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Warning: The following post contains spoilers for Monday’s

‘s Jane and Weller were finally rekindling their romance. Y’know, sharing multiple kisses in the locker room, exchanging giddy glances at the realization that they could finally

together — all of the usual, sickeningly cute TV-romance stuff.

Of course, after Monday’s Season 1 finale, those sweet memories seem like a lifetime away, and the climactic hour seems to have dissolved any hope for a #Jeller romance.

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During the episode, both Jane and Weller made the discovery that Jane is

, in fact, Taylor Shaw, and it infuriated Weller to know that the woman he thought was his long-lost childhood friend had been lying to him for weeks. (The jury is still out on which revelation was more shocking for Weller: the idea that Jane isn’t Taylor… or the fact that the

 Taylor died at the hands of Weller’s own father years ago, and was buried as a child at one of the campsites where she and Weller used to spend childhood summers.)

After realizing that Jane’s identity is still a mystery, which likely makes her an accomplice to the conspiracy against himself and Mayfair, Weller decided to arrest Jane in the final moments of the hour. But by that point, Jane had already been through enough — most notably, killing Oscar via an ax to the chest after he had taken her to a dilapidated house in the middle of nowhere, tied her up and threatened to wipe her memory again.

Oh, and Reed, Zapata and Patterson unlocked a whole USB drive’s worth of information about Orion and Daylight. (As if they weren’t hoarding enough secrets already.)

TVLine caught up with showrunner Martin Gero to discuss the eventful finale, including the reason behind Oscar’s demise, the ways in which Jane and Weller can possibly move forward in Season 2 and how scoring a 23rd episode allowed Season 1 to become even stronger.

to unpack from this finale. Let’s start with Oscar’s death. Did that play out exactly the way you’d initially planned? Or did killing him off have anything to do with François Arnaud booking another show on NBC,

we killed him off, he could get another show on NBC. It worked out great for everybody. There was a 20 percent chance that we could have used him in Season 2, but as we started talking and had more concrete discussions about Season 2, we realized it didn’t make sense for him to continue in the early part of Season 2. We wanted to let him know as soon as possible so that he could do a pilot, and it just worked out amazingly well. NBC is crazy about him, we’re crazy about him. It’s great to keep him on the network.

TVLINE | A number of the casualties this season — Marcos, Tom Carter, Oscar — are people that have links to Jane’s past and can fill in some of the gaps in her memory. Why do you think the show is better served by killing off those ties to her past, instead of keeping them around to help her?

Well, we’re a show that likes killing people. [

] The show has mortal jeopardy in it every week. Every week, they barely survive, and if you don’t kill people, those stakes diminish. If it’s a show where no one dies, it’s a show that’s less exciting to watch. As far as Jane’s connections to the past, what we have planned for her in Season 2 — it made the most sense to not have Oscar around for that. And the other thing is that this is the episode where she chooses. She’s been playing both sides, essentially, with one foot in the FBI world and one foot in Oscar’s world. After Mayfair’s death, she decides, “No more. I’m on the good guys’ side.” She wants to bring Oscar in. Her intention is not to kill Oscar, but Oscar’s not going to go quietly, and the fight obviously turns lethal.

TVLINE | And I imagine for you, as a showrunner, it would almost be too easy to bring in these people from Jane’s past and say, “Hey! Here are all the answers about who you really are!”

Yeah, we have to really limit [that]. Unfortunately, as storytellers, we have to keep the people that could potentially ruin the series in the span of a conversation at arm’s length.

TVLINE | We also learned in this episode that Jane is

Taylor, and it almost feels like we’ve reset the show — in other words, we’re back to having no idea who Jane is. Was that your intention?

It was, in a way. That’s not going to be a mystery next season. You’re going to find out exactly who she is in the first episode of next season, so it’s not like we needed that for additional mystery. It had more to do with Weller’s journey this season and his belief that this was all about Taylor Shaw and the relationship that he had with his father. We thought that was an incredibly emotional roller coaster ride for them. To start with him thinking that she’s Taylor Shaw and then have it all fall apart in the end — it’s just heartbreaking for him. And for Jane, she starts next season so much more vulnerable because she’s been lied to by the bad guys, as well.

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furious with her in the final moments of this episode, from your perspective?

She lied to him, you know? Had she not fabricated the memories of growing up together — Oscar gave her a bunch of photos and said, “Create memories out of these. They’ll bring Weller comfort.” And it did. And it also gave him certainty, to the point where he was second-guessing his father, right up until he digs up Taylor Shaw’s body. He knows she’s complicit in it. He doesn’t understand how

she’s complicit in it, but from his point of view, she lied to him about being Taylor Shaw, and therefore, she must be involved in somebody trying to really f—k up his life. He’s furious.

TVLINE | And given her arrest at the end of the episode, how will their relationship shift in Season 2?

You don’t want the audience to be way ahead of your characters, and the audience knows that Jane wasn’t really acting maliciously. Jane did most of these things under threat of them killing Weller. So their relationship is certainly under extraordinary duress, and it’s going to take some time to recover organically. Season 2 draws our most interesting relationship into a more interesting place, dramatically.

TVLINE | The information that Reed, Zapata and Patterson discover about Orion and Daylight — will that stay between the three of them?

They’re going to share that information immediately with Weller and, eventually, Jane. This year, Zapata had

stuff — none of them were really sharing information. They all had good reasons why

to share information, but at the beginning of next year, everybody’s going to start on the same page and move toward this common foe, which is finding the people that did this to Jane and to Mayfair and to Weller.

TVLINE | A few months back, you told me that you were grateful to have been given a 23rd episode, instead of having to pack the whole season into 22 episodes. Had you only been given 22 episodes, what would be different about these final episodes?

The last three episodes would have been exactly the same, actually. It was actually the middle episodes that allowed us to experiment with the form of the show, which turned out to be really successful. I’m incredibly proud of Episodes 21, 22 and 23. It’s really fun to have sat there a year ago and think, “This is what it’s going to be,” and then actually get to do that and have the math of the story work. But what I’m most excited about, especially as we go into Season 2, are the run of episodes like 17, 18 and 19 [from Season 1].

You have Episode 17, which was a very character-heavy episode. The case didn’t really come in until Act 3 — that was Patterson and David’s treasure hunt, and you got a whole bunch of scenes with the rest of the cast in their downtime, which turned into a

-type thriller. And then in Episode 18, you do a huge, hilarious heist episode with Rich Dot Com, which feels like a departure, but he was also very much responsible for Ali and Weller breaking up. And then in Episode 19, which is a very different episode, structurally, for network television — you have a very different story structure about a school shooting. Tonally, those three episodes are wildly different, but they all feel like the show, and for us as storytellers, that’s an exciting thing for us to see work on this show. That’s what that extra episode gave us — a little bit of breathing room to play around with the form of the show, which I think — I

think of the season’s final episode? Grade the finale in our poll below, then hit the comments to back up your choice!

Was a very good season finale episode, at least in my opinion anyway.

So, I think I was happier for Weller arresting Jane not because she lied to him but because she killed OScar. I don’t like Weller and Jane together, even though it is obvious that is where the producers want to take this show. Jaime Alexander and Francois Arnaud had amazing chemistry and I would have liked to see Jane and OScar’s relationship play out over the course of Jane finding out who she is, why she agreed to be a part of this big conspiracy, and how they were going to resolve it. Oh well. At least Weller knows some of the truth now. Thought Sullivan Stapleton’s performance was the best part of the hour!

At least I wont have to watch this show next season… I jumped onto it when I realized François Arnaud was on it….I miss The Borgias so much.

François Arnaud is just… perfect. I liked the show from the start but his presence tripled my interest. Hope we get to see more of him on TV.

it was a solid finale but to be honest I’m a bit hesitant to really sink my teeth into this show. it started out so strong but the second half of the season was pretty weak IMO, it’s a problem with these kinds of shows where one mystery leads to another, and somebody more “powerful” is always behind someone else whose supposedly “in charge” it becomes convoluted and looses a lot of the character driven drama. I thought the second half began to fall into that troupe. I will watch because I like the cast, but they will have to bring it next season for me to be really invested. BTW what did he arrest her for, he had no grounds to do so, I’d be pissed too if I were him but she hadn’t broken any laws that he’d be aware of.

she lied to the FBI and used a fake alias and killing all those other guys from previous episodes

I give it an A. I knew my money’s on Oscar to bite the dust and he deserves it. Don’t know if they’re going to continue watching Blindspot now that it’s moving to Wednesdays @ 8 next season.

Great Wrap Up, nice pile of WTF’s for us to ponder! ….. Sooo, PLEASE, can anyone explain to me about Jane’s tattoos which lead to crimes that were not yet conceived of when the tattoo was made? Several of the crimes were a few days, maybe weeks, from the perp thinking them up, but Janes tats were months old by then. AND her flying/piloting skills, foreign language skills, etc, had to have been preplanned to assist the FBI way ahead of time. So we know it’s not “Daylight” is it “Orion”?? Premonition on part of the tattoo artist? Nah! Future Peeking machine???

I don’t like Francois Arnaud as an actor. He had no chemistry with Jaime Alexander. I’m really glad that they killed Oscar off.

WHYYY WHY DID THEY KILL OSCAR ??!! HE WAS MY FAVORITE

I just want to give Weller a hug. A big one. Poor guy.

Really want to see Weller & Jane work things out it was not rlly her fault

Very good episode which answered some questions, raised more questions, and isn’t a D#$%^d cliffhanger which I think are stupid. Either you like the show and will watch it next year or you don’t..

For the record, Oscar didn’t just take an ax to the chest – that was a through-and-through with a freaking scythe.

Love the whole season, great season finale. I been reading the comments and honestly don’t get how a lot off ppl got tripped about cutting out Oscar (Francois Arnuad) I’m not a big follower of actors more than a good story line and it seems like ppl follow him better than the actual story, I personally wasn’t ok with Jane and Oscar been together (some could disagree) but I think the producers are doing a great job on this! Amazing Sullivan Stapletons performance!

Although I loved the finally over all, I do have one rather large complaint/comment/question – it ends with Jane arrested … for what? What is the charge?

I mean, sure, there are a lot of things she COULD be arrested for, but Weller knows none of them. What is it HE thinks he can charge her with? Not being the person he believed she was? She never once claimed to be Taylor Shaw, Kurt told her that was who she was. So she said she remembered a few things – well, she had amnesia and then she is told she is Taylor Shaw and Kurt keeps trying to spark some memories so it is quite likely that she might start thinking she remembered something – memory is a funny thing at best and if you are told something over and over it becomes easy to start feeling like you remember it. Everything she said was vague and uncertain. Sure, WE know she was making it up, but Kurt has no way to know that.

But even if he did know it for sure – so what? I can say I am Taylor Shaw – it’s a lie [especially since I’m a guy, not a woman, and Taylor Shaw is a fictional character] but it is not a crime unless I am trying to con someone with the claim. Jane did not make the claim nor did she try to be a part of anything – the FBI was responsible for her being involved. Kurt might suspect all sorts of things but the simple fact is that there is nothing that he knows which indicates a crime has been committed by her. At most, as it seemed in the beginning, she is a victim, not a perpetrator. He has nothing to charge her with.

I can see it all now – takes her in and when that pesky issue of what she is guilty of comes up, he responds, “She is guilty of not being the person I believed she was and not knowing who she is.” Yep – other than that one glaring point, I loved the season finally.

You’re right but he thinks she knows more than she is letting on. Remember that Oscar gave her those pictures so she could pretend to remember about the fishing trips. Weller at the moment thinks he is being played.

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Blindspot is such a well crafted show – I’m blown away and so grateful that the creator knows exactly what he’s doing and not redconning his way out of difficult situations. So rewarding to watch. And it makes me so excited for season 2. Knowing that the people creating this show have a plan and know what they’re doing.

The finale was brilliant and heartbreaking. My heart went out for Kurt and Jane.

It was so gratifying to see Jane choose what side she wanted to be on and basically deciding against her former self. The memory wipe allowed her to get away from whoever saved her life and from the bias that brought and instinctively choose what she believed is right. Nature vs nurture is brilliantly showcased in Blindspot. Having to kill Oscar as a consequence of her choice was heartbreaking but I’m not sorry Oscar is gone. He was so incredibly shady and untrustworthy, a tragic outcome was the only sensible outcome – even if it was unexpected.

Kurt’s devestation at realizing that Jane isn’t Taylor was also heartbreaking. Seeing him arrest Jane without really knowing the truth about Jane’s involvement and her motivation for acting the way she did, was, again, heartbreaking. But I’m hopeful that they can rebuilt the trust between them. Albeit slowly. Jane might not know who she used to be but she knows who she wants to be – and getting to know Kurt played a major role in her decision, I think. That is a real foundation and I’m hoping Kurt will come to see that as well.

I’m really excited for season 2. For the whole team to be working together to bring down Shepherd.

This was an awesome episode and a great season finale. Blindspot is a very good show and reading its creator say that they know where they’re going and plan accordingly is SO refreshing.

I also LOVE that Gero doesn’t tiptoe around what’s coming up like every other showrunner in the business. “You’ll have to watch to find out” “You’ll see!” “Sorry but I can’t reveal [minor element that they talk about like some major twist]”. Have some respect for your fans, people.

No, this guy just tells the viewer what to expect when next season comes without detailing anything. But the general ideas? Yes, he does, and THAT makes me want to see the show even more. I was going to watch anyway, but the interview actually made me, as a viewer, feel like I’m not only some idiot who is mainly there to gulp down commercials, but someone who decided to give one weekly hour out of my time to this team.

And what a team, this cast is awesome. Great performances from everyone all season but this finale was even better. Can we agree that Patterson is the MVP of the show outside of Jane & Weller? Haha :) She’s my favorite, her delivery is on point no matter what emotion she’s trying to convey, but her comedic skills are by far her strong point.

I must confess, I was pretty happy with Oscar dying. He just kinda annoyed me whenever he was on screen. That said, I feel bad for people who were enjoying his character. Personally, I thought he was going to stay around for AGES so this was a pleasant little surprise.

Can we have less Patterson-centric episodes next season? The character is good as support but grating when made central.

‘killing Oscar via an ax to the chest after he had taken her to a dilapidated house in the middle of nowhere, tied her up and threatened to wipe her memory again’ Well you got one out of three right. First, it was a scythe to the chest not an axe. Second, Jane went to the dilapidated BARN in the middle of nowhere all on her own and is knocked out by Oscar after she entered. The rest is absolutly right though.

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