BLINDSPOT-A Matter Of Trust

DO WE HAVE A CHOICE?

Zapata lashes out at Weller for the events of the ambush/cave-in in Iceland.
AND...the team receives shocking news. They turn to Master Criminal RAYMOND REDDINGTON for assistance only he can provide. 

Edgar Reade is still alive!

ADULT LANGUAGE AND SOME ALLUDED TO VIOLENCE.

NOTE: The team rescued Rich from the CIA dark site prior to the notification that Reade survived Madeline's assassination attempt.

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TASHA: ' YOU DID THIS, WELLER: YOU !'

KURT (in a near whisper): '' I KNOW ...I know that ... '

TASHA: '' You should have left me THERE; I wanted to STAY THERE, with him ...'

WELLER: '' TASH...you heard him; he told me to take you out ...'

TASHA: '' And FUCK YOU FOR DOING IT !'

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Jane...Kurt...Patterson...and Zapata...they barely escaped with their lives; Rich has been dumped into a CIA 'dark site' at the behest of the villainous Madeline Burke, the New National Director Of Law Enforcement. Boston is in hiding. The Team is forced to abandon their
Icelandic safehouse to hide out in Eastern Europe in an off-the-grid bunker and plot their revenge.

She can't stop seeing her man beneath what must have a ton of rock; how in the world did he muster the superhuman effort it took to lift so much weight..because he loved her so much...

She can't stop crying, and she's eating and drinking very little (the team has noticed and they try to intervene but how can truly understand the devastation of losing the man she loved from the moment they met? The soccer coach she was sort of dating was shown the door the night after Repata's Day One FBI orientation. As adamant as she was to not abandon him he was just as determined that Weller and the rest take her out of there...'I got you, baby...ALWAYS ' he said.

And she's in agony. PATTERSON found her wailing in her quarters, having heard the entire exchange from before. "Hey, Zapata?... NOT TAKIN' SIDES, but Weller only did what Reade said..."

"FUCKING STOP! STOP right there! I'm the one who abandoned him after protecting him time and time again: ME! I DREAM about his last words to me every night, and I wake up every day wishing that I'd died there by his side...ins-in-stead of all ALL ALONE which is not
what he deserved..." Tasha sobs.

Patterson nods, eyes brimming with tears. "He deserved so much more, of course, he did...but he wanted you to LIVE Tash..."

Sometime in the last few minutes, Jane slipped into the room. "What should Kurt have DONE, Zapata? Tell us! Don't you know how conflicted we ALL WERE? Don't think for a second that Kurt has shrugged off what he did without a mountain of guilt..."

"Says the one with the LIVE MAN in her bed!" Zapata snaps acidly.

"HELPING or HURTING, Tash?" Rich asks, who joins the party. "We all loved Reade, but look, I have..."

I LOST THE MAN I LOVE!" Tasha screams. "That's ENOUGH from the peanut gallery!"

Chastened, Rich blanches before stuttering "...ummmI, uh...I...I have a 'ping' from 'ICE CREAM'...

"THAT Motherucker?!" Jane fumes. "What the FUCK does the TRAITOR have to say that we're interested in?

"Find out where he is-I have a GIFT I've been holding for him!" Patterson puts in.

"READE'S ALIVE!" Rich finally shouts over the resultant din. Everyone stops yelling at once, and Kurt, alerted by all of the discord, joins the rest.

"Reddington. Red Reddington's guys went to the site; when Madeline moved against him and we stopped it he feels he owes us. We all know how far his reach extends! SHIT, he's the real-life KAISER SOZE...it seems he-REDDINGTON-sent that scary DEMBA guy to pull Reade out. He was barely alive, and all...(he sends a pained glance Tasha's way)...kinda fucked up. Reddington has him; he's safe."