Blindspot (TV Series)

Rules in Defiance (2016)

Audrey Esparza: Tasha Zapata

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Quotes 

• [Asst. US Attorney Matthew Weitz introduces himself to Agent Zapata] 

  Matthew Weitz : I don't care about your gambling problem. I don't even care that you sold confidential FBI documents to the CIA, which is a felony, by the way. What I am interested in is Tom Carter, his obsession with your Jane Doe, and what it all has to do with Asst. Director Mayfair. I'm not here to destroy your career.

  Tasha Zapata : No, you're interested in making yours.

• [Asst. US Attorney Matthew Weitz threatens Agent Zapata for information] 

  Matthew Weitz : Tasha, something very, very wrong is going on in the highest recesses of your organization. Help me set it right.

  Tasha Zapata : If I say no...

  Matthew Weitz : Uh, yeah okay. Oh, you get a really good lawyer, could get you maybe a year in minimum security. But you can't afford a really good lawyer.

• [Agent Patterson reveals to the FBI team Jane Doe's next pair of tattoos] 

  Patterson : The lion is on Jane's right calf, and the bull is on the left side of her waist, so I was looking at them separately. But when you put them together and translate the Spanish, you get a Shakespeare quote. 'Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.' Now, take a look at the numbers here. And this is where it gets interesting, because 'sin' is also an abbreviation for sine.

  Edgar Reade : So, it's trigonometry?

  Patterson : Yes! What is the most famous lion in New York City? And I'll give you a hint, It's a tie.

  Tasha Zapata : The statues outside the Public Library.

  Patterson : And what is New York City's most famous bull?

  Bethany Mayfair : The Charging Bull in the Financial District.

  Patterson : Right! We have two points of a triangle, and I think we're supposed to solve the third.

• [Agent Weller and Agent Zapata question Officer Timothy Eavers about the Ronnie Vargas case] 

  Timothy Eavers : My memory's bad. Do you know how many cases I see in a day?

  Kurt Weller : A man is about to be put to death.

  Timothy Eavers : And I'm sorry about that.

  Kurt Weller : Tomorrow. Lethal injections aren't as painless as they make them out to be.

  Tasha Zapata : If they get the dosage wrong it can take a while.

• [the kidnap victim Natalie tells Agent Zapata what happens to the trafficked women when being held captured] 

  Natalie : [while in the basement]  See, in the daytime, we sleep down here. And most nights, we get dressed up, and the guard comes and takes us to the parties. The man who hosts these parties, his name is Mr. Tate. He's some kind of businessman, and the other men are his clients. He brings them here to entertain them and to impress them. The clients get to choose whoever they want and do whatever they want.

  Tasha Zapata : The other girls are upstairs. Why didn't you have to go?

  Natalie : [Natalie raises up her shirt revealing scars across her back]  The guards are not supposed to hurt us badly, because it makes us unattractive to the clients. There is a tall man, he has a temper. Anything that keeps me down here is better than...

  Natalie : [Natalie begins crying]  I'd let him hit me 1,000 times, as long as I don't have to go upstairs again.

• [Jane Doe talks to Agent Zapata about her kidnapping experience] 

  Tasha Zapata : Those women today... No one else was coming for them. If it hadn't been for us and for your tattoos, there's a good chance they wouldn't have been found at all. Anything I had to do would've been worth it to take down Tate.

  Jane Doe : You really feel that way?

  Tasha Zapata : This work is bigger than us.