Notes for season 4 episode 8, “Point of Origin“
02:20 Dani is played by Adria Arjona, who played “Bix” on Andor.
04:40 I’m interested to know what ergonomic chair Decima have invested in for their control room. They have the mesh-back look of some Herman Miller chairs, but I can’t identify them.
08:22 Dani’s note on Ortiz “First gen American from Puerto Rico. Parents still in Puerto Rico” might give the impression that Puerto Rican’s aren’t Americans? Puerto Ricans have been US citizens since 1917. Of course, it might be the case that his parents emigrated to PR from elsewhere. Also Ortiz has a @friendczar.com email address, implying that FriendCzar runs an email service.
09:42 Anthora cup on Shaw’s dash
16:00 Finch’s comment at the end of the previous episode, about Castro building schools to win the support of the people, tie in with Dominic’s investment in a local community centre.
16:19 Instantly deleting received texts is a good opsec practice, but they’re apparently still being sent in the clear over SMS, so still interceptable. The Signal text messenger, with end-to-end encryption, had launched in 2014 months before this episode aired.
21:00 The first explicit mention of Edward Snowden?
29:00 “Someone logged on to the commandant’s computer using a brute force password cracker”
30:00 The actress playing Shaw, Sarah Shahi, was pregnant when filming season four, and is written out three episodes later. It feels like the show tries to line up some badass ladies this season (including Dani) to trial as possible replacements. Dani certainly seems to have Carter’s sixth sense for telling if someone was in the military.
33:50 Garcia presses button and a loud bell starts continuously ringing. “That’s their alarm.” states Dani, informatively.