Blindspot recap: 'Warning Shot' 

is back, and what better way to kick off its return than with a birthday party at the NSA!

This week’s cold open is the sort of cool as hell spy stuff that the show doesn’t do often enough. Usually we get a glimpse of some vaguely foreign terrorists doing something vaguely shady, but this week we get a full-on super-secret heist. We meet Betty, an NSA employee who has no time for the birthday celebration in the other room. It’s not her annoyance with cake that’s keeping her away though, but rather her mission. She pulls apart a number of presidential bobbleheads that innocently sit on her desk, and out of the pieces she forms some sort of keycard.

Then, she uses that keycard to enter a secure room, and when she comes back out she slides what looks like an oversized steel lighter into a secret compartment in the bottom of her shoe. She’s not done, though. She takes a pill out of her pocket and bites into it, causing her to immediately convulse and drop to the floor. The paramedics arrive and carry her out, and for now that’s all we know.

Before diving into this week’s case, “Warning Shot” takes some time to introduce us to the awkward dynamic within each team member’s personal life. Zapata is apparently more than happy to keep inserting herself into Meg and Reade’s life, giving Reade hell for not pushing his girlfriend to take a month-long trip out of the country for a story. That leads to Meg having no choice but to tell Zapata that she’s an undocumented immigrant, and that her uncle gave her falsified papers when she moved to the U.S. from India when she was six years old.

Over at Jane and Weller’s apartment, things are looking up for the couple. They’ve mended their relationship for the most part, but that didn’t stop me from laughing at Jane spending her morning sitting at the kitchen table working on a sketch of Avery. It’s so ludicrously dour—Rich

call her “Lord Dour of Dourton Abbey” later in the episode—that I couldn’t help but chuckle. My amusement aside, we’re meant to understand that Jane is longing for a connection with her daughter, because apparently weeks and weeks of her shutting out Weller didn’t get that across.

Anyways, their moment gets interrupted when Nas shows up at their door. She says she needs their help with something that’s related to one of Jane’s tattoos. When everybody heads into the FBI headquarters, Nas gives them the details. She has a lot of information. First, that Crawford was the initial funder of Sandstorm. Secondly, that she’s been doing freelance work for the CIA, which Zapata says she doesn’t know about (spoiler: She’s lying). Lastly, and relevant to this week’s case, she’s learned that the NSA office was breached and somebody made off with Negral, an extremely dangerous computer virus made by the NSA. Suddenly, we understand our shoe lady who hates birthdays and

While Rich tries desperately to get Reade, who he calls “Assistant Director Eeyore” in the punchline of the night, to approve a trip to a famous dark web party so that he can keep up his façade while working for the FBI, he’s also doing some digging into “Betty” with Patterson. It turns out that she’s an infamous hacker that goes by the name “Pop Up Kid.” After doing a little more digging, her real identity is revealed: Delilah Dunny. They also find out that she’s already auctioned off the device.

Eventually they trace that purchase to Tropic Song, LLC, a name that

shell company. Sure enough, some 16-year-old kid acted as a hacker for the company and purchased the device. He’s just the middleman though, and when he finds out that he bought the device for a bunch of Iranian terrorists, his teenage bravado vanishes and he gives the FBI the information they need: He’ll be getting a call on his phone from Delilah sometime soon to set up a location to trade the device for the rest of the money.

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