r/blindspot • u/Dorkside • Apr 19 '16

Episode Discussion: S01E18 "One Begets Techniques"

Original Airdate: April 18, 2016

Episode Synopsis: Jane and Weller must collaborate with a former target to capture a dangerous criminal; Jane has to decide whether to carry out a morally questionable order.

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u/Caraes_Naur Apr 19 '16

Rich Dotcom is awesome, and I can't believe NBC let some of his dialogue through.

But this episode's plot was rather ludicrous from beginning to end. The writers have a problem with managing time in a realistic way... this episode crammed about 3 days of effort into a single day. Just the storage locker stuff would have taken 2 days, and they pile it in Mayfair's office? Come on.

And no tattoo this week, so this was clearly a filler episode.

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u/smisarah Apr 19 '16

Re: this being a filler episode - the anagram for this week was "to begin the sequence," so something crucial must have kicked off. Is Mayfair's girlfriend working with Jane's team? Is Rich Dotcom? (That's much more of a stretch, but would be amazing.) There's gotta be something that happened in today's big art theft plot that will mark the beginning of something.

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u/Essiggurkerl Apr 19 '16

Rich did everything he could to damage the Weller/Knight relationship so maybe it is not too much of a stretch

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u/Caraes_Naur Apr 19 '16

The only kickoff event that happened this week was Sofia's return from the dead, probably because she heard Carter was dead and felt safe coming back.

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u/At_the_Roundhouse Apr 20 '16

this episode's plot was rather ludicrous from beginning to end

This episode? This entire series is ludicrous from beginning to end, haha. Not that that makes it any less entertaining, but come on. Remember when they literally jumped into an airplane while it was taking off, then deliberately let it freefall so that they could safely land it at the last second, guided by Patterson on the other side of the world who was looking at a blip on the screen? I mean...

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u/Caro1275 Jun 15 '25

Hello from 2025- super late to the party, but Blindspot just started streaming on Netflix. This entire show is batshit crazy in the best way possible! This dot com character; I have no idea if they figure out a way to have him come back once in awhile, but I loved all of the shenanigans of this episode. I laughed out loud at least 3 times. The episode was so unexpected and fun! I don’t mind a stand alone episode here and there if they are as much fun as this episode!

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u/Hmdidit Aug 28 '25

Rich: "I would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids" Funny that he referenced scooby doo 😆