Blindspot (TV Series)

Name Not One Man (2017)

Ashley Johnson: Patterson

Quotes 

• Patterson : Okay, so, as we all know, the text on Jane's back is a mish-mash of various passages from famous literary works. Buried in there are Bible verses from the Book of Genesis, including Genesis 3:25.

  Edgar Reade : [reading]  "But it was the Father who sent his envoy, the serpent, to tempt his children and lead them astray."

  Tasha Zapata : I haven't been to church in a while, but that doesn't sound familiar.

  Patterson : That's because it doesn't exist. There is no Genesis chapter 3, verse 25. But this morning, one of my systems picked up the phrase "Genesis 3:25" over some chatter, and I was able to track it to a man named Jared Wisnewski. Single guy, runs a local farmers co-op upstate. A few hunting rifles registered to his name.

  Edgar Reade : Okay, so a mild-mannered farmer references a Bible verse that doesn't exist in the chatter? Barely a lead.

  Patterson : I thought so, too. But the coincidence didn't sit well with Weller, and he wanted us to dig into it.

  Tasha Zapata : How exactly did this alert your tattoo database?

  Patterson : I don't want to bore you with the intricate details.

  Edgar Reade : Since when?

  Patterson : It's... it's just... it's a whole mess of algorithms and just so much math.

  Edgar Reade : All right, we're gonna head up to Wisnewski's farm and see if we can find anything.

  [he and Tasha turn to leave] 

  Edgar Reade , Tasha Zapata : Let's move.

• Tasha Zapata : We seized a huge cache of automatic weapons, demolition charges, nitrogen fertilizer, and diesel fuel.

  Patterson : Wisnewski isn't a mild-mannered farmer. He's using his farm as a domestic terrorist training camp.

  Kurt Weller : So he's making an ANFO bomb?

  Jane Doe : ANFO?

  Edgar Reade : Aluminum Nitrate Fuel Oil explosive. Same type of bomb they used in Oklahoma City.

• Kurt Weller : How exactly did you crack the Bible verse tattoo? You told me on the phone you picked up the phrase on some chatter.

  Patterson : You're never this interested in how I solve the tattoos.

  Kurt Weller : This one points to an off-the-book program being run out of this office, so I need to know what is happening under my watch, and I need to know now.

  Patterson : Uh, okay. I linked the tattoo database to a secret NSA data collection program.

  Kurt Weller : Omaha? Nas told me it's very similar to Daylight.

  Patterson : Daylight on steroids is more accurate.

  Kurt Weller : So you've been using illegal wiretaps to solve these tattoos?

  [Patterson is reluctant to say anything] 

  Kurt Weller : [losing his patience]  Patterson.

  Patterson : This was the first one.

  Kurt Weller : Really?

  Patterson : I know. It's just I have to use every resource that I have. We're running out of time to figure out what all of this adds up to.

  Kurt Weller : That is my call to make, not yours. Understand?

• Kurt Weller : [hearing an old conversation between Ron Clark and Mayfair]  She never told me that I was up for that.

  Patterson : Maybe she didn't want to get your hopes up.

  Kurt Weller : Clark blocked the chance for me to be promoted, to relocate to D.C. He wasn't just talking baseball gibberish.

  Patterson : What do you mean?

  Kurt Weller : He told me that I was playing for the Mets; the New York Mets. But he said I should have been a National; the Washington Nationals. He was trying to tell me about that transfer, but he said they could never let it happen.

  Patterson : "They" being Sandstorm?

  Kurt Weller : That phone call was from last year, so Shepherd wanted me to stay in New York, to be here when Jane showed up in that bag.