Recap / Blindspot S2E2 "Heave Fiery Knot"

• Black Ops: Orion was a CIA black ops team that did very illegal missions.
• Call-Back: Jane mentions the last time Sandstorm gave them a tattoo case, it led them to a sex trafficking ring and got an innocent man off death row (Rules in Defiance). Reade's story has him following up from "In The Comet of Us."
• The Cartel: The villains of the episode buying guns off a corrupt DEA agent.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Shepherd slaps some sense back into Roman to let Jane take care of herself.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: Roman is this for Jane, even beating in Sandstorm soldiers who try to keep him from leaving.
• Left for Dead: Jane was considered dead during an ambush in Afganistan.
• Ripped from the Headlines: The DEA's gun-waltzing scheme is very similar to the real life ATF Operation Fast and Furious, which involved the ATF authorizing straw purchases of firearms at licensed firearms dealers in Arizona as part of a sting operation, with similarly undesirable results.
• Tattooed Crook: How the team spot the Cartel hit squad at the bank.
• Technology Marches On: Borden gets Patterson a copy of The Oregon Trail on floppy disk...in 2016.
• This Cannot Be!: Valentine has this reaction to finding out her mentor, Robert Kingston, was the one who sent the Cartel hitmen after her.
• Wham Line: Edgar is on the receiving end when his old friend from football tells him he was also molested by Coach Jones and that he repressed it.