Category: Notes

Notes for season 4 episode 18, “Skip“ 03:18 You can tell from the two Thunderbolt/DisplayPort ports that Finch is using a year-appropriate MacBook Pro. 08:27 Oh, Harper Rose is back. I guess this episode is auditioning two Shaw replacements. 15:50 “I bluejacked it first.” So apparently Bluejacking, years into the show, is a well enough…

Notes for season 4 episode 17, “Karma“ 02:10 2010 Finch uses a voice modulator to make a threatening phone call to Alicia Corwin. 02:58 Finch is using a surprisingly chunky laptop for 2010. 03:45 Shane Edwards is played by Patrick Kennedy, who’s one of those posh “military man in a period drama” actors but, unlike…

Notes for season 4 episode 16, “Blunt“ 02:14 There’s a pro-privacy “Stop Big Data” protest on campus. 03:14 Reference made to “Far Cry 4”, released in November 2014, three months before this episode aired. 09:31 The cash in the duffel bag had been swapped out for New York telephone directories. Definitely a move you’d see…

Notes for season 4 episode 15, “Q&A“ 01:10 Fetch and Retrieve is the in-universe version of Google (first seen being used in season 1). We see the CTO and CEO in the office. You’d assume it was a Silicon Valley company – but it appears to be headquartered in New York. 03:00 The CEO shows…

Notes for season 4 episode 14, “Guilty“ 06:10 “You’re sane… or close enough” jokes the psychologist in the context of approving a police officer to fire weapons. 07:56 “5K” is clearly intended to be read as “5G”. The episode is set in late 2015, a few years after the introduction of 4G networks. 5G started…

Notes for season 4 episode 13, “MIA“ 01:06 Finch mentions that when communicating beyond the bounds of the “Five Boroughs” mesh-net they have to speak with discretion – which suggests they’re talking in the clear, rather than using an app with an encryption layer? 03:30 Anthora coffee cup in shot. 04:11 Dani Silva returns, in…

Notes for season 4 episode 12 “Control-Alt-Delete“ 08:00 OK, so we’re seeing an ISA team assassinate a group of suspected terrorists in their own house in Michigan. While Control wants assurance about the intelligence, does anybody question the legality of the operation itself? We’ve seen ISA assassinate targets on foreign soil (and, in the real-world,…

Notes for season 4 episode 11, “If-Then-Else“ 01:30 It’s 2015, cell phones are ubiquitous, and a crowd has gathered on the street to watch an LED stock market ticker. 06:20 What’s the timeline here? How recently did the market crash? The guy on the train apparently lost all his money, conceived of a revenge plan,…

Notes for season 4 episode 10, “The Cold War“ 01:00 Shaw’s custom Chinatown sandwich order (the “Beatrice Lillie”) is as follows: “Pastrami, extra mustard, spicy and yellow, and enough pepperoncinis to create digestion issues in even the strongest constitution. No mayonnaise, please.” 02:00 Finch accesses the secret tunnel entrance by typing the first four digits of…

Notes for season 4 episode 9, “The Devil You Know“ 02:00 Mention is made of the New York Shadow Map, and camera dead zones, and Root and Shaw escape a pursuit. 04:40 Trivia: the actor playing Bruce, James Le Gros, appeared in both Point Break (1991) and Point Break (2015). 27:45 Finch hacks into the…