• 2:00 — I recognize the music from somewhere, but I can’t quite place it.
• 2:40 — Yep, sneaking around after all that noisy fighting. Somehow he still surprises someone.
• 3:10 — He’s not going to untie her? Bah.
• 3:30 — Pretty spry for a guy who’s been shot.
• 4:00 — Is he suddenly and comically going to drop?
• 4:20 — Called it. Sortof.
• 4:30 — That fall would still have killed him.

• 6:00 — Spetsnaz

  • As opposed to that pesky German spetsnaz training.
• 6:10 — And the dude on the phone mentions Berlin just then.
• 6:55 — Library of Congress
• 7:50 — How affirmative to have a female VP. No female president though.
• 8:50 — Domestic enemies, like the guy swearing her in.
• 9:25 — Oh, I recognize the guy playing the president.
• 9:30 — The symbol on that key is the Eye of Providence.
• 10:50 — That’s a painting of John F. Kennedy.
• 11:30 — Latin
• 11:30 — “Light out of darkness”
• 11:30 — Freemasonry
• 11:50 — The bust is of Abraham Lincoln.
• 14:20 — “Shut the front door” is actually a piece of comedy created in another movie, whose name I do not recall, as a stand-in for “Shut the fuck up”.
• 15:10 — United States Constitution
• 15:15 — Article Two of the United States Constitution, “section five”.

• 14:55 —

An agent, of unknown identity, is hereby authorized to serve at the discretion of the vice president, for the purpose of aiding the republic in times of dire peril.

• 16:05 — I would have immediately questioned the authenticity of a private document. Hell, the whole thing is meant to be in the constitution.. the public constitution.. the one which is for all Americans. You know, the public and not the private.
• So about that domestic enemy thing.

• 16:15 — Nathan Hale

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

• 20:20 — That’s James Earl Jones.
• 20:20 — Girl Scout Cookies
• 21:35 — Too bad about this section five thing being worded to vaguely as to give extraordinary power to the vice president.
• 24:30 — Holy hot damn she’s pretty.
• 26:10 — This is why their feet are also manacled.
• 28:30 — It isn’t in the president’s power to command her when to be in play.
• 29:00 — The head of her chair has the Freemason square and compass symbol.
• 30:10 — What decision? Acting at all? This makes no sense..
• 30:40 — “The All-Seeing Eye” is a reference to the Eye of Providence.
• 31:40 — So this is a detective show?
• 33:00 — Riiiight.
• 33:20 — Why would guards have guns?
• 34:15 — “Anton’s limo is here” ? Wouldn’t they just say “Anton is here”?
• 35:05 — That’s not cover.
• 35:30 — “Just downloaded a backdoor into their security system”.. hahahaha
• 37:20 — Aah, the guy who “didn’t die”, earlier. He was putting his pants back on but still managed to get his gun and shoot.
• 38:00 — I bet he’s not dead.
• 40:20 — He is the best the country has to offer?
• 41:10 — Should they really be near one another on the outside?

• 0:25 — PTSD from a wolf attack. He had it coming though.
• 0:55 — Chechnya
• 1:10 — Someone had to script and place a goat in the middle of that firefight.
• 1:30 — Handy for them to ship with an expert.. wait, why would a nuclear inspection team have nukes?
• 2:15 — There’s no way Russians would have nukes being transported anywhere near their borders, let alone without serious military might. They’re russians.
• 3:30 — Is she going to be a recurring .. bad, I don’t know.. bad guy?
• 4:00 — This is possibly a reference to Obama playing basketball in his youth.
• 5:00 — The expression is either “between slim and none”, and “slim to none”.
• 7:40 — Dark web
• 8:30 — Bean bag round, and earlier was a Taser which I hope hasn’t been forgotten.
• 8:50 — Wasn’t this floor under guard?
• 9:55 — For surgery, the patient would be out cold.

• 11:00 — She’ll take him there. Really? Trap. Trappy trap trap.

Olga Fonda

• 11:30 — Okay, Olga Fonda (imdb) is fucking hot.
• 11:55 — “Just John”. See Johnny Mnemonic (film) and “Just Johnny”.
• 12:30 — So we have the non-secret agency trying to figure out the secret agency. Neat.
• 15:15 — Nobody is born a killer.
• 16:45 — As soon as someone with some perspective catches wind of him and his daughter, he’ll be removed from the investigation, possibly reassigned or retired, and she’ll be whisked away.
• 17:45 — Oh, so this is why she can’t just tell them.
• 21:05 — J. Edgar Hoover Building
• 21:55 — He’s a nerdy-nerd. Like some sort of awkward nerd even around nerdy stuff.
• 23:00 — Seriously, what proper nerd would leave their computer “logged in”. I suppose that means unlocked. Win-L is too difficult a shortcut for him to remember, I guess.

• 26:00 — “Lenin political correction facility.”

  • “Abandoned”? Unlikely.
• 27:30 — I’ve been wondering if/why the people they took the cars from are alive.

• 28:05 — Overlapping guards and periodic checking-in would easily find these downed guards.

Dude, you look like an idiot.

• 28:57 — The guard with the bad balaclava is comical in the extreme.
• 29:30 — That’s three guards.
• 33:15 — So after they had that successful/failed assassination, wouldn’t they think to check with their guards or something?
• 33:30 — Oh, I know that guy.
• 24:50 — If there’s a guy in a cell, who, if not in his cell, would murder you all, wouldn’t it be prudent to have a guard on him? Or, I don’t know.. shoot him?
• 36:30 — Come on, those are not cover. One broke just by being tipped over.
• 37:20 — I thought that guy was shot in the head earlier. I guess it was just some random dude.
• 37:40 — Didn’t he have additional clips? I didn’t see him reload.
• 39:40 — So about those nukes back there.

• 41:20 — I guess.. they got blown up by a couple of grenades.

I’m still not impressed by this series.

• 4:45 — Okay, so who is she and what’s her relationship with that guy? It seems as though she’s low-ranking and he shouldn’t be talking with her, unless there’s some sort of mole or conspiracy.

  • 5:00 — Called it.

• 12:45 — Folding cards face up ruins that round.

  • Kinesics
• 13:30 — Bob who?
• 14:15 — Edward Snowden
• 15:00 — Fifth column
• 16:30 — It’s Darth Vader! (James Earl Jones)
• 17:15 — Blood diamonds
• 17:45 — Thoroughbred

• 19:30 — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Classical music

  • The background has a couple of busts of Vladimir Lenin.
• 22:45 — Judas Iscariot, Thirty pieces of silver.
• 23:15 — The greater good (Utilitarianism)
• 27:00 — While this moment is cute, shouldn’t they be getting to work?
• 37:00 — But.. she’s not ever safe.
• 38:15 — Toss him over the edg– called it.

• 0:45 — JAG (Judge Advocate General’s Corps)
• 1:30 — Enemy six year-olds! =p
• 6:15 — Oh, Sharon Stone is the executive producer.

• 11:00 —

  The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. — Mark Twain

• 14:30 — But.. they left her family behind.
• 17:15 — Yes. Yes she’s okay.
• 29:30 — .. and they just carry on with the parade.

• 32:00 —

  Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. — William Shakespeare

• Niccolò Machiavelli

• 32:15 —

  Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. — Henry Kissinger

• 32:30 — No, it’s not about turning inwards. It’s a reference to women’s hypergamy.
• 33:45 — The earlier snake looked fake, but I was going to forgive that as a television show budget issue, but now that I think of it more, I wonder if it was fake in the show’s universe, so that he could maintain the mystical con he has going.

• 0:45 — Yep, go sacrifice yourself, male. People are counting on you. Other people. You don’t matter.
• 3:30 — It would be cool to do all this, and make it look like a botched assassination but really it’s to replace the assistant with an agent.
• 7:30 — He’s on someone else’s land, in a country where they have the right to bear arms..
• 10:45 — Interesting, they can use the word ‘dick’.
• 14:45 — For a guy who doesn’t exist, he sure does a lot of touching.
• 15:15 — There are places with breaker boxes outside?
• 16:00 — So the power going out didn’t let the guy in the garage know something was up?
• 19:15 — Hypothalamus, Circadian rhythm
• 22:15 — What level of expertise is required to load the rocket, that she can’t do it herself?
• 28:00 — He’s been relieved. Is there some sort of suspension I’m unaware of?
• 31:00 — Why is the butler-dude driving?

• 37:45 — The end.

  • Oh wait.

I wonder if John was John’s dad.

• 2:45 — Guerrero Mexico.
• 15:45 — EMP = Electromagnetic pulse
• 16:45 — DARPA
• 20:00 — Alien (1979)[doesn’t exist]
• 21:45 — What the fuck. What the fucking fuck. Seriously, fuck.

• 40:00 — Joan of Arc

I don’t care how much of a cliffhanger this ended on, this series is weaksauce.