Notes for season 3 episode 18, “Allegiance“
01:43 Shaw download’s the target’s phone contact list, which display’s in the unusual order of alphabetical by first name.
04:02 The advanced prototype chip that got stolen in the previous episode has already been reverse engineered and thousands of copies have been made. That’s an unlikely turnaround, but… ok.
04:34 The subway tunnel has movie posters for a fake movie “The Abolitionist” (“A Gary Watson Film”) and “Fasano Regal whiskey”.
04:43 The Machine can perform some kind of gait analysis (guessed weight and step interval) based on ambient footstep sounds… based on what source? Does switching off the CCTV cameras leave the microphones on?
08:36 The French diplomat is Eliot’s boss in Mr Robot, played by Michel Gill.
08:37 Wait, a French diplomat is responsible for approving asylum requests in the US? Did this happen in real life?
14:56 Lapointe repeatedly uses the word “terrorist” to refer to someone who fought against an invading army – which is such an unnuanced American style it seems suspicious for a French career diplomat.
22:06 Omar Risha is an asylum applicant, not convicted or even pending trial, but the first time we see him is in an orange Department of Correction jumpsuit. Risha makes reference to events on Iraq involving al-Qaeda, but for the 2013/2014 timeframe he’s talking about it would have been some version of Islamic State.
25:41 Shaw determines the Iraqi letter is a forgery, in part because it shares the same font and layout as the other document. Ok, but they’re both using Times New Roman (Regular), the world’s default latin serif. They were probably written using the same standard Microsoft Word template. Hardly a smoking gun?
31:22 The team breaks into the UN in the same way the Mission Impossible team breaks into the CIA – dressed as fire fighters.