Recap / Blindspot S2E1 "In Night So Random Bridged"

• Bait-and-Switch: The timeskip makes it look like Team Weller is chasing after Jane, but it's an unrelated suspect.
• Batman Gambit: Jane attempted to drown herself just so her interrogators would give her an IV which she could snap the needle off of and extract from under her skin to later pick her handcuffs.
• Child Soldiers: Jane and Roman were part of a South African program.
• *Click* Hello: Jane appears behind Kurt with this when he goes after her at a motel.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Jane goes through three months of torture at a CIA blacksite since the end of the previous season.
• Crazy-Prepared: Nas anticipated that Jane might ditch the tracking tooth and so secretly outfitted her with another tracking device set to activate after she assumed Jane would be checked for active bugs.
• Curbstomp Battle: Roman gives this to a group of cops at a DUI checkpoint.
• Deliberate Injury Gambit: Jane asks for the team to shoot her to sell she escaped being tortured by Cade for three months. Zapata is the one to do it.
• Internal Reveal: Team Weller learns of Jane being interrogated by Tom Carter as well as Oscar's missions, Mayfair's death and Oscar's death. The team also learns of Sandstorm, Jane's former group. Jane also learns about the tooth isotopic analysis that placed her as coming from Africa.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: How the CIA attempts to get information out of Jane for three months. They don't get a single piece of information out of her.
• Lie Detector: Jane gets hooked up to an MRI-based one for her interrogation.
• The Mole: Jane has to be a mole within both the FBI and Sandstorm. There is also a Sandstorm mole in the FBI, and had been one within the NSA.
• Moral Myopia: A minor version. Weller and the team are outraged about Jane having being used to set Mayfair up, even though a major reason why Mayfair was targeted in the first place was because she had been using the information illegally obtained by Operation Daylight in order to set up others.
• Never Found the Body: Reade points out that since they don't know what happened to Cade after he went in the water, Jane's cover story of being abducted by him runs the risk of Sandstorm knowing it was false because they might already know he's dead from recovering his body or killing him themselves, or that he lived and it will come out he didn't have her.
• Properly Paranoid: Jane, Sandstorm and even Kurt about the trackers on Jane.
• The Reveal: Jane learns of her past from Shepherd. Her name is Alice Kruger, later changed to Remi, and Roman is her brother. Roman was also the one who dropped Jane at Times Square at the beginning of the show. At least part of the NSA had been aware that Jane was somehow connected to the group they named Sandstorm.
• Spanner in the Works: Nas's plan with the secret second tracker bug would have worked perfectly fine if Jane and Roman hadn't been delayed at the DUI checkpoint, forcing a detour to the hospital. The bug would have activated after Jane had been scanned.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: How Weller and his team decide they're going to have to be to work with Jane to bring down Sandstorm.
• Time Skip: First to three months spent in a blacksite prison, then to two weeks when Team Weller arrest a counterfeiter.
• Torture Is Ineffective: The CIA wasted three months trying to beat information out of Jane and gets nothing. Nas gets everything she knows in under five minutes simply by asking her (the MRI lie detector was only to verify she was telling the truth). It's clear that if the CIA hadn't snatched her right away and Weller had been willing to listen to her when she'd been arrested, Jane would likely have told him everything she knew.
• Tracking Device: Nas puts a tooth-based tracking device in Jane. She promptly ditches it. A second one is secretly put into Jane's belt.
• Training from Hell: Jane is able to deal with the CIA's torture of her for three months because as part of her earlier training before having her memory erased she'd undergone torture just as brutal to train her how to deal with it.
• Tyke-Bomb: Shepherd reveals the reason she adopted Alice/Remi/Jane and her brother Roman instead of them being sent to normal foster care like the other children rescued from the South African Child Soldier program was that they were simply too dangerous to be placed with someone who couldn't handle lethal killing machines.
• Wham Line: Shepherd: "I'm your mother."