Notes for season 1 episode 9 “Get Carter”
06:23 “They don’t sell that [specific Mexican soda] everywhere” for a minute you wonder if cracking the case is going to require Fusco’s surprising knowledge of imported soda distribution, with some possible asides about “cane sugar”. But no, they’re literally standing outside of the bodega that sells it. (The fictional brand, “Mariquitas”, translates as “ladybirds” but, as a web search informs me, this is also a pejorative term for gay men.)
10.05 The GPS readout on the tracker seems unusually imprecise. Single digit precision will, at best, identify the city.
12:00 Finch mentions his collecting historical computers. The Xerox Alto is most famous for being the computer, with a mouse-driven GUI, shown to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who went on to incorporate its ideas into Apple’s future devices such as the Macintosh.
14:00 Seems apt to install a nanny-cam in a police station.
24:00 Despite accessing New York’s Bodega-cam network in a previous episode, Fusco now seems surprised by the extent of the camera information provided via the “Real Time Crime Center” interface.
26:00 Leather jacket Reese just Terminators his way into Hector’s shop. “Knock, knock.”
30:45 I like to think setting two women up to fight each other was one of the skills Carter picked up in Iraq.
30:50 In a mirror of the first episode, an officer again tells Carter that Reese walked into a gun-runner’s place and shot it up. Presumably, again, the anti-snitch gun-running crew didn’t file a police report. Or if they did, it was just to report the theft of Hector’s Jokermobile?