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Finally, Jane has some style! She rocked that leather jacket and she looked awesome in the gown. Weller looked like he was having fun for once in his life, playing out the fantasy of Jane being his wife. The villain was good. I loved his snark. A show like this needs a character every once in a while who will question the ridiculousness of it all. Patterson's boyfriend died dumb. He should have taken a picture of the redhead with his cellphone, forwarded it to Patterson and gone on with his life. Why did Mayfair get the call about Patterson's boyfriend? I will miss Lou Diamond Phillips. They had a great opportunity to make him a big bad but he got taken out Breaking Bad style. When I saw that muscular janitor I knew he was toast.

During has a whole fleet of cars and each one should be a model of German efficiency and engineering. All of them should purr like kittens on Xanax. Yet somehow Carrie manages to pick the jankiest one. The exterior was nice sure but that engine sounded like a diabetic hamster on a rusty wheel. Did Quinn just offer to commit suicide? He gets in close and then Dar Adal has the ordnance standing by? The ordnance isn't going to be a team of sharpshooters Quinn! And why didn't Quinn ask Adal about some of the recent goings-on? The right person asking the right questions would make a huge difference at the moment. I am in agreement with those who aren't feeling During's sudden change of heart regarding Carrie. I though he smelled a rat named Jonas and that conversation was his way of sniffing it out. Jonas FWIW is a gentleman's gentleman for not telling During exactly what Carrie's mental state was the last time they spent any significant time together. I also got a chuckle out of Carrie's admission to During that "things got pretty crazy." By things of course she meant the specific person of Carrie Mathison. When Allison had her panic attack I was sure she was about to get punked by Saul. It is taking everyone way too long to figure things out here unless there is some really long con going on. Speaking of long cons, I keep waiting for one to pop up. Maybe Quinn forced that one guy to stay behind for some purpose other than what was stated? Carrie had the tactical advantage over the Russian mooks when she was doing her B&E. Why didn't she shoot the one in the back and then shoot the other as he came up the stairs? They're already trying to kill her and indeed these mooks shot at her as she fled. I loved Saul's quiet, dignified "fuck off" to Dar Adal. Judging by the ending of this episode, I guess Saul really means it.

I wish they had gone all the way: Tom (sipping coffee): God damn, Harold, this is some serious gourmet shit! Harold (agitated): DO YOU SEE A SIGN ON MY GARAGE DOOR THAT SAYS LIVE RUSSIAN STORAGE?!?!

I would love it if Abby's friend in the FBI was named Eunice Bloom. Eunice was the FBI agent Julie Benz played in The Boondock Saints 2. The conversation about the interrogation room and the drain was very strange. Here's where we beat the information out of suspects, an idea Steve brought us from the military. The drain in the floor is for blood or for when they puke/piss/shit themselves. The minimalist aesthetic makes it easy to hose down after a nasty interrogation. Abby: Cool! Me: What kind of cops are you?!?! I'm rooting for Gabriel at this point. He's running circles around 5-0 and the Yakuza and he's made Adam turn himself in to the police for a double murder. Speaking of murder, I'm holding 5-0 directly responsible for that suspect who got killed by the con man. If Steve and Danny knew how to keep someone in their car that dude would still be alive (unless of course 5-0 shot him). Seriously, what would happen to a cop in real life who let a wanted criminal run loose and commit a murder? Why did they bring him along in the first place? They knew who they were looking for already. Why does Adam keep his go bag at home? If I were him, knowing the situation he's in, I'd have about a dozen go bags stashed all over the island. Also, why doesn't he have a code with Kono which sounds like "Let's order pizza tonight" but actually means "I'm in deep shit, come and get me!"

But those are good comedies! This was more like an episode of "Ow, My Balls!" They are definitely the same show. Somebody at NBC noticed that The Blacklist has good ratings and decided to make a clone of it except with the blacklist tattooed on a hot chick. I will come back to that in the general discussion thread because believe me I could go on.

First and foremost I hate this particular sitcom trope which was used in the worst way possible in this episode: Character 1: I have something super important that I need to tell you right now! Character 2: My business is much more important than yours and I'm going to pretend I didn't even hear what you just said! Character 1: No seriously, you need to hear this. Character 2: Bye! This belongs in sitcoms and should not be a representation of how FBI agents talk to each other. Karakurt and Tom beating the shit out of each other was pretty slapstick as well. The wife walking in on Tom and Harold as they're in the middle of some gangster shit was probably meant to be an homage to Pulp Fiction's "Bonnie Situation" but was just annoying. The wife of the director of a super-secret FBI task force should know when and when not to ask stupid questions. Was this episode written by a sitcom writer who worked on one of those shows where there's always some silly misunderstanding and no one will actually just talk to one another? There was way too much of that this time around. I hope no real Mossad agents were watching this. Terrorists disguised as hostages? Durr, we never thought of that! (And this show's cousin Blindspot did the same plot a week or two ago) Let's take these Iranian dudes we don't even know right back to our secret base! Let's not search them while we're at it! Come on! Everything I know about Mossad comes from Tom Clancy and Frederick Forsyth and the like but I am certain the real outfit is nowhere near as easily duped. A real Mossad safehouse would be a fortress and everyone in it would be armed. I am also pretty sure if they needed to destroy some secret documents they would have a means of doing it without having to open the safe first. A trashcan fire is probably the least effective way. Lizzie has been on the run for what seems like forever because she was outside during a bombing that there is no evidence she was responsible for. Agent Navabi joins Mossad while her brother kills dozens of their agents. By this show's logic there should be a worldwide manhunt starting right this moment with Agent Navabi as the primary target. I don't see how her Mossad career could survive this. For that matter I am still unclear on how an Iranian joins Mossad in the first place. However, I did do a bit of research into it and Mossad has an online recruitment page. How did the terrorists get out of the Israeli compound at the end? The FBI was storming the building at that very moment and yet they somehow got out without a scratch. Ressler does not deserve to get laid after punting that garden gnome. Unethical!

Kind of OT but I need to take another swipe at this idea that the massive data collection which leads to arrests is something that only three people know about and manage. There is a long and detailed article here about the DEA using NSA information and then working backwards to sanitize the source of intel. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805 The relevant quote is this: This article is on Reuters. And it's two years old. Good luck with the recreational outrage, Weller.

So Lash kills other inhumans and seems to be using them as fuel. What's the ATCU's great plan? Let's move him into the facility where all the known inhumans are being kept. Can't see how this could go wrong. After all, it's not like these facilities ever come under attack, right? It's not like there's a couple-few inhumans whose specific power is that of breaking shit, right? I mean one dude who can melt metal or one chick who can cause earthquakes and we're all screwed. So good thing that can't possibly happen. But then again, it's not like they had a lot of choices. What are they supposed to do, call up Lady Sif and see if there might be a spare jail cell in Asgard? And it's not like they know of some distant, desolate planet they could dump Lash on. I don't think Roz is evil. Her conversation with Gideon (whom the wiki says is the WSC guy from Avengers but other sources say otherwise and I wish they would address it on the show already) is not bad guy to bad guy. She seems more concerned about making an excuse for her absence than being nefarious. I would enjoy the storyline more if she is being duped along with everyone else although I guess we just had a lot of that in this episode. The shotgun-axe got name-dropped again! We have to see it now. Jemma asks Fitz what they ought do about her conflicted feelings. Fitz, ever the gentleman, does not point out that space boyfriend is conspicuous by his absence and as such can't really be said to be dating Jemma right now. But I'll bet he was thinking it.

Weller is about as compelling as your average block of wood but he did have one great moment in this episode, messing with Jane after taking a flashbang. I'll consider it added characterization that he couldn't maintain the charade for more than a few seconds since he's generally so humorless. But it is nice to see the team starting to relax a bit. With all the bullets that have come their way lately I'm somewhat surprised they aren't quipping and being silly during gunfights. I wish Weller would get off his high horse about proper police procedure considering how much of it he disregards in every episode. That's a CIVILIAN you gave an FBI side arm to, dude. In real life I bet an FBI agent would lose their job over letting a civvie into Conference Room B for ten seconds, much less letting one set up camp in the command center. And what kind of cop likes having his hands tied by restrictive procedure when you have actual evidence against the bad guys? It was obtained illegally so I understand the objection there. But Mayfair was trying to find roundabout ways to get the same results while making it appear righteous. Also, I missed the pitchfork brigades marching on CIA, FBI and NSA headquarters (the locations of which are common knowledge). The Snowden (or Winter, heh) leaks pissed people off for a minute. And then a civilian got shot by a cop for no good reason. And then Kim Kardashian wore a tight leather skirt while six months pregnant. And then Donald Trump said something rude and that became the outrage of the day. And so on and so forth. Weller is approaching the issue as if everyone is as mad about it as he is. He's going to find out that the answer is that people were mad about it a while ago but have since gotten over it and the stuff that used to be straight up illegal is now slowly becoming legal. Because nobody with that kind of power voluntarily surrenders it simply because it makes people uncomfortable. Also, using "Daylight" as a stand-in for the NSA's surveillance programs and specifying that only three people know about it is bogus. Thousands of people knew about the NSA's activities but it turns out thousands of people can keep a secret if appropriately paid and aware of the legal repercussions of loose lips. Remember, Snowden was a subcontractor. He wasn't even at the NSA when he punked them. You don't keep watch on the entire world at once and have only three people guarding this endless stream of intel. You would need hundreds if not thousands of people just to be able to separate wheat from chaff. But no one in the Blindspot universe can figure out where this information is coming from? If three people are looking after the whole thing you'd still be able to figure out who they were- they'd be the only ones with toilets instead of office chairs and they would be taking nourishment intravenously. I was hoping for a bit of resolution to Weller's daddy issues at the end. Jane is kidnapped, Weller's dad is a suspect, Weller develops a deep grudge against his father. Jane shows up, Weller maintains the grudge. It works I guess but there's a big piece in the middle still missing. At least they're talking now even if we don't get to see it. I loved Zapata's dig at Jane about her clothes. She does dress awfully drab.

I see it more that she is used to dealing with stubborn, immature people who have a tendency to create their own problems. This skill set will serve her well if she continues seeing Steve. However, when the actual bullets start flying... Well, I think she did remarkably well given the circumstances. She only needed a couple of moments to compose herself and she kept it together even when she was taken hostage. I am in full agreement with the poster who noted that a Navy SEAL would never silhouette himself on a ridgeline, completely exposed to enemy fire. What should have happened is that she suggested this and McGarrett countered with the idea of hiking the more difficult but much less exposed way. That way it would have made more sense for the bad guy to catch up to them when he did. Darned Navy SEALs and their reluctance to talk about how they survive by not being stupid.

The first scene reminded me of Bruce Willis mocking the bad guy in A Good Day to Die Hard. "You have got to be running out of bad guys by now. I mean, what, do you have a service or something? 1-800-HENCHMAN?" Indeed, Dial-A-Mook is still in business and we have a fresh delivery of bad guys to get us through the back half of the season. Why is Carrie sad about deleting her photos? She really should have cloud backup. The cloud is unstoppable. That's the whole theme of the season. CIA stations have paper-thin walls in case you want to eavesdrop on the Director of the CIA talking to one of his top lieutenants about some serious shit going down right now? Good to know... Saul's momentary distraction of the IT staff so he could gank the documents everyone has been chasing all season long was very 24. As was the real bad guy heaping blame on the good guy and for the moment getting away with it. I can almost hear the beep boop beep.

While I appreciate Chin and Kono and Grover being intuitive and stopping a crime in progress, this is another episode in which 5-0 stumbles across a crime rather than solving one. They just happened to be in the right place at the right time and they noticed because of Chin's personal interest in the targeted football player. I wonder what would have happened if there was a guy on the other team who was supposed to throw his game or else some nefarious gangster would execute his family. Too bad for that guy I guess. Also, do gangsters kidnap and execute people because of the high stakes of high school football games? I know citizens of the US take their national sport very seriously but that's a little much. Said football games can also be streamed in real time to your Microsoft Surface Book Pro in full HD. Again, seriously? I am not a football fan but in the few games I have seen, that last ten seconds on the clock is about an hour of messing around. The whole "we have to hurry!" anxiety did not work for me. I guess high school football is different because they don't have breaks for commercials. Was there a reason given as to why the fugitive was still camping on that island four years later? I guess the jet wasn't exactly ready to fly but in the time he waited he could have indeed swam back to Oahu. For that matter, steal McGarrett's boat instead of torching it. The gun of infinite ammo gets knocked aside in the fight but no one goes for it after that. It would have been nice if they had retrieved the weapon only to find out that it was indeed empty. They don't even try the radio on the plane. I feel like if you were thirty-some miles from Oahu and had the kind of transmitter that a prisoner transport should have, you'd be able to radio someone. Die Hard 2 had this same issue. As much as I liked the pairing of Grover and Chin as good cop, bad cop I hope this show eventually gets around to addressing how 5-0's "means and immunity" grants them the right to beat information out of suspects.

Well one thing to appreciate is that Lizzie on the run asks a lot fewer dumb questions than Lizzie of the FBI. I don't think she stopped Reddington once this episode to bitch about how unfair everything was or how she was done with his non-answers. I loved the plot for getting the inspector off their backs. Set him up with his dream girl and give him the power to make her dreams come true. How did they explain to her why she all of a sudden was being handed the keys to her own restaurant though? Especially since she must know on some level that she can't cook worth a damn? As usual, the police get there two steps behind the bad guys. However, we did see badass Samar come back. Hostage situation? She'll just get around behind the guy and shoot him in the back of the head. That's more like it! The director deserves his fate for putting all of his stolen eggs in one basket at the Canadian Bank of the North. Wouldn't it be better to have smaller stashes all over the place? In addition to the thumbs, Reddington should have taken the middle fingers and left them in the box too. Or a bomb.

I liked this episode a lot. It seemed like a bit of a departure from the formula in that for once the FBI was actually driving rather than chasing. I know the central concept of the show is that they are always two steps behind but it is nice to see them functioning as competent law enforcement officers once in a while. Loved seeing Lou Diamond Phillips as the snarky villain and I hope we see him again. However, I take issue with the idea of this area being redneck central but the person they're willing to give their lives defending is a Mexican. I just figured Patterson out. She has ADD! When she described her boyfriend as a distraction it made perfect sense. Poor impulse control, the ability to hyperfocus, casual disregard for procedure, inability to maintain a romantic relationship... Get this gal some Ritalin, she's going to need it. Let me get this straight: whoever tattooed Jane knew where this bad guy was, knew where there was a buried cache of weapons, knew that the floorboards would creak just so, knew that Jane would be willing to peel her pants off in front of people she barely knows, knew there would be a party of four, et cetera. I am starting to think the upthread theory about time travel is correct. We have entirely abandoned the one tattoo leading to another concept. They are now being investigated completely at random.

Hawaii 5-0 seems to exist in a bizarre parallel universe where people in general are utterly psychotic and drawn to the Hawaiian islands for their nefarious needs. I agree the motivation in this episode was anywhere from questionable to laughable however it is in line with other things we've already seen. I'm thinking in particular of the Halloween episode in which a kid murders a bunch of people and then mutilates his dad because dad was bullied in high school. Or Joe from Podunk Hardware selling a nuclear weapon to Osama Bin Laden's successor because Joe was rejected by the Marines. One of these days somebody is going to get murdered over a paper cut on this show.

I thought Fitz had reason enough to leave in a huff. He was on the verge of getting together with the woman he's had feelings for for a long time now. He overcame brain damage to become the person he had been before. He went to the ends of the Earth for her so that he could go to the ends of the universe for her. He put himself in constant danger chasing fruitless leads. He refused to mourn and when he had to mourn, started with anger and shotgunned his way into direct contact with the thing that took his love. When the opportunity came up to rescue her he jumped into the portal himself despite knowing that no one would ever be able to follow him if he got stuck. He rescues Jemma after all of this, takes her to the nice restaurant and acts as a gentleman's gentleman... and then finds out she has a fucking boyfriend. Not only that, a boyfriend he now has to rescue. However, I don't think the boyfriend is long for this world or any other. In fact, I think he's already dead. Why did he check the gun at the end? He knew there was just one bullet in it. I think he's been replaced by the alien and that will be the thing that they drag back to Earth in the guise of Simmons new guy. If there is any justice in the universe, Fitz will kill the thing himself using the shotgun-axe he's helping create for Mack.

So Homeland Security has a bunch of heavy weapons to move around. They move them around in a regular semi for which the only protection is a GPS tracker. Gus Fring had better security on his truckloads of fried chicken! Jane should have known her sex dream wasn't about Weller because he wasn't grouchy and judgmental enough. Weller would actually be like "You're neglecting the balls Jane. If you want to be treated like an FBI agent don't ever neglect the balls!" I like that Zapata hasn't really quit gambling at all, she's just raised the stakes to a whole new level. I was not a fan of Ashley Johnson as a recurring character in Joss Whedon shows but I love her in this. Patterson is my favorite character of them all.

So those surgeons did all that work for nothing? Damn, that's some 24 Season 1 ruthlessness right there. I thought the plane Frannie was on last week was going to explode so I guess that was a set up for this week. I wonder if that $10 million actually did get loaded onto the plane or if Allison now has a fun fund. I liked that even though last week Carrie shot Quinn, this week she's saving him from a bullet wound. If they know Saul's operation has been compromised by his top lieutenant why not just call Saul? Or show up at his office or something. It would be pretty obvious what was going on if assassins were chasing Carrie and Quinn through the halls of Berlin Station.

They didn't really spell it out in AoU but I assumed her probability controlling power is what kept Tony Stark's bomb from going off in her face.

So this is how you get into a CIA black site: stage a robbery involving two men and three accomplices who pose as hostages. Walk down a set of stairs. Shoot the two guards who are completely unprepared for an attack despite the gunfire upstairs. Have your way with the CIA's secrets and have the paramedics escort you out. Apparently in this universe the CIA does not believe in things such as doors or cameras. At the end when Jane and Weller were having their hot and heavy moment and Weller decided he'd rather not get laid that evening Jane said "...kay" but on my headphones it sounded like she said "gay". And indeed, Weller. She placed your hand on her chest! At this rate he's never going to see the upside down tattoo on the back of her neck. I see we had Star Trek-style radiation in this episode. If the counter goes over 300 you're dead, no turning back. But it can hover at 299 for as long as the plot demands and everyone is fine. We've got another show in which a rash of child kidnappings goes relatively unnoticed. Hawaii 5-0 did something similar. The show has an opportunity to address this and I hope they do by somehow establishing that these particular children (except Jane) wouldn't be missed for a good reason. Because in real life police tend to investigate when kids go missing. I did love the CIA guy's delighted "What's your name?" to Zapata. She clearly wanted to say you know goddamn well what my name is but that would have been awkward.

Well, he did alright in the leather pants back in the Princess Bride days but nowadays... You know what Saul? Just keep your shirt on.

If there is any justice in this universe Mr. Kaplan will be kidnapped next and at that point Mr. Solomon is going to realize just what a terrible mistake he's made.

Well, going to have to vote against the crowd. For an episode with only one gunshot in it this one was amazingly tense. Crazy Carrie is a trope of this show and an unnecessary one at that. However, I have seen someone go manic in person before. This show gets it scary close to how it is. In all the tension over the past four seasons, I think Carrie deliberately going off her meds was the scariest thing this show has ever done. Her boyfriend was nuts to go along with the idea and I knew she'd end up refusing to take the meds once she had figured things out. It's very easy to break a promise when you think you know everything. I noticed that when Carrie hopped off her boyfriend after crazy-sex she was wearing her bra and grey pajamas. Apparently crazy-sex is so hot you don't even have to undress for it. Speaking of crazy sex, Allison and Saul? Double You Tee Eff? Like the rest of the CIA I did not see that coming. Is this a very recent thing or are they supposed to have a history together? I can't see Saul letting Allison take the fall if they were involved. I hope this plot ends up making sense and isn't just for shock value. Someone better with ballistics could address this in more detail but I was under the impression that rifles generally penetrated bulletproof vests. Maybe you can't buy full metal jacket in Germany. Speaking of jackets, our intrepid investigative reporter left her cute little leather jacket behind during the fire alarm. She probably figured it was a false alarm but I for one am not letting my leather jacket burn up in a fire! I paid good money for it and if all I have to do is sling it over my shoulders as I'm leaving... Shameful display.

If Steve really wants to honor Catherine's memory he'll put that toothbrush to good use and clean his guns with it. Or his toilet. The crooked art dealer made a good point about him and Kono having something special. In all of five years he's the only one she wore that black leather skirt for. Not even Adam has seen her in it. Kono had fantastic hair in this episode. I don't know what they're doing differently but she looked great. The football player cameo was pretty random but I am looking at it from a non-American perspective. I once saw an American friend of mine get into a football discussion with someone else and they went into their own world for a few minutes, non-stop spouting stats and previous victories and et cetera. It was quite something to see. It made me wonder if I look the same when I (a Canadian) talk about hockey with someone. I liked Grover helping Steve get other Cath. And for once in his life, Steve actually listens! I don't feel like he would have listened to Danny and we would have seen Steve moping by himself (and perhaps snuggling Cath's toothbrush) while everyone else is out having fun. And Kono giving Steve shit for his driving was also gold. This show gets good mileage out of mixing up the pairings. A white Yakuza guy? Have we already typecast every single Asian actor in Hawaii as a gangster? However, just looking at the Wiki article it seems the Yakuza recruit from "all walks of life" so I guess it's not unprecedented. I'd much rather see a flashback episode of how this random white dude got into the Yakuza instead of yet another episode of "I want my money back!" And if Adam is supposed to be Yakuza he would know to start the torture off with the removal of a finger or two. Previous posters are absolutely correct - this guy isn't going to talk because you slugged him a few times and breathed down his neck. Hasn't Adam ever seen Reservoir Dogs? Cut his pinky finger off. Tell him his thumb is next. After that he'll tell you if he wears women's underwear.

Well this show is still silly and I still watch it for snark value but overall this was an entertaining episode. Eli Matchett is a Blacklister but why? The Monsanto stand-in group recruited him to be their pet radical. How did Red know about this? And this show continues to have the same issue as its protege Blindspot, namely intricate timing. Red went on the offensive literal hours before this plot could fall into place. Also, it has been a while since I delved into the intricacies of the previous seasons. This episode seems to suggest that Red was not part of an anti-Cabal group but rather was part of the Cabal. They betrayed him so he is now going after them. I will accept it at face value but I feel like this contradicts previous episodes in which the Cabal was always Red's enemy. Does anyone know of a Blacklist fan page which lays out the plots and revelations so far? I was proud of Lizzie for her Grand Theft Auto skills until Red pointed out that she stole a car with no GPS. I liked the meeting at the end between Harold and Tom Keen. It makes me wonder if Harold was reassigned so that he would have lots of free time to do exactly what he is doing now.