Notes for season 1 episode 11, “Legacy”
02:36 Carter finally sitting opposite Reese. Like that one single scene in Heat where De Niro and Pacino are onscreen together.
15:10 Sending phishing emails containing malware feels like it’s something that should feel dated a decade later, but sadly not.
16:57 Carter identifies the steroid in the injection vial as Anadrol, which is actually delivered as a pill – so this was either poor research, or the production changed it to a vial to match the normalised cultural image of underground steroid use.
18:48 Finch finds a city employee via a “Municipal Employment Registry” – does such a site exist? New York has a public directory of city employees, called The Green Book, which was made available in Spring 2012… so just weeks after this episode aired.
21:00 Finch meets Nathan Ingram’s son (Rob from Cloverfield) in Nathan’s apartment with the indoor pool, a location later used as the Smart Home that gets hijacked in the second season of Mr Robot.
22:30 Reese is sitting in front of a bakery that sells $100 cheesecakes.
23:56 On Andrea’s dating profile on match-heart.com (which seems weirdly close to an actual dating site) under “Interests” she’s put “NA”, which I can respect.
26:30 The speculation is that, because private prisons are financially motivated to produce inmates prone to recidivism over reform, they might be bribing parole officers to put parolees back in. It would be great if this week’s perpetrator was revealed to be the perverse incentives of American carceral policy, but no – this isn’t that show.
(A good show from the same time that covered machine politics – both the operation of political parties, and the political questions raised by new technologies – was The Good Wife, currently available on Paramount+.)
34:00 The scanner in the shredder seems like such a great move, but I can’t think of any shedder I’ve used that had any space prior to the teeth in which something could have been installed.
41:50 First appearance of fetchandretrieve.com, the in-universe Google. (Although I guess it doesn’t have a verbified neologism given that it already consists of synonymous verbs.)