Blindspot: Jane and Roman Get Close, Nas and Weller Get Much, Much Closer

Few things are better than when a TV show's investments start paying off.

[...] far, much of Blindspot's second season has been focused less on the big mysteries and more on the characters.

[...] for Jane, it's about getting closer to Roman to procure more intel, and yet she remains curious about this dude and the relationship she supposedly had with him before the mind wipe.

[...] as the mission to secure the necessary microchip (nothing is more yada yada-worthy than a microchip, by the way) unspooled, their frustrations and resentments quickly bubbled to the surface -- which is not ideal when you're undercover and eventually trapped inside a locked room together.

Jane, conveniently flush with new flashbacks to their childhood at the orphanage, including the moment when Roman received his brutal eye scar, began to sympathize with her brother's position, even though there's nothing she can do to change the past.

Roman blantly accusing Jane of turning him into the psychopath he is today was one of the better moments of dialogue in this show's entire run, not just for the in-the-moment effect but also for how it totally spoke to Jane's ongoing concern that she was actually kind of a monster before she turned up in a body bag outside the Times Square Outback Steakhouse.

The episode concluded with him not triumphantly proving to Shepherd (Michelle Hurd) that Jane was back in the mix, but instead with him blubbering into Jane's arms over a shared childhood experience.

Though the show sometimes overplays the bonds between the team members, the Weller-Mayfair relationship always felt real enough last season.

[...] it was similarly workable enough here to see Weller, frustrated by everything with Jane, still reeling from the news about his baby and the reveal that he's been watched for decades, lose it a bit.

There's only so many places you can go once a lead character maybe-probably not kills another person, and th