Who is the mole?
I think I know.
Hi everyone, welcome to a brand new video in which I talk to you about who I believe
is the FBI mole on Blindspot Season 2.
If you're anything like me, you'll love this show.
I love how season 2 has started with a freaking bang.
Jane is back in the mix.
She's angry, she's pissed, and she's with the team who's also angry and pissed and she's
found out so many things in just the first two episodes of the season.
I just can't wait to find out more.
Something else that we as the audience do know is that Sandstorm, in particular, Shepherd
and Roman, have been discussing the fact that there is an FBI mole.
Someone that they can activate when they need to and who could potentially expose the fact
that Jane is actually working against Sandstorm with the FBI, which will be bad in so many
ways.
The question is, "Who's the FBI mole?"
Thankfully, the show actually gave us a list of suspects through some careful editing,
and we're going to go through them.
I've been also doing my own research and found out a couple of additional tidbits about the
mole that are going to help us narrow it down and discover who that mole can be.
Let's talk about the potential suspects first; FBI Director Pellington, Kurt Weller, Patterson,
Dr. Robert Borden, Tasha Zapata, Edgar Reade, and finally, Nas Kamal.
Before we start sorting out who we think is the mole amongst these group of fine people,
I wanted to highlight an interesting that Martin Gero gave Entertainment Weekly in a
recent interview.
The question was about who the FBI mole could be, and her was his answer.
Literally, it could be anyone.
I don't want to sway one way or another.
I think everyone's going to make their decisions.
The mole knows that they're the mole.
The mole though has to be very careful about when it talks to Sandstorm because everyone
is under such close scrutiny.
It's not like the mole in Sandstorm are in constant communication.
In fact, when the mole finally does reach out, it's at a moment of crisis where Sandstorm
needs to know something.
That, I think, is super interesting because it's not like the mole is some secret undercover
agent that doesn't even know that it's an undercover agent that they could be activated.
No.
The mole actually knows that they're the mole.
They're working on behalf of Sandstone, but they can communicate as freely as they would
want to.
Knowing all of these facts, who could the mole potentially be?
Let's start with those that I don't think are the mole at all.
Kurt Weller.
It makes no sense for Kurt to be the mole.
Everything we've seen of his life so far, and the trials and tribulation he's been dealing
with, make him an unlikely candidate to be a Sandstorm mole.
It's as likely as Jane being the mole.
Right off the bat, no way it's him.
Patterson.
Patterson is by far one of the brightest people on that team.
In her life so far, we've been able to see that she's really dedicated to that team.
Dedicated to helping that team, and has actually lost someone she loved in the process of doing
her particular work.
Because of that, and because we've seen her have some ups and downs all the way through,
it seems unlikely that she would be a great candidate as a mole for Sandstorm, because
it's not like she's always been helping Sandstorm.
She's been just trying to do her job in the best way possible.
I feel that if she was a sandstorm operative, she would have maybe acted differently.
I'm just going to dismiss her right off the bat.
Edgar Reade.
Mr. Straight Arrow has been always on the straight and narrow path of doing what is
right as much as he's able to do.
Now, with the recent storyline where he's basically studying his own past, trying to
find issues of abuse that he potentially has dealt with himself, doesn't seem like the
behavior a mole would be engaging in, especially because we're trying to just accomplish a
mission, which is a mission that Sandstorm has established.
It doesn't seem like Reade is doing any of those things.
Because of that, I don't think he's the mole.
Zapata.
I know Zapata is actually a pretty easy mark.
She's has her trouble with gambling.
She's been blackmailed before by the CIA.
It's not like her record squeaky-clean.
If you think about it, everything I just told you about her actually makes her a pretty
terrible mole for Sandstorm because she's dealt with so many issues.
Her being someone who gambles, someone who can be blackmailed, make her a pretty terrible
mole to be honest.
I don't think she's that important of an asset that they would put so many resources in trying
to protect her.
I'm just going to say doesn't seem that Zapata could be the mole.
Let's dismiss her right off the bat.
We're left with three potential likely suspects; Nas Kamal, FBI Director Pellington, and Dr.
Robert Borden.
I know that Nas seems like a perfect, absolutely straightforward, yup, she's the mole.
She's so secretive.
She does all these stuff.
Let me tell you.
I'm going to dismiss her for the following reasons.
I honestly think that Nas, coming from the NSA, has actually displayed a lot of traits
and behavior that show me that she would be a terrible mole.
Because coming from the NSA, she already had access to a ton of information.
While she would be maybe incentivized to reactivate Jane, it doesn't seem like her actions are
actually helping Sandstorm in any way, shape, or form.
Actually, if she was doing all these effort to try to bring Jane back into the fold, and
Sandstorm wouldn't know about that.
It feels illogical that she would be the mole.
Because it's illogical, and also the fact that she's coming from the NSA, and Shepherd
and Roman have been very adamant that they keep saying, "FBI mole.
FBI mole."
I don't think it's likely that she is the mole.
Pellington and Borden.
Who could it be?
Pellington is the FBI director, at the really high post, an extremely high post.
Super political.
He got a ton of access.
If you have the FBI director in your pocket, it feels to me you wouldn't just not take
advantage of that resource.
The fact that Sandstorm hasn't taken advantage of that mole, tells me the Mole has access,
but doesn't have a lot of power.
Because Pellington has access and power, I'm going to dismiss him.
Which leaves us with Dr. Robert Borden as our mole in service.
What's up?
I know what you're thinking.
He's a psychologist.
How is he the mole?
If you think about it, as a psychologist, he has a lot of access to a lot of information
because people literally voluntarily sit down and tell them their innermost secrets, their
innermost thoughts.
As an operative, that's a fantastic place to be, because you know what's happening,
but you're not a part of the action, so you don't put yourself in harms way.
You're a part of the team because you get all these information coming in.
Plus, you're seeing him reconnect with Patterson because there's been so much shift, and he's
been pretty much exiled from a lot of these information.
Him getting close to Patterson is the move that a mole would do to try to get as much
information, embed themselves even further in the investigation without, again, raising
too much suspicion.
The final indication that's telling me that Borden is the mole is an answer that Martin
Gero gave in that same interview to Entertainment Weekly about what we can expect for Borden
this season.
Borden has got a ton to do this season.
Unfortunately for time, one of his scenes was cut, which is a drag, because he's just
one of my favorite performers to watch.
He's just so great, and natural, and very good-looking.
Some of those sparks that you were feeling between Patterson and Borden last year will
maybe take hold with some kindling.
Clearly, Borden is going to have a lot of stuff to do this season.
In my opinion, that action, that activity is going to come from the fact that he is
a Sandstorm operative.
Guys, that's my theory.
That's who I think is the FBI mole.
Do you agree?
Do you disagree?
Comment below, let me know.
If you think it's someone else, I'd be curious to hear who you think it is, and why?
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