Warning: This article contains spoilers for Blindspot Season 5 that may spoil your enjoyment in discovering its plotline. Read at your own risk.
The premiere date for Blindspot Season 5 has been delayed. Fans, however, are assured of an action-packed and emotional season when it arrives next year as the show will pay tribute to the characters that viewers have loved for four years.
Blindspot Season 5 will kick-off two months after the drone attack that could have killed Kurt Weller (Sullivan Stapleton), Edgar Reade (Rob Brown), Tasha Zapata (Audrey Esparza), or Patterson (Ashley Johnson) in Iceland. Show creator Martin Gero has revealed that Season 5 will have a couple of months of time gap following the explosion and the flashbacks will reveal what happened to the team after the drone strike that Madeline Burke (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) ordered.
Gero said that all of the five fugitive FBI agents may have survived the bombing but he is also not discounting the possibility that someone may have died from the blast. Jane (Jaimie Alexander) is most likely the first or possibly the only survivor from the explosion as she was seen out of the cabin when it was hit by the drone strike.
The series creator also hinted that fans will not see the team back at the FBI by Episode 2. It looks like the survivors of the drone strike will be dealing with Madeline for the whole season to clear their names.
"This isn't going to be something like, 'They'll be back on the FBI set by Episode 2!' The whole final season is about getting back home," Gero told TVLine.
Gero said the incident in Iceland will certainly change the lives of each character. Moving forward, Gero said the team will show great unity that viewers haven't seen in the past. He assured an exciting and emotional series finale and it will be a celebration as the main characters bid farewell to their fans.
Blindspot Season 5 is likely to premiere in spring or early summer of 2020 as it is not included in the current fall 2019 programming of NBC. The fifth season will have 13 episodes, which is way below its usual 22 episodes in the previous seasons.
The NBC procedural drama focuses on Jane Doe (Alexander), who found herself covered with tattoos when she wakes up naked in the middle of New York Times Square. The FBI, later on, discovered that each of her tattoos is connected to the cases they have been working on. As the series continues, the tattoos are linked to other conspiracies too.
