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I Just Want to Feel Something Today

(A s02e11 inspired fic) (Read on AO3)

“Emotions serve a purpose. You don’t go through what you just went through, witnessing all that death and not feel something, Jace! It’s not good for you! Just feel something. Whether you think it clouds your judgment or not.”

Clary’s words catch Jace by surprise. He expects anger, denial, frustration… and he supposes, in a way, that’s exactly what he gets. Except instead of being aimed at him, those emotions come from Clary on behalf of himself. She’s upset, but she’s upset because he keeps pushing away anything that would make him actually stop and deal with everything that’s happening. She’s not mad at him, but at the way he is thanks to years of careful conditioning to push his emotions aside and lock them away so they aren’t a distraction.

And she’s right. It isn’t that he hasn’t felt anything, it’s that he’s buried every feeling he gets the moment it starts to form. He’s ignored every negative emotion because he hasn’t had time to deal with any of them, and he’s pushed away any remotely positive emotion he’s felt because he doesn’t deserve to feel anything good, not now, not after everything he’s done.

How long has it been since he let himself actually feel something, good or bad, all the way through? He certainly has plenty of emotions to choose from. Plenty of moments and events to focus on.

Not here, though. Not now. There’s still work to be done and plans to be made. He’s done enough damage already that a few more hours of keeping everything neatly tucked away won’t hurt. So he waits until he’s certain Clary is long gone and calls the elevator to face the rest of his day.

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It isn’t long before Jace finds himself on the rooftop of the Institute, thankful for the solitude it provides him. He hadn’t realized how stifling the walls of the Institute felt until he’s outside of them, breathing in the fresh air, letting the slight breeze run through his hair the closer he walks to the edge of the roof overlooking the city.

It’s easier here, he thinks, to try and let go. This isn’t the first time he’s escaped to the roof to be alone and process things, and he’s sure it won’t be the last. It’s been so long that he wonders if he remembers how to let it all go… no, not go. How to let it all in.

“You’re hurting,” Alec had said as they sparred earlier. And Jace was - he still is. The hurt never stops, not now, not when there’s evidence of the pain he’s caused at every turn. It’s in the stress lines on Alec’s face, in the way the other Shadowhunters won’t meet his gaze, and the way the Downworlders would meet his gaze - but with nothing but hatred in their eyes. The pain is the easiest thing to let himself feel because it’s what he thinks he deserves the most - the disappointment, the anger, the despair.

He feels his chest tighten with emotion, too many to pick apart and name, and does his best to fight the urge to swallow it all back down and walk away, back inside where he can justify putting back on the mask of Being Okay.

Instead, Jace allows his mind to move on to something else he’s been effectively ignoring. Because after the Soul Sword his next biggest problem is Simon and the fact that he’s a Daylighter now, with all signs pointing to Jace’s blood being the catalyst.

Jace feels nothing but dread at the idea of this being true. There was so much going on at the time that he hadn’t considered the possibility that his blood is the reason Simon can walk in the daylight now. If that’s true it doesn’t just put him at risk, it puts Clary at risk, too. And not just from the other vampires but from the Clave. The Clave would hate this revelation. Worse, the clave would fear it, fear the possibility that Nephilim blood could be used to rid the vampires of their biggest weakness. There’s no telling what they’d do to him and Clary if they found out, and that’s a thought that genuinely worries him in a way that not much else does.

“No matter what, your secret’s safe with me. (...) You have nothing to worry about, I got your back.”

Loath as Jace is to admit it, even just to himself, he does trust Simon and believes when Simon swears that he isn’t going to say anything. If it were anyone else Jace would be worried they’d use the knowledge for blackmail later, to hold it over his head as leverage, but it isn’t anyone else. It’s Simon. And yeah, Jace trusts him, for whatever that’s worth.

Somewhere between the jealousy and the nearly dying to save Simon’s life, there’s witty banter and mutual appreciation. Simon has nothing to lose and everything to gain from sharing their secret with the other vampires, but he won’t. Jace thinks of Simon’s attempts to hug him, of casually affectionate touches and warm smiles and the fact that he’s… hell, they’re friends, aren’t they?

Clary stood by him out of perceived sibling loyalty. Izzy and Alec would always do the same. But Simon? Jace has so few people on his side that Simon’s loyalty isn’t something he takes lightly. Surprisingly, the idea of having Simon so resolutely in his corner is such an overwhelming realization that the relief of it brings the first tears to Jace’s eyes. Once they start they don’t stop, especially not as his thoughts turn to Clary.

“What else are you hiding from me?” Jace wishes he could blame Valentine for his fallout with Clary, but he knows that wouldn’t be true. It’s Jace’s fault he didn’t tell Clary sooner - he had plenty of opportunities, plenty of time, but more than that: she deserved to know. He’d just been too scared, too selfish to do it. He said he didn’t want to ruin things with her and Simon but that was just another lie. He wasn’t afraid she’d leave Simon for him once she knew, he was afraid that she wouldn’t. That he could have her now, and she could have him, but she wouldn’t want him the way he still wants her.

Because deep down he’s still just a scared, insecure boy, using that carefully crafted bravado to cover up the truth of what he’s actually afraid of: not being good enough. He knew it couldn’t last forever, but as long as Clary didn’t know she had a choice he could avoid the reality of her not choosing him.

Except now he may have lost her for good, and not just to Simon.

Of course, she doesn’t trust him now. She may never trust him again, and he wouldn’t blame her. He let her down, not for the first time, but arguably the worst time since they met… and that’s saying something, considering everything they’ve been through.

Jace remembers how hurt she looked at the realization that he kept something so important from her, and the tears fall steadily now. He lets that pain in, he lets it mean something. She practically begged him to feel something so it seems only fitting that he feels this the most. Jace closes his eyes against the tears, only to see the image of Clary walking away from him in his mind’s eye. The ache of it knots his stomach, the fear that she may not come back to him, not as a lover or as a friend, is paralyzing.

He lets it in. He feels it, all of it.

The tears continue to fall and Jace continues to feel everything from the past few hours, the past day, the past week. Everything he pushed away. Everything he buried, finally allowed to break through the surface.

Regret. Anger. Relief. Sorrow. Loss. Hope. Fear. Sadness. Love. Pain. Loss.

He feels all of it.

There’s a sound behind him and Jace knows it’s Alec behind him on the rooftop before he ever hears his parabatai speak. He reckons he could take a minute to collect himself and brush this off without Alec pushing it - he already silenced the sobs that shook his entire body only moments before. Another thirty seconds and he could give some bullshit excuse about being upset over Clary and move on to whatever Alec came looking for him to talk about. Alec knows when Jace wants to talk and when he doesn’t, knows when he can push and get something out of Jace and when it was a lost cause. It’s why Alec asked him about the Downworlders and about Clary while they sparred earlier, knowing that Jace needs a side of distraction with his honest conversation. It’s easier to talk between punches, to discuss emotions while simultaneously having a physical release for them.

This? Crying, with no singular reason or cause, just because... just because he tried to face his emotions and became immediately overwhelmed by the weight of it all? He doesn’t do this. They don’t do this. They do eye-rolls and thinly veiled admissions of not being fine - but also not wanting to talk about it - in between hits with a staff. They do brief moments of serious conversation while literally pinned to the ground and unable to escape.

They don’t do falling into each other’s arms in tears... and yet that’s exactly what Jace wants to do right now.

“Jace, you okay?”

No. He isn’t okay, and no amount of sparring is going to fix it this time around. There aren’t enough distractions in the world, which is unfortunate, because they’re about to summon a Greater Demon to the Institute and Jace can’t get his fucking shit together. At least, not on his own. It took Clary’s influence to get him to this point, and he knows what he needs to move further. Maybe not to closure, but to something close.

So he turns around, eyes bloodshot and face streaked with tears, and gives Alec what is probably the most lost, helpless look he’s ever willingly allowed anyone to witness.

Alec doesn’t say he’s sorry, or ask what’s wrong - he simply moves to close the space between them and wraps his arms around Jace, pulling him close. Jace allows himself to be pulled, to be tucked into the firm but gentle embrace of his parabatai.

After a moment Jace tries to pull away, to shrug off Alec’s comfort as the guilt of not deserving it settles again, but Alec holds firm. Jace came up here to be alone, but maybe being alone isn’t what he needs just then. Just like keeping everything bottled up wasn’t what he needed, either. It took Clary to realize that, and it takes Alec’s insistent presence for him to realize that he needs these moments of comfort from his brother that he’d never allow himself otherwise.

They stay this way, silent except for the slowly quieting sobs from Jace until the tears stop completely. Only then does Alec finally loosen his grip around him enough for Jace to pull back.

“Feeling things is overrated,” Jace manages, and the words startle a laugh out of Alec despite the situation.

“Clary?” Alec hazards a guess, not that it’s a difficult conclusion to reach.

“Clary,” Jace confirms. “Among other things.”

“Do you want to talk about it?” Alec offers, sounding as uncertain in asking as Jace is in his answer.

“No,” Jace admits. Except he’s starting to realize what he wants isn’t always what he needs.

Jace sighs.

“But maybe I should.”

#jace herondale #alec lightwood #shadowhunters #will I ever stop writing Jace introspection during this re-watch?#i mean eventually yes but not today #elle writes a few deadbeat lines #long post

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rpsocsandcanonohmy · 2 years

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Dead Weight

Summary: Alternative version of Walker s01e11: Freedom and Prodigal Son s02e11: You Can Run. Martin Whitly made it out of the state with Hector but the plan only had enough fuel to get them to Texas. After their forced landing, they come across a couple of teenagers in a summer cabin with a duffle bag full of money. One of these teenagers is Stella Walker, daughter of a Texas Ranger. Martin would be stupid not to take advantage of this opportunity.

Rating: Teen/Mature

Pairing: Brief Stella Walker/Trevor Strand

Tags/Warnings: Depictions of Violence, Bleeding, Threats, Bargaining, Leverage, Serial Killers, Leverage, People used as Barganing Chips

WC: 2205

@walker-bingo Square Filled: Serial Killer

A/Ns: This was also written as part of whumptober and is posted here for the @whumptober-archive

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The cabin was an old old family place. Well, maybe not an old family place but it was an old place that the family’s gone to just about every summer since he could remember so Trevor figured it was close enough. Bottom line, it was a good place to hide out until he and Stella figured out what they were doing next.

There was also the nice perk that this place held a fake ID for him, an ID that was meant for his mom but could be fixed up for Stella, and enough cash to get them very far away, very fast. He found out his dad hid a duffle bag with the money, passports, and more when he came up here after his mom died. He didn’t bother counting how much money there was at the time, convinced he’d never touch it because of where the money had likely come from. That was then, back when he had morals and a dad that wasn’t sending goons his way. Now? He was going to take any chance he could get.

“You sure we’re far enough away, Trevor?”

He nodded and squeezed Stella’s hand. “Yeah. Come on, we should get some rest before we hit the road again.”

“Okay….”

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“Hector, are you sure we’re going the right way?”

“Yes, I’m sure.”

“It just seems like we should be there by now.”

“Not my fault you’re bad at flying.”

“Don’t make me crash this plane.” Martin grumbled to himself and tried to focus on holding the plane steady. In theory, having Hector as his final companion on his escape journey was a good idea. He was just as violent as Friar Pete but he was more open to taking orders and his wit more than made up for his lack of education. However, Martin had not accounted for the natural annoyance that settles in between two people that have been in a cramped space for too long. If he wasn’t so averse to dying, he would actually consider crashing the plane. Of course, then there was the chance he’d end up living and end up back at Claremont. Not a large chance, mind you, but a nonzero one indeed.

Better to keep flying. At least then there’d be a higher nonzero chance of escaping US jurisdiction.

“Uh, Doc?”

He groaned internally. “What is it, Hector?”

“What’s the orange light labeled ‘F. Gauge’ mean?”

“Well, I don’t exactly have the manual in front of me but I imagine it means ‘Fuel Gauge’.”

“So, if that light was on, that would mean we’re running low on fuel?”

“Yes.” Oh no. “Hector, please don’t tell me that light is on.”

“I would but I know you hate it when I lie to you.”

Martin groaned out loud this time. “Great. Just great. Can you find a place to land on that map?”

Hector buried his face in the map for a few moments. “There’s a campsite not too far up ahead. It’s not quite summer yet so there probably isn’t anyone there. And even if there is, it won’t be many people and we could take ‘em out easy.”

“You can take them out easy. I’m not killing anyone, remember?”

Hector rolled his eyes. “Whatever you say, Doc. Just land this thing without killing us.”

Martin rolled his eyes and proceeded to do just that. Okay, it was a bumpy landing but it had been over twenty years since he’d gotten to fly; some mistakes were bound to happen. It was a small miracle they’d managed to get this far, if he was being completely honest with himself. Not that he’d ever admit that to anyone. Hell, it was a small miracle that a narcissistic sociopath would even admit that to himself.

“You said there probably isn’t anyone here?” Martin said as they disembarked from the plane.

“Most likely, yeah. Why?”

Martin considered their narrow range of options. “Do you suppose we could cover up the plane and then hide out around the campsite for a bit while we work out the next steps?”

“That depends.”

“On?”

“What the hell you think we’re gonna cover up this plane with.” Hector looked around and walked up to a big tree. “Did you bring a chainsaw?”

“No. Do you think we’ll need one?”

Hector looked around some more. “...Gimme 15 minutes. I’ll see what I can do.”

“Good man, Hector. Good man….”

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“Trevor, I’m not sure about this.” Stella bit her lip while her boyfriend went through the contents of the duffle bag. “I mean, using stolen money and fake IDs to get around? Seems like we’re just asking for trouble.”

“It’s the only way out of this,” Trevor insisted. “I need to hide from my dad and you said we were in this together.”

“We are, but….” The more she thought about this, the more she realised she should’ve thought about this before she just started driving. “I’m just not sure this is the best way to do it. Maybe...maybe we should just go back to my place. My dad can protect you and-”

Trevor scoffed. “Your dad? The same man who arrested my dad? The man who’s at least somewhat responsible for my mom being dead? You think I’m just gonna trust him with my safety? And even if I did, you think he’s just gonna welcome me with open arms?”

“Well-”

“Look, if you don’t want to come with me, that’s fine. But I need to do what’s best for me and that means putting my trust in the right people.” Trevor stood up and walked toward the door. “I’m gonna go for a walk. Let me know what you decide when I get back.”

“Trevor-” She got up to follow him and froze when she saw the two strange men standing outside the newly opened door. One was older and had straggly, graying hair and beard and an oddly calming smile. His companion behind him had a decidedly unkind look on his face and was bald aside from his goatee. Based on Trevor’s reaction, he didn’t know them any more than she did, which was definitely not good.

“Hello,” the older man greeted. “We weren’t expecting anyone here. Mind if we join you?”

“Who are you?” she asked, regretting it almost instantly as that brought his attention towards her.

“Of course, you need an introduction. How rude of me.” He shook his head. “My name is Martin. This is my friend, Hector. Our...vehicle broke down a few miles from here and neither of us have a working phone on us. Would it be much trouble to borrow one of yours?”

“You can’t. We’re busy.” Trevor started to close the door on them when Hector reached out and forced the door open.

“Thank you for your hospitality,” Martin said, pushing past Trevor into the cabin. He looked around the room and Stella didn’t miss the way his eyes lingered on the still-open duffle bag. “I hope we aren’t interrupting anything. Especially not something you shouldn’t be doing.” He chuckled like they were all in on a joke. “Ah, I remember being young. I was just a few years older than you two when I met my wife and, let me tell you, we had plenty of unsavory escapades….”

Stella reached for her phone in her back pocket. “Yeah...make yourselves at home.” She slowly backed away from where Martin was lurking closer. “I just...have to check on something…. Excuse me….” She ducked into the bedroom, cursing her poor excuse. But she had to get away and call her dad. He’d get her out of this. Even if Trevor would hate her for it later, it was the best idea.

She turned the volume down as low as possible while the line rang and prayed no one would barge in on her. She let out a small sigh of relief when he picked up.

“Stella? Where are you? Why aren’t you at the soccer game? Have you run into Clint West? Are you safe?”

“Hi, Dad,” she murmured. “Look, it’s hard to explain. I’m okay right now but me an Trevor are-”

“Trevor? You’re with him? Did you know who his dad is?”

She sighed. “Yes, I do. I found out the night of the dance. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you. But right now, Trevor and I are outside of town and we were alone but these two guys just showed up and wouldn’t take no for an answer and I don’t know what to do.”

“Are they Clint’s men?”

“I don’t think so. I mean, one of them definitely fits the bill but the other one is definitely in charge. They said their names are Martin and Hector.”

“Okay, look, stay calm. I’ll be on my way in just a second. Where are you?”

“We’re at-” She shrieked when the door was suddenly kicked in. She fell behind the bed and her phone flew out of her hand. She could hear Trevor shouting in the background and she was pretty sure she heard her dad too but right now she was more concerned about the way Martin was looking at her.

Without taking his eyes off of her, he picked up the phone and tapped the speaker button. “Hello, Stella’s father. May I have a name for you?”

“Who the hell is this?!”

“Answer my question and I’ll answer yours.”

Dad huffed. “Okay, fine. My name is Cordell Walker. I’m a Texas Ranger and I’m currently on my way to arrest your ass for hurting my daughter. But you probably already knew that. What, did I lock up one of your buddies? Or did I kill someone you knew? Be honest, I can take it.”

Martin hummed softly. “I’m sorry to say this is completely unrelated to you. Though, now that you mention it, I do have your daughter, Ranger Walker. And I imagine she’s quite important to you, isn’t she?”

“Who are you?!”

“Ah, yes, I did say I’d tell you that.” He sighed. “Alright. My name is Martin Whitly, though you probably know me better as The Surgeon.”

Stunned silence came from the other end.

“Alright, I’m going to assume you’re listening. Let me make you a proposal: you ensure safe passage over the border for me and my partner, and your daughter will be returned to you unharmed. How does that sound?”

“I can’t do that.”

“Well, that’s a shame. See, I’ve turned into a pacifist during my time at Claremont Psychiatric. My partner, on the other hand, is a bit more volatile. Murdered three people before he got locked up, no remorse. And they didn’t even do anything to him. Are you sure you want to leave your darling little girl in the hands of a man like that?”

“...Are you threatening an officer of the law?” Dad growled.

“No. I’m threatening the daughter of an officer of the law,” Martin replied simply. “I’m going to hang up now. Feel free to call back once you’ve made your decision.”

Stella heard her dad yelling on the other end while Martin hung up. “What are you-”

Martin sighed. “Oh, don’t whimper now. I’m a man of my word; I fully intend on returning you to your father. Of course, that relies on him following up on his end of the deal. As a father myself, I understand what it’s like to want to do anything for your child. I’m sure he’ll figure out a way to make sure we all get what we want.” He smiled and held out his hand to her. “Come on. You’ll be safe with me.”

She glared at his hand and stood on her own when she heard a shout from the other room. Trevor’s shout. “Is he-”

Martin sighed and turned around. “What did you do, Hector?”

“He was being annoying and we only need one hostage.”

“Did you kill him?”

“He’s breathing.”

“Will he stay breathing?”

“...Maybe.”

Maybe? “Let me see him!” She shouldered past Martin and froze when she saw Trevor. He was lying on the floor unconscious, which wouldn’t have been all that scary if it weren’t for the small pool of blood under his head that was slowly growing. “Oh, God,” she whispered as she knelt beside him. “Oh no… No, nonononononono….” She frantically blinked back the tears.

Stella heard heavy footsteps behind her and yelped when she was suddenly yanked from the floor. “Come on, he’s unconscious. You being here won’t really affect his comfort as he passes to the afterlife,” Martin assured her as he pulled her away. She tried to wrench free but his grip was too strong.

“Wh-What’re you-”

“We’re not going to make it easy for your father to find us. Do you have the keys for the car outside?”

She nodded.

“Good. You’re driving.”

“No.” She dug her heels in. “I’m not leaving without-”

“He’ll be dead within an hour, most likely less,” Martin said harshly. “This is risky enough without the dead weight, pun not intended.” He yanked her arm again to get her moving. “Now, come on. We’ve got quite a drive to the border.”

What the hell was she being dragged into?

#walkerbingo #serial killer #whumptober2021 #no.29 #left for dead #walker #prodigal son #fic #blood #bleeding #hostage situation #threats #violence

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211: The Bottle Job

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more--than--anything · 7 years

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Episode Review: “It’s safe to say he’s not here for Hamilton tickets.” [S02E11]

So, what did we think about this week's episode?

L: Whoa! Some really surprising turns this week. Lot of action, lot of tension. There were a couple of sour notes for me, but overall, I thought it was a really strong episode.

Y: I agree, it was a really strong episode, one that focused on a lot of Blindspot’s core themes, but like you, there are a few sour notes in there for me too.

Let's start with our Tattoo Case of the Week...

L: Patterson is back in her lab, which means all is as well as it's gonna get in Blindspot-land. She's still trying to crack the tiger tattoo, but she's got a massive headache that I really hope isn't because of anything permanent that Shepherd or Borden did to her. (It wouldn't surprise me in the least to discover that they expected her to be rescued and hatched some sort of plan accordingly.) She gets a hit on a tattoo that she solved a while ago, revealing the number of a shipping container... which has just arrived in New York, carrying two stowaways. The team immediately recognizes one of them as Anton Stepulov, the second in command in the Dabbur Zann, a multi-ethnic terrorist group we've seen twice before, making dirty nuclear bombs and trying to disrupt US defense satellites. Patterson manages to trace the shipping container back to a shell company that just made a large payment supposedly for a life insurance policy on a guy who may have died... or may have become a suicide bomber.

Patterson tracks down the car that removed him from the hospital, and the team finds Stepulov... escorted by our old pal, Jake Keaton, Head Torturer, er, I mean, Deputy Director of the CIA. Turns out, the suspected suicide bomber actually donated his heart for transplant into Stepulov's son. And there's a big terrorist attack planned for tonight. Stepulov will give them the target, but only after his son is out of surgery. Keaton and Weller get into a bit of a pissing match, but Keaton is forced to concede that the FBI has jurisdiction on American soil, so Weller gets to call the shots. Unfortunately, the son dies on the operating table, and the team loses their only bit of leverage. They debate whether they should try to lie to Stepulov, which provides an interesting callback to the conversation last week, in which Jane wanted to tell Roman the truth about who zipped him. Just like last week, Jane argues in favor of telling the truth, and just like last week, Weller opts for the lie, delivered by Keaton. But a few seconds in, Weller breaks in and tells Stepulov the truth. Jane tries to appeal to Stepulov's humanity, but he is too angry and grief-stricken to help them.

Patterson traces a call from Stepulov's phone to a location in Brooklyn, where the team discovers that the terrorists have turned hundreds of basketballs into bombs. Weller tries to prevent them from getting away, but of course, they try to blow him up instead. (It's Wednesday, Weller, you should have expected someone to try to blow you up. Put a reminder on your calendar, would you?) It's fun to see the team show off their different skill sets here. Reade knows what kinds of gases were used; Tasha concludes that there's an ignitor on the rack holding the balls. And then Tasha immediately informs them that there are no NBA or college games tonight. (How's that gambling addiction coming, Tasha? Still reading the sports section, we see.) And Jane, who used her powers of compassion and persuasion to get through to Stepulov (and also to Keaton), figures out that Keaton's daughter is the target, at her basketball tournament tonight. The team gets there in time to find the bombs, and Patterson shuts down cell service to the area to disable the remote triggers. Keaton's daughter is taken hostage, and after a tense standoff, Kurt and Jane take out the terrorists targeting her and Keaton.

Back at the NYO, Patterson spills her migraine pills and solves the leopard tattoo, which leads them to a notorious biker gang and a picture of Roman. Guess they are going to have to let the leopard out of his cage and see what color his spots really are...

Y: What would this team do without Patterson? Huh? Most probably not survive the Pilot. But with that said, I really enjoyed this case. It had a certain season 1 feel to it. A pure tattoo case that turned out more complicated and brought many interesting characters into the mix. I’m not saying I do not enjoy when they focus on Sandstorm, I do, I really do love that bigger story arc and that mythology, but it also feels nice to have a purely tattoo-related case. It reminded me of season 1 and the good things that can come from these tattoos.

Team Fed, Part A... How is our team handling things this week?

L: The team is trying to get back to business as usual. Reade is back on the job, apparently all recovered from his injuries. Patterson never left, because taking time off from work isn't something she does well. Or at all. Even in the face of a suspicious migraine, Patterson keeps on trucking, solving tattoos and saving the day. In case we were wondering last week what would have happened if Patterson hadn't escaped from Borden and Shepherd? The team wouldn't have captured a terrorist, and a whole lot of people would have gotten blown up. And our team probably wouldn't have survived until the end of the day.

Y: How many weeks in a row can Patterson win MVP of the episode? If I were a gambling woman I’d say every single week. I know Tasha would put her money on Patterson every week, that’s for sure. And honestly, I am really worried about her. Whatever Shepherd did to her goes beyond just poking a few holes in her ear drum. And I just hope she realizes that before it is too late because there is no way this team survives a day with her. I think Tasha being the best friend a friend could have will be the first to pick up on that and try to convince her to get herself checked out.

And speaking of Tasha… things are still pretty awkward between her and Reade. And by pretty awkward I mean very very awkward. Yikes. They say that it is all forgotten and behind them, that they are what they have always been, best friends, but it is not going to be that easy, is it?

L: Things are seriously awkward between Reade and Zapata. Tasha deals with it using the time-honored tradition of insisting that everything is cool and then avoiding Reade as much as possible. But there's nothing like having to disable a room full of explosives to put a friendship back on track. By the end of the episode, Tasha has unwound enough to ask Reade to go out for a drink, and the two seem to settle back into their easy friendship. "You're not even my type anyway," Reade tells her. (And yeah, we know we you like blonds, Reade. We saw Sarah.) And at this point, I am thrilled at this show is taking the idea of these two as a couple and saying, "Nope." They are best friends, and that's how they work best. Not all relationships have to be about sex.

But then Tasha bows out (to let Reade chat up the blond eyeing him at the bar), and on her way out she stops and looks back at Reade with an enigmatic look on her face. Now, I'm interpreting that as, "He's my friend, and I love him, but I'm not ever going to be in love with him," which is the message she was sending this entire episode. But I've already read several comments from other fans who interpreted it as regret. So I'm just going to say, please, Blindspot, buck the trend of turning every single relationship into a sexual one. Leave this amazing friendship alone. It makes each of these strong characters even stronger in a way that a soap-operatic romantic storyline never could.

On the plus side of all this inner turmoil, Zapata was too distracted to devote much attention to sniping at Jane. Which is good because poor Jane has a lot on her plate this week (more on her in a bit).

And then there's Nas, whose behavior in this episode is as consistently inconsistent as ever. We learn she has been sneaking out of Weller's bed (apparently) early in the morning to look for word from her Sandstorm contact who went dark before Jane showed up in Times Square. (I found this kind of interesting, since the NSA is headquartered some three hours away from the NYO. Is Zero Division based out of New York? Or has she just been there since she started tracking Sandstorm six years ago?) Weller follows her and asks her what she's doing, and sensibly points out that a source that went dark more than half a year ago is probably not going to suddenly turn up. (But once again, Nas seems to refuse to consider that the source might have been Jane herself. It seems such an obvious avenue of thought that the fact that she doesn't ever mention it as a possibility seems odd to me.)

Then there's Roman. Nas never wanted to bring him into the FBI in the first place, though surely an asset with intact memories would have been more valuable than Jane (and certainly more valuable than Roman in his now-amnesiac state). Jane pulls off a successful end-around to bring Roman in, but Nas has him incarcerated at the NYO. Jane pleads with Weller to let him out and Nas seems to be trying to help by bringing in a psychiatrist with a specialization in PTSD. Only then Dr. Sun arrives, and well... she doesn't seem to be much more interested in helping Roman than Nas is. Sun won't let Nas sit in on her session, and when Nas objects, she asks, "When have I ever kept relevant intel from you?" So clearly, this session is far less about helping Roman and far more about probing his memory for Sandstorm intel. (Clearly, the NYO is batting 0 for 2 at finding quality psychological care. No wonder this group is such a mess.) So once again, Nas doesn't seem fully Team FBI. She's gathering her own intel, and there's no way to know how much or how little she is sharing with the FBI.

Y: I really don’t know what the deal is with Nas at this point. She was far more clear in the first few episodes than she has been since jumping into Kurt’s bed. Is she really there as a fluffy new addition? Is she on Team FBI? Is she really helping them at this point? Or is she something more?

And yes, her whole issue towards Roman is very confusing as well. She never wanted him to come in in the first place, calling him a sociopathic killer without even meeting him. It seems her opinion on him has long been established, even before her shady shrink friend comes along. Why doesn't she want Roman to be brought in? And now that he is here, does she want Roman reformed or doesn’t she? Or at least, does she want him to recover any memories at all? Surely, even a sociopathic killer with his memories back, knowing all he knows about Shepherd and Sandstorm, is better than him with no memories locked up in a mental institution.

And then there’s her new buddy, Dr. Sun. Well, she’s a ray of sunshine, isn’t she? How far back do Nas and the shrink go? And what exactly is she hoping Dr. Sun would get from Roman?

And finally, there’s her relationship with Kurt: are they now a domestic happy couple? Is that what we are expected to believe? I mean, Kurt has more intimate moments with Patterson at the moment than he does with Nas…

As you can see, me and Nas… we are not doing so well. Every time she pops up on my screen all I do is yell out confused and frustrated questions. WHAT IS HER ENDGAME? WHAT IS HER PURPOSE ON THE SHOW RIGHT NOW?

Team Fed, Part B... Speaking of enigmatic federal employees, can we talk about the elephant in the room, the other fed working the case this week?

Y: Honestly, I have been waiting for Keaton’s return ever since we met him in Bulgaria. Just like I enjoyed hating Carter for being such a well-written character, I feel the same about Keaton. These kinds of characters allow the writers to really play around with the concept of good and evil. We were made to hate Carter in season 1, and rightfully so, but he was also always the one providing the most logical solution to things, as evil as they may have seemed to us. To a certain extent he was working on the side of good, if we are to consider team US government the good guys, but also his methods were not always in line with our heroes so that made him evil--that and well, kidnapping and torturing Jane, blackmailing Tasha, and, you know, being the slimiest character that ever was.

I think in a way Keaton is also that, but this episode gave him a new layer and made him more relatable, more human and in so, more sympathetic. I think by making him a father they made him so much more interesting. Now, like almost every other parent on the show, he kind of sucks at it, but still he is a father. He has a human side to him.

I really hope his character is here to stay because he just became so much more interesting. His kind of character will always be one that will walk the thin line between the good guys and the bad guys, you can sometimes depend on him to come to their rescue, but you can always depend on him to screw them over. But now, he is more human, he is sympathetic, vulnerable like everyone else, and most importantly, he owes Jane big time. So I have a feeling Keaton could be coming back, and while they will never be able to depend on him 100%, he will have to help them somehow to pay that debt.

L: I’ve been waiting for Keaton to come back too, and I thought his return was great. One thing that this show does well is create nuanced characters. We have good guys who do bad things (Tasha giving information on Jane and Mayfair; Mayfair's involvement in Daylight) and bad guys who have good motivations (Remi, Roman, and Shepherd). We expected Keaton to show up at some point, to be Jane's enemy (and probably Kurt's, too), but this setup put them on the same team, which is a much more complex and interesting situation than a purely adversarial interaction would be. He's still a bad guy who does bad things, but he's on the right side, and he's just doing his job, right? As is so frequently the case on this show, the answer is: Kind of.

When Keaton arrives on the scene, he goes out of his way to imply that Weller was totally on board with Keaton's imprisonment and torture of Jane. Weller quickly sets that to rest, and later admits to Jane that he'd almost snapped Keaton's neck when he found out. (Actually he nearly strangled him, but okay, dramatic license.) In a weird bit of symmetry, both Keaton and his predecessor, Carter, refer to Jane as "adorable" when they first encounter her in the field and she makes comments like, "I thought [the FBI and the CIA] were all on the same team," and "I thought we didn't negotiate with terrorists." Both of them clearly think that the ends justify any means, just as Jane clearly doesn't. To them, she is naive. But to her, their abuse of power (and flagrant disregard for the laws that govern their agency's existence) are the reason that organizations like Sandstorm flourish.

Jane doesn't want to work with Keaton for obvious reasons, and he wastes no time in baiting her. "We never got to finish what you started in Oregon," he tells her. "What I started? I don't hurt people unless I have to. I'm not like you," she retorts, to which he replies, "Says the daughter of the biggest domestic terrorist in American history." Now this is an interesting reveal. Jane (and the FBI) didn't find out who her mother was until after she'd already escaped from the CIA. And given that the FBI immediately sent her undercover, this doesn't seem like a detail they would have broadcast after her return, as it would have risked blowing her cover. So not only does Keaton know who her family is, he knew when she was turned over to CIA custody. This conclusion is reinforced when he tells her, "I was ordered to extract intel from an enemy combatant. It wasn't personal." So who ordered him to extract intel from her? Nas told Jane that Carter had been the head of Orion. But Carter was dead by the time Jane went into CIA custody, and Keaton had succeeded Carter as Deputy Director. So this would imply that this order came from someone beyond both Carter and Keaton. The Director of the CIA? Someone else?? As Patterson would say, this is very very not good. (This also means that the CIA likely knew exactly who Jane Doe was when she was dropped in Times Square, as well as why she was there, but just like Nas, no one saw fit to warn Mayfair or the FBI.)

Sandstorm seems dedicated to the cause of bringing about an end to the corruption in the federal government, corruption which seems to be one and the same as Orion. So if the CIA and the NSA are so determined to stop Sandstorm... is it just because they altruistically want to shut down a domestic terrorist organization, or is it because they are trying to protect themselves/Orion from exposure? Last week Nas told Weller that the head of NSA wouldn't admit that she or "Zero Division" existed. This week, Keaton tells Jane, "My actions... don't officially exist, any more than you do. We're just blacked out lines in some government report." So are they the good guys or the bad guys here?

Stepulov tells Jane, "You want to capture a real terrorist, put your handcuffs on this man Keaton.” Now, he could just be bitter about being manipulated by Keaton. But perhaps just as Jane and Borden became sympathetic to Sandstorm, Stepulov's organization rose in opposition to the abuses perpetrated by Orion in the name of the American government.

The only thing we know for certain right now is that these waters are pretty murky, and it doesn't look like they're going to get any less so in the immediate future.

Roman's heartbreaking story doesn't seem to be any more optimistic this week, does it?

Y: Oh god, my poor child. Wednesdays have become a weekly punch in the gut with heartbreaking Roman feels. His story is just unbelievably tragic and Luke Mitchell is just mind-blowing in this role. Once again he steals the show with his performance, and I am left in awe of his acting skills and of the writing for this character.

One questions we have been asking ourselves since the mid-season finale is how will the dosage of ZIP Roman got affect him. I think in this one the writers have taken a lot of liberties. Jane barely gave him one shot and that seemed to have erased his entire memory. Not sure this makes sense but I guess it's a suspend-your-disbelief kind of moment.

Roman has recovered one memory so far, and as with Jane it was triggered by the situation he is in. And while Jane's first memory was a recent one, his mind went very far into the past back to when he was in the orphanage.

And again, it is a reminder of just how broken and how tragic this character is. He is and has always been that scared, tortured little boy.

And that is why I refuse to believe Dr. Sun or Nas that he is irredeemable or that he cannot be a good person. I think the fact that he is going back to that point in his life, to that moment when innocence was stolen from him is a sign that his mind wants to go back there. So when it comes to Roman's redemption, I am firmly on Team Jane.

Another thing that Roman has, that Jane didn't have at that point in her journey, is someone who knows him, someone who loves him unconditionally and someone who is fighting for him.

I loved the scene where Jane brought him coffee. It parallels the scene where Borden (are we still calling him Borden or should we call him Nigel now?) brought her the tea and coffee and made her choose. Jane didn't do it the exact same way though, and it wasn't her taking that choice from him as much as it was her reassuring him that he does not need to fight this battle on his own, that he is not on his own, that she's right there with him fighting with him and fighting for him.

This is what Nas and Dr. Sun do not see or do not understand and what Patterson talks about with Jane in the end.

And I have faith in Jane and Roman to come out of this stronger than ever. These kids deserve their redemption and their happy ending.

L: Oh, Roman. His storyline makes my heart hurt.

I can’t agree more, all the kudos to Luke Mitchell for his amazing portrayal of Roman. It's hard to imagine that there could be a role that requires greater acting extremes. Roman veers from anger to pathos to violence to pain, all at the drop of hat, and Luke Mitchell pulls it off every time, in every scene. Hats off.

When we first see Roman this week, he is curled on the floor of his cell, lost in a nightmare in which he's been thrown into a dark, locked cell after failing to kill his rabbit at the orphanage. His fingernails are bloody and raw, as he tries fruitlessly to claw his way through the floor in the grip of his nightmare. When he told Jane the story about the rabbit, we thought the punishment he received was simply being forced to listen to the animal slowly bleed to death during the night, but clearly the reality was far, far worse. Jane is worried about him, and it's obvious to her that being locked in a cage is making his memory loss even more traumatic for him. She appeals to Weller to put Roman in a safe house, but with the weight of twelve dead agents on Roman's head, it's a freedom Weller can't permit. As a compromise, Nas calls in a criminal profiler to work with Roman, to try to help him recover his memories.

Knowing that the last FBI shrink was using his position of trust to manipulate his patients, it's hard not to be equally suspicious of Dr. Sun. And frankly, there is nothing about her to inspire trust or warmth from any perspective. She immediately refers to Roman as the "prisoner" and "a killer" (it's just great to know that she's going into this with an open mind, prepared to give Roman an unbiased evaluation, isn't it?) and to Jane as "the sister." She tells Jane that she can't be present during the session because her presence "will contaminate the process." Sun may be good at what she does, but warm and fuzzy, she is not.

When we see her with Roman in the midst of the session, the floor is littered with Roman's sketches. We've seen Jane working through her tattoos and identity struggles by drawing in a sketchbook, a talent her brother appears to share. Given that the operation to place Jane at the NYO seems to have been a family affair, the idea of encrypting information in pictures on Jane's body suddenly seems less fantastic. Sun forces Roman to relive his time in the cell, and we learn that in order to earn his freedom, the "rabbit" Roman had to kill was another child.

Dr. Sun concludes that Roman is suffering from "extreme antisocial personality disorder" that has "destroyed his capacity for empathy, for love." I immediately thought about how grateful he was to see Jane again, the way he embraced her and told her that he'd missed her. So I'm gonna say bull. He can love, and he does love his sister, even though he might not remember her right now. Jane didn't remember much about Ian right after her memory wipe, but he came back to her in images and finally feelings, just as I believe Alice/Remi will come back to Roman in time. Jane immediately interjects, "I grew up in the same place in the same way" to which Sun replies, "I haven't examined you yet." And this doesn't sound promising for either of the Kruger siblings. Except that we know Jane is capable of love. We know that she has extraordinary empathy--and that it was present before her memory wipe. Remember Oscar telling her that she was compassionate?

Dr. Sun cautions against trying to get Roman to remember anything else, at the risk of "retriggering his psychopathic tendencies." She says he should be isolated for the rest of his life. And if I wasn't already convinced she had some other agenda, I would be now. No treatment, no therapy, just lock him up and throw away the key? How Victorian. How... completely contrary to any modern psychological treatment.

Jane is obviously distraught at this diagnosis, and we see her observing Roman in his room, fighting back tears. Weller told her that whatever hope that Roman has left is a gift that Jane gave him, and she clearly isn't giving up on Roman yet. And remember another personality trait that Jane has? She's stubborn.

My money is on the Kruger kids.

Speaking of Roman's stubborn sibling, how is Jane coping with being back at the FBI in possession of a murderous, amnesiac brother?

L: Jane’s primary focus right now is Roman. But she’s eaten up with guilt: For wiping his memory (even though she hopes it will help him in the long run), for lying to him about who wiped his memory, and now, for being part of the machinery that is keeping him locked away. She knows that jailing him isn’t going to help him, but she doesn’t have the power or authority to get him out herself, and neither Weller nor Nas is willing or able to help.

There's also a lot of self-doubt going on inside her head. “I know you,” she tells Roman when she brings him coffee and enough sugar cubes to put him into a diabetic coma twice over. But the reality is that no one knows Roman any more, even Roman himself. No one around Jane has ever seen anything in Roman that would lead them to think that he’s capable of love or kindness or loyalty or anything other than being a cold-blooded killer. Jane is the only person who believes in him, but she’s up against people like Dr. Sun, who says rather emphatically that Roman cannot be rehabilitated. "I know that there's a side to him that she can't see," Jane tells Patterson, "But I'm not objective." But Patterson is quick to tell her, "Maybe that's the point." Jane isn't objective about Roman, and so she isn't going to give up on him, no matter how many psychologists they trot out to tell her he's a lost cause. And only time will tell whether or not her belief in him is justified.

And as if Jane's day wasn't stressful enough, she has to deal with Keaton.

I have to give Jane credit. The first time she sees Keaton, she has an M16 pointed at his head. The fact that she didn't shoot him on sight is proof that her innate sense of compassion borders on super-human. Even when he taunts her and tells her he was just doing his job when he tortured her, she doesn't lose her temper, though she does go to Weller to demand to know how he can work with Keaton, knowing what the CIA Director did to her. "We don't have a choice," Weller tells her, to which Jane replies, "Yeah, he just lectured me about not having a choice when he tortured me." And we're back to the word "choice" again. Borden may have been a mole, but the theme he delivered is still true: We're defined by our choices. It's the choices you make that determine whether you are a good guy or a bad guy, not the team you play for. Keaton may be on the "good" side, but he tortured Jane. And Jane may be the daughter of a terrorist, but in the end, she saves both Keaton and his daughter, in spite of the way he treated her (and honestly, knowing what he did to Jane, none of us would have judged her harshly if she'd stepped aside and allowed Keaton to be gunned down).

Jane has to live with the weight of her choices, just as Keaton has to live with his. She's made two questionable choices lately: The first was wiping Roman's memory, and the second was lying to him about who did it. Believing that their mother wiped his memory, Roman asks Jane why she would do that. Jane tells him, "Maybe she thought it was the only chance she had left to get you back." It wasn't a good choice, but it was made for the right reasons. And just like Jane, we must hope that it turns out to have been the right choice in the end.

Y: What can I say about Jane except what we say week in and week out. This woman is phenomenal--strong, determined, relentless, caring, stubborn as hell, fearless, has the biggest heart ever but takes no crap from anyone.

Once again this week she's an unstoppable force, determined to stay in charge of her own destiny and going after what she wants.

And what Jane wants right now more than anything is to protect Roman and take down Sandstorm. And she will not rest, she will not stop until she does.

Oh, oh, and her handling of Keaton?! Dammit, girl, you're everything. Everything.

Our favorite Assistant Director took charge of the case this week, but the rest of his life is still harder to get a handle on...

Y: I love Kurt Weller. I really do. With all his flaws and issues and with every seemingly stupid decision that he makes. I'm so proud of how Kurt has been handling things at the office recently. We are finally seeing him take charge of the NYO and be a badass boss. Standing up to Pellington last week, not letting Keaton get to him this week, and the way he handled Stepulov have all been great. And while he might be putting his career and maybe his life on the line in moves that will most likely come back to bite him, it's still the Kurt we know and love.

But while things at the office seem under his control, the rest of it seems to be slipping away and it doesn't look pretty. Just like with everything Nas related, his relationship with her to me is just a series of unanswered questions.

Why are they even together at this point? Is it about convenience? Is this just Kurt falling into something comfortable and unproblematic--as far as he knows--that he doesn't need to "fight" for? And if so, is everyone's favorite little munchkin finally waking up and realizing there's something off with Nas? So why is he following her? WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS "RELATIONSHIP" (if we can even call it that)?

And finally, another storyline that leaves me perplexed is the Kurt/Allie baby storyline. I admit that I never hated it as much as the rest of the fandom, and I still don't. I think it was a great opportunity to develop Kurt's character using this storyline but instead of using it for character it was only ever used for plot. Every time it was brought up it has been for plot, most successfully in Sandstorm getting Kurt out of harm's way. But the other times it was used it was so unnecessary, whether to make Jane feel unwelcome or now to create some man-pain for Kurt.

I just don't get it. It was such a golden opportunity to be used well, to be something good for this show but I guess they didn't know just how to use it as it could have been used.

And now, if we hadn't spent the last ten episodes worrying about Allie and baby getting killed off, they had to come in and throw the "worst thing that could happen to a man is lose his child" line, and it leaves Allie and the baby in even more danger than ever before.

But I still think the whole baby storyline is a million times better than Kurt's other personal life disaster. His so-called relationship with the one woman he has zero chemistry or emotional connection with.

L: This relationship still makes no sense to me, either. And worse, it doesn’t seem like it makes any more sense to Nas or Weller. Weller clearly has more chemistry with Jane and more affection with Allie. But the saving grace here is that he finally showed a little bit of common sense. He figured out that Nas is going somewhere between leaving his apartment and arriving at the office, so he follows her to see where she goes. This is the first sign we've seen that he's not accepting everything Nas says and does at face value, and it is about damn time.

Unfortunately, following Nas means that Weller misses Allie’s prenatal checkup. He apologizes and tells Allie, “It's our baby. And I hate missing these things.” He promises to do better, but at the end of the episode, when he shows Allie the nursery he has been been fixing up in his apartment, Allie announces that she is moving to Colorado. And honestly, this was one of those moments that just clanked for me. First of all, when on earth would Weller have had time to buy (and assemble) nursery furniture and paint swatches on the wall? Are we supposed to believe that he was approaching fatherhood this way all along (which we certainly haven’t seen) or that he ran out and did this after missing the appointment this morning (while also capturing a terrorist leader, arranging open heart surgery, and stopping a major terrorist attack)? But even beyond the logistics, I have a major problem with this "convenient" twist being the resolution to such a major storyline.

Because it really isn't any sort of resolution. Weller has father issues. We know this. We’ve spent a whole season watching him deal with forgiving his father, only to find out that he’d been right all along to believe the worst. We’ve seen him announcing that he couldn’t be a father, we’ve watched him struggle to accept and finally to embrace the reality of this child. And the resolution here, the reward for all this pain and angst and suffering, is for his child to move across the country, where he has no chance of being an actual father, of building the kind of relationship with his child that he never had with his own father. Ugh, nope.

I understand that Blindspot isn’t a show that wants to deal with diaper changes or colic or inconvenient daycare closures or any of the other non-exciting, non-action-packed moments that parenting brings. A baby isn’t going to fit into the format this show follows, and everyone on the planet knew that the second that Allie announced her pregnancy. So I figured there were two possible outcomes here: Allie and/or the child die sometime before the end of the season (probably at the hands of Sandstorm), or the show sucks it up and somehow shows Weller actually dealing with his father issues by, you know, being a father. (I know there are some fan theories that Allie’s pregnancy is a Sandstorm plot, but I have a hard time imagining a plausible setup for that, so I’m ignoring it for now.) But this idea that we can just put the kid somewhere else in the country and pretend she’s not there? That’s not a satisfactory story resolution, that’s just avoidance.

Overall, the scene in the nursery with Allie left me feeling a lot like the gender reveal party with Jane: Like this was a scene/plotline that was put in there solely to make a character sad, so the audience feels sympathy for him. And just as that scene was with Jane, it’s so unnecessary. We couldn’t possibly have had more sympathy for Weller as we watched him digging up Taylor Shaw’s body. We don’t need to watch him being smacked in the face to know he's hurting.

Even though we don't see Shepherd this episode, there are a lot of pointed remarks about parents and children. Roman, wondering if their mother loved them. Stepulov saying his son deserves to live a life of his own choosing. Keaton being desperate to save his daughter. Probably the most chilling of these was Stepulov asking Jane, "You know what’s the worst thing to happen to a man, Jane? To lose a child." Now, I immediately heard this as foreshadowing to Allie losing the baby or being killed. But I suppose it could also apply to Allie moving away with the baby. I'm really hoping that somehow the show gives Weller the chance to come to grips with all of this, so that he--and the audience--can get some well-deserved resolution.

And last, but definitely not least, how are things between Kurt and Jane this week?

Y: Things between our two fantastic leads are absolutely great this week! At least that's how I saw it. I felt that, like the case of the week, we went back to a very season 1 feel to their scenes. We had them fighting over the right course of action when it came to Roman, and I love watching those two go head to head because they are both so stubborn and yes, they both have valid points for their argument. It's great watching them go at it.

And we also got an amazing moment when Jane came barging into Kurt's office ready to fight with him about Keaton. This scene reminded me of one of my favorite Jeller scenes in season 2 so far, the one in episode 3 in the locker room. Kurt admitted that he hates working with Keaton as much as she does and then lets her know he almost killed the man when he found out Keaton was responsible for Jane's torture. Ugh. My heart. These two. I just can't. Jane thanks him and Kurt retorts by asking if she's thanking him for almost killing a man in cold blood. And in a way she is, but it's also so much more than that. We know it. And they know it. But they won't admit it just yet. But that's ok. They will get there.

And another classic season 1 type Jeller moment was the car scene. Oh my. I love their older car scenes and this was up there with them. Can we please have these two in a car alone more often? These two are so much better, so much stronger when they're there for each other, supporting each other and Kurt doing just that for Jane is so important. He's been doing it ever since Jane brought Roman in and we might not know exactly how he feels about the whole situation but we know one thing, he will support Jane through this in every way that she needs him to, from standing up to Pellington to reassuring her that everything will be ok and that she will not lose her brother and how important she is to him.

Welcome back season 1 Jeller and welcome back SUV heart eyes!

And finally, again in a nod back to season 1, we had the moment where someone else brought up their connection, and this time it was MVP Patterson laying down the truth--and those words spoke volumes!

L: I agree! The best comment about Jeller this week came from Patterson, who says to Jane, "Weller wasn't objective, and he brought out the best in you." She's absolutely right, but even more, I think it's pretty obvious that it goes the other way, too. Last season, Jane viewed Weller as her personal hero... and he pretty much was. Then he arrested her and sent her off to the CIA, and frankly, we haven't seen Weller at his best since then. He's been making bad decisions, both personally and professionally, and he's struggling. Clearly, they both do better when they are functioning as a team. So let's get back to that, shall we?

And whew, that's everything from us this week! What did you think of this episode? Do you agree or disagree with our analysis? Let us know! - Laura & Yas