Notes for season 3, episode 5, “Razgovor“
(The title is a reference to the movie “The Conversation”.)
02:12 Apparently HR has a map of camera dead-zones in New York for planning meetings. I believe the map comes up in a later season.
07:13 A reminder that a decade ago, Putin was being Putin.
09:30 In the 1993 flashback the emergency responder says “I’ve got a 10-45, someone’s alive in there.” I looked up the ten-code for Hanover County (VA), and a 10-45 appears to be “an animal carcass in the road”.
11:25 “…a blind spot where funding for Domain Awareness ran out”
20:30 An abandoned payphone stuffed full of analog surveillance tapes is right on point.
21:28 The taco truck has a domain name on it, but the production seems to have covered over the .com top-level-domain. The copyright date on the live website, http://kimchitacotruck.com , is 2011.
22:40 Finch winding cassettes with a pencil (classic C20) and using a vintage 1970s “shoebox” cassette player for playback (General Electric 3-5140A).
28:00 Whoever mocked up the webpages, didn’t bother to make the urls look legit. “http://welschchemicalsinc/” “http://synthesismethod/“