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I'm guessing Team Machine will take advantage of their map of camera dead spots in the city in order to deal with the increased quantity of agents of Samaritan on the streets of NYC. Also, Elias keeps mentioning the debt that Team Machine owes him - perhaps they'll pay the debt and then some by giving Elias a copy of the map, then cash in their credit to have the organized crime syndicates of NYC assist Team Machine against Samaritan and its agents. I miss Control. Hopefully she has a hand in the downfall of Samaritan.

I was also missing a long cigarette holder. That would've made the outfit absolutely perfect.

I was thinking it was the date Elias' mother was killed.

So I heard about the cancellation and that they still need to wrap production on the final episodes. Let me guess, the last 3-5 minutes of the series finale are: 1. Charlie montage, he talks without blinking, walks of his own power, etc. 2. Jordy gets told the chemo is working and the tumors are shrinking (sometime in the finale, probably - but his life will be in danger for parts of the finale, most likely) and gets the attention of record producers and he is shown in a recording studio at the end of the little Jordy montage.. 3. Leo gets out, is shown dribbling a soccer ball. 4. Dash gets a new pair of lungs, is shown hanging out with Jordy, Leo, and Emma. 5. Emma gets hospitalized again (probably next week in episode 10 or in episode 11), then makes actual improvement in a montage. She gets out and is greeted by Jordy and Leo. 6. Hunter is probably dying before the end of the series; this makes Kara make a complete 180 with regards to her attitude towards her heart. Blah blah blah, she's nice to people, not sickly sweet Disney nice, but kind. Kind enough to make her get on the Donor list. She eventually gets a heart, but can't participate again. Her last scene shows her on her phone texting. The camera pans to the phone - it shows a group chat. The camera looks at the title of the group text - Red Band Society. That texting could even be the framing device for the little montages.

Medicine by Daughter is a pretty good song. I concur so hard that is was used so much better last season in Person of Interest.

LA drivers must be worse than NY drivers not to notice something like that, hahaha

I can handwave that because pilots tend to like to know about their planes and their limits.

His wife said that she had received message that he had died; he went overboard. Which to me, implies there was enough time for a message to get back to England.

He probably died quite a few times getting back home from the boat - long enough for it to reach the new world and a message to be sent back.

This episode also brought up my previous gripe: Why was a child in a coma not hooked up to an EEG? Doesn't cost a lot to hook one up. An insurance company would need one anyway, as that is how you detect the brain wave activity in the patient And they would've realized much earlier "Hey, look! Coma boy's brain is doing stuff it hasn't done before. Let's call his parents/go to his room!" Dash being in the hospital for an extended stay makes sense. Same with Leo, Jordy, Kara, and Charlie. Emma should just be in an inpatient clinic for eating disorders (Although that seems to be the section of the hospital she is in, she shouldn't be allowed to interact with people on the floor Kara/Leo/Dash are on, other than for class, as unless the patient is too ill to leave their room, instruction would take place in a group setting, to try to keep things as regular as possible. Dash - As seen in tonight's episode, his condition is a bit more severe than let on in the past, we know he needs at least two oxygen treatments a day. Assuming pure oxygen, that means his lung capacity isn't doing so well. I believe in a previous episode, they mentioned his lungs have to be cleaned out something like three times a day. So Dash is probably pretty high on the list for lung transplants and given the severity of his condition, I can handwave any minor concerns away about his being there. With Leo, it seems that at the time the story started, his cancer is recently in remission and he is getting used to his one-leggedness, still. However, I would say that he would be transferred to an inpatient rehabilitation clinic for the next stage of his treatment (However, given the wealth of this hospital's seemingly sole benefactor, he'd probably build a top of the line rehabilitation clinic at the hospital just to keep his favorite pediatric patient there, which is a bit creepy, but whatever) With Jordy, the hospital is probably the best place for him, given the fact that his family has essentially abandoned him and he has been left there to his own devices. So most likely, the social worker is trying to get him on MediCal, which won't pay for a place like that without significant concessions from the hospital in terms of billing. So if the show were more realistic, in a few months of in-show time, we'd face the storyline of "Medicaid wants to transfer Jordy to a cheaper hospital." With Kara, keep in mind the timeline, it's been probably two weeks at most that she's been in the hospital. Also, her parents are wealthy - she probably is covered by the best of the best insurance plan, which will cover a ridiculous amount of pretty much anything - as long as the parents keep paying the insurance premium. Her condition seems to have gone back-and-forth over her tenure in the hospital, leading her to not be exactly stable, which might lead to a doctor not to recommend her release, especially given her attitude towards treatment and taking care of herself. With Charlie, they've already dealt with this, but they seem to have grossly mishandled his case (see: no EEG) - I am guessing Charlie is covered by Medicaid, hence reps from the county deciding his fate. 6 weeks of almost-PICU for a kid in a coma seems about right for medicaid, then they'd want to transfer the kid to an inpatient rehab/long term care facility. Now all the stuff with Charlie must begin anew, as he has seemingly regained consciousness - or has upgraded on the Glasgow Coma Scale, at the very least - since he went from a 1 (Does not open eyes) to a 3 (Opens eyes in response to voice) or a 4 (Opens eyes spontaneously). However, he still seems to be a 1 on the others (Making no sound or movements). Though if he was a total score of a 3, I am seriously wondering why he was not hooked up to a ventilator and all of that fun machinery.

At the end, I thought they were killing off Dash. Perhaps the letter reading at the end is signalling a transition in narration of the series from Charlie - who was essentially an omnipresent third person narrator - to individual (or perhaps multiple per episode) Red Banders, which would be a welcome change of pace.

My Fair Eliza :P

When did it detect her gait was off? btw since you put gait in quotes, I am going to take a shot in the dark and guess you don't know what it means? It means how someone walks - a tandem gait is heel-toe walking.

I was wondering how long they'd wait before having McPhee sing. They lasted much longer than I expected. I thought they'd have her sing at episode 4.

I just got around to watching this episode. It did not disappoint in its hilarity. Though the husband engaging in spycraft on US Soil is hilarious - NSA agents, if you can call them that, are all purely analysts. They then feed their data to the FBI, who conducts covert operations on US soil.

I meant to say multiple pills, but it was close to 3 AM :P

I know my dad would do something like that :P I know my dad would do something like that :P

The previous episode showed what caused Charlie's injury - he was feeling sick after eating a lot of candy, so his dad told him to lie down in the backseat of the car, then the car got hit on the driver's side. With organ transplants, as I understand it, attitude does play a factor, primarily how the individual will take care of the organ, as organs such as hearts are in rather short supply. She's failed all but one drug test and her attitude is not the attitude of an individual who would have the ability to remember to take a pill every day without fail. With regards to the mystery boy, he COULD be 21, depending on the hospital, but usually the up-to-21 limitation applies to smaller adults under 21 - not fully formed compulsive liars.

The # of millions changed because people probably thought the episode was over and decided to watch NCIS or maybe some election night coverage (Guessing NCIS because the 18-49 demo didn't change).

IQ tests are interesting. Personally, my IQ has a huge discrepancy between subtests (with one subtest at 138 and another at 92), which means it is.. dubious in testing my abilities of achievement - IQ tests are best used to determine disability, as it can be a useful indicator of things such as ADHD. My school never IQ tested me even though they were required to by law. By the time they IQ tested me near the end of HS, my IQ had jumped ~30 points full scale. Probably not autism, probably some pervasive developmental disorder, though. Also, does it bug anyone else how they keep saying that Einstein had an IQ of 160 or whatever? Since Einstein refused to take IQ tests, because he knew they were BS.

I think Toby would resist a "Destroy all Normals" crusade for a bit, but then be turned to Walter's side with a short speech. Sylvester definitely seems like the kind of person who probably has extremely well developed prefrontal and parietal lobes, given his mathematical skills and memorization. Not exactly someone who would have the best motor skills, if all of his mental development focused on those. Wouldn't it be interesting if they introduced a 2E team member? Someone who has a high IQ and is also learning disabled?

Well her character was CIA - she probably received some form of firearms training at one point or another. If she didn't then, she lived on a farm, so she probably had experience with weapons from then. Not saying she'd be an Olympic level marksman, but she'd probably be able to hit something.

Was it just me, or did anyone else crack up when the husband said that he was working for the NSA? Of course they have to give him a plot element like that. And of course he'd magically be granted a security clearance higher than a high ranking cabinet member.

This episode was great. I have a horrible feeling this is going to get the Trophy Wife treatment though. Imagine if Trophy Wife had been renewed and we had Trophy Wife/Selfie Tuesdays?

It wasn't head-on - it was a collision to the driver's side. I'm more wondering why Nurse Jackson put Charlie's name on the blood sample - changes in blood work wouldn't help a coma patient like an EEG would. Speaking of, why isn't Charlie hooked up to an EEG 24/7?