Line #6 Recap/BlindspotS1E8PersecuteEnvoys

Context Recap / BlindspotS1E8PersecuteEnvoys

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1	-> Anagram for: "Suspect everyone"
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3	* BigBrotherIsWatching: Operation Daylight is a project to make use of all of that data the NSA collects on everyone.
4	* BrokenPedestal: Mayfair is standing on one, as far as Weller is concerned, thanks to her participation in Daylight.
5	* DoingInTheWizard: Jane wonders aloud how it is remotely possible whoever tattooed her would be able to predict the murder of the two cops, which would seem to indicate precognition or time travel. The tattoo didn't predict the murders: instead of the reticle of a gunsight, it was the reticle of a camera viewfinder, indicating the bodycam footage blackmail.
6	* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: The football player is being blackmailed using a video of him with another man. He makes it out of the episode with his secret known only by Weller's team and one remaining conspirator.
7	* GovernmentConspiracy:
8	** Operation Daylight, of course.
9	** Also, the cops at the 65th Precinct who are using body camera footage for blackmail purposes.
10	* HeKnowsTooMuch: Averted with the slain officer's widow--she really doesn't know anything, but one conspirator plans on killing her anyway.
11	* INeverSaidItWasPoison: How the precinct captain incriminates himself--Mayfair never mentioned to him what secret the football player was being blackmailed over.
12	* LipstickLesbian: Varma and Mayfair, especially in the flashbacks to when they were together, when Mayfair wore her hair longer.
13	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
14	* RevealingCoverup: Mayfair "laundered" the intelligence produced by Daylight by sourcing it to her confidential informant Guerrero. The secret was revealed when Weller arrested Guerrero in [[Recap/BlindspotS1E7SentOnTour "Sent on Tour"]], and Weller realized during the interrogation that Guerrero and Mayfair didn't actually know each other.
15	* RippedFromTheHeadlines:
16	** The situation in the 65th Precinct (police shooting an unarmed black male, apparent revenge killings of cops) is reminiscent of real life events in New York City, Baltimore, and Ferguson, Missouri.
17	** Operation Daylight was shut down after an Edward Snowden {{Expy}} publicized the NSA surveillance used by the operation.
18	** The use of the stored bodycam footage reflects concerns that have been raised over what happens to footage when bodycams become more common.
19	* SpurnedIntoSuicide: When the existence of Daylight's information source is made public, Varma proposes to Mayfair that they move to Hong Kong to avoid extradition. When Mayfair chooses instead to stay on the job and try to mitigate the damage, Varma takes her own life.

Context Recap / BlindspotS1E8PersecuteEnvoys