History Series / Blindspot

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Other than the pilot episode, the episode titles are apparent nonsense phrases like "Bone May Rot" and "Cede Your Soul". This troper believes that the titles are anagrams of something bearing some significance to their respective episodes. For example, "Eight Slim Grins" can be rearranged to "The Missing Girl" or "Missing the Girl".

* WhamEpisode: The pilot reveals that the memory wipe was induced by a mysterious man who paid a way to Chao Zhang in a hospital. [[spoiler:He's also the one who engineered Jane Doe's amnesia with her consent.]]

* ActionGirl: The FBI manages to discern that Jane Doe was apparently a Navy SEAL, which explains her exceptional hand-to-hand combat skills and marksmanship.
* {{Amnesiac Hero}}ine: Jane Doe.
* ArtisticLicence: The villain in the pilot rapidly fires multiple shots from a 3d printed plastic gun. Such designs can actually fire a single round due to the pressure and heat from the shot damaging and warping the plastic.

* BlackBossLady: FBI Director Bethany Mayfair, the head of Jane's case.
* ComplexityAddiction: Lampshaded. Jane wonders out loud why someone would tattoo an FBI agent's name and information about a terrorist attack on her body rather than simply call the FBI and tell them about the attack.
* CryCute: Jane, after being left alone in the safehouse, breaks down in tears because she can't understand anything that's happening to her.
* CunningLinguist: Jane demonstrates that she can read and speak multiple Chinese dialects (an amazing accomplishment in itself) and Weller finds himself constantly having to ask for her assistance against his better judgement.

* GirlInABox: How Jane Doe was found. The CCTV cameras for Times Square can see the duffel bag being dropped off, but not who did it.
* HumanNotepad: Jane Doe's entire body is covered in intricate tattoos with clues to future crimes.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Due to her system being flooded with a chemical that erases narrative memories, Jane Doe can't remember anything about herself or her past. But she retains her procedural memory like remembering how to talk and feed herself. [[spoiler: At the end of the pilot, it's shown she willingly went through with the amnesia.]]
* MysteriousPast: No one knows where Jane Doe came from, not even Jane herself. Her multitude of tattoos only add to the mystery.
* NakedOnArrival: Jane Doe.

* SteelEardrums: Played absolutely straight with Weller and the subway bomb.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Br. Borden is assigned to counsel Jane and help her try to regain her memories.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Jane Doe does this a lot to show off the tattoos.
* UnPerson: For some reason, Jane Doe can't be found on any of the FBI's databases. As for as they know, she doesn't legally exist.

* ArtisticLicence: The villain in the pilots rapidly fires multiple shots from a 3d printed plastic gun. Such designs can actually fire a single round due to the pressure and heat from the shot damaging and warping the plastic.

* SteelEardrums: Played absolutely straight with Stapleton and the subway bomb.

* GirlInABox: How Jane Doe was found. The CCT cameras for Times Square can see the duffel bag being dropped off, but not who did it.

A duffle bag is left behind in Times Square, and inside is a naked woman whose body is almost completely covered with tattoos. She is quickly brought into custody and found to have amnesia, and her fingerprints, DNA, and photos are not in any database. One tattoo names FBI agent Kurt Weller and he is brought in, but he and the woman do not recognize each other. Kurt and his team find that the tattoos form hidden messages, that when deciphered indicate dates and addresses for future crimes.

* FarEastAsianTerrorists: "Pilot" has a Chinese national studying in New York with plans to bomb the Statue of Liberty because Washington didn't lift a finger to help his mom and sister when they held in a laogai.[[note]]It is a Chinese prison camp.[[/note]]
* GirlInABox: How Jane Doe was found. The CCT cameras for Times Square can see the duffle bag being dropped off, but not who did it.

A duffle bag is left behind in Times Square, and inside is a naked woman whose body is almost completely covered with tattoos. She is quickly brought into custody and found to have amnesia, and her fingerprints, DNA, and photos are not in any database. One tattoo names FBI agent Kurt Weller and he is brought in, but he and the woman do not recognize each other. Kurt and his team find that the tattoos form puzzles and riddles, that when solved indicate dates and addresses for future crimes.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Due to her system being flooded with a chemical that erases narrative memories, Jane Doe can't remember anything about herself or her past. But she retains her procedural memory like remembering how to talk and feed herself.

''Blindspot'' is a series that started airing on September 2015 on Creator/{{NBC}} and stars Creator/JaimieAlexander and Sullivan Stapleton.

A duffle bag is left behind in Times Square, and inside is a naked woman whose body is almost completely covered with tattoos. She is quickly brought into custody and found to have amnesia, and her fingerprints, DNA, and photos are not in any database. One tattoo names FBI agent Kurt Weller and he is brought in, but he and the woman do not recognize each other. Kurt and his team find that the tattoos form puzzles and riddles, that when solved indicate dates and addresses for future crimes. The woman, named Jane Doe until her true identity can be found, discovers that she has many skills that she cannot remember how she got, including the ability to read and speak Chinese and advanced martial art and marksmanship skills. Kurt Weller reluctantly allows Jane Doe to work with his team in solving these crimes until the mystery of her identity and who did this to her can be solved.

* AmnesiacPlot: The show's central concept. Drugs were used to try and completely wipe out Jane's narrative memory, leaving her with no idea who she is and where she comes from. Her procedural memory, on the other hand, is fully intact, meaning that she can function like most other adults while demonstrating new skills as the plot requires.

* WhamShot: At the end of the pilot, we see that one of Jane's tattoos is of a case file number pertaining to Director Mayfair -- and the file contains the words "murder" and "embezzlement".

* FarEastAsianTerrorists: "Pilot" has a Chinese national studying in New York with plans to bomb the Statue of Liberty because Washington didn't lift a finger to help his mom and sister when they held in a laogai[[note]]It is a Chinese prison camp.[[/note]]

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* ActionGirl: The FBI manages to discern that Jace Doe was apparently a Navy SEAL, which explains her exceptional hand-to-hand combat skills and marksmanship.
* {{Badass}}: Jane Doe can nearly effortlessly beat up an abusive husband and his burly friend. Later, she shoots a Chinese terrorist who had a knife to Weller's throat.
** Weller also counts. In his first scene, he's shown rescuing several women and children from a gun-toting maniac who was holding them prisoner in his house.

* {{Unperson}}: For some reason, Jane Doe can't be found on any of FBI's databases. As for as they know, she doesn't legally exist.
* WaitHere: Weller attempt to do this to Jane in the pilot, but she insists on coming along.

* ComplexityAddiction: Lampshaded. Jane wonder out loud why someone would tattoo an FBI agent's name and information about a terrorist attack on her body rather than simply call the FBI and tell them about the attack.

* ActionGirl: Jane Doe can nearly effortlessly beat up an abusive husband and his burly friend.
* ComplexityAddiction: Kurt Weller and his team comment on and wonder who would go through all the trouble of rendering Jane Doe amnesiac and covering her body with tattoos to inform them of future crimes instead of just calling the crimes in.
* DomesticAbuse:
** Kurt Weller and his team are introduced raiding a house where they stop a man who chained up his wife and was threatening her with a gun because she couldn't get their baby to stop crying.
** Jane Doe comes across a man in an apartment who was beating up his wife and bragging that he has the right to because she is his property. Naturally, Jane kicks his ass.

* HumanNotepad: Jane Doe's elaborate tattoos form clues to future crimes. In a bit of RealityEnsues, her skin is very raw and sore, and the others are horrified to realize the tattoos were applied all at once about a week ago.

* RelocatingTheExplosion: In the Pilot episode, a terrorist plants a plastic explosive on a subway train. Since Kurt Weller doesn't know how to disarm it, he instead scrapes as much of the plastic explosive off the detonator as he can, then throws the detonator down the tunnel as hard as he can. It works.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Jane Doe does this a lot to show off the tattoos.

* ComplexityAddiction: Kurt Weller and his team comment on and wonder who would go through all the trouble of rendering Jane Doe amnesiac and covering her body with tattoos to inform them of future crimes.

''Blindspot'' is a series that started airing on September 2015 on Creator/{{NBC}} and stars Creator/JaimieAlexander.

A bag is left behind in Times Square, and inside is a naked woman whose body is almost completely covered with tattoos. She is quickly brought into custody and found to have amnesia, and her fingerprints, DNA, and photos are not in any database. One tattoo names FBI agent Kurt Weller and he is brought in, but he and the woman do not recognize each other. Kurt and his team find that the tattoos form puzzles and riddles, that when solved indicate dates and addresses for future crimes. The woman, named Jane Doe until her true identity can be found, discovers that she has many skills that she cannot remember how she got, including the ability to read and speak Chinese and advanced martial art and marksmanship skills. Kurt Weller reluctantly allows Jane Doe to work with his team in solving these crimes until the mystery of her identity and who did this to her can be solved.