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Notes for season 2 episode 6, “The High Road“ 01:00 Flashback Reese pulls out a Dell Latitude D610 (released in 2005, so an anachronism in 2004) with what I presume are cell data radio adaptors taped to the back of the screen. There was a time, probably prior to 2006, when you might see people…

Notes for season 2 episode 5, “Bury the Lede“ 06:30 It’s Clarke Peters from The Wire, which means this character is going to be more interesting than initially suggested. 08:54 Add littlenewyorkchildrensfund.com to the Warners domain collection. 11:22 Also add syncstoragesystems.com for the episode’s Dropbox-style service. 13:00 If the concern is that everyone’s on the lookout for…

Notes for season 2 episode 4, “Triggerman“ 06:14 Standard villain phone opsec: put ’em all in a box in a public bar. 16:37 It seems that Finch’s lockpick skills have improved since since last season? 17:18 So one of Finch’s data forensics techniques here is to grep a harddisk for  “Meet me”. Well, if it…

Notes for season 2 episode 3, “Masquerade“ They’ve updated the title sequence, but still retained the most annoying thing. “The government considers these people irrelevant. We don’t,” claims voiceover-Finch. However, in a series of flashbacks, we see that Finch alone decided that individual targets would be ignored – the government had no say in the…

Notes for season 2 episode 2, “Bad Code“ 01:54 The hacking app that Reese sends to Fusco’s phone has an icon of a retractable blade knife (boxcutter). 08:20 [Bojack voice] It’s Character Actress Margo Martindale 08:45 I’m from the UK and I’ve never played The Oregon Trail. But it feels like everyone is now aware of it…

Notes for season 2 episode 1, “The Contingency” 07:32 “He’s got a fancy car with an anti-theft tracker which I took the liberty of activating.” More casual abuse of police access, but this pays off later when you see the car being towed. 11:45 If the giant webcam perched on the laptop seems a slightly…

Notes for season 1 episode 23, “Firewall” 02:12 Spoiler for decade old series: The person of interest, Caroline Turing, is actually Root – the unseen hacker from a previous episode. Root usually uses aliases that have some connection to mathematics and computer science, and this first one should be obvious. 02:54 Again, if you’re paying…

Notes for season 1 episode 22, “No Good Deed” 01:05 Flashback to 2009, and Nathan Ingram walks through an apparently silent server room. somehow silent server room. 03:43 Finch checks his phone and then looks for a pay phone in order to receive a new number. Given the egress constraints established it shouldn’t really be…

Notes for season 1 episode 21, “Many Happy Returns” 01:50 Reese is casually reading a copy of “Stress Fractures in Titanium”. This is the book, albeit with a different cover, that DeNiro’s character in Heat, Neil, is looking at in the diner when he meets Eady. 03:53 Reese gives a key to… the Key Master…

Notes for season 1 episode 20, “Matsya Nyaya” 01:14 Can’t quite tell what phone Reese swaps the SIM in for the 2010 flashback scene, but I think it might be a BlackBerry Tour, which matches the timeframe. 06:49 Finch sets up an ANPR system on the back of the truck, and it’s later implied the…