Blindspot (TV Series)
Name Not One Man (2017)
Ashley Johnson: Patterson
Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.