Tuxie400 - agree.  What about the pilot?  Zamani?  he was sick, was it from chemical or biological warfare on his village, his family was killed, the children were dying.  But did they mention anything in particular or in the photos on the task force wall?  I cannot recall.

Some thoughts about eyes in BL:
Artificial Eyes - The first appearance of artificial eyes was in Season 2's Mombassa Cartel. There is a close-up of giant/child Matthew putting an artificial eye in a human corpse as he practices his taxidermy hobby. All the artificial eye stuff started with writer Daniel Knauf. There was a lot of focusing on the glassy eyes in preserved corpses sitting around the campfire in that episode. A song used with that segment contains the expression "turning a blind eye."  Matthew was a secret child and never publicly acknowledged by his father.

Later in Season 2 we get bleeding eyes with the murdered Rev. Kenyon, who liked child brides and abandoning boys. Also courtesy of Dan Knauf. At the end of Season 2, Adropov;s individualized virus also caused bleeding from the eyes for a senator and his son. It's interesting that the senator never publicly acknowledged his son.

Season 4 opens with Esteban, in which we get treated to a blind man taking his artificial eyes out of their sockets. Again the imagery goes along with the idea of turning a blind eye to torture and abuse. At the end of Season 4, Kaplan surgically removes a man's eye to get access to records on Red's immunity agreements. She is literally using the eye to expose Red's method of avoiding prosecution. 

Season 5 has Navarro's artificial eye with the tracking device - an eye that does more than a real one can. Then we get the sewn shut and bleeding eyes of the Capricorn Killer. Since the tongue was sliced through also, the message seems to be see no evil, speak no evil.
 

Eastcoast - I did have something down for Season 3, but it wasn't an actual body-part type eye. The "eyes" In Season 3 were the electronic surveillance kind. The first was in Drexel with the rat farm. The other was the "eye in the sky" with Halcyon's satellite surveillance in several episodes. That parallels Season 1 with the Keen apartment being under surveillance,

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I was thinking in season 3 there is The Djinn for body parts (he had something removed) and I am not sure of The Vehm, but I thought something was cut out of one of them but I cant stand watching that and I had turn my head when it comes up. The Caretaker is cutting people open and taking out canisters not body parts but it is cutting open a body and taking something out. 

Eastcoast - You are right about Season 3. At the beginning of the Djinn, a client dressed in scrubs has used a marker to denote where all the body organs are. He plans on carving his son's drug dealer into parts and eating them. Quite gruesome. And of course, the whole reason the Djinn was extracting revenge on the father was because he had removed the son's body part against his will. In Crispin Crandall Red severs the thumbs of Aldous Halmy so he can access the Director's bank lock box

Also in Season 3, at the beginning of The Director Conclusion, Red walks through a meat locker with the frozen body parts of animals hanging on hooks.

Members of The Vehm had been castrated, much like The Djinn, but for a different reason.



 

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Back to Season 1 body parts: it's in Mako Tanida when we get the first body part in a gift box. I always thought Red's gift to Ressler of Tanida's head in a box was a nod to the movie Seven.  That was the first of many boxes with body parts to come in Season 2. At the end of the season Berlin tells of being imprisoned and receiving packages with pieces of his daughter for several years.

The Berlin episodes dealt with Berlin cutting off his own hand. This plot point calls  the severed hand in the Wujing episode at the beginning of the season.

Other body parts and pieces removed in Season 1:

- Milton Bobbit's nose
- The spider tattoo from the neck of Jesse, who Red has following Tom. Tom sends the piece of skin to Red as a gift and message.

And then there was Tom's thumb, broken but not removed by Liz during her interrogation of Mr. Spy Husband.

 

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Tatiana - I can see how talking about parts would make you think about taking parts to the whole.

Eastcoast, I think it's because there's very sick, cruel, sometimes torture involved, especially with those episodes, so I would think it's not so much the blood as it is the psychological evil that's going on.
I have to either close my eyes or fast forward on those parts. It's so disturbing.

As lara1 reminded me, the man from Johannesburg wanted Red's head in a box after Yabari did his proxy bidding and won Red in the T. Earl King and Sons auction.