Blindspot is an American crime drama television series created by Martin Gero, starring Sullivan Stapleton and Jaimie Alexander.[1] The Warner Bros. Television-produced series premiered September 21, 2015, on NBC. On May 10, 2019, NBC renewed the series for a fifth and final season,[2] which aired between May 7 and July 23, 2020.
Blindspot focuses on a mysterious tattooed woman who is found naked inside a travel bag in Times Square by the FBI. She has no recollection of her own past or identity. They discover that her tattoos contain clues to crimes they will have to solve.
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- Sullivan Stapleton as Kurt Weller, an FBI special agent at the New York field office. In season 1, as head of the FBI Critical Incident Response Group, he is called into the investigation of Jane when his name is found mysteriously tattooed on Jane's body. He comes to recognize Jane as his missing childhood friend Taylor Shaw and becomes very protective, due to having never recovered from the pain and guilt he suffered from her disappearance. It is revealed in the season 1 finale that he has been promoted to head of the FBI's New York branch after Mayfair's disappearance, with this being the goal of Stage One of the conspiracy behind Jane's tattoos as the tattoo investigations eliminated less ethical potential candidates; Weller also learns that Jane is not Taylor Shaw and that the real Taylor has been dead for years. While upset about being deceived to the point of arresting Jane and turning her over to the CIA, the two slowly rebuild their relationship from scratch in season 2 following her escape. At the start of season 3, he and Jane marry and move to Colorado to stay close to Weller's daughter Bethany, but an attempted hit organized by Roman forces them back into the fight, and leads to Jane disappearing for two years. Upon reuniting and discovering new tattoos on Jane's body, the two return to New York and reunite with their old team as they try to track Roman down. In season 4, he discovers that the effects of ZIP (the drug that wiped Jane's memories to start) have both caused her to revert to her pre-ZIP persona of Remi and are slowly poisoning her body, though these problems are resolved with successful treatments. In the series finale, after the team's dismissal from the FBI, he and Jane are shown to have expanded their family via multiple foster children.
- Jaimie Alexander as Remi "Jane Doe" Briggs (born Alice Kruger),[6] an unidentified woman found naked and amnesiac in Times Square, who is kept in FBI protective custody as an investigation proceeds into her identity. Despite lacking conscious memories, Jane occasionally has flashbacks to her past life and retains a wide variety of combat and language skills. It is suspected she is a former Navy SEAL, whose identity is classified due to involvement in special operations. Based on a familiar scar on the back of her neck and a DNA test, Jane was believed to be Taylor Shaw. Shaw was Weller's neighbor and childhood friend, who vanished 25 years ago and was presumed deceased, but the real Taylor Shaw was confirmed to be dead when Weller's father confessed to her murder on his deathbed. Weller subsequently found Taylor's remains in an old campsite they stayed in as children; the DNA test results were altered by the conspiracy changing the records of the Taylor Shaw case. It is later revealed that Jane was born Alice Kruger in South Africa, then orphaned and trained as a child soldier by the apartheid regime. Shepherd eventually adopted her and raised her as a daughter. At the start of season 3, she marries Weller and the two move to Colorado to stay close to Weller's daughter Bethany, but an attempted hit organized by Roman forces them back into the fight, and leads to Jane disappearing for two years. Upon reuniting and discovering new tattoos on Jane's body, the two return to New York and reunite with their old team as they try to track Roman down. During this time, Jane reconnects with her biological daughter, whom Shepherd had forced her to give up for adoption back when Jane was a teenager, and discovers her ties related to the conspiracy Roman is trying to bring down. At the end of the season, she reverts to her previous persona as Remi as a result of side effects from ZIP, the drug that originally wiped her memories. During the first half of season 4, she, as Remi, starts secretly working against her team in a bid to free Shepherd and rebuild Sandstorm, but is soon found out, and following a successful experimental treatment, Jane finally puts her past behind her, makes peace with Remi, regains all of her memories, and kills Shepherd. During the second half of the season, Jane is forced to deal with the physical effects of ZIP poisoning her body, but the team is eventually able to find a cure in time. In the final episodes, she is ZIPed again by a bomb by Ivy Sands, and suffers many hallucinations as she tries to locate Ivy and the last bomb. In the end, she either dies from the poisoning or is cured and goes on to foster many children with Weller.
- Rob Brown as Edgar Reade,[a] an FBI special agent and member of Weller's team, who has doubts about Jane's inclusion on the team and expresses skepticism of Weller's willingness to follow the information from Jane's tattoos so quickly. He is in love with Weller's sister, Sarah, but broke up with her both on Weller's request and because Reade feared for Sarah's safety after one of the group behind Jane's tattoos threatened Sarah when Reade was trying to investigate Jane's background. In season 3, he becomes the head of the New York field office after Jane and Weller leave New York and was engaged to Megan Butani, an investigative journalist. They later broke up. He also has romantic feelings for Zapata, which he finally acts on late in season 4. It is short-lived though, as he is killed in the drone strike at the end of the season, as revealed in the season 5 premiere. He later appears in flashbacks and as a hallucination as a result of Jane's ZIP poisoning in the series finale, and Tasha is revealed to have given birth to his child in the last scenes.
- Audrey Esparza as Natasha "Tasha" Zapata, an FBI special agent and member of Weller's team, previously an NYPD officer at the 96th District for five years. Secretly, she has a gambling addiction, caused by guilt from the death of her partner while with the NYPD, and is in severe debt, which she hides from her co-workers. She is also shown to have feelings for Reade. In season 3, she leaves the FBI and joins the CIA. At the end of the season, she is seemingly terminated from the CIA, and goes to work for Blake Crawford as a fixer, but following Blake's death in season 4, she works for her successor, Madeline Burke. Midway through the season, it is revealed that she was working deep cover for the CIA all along under Director Jake Keaton. In season 5, she is revealed to be pregnant, as a result of her hookup with Reade shortly before his death in the drone strike at the beginning of the season, and is shown to be raising their child as a single mother and become a private investigator following the team's dismissal from the FBI in the series finale.
- Ashley Johnson as Patterson, an FBI special agent and head of the FBI Forensic Science Unit, responsible for studying and identifying Jane's tattoos. In season 3, she departs the FBI to work in the tech industry, but returns following the two-year time-skip to help solve Jane's new tattoos. Later in the season, it is also revealed that Patterson is the daughter of Bill Nye and took her mother's last name. In season 5, her father reveals her first name to be "William", after him. In the series finale, after the team's dismissal from the FBI, she and Rich Dotcom become treasure hunters.
- Ukweli Roach as Robert Borden (seasons 1–2; recurring season 3; guest seasons 4–5),[b] an FBI psychiatrist who helps Jane in retrieving and understanding her past memories. He is later revealed to be Nigel Thornton, a former doctor and a mole for Sandstorm within the FBI. After being cornered by the FBI, he apparently kills himself to avoid capture. In season 3, however, it is revealed that he had faked his death, and was later found and recruited by the CIA as an asset. He is later sent to prison after Zapata reneges on his deal with the CIA as justice for betraying Patterson. In season 4, Jane visits him and he helps her to finally accept her lives and personas of Remi and Alice as part of herself. He later appears as a hallucination as a result of Jane's ZIP poisoning in the series finale.
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Bethany Mayfair (season 1; guest season 2), assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York Field Office. Mayfair is directly in charge of Weller and his team, for whom Mayfair acts as an ally and mentor. She was once the FBI contact for Operation: Daylight, a program to use illegally obtained information and present it as coming from faked informants; it is hinted that Jane's tattoos have some connection to Daylight. After Mayfair is framed for murder due to evidence Jane was manipulated into planting, she is fatally shot by Oscar just as she discovers Jane at a safe house used by the conspiracy. Despite her death and her reputation being damaged by her wrongful arrest, the team continues to remember Mayfair fondly for the rest of the series; Weller ends up naming his daughter after her, and the team pays tribute to her and Reade prior to leaving the FBI offices for the final time in the series finale.
- Archie Panjabi as Nas Kamal (season 2; guests seasons 3 & 5),[c] head of Zero Division, a secret department of the NSA. She has investigated Sandstorm for years, and forms a joint NSA-FBI task force with Weller's team and Jane to try to infiltrate Sandstorm. In order to protect the team from federal investigation, she resigns, taking responsibility for all of the task force's failures. She spends time working freelance before she is able to use a tattoo case to acquire a powerful computer virus, trading it to the NSA in return for getting her job back. She returns in the series finale to help the team capture Ivy Sands.
- Luke Mitchell as Roman Briggs (born Ian Kruger) (seasons 2–3; recurring season 4; guest season 5), Jane's brother and a member of Sandstorm. Jane wiped his memory with ZIP (the same drug that wiped her memories) after he turned against Shepherd, and he remained in FBI custody for a while. After regaining his memories, including that of Jane erasing his memories, he turns against her and rejoins Shepherd during her attack on the FBI's New York Office. In season 3, he devises a complex scheme to get revenge on Jane that involves covering her with new, bio-luminescent tattoos. At the end of the season, he is fatally shot by Blake Crawford, and dies in Jane's arms. In seasons 4 and 5, he appears as a hallucination as a result of Jane's ZIP poisoning.
- Michelle Hurd as Ellen "Shepherd" Briggs (season 2; guest seasons 3 & 5; recurring season 4), Jane's and Roman's adoptive mother and leader of the terrorist group Sandstorm. She was a major general with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and has been manipulating Weller's life since he was a teenager. She is captured at the end of season 2 after Jane and Weller foil her plans, and imprisoned in a CIA blacksite until Jane, reverted to her persona of Remi, frees her during season 4. She is later shot and killed by Jane after the latter finally overcomes the mental effects of ZIP, but later reappears as a hallucination as a result of Jane's ZIP poisoning in the series finale.
- Ennis Esmer as Rich Dotcom (real name Gord Enver) (seasons 4–5; recurring seasons 1–3), a former computer programmer turned Internet crime lord. Eccentric and manic, Rich often embroils Weller's team in elaborate, convoluted schemes to achieve his goals. Starting in season 3, he begins working with the FBI as part of a deal for his past crimes. In the series finale, after the team's dismissal from the FBI, he and Patterson become treasure hunters.
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Madeline Burke (season 5; recurring season 4),[d] a major stockholder in the Crawfords' company HCI Global, who takes over the company after fatally poisoning Blake and the other executives as part of a mysterious long-term plan. At the end of the season, her plan, Project: Helios, takes effect, causing a major blackout on the Eastern Seaboard while framing Weller's team for the attack and corruption, and becoming the head of an oversight committee for the FBI and later director of all federal law enforcement; all this is revealed to be part of a plan to avenge her father, who was killed in an FBI raid. Throughout season 5, Madeline uses her new power to enact her plan to reform the world's governments all under her leadership by wiping the memories of the planet's population with ZIP while simultaneously hunting the team, even forming an alliance with the terror group Dabbur Zhan, and using ZIP on her oldest son when the team convinces him to turn against her. Near the end of the season, she finally manages to capture most of the team, only for her and her associates' crimes to finally be publicly exposed by Patterson (who faked her death to escape capture) and Zapata via a connection at the New York Post (Reade's ex-fiancé, Megan Butani) and her blackmail material against her various connections to be lost via Director Matthew Weitz and analyst Afreen Iqbal's actions. After the exonerated team corners her in her attempt to flee the country, she commits suicide in a fail-safe method to push her final plan forwards. She later reappears as a hallucination as a result of Jane's ZIP poisoning in the series finale.
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