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Tattoos


Jane Doe's body was completely covered with intricate tattoos; each of them held a case of corruption in the United States. Jane and her tattoos, are the main plot on NBC's TV show Blindspot.

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Tattoos
These tattoos. They've saved a lot of lives.
Kurt Weller to his team.

Almost two years after Jane and the team stopped Sandstorm, Roman, Jane's younger brother, tattooed her body again with bioluminiscent tattoos this time, gathering the team back together to solve the new mysteries.

Events

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Jaimie Alexander as Jane Doe in Season 1. From Jaimie's Instagram.

It was Remi’s idea to tattoo her body and erase her memory with ZIP in order to make herself, and Kurt Weller, believe she was his childhood friend Taylor Shaw, who disappeared when she was 5 years old. 

A series of intricate tattoos represented in cryptic symbols, map pieces, riddles, numeric sequences and phrases are written in over two dozen of different languages and were tattooed all at once in her body. 

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The designs represent a case of corruption inside of the United States and were exposed as tattoos so agent Kurt Weller and his team could take Sandstorm’s enemies down and give him certain reputation with the idea of take Bethany Mayfair out of her job as Assistant Director of the FBI NYO.

Once found in Times Square, Jane Doe’s tattoos were analyzed, photographed and studied, it was revealed that each of them could have multiple meanings and that it would take years to decode all of them.

Bioluminiscent Tattoos

Second layer tattoos

Away from her home, family and friends, Jane was caught in an accident; while unconscious, Roman added a new layer of bioluminiscent tattoos to her body only seen with a small metallic devise, which illuminates the tattoos all at once when placed next to bird tattoo on the left side of her neck.

This new layer is even more complex than the first one with hidden letters, unknown patterns, number sequences and maps.

New layer

Tattoo Process

Tattoo process

When Jane Doe first arrived to the FBI, Patterson determined that her tattoos where all new and tattooed all at once around three weeks before Jane was left in Times Square.

It is implied that Oscar and Roman were part of the tattoos designers/architects, both of them, including Marcos, supervised Remi's tattoo process while she was heavily sedated.

Bird Tattoo

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Oscar drawing the bird the day Remi broke off their engagement.

The bird tattoo is located on the left side of Jane's neck. Due to its location, it became one of the most visible and characeristical tattoos in her body. As seen through her memories, it was Oscar who designed the bird. It's been theorized that the design was added just as a sign of commitment and a reminder of their relationship and ended engagement.

Birdtat

The bird already tattooed on Jane's neck.

Solved

Season 1

No. Image Description
1.01
Wellertat

Woe Has Joined

Location: Upper Back
Kurt Weller's name is tattooed on Jane Doe's back so she could be directly sent to him.

Kurt's name was later used as a password when the towers tattoo pointed to a new hint.

Chinesetat
Location: Behind left ear.
Jane Doe is able to understand the meaning of this tattoo, indicating that it's an adress and a date, which led the team to Chao's apartment located at 399 White Street, Apartment 7.
1.02
Randomtat

A Stray Howl

Location: Right thigh, above knee.
This tattoo could only be decoded by using the information from the previously-solved chinese tattoo -399 White Street, Apartment Seven-. Using a Vigenere cipher, and White Street as a key word added to the letters in between of the numbers, the code translated to Major Arthur Gibson a retired drone pilot seeking revenge.
1.03
Sealtat

Eight Slim Grins

Location: Right shoulder, hidden under a black square.
Remi got this tattoo when she became a Navy SEAL. During her tattoo process, the insignia was concealed by the black square in order to keep her identity and past a complete mystery.

Patterson realized that one of the members from a heist crew had the exact same insignia tattooed in his arm and that directly connected him and Jane to Orion.

Filetat
Location: Above right elbow.
A hit on the tattoo database alerted Patterson that this tattoo was directly pointing to an FBI case file about Saúl Guerrero whose handler was Bethany Mayfair.
1.04
Leaftat

Bone May Rot

Location: Unknown
This tattoo is decoded by Patterson with the help of her boyfriend, David Wagner. It indicated the adress of the CDC and it hid the organization's logo.
Cdctat
Location: Forehead, right and left cheek. Invisible.
The ink of this tattoo was invisible and only seen under the CDC ultraviolet light. The numbers are codes of deadly virus samples pointing to some stolen samples that were taken to start a massive infection worldwide.
1.06
Owltat

Cede Your Soul

Location: Left calf.
The owl was drawn by Ana Montes' older brother. After he passed away, Ana used it as a logo for her software Trakzer which showed the location of every undercover agent from the FBI.
1.07
Archtat

Sent on Tour

Location: Right forearm.
Towertat
Location: Nape/lower neck.
Jane realized that the only way to get out of Saúl Guerrero's town alive was to follow the path that led to the towers she recognized from her tattoo. In the location, they found a box with a word password combiation lock Zapata managed to realize that the password was Kurt for being the first word tattooed under the towers.
Shelltat
Location: Right shoulder.
Patterson realized the shapes are Petoskey stones, the official state stone of Michigan. One of the stone's coral patterns was purposely shaped like Alpena County with an adress leading the team to Draclyn Twonship where Saúl Guerrero, N°2 on the FBI's most wanted list.
1.08
Butchertat

Persecute Envoys

Location:
1.09
Ashwell tat

Authentic Flirt

Location: Hidden whithin different tattoos all over Jane's body
Patterson discovered that some of the tattoos had hidden letters tattooed with the same font. Her database managed to form Ashwell Creek Kennels, a username logged into a puppy forum used by assassins as communication devise. The conversation in the forum led the team to a leaked WITSEC list stolen by Rich Dotcom.
1.11
Ceasetat

Cease Forcing Enemy

Location:
This tattoo was PI with some missing numbers. These missing numbers were latitude and longitude coordinates that led the team to The Dark Isles on the Black Sea where a missing plane and its passengers were taken hostage.
1.14
Liontat2

Rules in Defiance

Location: Right calf.
Iluminatitat2
Location: Left forearm.
The tattoo was a band logo where Paloma Diaz was a member. She was kidnapped and brought into a secret brothel with several other women where she was killed by a man and her body dumped into the ocean. Her boyfriend was accused of killing her and was centenced to death. After Jane refused to help Oscar with one of his missions -bringing the team's attention to this tattoo- he sent an email to Patterson to help her decode the tattoo.
1.15
Burningrosetat

Older Cutthroat Canyon

Location: Abdomen, center.
The Burning Rose was painted by Zomo under the request by an unknown man and it got exhibited on his gallery until it was stolen. The Team realized that Cade was the responsible of stealing the painting in order to get close to Jane and avenge Marcos' death.
1.17
Bulltat

Mans Telepathic Loyal Lookouts

Location: Waist, right side.
After a series of clues as part of an anniversary scavenger hunt from David, Patterson realized that the bull's eye was actually a star called Aldebaran, which led her to a mentally unestable man who performed several murderers.
1.19
Handprinttat

In the Comet of Us

Location: Lower abdomen.
1.20
Ahmaditat

Swift Hardhearted Stone

Location: Inside of right forearm.
Tarek Ahmadi's daughter, Maya Ahmadi, drew the Ahmadi family crest on her notebook. The sketch was tattooed on Jane's arm.
1.22
Barcodetat

If Love a Rebel, Death Will Render

Location: Right wrist.

Season 2

No. Image Description
2.02
Carteltat

Heave Fiery Knot

Location: Lower abdomen.
The spaces between pillars on the tattoo resembled .40 caliber rounds, the same bullets that were used in a shooting at a narcotics officer’s wedding in Mexico City; this pointed to the Juarez Cartel and the gun-waltzing program, an operation where agents go undercover as arms dealers in order to sell the guns recovered from the Juarez Cartel crime scenes and get under arrest the buyers. The team discovered that Valentine Barker was blamed of re-selling some of the guns through waltzing.
2.03
203

Hero Fears Imminent Rot

Location:
This tattoo clearly showed an olive branch an oak branch and a torch, elements that can be found in the U.S. Dime; also the outline shape represented Vieques, a Puerto Rican island used by the NAVY as a weapons testing site where they primarily used DIME bombs, which caused a high number of casualties over the years due to radiation. The team realized that the tattoo led them to a series of coordinated attacks performed by the relatives of some of the victims in Vieques.
2.04
Beetat

If Beth

Location: Right hand.
Patterson discovered that the tattoo was made of two subtly different shades of ink; after running the path of the differently-colored lines, she managed to obtain, from one of the lines, a Homeland Security employee ID that pointed to analyst Bo Kaier, while the second line translated to Shadowcat, Kaier’s nickname used for his work as a hacker in the Dark Web. After raiding his home, Jane and Zapata managed to retrieve his hard drives where he stored modified commercial video games to simulate some of the most secured buildings in the country and sell them online. The last mod sold was from the Aebly Museum of Art where the team attended to undercover.
2.05
Compasstat

Condone Untidiest Thefts

Location: Back of right thigh.
Some of the numbers in the compass correspond to the server address for Snapitz, while the rest of them match up to five Snapitz accounts with associates of the O’Malley family. They used the app as a communication devise to send a coded message through pictures of chess end-game movements that ordered a hit on Donahue, who turned out to be the head of the Irish mob in the USA.
2.11
Twintat

Droll Autumn, Unmutual Lord

Location: Right forearm.
When the tattoos were merged together, they showed a serial code: MDQU3658847, which was a ship container ID at Red Hook Terminal. In that container Anton Stepulov, Dabbur Zann's number two, and his son arrived to New York in order to perform a heart surgery to the boy promised by Jake Keaton.
2.12
Cheetahtat

Nor I Nigel

Location: Neck, right side (not tattooed).
Kurt Weller gives Patterson a USB drive with Intel about Sandstorm where all of Remi's tattoos are shown in a video. This tattoo in particular was not tattooed on Jane's neck when the corruption case was already taken care of and when Sandstorm realized it directly linked them to Kat Jarret and Roman's deals with her.
2.13
Bibletat

Named Not One Man

Location: Lower back.
Patterson was able to decode this tattoo through the illegal use of Omaha. It led the team to some terrorist activity performed by angry farmers after the operation was ordered by an FBI agent.
2.14
Daedalustat

Borrow Or Rob

Location: Loin.
The tattoo was the seal of Daedalus, a secret society at Jameson College, it also hid an equation where its variables correspond to real-world economic values. A partial list of Jameson College alumni leaked with some names of Daedalus's members, one of them Gord Enver aka Rich Dotcom.
2.15
Lelantostat

Draw O Caesar, Erase a Coward

Location: Left hip.
Lelantostat2
Location: Left hip.
Lelantostat3
Location: Ankle.
2.18
Hourglass tat

Senile Lines

Location: Back, left side.
2.19
Serpenttat

Regard a Mere Mad Reager

Location: Right clavicle down to abdomen.
The serpent was a Russian hacker's logo who named himself Serpent-16. He was behind the Nikkei Flash Crash, he disabled the cooling system on a french nuclear reactor and shut down JFK Ground Control, among other attacks.

The team have known that he was behind the tattoo but gave up on the lead after discovering that the guy was a ghost. The FBI had only a blurry image of him until the cameras picked him boarding a Metro-North train while on his way to Grand Central Station in order to get a package left there by hackers.

2.22
Second layer tat-0

Lepers Repel

Location: All over Jane's body.
As soon as Jane's skin made contact with a metal plaque with the bird tattoo on it, a second layer of invisible tattoos started to glow, revealing more designs.

Season 3

Season 3 revolves around Jane's new layer of bioluminiscent tattoos; each of them hold the team's darkest secrets.

No. Img. Description
3.01
Dante's tattoo

Back to the Grind

Location: Behind left ear.
This tattoo referenced to Dante Alighieri's Inferno. Part of Dante's Canto VII-10 was tattooed behind Jane's left ear with the quote "Not causeless is this journey into the abyss". This reference took Jane and Weller to Saint Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, where they followed the tattoo's clue, leading them to the first task previously arranged by Roman.
3.01
Firefly tattoo
Location: back, upper right
Connected to Jake Keaton and Zapata.
3.02
Perseus tat

Enemy Bag of Tricks

Location: Left chest area.
3.03
Domestic terrorism tattoo

This Profound Legacy

Location: Back
Jane's back is covered in microscopic specks of luminescent ink, which put together form the code the FBI uses to file anonymous tips from the FBI hotline. This tattoo points to The Three Blind Mice, a group of hackers that performed illegal activities online. Patterson, Rich and Kathy were part of the group.
3.04
Crow tattoo bio

Gunplay Ricochet

Location: Left upper thigh (Front).
3.09
Blue dawn tattoo

Hot Burning Flames

Location: Unknown
The logo was spray-painted at the entrance of a classified regional storage facility of the DOE. The team realized that the logo was tattooed as a slide puzzle that had already been solved, when the pieces are scrambled, the notches in the tattoo group together and give the number of a URL linked to a message board. The user andWHY21 uploaded a video of two individuals breaking into the DOE facility from where two missile nukes were stolen by a Dabbur Zann member.
3.10
Kenyan flag tattoo

Balance of Might

Location: Left thigh, back
3.13
Nergal tattoo

Warning Shot

Location: Left calf
This tattoo is a representation of the Nergal NSA-created computer virus. Named after the Mesopotamian god of pestilence, Nergal is a dangerous virus.
3.15
Ride of the Valkyries tattoo

Deductions

Location: Unknown
The tattoo references the classical piece "Ride of the Valkyries". Valkyrie was used to name Valkyrie International Cargo, a fake company funded by Hank Crawford that manufactured planes. Some of these planes were sold to the CIA.

Unsolved

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Trivia

  • Tattoos are commonly pictures, names or numbers put into people's skin through ink depositing through needles. Some people get tattoos for ceremonial purposes, relations to culture, or as a form of self-expression.
  • According to the pilot episode, all of Jane's tattoos are new, meaning they were all placed on her at once.
  • Some of the tattoos are written in two dozen of different dialects.
  • Some -if not the majority- of the tattoos didn't have a meaning when the show started. The writers and producers would add new plots to the designs when in need of new stories.
  • The barcode tattoo Jane has on her right wrist, didn't have a meaning until they needed a new story for episode 22 If Love a Rebel, Death Will Render.
  • At the end of season 2, Jane and Weller discover a new layer of bioluminiscent tattoos on Jane's body.
  • Jane has 33 new letters and numbers along her spine.
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