Blindspot Review: Older Cutthroat Canyon (Season 1 Episode 15)
Blindspot is firing on all cylinders. There has been talk of bad blood between Oscar and the merry band of Robin Hood’s Taylor used to consort with. The exact nature of their plans is still a mystery, and “Older Cutthroat Canyon” takes the term personal grudge to a whole new level.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Blindspot’s pacing is amazing, but it also means you have to pay attention or you’ll start to miss details. Tonight’s episode was so packed with little things that it is definitely going to need a re-watch or two.
The hour sets up a complicated relationship that could carry us into the finale. As an audience, we know so little about Taylor Shaw and her past that each and every one of Jane’s encounters has the potential to be either enlightening or earth-shattering. This week we meet Cabe, one of her former colleagues, whose first reaction is to point a gun at her.
He is just the second person we meet that Jane remembers from her past. Let’s compare their reactions: Oscar wants to work with Jane, Cade wants to kill her. The ensuing game of cat and mouse concludes with three shootings, an explosion, and two bodies.
Cabe’s reaction towards Jane makes us think that maybe there is more that Oscar isn’t telling us. Of course, there is always more that Oscar isn’t telling us. According to him, Cabe went rogue after Jane was delivered to the FBI. By the end of the episode, we’re pretty sure Jane is getting snowed.
This hour puts Jane in jeopardy because Cabe targets her specifically. As a result, she is driven away from the FBI and to Oscar. For the most part, Oscar seems to care about Jane, so much so that our distrust of him might have waned a little. Of course that’s corrected by the end of the episode.
He is adamant on protecting and extracting her from the FBI until they can deal with Cabe. Considering how the events from Jane’s tattoos are engineered, a plot that requires her extraction isn’t the work of a mastermind.
In the end, we’re still left asking who Jane can really trust in this whole scenario. The last we see of Cabe is on a ship. He and Jane fight on the deck and Oscar shows up and shoots him. Although only in the gut, not to kill, which is interesting. To avoid being discovered, Oscar rushes towards Cabe and they fall into the water.
Later, he tells Jane that Cabe is dead., but in the last few seconds, we see that Cabe is alive and well. What? How did he escape Oscar? Why is Oscar lying? We smell conspiracy.
Stray Thoughts:
- Not liking how everyone is getting blackmailed. Is Oscar, or someone else from Taylor’s team, going to blackmail Weller next?
- Mayfair wins when it comes to witty retorts. This week: “The next time you get a moment of clarity. Tell it to your diary! Dismissed!”
- Why didn’t Weller have his phone on him when Cabe locked him in the ship? Two weeks ago he was taking pictures with Russian informants. I would think now would be a great time to snap a pic for an APB.
- Reade broke up with Sarah. That was over before it even began and it makes me sad.
- When the heck are we going to find out about Orion?
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Blindspot airs Mondays at 10/9c on NBC.
Lauren Busser
Lauren Busser is an Associate Editor at Tell-Tale TV. She is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work has appeared in Bitch Media, Popshot Quarterly, Brain Mill Press Voices, and The Hartford Courant.
2 comments
Loved it mainly because Francois Arnaud had a much bigger part in it, he’s a first class actor!
I love Oscar as a character. I may distrust him but that is just a credit to Francois’ talent. I am really looking forward to where the story goes and seeing what his role is in “the big picture.”
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