Blindspot (TV Series)

Cede Your Soul (2015)

Ashley Johnson: Patterson

Quotes 

• [hacker Ana Montes comments on Agent Patterson's Perl language program] 

  Ana Montes : Maybe if you were writing in Python instead of Perl, you'd move faster.

  Patterson : What's wrong with Perl?

  Ana Montes : Nothing... if you're designing a website in the late 90's.

  Patterson : Whatever.

  Ana Montes : [Patterson changes the Perl programming language to Python]  I see you switching.

  Patterson : I was gonna switch anyway.

• [Agent Patterson finds the Trakzer code for the team] 

  Patterson : I checked the signature elements in Trakzer's source code against our malware database.

  Jane Doe : [Jane responds with]  I understood the word 'database'.

• [the FBI team searches for the allusive guy named Shawn Palmer, who's using software to track and kill government agents] 

  Tasha Zapata : Palmer's security firm is a front. Outstanding warrants for unauthorized computer access, wire fraud, identity theft. And, ladies, he is single.

  Kurt Weller : And invisible. Cyber Division couldn't even find a photo, let alone an address.

  Patterson : I could find his username with DARPA's deep Web crawler. Or, track his Bitcoin usage in the Blockchain.

  Kurt Weller : Or Ana could just tell us where he lives. She's been to his house.

  Patterson : Oh, sure, I mean, it's a little analog, but...

• [Agent Patterson tells the team what she finds with the Steganography tattoo] 

  Patterson : It's a classic puzzle trick. The dead space is always a clue.

  Bethany Mayfair : Do you know what it means yet?

  Patterson : I mean, it looks like a turtle shell, but that's not very helpful. I mean, maybe it's a substitution cypher using grid fragments, but that could take days to decode, or longer.

  Bethany Mayfair : So, no?

  Patterson : Not yet. But we're on it.

  Jane Doe : You're saying every one of these tattoos could have a double meaning?

  Patterson : Or triple. Or more.

• [the FBI team learns about the TRAKZER App and the Dark Web] 

  Patterson : One of the shooters had a mobile app I never heard of called TRAKZER. It hacks into the GPS signals from 'Blue Force trackers' on government vehicles and maps their exact location.

  Bethany Mayfair : Where'd they get this and who else has it?

  Patterson : The transactions are untraceable. Probably done through the Dark Web.

  Jane Doe : The Dark Web? That doesn't sound good, what is that?

  Tasha Zapata : 95% of the internet is an index on commercial search engines.

  Edgar Reade : Yeah, the Dark Web is like the Wild West. Everything from weapons to sex trafficking.

• [the FBI team discusses on whether or not the hacker Ana Montes is telling the truth] 

  Tasha Zapata : She's got a healthy imagination, I'll give her that.

  Patterson : She could be telling the truth. I mean, federal agencies hire hackers to red-team them all the time, it's how they find vulnerabilities in their security systems.

  Edgar Reade : She's 17.

  Patterson : Yeah, for a hacker, she's in her prime.

• [hacker Ana Montes attempts to help Agent Patterson break through Shawn Palmer's firewall] 

  Patterson : Don't touch my keyboard!

  Ana Montes : Okay.

  Patterson : You are a hacker. This computer is behind the FBI firewall. No way you're touching this, kid.

  Ana Montes : Was just gonna suggest entering through the emergency cell backup on his smart-home control...

  Patterson : Yes, and accessing his cameras and the alarms. I was just gonna do that, if you would just... let me type.

• [Agent Patterson talks to her boyfriend David on the phone, who recently cleaned her apartment] 

  Patterson : Did you touch my board games?

  David : Yes. I alphabetized them.

  Patterson : Wait... they were alphabetized, by game designer!

  David : Oh. Um... well, I think I can remember...

  Patterson : No, no, it - It - It's fine, I can just do it when I get home.