Blindspot (TV Series)

Lepers Repel (2017)

Ashley Johnson: Patterson

Quotes 

• Edgar Reade : What exactly did Weller say?

  Patterson : Just that Phase Two isn't over, and then the line went dead.

  Jane Doe : We have to find him.

  Edgar Reade : Weller wouldn't want us to focus on him. He would want us to focus on Sandstorm, so that's what we're gonna do. We gotta figure out where Shepherd's going to attack next.

• Patterson : Yesterday, Sandstorm targeted seven buildings simultaneously.

  Edgar Reade : All government facilities.

  Patterson : There's gotta be some other connection that we're just not seeing.

  Jane Doe : Maybe we're asking the wrong questions. I mean, what does Shepherd want?

  Edgar Reade : Besides mass terror?

  Patterson : Today's meeting. At the White House, the president's holding a full Cabinet meeting to discuss security protocols.

  Edgar Reade : Just like they always do after every major attack.

  Patterson : Right, but what if yesterday's attack were a catalyst? To get all of our leaders together in the same room?

  Jane Doe : So she can wipe out the government.

  Edgar Reade : I'll update Hirst, we'll brief the president, order a full evacuation. Start digging into the attack plan.

• Jane Doe : How does Shepherd plan to hit the most secure building on the planet?

  Patterson : I don't know. But after yesterday, we're at DEFCON-1. Civilians can't even get within a mile of the White House.

  [a thought strikes her] 

  Patterson : Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

  [searching for something, she pull out a blue folder] 

  Patterson : CL-20. I know who we can talk to.

• Kurt Weller : What's your take on Hirst?

  Patterson : She's super smart, a bit of a maverick. Uh, for instance, she plans to release Jane.

  Kurt Weller : Jane's leaving?

  Patterson : She's thinking about it.

  Kurt Weller : Why?

  Patterson : I might of, sort of... encouraged her to.

  Kurt Weller : Excuse me?

  Patterson : She didn't choose this, Kurt. So if there's something that you wanna to say to her, I wouldn't put it off.

• Zach Riley : I wanted to topple the government. I didn't want to hurt civilians. I knew there'd be casualties, but not like this.

  Kurt Weller : Does the satellite control the weapon?

  Patterson : Kinetic bombardment. The satellite is the weapon. Shepherd plans to bomb D.C., doesn't she?

  Jane Doe : [Riley gives a small nod]  How?

  Zach Riley : The satellite is designed to launch a glider at hypersonic speeds. It is undetectable, it's unstoppable, but it was only supposed to target the White House.

  Patterson : But now it's gonna hit Shepherd's nuclear material, which is probably already on the ground in Washginton.

  Kurt Weller : There's gotta be some way that we can stop it.

  Zach Riley : No. The glider has a guidance chip, but it can't be overwritten.

  Jane Doe : The chip I stole with Roman.

  Patterson : If Shepherd has as much nuclear material as we're thinking, evacuating the White House does nothing. This attack will wipe out the whole Eastern seaboard.

• Edgar Reade : Riley's still claiming the satellite's un-hackable.

  Patterson : Yeah, 'cause his ego's the same size as the moon he's trying to colonize.

• Gary Lemarsh : It's... it... it's working. It's actually working.

  Eileen Baldwin : But it will never hold.

  Edgar Reade : Why not?

  Patterson : Because the satellite is Shaquille O'Neal and the Soyuz is me.

  FBI Acting Director Eleanor Hirst : I like my biblical reference better.

  Edgar Reade : Gotcha. It's not a fair fight.

  Patterson : It... it's a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.

  Gary Lemarsh : Well, by my calculations, your Band-Aid's bought us six minutes.