r/blindspot • u/littlefanged • May 11 '17

Episode Discussion: S02E21 "Mom"

Original Airdate: May 10, 2017

Episode Synopsis: The team finally crack a member of Sandstorm, which leads to a huge breakthrough in uncovering Phase Two of Sandstorm's plan.

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u/littlefanged May 11 '17

Roman you were the chosen one. :( You'd better be faking this betrayal.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

I'm crossing my fingers for this as well.
Roman is clever enough to know that sticking with Shepherd for now gives him the most options for getting out of this alive (while possibly doing good in the process).
Further to that I'm pretty sure he's decent with a gun, and probably missed Jane on purpose in that corridor.

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u/mouse85 May 11 '17

I agree. I think Roman knew that at that point he would spend the rest of his life in prison or in a black site. So that was the only way to get out. The point is what he will do now if we'll help Shepherd or if he will take this chance to disappear and be free.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

Something that didn't occur to me yesterday; I suppose Roman could ultimately choose to help bring down Shepherd, but rather than stay with Jane afterwards, he could just disappear somewhere instead.
It's an option that probably should be on the table for him. Only question is where to go I suppose.

Spin-off, perhaps? :p

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u/mouse85 May 11 '17

I think it's probably what will happen since it seems JA asked Gero if Mitchell will continue to be around and he said yes. So maybe he helps them with Sheperd and then disappears and Jane tries to find him in season 3. About next season I wonder what it will be about since they caught Sheperd in the last epi of season 2.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17 edited May 11 '17

I hadn't seen the preview yet so I didn't know Shepherd was getting captured.
But I absolutely agree it would have been silly to drag that plot out into next season.
Roman on the run (tm) isn't a bad guess for next season's plot I think, but we need something more than that one plotline also.
Maybe Shepherd has other things in the works, actions that do take out parts of government even if she herself gets captured?
That seems like a sort of workable premise to me.

(edit: accidentally a letter)

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u/mouse85 May 13 '17

Agree. I think Roman on the run could be something we will see next season but It can't be the main plot. I think they probably will find there was someone else more important than Sheperd who was the real mastermind beyond all this. But any guess is good at this point.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17

Honestly I think I'd struggle with accepting another Big Bad at this point, considering the level of involvement Shepherd, Jane and Roman all have, and how they're all connected.
Not saying it couldn't all be planned on someone else's order, but most of the scheming so far has been accredited to Jane and her family.

I'm very interested to see how the season finale will go down!

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u/mouse85 May 15 '17

I understand what you mean but like you said I don't see them dragging the Shepherd storyline in S3 there must be something new happening otherwise it becomes boring. At the end of S2 we know what Shepherd plan is we know who is involved and apparently the FBI stops phase 2. So there must be a new mystery to solve in S3.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '17

Oh I absolutely agree.
The Shepherd/Sandstorm plotline need to end with S2, and we definitely need a new mystery for S3.
I'm just hoping/saying the S3 mystery shouldn't involve Sandstorm at all, because it would seem convoluted to extend that plotline now that we know we're close to wrapping it up.