Whats next for Jane?
How much does knowing she played a role in what happened to her affect her moving forward?
MARTIN GERO:I think it changes everything inside of her.
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It just brings into doubt everything she knows about herself.
For everyones safety, shes going to take an emotional step back a bit or shes going to try.
Its an easier thing to say than do.
It really turns her upside down.
Oh yeah, its a whole organization.
Oscar is Janes handler.
But it is a much bigger group.
Is this group named Orion?
Jane and Weller kissed, but how does the discovery that she planned this change their dynamic?
Its hard for her.
Her feelings for Weller are genuine and really strong.
But suddenly, she doesnt trust herself anymore.
She doesnt know who she was.
She doesnt know why she was sent to Weller.
Where are we picking up with the rest of the team?
Suddenly, shes going to have a pretty giant secret.
It changes the dynamic of the team a little bit.
The other characters, weve left them all in pretty precarious places.
Zapata [Audrey Esparza] is about to resign because of her dealings with Carter.
Thats a big deal.
Weller is still trying to figure out the whole Taylor Shaw of it all.
Thatsoneof the pieces, but where has she been the past 25 years?
What has she been doing?
Theres a lot on the go.
Are you going to delve into who actually took Taylor Shaw?
Youll know who took Taylor Shaw by the end of the year.
Whats in store for Weller in the back half?
Jordana Spiro is back as Wellers sister.
Hes dying of cancer.
He was on his last legs really at the beginning of the season.
He didnt have that much to live.
Bills not in great shape.
Does that spur the push to find who actually took Taylor Shaw?
Yeah, that is part of it.
What can you tease for the hunt for the mole and how thats put the team at risk?
John Hodgman, first of all, were so lucky to have himon the show.
I obviously got to know him when we were both working onBored to Death.
This character that he plays on our show, we wrote it for him.
Patterson is back at work so soon after Davids death.
How different is she now and will his death cause her to make some mistakes?
Absolutely, she will.
Shes a little off in the first few episodes back.
Shes back just because she deals with grief poorly, as many of us do.
She just wants to dive back in and pretend like her life is totally going to be unaffected.
We have some great episodes coming up that are some bigger Patterson episodes.
It was a balance for us, because shes such a fun character.
Theres an occasional misstep in the next few episodes because shes got split focus.
I hear were also going to meetsomeone elsewho lost their memories like Jane.
What can you tease about that?
She will meet somebody that has also had some memory stuff done to them with ZIP.
Not as bad as hers, but itll awaken a lot of things.
Its an insight into how this organization she worked with works.
Possibly connected, possibly not connected, when are we going to learn more about Orion?
Were going to learn more about Orion throughout the season.
Orion is a series-wide mystery, so well get little bits of it as we go.
Thats something to look forward to.
At some point, the team is going to find out that Zapata was working with Carter.
That seems like a natural progression for the show.
Can you preview how they may react to that betrayal?
This show doesnt do natural progressions.
[Laughs] Sometimes the twist is not the twist.
No comment on that one.
Carter served as the big bad of the first half of the season.
Who will be the new villain now?
Unfortunately, the villain of the second half of the season is a secret.
Its a difficult thing to answer because its a moving target.
In the first half of the season, you had a cipher in each episode title.
Will you be doing something similar in the back half?
The titles are anagrams again.
They start you on your ownBlindspotadventure.
Are there any other clues you are laying into the season that we should be paying attention to?
Blindspotreturns Monday at 10 p.m.
