4x11

...

An all out war.
I do hope that Greer is wrong about Team Machine's chances...


Oh, so that's the elevator scene. And here I thought it occured before Harold decided to acknowledge being on the team. Reese's move would make sense then, as some sort of emotional aggression or whatever... but now? I don't have words for what it looks like.

Huh, so we're looking with the Machine again?

Shaw's wearing too much makeup in my opinion. Is this their idea of disguise?


BLOODY HELL.


She's smart. She's smarter than him. She must think of something. They can't get killed.

On a suddenly irrelevant side note, if they're discussing Samaritan freely in Fusco's presence, and Root says they're online, which means that something or someone - and who, if Shaw's busy and everyone else is there? - is giving them intel, how come he's still not informed about the Machine? Because he isn't.


OH. BLOODY. HELL.
Harold cannot die. Tell me it's just Machine's reconstruction of possible events. Please.



Hooh. Thank you.


"Who she talking to?" Yeah, Lionel, who indeed. I wonder if guys will ever tell him.

Oh, a generator.
Love the soundtrack, by the way.


No, dear, please, losing John is not an option either...


So John is primary asset! Someone's took a wild, but successful guess.


Aaaand now I know why Root and Fusco "is only shipped by the Machine".


Wow! Fusco passes Shaw's bomb-vest quest! FUSCO POWER.
Let's hope the rest of this variant doesn't go down the drain... but even if it does, the Machine will remember to instruct Root to pass the quest to Fusco.

I LOVE that last dialogue... She's so epic. And lovely. Hope Harold sees it sometime.


Tough luck, but...


Wait... come again? The Machine asked Harold to teach her chess? It wasn't a planned part of programming? She asked? And he granted the request?
He always seemed so soft in talking to her in those flashbacks, calm, relaxed, almost trusting... it's hard to reconcile with his paranoid side. And especially hard - with those new flashbacks of the prior versions.
Oh, Harold.


Dammit, now that stuff is for real... okay, one more tiny change that will save everything? Please?

No no no no bloody hell no. John must live. He cannot die.

God, that doesn't mean Sameen can...

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4x10

I just need to know

Wow, Harold. That's a super-entrance like in Batman comic books.
I guess the food is for Shaw. Why else the problem?


Oh, I see what Lambert's doing. Spiral fracture seldom occurs in simple accidents, it's usually domestic violence. And of course Samaritan can figure that out. Machine did. What does make me wonder is why they're showing off? Why that woman?

Wow! They're going to make that guy off himself with insulin due to wrong measures? Neat.

Oh. Oooohhhh... don't listen to them, darling...

Hhhhholy funk.

Is this AI flirt, or what?


That lovely packing may just blow up in their faces. Too many criminals together... Besides, human population is a self-balancing system, it doesn't like enforced order. They have the city in a state of unstable balance, and I fear something's going to push it...

I kind of like Root's flirting-molesting style of operation, when it's not turned at our guys...

But can't those two communicate directly? Samaritan talks to his folks, the Machine talks to hers... they surely could do without human facilitators. Colossus - Guardian, anyone? It's a classic!

Besides, anyone can talk to the Machine. She'd probably listen, too. It's just she won't talk back.

Still, she sent those coordinates.
Maybe it's the "human choice" kind of situation?

Okay... something did happen. Were they forcing the Machine into revealing herself by threatening so many people she'd have to scream?

Young Greer was kind of hot. Is it wrong to instantly ship him with that one assignment target?

Samaritan's playing dirty. Or rather, I believe it was Greer's idea, so Greer is playing dirty. Or both. Who cares.

Explosion, Harold?

Gah, why can't they converse directly? Root's the one who goes, I guess, isn't that endangering her? And Harold? Will she expose Harold?

I do like Greer's flashbacks... he's styly and spectacular.

Third sound of armed weapon got me cracking. Sorry, John. I know it's serious, just...

Fffffunk. I guess Samaritan wants Harold after all. Dammit, dammit, dammit.

Oh. Oh! Still Root. Not Harold. Okay.
Then I know who's talking on Samaritan's side. His own human interface, Claire Mahoney.

Whoops! Not Claire. A kid.

Ffffffunk. Samaritan certainly cannot blackmail the Machine into abandoning her team? She must protect Admin and assets, but her primary function cannot be wavered either. Finch made her this way. She has to risk them to a degree.



FFFFFFFFFFFFFUNK! Samaritan's ruining market! It's gonna be bloody apocalypse!


Team Machine, guys... don't be dead?

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4x09

well, you know

Okay. Good getaway, Miss Shaw. Not even wounded. Cool.
Root being there with the transport? Brilliant.
But Samaritan still traces them.
I'm afraid they're going to figure out that blind spot thing any time now.
I hope there's no internal way to search for the affected servers...
Hopefully they will write it off as super-skilled evasion of cameras. But if they look through footage and there's Shaw's face clear anywhere... that immediately doesn't add up, because Samaritan is supposed to recognize her instantly. I mean, she didn't even change the way she wears her bangs.

Sooooo ShawRoot though. "You can let go now."


I think Marconi sees Reese tailing them...

Why can't they just tell Elias what Dominic has on him? Let the guy handle his own things?
Especially considering the brotherhood is out to get detective Riley too?

By the way! Is it okay, in Samaritan's eyes, for detective Riley to have a chat with a known deviant Carl Elias?

Oh, Elias is good... he'll manage. Knowing that anything can be compromised and he possibly might have to start everything over is a good starting point.

But just what I'm worried about... Martine noticed the discrepancy. Damn.

Oh hell, they're going to trace it to Fusco, too... dammit, dammit, dammit...

Oh-oh. It all escalates so quickly! John trapped with Elias, Martine found Fusco... damn. What says it won't all go crashing down?

Sweet Harold. I did suspect that camera in Fusco's table toy still worked.

And Fusco! Handled her like a pro! Like wow! There's a chance she'll cross-reference his answers, but that still was super-cool! Especially considering Finch was kind of lost for words.

I can just see Finch writing Fusco off active list. For his own good, too. Man doesn't have a cover identity or an ability to suddenly go underground.

Let's hope John and Scarface manage to get the three of them out...

Aww, Marconi...

And I wonder why Finch seems to be packing...
...ah - John, that's why.

Shaw's sooo bad at making puppy eyes. She's got to get a few lessons from John.

Elias, who does that? When you're blackmailed, don't tell what's important! Calling him by the name isn't a good move either... could say "my assistant" or something, but first name, it's obviously personal. Who does that...

Oh... Oh! That safe's probably gonna blow up if they force it open! Or something of this ilk...

Poor Marconi. But being hit on the face isn't the worst kind of thing they can do.
However, I can't even hope help will arrive before they move to more grievous damage...

So, rotting floors, ventilation! Anyone for trying unconventional escape routes?

So they go that far back, huh? I'd really like for Marconi to survive... kind of like that guy.

Root... crafty as always. Good thing she is, too. But she, by herself, could she go and help John now?

Wow, wow, wow! Not so fast, John. Door's closed and there's no Elias!

Funking funking funk. Can't fault him. Really. But John's task is to save him, so that kind of sucks.

Damn it. I guess the code is what detonates the safe. Marconi is a damn loyal guy.

10/30/74? Some kind of date? American guys do write the month first...
I wonder if that Marconi's birthday. Would be terribly awful.
It does date 40 years back...

The Machine must have pulled Gino's number right now. It's like that HR time... they had numbers in bunches... question is, will they?

...

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4x08

what can I say, it kind of grips you

And this one grips right from the start.
Tricked me.
"I'm going in alone" sounded somewhat like Fusco's voice, but that guy's face in the mask? Too similar to John.
Then he gets shot in the knee, and I go "awwww"...
...and then it's just an exercise.
But it is John.

Oh. Doc with freckles. Way to make John's life more entertaining.

So, Greer's the "Admin", huh?
And I'm afraid he recognized Miss Shaw in that blurred image, where Samaritan wouldn't have enough points for identification of any kind.
The good thing is, Greer knowing she's out there somewhere doesn't endanger her further than she already is. Greer would just think Samaritan couldn't get a good angle.
It's only when both Greer and Samaritan see her that they can realize Samaritan is having blind spots. Hopefully not too soon.

It's like... Greer isn't sure Shaw is playing for Team Machine? Odd, that. He saw her with John back then. Doesn't he know John is with Finch?
Hmm. Actually, maybe he didn't know.
But when John got Finch from under Greer's nose when Vigilance was destroyed, didn't Greer see him?

Wait, isn't the guy who's the number's "date" the Armourer from before (who was killed)? Granted, I'm not good in recognizing folks with this skull shape, but... similar, no?
Okay, I guess not. Nevermind.


Oh damn it. Dominic again. And Shaw probably doesn't know that's Dominic. Double damn.

Hush, Shaw! Just hush! You're going to blow your damn cover! Over a gangster killer being executed!
Yeah. That's right, stay back, listen to Fusco.
Well, at least now they know.

By the way, why doesn't Samaritan weed out organized crime?
Especially since this particular gang kills his cameras! (And the Machine's, by the way)

Yeah, really. "One time job". And now to "lay low" in some godforsaken hole in a criminal area. Indeed. Surely. Of course.


Damn it damn it damn it all.
Can't they really hide Shaw? Like dye her blond and stuff? It can't be too hard to get fake identity for them. Lots of criminal guys still do, Samaritan or not.

So she killed him anyway. Like he didn't know?

Aww. Silva's "date" - which has to be her handler - killed. Safe house compromised. Why is it so hard to be on the good guys' side?



Damn. Alarm.
I admire that thug's spirit, I really do, but I hate it when this is against our guys.

I wonder if Samaritan's seeing so many deviants is a good or a bad thing... he may decide to intervene, but that's a danger for John. Although... he's detective Riley, too. Can it be that bad that he's helping his students?

A swimming pool! Isn't it a bit uncomfortable for defence?

WOW! All that water rushing into that hole... Wow. Spectacular.

Heh. John still goes by "guy in a suit". Shouldn't be fun, being dangerous, but it is somehow anyway.

Damn you, Freckles. You end up ruining John with your stupid curiosity. Guy's head completely normal, let it go.

Elias, of course Elias. But... "our new number"? The Machine must really like him.

Funk it. Why does Angler's profile of Shaw have such a good picture of her eye? Wasn't the Machine who made it?

Oh, Shaw...

Please don't get killed.

But that's one cover down anyway.


Go Team Machine... you really need luck right now.

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4x07

it's kind of addictive...

Oh well, Samaritan again...

And here I thought that Romeo guy was anyhow plot-relevant. Oh well, no big loss.
Shame about the gold. Hopefully they will tip the police about it.

The Machine told Root to meet Harold and just follow his plan? How precious.

Seems that Harold's one man army mode starts to pay off really soon.

A really tough countdown... is Miss Shaw about to regain her dubious second job?

Oh. Bloody. Hell.
You know, Shaw seems really into this Tomaso guy, and I'm okay with that... And it's nice on the eye, too, like those hot gangster movies... but you know who seems to be not okay?
The creators are so shipping ShawRoot.

Perfectly planned job like seduction? That's hot.

Aww, Shaw. Cutting Root off like that.

The reason why things like that succeed. Human factor. Shaw makes a perfect bait though.

Well, okay, so that worked out perfectly. The question is: why did his number come up. The Machine doesn't care for jewels.

I do hope they're not gonna drug her with that drink...

Or, perhaps... there are no jewels in the safe?

I'm afraid it might be explosive... how about they step away from it?

Oh-kay... not explosive, although possibly infectuous. But it's valuable anyway. Was that why Tomaso's guys turned on him?

Oh holy funk, Marburg? It's like, a brother of Ebola? An artificially created retro-virus?
Of course there's supposed to be a vaccine against Marburg, if my info's correct, but... there are going to be casualties before the infection is contained and vaccine implemented.

Finch seems to confirm my rememberance... although "collecting samples" doesn't quite sound in favour of the thing being artificial. Maybe I'm wrong in that bit.

But why is Team Machine working on it? Where's Samaritan looking? That's supposed to be his kind of thing! So okay, he didn't know the thieves identities (proves that Finch's girl is smarter), and perhaps that researcher managed to hide her questionable cargo from his prying eyes, but now that the information is in the open... I fully expect him to act.

3D printers to produce tablets? Come on, guys, the output's too damn fragile. And for it not to be, the materials must be expencive like hell. And for the precision required... he couldn't get so many printers. Unless that grant was really astronomical.
It simply cannot be profitable. It will never pay off. Like, never.
Then there's electronics. One can make a working circuit board using CNC machines... but tiny chips like those that tablets use? Flash memory cards? Sensor screens? Glass, for hell's sake? You can't print that. They'd need to import those. And if they import those parts, why not order others as well. Like, made in a normal, cheep way by casting them out of normal plastic.
So, not believing this bit. Printing resin fingers for fingerprint scanners was far more believable, even if acquiring clear fingerprints from one card wasn't.

Still no action from those in power to fix the virus issue... isn't it kind of like Greer saying "apport" and Samaritan telling Martine where to go?
Unless it's Samaritan himself who ordered the virus... and then Team Machine and the whole of New York, as well as the rest of the world, is very, very screwed.

Hopefully leading Tomaso to that storage fortress wasn't just a part of the evil side plan...

Okay, sorry, Samaritan, maybe I shouldn't have suspected you. But who knows, right?
And why does Shaw worry about the thing getting relevant? It's supposed to be a good thing, right? Team Samaritan has damn good operatives, they shouldn't screw it up.

By the way, what does the Machine think about relevant numbers nowadays? She can't send them to Control now... does she simply recognize that Samaritan is handling them instead of her? He gets the job done, right?

Huh! Same operatives that worked with Northern Lights, even. More certainty that they won't screw this up. Or what?

Wow, a doubter in the official side?

Ah, by the way... I keep forgetting that John worked Control's side too... indeed, "here on the Wall we are all one House".
Anyone else finding similarities between Team Machine and the Night's Watch?

Ah, okay, so the Machine is... what?
Let me get it straight. If Northern Lights were still active, the relevant side would be working those guys numbers, and - given Shaw's description of how the relevant side works, - would eliminate first those two guys who turned on Tomaso, then those who ordered it, then get rid of the virus, and track down everyone involved. And the Machine would be fine with that. Or not?
Or not. Harold did have to steal suspects from under the relevant side nose.
She's certainly... compassionate.
Oh-kay. Logic seems sound on both sides, let's go on.

Another criminal act, Harold? Root fixed you with one more Egret deal?
Ah, the tablet guy.

Those things that the tablet guy called 3D-printers can cook chips? That's a little too cool, no?

Damn that proactive AI. That was quick. And such a fine move, too - text a real living specialist. They can turn off the cameras, but a real guy?

Not too much of a specialist. Shouldn't he have inspected the pulled out cables first? Root didn't have time to damage them. She just unplugged them. Only the orange ones. They they lay at the guy's feet, and he's plugging some red ones? Why?

Here we go. Now Samaritan's wanting Marburg for himself.
I withdraw my apology.

Won't Samaritan notice Harold looping the security feeds?
Love the soundtrack, by the way.

Fffffunk...

Guys... nope. Just nope. Drawing that blasted thing into a syringe with his bare hands????!!!! Is he daft???!!!
I know it's safer in a syringe than in that glass vial in case the guy gets shot and drops both... but there'll still be enough in the vial, too. It's not poison, guys. It's a bloody virus! Viruses are tiny! They procreate! He doesn't need to pump a whole vial's worth of that liquid into a person to contaminate them! A tiny scratch can be enough! Come bloody on!

Anyone presses the plunger on that syringe just a tiny bit, and everyone in the storage is a walking disaster. Watch out, would you?

Blast it, Fusco! Don't take off that thing! Samaritan's watching!!!

WOW! A doubter on the relevant side shows too much sense! I like him.
Seems that Samaritan saw that, though. Maybe heard as well. Would be a pity if the guy winds up dead...

Oh, Harold, Harold. Perhaps the software was innocent in its original form... but haven't you seen how quickly Samaritan takes control over a portable device? Not to mention that the uniform design of those things would allow to build a network out of them, like really fast? Any kind of network? Distributed calculations, botnet for DDoS attacks?
Kids can live just fine without those tablets. Kids need more books, really. Old-fashioned, paper books.

ShawRoot is soooo shipped there....

Why the bloody hell Samaritan's interface things look so similar to the Machine's? Weren't he all white and stuff? Why the black-grey-red theme? The fonts are similar, too...
And now the doubter guy is in trouble, and Samaritan's looking for Shaw...

Who the hell does Samaritan call "Admin"? Greer?


Well, that was fun. And, as always...
Go Team Machine.

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еще о музе

Бывает так: напишешь под впечатлением, а потом укур пройдет, через некоторое время перечитаешь, и понимаешь - фигня.
Так вот, вштырило меня прямо сейчас, перечитала наметки к Detained. И, как ни странно, - не фигня. Вполне так. Если бы оно было дописано, а не наметками.
Вот только не время сейчас для петшопа, ну совсем.
Муза, ну до чего же ты...

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okay, one more...

4x06

Machine's eyes again... they're swapping the points of view between episodes, or what?

Shaw... Shaw always makes me laugh. I wonder how many attempts it took to successfully whisper "Samaritan" while sneazing?

Anyone else thinking the guy looks like Anatoly Novoseltsev from "Office Romance"?

And now he looks like Walter White from "Breaking Bad"... I guess there's not only visual resemblance, but impression of character as well.

I wonder whether their number is under cover or shamelessly bluffing...

Hey, Shaw, that was unfair. Reese isn't just pretending, he's actually working as a cop.
Unless she refers to his Man-in-the-suit days.

By the way! Our guys don't know whether their number is victim or perpetrator, but the Machine - she certainly knows! And we're looking at the footage processed by her! And the guy has a white frame! Must mean he's not one of the bad guys, huh?


Aww, I guess Harold's satellite phone was in that briefcase... how is he going to direct Shaw now?


Oh, and I think I know who called Walter... I think it's Dominic. Not too sure since my voice recognition kind of sucks, but... it's likely, no?

"Sameen? Not my girlfriend."
"Why not?!"

Got me do a very silly, cartoon-esque "wha-ha-ha-ha..." aloud.

What's it with Harold getting into adventures with ladies? She seems to be of the same type as Grace, too...

Oh blast it. The "police station is the safest place" thing didn't work in the first season, and still doesn't work. Why the bloody hell John left their guy there alone?

Wait... I think it was Marconi? The "FBI" who tried to abduct Walter?
Yeah, definitely Scarface.
Which means... Elias is the one getting the super-guns?
Or is Elias trying to steal the super-guns from the ones who were getting them in the first place?

And that's the second silly "wha-ha-ha-ha" out of me in the course of one episode.
This one courtesy of Harold clocking the thieving courier across the head with an umbrella.
I do forget Harold's rebellous past sometimes...

Oh bloody funk! John... left side wound, low enough... likely not life-treatening, but still nasty. I hate when he's wounded. Or any of them, really.

Okay, just shoulder. Could be worse.

Yeah, John. "Crap".
But can't you guys aim for "rounds" containers? There's hope that ammo detonates... guns themselves don't though.

Oh, Scarface! A handsome man with a big gun. What can be more welcome?

Wow, Walter! That was a real bit of heroics! Have a commendation.

Oh, John... why the kicked puppy look? Because Walter recognizes you as the Man-in-the-suit? Or because Man-in-the-suit went away those few months ago? Had to go undercover with the rest of Team Machine?
Or because Man-in-the-suit could have left earlier, if one nosey AI didn't intervene to get him back?
Or because of Carter?

Harold certainly made an impression. And yeah, she looks too similar to Grace.

OH BLOODY HELL... and he smiled to her so sweetly. I never would have thought the whole thing was planned by himself. Bloody hell, Harold.

Wait... now there's something wrong with her too?
Funken hell... a third AI? As if two of them aren't enough already.

Oh. OH. Not just a third one. Samaritan wants those for himself.
Well, I guess it's futile to expect him to play nice?

And Harold is still trying to be a one man army. Kind of like that leaked laptop with surprise virus, and keeping his mouth shut about it.
Moreover, he seems to succeed...

And as usual...
Go Team Machine.

UPD: Whoops, messed up numbers... sorry guys.

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...and on...

4x05

Dang, it's Samaritan again. And politics. Gives me a headache already.

Whoops! I hope John's evasion in dialogues hasn't got too rusty since his special ops days...

Hhhholy funk! I don't think that bit of strip-tease has Harold affected (hurting his sense of decency, perhaps), but that looks like a definite bit of fanservice for those who ship the two.
By the way, I wonder if Grace is gone for good... Not to say I'd miss her if she is... I'm a rinch shipper.

I'm almost sure the election results were rigged. Guess who?

Oh, a flashback, a flashback!

"I killed it because it lied".
Harold gives me shivers sometimes.

Shrink: ...transferred to homicide, suddenly the shooting starts.
She kidding?! I saw Reese knee-cap at least three drug-dealers in the very first episode! He was still in narcotics then. Except it wasn't his gun he shot with, and he didn't have to file a report...

Oh, John. What if doc notices you're bullshitting her?
And what would you know, she did.

Well, it wasn't that hard to guess, was it?

Another flashback... not so joyful now. I guess Harold is going to kill that version too.

Hhholy funk times two... that is fanservice. And I still don't like those two too close together.
Oh blast it, Harold, don't you blink like that.

Oh dammit... Root's been running dry... for how long? She certainly seemed properly elated when sending Harold for guns as Egret...

So she's feeding off riddles, like Claire before she met Samaritan? That must be kind of awful.

UH-OH. Elected her, then got rid of her?


Aaand another flashback. I start to acquire a taste for it. It looked kind of fun, in a weird sort of way.

But... I might be wrong, but I thought younger Harold didn't wear sideburns?

Neat work, guys, but I guess Simon sees Harold now.

Oh blast it... whose peeping eye is it now? I dearly hope it's our guys...
Hooh, yeah that's them.

Yeah, I can see why Harold doesn't trust the Machine... 43 versions, only one playing nice. And he's not exactly clear on what "bringing to heel" means, but apparently he had to take away its ability to converse freely, as well as personal experience, in order to make it work as intended.
However, if my impression is correct, the last version's only fault was that she intervened in matters other than immediate life threats. Such as set him up with his fiancee. And also tried to protect him. I do remember him saying he doesn't need it to protect him, he need it to protect everybody. He only spoke of the last version - he explained the daily nulled memory - and he didn't mention threats or tricks then.
So I'm still going to believe that the current version is a sweetheart.

YAY! "Give Shaw a message..." so they don't ship Harold and Root! I like the creators so much right now!
I hope they don't go killing off the main personages anytime soon...

Fffffunk... You know, I really dislike the blonde. She's worse than Root was before being plugged in.

Root's got her fix now, feeling invincible probably. That must be a hell of an adrenaline and endorphine rush.

Wow, that was a glimpse from the Machine! With her red dotted square frames! I guess I'm getting a bit of a rush too...

A battle of titans... same videofeeds... funking epic!

And Harold called her Root! Instead of Miss Groves! Hopefully she doesn't get shot...

There goes my hoping.

Well, failing that, I hope she gets collected by Team Machine and patched up...

Okay, guys, you're in time to save Simon, how about helping Root?

Oh, come on, Harold... Simon remembers his values. Even if both the digital and printed results were replaced. Had to make it look better. Maybe drug him with something that makes memory fuzzy... Just "move on" may not cut it.
Besides, Samaritan is probably still looking...

Okay, so I'm going to believe that Samaritan didn't manage to dispatch a cleaning team in the time while Simon walked along the street, making his not-really-hasty phonecall. Okay.

Glad Root made it out alive. I wonder who patched her wounds and fit her with that nice sling...
Oh, okay.

The problem with the Machine is that she's so big. There are so many servers.
Oh, by the way, Samaritan has much more - Root said a hundred of facilities like the one she infiltrated, and Machine fit in only one. So she's smarter.

I wonder if she went viral already. Her predecessors definitely tried. It's too dangerous for her to be tied to her hardware.

"It's time we had a talk, you and I."
Oh, Harold...


GO TEAM MACHINE.

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and on...

4x04

Oh really? How many times - Harold isn't cut for pursuits. He doesn't have the speed, or the dexterity in the crowd.
He's good at tracking people when they're not running away though.

Hmm... considering Egret might be a creation of the Machine, what says this Dominic isn't a creation of Samaritan?
It would be an odd kind of symmetry.

I wonder if it's very wrong to suspect that woman-agent in being that mole?

By the way, I don't see an earpiece on Reese... it must be a really tiny one.

Why do the bad guys with automatic weapons always miss? Not that I wish ill on the kids, just... why?

And why do I suspect that woman even strongly now?

Erica Lennox, hmm. Still suspect her though.

I hope that new game on her phone doesn't come with underlined words and red triangles.
Although I'm not entirely sure the girl is actually going to play... she might be up to something.

I hope John will be smart about that slip of paper...

...Nope. Oh well.

That's what worries me, that she'll manage. Still don't trust her.

See? Shouldn't have trusted her.
Well, guess the girl was actually playing. Good thing she did...

Blast it, kid, that is not the time for loud confessions! Bad guys can be listening.

"Like you! But shoot less people." About that, John...

Oh. Oohh... can this Mini be Dominic?
Oops! Guess he is.

Well, you know? That's better than Samaritan. Guy's obviously going to cause trouble, but less than a AI with unlimited resources and unknown moral standing, right?

Ah, almost forgot...
Go Team Machine.

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потанцуем?

А в наших гребенях нету Trip to Skye.
Ну ладно, будем на местных полагаться...
А для начала - арбайтен, чтобы деньги были. И зарядку бы не мешало. А я кашляла всю ночь.

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going on...

4x02 add

Oh, and I totally forgot to compliment Fusco! Those notes, I didn't figure it out! One would hope to get at least that simple bit. Shame on me, and go Fusco.

4x03

Hey, this is Machine's footage, not Samaritan!

Mr. Fabulous. I totally like Fusco's endearments.

Huh, and who's nudging who now? Finch is back to his demanding attitude now that he has built his safe burrow. The man likes things done his way, well, can we fault him? Especially since his way keeps him alive and more sloppy guys keep getting dead.

Yeah, definitely Machine's eyes. Well hello, sweetie.

New number is fun. Fusco's epic.

You know, after two episodes of Samaritan, it really soothes my eyes to be looking at Machine's footage. I didn't expect to feel that strongly about it...

Oh, Harold, still a backbone of steel. "The Machine needs a favour" - "No." That quick, that resolute. Is he afraid of what she might want?
Or he's afraid of what the pair of Machine+Root might want?

I really, really don't like it when Harold is going anywhere with Root. Just... bad memories.

Oh, oh, oh. Mr. Egret. What the hell is she playing at? That must be dangerous. And she doesn't have the resources to protect Harold the way Samaritan can protect Claire.

Wow. Harold... WOW. That face... that voice. He did try his hand at being scary evil powerful guy when he and Shaw interrogated that barista guy, but that... that's funking impressive.

And the moment they get out of there... he freaks out of his mind. You can just see it in his eyes, in his gait. Doesn't like the idea of being the bad guy, certainly.

I don't like when she calls him Harry.

I do wonder if the Machine made up Egret just like she made up that payphone guy...

Oh, Harold. It's too tough, yeah.

And that was planned?!

That's why he didn't want to do it in the first place.

Wow, Fusco! Dealing with handcuffs with cufflinks? Wow!

FUSCO POWER.

Oh-kay, so the plan worked and equipped Team Machine with quite some guns and even more money.

Well, if we remember she's growing... I guess she has grown up to the rebellious playful teen stage...



Go Team Machine.

@темы: EN, Person of Interest, припала к канону

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catching up

Okay, so I finally have both the time and the health to watch season four...

4x01

Episode one was wow, but not much to tell about it, except Harold reminded he did have a reason why he left the team. And Machine is a sweetheart. Her messages.

4x02

So now we're up episode two... and I've got to say, John is being cruel. Harold isn't good at hot pursuit, what with his leg? He'll probably make do, but not only he's slow, he must be hurting. Aww.

Harold, you're smart, we get that, but, please, don't go announching suspicious stuff aloud? Even if this girl is as dumb as she appears to be.

I wonder if it's too far-fetched to believe that the nautilus shell game is created by Samaritan to get rid of geniuses?
Or by the Machine to recruit a new team?

Uh-oh, so I was right. It is Samaritan.
So nice to feel smart.

Oh, no, no, no. Not to get rid of them. Similar to Root... another human interface. Oh no.

John, now you... don't go around showing your face to Samaritan's marionettes, dammit! Having a cover replacement hardwired into threat recognition can only protect you so far.

And Samaritan has endangered his prize winner pretty badly with that hacking task... I wonder why.
Fun thing, she probably didn't look what was in the file, just headed for the next puzzle.

Oh, so she was going to look, she just needed a code. Okay.

How about... Samaritan killed her parents by causing some malfunction? "No way to tell whose fault it was"?

Oh no. No bloody no. Damn it.

And throughout this episode. From the start to finish...
...the problem Harold has with this new endeavour is the same problem he had with Nathan when he found him getting numbers, to his own computer, unprotected, unencrypted. His problem is that he is not feeling that it is organized safely enough.

However, with the phone network the Machine helpfully provided, and whatever he's going to lead John to (I know it's that underground base, I know), now they can play.

Go Team Machine.

@темы: EN, Person of Interest, припала к канону

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And suddenly, 3x14 again

Just in case someone hasn't seen it yet

Finch so was going to help Mr. Reese with the tie! "Butterfly or batwing", and he walked to stand in front of Reese. But then Reese sends him that murderous glance, and Finch backs up with "Never mind, take your time".

@темы: EN, Person of Interest, припала к канону

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люди-дебилы

У меня нет нормального рабочего емейла. Вернее, он есть, админ озаботился, но он нифига не настроен и его никто не знает.
Поэтому и личные, и рабочие письма валятся на вычурный адрес по никнейму. Который загребешься диктовать.
Поэтому когда надо диктовать емейл по телефону, я диктую служебный адрес, с которого сервер обменивается данными, и вылавливаю письмо оттуда.
В другое время я туда, блин, не смотрю! И никто не смотрит! Некому смотреть! Он, блин, служебный! С него программы письма читают и отсылают, программам пофиг на все, что у них в условиях не прописано!
И во всех, ну во всех же блин технических письмах приписано стандартное сделано-автоматически-не-отвечайте. Написано, как людям, блин!
Но это же не люди, это люди-дебилы! Они-таки туда пишут! Причем не те, кому я адрес диктовала, а те, кто пролучает письма со стандартной припиской.
Вот только потому, что почтовик глючит, из личной профессиональной ответственности я им пришлю этот долбаный реестр. Но дебилы же все равно...

@темы: фак мой мозг, я одмин, я программер

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о здоровье

Кто-то пожелал мне хорошего самочувствия, что ли?
Полегчало с давлением...

@темы: теги, какие теги?

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justification for the turning point

De la Vega was a good, working cover, but walking the line between politeness and defiance didn't cut it anymore. Diego needed to know what Monasterio was thinking. He needed to get closer.

Got to figure out where to place it...

@темы: EN, Extraction, текстота, курим кактус

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не судьба

Вот я четвертый день говорю себе: "Хватит! Хватит ловить спойлеры, сядь и посмотри уже четвертый сезон, как человек!"
А мой организм в ответ: "Авотфиг, на тебе давление 150/110, пей таблетки и лежи ровно".
Вчера аж целую вторую половину дня нормально было, я уж обрадовалась... ну да, счас.

@темы: фак мой мозг, нытье без жилетки

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Oh well

Started writing something I should be writing, ended up finishing the first chapter of Extraction. Oh well.
So here it is.
Here's that crazy crossover I threatened to write, only the actual crossover part will come later.
Well, anyway. Opinions?

@темы: EN, Inception, Extraction, текстота

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fic crossed lovers

А меня задолбало слово "любовники" в рейтинге без ER.
"...и он посмотрел на\прижал к себе своего - теперь уже любовника..." Бесит!

злая имха, выраженная грубым языком

Ладно, пофиг на то, что лично у меня "любовник" воспринимается в противовес "муж" ("любовница"<>"жена", соответственно). Воспитание на семейных ценностях девятнадцатого века, наверное. Пофиг.
Но это определенно организованные отношения. Это отношения, в которых известно, когда и где. И обеспечено это "где". И где переспать, и где помыться после переспать, и что перекусить. Если это "где" не является фиксированным помещением, то обеспечено, где помещение снять, и кто из двоих платит. Это упорядоченные отношения, основанные на сексе.
Так вот, первый перепих на пике страсти любовников из перепихующихся не делает!
И не надо кивать на англоязычное lovers. Чтобы установить однозначное соответствие слова в двух языках, нехилый анализ нужен. А без него - извольте обращать внимание на употребление.
У них на западе вообще какая-то херь местами. Если регулярно секс - то lovers. Если при этом отношения не скрывают - то girlfriend-boyfriend. При этом слово на букву Л - трагедиянидайбох, это же удар по casual relationship, это же надо ПРИНИМАТЬ РЕШЕНИЕ.
А меня воспитывали так, что если не думаешь хотя бы, что любишь - нехрен трахаться.
А кто пошлет меня в толковый словарь, тот пусть сначала посчитает, сколько из вариантов толкований вообще не предусматривают секс, и потому фраза "теперь уже любовника" противоречит им тоже, просто в другую сторону.

@темы: фак мой мозг, нытье без жилетки

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Стремительный переход из состояния "я томат" в состояние "я кетчуп".

@темы: нытье без жилетки