Notes for season 2 episode 10, “Shadow Box“
05:00 “You heard the 10-31 too, detective?” (Burglary in-progress. Although this was a case of a staff member, permitted to be on the premises, downloading a file without authorisation. So not technically a burglary?)
07:41 Finch is able to open a remote desktop mirror, but using sftp somehow?
08:25 Reese guesses the perp in the cctv footage is ex-military. Even though guessing people were ex-military is Carter’s area of expertise.
08:30 I think the show using “CompStat” to refer to the NYPD computer systems rather than the statistical modelling of police performance.
10:40 We see a fictional equivalent of Google Street View (available to the public since May 2007).
10:49 homesforourreturningheroes.com currently unregistered
11:43 The perps have hooked up a wireless relay to a nearby payphone. Reese finds a Lectrosonics SNA500 dipole antenna in the apartment opposite.
17:01 The charity has an Everhold safe, the same brand seen in S02E06.
22:29 Finch reprograms Shayn’s prosthetic arm to hack cellphones, which seems like a thing from a William Gibson novel. (Shayn is portrayed by Brian J. Smith later seen in Sense8 and Matrix Resurrections.)
26:00 Oh ok, the real villain of the week is predatory loan arrangements being used to foreclose on properties. It’s like a face-punching Last Week Tonight. In many ways John Oliver is like a combination of Reese and Finch.
28:37 Donnelly (or “Agent Orange” as I think of him) shows off a cool looking cell tower software monitoring interface, looking for a “short burst of cloned IMEIs”.
41:20 The bit in “Gimme Shelter” where Merry Clayton sings “Rape, murder” is inexplicably subtitled as “♪ Baby ♪” here.