#blindspot 3x02

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Teasingly using the wrong words with people who have to correct you is definitely a type of flirting

Elves & turtles are very strange flirtation tactics but you do you, ladies 😂

It's very much giving the verbal...

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Blindspot Rewatch 2022 ~ S03E02 ~

Zapatterson + Wizardville

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It's 3x02 week!

(Psssst, the hair looked better before, Jane!)

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Enjoy :)

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smiles...

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Aaaahhh @coal000 this scene is so pure.. They are both kind of unsure and still express their love for one another 😍

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All we ever had was each other.  

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Half the time I want my sister back. Half the time I want to kill her.

Roman

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Is Roman Redeemable?

Spoilers for 3x02 “Enemy Bag of Tricks” under cut.

I think he is. If he wants to redeem himself, he will. In regards to 3x02 “Enemy Bag of Tricks”, killing is part of who he is. We have seen him kill on screen before - Jeffrey Kantor in 2x03 and the man he forked in 2x10. He was raised as a child soldier in the orphanage (yes so was Jane but as we know from a deleted flashback scene from series 2 at his first day of school - his instinct is to lash out, trained or otherwise). Just because the ZIP has worn off doesn't make Tom Jakeman’s killing any worse. His MO has changed because he is no longer under Shepherd’s influence, or that of ZIP. As I said he will be redeemable if he wants it. I believe he has more love for Jane than hate, however the feelings of betrayal is the stronger surface emotion at the moment. I think deep down he would die for her, but at the moment he wants Jane to understand what he is going through and to expose who the team really are; and in his eyes - the tattoos have worked once before in exposing corruption, so they are likely to work again. He is using methods he is familiar with, but at the same time experimenting after doing the necessary research. 

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Do you think the show had issues with writing black characters like Walker and Kira and with how they were treated?

I think it’s very important to separate Walker from Kira and what was just bad writing from what may have resulted from racial blindspots among the writers and to note that the show did a great job with Buffy and Pat Driscoll. Kira still would have been awful no matter her skin colour and that she happened to be black is because the writers were looking for an evil Buffy (they even named her after a minor rival of Buffy the Vampire Slayer). The issue with her is that she was part of a story line the show was never going to be able to pull off and making her homophobic automatically made her the worst villain on the show but then the writers effed things up even further by making her try to get with a guy she knows is gay which is insane and turns her into a cartoon villain. With Walker there is a case to be made that the way he was written off was sketchy but a lot of the issues surrounding his character were caused by shifts in production. 

I don’t think it was written with ill intent but having Andi and Buffy talk about Buffy going to the dance and seeing all these other girls there with shoes Walker made them really does tap into some very negative stereotypes about black men being promiscuous. All Walker did was make Buffy her own pair of shoes which is something he had happened to do for Andi months earlier when they still had a fling and before Buffy had even moved back from Arizona. Jonah Beck goes from trying to prevent Andi from breaking up with him to dating Libby to kissing Amber all in the space of 10 eps between 3x02-3x12 but he doesn’t get painted as a player. Nor does Marty get called out for emotionally cheating on Rachel as he reconnects with Buffy. What’s worse is that the shoe bit was totally unnecessary in the scene itself as just seconds earlier Buffy had listed all the reasons why she hated Walker’s promposal; that’s all the justification needed to sink Wuffy and write him off. 

I think what was going on with the shoe thing was that the writers had been told they were cancelled as they went to write The Quacks and they had already settled on Muffy and single Andi as the endgames so they wrote that bit in and had Andi join Buffy in condemning Walker in a clumsy attempt to irrevocably shut the door on Wuffy and Wandi as ships and Walker as a character. It is unfortunate that the writers had that blindspot and that no one pointed out that writing that line about other girls wearing Walker’s shoes made Walker sound like a player which reflects the fact that for the most part the writing in S3 just wasn’t as good as in S2.

It wasn’t a good look to have the only man of colour have romantic relationships with two women of colour only to have him dumped for two white men but I really don’t think that the writers ever intended that to happen. We all know how Buffy’s story in S2 went off the rails a bit because Marty left because Garren was on GH and I think most people know that the original order for S2 was 21 produced eps which was bumped up to 26 in August 2017. Unfortunately instead of just extending their outline they stuck to the original outline up which would have seen S2 end with Buffy leaving and then just wrote the last 5 eps as a tacked on epilogue. 

So probably Walker was initially just going to be there for the Wandi/Jandi triangle that would have lasted from 2x13-2x19 and it’s likely that the writers hoped they could get Marty back so he could show up on Buffy’s door and tell her what he wrote in the letter that was put into time capsule Buffy. But in December 2017, Garren started telling people on his lives that he was unsure if he’d be back for S2 but definitely wouldn’t be back for S3 and of course they never got Marty back in S2. And then Wuffy comes out of nowhere in 2x23 and suddenly Walker has a last name and then when S3 rolls around he and Buffy are a thing. 

They probably never intended to lose Garren like they did but once it happened they scrambled and with Jonah for Andi and TJ gay and for Cyrus they had no one to pair Buffy with except Walker. Getting a last name is a big deal on this show and only TJ who was a endgame love interest also got a last name whereas Amber and Marty never did. Wuffy probably was intended to be endgame when they wrapped S2 and with Terri set on single Andi and Jonah and not getting permission for canon Tyrus until writing the series finale then Wuffy would have been the only confirmed endgame ship and likely would have gotten a fair bit of focus. I think Walker’s 4 eps and Marty’s 6 in the original 21 ep production were probably the allotted ep amount for Buffy’s love interest so if they hadn’t been able to get Marty back then Walker would have probably been in more eps than TJ and been Buffy’s date in the cut ep and it would have been a Wuffy kiss in the finale. 

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So Roman says there's a sequence to Jane's tattoos. The first one is behind her ear, because it's something they could get on their own, but then he goes to her 'left chest area' (thanks, Stuart!). So he goes straight for her heart.

Wonder if that's because she's the only thing left in his own heart at the time the tattoos were designed?

He's VERY honest with the real Tom Jakeman, and he describes Shepherd as a monster. Maybe he really didn't know what was in the back of the ambulance, just assumed it was HMX or something.

Yes, I am sticking to my 'Remi and Roman didn't want to kill innocent people' theory.

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Preliminary Ratings of MacGyver Episode 3x02 via Showbuzz Daily.

It lost a bit in audience compared to last week, but got to keep the demo. The numbers feel low, but overall, there's quite a drop for all Shows when compared to last year. Interestingly, "Last Man Standing" lost quite a bit from last week's demo (1.8) and audience numbers (>8 Million), while MacGyver stayed very stable (last week was 0.7 demo, 5.771 Million viewers in the final ratings). Both LSM and MacGyver might lose more numbers as soon as Blindspot starts airing again, but if the Reboot keeps up the quality or maybe even turns it up a notch (not only storyline-wise, but also with interesting guest-stars), it might actually win the 8pm timeslot in audience every now and then. 

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Popular Locations Wednesday

New York’s Calvary Cemetery

With over 3 million burials, Calvary Cemetery is the largest graveyard in the United States. The cemetery was created by the Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1847 when their original cemetery on Mulberry Street filled up. By 1867 the original section of the cemetery to the west was completely full and eventually three new sections were added.

The grounds can be seen in Person of Interest, Elementary, and Blindspot.

The cemetery was also used in The Godfather, John Wick, Zoolander, & Last Embrace.

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GIFTOBER 2020. Day 20 → Wearing glasses. 👓

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Blindspot 3x02 recap

Aka the one where the team has to get their groove back

Ah, man. I always intend to do these straight after the ep but then damn life always gets in the way and now suddenly somehow it’s about 12 hours until the new episode airs… let’s see how quickly I can smash through this one then, huh? (Answer: not very quickly lol)

As usual, many thoughts to be found beneath the cut.

Look I’m not really a fan of hunters or white men who are overly attached to their weapons, but murdering a couple of dudes just because they stumbled upon your shady militant business seems a lil bit rough tbh

Ugh Weller is cooking for his lady he’s such a cutie pie and ugh Jane slept so deeply, when was the last time she slept well?? But ugh they’re really settling back into being around each other and HE COMPLIMENTS HER HAIR and tbh I like it best when it’s the classic ‘Jane Doe’ short look but this is super cute (and better than the wavy hair from last ep). And wow I feel like we’re burning through a lot of topics in this brief scene bc now they’re talking about how Jane disappearing pretty much bankrupted Weller (man, that’d have to add some guilt to the pile), and then it comes up that Jane is now vegan and tbh I have a slight problem with this new fact. Like okay being vegan is fine, but firstly they already had at least dinner together the night before, so this kinda should have already come up, right? And secondly I kinda feel like her being vegan now is just a somewhat clumsy way of the writers showing how these two have both ‘changed’ and ‘don’t really know each other like they used to’. I honestly expected her to be joking, and for that little joke to actually demonstrate that while they’re not exactly the same as they were, they also haven’t radically changed. But nevermind, I guess. It provided the necessary setup for Weller’s question about any other surprises-- following which Jane says nothing about the passports and cash she’d hidden-- which is what the writers really wanted to get out of this scene anyway.

Poor Stuart, Patterson really does not like sharing her lab. But technically he’s right, it is his lab too. And omg he and Zapata giving Patterson shit about her app is priceless. I think it might have been unintentional on his part but Zapata sure ran with it and I am loving her sly grin rn lol. But aw Patterson why you gotta growl at lil puppy Stuart so much?? He doesn’t have the tattoo solving experience you have, and plus, I seem to remember you obsessing over certain specific tattoos and getting distracted from the rest… though maybe the David experience put a stop to that, I guess, and you subconsciously don’t want Stuart to head down that same path. And then lol Weller strides in and tells Patterson he wants to solve one specific tattoo today and ooooh she is pissed, whereas Zapata’s having more fun rn than she did in her entire year at the CIA. I knew you missed this, girl. And then Weller says he solved part of the tatt and she’s immediately like ‘excuse me? By yourself?’ and looks doubtful (and also possibly concerned? It’s not something dodgy is it??). But omg “I’m not just a handsome face, Tasha” hahahaha. And yeah yeah we know about Roman and Berlin, though it’s news that there’s a specific sequence to these tattoos and that Roman is supposedly trying to help save the world. And now the team is crackin’ and ugh Patterson to Stuart “What a math whiz you are” and on one hand it’s funny but on the other c’mon mate, go easy on him. He’s barely more than a baby. Anyway ten she pulls some wizardy stuff with the tattoo and they figure out that it marks a spot up near the finger lakes. But then Jane realises that it may connect with the pre-existing tattoo in the same spot-- the left breast, apparently, thanks Stuart (next time answer a little slower, buddy) and omg she gives him this tiny, amused (but not mocking) smile as she repeats ‘left chest area’ and ugh I’m so glad to see someone being sweet to Stuart.

So the team updates Reade on the sitch, which feels a lil weird, and he’s hesitant to let them rush out and blindly follow the tattoos like Weller wants to, bc he’s worried about them being manipulated again, and oooh Weller gets all grumpy about it. Boys, boys, play nice. Jane gently convinces Reade into it, while Weller continues to grump. Dude, I don’t particularly think Reade should be in charge, but the fact of the matter is that he IS in charge, so you should be watching your tone. It doesn’t matter that you have inside info that this is a time-sensitive situation, that is still not a respectful way to address a superior officer. And then lol they go out and search for hours until Reade tries to make them go home “I don’t wanna just quit”/“it’s not quitting if it’s an order”. Lol poor guy, it’s like dealing with a bunch of headstrong kids some of the time. And then suddenly a satellite literally crash-lands right near them, and is pretty much immediately descended on by a bunch of military-esque guys. Notice that Weller is calling the shots again? Old habits die hard, I guess. Poor Reade….  

Stuart is still obsessed with that same tattoo and PAtterson is still annoyed by it. Reade and Weller walk in with a chorus of ‘so what have you got?’ and again, Weller, time to back down, buddy. This ain’t your team anymore. Lol “we’re not following hunches”/“We just followed Weller’s hunch…” ugh poor beleaguered Stuart. He just can’t catch a break. And sigh, looks like Rich won’t be helping out this ep. Bummer. Ooooohhh but Reade gives the orders and then calls Weller into his office, who definitely has an odd look on his face as he looks at their reversed positions either side of the desk. And omg Reade brings up the tattoo and Weller’s all ‘oh yeah I was right about that’.  Uh excuse me??? I’m not even on this team and even I don’t like your tone one bit, you insolent little preteen! Come on, Weller, this level of juvenile pettiness should be below you. After all, Reade is raising a very valid question about how it was that he just happened to solve the tattoo on the very day that the satellite fell-- which means he’s onto you, buddy. I’d be treading with a little more care and a little less jerkishness, if I were you….

Oh hi Sydney! Oh man when was this filmed??? I stg if they were there when I was there in September…. But oooh damn Roman is getting into some deep stuff here at this support group. Oh hey! I know that guy, he was in an ep of Timeless. And I think possibly in some Aussie ad? Idk. And yep, I don’t care if it’s my native accent, hearing it in an American show is always freakin weird. At least he’s a legit Aussie and not putting on a terrible fake accent haha. And ok I know he’s not but it kind of feels like he’s almost hitting on Roman haha? But in actuality I’m pretty sure Roman has orchestrated this whole thing. Also this dude lives in The Rocks??? He must be loaded, wow. And lol, it’s never too early for a beer in Australia, unless of course you’re me, in which case ‘never’ is too early for a beer haha.

Oooh boy, Stuart, it’s probably not a good idea to literally take the words out of Patterson’s mouth. She really does love briefing the team and showing how smart she is, which in this case involves her having figured out who the satellite belonged to. The representatives of ProtechSat arrive, though are greatly confused since they’re not missing a satellite-- at least, until they see the one in the lab. “Oh, this is for sure ours” hahaha. And then they proceed to have very restrained freakouts and make multiple phone calls as they realise exactly which satellite it was and what it did, while the team gets more and more impatient waiting for answers “getting a little suspicious here guys”/”lotta red flags” hahaha I love the sass in this team. And then lolll the whole ‘We’re from the DOD” exchange and the explaining of the acronyms is priceless. Turns out, though, that the US has a missile shield thingy via a network of satellites, and now with the black box from the crashed one, someone could technically turn it off. Lol at Tasha’s “great, now I have to make a phone call” haha. And Stuart suddenly gets the company name and damn I love this show’s subtle humour. Uh oh, apparently North Korea is priming their missiles, which means possible nuclear war. Geez, high stakes or what. Oh hold up, as long as a single satellite in the network stays functional, the shield stays in place. Who wants to bet that they stop the bad guys just as it counts down to one or two satellites left?? And then lol “stuart’s got something” “Really??” damn Patterson, be nice lol

Stuart has discovered the situation with the hunters, which leads them to a trail cam that shows the ringleader’s face-- and Jane knows him. She worked with him doing K&R, and knows several of his aliases. Reade is immediately thinking of the ramifications of her previous work, but Zapata and Patterson both immediately jump to her defense. Aw, my girls! And then Weller’s all grumpy again over this discovery and tbh I don’t understand why?? As far as I recall, he didn’t ever directly ask her what she’d been doing while she was gone, and rescuing kidnapping victims certainly doesn’t seem like a bad thing?? Like, so what if she worked with some questionable people for the greater good? Geez, Weller, you’re more hormonal in a single day than many girls are throughout their entire teenage years. Chill out, son.  

Back in the motherland, these rather similar looking dudes are bonding over more beers, and ugh Roman is telling him the truth about Shepherd and Jane. “Half the time I want my sister back, half the time I want to kill her”--- who wants to bet that that’s going to be a running theme of the season lol? And then haha “you’re next beer’s going to be a water” uh mate he’s American, the beer he’s used to practically IS water loll

Jane finds Weller in the locker room to apologise, which imo isn’t warranted, but whatever. And he says that she ‘did what she had to do’ and I LOVE that she corrects him and tells him that she did it bc she WANTED to? That’s right, girl, don’t let him alter your narrative to fit his views. And then he judges her about people she may or may not have killed/let die and dude. Duuuude. You’re being an assssss. Good thing Patterson has found some info on their bad guy. Sidenote, but I think the writers managed to slip in a subtle dig about gun control in there and I’m super impressed? Anyhow Patterson shows them the guy’s safehouses she found, which Jane is immediately able to narrow down to one based on her skills and her personal knowledge of the guy. Nice work, honey! And then they bust in there and oooh “this is for Paris”-- ok I need that backstory right now, please and thank you. We see some Korean guys in a car who have apparently already discovered that their contact is blown, but they apparently have an ace up their sleeve. Uh oh….

Oooh Zapata is ranting to Patterson about ‘Assistant Director Reade’ and man it’s weird hearing her use his title. Patterson tries to highlight things from his perspective (with another lil jab from Tasha about her app making it in there haha) and then tells her she might just need to figure out a new balance, likening it to her own ‘friends who hate each other’ thing with Stuart, and Zapata’s all ‘yeah no he definitely doesn’t know that that’s what you are’ and Patterson suddenly feels all bad. As you should, honey, coz you’ve been kinda mean to him this whole time. But aww she says she’ll be better and fix things and ugh I love seeing my babies listen to each other and work to improve themselves. Of course all her good intentions do kind of go out the window when she discovers that Stuart is back to using their processing power on his pet tattoo, and advances on him so suddenly that he literally knocks stuff off his desk in his haste to back away. Ugh the poor kid is terrified of her, despite being practically twice her height haha. She does make a good point that the nukes are all still live and the threat is far from neutralised, though. And lol she refers to the hacker as a he and the ProtechSat guy pipes up in the background “Or she!” and Patterson is all, “Exactly, women can be hackers too, Stuart!” and omg I shouldn’t laugh but the poor guy is so flustered rn and totally scared of her, and Zapata is in the background with her face in her hand hahahaha.

Oooh Reade comes in and diffuses the situation by being completely oblivious to it haha, just as he misses the sass Tasha directs his way. Then he goes in to interrogate the dude they caught and lol when he suggests he’s the hacker the dude is all “Do I look like a nerd?” Ouch man, didn’t you know anyone can be a hacker? Lol. And then “is that the good Korea, or the bad one?” okay I kinda like this guy haha, can we see more of him? Weller is definitely less impressed, taking the opportunity to shame Jane a little more for her past career choices, and dude you better get down off of that high horse before you FALL off of it. You’re hardly one with any right to be throwing stones here. But at she stands her ground, and he backs off a little. You go, Jane.

Oooh Reade is getting a pep talk from Hirst; she thinks he’s overcompensating now that the team is back. Well, that’s probably true. But on the other hand, certain members of his team (*cough* Weller *cough*) are also being prigs. Speaking of people who are being butts today, the bad dude (who is a butt) gets a visit from Jane (who has a nice butt) and there’s lots of sass being thrown around-- “I liked you better when you were unaffiliated” “Funny, I never liked you at all” hahaha yaaaassss my queeeeennnn. Oooh but hold on, he knew about her bounty? And didn’t act on it, due to a mysterious person called Clem telling him not to touch her. Wow, Clem must be powerful. They’re probably a dude, too, but just saying I have an Aunty Clem and though she’s a 5ft nutritionist with a pixie cut and giant glasses, I could totally see her as a mastermind/commander figure haha. I guess they already did the ‘Surprise! This character you’ve been hearing about is actually a woman!’ reveal with Shepherd tho. But anyhow based on Jane’s chat with her old work buddy, there may be a leak in the team-- and of course the first suspect is the ProtechSat guy who happens to be a POC. Original. It’s only when he has an alibi--- sidenote, why was he at the hospital overnight I really wanna know-- that anyone even remembers that oh yeah, he has a colleague who has also been there the whole time, and who they now know had the means to frame him. But I mean she’s a pretty white lady, so who could blame them for not suspecting her til now? (#me #Icould) Aaand now the innocent lil white lady just killed two poor dudes and is about to give the baddies the means to nuke the whole country. Good work, team.

Back by the bay, the beardy boys are bonding beautifully. Poor Aussie dude just really wants to make sure Roman isn’t a risk to himself-- but he doesn’t realise that he’s the one at risk. Roman deliberately targeted him, drugged him and is about to kill him. And ughhh the poor guy is all ‘I don’t wanna die’ and Roman seems to almost regret that he has to do it bc he seems to genuinely like him and duuuude just don’t do it! Don’t kill him! Be a better person!

The ProtechSat guy helped them figure out where the hacker chick is, which I’m super satisfied by bc the guy that they wrongly accused has now just helped save their asses. And Jeller are racing there, and Jane tells Weller she loves him, but it’s with a look of almost trepidation on her face, like when a dog thinks you’re mad at them so they’ll come up and lick your hand and try to be extra cute and lovable. At least Weller immediately says it back, then reassures her that he’s not mad at her, but at Roman for orchestrating all this, and tells her that they can’t let him drive them apart. Mmmm-hmmmm, this is the time when you mention that you ALSO have something to confess, boy! But nope, looks like we’re not free of the hypocrisy yet. Anyhow the team dashes into the building (awkwardly hiding their guns from all the kiddies), guided by Patterson to the planetarium where they find a dead Marcy. Also the voiceover narrating about asteroids and meteorites sounds very much like it’s an analogy for this show’s characters… meanwhile the team is suddenly being shot at, a (male or female, thanks guys) hacker is shutting down all the satellites, Patterson is yelling… it’s just like old times. And finally the team functions like old times, and Reade and Tasha manage to cover Jeller long enough for them to go and take out the hacker and his guards in a kickass lil showdown-- leaving them with two satellites playing Atlas and holding the whole thing together. Lol at Reade losing his comms and being like ‘So did we win or did we get nuked?’ haha. And then awwww the team’s all gathered back at the lab and Reade is giving a lil speech and I’m so proud of them. Also no drinking in the lab is a new rule-- I feel like this was somehow put in place because of Rich haha.

Aw, damn, Roman really killed him. Well, that sucks. But he needed his identity or whatever, so fine. But omg it’s hilarious watching Luke pretend to ‘learn’ how to speak with his own native accent haha. Also when are they going to explain the absence of the scar???

Oh boy. Weller is cooking tofu sticks, which is not going at all well, but it’s a sweet gesture. And yet again I kind of expect Jane to say she was joking about the whole vegan thing, idk why lol. But ugh he’s all ‘I’m trying so hard’ and I really do feel bad for him rn. He’s scared that bc there’s so much about her now that he wasn’t part of, that it will mean he’ll never really have her back or something. But um dude, literally everyone else in the world is with someone who has years of experiences that don’t include them?? Like with her memory wipe, her entire existence is pretty much only like 4 years long at this point, and she was with you for 2 and a half of those. Most people are with someone who lived twenty or more years before knowing them. So I suggest you reassess a bit here, buddy. But then again I know you’re only scared of losing her again, which is probably a fear you’ll carry forever (which as we know, is a situation I am displeased with the writers about). But ugh Jane basically suggests going out on a date which is cute, and Weller’s all ‘no go we’re broke’, and she’s all ‘well actually’ and shows him her giant stash’o’cash. And it’s one of those bittersweet moments bc yes she kept it from him but she was keeping it for an emergency, and had likely planned to tell him once she had realised how dire things had gotten financially. Thankfully Weller decides to focus on the positive, and well, they don’t make it to that date….

Awww Tasha shows up at Reade’s apartment and there’s sass and it’s cute and he apologises and then she’s all oooohhh you’re on a date?? But NO OMG he has a GIRLFRIEND and she looks VERY FAMILIAR and ooooohhhhhhhhhh boyyyyyyyy this is gonna get awkwardddddddddddd  

Meanwhile Patterson is repeatedly calling Stuart to try to apologise and explain her recent behaviour which I really approve of and appreciate, and ugh she tells him he’s good at his job and ugh she’s actually gone to his apartment to see him but oh shit the door is busted in and please tell me he just went back to the lab to work late please please please oh shit oh nooooooooooooooo. Stuarttttttttttttt!! Oh my baby this is so unfair, you deserved so much better….  (Also poor Patterson ugh)