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He took a "Fresh" henchman *out* of the freezer. He appears to have zombiefied then frozen an entire gang of hoodlums? And apparently you can cryopreserve zombies with no problem. Which.. uhmm.. Oookay. Well, I suppose that does open an reasonable way to deal with a large number of zombies without having to kill them all, you can just stick them on ice until a cure or an acceptable brain substitute is developed.

Well.. the sphere around him when he ports is.. what, four, five meters across? If he can teleport that entire volume, he could easily keep an entire city supplied. More problematic is "And what do they do when there doesn't happen to a be a bulk teleporter available?" It isn't like they can count on always having certain powers in every generation... or maybe some powers are common as dirt, and there are currently 5 teleports living in the city?

Blaine is charming and a very dangerous idiot. He was a drug dealer, and is applying that buisness model to the Z, which doesn't work - He is committing murder to provide product, his customers and muscle are bio-hazards.... His entire business model is completely unsustainable, because it will inevitably attract attention and then be hammered out of existence. Note that this isn't a complaint against the show: I completely buy that a drug-dealer turned zombie would do this. It's idiotic, but it is highly believable idiocy. The logical next step is for someone competent - like his current bed partner, - to notice the problems with what he is doing, kill his pasty insane ass and put things on a less.. high-profile... footing. For example, the easy way to get a steady supply of brains is to buy out a crematorium. No trail of missing persons and murder cases, no bodies to give away that the brain is missing..

A cutting torch would have been more reasonable - Vibranium is worked somehow, so presumably it melts like any normal metal. And it isn't like that would have been any more expensive to film...

In this case the video store was clearly just a gang front / money laundering operation. Report large sales of second hand dvd's on a cash basis, put gang members on payroll without expecting them to actually show up and work shifts, and there you go, "legitimate" incomes all around. Entirely standard trick. Paranoid Liv was interesting. Not as funny as horny Liv, but interesting. Less self-aware than the anti-social disorder version... probably because paranoia is much closer to her mental baseline state? Liv has actual reasons for fear in spades. How do you tell if you are behaving in a clinically paranoid fashion when the world might well hunt you down and strap you to a lab table at best if your secrets got out? How old is Liv's little brother supposed to be anyway? Because while sort of funny, also.. stalkery.

It seems like practicing with a brain in her system would be the equivalent of having that person walk her through the skill in very exhaustive detail - You can learn to throw a correct uppercut *very* quickly if a professional boxer is standing there correcting your posture stance and form the entire time. That wont make you a boxer, but it will make you able to throw an uppercut. In this case, her drawing got better, if not actually good because she spent a good deal of time *using* that skill with the brain in her system. That said, an episode where she solves a crime because she, in her own person, was a complete overachiever all the way through college and medschool would be a nice change- She presumably has a degree in biology or chemistry or something along those lines, yes? And it can be confidently assumed she mastered the heck out of that stuff. So, I dunno. "Liv mcguyvers her way out of a drug lab by manufacturing explosives, a battery and detonators all from scratch" only to then at the end to reveal that the brain she is currently on was an english literature professor would be very funny. To me.

Yhea - it was implied that the art-dealer was a widower, and a long time friend. That makes seducing his daughter pretty far beyond the pale. Models are one thing, even as seems likely, models not much older than that girl.- Word gets around, so if he is hiring professional models they go into his studio expecting to be hit on, and know the whole score - probably down to the average level of satisfaction from previous conquests. All very no harm, no foul. But that teenager? Hitting on someone you used to see around in pig-tails and bracers is skeevy as all hell. Would have made a far more interesting motive if she killed him because she felt protective / maternal towards that girl and this was just Not Okay.

The main obstacle to any romance is that Liv is presently a major bio-hazard. So unless the show wants to make a bunch of jokes about latex and the virtues of phonesex, her love life is deader than the dodo. That said, those could be some pretty funny jokes, and I would find a Peyton / Liv romance quite interesting because that's not a starting point for a romance I can remember seeing on tv before, and it is a thing that happens in real life sometimes. Liv lusting poetically after half the guest stars was high comedy. Really well done, funny, not a drop of mean in it. I also just realized that the episode was oddly strongly informed by self defense principles. Certain lines and situations felt like they were lifted right out of the manual on it - "No, thank you I would prefer not to go to a second location with you" in particular. I was not fond of the motive. It would have worked better if she had killed him for macking on a girl they watched growing up rather than the stereotypical jealousy angle.

It wouldn't make sense to stop this plotline here, and giving up on an attack vector against samaritan wouldn't be very Root, so she may have high-jacked Harold's ploy. Problem is, I'm not quite sure how to do so without blow-back hitting Harold, which, as just demonstrated, she wouldn't be okay with.

No, seriously, this is a bad plan. Skye *causes earthquakes*. And can't control it. Getting her off planet earth until she figures that shit out is not being bigoted against people for being different, that is just common sense. I mean, what is their alternative here, really? Keep her in a cell and have upsetting conversations near her until that ends up causing a serious death-toll? At the very least they ought to move her someplace where an earthquake wouldn't be a disaster. Iike, oh, Antarctica. Or the moon.

There are *much* better wakefulness drugs than speed now. Modafinil doesnt send you hyper or anything, it just makes you awake - entirely specific anti-sleep drug. Very popular with shift workers, people with sleep disorders, and yes, the military - because it doesn't impair judgment. I mean, you can kill yourself with it by staying awake for weeks, but that requires you to be very dumb *before* you take it.

The only way to break a one time pad is to *have* the pad. That specific pad. They are not reused, hence the "One Time" part, so the implication is that they got the pad along with the typewriter, in which case decoding it is within the abilities of a moderately clever 9 year old. So appears the cryptographer couldnt even recognize plain-text russian when he tried that. That's painful, The Soviets did use one time pads as a standard measure, however, so that's historically accurate, and while the NSA did eventially crack a tiny fraction of those communications due to agents being morons about the one time part, mostly they never got anywhere. Because it's not breakable.

*Zola* said 1984, but if Natasha is really 80 years old she would as a matter of course be setting up fake backgrounds that match her apparent, rather than true age. Wait. *groan*. Born in 1984? Romanov made her fake backstory into a bloody literary reference? But of course she did. >.<

The admiration and avarice she displayed at the gun wasn't just honest, it was also tactical - It took mr Smuggling and Murder out of the moment, so that she could actually pull off the killing - Which was very neat all on it's own - Body-language fake right (and the gun tracked that.) bounce off left wall, and done. Which kind of raises the question. Who. The Heck. thinks Peggy warrants that kind of agent assigned to her 24/7?

Oh, the grand larceny charges can totally go away. No deal needed for that. Prosecutors have a lot of latitude in what to prosecute, and if the prosecutor figures a jury will believe she was beaten into confessing, said prosecutor is not going to bother pressing charges, because the case would collapse on that one point alone. The hospital can fire her for cause, and try a civil suit to recover damages. Or the prosecutor could count on the jury taking one look at what she was doing and being all "throw the library at her" in which case she is going to go down for centuries of hard time. Dozen of counts of aiding and abetting kidnapping, rape and torture. Kitty is free and clear regardless because I don't see how they can make that assault charge stick. Not with that witness.

She wasn't arrested because the cops still wanted her at large and under surveillance in the hopes of her brother calling her for help. She most likely vent to the cops with the photos because she realized she was going to get charged with grand larceny approximately 3 seconds after her brother was found. The point largely being to get the local prosecutor to look at her case and go "Going to get tossed as fruit of the poisonous tree, so fuck prosecuting that". Kitty wasn't charged because she is Kitty - I *very* much doubt she left any evidence other than the bruises, and those she could just claim ignorance off. Heck, entirely possible the nurse self-inflicted them.

Not ignore in the sense of "Fail to prosecute" but ignore as in "Continue to bring in as a consultant". None of team Sherlock are police officers - Each and every criminal investigation they are brought in on is at Gregsons discretion, and continuing to do that when it is blatantly obvious Kitty intimidated that doucebag was, indeed, not proper police conduct. He knows she did it, and he doesn't need to prove it in a court of law to terminate her association with the department. He can do that because he doesn't like her haircut if it comes to that, and this is rather more serious. Not that Gregson handled *any* aspect of that clusterfuck according to the book, but, eurgh, a good solution to that mess doesn't exactly spring to mind. Absent a formal complaint, he could..? Put him on shit details until he quits on his own ? Might have worked. I mean, he'd know why, and Gregson could probably have told the union reps the truth if he bitched.

I must have missed the shot of the ring? Oh well. That case, just another clue planted for the cops. Taken specifically because it was the most recognizable thing she owned. It isn't like an over-abundance of evidence would even be suspicious - the guy he was framing lived in a house full of his kidnap and rape victims. That's already enough to send him away for a thousand years, so the fact he just has more evidence floating around the place doesn't strain credibility at all.

No, that was just some garden variety asshole who was fine not only fine with patronizing a sex-slaving operation.but also with ratting her out to her pimp. I gotta say, this episode had some really low specimens of humanity passing through it in addition to the main two monsters. - I would expect any woman from that house that saw Mr Insurances face to be dead. He's a serial killer, and the police finding those women was something he planned on. They will eventually all be talking to sketch artists, so... The emerald ring was just taken as a trophy. It might have been intended to be planted on the trafficker, or maybe just as a trophy. That's a thing serial killers do. It doesn't actually implicate the fiancee very strongly at all - believing it to be a slam-dunk piece of evidence is just one of the ways that cop was very bad at his job.

Not a side-show, precisely. Plot as far as I can follow it: Mr insurance found Kitty, and wanted to play games - because he is a psychotic sadist - so he hires Watson to get the inside info on everything, and then sets up the trafficker to go down for his serial killing. He plants the burner in the bar with the fingerprints, the brand in the house, and contracts a hit on him, then murders that poor girl from the bar so that the resulting investigation would lead directly to a house full of traumatized women, physical evidence and a corpse with a rapsheet a mile long. Neat bow on the entire case, and he can pop out of the virtual grave to really put the boot in on Kitty later. Only, his hired killer bungles the hit, dies and the trafficker escapes. Thanks to the forward planning of having hired Joan, however, he gets the info on the location first, and the second set of assassins are less useless. Presumably, he was using the trafficker as a source of victims who would not be missed because not officially in the country, which is how he had the opportunity to set all this up.

Well, the link that really confirms it without any reference to Kitty's memory or casting meta (Which is cheating!) it is that he was the only person who could plausibly have beaten the cops to the traffickers location - Joan told him how to find said trafficker, who then turns up dead before the police can get there, and there was just no very probable way for the albanian mob to track him down that fast without an inside lead. Mr insurance being the bad guy explains it - he could simply wait an hour or two before passing the info along to Joan, contract a hit, and leave a corpse for the police to find, tying his crimes to a dead man. Nor is it a strange coincidence - because the highly creepy implication is that he hired Joan as part of a larger scheme to get at Kitty. Urgh.

I really loved the alternate timelines - They made a whole lot of sense, and were just pure fun. Ezekiel was less of an ass, because Baird had spent a decade instilling sense in him. But still, you know, Ezekiel. Jake Stone is Lara Croft, and she hit it for a decade. And the kiss and the Nope's? I about fell off my chair. But Cassandra's timeline was just magical. Lamia being her devoted minion, the implication that she out and out made friends with La Fay? So much love. The implication that alt-Baird v3 was in a relationship with her was just the perfect cherry on top.

Well, as love interests go, the scenes with Angie are really easy to read that way too. That final scene in the diner was just sorcery - Which, I suppose really puts Angie in the cross hairs. One thing to keep in mind is that there is 70 years between the show and The Winter Soldier - That's enough time for a lot of history. For all we know, she manages to become a widow four times over.

I am fairly sure Control killed the muslim-heritage kid while thinking he was most likely innocent - to preserve the illusion of her ignorance. The visit to the stock exchange was for verification. Stone cold lady - And speaking of cold, the end note that they were tracking a refrigerated truck is making me think Shaw is dead... and in a cryonics tank. From Root's perspective - because Root is very much a trans-humanist, that means she isn't dead-dead. And it means the show can bring her back later in any number of ways.

I very strongly suspect Bobbi is working for the government. - You know, the people with an actual legal and popular mandate to preserve the peace and enforce the law. So.. Skye got super powers. The power to make earthquakes. Gosh... that's.. shockingly useless as a superpower. I mean, collateral damage much? Now according to the character bio she learns to make the effect very local, which is better. I mean, it's effectively a ¨deathray/gun, but that's more useful than "I can level the city". Also, a mind control immunity? Well, that's never ever going to come up. I want a hilarious training sequence where they have to fly to various flat uninhabited wastelands so she can practice without, you know, killing thousands of people. And then have to run off to avoid the seismologists chasing them.