Anagram for: "Who is Jane Doe?"
Jane Doe (Jaimie Alexander) is a woman covered in tattoos from the neck down. She has no memory of who she is nor what the tattoos mean.
Tropes
- Artistic License: Chao rapidly fires multiple shots from a 3D-printed plastic gun. Such designs can actually fire a single round due to the pressure and heat from the shot damaging and warping the plastic. This may be an example of And Some Other Stuff; the cops would probably like it if some moron ended up with a useless gun after one shot.
- Cutting the Knot: Weller's team has to assault a rickety old house where a man is holding many women hostage. Worried about taking the stairs, Weller orders breaching charges be placed directly under the hostage taker. Cue the floor giving way and the man falling into the FBI's lap.
- Far East Asian Terrorists: A Chinese national studying in New York develops plans to bomb the Statue of Liberty because Washington didn't lift a finger to help his mom when she was held in a Chinese prison camp. But just before the bearded man kills him, it's revealed that he was actually blackmailed into playing out the scheme, including drawing in Jane Doe and the FBI, to save his sister.
- Impersonating an Officer: Chao is able to sneak into the Statue of Liberty by disguising himself as a US Park Ranger.
- Nipple and Dimed: Jane spends a good portion of the episode nude, but she's positioned, lit, and framed very carefully to show as much skin as possible while keeping things broadcast safe.
- Relocating the Explosion: Chao plants a plastic explosive on a subway train. Since Weller doesn't know how to disarm it, he instead scrapes as much of the plastic explosive off the detonator as he can, then throws the detonator down the tunnel as hard as he can. It works.
- Wham Shot: At the end, we see that one of Jane's tattoos is of a heavily redacted case file number pertaining to Assistant Director Mayfair—and the file contains the words "murder" and "embezzlement" as the few words still exposed.
- Wife-Basher Basher: One of Jane's Establishing Character Moments. Even as she stands thoroughly confused outside Chao's apartment, she hears a man yelling at his wife and immediately goes to intervene, rediscovering her martial arts skills in the process.
