new husband and his kid in the middle of the night! Jane disappeared for

and never once contacted Weller, and now she’s upset that he felt it was best to not tell her about the daughter she didn’t even know about? I understand that emotions can be irrational, but this kind of stretching of character logic and motivation always bugs me.

It’s especially a problem this season. Of course

, like any other show, is going to dive into more romantic story lines. That’s totally fine. But the execution this season has felt sloppy. It feels like conflict just for the sake of it, from Jane losing it on Weller and immediately leaving him, to Zapata’s uncertainty about her feelings for Reade. I mean, the most honest emotional moment of the season comes from Rich and a returning Boston at the end of the episode, which says a lot about the relationships of the characters we spend much more time with.

Anyways, on to this week’s two major cases. The first sees Patterson and Weller learning that Avery met with Roman quite a few times before Weller ever did, which suggests that Roman used Avery against him. Shooting her was no accident (and good luck telling Jane that). Now Avery, whose distress call gets Patterson’s attention, is being held by Dedrik Hoehne, leader of a German gang. The other case involves Patterson’s Wizardville app getting hacked. Somebody has found the backdoor fault, which means they have access to the phones of the app’s 80 million users.

seems to breeze through the idea of Roman using Avery’s fake death to drive a wedge between Weller and Jane. When Weller posits that theory, Jane is pretty quick to agree, and yet she still spends the entire episode making sure Weller knows he’s the worst person on earth. When the team confirms Avery’s identity and Reade begins making plans to extract her from where she’s being held in Germany, Jane insists that Weller be left off the mission. She says she wants Clem by her side. Reade reluctantly agrees to send Clem on the mission, but refuses to remove Weller. Thus, the show’s love triangle is sent into action with guns. What could possibly go wrong?

When the three of them get on a plane to Berlin, they immediately start to clash. Clem and Weller disagree about how to approach the situation; Weller wants to cover all the exits and go in hard and fast, while Clem thinks they should stick together and take it slow. Jane sides with Clem because her favorite thing right now is punishing Weller over and over again. When Weller learns that Clem and Jane were romantically involved for awhile and says he’s hurt that she didn’t tell him, she shrugs it off like it’s nothing and says he has no right to play that card. Can’t you both see that you did things wrong? Get over it!

Anyways, the slow and quiet approach doesn’t end up working. They take out one man but the gang makes off with Avery, moving her to a new location, and the team has to track her down all over again, which means more panic from Jane because she’s suddenly very maternalistic. I’m not saying her intense emotions aren’t in some way justified, but rather that the show hasn’t spent much time teasing them out. Jane went from being a mercenary on the run, all too happy to remove herself from life with Weller, to a woman hell-bent on getting back the daughter she never knew. It’s jarring, and feels like a contrived shift in character in order to spur conflict.

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