Thats just plain cruel, but also wonderfully manipulative.
Instead, we begin with one ofBlindspots signature cold opens.
A masked man records himself breaking into some sort of warehouse.
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The midseason finale ended with a betrayal, and Hot Burning Flames begins with one.
Blakes father and, as we know, the man who was ordering Hirst to do everything she did.
He has ties to a number of the tattoo cases, but the evidence is tenuous at best.
Meanwhile, Roman is in Marrakesh auditioning for his own job with Crawford.
Patterson tracks where the video was uploaded from, and Reade and Zapata go check it out.
Another government agency is already there, but its clear theyre completely incompetent.
It turns out that this is a warehouse where the Department of Energy stores some nuclear warheads.
Thats right, nobody actually looked inside the boxes to see what might be missing.
So yeah, two nukes are gone, and thats really not a good thing.
Jane is confused at first, and then she demands to know everything.
When Weller went to confront Max, his people were seemingly waiting for him.
Weller fought back and a shootout ensued.
With Avery (seemingly) dead and the Germans coming for him, he had to leave.
Its a choice that Jane cant live with.
Shes devastated, and you’re free to see their relationship falling apart in this moment.
Its truly heartbreaking to watch unfold.
They figure out whos behind the live stream: someone named Adam Taylor who works for the DOE.
He recognizes the unique piercings on the neck of the woman from the live stream.
It would seem Lana is trying to take his place.
Theyre only traceable when theyre armed.
So they have Adam call Lana in an attempt to both track her call and get the nukes armed.
Its a dangerous plan, but seemingly the only option.
When they get the location, the team splits up.
Jane goes with Zapata and Weller heads out with Reade.
This gives the feuding couple an opportunity to open up about whats going on.
Reade and Zapata are understandably speechless.
Its hard to come up with a response to the soap opera-like reveal of Weller killing Janes daughter.
She gets shot in the back, and the rest of the team has to come to her rescue.
In fact, Lana is watching everything unfold from a surveillance camera, preparing to execute her plan.
Lana calls Reade when hes back at the FBI headquarters.
His heart apparently failed during an interrogation in a secret CIA prison.
They decide to fake it anyway, but Lana is one step ahead of them.
When they tell her theyll let her brother go, she calls their bluff.
She knows Anton is dead, and now shes going to punish the team for lying.
She fires a nuke and blows up an uninhabited island in the South Pacific.
Its a warning shot, and she says the next one will level New York.
Because when Lana arms the nuke, Weller shoots her and she falls out of the plane.
Its bonkers, but it works so well.
Its the kind of ludicrous scene thatBlindspotexecutes with ease.
Sure enough, Weller saves the day, and millions of lives.
Of course, theres one thing he cant save: his relationship with Jane.
Or so she thinks.
In typicalBlindspotfashion,its revealed that Avery isnt dead at all.
In fact, shes being held prisoner in Germany, presumably by that Max guy Jane mentioned.
It looks like Jane and Weller will need each other again, and sooner rather than later.
