Notes for season 3 episode 13, “4C“
01:03 One of the in-universe airlines is called “Gossamer Airlines” and I feel having a synonym for flimsy being painted on the side of a passenger jet would be pretty bold.
03:20 The news reports suggest this episode is going to be partly inspired by the October 2013 arrest of Silk Road owner Ross Ulbricht.
06:27 Finch’s iPhone shows “VoIP call incoming”
11:41 Ah the assassins were going to make the death look like deep vein thrombosis, the thing that makes people stand up, at 10 minutes to the hour, since the launch of the Apple Watch 13 months after this episode aired.
12:48 This episode might be the only time Bitcoin gets mentioned in the entire series?
19:48 Another nod to “North by North West”, as the inflight movie. Which feels anachronistic for 2014, since I’d have expected trans-atlantic flights to have tablets or seatback screens, not a communal movie.
37:33 Finch hooks up a Saitek Pro Flight Yoke System, which is part of a modular flight sim peripheral set now sold by Logitech.
39:00 Reese is hiding Owen in the same model of Pelican case used to transport the corpse in “Booked Solid”. The cases are watertight and pressure balanced, so the complaint about not being able to breathe is valid.