Blindspot (TV series)

Blindspot
Genre	Crime Drama Action Thriller
Created by	Martin Gero
Starring	Sullivan Stapleton Jaimie Alexander Rob Brown Audrey Esparza Ashley Johnson Ukweli Roach Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Composer(s)	Blake Neely
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	20 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Mark Pellington Sarah Schechter Martin Gero Greg Berlanti Marcos Siega
Producer(s)	Howard Griffith Harvey Waldman
Editor(s)	Finnian Murray
Location(s)	New York City, New York
Cinematography	Martin Ahlgren David Johnson
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	42–43 minutes
Production company(s)	Berlanti Productions Quinn's House Warner Bros. Television
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	September 21, 2015 – present
External links
Website
Production website

Blindspot is an American crime drama television series created by Martin Gero, starring Sullivan Stapleton and Jaimie Alexander. The series was ordered by NBC on May 1, 2015,^[1] and premiered on September 21, 2015. A back nine order was given on October 9, 2015, bringing the first season to a total of 22 episodes, plus an additional episode bringing the order to 23 episodes.^[2][3] On November 9, 2015, NBC renewed Blindspot for a second season.^[4]

Premise

Blindspot focuses on a mysterious tattooed woman who has lost her memory and does not know her own identity. The FBI discovers that each tattoo contains a clue to a crime they will have to solve.^[5][6]

Cast

Main

• Sullivan Stapleton as Special Agent Kurt Weller, an FBI agent and head of the FBI Critical Incident Response Group, who is called into the investigation into Jane when his name is found mysteriously tattooed on Jane's body. He comes to recognize Jane as his missing childhood friend Taylor Shaw and becomes very protective, due to having never recovered from the pain and guilt he suffers from her disappearance.
• Jaimie Alexander as Taylor Shaw/"Jane Doe", an unidentified woman found naked and amnesiac in Time Square, who is now kept in FBI protective custody as an investigation proceeds into her identity. Despite lacking conscious memories, Jane occasionally has flashbacks to her past life and retains a wide variety of combat and language skills. It is suspected she is a former Navy SEAL, whose identity is classified due to involvement in special operations. Jane is confirmed to be Taylor Shaw, Kurt Weller's neighbor and childhood friend, who vanished 25 years ago and was presumed deceased.^[7]
• Rob Brown as Special Agent Edgar Reade, an FBI agent and member of Kurt's team, who has doubts about Jane's inclusion on team and expresses skepticism of Kurt's willingness to follow the information from Jane's tattoos so quickly. He is in love with Kurt's sister, Sarah, but broke up with her on both Kurt's request and because he feared for her safety after one of the group behind Jane's tattoos threatened her when he was trying to investigate Jane's background.
• Audrey Esparza as Special Agent Natasha "Tasha" Zapata, an FBI agent and member of Kurt's team, previously an NYPD officer at the 96th District for five years. Secretly, she has a gambling addiction, caused by guilt from the death of her partner while with the NYPD, and is in severe debt, which she hides from her coworkers.
• Ashley Johnson as Special Agent Patterson, head of the FBI Forensic Science Unit and responsible for studying and identifying Jane's tattoos.
• Ukweli Roach as Dr. Robert Borden, an FBI psychiatrist who helps Jane in retrieving and understanding her past memories.
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Bethany Mayfair, Assistant Director In Charge of the FBI's New York Field Office, and is directly in charge of Kurt and his team, for whom she acts as an ally and mentor. She was once the FBI 'contact' for Operation Daylight, a program to use illegally-obtained information and present it as coming from faked informants, and it is hinted that Jane's tattoos have some connection to Daylight.

Recurring

• Johnny Whitworth as a mysterious man connected to Shaw's past. He was killed by an unknown sniper in Jane's safe house.
• Jordana Spiro as Sarah Weller, Kurt's sister. Sarah tries to heal Kurt's lingering emotional trauma from Taylor Shaw's disappearance, as well as repair the broken relationship between Kurt and their terminally ill father. She is in love with Kurt's co-worker and friend, Edgar Reade.
• Logan Schuyler Smith as Sawyer, Sarah's son and Kurt's nephew.
• Michael Gaston as Thomas "Tom" Carter, Deputy Director of the CIA, who is connected with Mayfair to Operation Daylight, and is strongly interested in Jane due to concerns that her tattooes could reveal Daylight's existence. He was killed by Oscar.^[8]
• Joe Dinicol as David Wagner, Patterson's boyfriend. Patterson broke up with him after being reprimanded for sharing the tattoos with David. He was killed by a Russian agent for investigating an undercover spy ring. His character was modeled after David Kwong, who works as a puzzle consultant for the show. ^[9]
• Jay O. Sanders as Bill Weller, Kurt and Sarah's father, who was accused of kidnapping and killing Taylor Shaw because he lied about his alibi, resulting in the destruction of his life and marriage and the end of his relationship with his son. He is terminally ill with lung cancer. Later, he admits he was attempting suicide the night of Taylor's disappearance, finally earning Kurt's trust back.
• François Arnaud as Oscar, a mysterious man connected to Jane's past. Partial flashbacks have revealed Oscar is Jane's ex-boyfriend and they planned to marry, but Jane broke off the engagement.^[10]
• Lou Diamond Phillips as Saúl Guerrero, a notorious gang leader and the FBI's second-most-wanted fugitive, who is connected to Operation Daylight. He was killed by on Tom Carter's orders while in prison.
• Trieste Kelly Dunn as Allison Knight, a former FBI agent, now a U.S. Marshal and FBI WITSEC liaison. Knight is Kurt's ex-girlfriend, who still loves him and hopes to restart their relationship.
• John Hodgman as Chief Inspector Jonas Fischer, an FBI Office of Professional Responsibility agent maneuvering to replace Mayfair. He was later exposed as a Russian agent and killed by Jane while attempting to frame her as the mole in his place.
• Sarita Choudhury as Sophia Varma, Deputy White House Political Director, who is connected with Mayfair to Operation Daylight, and was also Mayfair's girlfriend. She was reported to have killed herself, affecting Mayfair deeply. She was later revealed to have faked her own death and went into hiding to escape unknown pursuers.
• Eisa Davis as Alexandra, a woman who Mayfair becomes romantically involved with. As a warning to for Mayfair to stay away from Carter's death, Alexandra is later stabbed to death in her hotel room while Mayfair was getting ice.
• Aaron Abrams as AUSA Matthew Weitz - an ambitious U.S. Attorney secretly investigating Mayfair for misconduct, with Zapata's reluctant involvement.

Episodes

No.	Title / Anagram [lower-alpha 1]	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	"Woe Has Joined" "Who is Jane Doe"[11]	Mark Pellington	Martin Gero	September 21, 2015	276092	10.61[12]
A woman is left naked inside a duffel bag on Times Square, completely covered in recent tattoos, among which is the name of FBI Special Agent Kurt Weller. She suffers from a drug-induced amnesia. At the FBI laboratory, they can neither identify her, nor does Kurt know her, making her a Jane Doe. They also find an older Navy SEAL tattoo that was covered up. One of her tattoos is an address in Chinese characters, leading them to the terrorist Chao. Jane and Kurt stop him, which triggers a memory of Jane running a shooting course supervised by an unknown man. This man also appears at the hospital to kill Chao. A flashback shows how the same man has given Jane the amnesia drug at her request. A number on Jane's body matches a redacted file of Assistant Director Bethany Mayfair.
2	"A Stray Howl" "Taylor Shaw"[11]	Mark Pellington	Martin Gero	September 28, 2015	4X6302	9.11[13]
Patterson has set up a computer program to constantly cross reference Jane's tattoos. It brings up the name Major Arthur Gibson, a pilot who wants to expose a secret domestic drone program. He attains control over an armed drone and kills both his former boss and another pilot who had turned him in as a whistleblower. Gibson intends to destroy the drone program by bombing the pilots' operation center. Patterson locates his signal and Weller and Jane stop him. Jane is haunted by flashbacks of killing a nun and suffers from remorse. She eventually remembers that it was really a disguised soldier from whom she took a USB key. Weller notices a scar on Jane's neck which coincides with a scar of Taylor Shaw, a childhood friend who went missing 25 years ago, and he becomes certain that Jane is Taylor. His father was accused of kidnapping and murdering Taylor, which split up their family. At night, Jane is surprised by the mysterious man in her apartment.
3	"Eight Slim Grins" "The Missing Girl"[11]	Steve Shill	Eoghan Mahony & Martin Gero	October 5, 2015	4X6303	9.06[14]
When the unknown man in Jane's apartment warns her about the FBI, he is shot by a sniper, which makes Jane suspicious and cautious. The FBI is unable to identify his body. Patterson finds the number of the redacted FBI case file of gang leader Saúl Guerrero, which was led by Mayfair, who pretends not to remember. Casey Robek is injured while robbing a jewelry store. He has the same Navy SEALs tattoo as Jane. When he wakes up in the hospital after surgery, he signals Jane that he knows her, but then his brother Travis abducts him. Travis lets himself get killed rather than be arrested, and Casey whispers the word "Orion" to Jane before he dies. A DNA test confirms that Jane is Taylor Shaw, Weller's childhood neighbor. To Edgar's dismay, Jane becomes an official member of the team. Mayfair meets with Tom Carter, Deputy Director of the CIA, to discuss the secret operation "Daylight". Whoever tattooed Jane must have known about it, but only four people did and one is dead. Carter demands Mayfair make the situation go away.
4	"Bone May Rot" "Or Maybe Not"[11]	Karen Gaviola	Christina M. Kim	October 12, 2015	4X6304	8.45[15]
Patterson's boyfriend David solves a puzzle on a photo of one of Jane's tattoos. It leads them to a CDC lab where two fanatic scientists are planning to release a deadly virus to save the world from overpopulation, but they are stopped just in time. Patterson asks Mayfair to see the non-redacted Guerrero file, but is denied, presumably to protect agents in the field. Carter demands to interrogate Jane himself, but Mayfair refuses. Kurt tells Jane about Taylor's past. However, a test that Patterson ran on Jane's tooth shows that she was born in Africa – this contradicts the DNA which matched Taylor Shaw. Tasha's bookie warns her that she has three days to pay off her gambling debts.
5	"Split the Law" "The Past Will"[16]	Mark Pellington	Brendan Gall	October 19, 2015	4X6305	7.82[17]
During a dinner with Kurt's sister, Sarah, Jane cannot withstand the pressure to fill the role of Taylor Shaw. She has a memory from her childhood of being led into a basement filled with other children. A crime scene of what seems to be a hostage situation matches an address derived from one of Jane's tattoos, but it is really a CIA black site where Director Carter keeps bomb maker Dodi. Dodi is rescued by his team and builds a radiological bomb, but is stopped by the FBI. Carter shows up on site and is stopped by Mayfair from shooting Jane. He openly demands either Dodi or Jane for the CIA, so Mayfair gives up Dodi. Kurt's father, Bill, visits Sarah, but Kurt refuses to reconcile. Carter pays off Zapata's gambling debts and demands all the FBI's information about Jane in return.
6	"Cede Your Soul" "Cloud Our Eyes"[18]	Rob Hardy	Alex Berger	October 26, 2015	4X6306	7.91[19]
The FBI shuts down a hacker app which can locate government vehicles. Jane has an erotic dream about someone who she thinks is Kurt, so she tries to keep her distance from him. However, the man in her dreams is not Weller and is observing her house at night. Tasha ultimately decides to pay her gambling debts by giving the money she got from Carter to her bookie. She tells him that she's out and doesn't want to bet anymore. Sarah tells Bill that Taylor is alive.
7	"Sent on Tour" "Trust No One"[20]	Steve Shill	Chris Pozzebon	November 2, 2015	4X6307	8.02[21]
When being questioned by Weller about the file, Mayfair claims Saúl Guerrero (Lou Diamond Phillips) was an informant and she was his handler but then he started to work against the FBI, which is the reason why the file is redacted. David wants to move in with Patterson and he helps her follow a clue to the Brooklyn Historical Society, but Mayfair finds out about David and reprimands Patterson for giving a civilian access to classified information. Afraid, she breaks up with David. The team follows one of Jane's tattoos to a secessionist town in Michigan where they arrest Guerrero. After fighting the town's militia with the help of clues from multiple other tattoos, they bring him in to the FBI. When Kurt notices that Mayfair has never met Guerrero before, she tells him about Operation Daylight.
8	"Persecute Envoys" "Suspect Everyone"[22]	Marcos Siega	Chelsey Lora	November 9, 2015	4X6308	7.67[23]
Five years ago, Bethany Mayfair met with Tom Carter, Deputy White House Political Director Sofia Varma, and the White House Chief of Staff Davenport. Now, Mayfair tells Weller about all of the valuable domestic intel the NSA collected illegally and that she was given orders to make the intelligence actionable. She used Saúl Guerrero to do that and they made him a front as a CI which let them put dangerous people behind bars. Kurt rails at her about all her lies, that she has the case, and why it is tattooed on Jane's body. Mayfair swears she knows nothing more, but her relationship with Weller may be beyond repair. A flashback shows how Sofia, who was her lover, committed suicide. Meanwhile, two NYPD cops were found shot down after being connected to the scene of the shooting of a young black teen that resulted in riots. The unit's numbered logo matches a tattoo on Jane's body. Their investigation reveals a dirty secret of the 65th precinct. Carter demands Tasha keep delivering more information about Jane, which she is reluctant to give.
9	"Authentic Flirt" "Lift the Curtain"[24]	David McWhirter	Katherine Collins	November 16, 2015	4X6309	7.74[25]
Patterson decodes another tattoo that leads to a website criminals use to discuss their crimes. They are lead to a location, and a shootout with an assassin-couple ensues in which the couple die. Allison Knight, a U.S. Marshall and Weller's ex-girlfriend, explains there was a hack at WitSec and the assassin-couple were to purchase a hit-list. Weller and Jane go undercover as the assassin-couple to get the list and arrest the man selling it. Jane and Weller are transported to the seller's island under high security. The team have to locate where Jane and Weller have been taken. Mayfair and Carter argue about Guerrero, with Carter wanting to take him out and Mayfair plotting to back date paperwork so he can't pin Daylight on them. However Carter orders a janitor to kill Guerrero. Zapata is pressured by Carter to place a bug in Jane's safe house, but she doesn't. Patterson meets with her ex-boyfriend David, who wants to reunite, but she wants to stay apart due to her high-level job. Later, David notices a person looking through a book of codes they had found together and follows them. After being led into an alley, he is found dead by a man following him.
10	"Evil Handmade Instrument" "And Unveil the Mastermind"[26]	Marcos Siega	Christina M. Kim	November 23, 2015	4X6310	7.03[27]
In the aftermath of David's murder, Patterson is asked to consider an L.O.A., which she declines, and begs for one day of work with the team since she cannot bear to go back to her apartment. Mayfair meets with Carter, telling him he's out of control and sloppy because Guerrero is back in the papers, but he tells her to get rid of Jane since she's the last link to 'Daylight.' Zapata gets a "last chance" from Carter to fulfill his commands of surveillance on Jane. While Jane tries to trigger some memories, the team is shown the book info with a partial print. Following the info, the team discovers a Russian sleeper cell operation where Russian agents get their targets to marry them. The team finds out that the red-haired woman is one of them and her mission is to eliminate targets deemed unpatriotic to Russia. They find her and Weller and Jane are able to take her down in a heavy fight. Zapata signs her resignation letter to avoid having to do Carter's bidding. Later, Jane ditches her FBI handlers and waits for Weller outside his apartment where she kisses him then takes off after being interrupted by Weller's nephew. She is kidnapped by Carter and his men who waterboard her for information, causing her to remember encountering Carter in her life before as he mentioned "Orion." She is saved by the mysterious man with the tree tattoo who reveals a video to Jane which leaves her stunned: she is the person who orchestrated everything, including her own memory loss.
11	"Cease Forcing Enemy" "In Case of Emergency"[28]	Rob Seidenglanz	Martin Gero	February 29, 2016	4X6311	6.85[29]
One of Jane's tattoos leads the team to an abandoned island, where they find a commercial plane that had disappeared and was presumed lost. Once there, they are apprehended by a group of terrorists who are using the island to keep the passengers hostage and are forcing them to create a device capable of disabling all U.S. GPS satellites. Meanwhile, Oscar tells Jane that she has to trust him, and that she was the one who gave the order for her to not know who she is and why she did all of this to herself.
12	"Scientists Hollow Fortune" "Follow These Instructions"[30]	Rich Newey	Alex Berger	March 7, 2016	4X6312	6.59[31]
Jane is asked by Oscar to replace Mayfair's pen with a duplicate. When an army airborne Sergeant who was thought to be dead kills three people at an army base, it is revealed that his name is tattooed on Jane's leg along with the names of four other soldiers, all presumed dead. The team tracks him to his mother's old house and they realize that he was being experimented on by a private military contractor trying to make a super soldier. When he is kidnapped by the doctor who experimented on him, the FBI tracks them down to a storage facility in Brooklyn and Weller is forced to shoot him when he has a gun pointed at Jane.
13	"Erase Weary Youth" "Stay Where You Are"[32]	Marcos Siega	Chris Pozzebon	March 14, 2016	4X6313	6.25[33]
After a tip reveals a mole within the FBI, the team must hunt for the operative while facing extreme scrutiny from Inspector Fischer. Fischer interrogates Mayfair and her team, probing for their deepest secrets. Fischer finds evidence that Jane's whereabouts were unaccounted for on the night of Tom Carter's disappearance and accuses her of killing him. An FBI informant identifies Jane as the mole and Fischer arrests her. Weller, certain of Jane's innocence, roughs up the informant for more information and learns that Fischer himself is the mole. He and his team attempt to free Jane and arrest Fischer. Jane breaks out of custody and kills Fischer when the latter reaches for his gun. Reade tells Weller about his and Sarah's relationship; Weller orders him to end it. Realizing that Fischer's case against Jane was highly plausible, Reade and Mayfair begin to wonder if she killed Carter. A furious and shaken Jane meets with Oscar, who says there is a time-sensitive tattoo on her body he needs her to decipher. Jane declares she is done with him and leaves.
14	"Rules in Defiance" "Find a Secure Line"[34]	Kenneth Fink	Kristen Layden	March 21, 2016	4X6314	5.89[35]
A tattoo leads the team towards a massive shootout, which was a sting operation the team screwed up. They then stumble on a suspicious death-row guilty plea and a human-trafficking ring. Unable to postpone the execution, the team needs to arrest the people involved in the smuggling ring to save the inmate. Zapata takes the place of the next supposed victim, but is drugged and kidnapped, her tracking device removed. Jane argues with the FBI's therapist about whether or not to leave the FBI, but wants back in when she hears Zapata is in danger. The kidnappers find out that Zapata is not who they thought she was. The dirty politicians and businessmen involved flee in fear of being exposed, setting the building on fire with Zapata and the other victims inside. Zapata helps the others escape, but is trapped. The team gets there just in time, arresting the ring and saving Zapata. Edgar is knocked out by a masked man during his investigation into Carter's death. Jane refuses to be Oscar's asset in the FBI. Oscar warns that the people in charge will kill Weller if she doesn't cooperate.
15	"Older Cutthroat Canyon" "To Contact Your Handler"[36]	Marcos Siega	Brendan Gall	March 28, 2016	4X6315	5.99[37]
Jane shows up at Oscar's meet and is handed her new assignment: place a tracker inside the team's vehicle. Edgar wakes up with a gun pointed at his head. The masked man warns him not to investigate Carter's death. Patterson has a hit on a major clue, the burning rose on Jane's body. The investigation leads to an art gallery which has been robbed. Kurt discovers a bomb planted in a sculpture and is injured in the explosion. Knowing where the artist lives, Edgar and Jane investigate his apartment, but get shot at by a sniper who Jane recognizes from a flashback. When the sniper makes his escape, Jane makes a run for it, too. Kurt refuses to go back to the hospital until Jane is safe. As the team gets a lead, Jane discovers more about the sniper from Oscar. At a shipyard, Kurt and his team become trapped in the sniper's hideout. Oscar is given directions to keep Jane safe, but she needs to know that Kurt and the others are safe, so she heads straight to the shipyard where she is caught by the sniper. Kurt blasts the team out of their trap as Jane fights the sniper. Oscar shoots the sniper and they both fall into the water. Knowing Sarah is in danger, Edgar doesn't want to continue investigating Jane and has to break Sarah's heart in order to protect her. At their meeting spot, Jane finds Oscar alive. The sniper is also still alive.
16	"Any Wounded Thief" "Find What You Need"[38]	Tricia Brock	Christina M. Kim	April 4, 2016	4X6316	5.54[39]
As Kurt's relationship with Allie develops, his sister decides to move out of his apartment because of her anger over him making Reade dump her. It is also Jane/Taylor's birthday, and Kurt gives her a pin that belonged to her mother. When an armored truck carrying stolen Sarin gas is robbed, the team's investigation leads to a corrupt general who was selling the gas to North Korea. When Jane gets upset at Oscar for asking her to get closer to Kurt, he professes his love for her and they have sex. Meanwhile, Patterson struggles with memories of David when she gets a call confirming a reservation he had made for their year anniversary. After some encouragement from Dr. Borden she goes to the restaurant with David's last crossword. Speaking to a phantom of David, she solves the crossword which reveals a hidden message[lower-alpha 2] that David had solved another tattoo before his death.
17	"Mans Telepathic Loyal Lookouts" "In Almost the Last Place You Look"[42]	Jeff T. Thomas	Rachel Caris Love	April 11, 2016	4X6317	5.53[43]
Patterson uses David's clues to decode another tattoo, leading her to an antiquities store, where the owner suddenly kidnaps her. When the team later learn of her disappearance and retrace her steps, learning that her abductor is a serial killer, whose brother has been covering up his crimes. After rescuing Patterson, killing her abductor and arresting his brother, Reade comes forward to Mayfair about the threats against him.
18	"One Begets Technique" "To Begin the Sequence"[44]	Karen Gaviola	Martin Gero	April 18, 2016	4X6318	5.46[45]
The FBI must use the felon they put away, Rich Dotcom, to catch a criminal who is the banker for many terrorist organizations. His idea is to stage the robbery of 12 priceless black market paintings from the professor who stole them. Later, the entire heist turns out to be a scheme for Dotcom to escape custody. Meanwhile, Jane meets Weller's father and starts to follow Oscar's plan to pretend to remember things for hers and Weller's childhood. Mayfair's girlfriend Sofia, who was thought dead, turns out to be alive.
19	"In the Comet of Us" "Focus on the Time"[46]	Dermott Downs	Ryan Johnson & Peter Lalayanis	April 25, 2016	4X6319	5.58[47]
Zapata solves a tattoo which leads the team to Hudson University on a seemingly worthless mission to uncover scholarship fraud. Once they arrived on campus, a shooter starts a rampage. The team splits up and eventually apprehends the perpetrators, who are revealed to be former football players who were abused by the Coach with whom Reade is close. The show also reveals details into the characters lives: Weller and his relationship with his dad; Jane and her relationship with Oscar; Zapata and her gamblers anonymous meetings; and Reade getting over his breakup with Sarah and his visits to his tailor. Meanwhile, Mayfair gives Sofia money to help her flee her pursuers. Sofia refuses Mayfair's offer of protection and asks her to run away with her; Mayfair declines and sends her away.
20	"Swift Hardhearted Stone"	Rob Seidenglanz	Christina M. Kim	May 2, 2016	4X6320	5.43[48]
Dr. Borden consults on the case of an autistic girl who draws extremely detailed sketches, one of which matches one of Jane's tattoos. The girl turns out to be the daughter of the leader of a terrorist group, and her sketches provide valuable intel. When the girl's mother is murdered, the team takes her to Dr. Borden's aunt's cabin to protect her. There, they stop a group of men who come to kill her. The girl's sketches reveal a State Department diplomat, who was funding the terrorist group, sent the men in order to prevent her identifying him, and the diplomat is arrested. Zapata explains her suspicions about Mayfair to Reade. Jane steals data from the FBI at Oscar's request. While Mayfair is enjoying an evening out, her date is murdered, and an anonymous phone call warns her not to investigate Carter's death.
21	"Of Whose Uneasy Route"[49]	TBA	TBA	May 9, 2016	TBA	TBD
22	"If Love a Rebel, Death Will Render"[49]	TBA	TBA	May 16, 2016	TBA	TBD
23	"Why Await Life's End"[49]	TBA	TBA	May 23, 2016	TBA	TBD

Broadcast

In Australia, the series was acquired by the Seven Network^[50] and premiered the program on October 28, 2015.^[51] In Canada, CTV has acquired the broadcasting rights for the series.^[52] In the United Kingdom, Blindspot premiered on Sky Living on November 24, 2015.^[53]

Reception

Critical response

Blindspot has received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the series has a rating of 66%, based on 59 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Blindspot is elevated by an intriguing mystery and enough strong action to propel most viewers into a necessary suspense of disbelief."^[54] On Metacritic, the series has a score of 65 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."^[55]

Ratings

No.	Title	Air date	Rating/share (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total (18–49)	Total viewers (millions)
1	"Pilot"	September 21, 2015	3.1/10	10.61[12]	1.9	5.98	5.0	16.59[56]
2	"A Stray Howl"	September 28, 2015	2.6/8	9.11[13]	2.0	6.02	4.6	15.12[57]
3	"Eight Slim Grins"	October 5, 2015	2.4/8	9.06[14]	1.9	5.65	4.3	14.71[58]
4	"Bone May Rot"	October 12, 2015	2.5/8	8.45[15]	1.7	5.34	4.2	13.79[59]
5	"Split the Law"	October 19, 2015	2.1/7	7.82[17]	1.9	5.61	4.0	13.43[60]
6	"Cede Your Soul"	October 26, 2015	2.1/7	7.91[19]	1.8	5.40	3.9	13.31[61]
7	"Sent on Tour"	November 2, 2015	2.2/7	8.02[21]	1.8	5.40	4.0	13.42[62]
8	"Persecute Envoys"	November 9, 2015	2.2/7	7.67[23]	1.8	5.52	4.0	13.19[63]
9	"Authentic Flirt"	November 16, 2015	2.1/7	7.74[25]	1.7	5.23	3.8	12.97[64]
10	"Evil Handmade Instrument"	November 23, 2015	1.9/6	7.03[27]	1.6	5.16	3.5	12.19[65]
11	"Cease Forcing Enemy"	February 29, 2016	1.8/6	6.85[29]	1.5	4.80	3.3	11.64[66]
12	"Scientists Hollow Fortune"	March 7, 2016	1.7/6	6.59[31]	1.5	4.54	3.2	11.13[67]
13	"Erase Weary Youth"	March 14, 2016	1.6/5	6.25[33]	1.4	4.40	3.0	10.65[68]
14	"Rules in Defiance"	March 21, 2016	1.5/5	5.89[35]	1.4	4.39	2.9	10.28[69]
15	"Older Cutthroat Canyon"	March 28, 2016	1.6/5	5.99[37]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
16	"Any Wounded Thief"	April 4, 2016	1.3/4	5.54[39]	1.2	3.89	2.5	9.43[70]
17	"Mans Telepathic Loyal Lookouts"	April 11, 2016	1.4/5	5.53[43]	1.1	3.88	2.5	9.41[71]
18	"One Begets Technique"	April 18, 2016	1.3/4	5.46[45]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
19	"In the Comet of Us"	April 25, 2016	1.4/5	5.58[47]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
20	"Swift Hardhearted Stone"	May 2, 2016	1.3/4	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
21	"Of Whose Uneasy Route"	May 9, 2016	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
22	"If Love a Rebel, Death Will Render"	May 16, 2016	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
23	"Why Await Life's End"	May 23, 2016	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Notes

1. Blindspot's episode titles are nonsensical phrases, with anagrams that reveal hints to the plot.
2. The message "Got One Patterson" really did appear in the NY Times Crossword Puzzle on April 4, 2016 (Same as the episode's airdate). The crossword was created by David Kwong who intentionally created the message as a tie-in to the show. ^[9][40][41]

References

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2. Andreeva, Nellie (October 9, 2015). "Blindspot Gets Full-Season Order By NBC". Deadline.com. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
3. Porter, Rick (November 4, 2015). "NBC adds episodes to SVU, Blindspot and Chicago Fire and PD". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
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External links

• Official website
• Blindspot at the Internet Movie Database
• Blindspot at TV Guide